1 00:01:13,793 --> 00:01:15,209 No! 2 00:01:18,918 --> 00:01:21,876 No! Fucking fuckity fucking fucking fuck! 3 00:01:27,543 --> 00:01:29,501 Aah! 4 00:01:31,376 --> 00:01:32,376 Ah! 5 00:01:32,459 --> 00:01:35,001 I'm sorry. I'm sorry! 6 00:01:37,543 --> 00:01:39,168 Fuck! 7 00:01:41,376 --> 00:01:42,543 No! No! 8 00:01:43,501 --> 00:01:45,501 -Don't! No! 9 00:01:46,709 --> 00:01:48,168 -Oh… 10 00:01:57,209 --> 00:01:58,834 Ooh… Oooh! 11 00:01:58,918 --> 00:02:01,251 Wow. Wow, wow! 12 00:02:02,751 --> 00:02:04,793 Ooh. Wow. 13 00:02:05,751 --> 00:02:07,293 Well, this is weird. 14 00:02:08,543 --> 00:02:09,876 Um… 15 00:02:10,459 --> 00:02:12,043 All right. What… 16 00:02:16,001 --> 00:02:16,918 Hello? 17 00:02:17,626 --> 00:02:19,001 Nope, nothing? 18 00:02:20,126 --> 00:02:22,543 Yaah… all right. 19 00:02:24,043 --> 00:02:27,834 What do we do, Jaskier? What do we do in situations like this? We… 20 00:02:28,834 --> 00:02:30,293 we revert to the basics. 21 00:02:31,626 --> 00:02:32,668 Hello! 22 00:02:33,168 --> 00:02:35,126 Hello! 23 00:02:35,209 --> 00:02:37,959 -Hello, Sandpiper. -Aah! Aah… 24 00:02:38,876 --> 00:02:40,293 This is new. 25 00:02:40,376 --> 00:02:42,876 Uh, for the record, I'm not… 26 00:02:44,293 --> 00:02:45,709 I'm not not into it. 27 00:02:46,209 --> 00:02:48,126 Good-looking man, nice boots. 28 00:02:48,626 --> 00:02:49,918 Am I dead? 29 00:02:50,668 --> 00:02:52,626 Aah! Ow, ow! 30 00:02:53,459 --> 00:02:54,334 Not dead. 31 00:02:55,251 --> 00:02:56,709 I'm getting that. 32 00:02:58,209 --> 00:03:00,709 So you… you are something else. 33 00:03:02,126 --> 00:03:03,126 You're a Doppler. 34 00:03:06,626 --> 00:03:07,668 No. 35 00:03:18,459 --> 00:03:19,626 Not a Doppler. 36 00:03:29,418 --> 00:03:30,834 What are you? 37 00:03:31,751 --> 00:03:35,501 I am many things. Many faces. Many places. 38 00:03:36,626 --> 00:03:39,084 -Then why do you look like me? -Because you love yourself. 39 00:03:40,334 --> 00:03:41,543 I have other faces. 40 00:03:41,626 --> 00:03:42,501 If you prefer. 41 00:03:49,959 --> 00:03:50,834 Better? 42 00:03:51,543 --> 00:03:53,001 Oh… Whoa… 43 00:03:54,126 --> 00:03:55,251 Um… 44 00:03:57,584 --> 00:03:58,584 Yep. Yeah. 45 00:03:59,084 --> 00:04:00,168 Wonderful. 46 00:04:02,418 --> 00:04:04,626 Why did you save me from the Temerians? 47 00:04:04,709 --> 00:04:07,126 I need you to sing a story back to life. 48 00:04:09,626 --> 00:04:11,126 We're related, you and I. 49 00:04:12,001 --> 00:04:14,668 You're a bard. I am a storyteller. 50 00:04:15,168 --> 00:04:16,501 -Of a sort. 51 00:04:16,584 --> 00:04:20,626 I beg to differ. You-- you are a time-stopping, shape-shifting, 52 00:04:20,709 --> 00:04:24,834 probably-gonna-eat-me-without-salt at-some-point sort of storyteller. 53 00:04:24,918 --> 00:04:30,043 I-- I'm just-- I'm just a man, with an admittedly… fun hat. 54 00:04:30,126 --> 00:04:31,584 We're not the same. You're-- 55 00:04:31,668 --> 00:04:35,001 I slip between worlds and times, collecting forgotten stories. 56 00:04:35,626 --> 00:04:37,959 I bring them back to life when the world needs them. 57 00:04:46,543 --> 00:04:48,501 Are you sure you've got the right man for this? 58 00:04:48,584 --> 00:04:50,334 Of course I am. 59 00:04:51,543 --> 00:04:52,834 You're the Sandpiper. 60 00:04:53,459 --> 00:04:55,126 Smuggler of elves to safety. 61 00:04:55,209 --> 00:04:58,043 The Sandpiper's a name. It's a title. I'm just a bard. 62 00:04:58,126 --> 00:05:02,126 A bard the Scoia'tael risked attacking a Temerian army camp to save. 63 00:05:03,043 --> 00:05:06,043 They know you care for them. Their struggle for justice. 64 00:05:06,543 --> 00:05:07,543 I do. 65 00:05:09,084 --> 00:05:10,584 The Scoia'tael mean well, 66 00:05:11,209 --> 00:05:16,043 but elfkind cannot win fuelled by pain and anger alone. 67 00:05:17,709 --> 00:05:18,793 Hope is vital. 68 00:05:21,126 --> 00:05:25,793 The elves need a story lost to time. One of the few who overcame the many. 69 00:05:25,876 --> 00:05:27,501 The Story of the Seven. 70 00:05:27,584 --> 00:05:30,168 The St… the Story of… 71 00:05:30,876 --> 00:05:31,959 Let me guess. 72 00:05:32,459 --> 00:05:37,043 A bunch of warriors join forces to fight against all odds. 73 00:05:37,126 --> 00:05:40,043 It has been done to death. 74 00:05:40,126 --> 00:05:41,084 Has it? 75 00:05:41,168 --> 00:05:46,043 Seven estranged warriors who come together to fight an unstoppable empire, 76 00:05:46,126 --> 00:05:50,918 bring humans and monsters to the world via the Conjunction of the Spheres, 77 00:05:51,001 --> 00:05:54,084 and create the very first version of a witcher. 78 00:05:55,793 --> 00:05:57,668 That's been done to death? 79 00:05:58,293 --> 00:05:59,293 Uh… 80 00:06:00,626 --> 00:06:01,793 No. 81 00:06:01,876 --> 00:06:05,084 No, no, I've-- I've not heard that one, admittedly. 82 00:06:05,168 --> 00:06:06,084 Wow! 83 00:06:06,168 --> 00:06:08,168 That's very different. 84 00:06:08,251 --> 00:06:10,001 Ooh! 85 00:06:10,084 --> 00:06:11,709 This is really fun. 86 00:06:11,793 --> 00:06:15,626 You're telling me that the first version of a witcher was a badass elf? 87 00:06:16,334 --> 00:06:18,501 This is really gonna piss Geralt off. 88 00:06:20,209 --> 00:06:21,043 All right. 89 00:06:22,793 --> 00:06:24,043 Where do we start? 90 00:06:24,543 --> 00:06:26,209 It all began twelve hundred years ago. 91 00:06:27,876 --> 00:06:29,459 In the Elven golden era. 92 00:06:30,501 --> 00:06:33,418 Before the arrival of humans and monsters in the world. 93 00:06:34,334 --> 00:06:36,168 Six lone outcasts, 94 00:06:36,751 --> 00:06:38,501 strangers to each other, 95 00:06:39,251 --> 00:06:42,584 destined to be bound together in a blood quest. 96 00:06:44,959 --> 00:06:46,668 Fjall of Dog Clan. 97 00:06:50,543 --> 00:06:52,334 Scían of Ghost Tribe. 98 00:06:56,709 --> 00:06:58,168 Brother Death. 99 00:06:59,584 --> 00:07:01,751 The mages Zacaré and Syndril. 100 00:07:04,209 --> 00:07:06,918 Meldof and her vengeful hammer, Gwen. 101 00:07:11,418 --> 00:07:13,459 Soon to be led by the seventh. 102 00:07:14,418 --> 00:07:16,876 The one they called the Lark. 103 00:07:38,376 --> 00:07:41,334 Good morning. Alms for an ex-soldier? 104 00:07:44,959 --> 00:07:46,334 Thank you. 105 00:07:46,418 --> 00:07:47,668 Do they have music here? 106 00:07:47,751 --> 00:07:51,293 Hasn't been music on the island in years. 107 00:07:55,709 --> 00:07:57,251 Good luck. 108 00:07:58,501 --> 00:08:00,668 -You too. 109 00:08:36,668 --> 00:08:39,126 -Oh! 110 00:08:39,209 --> 00:08:40,126 My. 111 00:08:40,626 --> 00:08:42,501 Aren't you the pretty young bud? 112 00:08:46,293 --> 00:08:48,584 -I'd say you're ripe for flowering. 113 00:08:48,668 --> 00:08:51,709 Ithlinne is not right, sir. She has fits. 114 00:08:51,793 --> 00:08:53,918 Please, let her go. You can all drink for free. 115 00:08:54,001 --> 00:08:55,168 -Ma! 116 00:09:07,209 --> 00:09:09,668 I'll fucking stop you! Fucking come on! 117 00:09:17,751 --> 00:09:18,793 Sorry, friends. 118 00:09:20,751 --> 00:09:22,334 Can't abide bad manners. 119 00:09:24,834 --> 00:09:26,084 To the Lark! 120 00:09:26,168 --> 00:09:27,168 The Lark! 121 00:09:46,293 --> 00:09:47,626 Go on, you girl! 122 00:09:50,834 --> 00:09:52,043 Go on! 123 00:09:57,793 --> 00:10:00,001 Far south from Inis Dubh, 124 00:10:00,084 --> 00:10:04,293 the newly crowned King Alvitir, determined to be seen amongst his people, 125 00:10:04,376 --> 00:10:06,293 toured the lowborn streets, 126 00:10:06,834 --> 00:10:09,501 despite the threat of assassins from other kingdoms. 127 00:10:11,918 --> 00:10:13,209 Protect the king! 128 00:10:13,293 --> 00:10:17,876 But first they would have to get through the royal protectors, Dog Clan. 129 00:10:22,168 --> 00:10:23,626 And their greatest warrior… 130 00:10:25,834 --> 00:10:26,959 …Fjall Stoneheart. 131 00:10:28,418 --> 00:10:29,293 Princess! 132 00:10:30,084 --> 00:10:30,959 I've got you. 133 00:10:31,918 --> 00:10:33,459 -Yah! Yah! 134 00:10:34,876 --> 00:10:36,126 Yah! Yah! 135 00:10:37,418 --> 00:10:38,293 Get back! 136 00:10:39,918 --> 00:10:41,043 Get away! 137 00:10:42,918 --> 00:10:44,001 Down! 138 00:10:48,668 --> 00:10:49,834 Like I showed you. 139 00:11:06,251 --> 00:11:07,918 -Aah. 140 00:11:08,501 --> 00:11:10,251 -Good? -Good. 141 00:11:29,126 --> 00:11:30,209 Enter. 142 00:11:33,168 --> 00:11:35,293 -Apologies. -It's all right, Fjall. 143 00:11:35,918 --> 00:11:37,501 Decorum be damned. 144 00:11:41,543 --> 00:11:43,209 Dog Clan sealed the palace. 145 00:11:44,084 --> 00:11:46,793 No one's in or out until we find out who's behind this. 146 00:11:47,876 --> 00:11:49,751 Now, I want you to hang on to this. 147 00:11:51,168 --> 00:11:52,168 Just for now. 148 00:11:53,376 --> 00:11:54,418 You saved us. 149 00:11:57,418 --> 00:11:58,459 You saved me. 150 00:11:59,709 --> 00:12:00,959 You saved yourself. 151 00:12:03,959 --> 00:12:06,959 You've always been there when I've needed you. 152 00:12:09,168 --> 00:12:10,168 It's my duty. 153 00:12:11,293 --> 00:12:13,459 Well, we both know that it's more than that. 154 00:12:28,293 --> 00:12:30,209 -We agreed. 155 00:12:30,293 --> 00:12:32,668 You might be able to forget, but I can't. 156 00:12:32,751 --> 00:12:34,626 I haven't forgotten. 157 00:12:36,543 --> 00:12:38,751 -If we'd have been caught-- -But we weren't. 158 00:12:39,918 --> 00:12:41,584 Fjall, I nearly died today. 159 00:12:44,084 --> 00:12:45,876 I won't die living a lie. 160 00:13:00,668 --> 00:13:02,626 I was born to be your protector. 161 00:13:05,168 --> 00:13:06,376 So protect me. 162 00:13:14,834 --> 00:13:16,543 No markings on the assassins. 163 00:13:16,626 --> 00:13:18,834 Captain Eredin is rounding up suspects for interrogation. 164 00:13:18,918 --> 00:13:21,168 Eredin doesn't know his arse from his elbow. 165 00:13:21,251 --> 00:13:22,584 Fuck him and his shiny army. 166 00:13:22,668 --> 00:13:24,793 Where the fuck were they today when it counted? 167 00:13:24,876 --> 00:13:27,084 Couldn't organize a ride in a brothel. 168 00:13:27,876 --> 00:13:28,793 Where's Fjall? 169 00:13:42,584 --> 00:13:43,584 Fuck. 170 00:13:49,084 --> 00:13:51,459 Just kill me. Be done with it. 171 00:13:51,959 --> 00:13:54,001 No. You need to suffer. 172 00:13:54,709 --> 00:13:56,001 In disgrace. 173 00:13:56,084 --> 00:13:59,459 New king, assassins waitin' in every shadow, 174 00:13:59,543 --> 00:14:01,418 and you couldn't even keep control of your cock. 175 00:14:02,459 --> 00:14:06,209 Thank the gods Kareg didn't live to see you betray your own clan. 176 00:14:06,293 --> 00:14:09,209 I know you wished he returned from battle that day instead of me. 177 00:14:10,251 --> 00:14:11,418 I never said that. 178 00:14:12,543 --> 00:14:13,543 Didn't have to. 179 00:14:15,001 --> 00:14:17,043 I've wished the same every day since. 180 00:14:17,543 --> 00:14:19,751 I needed both of you by my side. 181 00:14:20,418 --> 00:14:24,668 He was taken, and you were supposed to take over as chieftain. 182 00:14:26,043 --> 00:14:27,501 But you betrayed your clan. 183 00:14:28,668 --> 00:14:29,668 Your oath. 184 00:14:30,543 --> 00:14:31,751 You betrayed me. 185 00:14:37,126 --> 00:14:38,293 The border. 186 00:14:41,001 --> 00:14:41,876 Aye. 187 00:14:47,501 --> 00:14:48,834 Let's be done with it. 188 00:14:55,334 --> 00:14:56,959 Fjall Stoneheart, 189 00:14:58,043 --> 00:15:02,084 you have broken your oath as royal protector 190 00:15:02,168 --> 00:15:03,959 and betrayed your birth clan. 191 00:15:04,043 --> 00:15:07,543 You are hereby banished from Xin'trea. 192 00:15:09,543 --> 00:15:10,751 Dog Clan disown you. 193 00:15:12,209 --> 00:15:13,084 As do I. 194 00:15:28,418 --> 00:15:31,084 You'll die forgotten. And unspoken. 195 00:15:36,543 --> 00:15:37,543 Goodbye, Father. 196 00:15:49,168 --> 00:15:50,084 Yah! 197 00:16:01,168 --> 00:16:02,668 -Shall I guess? 198 00:16:02,751 --> 00:16:04,751 The Solryth Sagas. 199 00:16:04,834 --> 00:16:06,293 Don't mock, brother. 200 00:16:06,376 --> 00:16:09,793 You're obsessed. You need at least one friend who isn't a book. 201 00:16:12,668 --> 00:16:16,168 I don't know how you live like this. Mm-- The smell alone. 202 00:16:16,251 --> 00:16:21,501 All this is our future. What has happened will happen again. 203 00:16:21,584 --> 00:16:23,584 -Oh, you're a seer now. -No. 204 00:16:24,293 --> 00:16:26,751 I just don't deny what's in front of my own eyes. 205 00:16:28,293 --> 00:16:31,793 Dwarven script, fifteen hundred years old, 206 00:16:31,876 --> 00:16:33,959 telling of Solryth's arrival. 207 00:16:34,501 --> 00:16:39,126 The siege of their city before she drove them out 208 00:16:39,209 --> 00:16:41,876 and built Xin'trea on its ruins. 209 00:16:41,959 --> 00:16:44,918 History is all around us, brother, 210 00:16:45,751 --> 00:16:48,418 reminding us how brilliant we once were, 211 00:16:48,501 --> 00:16:51,501 and how brilliant we can be again if we try. 212 00:16:52,959 --> 00:16:56,001 I could be of use to you, you know. 213 00:16:56,084 --> 00:16:57,293 As an-- an adviser-- 214 00:16:57,376 --> 00:17:00,043 The generals and mages would eat you alive. 215 00:17:02,126 --> 00:17:05,793 But there is a role for you, sister, in all of this. 216 00:17:05,876 --> 00:17:09,334 Now that your little indiscretion with Fjall has been taken care of, 217 00:17:09,418 --> 00:17:11,209 it's time to look to the future. 218 00:17:11,293 --> 00:17:14,084 -I've found a worthy suitor for you. 219 00:17:14,168 --> 00:17:16,168 The king of Pryshia is a widower. 220 00:17:16,668 --> 00:17:20,751 A marriage between our kingdoms would make him amenable to signing. 221 00:17:23,543 --> 00:17:24,918 Oh… 222 00:17:26,001 --> 00:17:30,501 Of course. Whatever… you need to achieve peace. 223 00:17:33,459 --> 00:17:36,459 A brighter future. Thanks to you. 224 00:17:37,084 --> 00:17:38,168 Hmm? 225 00:17:38,751 --> 00:17:41,251 Queen Merwyn of Pryshia. 226 00:17:56,918 --> 00:17:59,459 Deep in the Valley of Lost Souls, 227 00:17:59,543 --> 00:18:02,876 a lone warrior sought answers to the strange skies 228 00:18:02,959 --> 00:18:06,918 that had suddenly cast their ominous shadow across the land. 229 00:18:08,626 --> 00:18:10,834 But her ancestors remained silent. 230 00:18:12,334 --> 00:18:14,626 Nothing like this had ever happened before. 231 00:18:17,293 --> 00:18:21,668 For another had learned to tear the veils between worlds. 232 00:18:47,793 --> 00:18:49,084 I've returned. 233 00:18:51,084 --> 00:18:55,584 Defeated or victorious, Chief Sage Balor? 234 00:18:56,709 --> 00:18:58,834 My assassination attempt failed. 235 00:18:59,459 --> 00:19:00,793 I need your help. 236 00:19:06,251 --> 00:19:09,043 So tell me, how did you learn to fight? 237 00:19:12,084 --> 00:19:13,793 I was born into Raven Clan. 238 00:19:14,293 --> 00:19:16,168 No! You were a protector? 239 00:19:16,251 --> 00:19:17,168 Indeed. 240 00:19:18,168 --> 00:19:21,793 Loyal bodyguard to King Midir and the royal family of Pryshia. 241 00:19:21,876 --> 00:19:24,084 So you must know Lady Cethlenn of the Knives. 242 00:19:24,834 --> 00:19:25,709 She's my mother. 243 00:19:25,793 --> 00:19:27,209 -What? 244 00:19:27,293 --> 00:19:29,001 What are you doing here? 245 00:19:29,584 --> 00:19:33,126 You could be at the palace with the kings and queens and heroes. 246 00:19:33,626 --> 00:19:35,126 I chose this path. 247 00:19:37,459 --> 00:19:38,918 When I was a young girl, 248 00:19:39,793 --> 00:19:42,459 my sword master had a key harp on her wall. 249 00:19:43,668 --> 00:19:44,959 I fell in love with it. 250 00:19:45,959 --> 00:19:49,668 My mother tried to save me, but I was lost to the music. 251 00:19:50,418 --> 00:19:53,751 And so I became a roving bard. 252 00:19:55,334 --> 00:19:56,334 Here. 253 00:20:13,668 --> 00:20:16,001 I wish I had a calling for something like that. 254 00:20:16,626 --> 00:20:19,918 All I have is a sickness. 255 00:20:20,001 --> 00:20:22,668 I have visions, fits, 256 00:20:23,293 --> 00:20:27,001 and the people in the town are scared of me. 257 00:20:28,334 --> 00:20:30,959 The ignorant are always jealous of anyone with gifts. 258 00:20:34,668 --> 00:20:36,209 -Open up! 259 00:20:36,293 --> 00:20:38,626 -Or we'll burn this hole to the ground. -Oh, shit. 260 00:20:38,709 --> 00:20:39,584 You in there? 261 00:20:39,668 --> 00:20:42,709 Why do assholes run to town guards when they get their asses kicked? 262 00:20:47,959 --> 00:20:49,626 Singing, my ass! 263 00:21:01,084 --> 00:21:03,376 Dog Clan? What the fuck? 264 00:21:04,293 --> 00:21:05,376 Hey! 265 00:21:05,959 --> 00:21:09,043 Aah. One of Cethlenn's scrawny little ravens. 266 00:21:09,126 --> 00:21:12,251 Better a scrawny raven than one of Osfar's mangy bitches. 267 00:21:13,584 --> 00:21:14,793 Huh? 268 00:21:14,876 --> 00:21:17,626 Aye. Probably right there, Raven. 269 00:21:18,126 --> 00:21:19,876 -The name's-- -Fjall Stoneheart. 270 00:21:19,959 --> 00:21:21,126 Son of Osfar. 271 00:21:21,209 --> 00:21:22,584 I remember that pendant 272 00:21:22,668 --> 00:21:25,751 from when you took my cousin's eye in the Battle of Brokilon. 273 00:21:25,834 --> 00:21:28,459 I swore to her I'd kill you if we ever crossed paths again. 274 00:21:28,543 --> 00:21:30,834 I see. And I don't even remember you. 275 00:21:30,918 --> 00:21:32,834 I'm the one who sends you to the clay. 276 00:21:32,918 --> 00:21:35,543 Relax. 277 00:21:36,418 --> 00:21:39,251 My Dog Clan days are done. 278 00:21:39,334 --> 00:21:40,418 Horseshit. 279 00:21:41,168 --> 00:21:42,501 No one leaves Dog Clan. 280 00:21:42,584 --> 00:21:44,084 And yet here I am, 281 00:21:44,168 --> 00:21:48,334 earning my fortune as a sellsword on a poxy island at the edge of the world. 282 00:21:48,918 --> 00:21:51,668 What the fuck's a Raven Clan warrior doing so far north? 283 00:21:51,751 --> 00:21:53,959 Not a warrior. I'm a bard. 284 00:21:54,043 --> 00:21:55,959 A Raven Clan bard? 285 00:21:58,751 --> 00:21:59,918 That's a first. 286 00:22:00,709 --> 00:22:01,584 Wait. 287 00:22:02,334 --> 00:22:05,126 You're not the Lark everyone round here's been goin' on about? 288 00:22:06,543 --> 00:22:10,126 I'd planned to come see you sing myself. If not for the current circumstances. 289 00:22:10,209 --> 00:22:12,793 How did the son of mighty Osfar fall so far? 290 00:22:15,543 --> 00:22:16,584 Easy. 291 00:22:18,168 --> 00:22:19,626 Fucked the princess. 292 00:22:19,709 --> 00:22:23,293 Horseshit. Your head'd be on a pike rotting over the city gate. 293 00:22:23,376 --> 00:22:24,584 And embarrass the Crown? 294 00:22:26,001 --> 00:22:26,959 No. 295 00:22:27,543 --> 00:22:31,043 Better I be stripped of my clan and banished in silent disgrace. 296 00:22:31,126 --> 00:22:32,334 Can't blame them. 297 00:22:33,043 --> 00:22:35,584 Protect, not fuck. Clan basics. 298 00:22:35,668 --> 00:22:37,709 -Should have got that one tattooed. 299 00:22:37,793 --> 00:22:39,668 Too long a phrase for a Dog Clan cock. 300 00:22:40,209 --> 00:22:42,834 I'll remember that when your head rolls to a bloody stop in the mud. 301 00:22:44,959 --> 00:22:46,709 Looks like we've ran out of time. 302 00:22:47,918 --> 00:22:50,001 You, back against the far wall. 303 00:22:51,543 --> 00:22:54,543 And you, your freedom's been bought. 304 00:22:56,293 --> 00:22:58,001 -What? -You heard me. 305 00:22:59,001 --> 00:23:00,126 Well, 306 00:23:01,834 --> 00:23:05,459 many thanks for not trying to kill me in my sleep. 307 00:23:05,543 --> 00:23:06,418 There's still time. 308 00:23:07,126 --> 00:23:08,668 -An eye for an eye. 309 00:23:08,751 --> 00:23:11,334 Hey, get back! Back up! 310 00:23:12,043 --> 00:23:13,751 -Back! 311 00:23:13,834 --> 00:23:15,543 I said back against the wall! 312 00:23:20,209 --> 00:23:21,834 Fare thee well, Lark. 313 00:23:22,626 --> 00:23:25,376 May the executioner's blade be keen and quick. 314 00:23:26,293 --> 00:23:27,459 Actually, fuck it. 315 00:23:28,584 --> 00:23:29,751 I don't give a shit. 316 00:23:42,876 --> 00:23:43,709 Report. 317 00:23:43,793 --> 00:23:47,876 The Pryshians have been running some harrying raids. Testing our lines. 318 00:23:47,959 --> 00:23:51,001 If we offer the dwarves access to our Xin'trean mines, 319 00:23:51,084 --> 00:23:53,418 -we can count their alliance to our-- -No. No. 320 00:23:53,501 --> 00:23:56,918 I cannot fight a war on two fronts and keep my kingdom from starving. 321 00:23:58,751 --> 00:24:00,001 I've a new plan. 322 00:24:01,334 --> 00:24:03,543 End the Thousand-Year War. 323 00:24:03,626 --> 00:24:05,959 I've already sent emissaries to Pryshia and Darwen. 324 00:24:06,043 --> 00:24:08,626 -A peace treaty is to be signed here. -Preposterous. 325 00:24:08,709 --> 00:24:10,543 -It'll be our end! -Sire. 326 00:24:11,459 --> 00:24:13,918 Pryshia and Darwen will never sign. 327 00:24:14,001 --> 00:24:15,209 -This war-- -Will end. 328 00:24:15,293 --> 00:24:17,584 They're as stretched to breaking as we are. 329 00:24:18,084 --> 00:24:20,126 My sister is to be married to King Midir. 330 00:24:20,209 --> 00:24:23,209 Our mines in Sliabh Liath will be gifted to Queen Neera. 331 00:24:23,293 --> 00:24:24,834 They will sign. 332 00:24:24,918 --> 00:24:26,626 What say you, Chief Sage? 333 00:24:26,709 --> 00:24:28,959 Apologies, Captain Eredin. 334 00:24:29,043 --> 00:24:32,209 The role of chief sage is no longer one of adviser to the throne. 335 00:24:32,293 --> 00:24:34,626 I'm merely here to advise on matters of magic. 336 00:24:35,251 --> 00:24:37,709 If we keep warring as we are, 337 00:24:37,793 --> 00:24:40,834 famine and the stench of defeat will be our only legacy. 338 00:24:41,959 --> 00:24:43,918 -Sire-- -This peace treaty will happen. 339 00:24:45,668 --> 00:24:46,751 Dismissed. 340 00:24:47,834 --> 00:24:51,043 -Fjall! 341 00:24:52,293 --> 00:24:53,418 Shen. 342 00:24:54,459 --> 00:24:55,751 It's good to see you. 343 00:24:57,043 --> 00:24:58,834 -Did you bribe the guards? Listen. 344 00:25:00,001 --> 00:25:03,418 Osfar wants you to return immediately. There's to be a peace treaty. 345 00:25:03,918 --> 00:25:06,626 The king's arranged a signing between the kingdoms. 346 00:25:08,584 --> 00:25:10,168 The answer's no, little cousin. 347 00:25:12,959 --> 00:25:15,793 -Where are you going? -To find the nearest brothel. 348 00:25:16,293 --> 00:25:17,751 What'll I tell your father? 349 00:25:17,834 --> 00:25:21,001 Tell him I'm too busy dying, forgotten and unspoken. 350 00:25:21,084 --> 00:25:22,293 Now go home, Shen! 351 00:25:24,501 --> 00:25:26,418 Good elves of Inis Dubh. 352 00:25:26,918 --> 00:25:29,543 Are you well? Because you're looking well. 353 00:25:29,626 --> 00:25:32,709 I have but a few hours left on this shithole of an island. 354 00:25:33,293 --> 00:25:39,376 Who wants to ply me with the finest skril and unspeakable debauchery, huh? 355 00:25:40,168 --> 00:25:43,209 Behind these doors lies a veritable cornucopia 356 00:25:43,293 --> 00:25:46,626 of delectable depravities and unmentionable delights. 357 00:25:46,709 --> 00:25:51,001 But first we must address the sordid issue of coin. 358 00:25:51,084 --> 00:25:52,126 Ah, yes. 359 00:25:52,751 --> 00:25:55,584 My word is my coin. 360 00:25:55,668 --> 00:25:57,543 Your word affords you… 361 00:25:58,126 --> 00:26:00,126 naught but the greasing of a cat's arse. 362 00:26:01,501 --> 00:26:03,418 -Sylanya, go find Fluffy! -Hup-hup-hup. 363 00:26:04,418 --> 00:26:05,376 I can pay in silver. 364 00:26:07,043 --> 00:26:09,168 -Look at that! 365 00:26:11,293 --> 00:26:12,293 Fuck. 366 00:26:15,168 --> 00:26:16,543 Ah, yes. 367 00:26:33,626 --> 00:26:35,918 We'll make a player of you yet… 368 00:26:39,459 --> 00:26:43,126 Never really understood why you chose this thing over an honest blade. 369 00:26:43,709 --> 00:26:45,543 It's so… fragile. 370 00:26:48,584 --> 00:26:50,209 You've not changed. 371 00:26:51,126 --> 00:26:52,043 You have. 372 00:26:53,834 --> 00:26:55,709 Mother sent me to bring you home. 373 00:26:55,793 --> 00:26:58,293 The Continent's changing beneath our feet. 374 00:26:58,376 --> 00:27:02,126 Your king's travelling to Xin'trea to sign a treaty. We need your skills. 375 00:27:03,959 --> 00:27:06,001 I no longer follow the way of the blade. 376 00:27:11,084 --> 00:27:12,084 And yet… 377 00:27:16,543 --> 00:27:18,418 She's really willing to forgive me? 378 00:27:18,501 --> 00:27:22,501 Cethlenn needs you. This is your chance to redeem yourself, sister. 379 00:27:24,668 --> 00:27:25,626 I can't. 380 00:27:26,209 --> 00:27:28,001 I can't do those things again. 381 00:27:29,001 --> 00:27:31,793 How can you live like this? Don't you miss it? 382 00:27:31,876 --> 00:27:32,876 I miss you. 383 00:27:34,584 --> 00:27:35,418 Desperately. 384 00:27:35,501 --> 00:27:36,918 Then come back to us. 385 00:27:42,001 --> 00:27:44,293 The others said this would be a waste of time. 386 00:27:44,876 --> 00:27:47,543 Help me prove them wrong, sister. 387 00:27:52,293 --> 00:27:55,501 It's your last chance. I sail on the next tide. 388 00:28:01,751 --> 00:28:03,168 Are you all right? 389 00:28:21,501 --> 00:28:23,834 The time of the spheres is upon us. 390 00:28:23,918 --> 00:28:26,501 Worlds will eat worlds. Emerald skies. 391 00:28:26,584 --> 00:28:28,084 Fire will summon a new dawn. 392 00:28:28,168 --> 00:28:31,418 A great beast born shall be slain by your blade. 393 00:28:31,501 --> 00:28:33,334 Two apart shall become two as one. 394 00:28:33,418 --> 00:28:36,251 The Lark's most precious notes 395 00:28:36,334 --> 00:28:39,043 shall be the key to all things. 396 00:28:39,126 --> 00:28:44,168 And a quest in the name of your clan will bring you redemption. 397 00:28:46,626 --> 00:28:50,084 Ithlinne said I'd find redemption in a quest for my clan. 398 00:28:50,918 --> 00:28:53,626 Her visions, have any of them ever come true? 399 00:28:56,043 --> 00:28:57,168 All of them. 400 00:28:58,168 --> 00:28:59,376 One way or another. 401 00:29:05,293 --> 00:29:07,918 Here. Give this to her when she wakes. 402 00:29:09,584 --> 00:29:12,876 Tell her I'm… sorry I couldn't wait to say goodbye. 403 00:29:15,668 --> 00:29:19,251 -Hopefully, our paths will cross some day. -Where's the road takin' you? 404 00:29:22,293 --> 00:29:23,543 To seek redemption. 405 00:29:26,084 --> 00:29:26,918 Niamh! 406 00:29:28,793 --> 00:29:30,209 Can't let you travel alone. 407 00:29:31,834 --> 00:29:33,834 Some wicked elf might steal your virtue. 408 00:29:34,709 --> 00:29:39,084 Not enough to have a musician sister. Now I must suffer a shit jester too. 409 00:29:39,668 --> 00:29:41,959 Don't make me change my mind, wench. 410 00:29:42,043 --> 00:29:44,001 As if anyone's capable of that. 411 00:29:44,543 --> 00:29:45,543 I'm just glad you're-- 412 00:29:49,834 --> 00:29:50,751 No! 413 00:30:02,626 --> 00:30:05,126 Show yourselves, you fucking bastards! 414 00:30:45,959 --> 00:30:47,459 That's my fuckin' pendant. 415 00:30:51,751 --> 00:30:52,709 Skills! 416 00:31:04,709 --> 00:31:05,834 I hate runnin'. 417 00:31:19,751 --> 00:31:21,251 What the fuck are you doing here? 418 00:31:21,334 --> 00:31:23,209 Lookin' for a boat off this shithole. 419 00:31:24,543 --> 00:31:25,959 You're welcome, by the way. 420 00:31:30,959 --> 00:31:32,334 Who's the warrior? 421 00:31:35,168 --> 00:31:36,168 My sister. 422 00:31:48,834 --> 00:31:49,751 What the fuck? 423 00:31:52,126 --> 00:31:52,959 This mark. 424 00:31:56,043 --> 00:31:57,709 Xin'trean army. Fifth column. 425 00:32:04,418 --> 00:32:05,584 I know her. 426 00:32:05,668 --> 00:32:08,251 She's a cavalry captain in the Pryshian army. 427 00:32:08,334 --> 00:32:09,959 A Darwenish infantry dagger. 428 00:32:12,626 --> 00:32:14,251 It makes no sense. 429 00:32:14,334 --> 00:32:16,751 Why are soldiers from three kingdoms at war 430 00:32:16,834 --> 00:32:18,334 working together to kill us? 431 00:32:20,126 --> 00:32:21,084 The treaty. 432 00:32:22,168 --> 00:32:25,709 -Niamh came to tell me about a treaty. -I know. I was sent for too. 433 00:32:27,209 --> 00:32:29,334 -Shit! -Someone didn't want clan warriors there. 434 00:32:29,418 --> 00:32:32,084 It's the armies, they're finally making a move against the monarchies. 435 00:32:32,168 --> 00:32:35,543 -I need to get to Xin'trea, warn my clan. -So do I. 436 00:32:35,626 --> 00:32:37,001 Fuck your clan. 437 00:32:37,084 --> 00:32:40,334 Look, there are bound to be more of these stabby fuckers on the way. 438 00:32:40,418 --> 00:32:42,126 We'll have more chance if we stick together. 439 00:32:43,209 --> 00:32:45,126 Despite you being a pain in me hole. 440 00:32:49,834 --> 00:32:50,751 Fine. 441 00:32:50,834 --> 00:32:51,959 Right. 442 00:32:53,168 --> 00:32:56,459 But cross me and I'll feed your cock to the dogs. 443 00:32:59,084 --> 00:33:01,001 I don't fucking trust you, Stoneheart. 444 00:33:01,668 --> 00:33:02,501 Nor I you… 445 00:33:05,459 --> 00:33:06,293 Lark. 446 00:33:06,376 --> 00:33:07,751 They killed my sister. 447 00:33:07,834 --> 00:33:09,293 The Lark is dead. 448 00:33:11,834 --> 00:33:13,001 My name is Éile. 449 00:33:16,251 --> 00:33:19,709 We'll meet again in the halls of Caer Aenwyn, sister. 450 00:33:27,709 --> 00:33:30,668 And so the Lark no longer soared alone. 451 00:33:31,334 --> 00:33:33,501 One had become two. 452 00:33:58,918 --> 00:34:00,543 Please. 453 00:34:00,626 --> 00:34:01,626 Princess? 454 00:34:02,209 --> 00:34:05,834 Ket, I fixed it! Solryth's eyes blaze once more. 455 00:34:05,918 --> 00:34:07,209 We need to get you dressed. 456 00:34:07,293 --> 00:34:11,418 Don't you see? When all hope was lost, they led her ships to this continent, 457 00:34:11,501 --> 00:34:13,584 and now they light our skies again. 458 00:34:13,668 --> 00:34:15,334 It's a sign, Ket. 459 00:34:15,418 --> 00:34:17,668 Maybe there's hope for me too. 460 00:34:18,543 --> 00:34:21,209 Your brother will have my guts if I don't make you look presentable 461 00:34:21,293 --> 00:34:23,126 in time to meet your future husband. 462 00:34:24,751 --> 00:34:25,751 Yes, of course. 463 00:34:32,959 --> 00:34:36,418 With highborn hostages exchanged between the warring kingdoms, 464 00:34:36,501 --> 00:34:38,918 the other monarchs had sailed to sign a treaty 465 00:34:39,001 --> 00:34:41,668 that would finally end the Thousand-Year War. 466 00:34:42,834 --> 00:34:46,126 King Midir of Pryshia and his Raven Clan warriors. 467 00:34:46,709 --> 00:34:50,793 Queen Neera of Darwen and her Serpent Clan warriors. 468 00:34:51,709 --> 00:34:56,459 And Alvitir, the brave architect of a new dawn for elfkind. 469 00:35:03,168 --> 00:35:04,918 I love you, brother. 470 00:35:21,293 --> 00:35:23,584 Warriors of Xin'trea. 471 00:35:25,209 --> 00:35:28,209 Thanks to the bravery of our royal guests, 472 00:35:29,209 --> 00:35:34,751 today shall see our long, dark night of war and hunger end at last. 473 00:35:35,751 --> 00:35:40,418 A new dawn will rise upon the Continent for all elfkind. 474 00:35:41,001 --> 00:35:45,043 Famine replaced by peace and prosperity. 475 00:35:46,084 --> 00:35:48,959 A united Continent once again. 476 00:35:49,043 --> 00:35:52,084 -A Continent of possibility. 477 00:35:53,334 --> 00:35:55,334 We are Xin'trean. 478 00:35:55,418 --> 00:35:57,084 We are Pryshian. 479 00:35:57,168 --> 00:35:58,668 We are Darwenish. 480 00:35:59,709 --> 00:36:01,501 -But we will all be… -Your Majesty? 481 00:36:01,584 --> 00:36:03,126 -Summon the physic. -No. 482 00:36:03,209 --> 00:36:05,709 -It's just… nerves. -…one, as strong and… 483 00:36:05,793 --> 00:36:07,709 Perhaps I should retire to my chambers. 484 00:36:07,793 --> 00:36:11,584 …day we first landed on these shores and civilized this land. 485 00:36:12,709 --> 00:36:13,834 So I call upon… 486 00:36:15,543 --> 00:36:18,709 gracious Queen Neera of Darwen, 487 00:36:20,209 --> 00:36:23,709 and good King Midir of Pryshia… 488 00:36:27,543 --> 00:36:33,126 to join with me as allies in this new dawn. 489 00:36:52,459 --> 00:36:53,626 What's that? 490 00:36:58,751 --> 00:37:00,626 Fire! 491 00:37:06,918 --> 00:37:08,334 Free them! 492 00:37:14,584 --> 00:37:16,293 Go back the way we came! 493 00:37:34,209 --> 00:37:38,084 In that moment, the Elven world had changed forever. 494 00:37:38,168 --> 00:37:42,751 A thousand years of monarchies, kingdoms, and clans were erased. 495 00:37:42,834 --> 00:37:43,918 It's done. 496 00:37:46,543 --> 00:37:47,501 Indeed. 497 00:37:48,334 --> 00:37:50,001 My beast has done well. 498 00:37:50,084 --> 00:37:52,126 The peace treaty had allowed Balor 499 00:37:52,209 --> 00:37:55,793 to turn war-hungry mages and generals against their monarchies. 500 00:37:55,876 --> 00:37:58,293 It was just the beginning. 501 00:37:58,376 --> 00:37:59,418 Empress. 502 00:38:00,668 --> 00:38:02,459 The three kingdoms are yours. 503 00:38:05,126 --> 00:38:07,709 All hail the new Golden Empire. 504 00:38:08,293 --> 00:38:09,126 Rise. 505 00:38:09,751 --> 00:38:11,334 We have much to do. 506 00:38:15,084 --> 00:38:17,043 This storm's unnatural. 507 00:38:17,126 --> 00:38:19,209 We're sailing for safe harbor in Gaylth. 508 00:38:19,293 --> 00:38:21,751 That's not even close to Xin'trea. 509 00:38:21,834 --> 00:38:24,751 We're no use to our clans at the bottom of the ocean. 510 00:38:41,584 --> 00:38:43,668 Merwyn was free now. 511 00:38:43,751 --> 00:38:45,709 Free to write her own story. 512 00:38:46,209 --> 00:38:48,751 Just as her hero Solryth had. 513 00:38:48,834 --> 00:38:51,168 To start a new golden era. 514 00:38:53,376 --> 00:38:55,709 This was her destiny. 515 00:38:56,418 --> 00:38:58,418 Empress! 516 00:39:05,168 --> 00:39:06,834 She plays her part well. 517 00:39:08,918 --> 00:39:11,251 A shiny thing to appease the masses. 518 00:39:11,918 --> 00:39:15,418 They all fall so eagerly into place, despite their world turning on its head. 519 00:39:16,459 --> 00:39:19,751 Faced with chaos, the people will always choose order. 520 00:39:19,834 --> 00:39:21,293 No matter the cost. 521 00:39:21,376 --> 00:39:23,334 Or how blatant the farce. 522 00:39:24,626 --> 00:39:26,251 How long do we need her? 523 00:39:26,334 --> 00:39:27,501 We shall see. 524 00:39:28,376 --> 00:39:30,084 Take me down to my people. 525 00:40:13,668 --> 00:40:16,376 The skies and seas were not the only thing 526 00:40:16,459 --> 00:40:18,251 to have changed without warning. 527 00:40:19,043 --> 00:40:20,959 What the fuck are those flags? 528 00:40:21,043 --> 00:40:24,793 -I've never seen that crest before. -Not Pryshian. That's for sure. 529 00:40:27,043 --> 00:40:30,209 Let's head to this tavern. Get some locals drunk, find out what's going on. 530 00:40:30,293 --> 00:40:31,918 With what coin, exactly? 531 00:40:32,876 --> 00:40:34,459 Too long on the clan teat. 532 00:40:34,959 --> 00:40:37,084 You need to cultivate some initiative, boy. 533 00:40:37,584 --> 00:40:38,668 -Oof! -Sorry. 534 00:40:46,001 --> 00:40:47,084 Come on, then! 535 00:40:53,376 --> 00:40:54,876 Mmm. 536 00:40:59,459 --> 00:41:00,918 At least she ended the war. 537 00:41:01,876 --> 00:41:04,626 Not many'd have the stomach to kill your own kin. 538 00:41:04,709 --> 00:41:06,376 And her own brother, no less. 539 00:41:06,459 --> 00:41:09,418 -Calling herself Empress Merwyn now. -Empress? 540 00:41:09,501 --> 00:41:11,543 Wiped out the lot of 'em in one go. 541 00:41:11,626 --> 00:41:14,543 Useless royal bastards and their poxy clans. 542 00:41:15,293 --> 00:41:16,668 -She killed them all… -No. 543 00:41:16,751 --> 00:41:18,376 That's impossible. 544 00:41:18,459 --> 00:41:20,668 How does one princess no one's ever heard of 545 00:41:20,751 --> 00:41:24,293 manage to take the whole Continent easy as piss like that? 546 00:41:24,376 --> 00:41:28,209 I heard she's got herself a three-headed beast, the size of a ship. 547 00:41:28,709 --> 00:41:30,168 Sucks on her teat like a babe. 548 00:41:30,251 --> 00:41:31,543 -Beast! 549 00:41:33,126 --> 00:41:34,209 A beast? 550 00:41:34,293 --> 00:41:35,834 Lay off the godhead pipe. 551 00:41:39,501 --> 00:41:40,501 Beast or no, 552 00:41:41,543 --> 00:41:44,751 no Xin'trean bitch is gonna tell me I'm not Pryshian anymore. 553 00:41:47,626 --> 00:41:49,293 Yeah, you lot are worse. 554 00:41:50,168 --> 00:41:53,543 Paradin' around in your Pryshian armor mere suns ago. 555 00:41:54,043 --> 00:41:57,793 Traitorous pissants, dressed in that cunt's armor. 556 00:41:58,793 --> 00:42:01,251 Fuckin' slut's got you lot by the balls! 557 00:42:07,834 --> 00:42:09,501 Anyone seen 'em? 558 00:42:10,084 --> 00:42:13,293 Éile of Raven Clan, Fjall of Dog Clan. 559 00:42:24,584 --> 00:42:26,626 -We need to be smart about this. 560 00:42:27,126 --> 00:42:29,668 If you can't control your fire because someone insulted your lover, 561 00:42:29,751 --> 00:42:30,793 we should part ways now. 562 00:42:30,876 --> 00:42:34,584 -This has nothing to do with her. -This has everything to do with her. 563 00:42:36,418 --> 00:42:40,084 She killed our clans. 564 00:42:43,251 --> 00:42:44,501 One! Two! 565 00:42:46,668 --> 00:42:48,001 One! Two! 566 00:42:49,834 --> 00:42:51,084 -One… -You! 567 00:42:51,168 --> 00:42:52,293 -Oof! 568 00:42:52,376 --> 00:42:54,293 The largest we've excavated yet. 569 00:42:54,376 --> 00:42:57,001 I need more power to stabilize the gateways. 570 00:42:57,084 --> 00:43:00,918 -How many monoliths have you raised? -Three in the north, two in the south. 571 00:43:01,418 --> 00:43:04,209 Another five excavated being configured with Syndril's sigils. 572 00:43:04,293 --> 00:43:07,584 Not enough to power a gateway for a legion. Why the delay? 573 00:43:08,168 --> 00:43:10,709 Have at you! Pull! 574 00:43:10,793 --> 00:43:11,668 The empire's young. 575 00:43:13,584 --> 00:43:15,501 Our troops are stretched thin. 576 00:43:15,584 --> 00:43:17,793 You absorbed the entire Darwen and Pryshian army. 577 00:43:17,876 --> 00:43:19,668 How can you be stretched thin? 578 00:43:21,168 --> 00:43:23,376 There were more deserters than anticipated. 579 00:43:25,084 --> 00:43:27,168 And since your purge of so many mages-- 580 00:43:27,251 --> 00:43:28,709 Non-cooperative mages. 581 00:43:28,793 --> 00:43:31,918 Crop failures are worsening. Bread riots are running rampant-- 582 00:43:32,001 --> 00:43:33,001 Then quell them. 583 00:43:33,834 --> 00:43:36,084 Those that make excuses don't make history. 584 00:43:36,168 --> 00:43:37,668 I said pull! 585 00:43:37,751 --> 00:43:38,959 Pull! 586 00:43:42,334 --> 00:43:44,168 What of Fjall Stoneheart? 587 00:43:44,251 --> 00:43:46,376 He escaped our assassins on Inis Dubh. 588 00:43:46,459 --> 00:43:49,126 -Along with the Raven Clan warrior. 589 00:43:49,209 --> 00:43:52,293 But we have elite troops scouring the Continent as we speak. 590 00:43:52,376 --> 00:43:54,918 That's a heroic folktale waiting to happen. 591 00:43:56,293 --> 00:43:58,043 End them. Now. 592 00:44:09,793 --> 00:44:12,626 Horses are secure. I'll take first watch. 593 00:44:14,459 --> 00:44:16,209 Maybe some of them survived. 594 00:44:19,126 --> 00:44:21,084 My clan would have fought to the death. 595 00:44:22,751 --> 00:44:23,918 So would yours. 596 00:44:24,751 --> 00:44:25,668 A monster. 597 00:44:27,043 --> 00:44:29,834 How can that even exist? Where did it come from? 598 00:44:30,876 --> 00:44:32,584 There was a mage in Xin'trea. 599 00:44:33,418 --> 00:44:34,251 Syndril. 600 00:44:34,334 --> 00:44:36,918 He dug up and raised an ancient Dwarven monolith. 601 00:44:38,626 --> 00:44:41,709 He used it to… open up a gateway to another world. 602 00:44:41,793 --> 00:44:44,251 -The monster came from there? -I mean, maybe. 603 00:44:45,751 --> 00:44:48,668 -I know it sounds insane. -There are old stories of other worlds. 604 00:44:48,751 --> 00:44:50,334 And nothing's been right since. 605 00:44:50,418 --> 00:44:52,834 -Even the skies have changed. -And the seas too. 606 00:44:53,543 --> 00:44:54,584 Everything's off. 607 00:44:54,668 --> 00:44:57,751 But even with the beast, Merwyn had no power to pull this off. 608 00:44:59,043 --> 00:45:02,043 There has to be someone else behind this. The generals, or the mages-- 609 00:45:02,126 --> 00:45:03,876 -You're making excuses for her. -No. 610 00:45:04,418 --> 00:45:08,168 If, now I mean if, she's Empress, then she was involved. 611 00:45:09,334 --> 00:45:10,959 She'll pay with her blood for what she did. 612 00:45:11,043 --> 00:45:12,918 I should have died with my clan. 613 00:45:14,959 --> 00:45:15,876 Me too. 614 00:45:18,793 --> 00:45:20,084 We're the last of us. 615 00:45:21,876 --> 00:45:24,334 They'll erase our clans from history. 616 00:45:24,418 --> 00:45:25,793 Not as long as we breathe. 617 00:45:26,293 --> 00:45:28,084 Then we end them before they end us. 618 00:45:28,168 --> 00:45:29,334 Raven Clan. 619 00:45:29,834 --> 00:45:31,001 Dog Clan. 620 00:45:31,584 --> 00:45:32,959 How can we trust each other? 621 00:45:35,584 --> 00:45:36,626 By the blade. 622 00:45:43,834 --> 00:45:44,876 By the blade. 623 00:45:57,251 --> 00:46:01,501 We find Merwyn, end her beast and anyone who stands with her. 624 00:46:06,418 --> 00:46:07,751 Send them all to clay. 625 00:46:09,418 --> 00:46:10,709 Blood sworn. 626 00:46:11,793 --> 00:46:12,668 To the end. 627 00:46:13,334 --> 00:46:14,251 To the end. 628 00:46:15,501 --> 00:46:17,709 Your brother. How could you? 629 00:46:17,793 --> 00:46:20,709 I'd no choice, Ket. He'd written my life for me. 630 00:46:20,793 --> 00:46:22,459 I was destined for more. 631 00:46:22,543 --> 00:46:24,668 Old stories are bound to repeat. 632 00:46:24,751 --> 00:46:27,043 They just need the right person to tell them. 633 00:46:27,626 --> 00:46:30,293 When Solryth died, we turned on each other. 634 00:46:30,376 --> 00:46:35,251 A great golden era destroyed by an endless cycle of war. 635 00:46:35,334 --> 00:46:38,084 And one my brother's treaty would have paused, at best. 636 00:46:40,543 --> 00:46:45,418 Balor and Eredin want to use Syndril's gateways 637 00:46:46,793 --> 00:46:47,918 to conquer. 638 00:46:48,418 --> 00:46:51,543 But conquest for conquest's sake means nothing. 639 00:46:53,334 --> 00:46:55,709 I want to civilize these new worlds. 640 00:46:57,709 --> 00:47:01,876 Bring our art, our science, and culture to them, 641 00:47:02,626 --> 00:47:05,626 and create a new golden era for all of elfkind. 642 00:47:05,709 --> 00:47:06,626 You th-- 643 00:47:07,459 --> 00:47:09,126 You think you're Solryth. 644 00:47:10,084 --> 00:47:11,126 No. 645 00:47:13,293 --> 00:47:14,126 Not yet. 646 00:47:16,001 --> 00:47:18,543 Not while I remain Balor's puppet. 647 00:47:20,793 --> 00:47:23,168 I need to become Empress in more than just name. 648 00:47:23,793 --> 00:47:28,376 Or all of this, every drop of blood spilled, 649 00:47:28,459 --> 00:47:29,793 will have been in vain. 650 00:47:31,459 --> 00:47:33,126 I just have to find a way. 651 00:47:42,751 --> 00:47:43,959 What have I done? 652 00:47:45,334 --> 00:47:47,501 You've unlocked the future, Syndril. 653 00:47:50,584 --> 00:47:53,459 Without your knowledge, none of this would have been possible. 654 00:47:54,334 --> 00:47:57,668 Now the master monolith is raised, who knows what worlds await? 655 00:47:58,751 --> 00:48:00,584 Ready your final calculations 656 00:48:00,668 --> 00:48:03,376 to connect the rest of the monoliths across the empire. 657 00:48:07,251 --> 00:48:08,626 You should be proud. 658 00:48:09,793 --> 00:48:12,959 This new dawn of possibilities is all thanks to you. 659 00:48:24,918 --> 00:48:27,459 I can't believe they united the armies. 660 00:48:27,543 --> 00:48:29,834 The closer we get to Xin'trea, the worse our odds. 661 00:48:29,918 --> 00:48:32,751 Then we change the odds with the best blade in the land. 662 00:48:33,334 --> 00:48:35,626 -Who? -My old sword master. 663 00:48:35,709 --> 00:48:37,334 If she doesn't kill me on sight. 664 00:48:37,418 --> 00:48:39,709 She was the one who introduced me to music. 665 00:48:39,793 --> 00:48:42,834 When I left my clan to become a bard, she was banished. 666 00:48:42,918 --> 00:48:44,668 Forced to become a sellsword. 667 00:48:46,376 --> 00:48:48,334 You're willing to risk your throat? 668 00:48:48,418 --> 00:48:50,959 We want vengeance? We need her. 669 00:48:53,001 --> 00:48:54,376 She have a name, then? 670 00:48:56,001 --> 00:48:57,751 This sword mother of yours. 671 00:48:59,626 --> 00:49:00,543 Scían. 672 00:49:02,084 --> 00:49:03,709 Last of the Ghost Tribe. 673 00:49:04,209 --> 00:49:05,626 Ghost Tribe are a myth. 674 00:49:06,584 --> 00:49:07,584 No myth. 675 00:49:08,084 --> 00:49:10,709 Finest sword masters to ever grace the Continent. 676 00:49:11,584 --> 00:49:13,209 Till you lot wiped them out. 677 00:49:13,293 --> 00:49:15,084 Before my time, then. 678 00:49:15,168 --> 00:49:17,168 When they refused to fight for him, 679 00:49:17,251 --> 00:49:19,501 your King Darach poisoned their water supply. 680 00:49:20,001 --> 00:49:21,709 Scían was the only survivor. 681 00:49:22,418 --> 00:49:24,793 Our clan found her, took her in as sword master… 682 00:49:24,876 --> 00:49:25,793 Éile. 683 00:49:29,084 --> 00:49:31,293 Please. We mean you no harm. 684 00:49:31,376 --> 00:49:33,793 What brings you so far from the main roads? 685 00:49:33,876 --> 00:49:35,209 We fled Bon Machán. 686 00:49:35,293 --> 00:49:38,251 Our mages and elders refused the new empire. 687 00:49:38,334 --> 00:49:40,126 Her soldiers burnt it to ash, 688 00:49:40,209 --> 00:49:42,918 stole our young to dig up their black towers. 689 00:49:43,001 --> 00:49:44,126 To raise monoliths. 690 00:49:44,793 --> 00:49:46,918 Why are they raising them outside Xin'trea? 691 00:49:55,126 --> 00:49:57,043 Are you the Lark? 692 00:49:59,834 --> 00:50:01,334 I don't go by that name anymore. 693 00:50:01,418 --> 00:50:04,126 I saw you last year at the Aedd Gynvael. 694 00:50:05,168 --> 00:50:06,584 You were brilliant. 695 00:50:07,376 --> 00:50:08,626 Those songs, 696 00:50:08,709 --> 00:50:10,084 so full of hope, 697 00:50:10,751 --> 00:50:11,918 made us feel special. 698 00:50:12,459 --> 00:50:14,043 Like the world was ours. 699 00:50:15,001 --> 00:50:17,126 Any chance you could sing "The Black Rose"? 700 00:50:17,709 --> 00:50:19,168 We could use a bit of hope. 701 00:50:24,543 --> 00:50:25,834 That's enough. 702 00:50:26,959 --> 00:50:27,959 Good luck. 703 00:50:38,126 --> 00:50:41,459 He had heard that song far south in Xin'trea, 704 00:50:41,543 --> 00:50:43,084 hummed in doorways, 705 00:50:43,168 --> 00:50:47,084 sung in streets and taverns, always amongst the lowborn. 706 00:50:47,584 --> 00:50:50,126 And now here in the far north. 707 00:50:50,209 --> 00:50:52,876 How could one song have this much power? 708 00:50:53,584 --> 00:50:56,668 We're not far from her. Tread lightly if you can. 709 00:50:56,751 --> 00:50:58,126 This Scían, 710 00:50:59,334 --> 00:51:00,751 the paranoid type, then? 711 00:51:01,959 --> 00:51:03,793 Her entire tribe was poisoned. 712 00:51:04,834 --> 00:51:05,918 Pit trap. 713 00:51:10,293 --> 00:51:12,209 It's not my first time out, Lark. 714 00:51:12,293 --> 00:51:13,459 I seen it. 715 00:51:14,251 --> 00:51:15,793 And the one 30 paces back. 716 00:51:16,959 --> 00:51:19,043 She'll have to try a lot harder than that to catch me-- 717 00:51:20,334 --> 00:51:23,459 -Fuck's sake. 718 00:51:29,584 --> 00:51:31,001 The clans are gone. 719 00:51:32,251 --> 00:51:33,959 How are you still alive? 720 00:51:39,334 --> 00:51:42,376 I sense the echo of slaughter on you. 721 00:51:43,501 --> 00:51:46,293 The beast I gifted you gave you what you wanted. 722 00:51:46,876 --> 00:51:47,793 It did. 723 00:51:48,834 --> 00:51:51,626 I've taken control of the entire Continent. 724 00:51:52,209 --> 00:51:53,418 And yet? 725 00:51:53,959 --> 00:51:54,959 It's not enough. 726 00:51:55,626 --> 00:51:58,251 These people will never accept me as their emperor. 727 00:52:00,668 --> 00:52:02,001 I'm lowborn. 728 00:52:02,084 --> 00:52:04,251 Interesting… 729 00:52:05,168 --> 00:52:07,709 I need a power that only I can wield. 730 00:52:08,668 --> 00:52:12,043 One that raises me above any highborn, royal, or army. 731 00:52:12,126 --> 00:52:14,459 You want to be a god amongst elves. 732 00:52:15,043 --> 00:52:16,043 Yes. 733 00:52:18,209 --> 00:52:21,418 I need… your Chaos magic. 734 00:52:22,751 --> 00:52:25,501 Are you willing to sacrifice anything for it, 735 00:52:25,584 --> 00:52:27,043 no matter what the cost? 736 00:52:27,126 --> 00:52:28,084 Yes. 737 00:52:28,626 --> 00:52:30,251 Whatever you ask for, 738 00:52:30,918 --> 00:52:32,084 you shall have. 739 00:52:38,626 --> 00:52:41,043 Never thought you'd darken this place again. 740 00:52:43,334 --> 00:52:45,126 Didn't mean to bring you dishonor. 741 00:52:45,876 --> 00:52:47,043 And yet you did. 742 00:52:49,543 --> 00:52:51,418 The new empress wants you dead. 743 00:52:51,501 --> 00:52:52,668 Why have you come? 744 00:52:54,668 --> 00:52:56,043 To ask for your help. 745 00:52:58,459 --> 00:52:59,501 Come with us. 746 00:53:00,501 --> 00:53:02,209 We're riding to Xin'trea to kill her. 747 00:53:04,918 --> 00:53:08,209 If not for me, then for your ancestors. 748 00:53:10,834 --> 00:53:12,918 Xin'trea stole your tribe's sacred blade. 749 00:53:14,459 --> 00:53:16,668 This is your chance to reclaim Soulreaver. 750 00:53:18,834 --> 00:53:20,501 Who knows where it is now? 751 00:53:21,543 --> 00:53:24,084 Your blade's with the other trophies in the palace. 752 00:53:27,001 --> 00:53:30,251 Three green stones like that, and markings on the pommel, 753 00:53:30,959 --> 00:53:32,084 something about… 754 00:53:33,543 --> 00:53:34,793 Black Sands. 755 00:53:35,376 --> 00:53:36,834 Born of Black Sands. 756 00:53:38,001 --> 00:53:39,876 Blade and soul as one. 757 00:53:40,584 --> 00:53:41,918 All beginnings. 758 00:53:43,084 --> 00:53:44,168 All ends. 759 00:53:47,959 --> 00:53:50,209 You'd never get past the city gates. 760 00:53:50,293 --> 00:53:53,668 If you even make it that far travelling with the enemy. 761 00:54:15,418 --> 00:54:16,543 Ah… 762 00:54:21,834 --> 00:54:22,959 Knitbone. 763 00:54:23,918 --> 00:54:24,793 It'll ease the burn. 764 00:54:31,209 --> 00:54:32,251 Éile. 765 00:54:32,793 --> 00:54:34,584 You can't trust her. 766 00:54:34,668 --> 00:54:36,501 She has an axe to grind with you. 767 00:54:36,584 --> 00:54:40,084 She's got contacts from sellswording across the land. Contacts we may need. 768 00:54:40,168 --> 00:54:42,584 Contacts she'll use to sell you out the first chance she gets. 769 00:54:43,251 --> 00:54:44,834 There's no one else left. 770 00:54:50,918 --> 00:54:52,251 Scían's all I've got. 771 00:55:02,626 --> 00:55:04,668 These changing skies bode a darkness. 772 00:55:04,751 --> 00:55:06,626 We have a chance if we do it together. 773 00:55:06,709 --> 00:55:08,043 Your quest is hopeless. 774 00:55:08,876 --> 00:55:12,293 -I need you. We need you. -You have your own path to take. 775 00:55:12,376 --> 00:55:14,709 I can get us past the gates and into the palace. 776 00:55:15,418 --> 00:55:17,959 There's a secret passage into the city that's unguarded. 777 00:55:20,209 --> 00:55:21,459 We could use your sword. 778 00:55:21,959 --> 00:55:23,543 No doubt you could. 779 00:55:24,293 --> 00:55:25,168 But… 780 00:55:26,168 --> 00:55:27,876 I won't be going with you. 781 00:55:29,709 --> 00:55:32,834 The only good thing that's come of all this 782 00:55:32,918 --> 00:55:35,334 is that Dog Clan's gone for good. 783 00:55:36,209 --> 00:55:40,209 And may your father suffer eternity in a lonely grave. 784 00:55:40,293 --> 00:55:42,876 My father should have finished King Darach's work. 785 00:55:44,209 --> 00:55:46,126 Put you down with the rest of your tribe. 786 00:55:46,209 --> 00:55:48,709 I would have liked to see him try. 787 00:55:48,793 --> 00:55:51,709 Blindsided by a sweet little princess, 788 00:55:51,793 --> 00:55:55,126 not fit to hold an axe of a clan chieftain. 789 00:56:00,126 --> 00:56:02,834 -What are you doing? -He's the one with an axe. 790 00:56:03,918 --> 00:56:06,168 Doesn't seem to know how to use it, though. 791 00:56:09,251 --> 00:56:10,418 Scían, stop! 792 00:56:13,834 --> 00:56:15,501 You've gotten rusty. 793 00:56:15,584 --> 00:56:16,501 Have I? 794 00:56:48,626 --> 00:56:52,459 Your instincts are good, but you let your emotions control you. 795 00:56:52,543 --> 00:56:56,334 And you, you have forgotten how to work as part of a clan. 796 00:56:57,709 --> 00:57:00,043 You're not bad when you're working together. 797 00:57:01,876 --> 00:57:03,293 We can work with that. 798 00:57:04,168 --> 00:57:05,668 So you're coming with us? 799 00:57:08,293 --> 00:57:09,793 The ancestors will it. 800 00:57:15,543 --> 00:57:17,251 Three against an empire. 801 00:57:17,334 --> 00:57:19,251 Not enough. We need to find more. 802 00:57:19,334 --> 00:57:21,626 Then we'll find others who want to kill the bitch. 803 00:57:21,709 --> 00:57:23,543 There'll be no coming back. 804 00:57:23,626 --> 00:57:26,168 And so two became three. 805 00:57:26,251 --> 00:57:30,793 The first drops in a torrent that would change the world forever.