1 00:00:10,043 --> 00:00:12,501 [wind howling] 2 00:00:17,668 --> 00:00:18,584 Interesting. 3 00:00:18,668 --> 00:00:20,126 With light of this wavelength, 4 00:00:20,209 --> 00:00:22,876 there should be some observable thermal emanation. 5 00:00:24,918 --> 00:00:26,918 [mysterious music] 6 00:00:27,959 --> 00:00:32,834 Energy radiates from the stone, but not in any form I've encountered. 7 00:00:34,001 --> 00:00:35,209 Hmm. 8 00:00:37,584 --> 00:00:39,334 Tests are required. 9 00:00:42,168 --> 00:00:44,876 [Filomena] Amazing. The energy seems to influence 10 00:00:44,959 --> 00:00:47,418 the mental states of living beings. 11 00:00:47,501 --> 00:00:49,501 Individually, the test subjects appear… 12 00:00:50,084 --> 00:00:50,959 smarter. 13 00:00:51,043 --> 00:00:54,459 They've spontaneously evolved into a superorganism. 14 00:00:55,668 --> 00:00:57,959 [thrilling music] 15 00:01:03,334 --> 00:01:07,043 They no longer seem to recognize unexposed members of their species 16 00:01:07,126 --> 00:01:08,793 as anything other than food. 17 00:01:10,459 --> 00:01:14,251 [overlapping chatter] 18 00:01:16,418 --> 00:01:17,584 No. 19 00:01:21,084 --> 00:01:22,168 [grunts] 20 00:01:23,918 --> 00:01:27,584 Father, what a perfectly awful time for you to be away. 21 00:01:31,543 --> 00:01:33,543 [theme music] 22 00:02:21,626 --> 00:02:24,043 [foreboding music] 23 00:02:28,959 --> 00:02:30,376 [children laughing] 24 00:02:30,459 --> 00:02:31,626 You're so slow! 25 00:02:32,209 --> 00:02:33,543 [laughing] 26 00:02:33,626 --> 00:02:34,709 -I'm gonna get you. -[pants] 27 00:02:34,793 --> 00:02:35,626 Ha! 28 00:02:35,709 --> 00:02:37,043 -[gasps] -[girl] Hey! 29 00:02:37,126 --> 00:02:39,043 -[children laughing] -You're it! 30 00:02:39,126 --> 00:02:41,293 [explosions in distance] 31 00:02:42,084 --> 00:02:43,376 What is that? 32 00:02:45,668 --> 00:02:48,376 -[explosion] -[grunts] 33 00:02:51,293 --> 00:02:52,251 [boy] Race you there. 34 00:02:55,168 --> 00:02:57,209 [unsettling music] 35 00:02:57,959 --> 00:02:59,251 Can you see it? 36 00:03:00,001 --> 00:03:01,043 [boy gasps] 37 00:03:01,126 --> 00:03:03,043 [boy] By the Dawn Star. 38 00:03:03,626 --> 00:03:04,959 I don't like it. 39 00:03:06,209 --> 00:03:07,959 Hey! Come back! 40 00:03:11,751 --> 00:03:15,626 [overlapping chatter] 41 00:03:23,251 --> 00:03:25,876 [boy grunting] 42 00:03:32,001 --> 00:03:32,918 [screams] 43 00:03:34,834 --> 00:03:39,168 [villager] The damn noise wakes the entire block. 44 00:03:39,251 --> 00:03:41,626 Surely, His Excellency sees the value… 45 00:03:41,709 --> 00:03:45,959 The copper ingots were counterfeit, and he was rude to my servant. 46 00:03:46,043 --> 00:03:47,918 He must be punished. 47 00:03:48,001 --> 00:03:50,168 …filled with villains and scum. 48 00:03:50,251 --> 00:03:54,584 And I see guards there daily. The Shoehorn must be cleaned out. 49 00:03:54,668 --> 00:03:57,209 The Imperium must not be sullied by poor policing. 50 00:03:57,293 --> 00:03:59,293 I will speak with the captain of the guard. 51 00:03:59,376 --> 00:04:01,668 -Your father would have already-- -[indistinct whisper] 52 00:04:02,459 --> 00:04:06,043 My father appreciates your concern. 53 00:04:06,126 --> 00:04:07,959 That will be all for today. 54 00:04:08,876 --> 00:04:14,126 [Emperor Zal] Sherzi! Oh, gods, please! Where is my wife? 55 00:04:14,209 --> 00:04:15,501 Sherzi? 56 00:04:15,584 --> 00:04:16,668 [Emperor Zal crying] 57 00:04:16,751 --> 00:04:18,376 [Emperor Zal] I demand to see her. 58 00:04:18,459 --> 00:04:19,376 Father? 59 00:04:19,459 --> 00:04:20,918 Emperor Zal? 60 00:04:21,001 --> 00:04:22,043 [Emperor Zal] Go away. 61 00:04:23,043 --> 00:04:24,293 It's me. 62 00:04:24,376 --> 00:04:27,543 It's Sherzi. I'm here. Come open the door. 63 00:04:29,376 --> 00:04:32,168 [sighs] You're all right. I'm here. 64 00:04:32,251 --> 00:04:37,834 Oh, Sherzi. My dear wife. I've been so worried. 65 00:04:39,418 --> 00:04:42,293 Come sit. Here, you must be hungry. 66 00:04:42,876 --> 00:04:44,251 What troubles you? 67 00:04:44,334 --> 00:04:47,376 Our daughter. She is not prepared. 68 00:04:47,459 --> 00:04:50,251 Mirana is stronger than you know. 69 00:04:50,334 --> 00:04:51,543 [slurps] 70 00:04:52,668 --> 00:04:54,959 There's more to taking the throne than strength. 71 00:04:55,043 --> 00:04:59,209 Making decisions for which no one else can muster the courage. 72 00:04:59,293 --> 00:05:04,668 Seeing where others are blind. Braving the darkness alone. 73 00:05:04,751 --> 00:05:08,126 She will do everything she can to make you proud. 74 00:05:08,709 --> 00:05:11,168 Every time I look upon her, I see our failure. 75 00:05:13,084 --> 00:05:14,251 [knocking on door] 76 00:05:14,334 --> 00:05:15,293 [Emperor Zal] Enter! 77 00:05:16,584 --> 00:05:19,043 [Mirana] Captain. I hope this is important. 78 00:05:19,126 --> 00:05:21,293 I wouldn't have intruded otherwise, Highness. 79 00:05:21,376 --> 00:05:24,668 Something happened. An incident in the Hinterlands. 80 00:05:24,751 --> 00:05:26,834 You're needed in the throne room. 81 00:05:29,001 --> 00:05:30,126 Mirana? 82 00:05:31,793 --> 00:05:33,209 Where did your mother go? 83 00:05:35,668 --> 00:05:38,543 Sherzi? Sherzi? 84 00:05:40,209 --> 00:05:41,543 [Emperor Zal crying] 85 00:05:44,209 --> 00:05:47,043 [Mirana] Tell us exactly what you saw. 86 00:05:47,126 --> 00:05:48,168 [merchant] Monsters. 87 00:05:48,251 --> 00:05:50,959 I barely made it out alive. 88 00:05:51,043 --> 00:05:53,251 You must go. Burn them out. 89 00:05:53,334 --> 00:05:55,668 There's more you're not saying. Out with it. 90 00:05:56,959 --> 00:05:59,251 It's not just what I saw. 91 00:05:59,334 --> 00:06:03,876 It's what I felt, pushed through my skull. 92 00:06:04,459 --> 00:06:08,959 The world spun, and my soul teetered on the edge of an abyss. 93 00:06:09,751 --> 00:06:13,668 A red glow to swallow up all law and reason. 94 00:06:13,751 --> 00:06:16,751 I felt the truth. We are nothing. 95 00:06:16,834 --> 00:06:18,751 So, you had a bad dream. 96 00:06:18,834 --> 00:06:19,959 [whimpers] 97 00:06:20,043 --> 00:06:24,501 Pardon her apprehension, but the claims you make are strange. 98 00:06:24,584 --> 00:06:25,793 [merchant] You want proof. 99 00:06:26,501 --> 00:06:28,334 The proof is in the blood. 100 00:06:29,418 --> 00:06:30,834 [grunts] 101 00:06:30,918 --> 00:06:31,876 [gasps] 102 00:06:37,209 --> 00:06:39,459 [suspenseful music] 103 00:06:39,543 --> 00:06:42,251 [merchant groaning] 104 00:06:45,543 --> 00:06:47,543 [unsettling music] 105 00:06:50,543 --> 00:06:51,876 Alert the guard. 106 00:06:52,584 --> 00:06:55,084 I ride to the Hinterlands myself. 107 00:06:55,959 --> 00:06:58,459 [eerie music] 108 00:07:03,834 --> 00:07:05,584 -[Luna] Three days' march for this. -Easy now. 109 00:07:05,668 --> 00:07:07,709 Where in the Seven Hells is everyone? 110 00:07:08,459 --> 00:07:10,459 [eerie music] 111 00:07:11,918 --> 00:07:13,709 Where could they have gone? 112 00:07:13,793 --> 00:07:16,668 It's as though they all left at once in the night. 113 00:07:16,751 --> 00:07:19,001 [hopeful music] 114 00:07:22,168 --> 00:07:23,668 Your Highness. 115 00:07:23,751 --> 00:07:24,626 [gasps] 116 00:07:25,168 --> 00:07:27,501 [Mirana] Oh, I was beginning to fear you would never come. 117 00:07:28,084 --> 00:07:30,334 More trouble with the Coriel'Tauvi? 118 00:07:30,418 --> 00:07:33,084 Mene's Provincial Governor in the Scintillant Waste 119 00:07:33,168 --> 00:07:36,293 thought that she might collect tribute from our border regions. 120 00:07:36,376 --> 00:07:38,668 I relayed your father's objections. 121 00:07:38,751 --> 00:07:40,251 [Mirana] I hope you were polite. 122 00:07:40,334 --> 00:07:42,668 Hmm, things became heated. 123 00:07:42,751 --> 00:07:44,876 Do you think the Coriel'Tauvi are responsible for this? 124 00:07:44,959 --> 00:07:46,418 [sighs] No. 125 00:07:46,501 --> 00:07:50,626 The Principality of Shadow is not usually given to such subtlety. 126 00:07:50,709 --> 00:07:52,709 [Luna] It's the same around the perimeter. 127 00:07:52,793 --> 00:07:56,001 Abandoned property. Empty silence. 128 00:07:56,584 --> 00:07:58,126 Could you see anything from above? 129 00:07:58,209 --> 00:08:00,043 Not through this fog. 130 00:08:00,126 --> 00:08:03,293 So, we're marching blind, in the middle of the night, 131 00:08:03,376 --> 00:08:08,668 into the arms of an adversary we cannot identify and do not understand? 132 00:08:09,376 --> 00:08:10,459 Perfect. 133 00:08:10,543 --> 00:08:11,584 Forward then. 134 00:08:11,668 --> 00:08:13,751 [grandiose music] 135 00:08:20,418 --> 00:08:22,418 [eerie music] 136 00:08:22,501 --> 00:08:24,126 -[Mirana] Halt! -[grunts] 137 00:08:25,418 --> 00:08:27,751 [monster snarling] 138 00:08:30,918 --> 00:08:33,043 [screams] 139 00:08:33,126 --> 00:08:35,001 [soldier screams] 140 00:08:36,168 --> 00:08:37,251 [grunts] 141 00:08:39,918 --> 00:08:42,084 By the Dawn Star. What was she? 142 00:08:42,834 --> 00:08:45,584 [monsters growling] 143 00:08:46,751 --> 00:08:48,126 [Mirana] Hold steady. 144 00:08:50,251 --> 00:08:51,834 [explosion] 145 00:08:54,168 --> 00:08:56,168 [monsters snarling] 146 00:08:57,251 --> 00:08:58,084 [grunts] 147 00:08:59,126 --> 00:09:01,043 [screaming] 148 00:09:02,251 --> 00:09:03,876 Shields! Form ranks! 149 00:09:04,709 --> 00:09:06,709 [grunting] 150 00:09:13,459 --> 00:09:15,293 [grunting continues] 151 00:09:17,709 --> 00:09:20,334 [groaning] 152 00:09:22,126 --> 00:09:26,251 [overlapping chatter] 153 00:09:27,001 --> 00:09:28,751 [grunts, gasps] 154 00:09:28,834 --> 00:09:30,626 [groans] 155 00:09:30,709 --> 00:09:32,543 [snarling] 156 00:09:32,626 --> 00:09:33,626 [Mirana grunts] 157 00:09:36,126 --> 00:09:37,418 [grunts] 158 00:09:37,501 --> 00:09:38,418 The villagers. 159 00:09:39,001 --> 00:09:40,168 It's all of them. 160 00:09:40,793 --> 00:09:41,709 They're all… 161 00:09:44,334 --> 00:09:46,168 -Burn it to the ground. -Done. 162 00:09:46,709 --> 00:09:50,209 [grunts, screams] 163 00:09:50,293 --> 00:09:52,543 [monsters growling] 164 00:09:52,626 --> 00:09:54,543 [Lina screams] 165 00:09:59,918 --> 00:10:01,918 [tragic music] 166 00:10:04,293 --> 00:10:09,793 [overlapping chatter] 167 00:10:13,876 --> 00:10:14,876 [mysterious voice] Remember. 168 00:10:15,709 --> 00:10:17,043 [Lina] Give it some room, Highness. 169 00:10:17,126 --> 00:10:19,209 You saw what it did to these people. 170 00:10:19,793 --> 00:10:22,751 [sighs] Yes. You're wise, of course. 171 00:10:23,834 --> 00:10:25,959 [somber music] 172 00:10:28,751 --> 00:10:29,918 [Luna scoffs] 173 00:10:30,001 --> 00:10:33,001 One damned rock did all this. 174 00:10:33,084 --> 00:10:35,626 I'm more disquieted by a question. 175 00:10:35,709 --> 00:10:37,584 What if there are more? 176 00:10:38,209 --> 00:10:40,959 What if this is only the start of something else? 177 00:10:41,668 --> 00:10:43,084 Something worse? 178 00:10:49,126 --> 00:10:51,418 [grandiose music] 179 00:10:52,959 --> 00:10:57,334 Princess, I hope the soldiers I lent the throne served you well. 180 00:10:57,418 --> 00:10:59,793 They did. My father and the Empire thank you. 181 00:10:59,876 --> 00:11:01,209 Oh, your father. 182 00:11:01,834 --> 00:11:05,584 I have not seen your father in many suns. 183 00:11:05,668 --> 00:11:09,459 The demands on his time and energy are difficult to overstate. 184 00:11:09,543 --> 00:11:13,543 Hm. And the demands on you, Princess, what of them? 185 00:11:13,626 --> 00:11:15,793 Spit it out. You want something. 186 00:11:15,876 --> 00:11:19,168 Only the opportunity to serve the throne. 187 00:11:19,251 --> 00:11:22,126 I see how restless you are, Princess. 188 00:11:22,209 --> 00:11:23,709 Name me Regent. 189 00:11:23,793 --> 00:11:27,668 Perhaps I can ease the demands on you both. 190 00:11:27,751 --> 00:11:32,084 Your kind concern is always so appreciated, Legatus. 191 00:11:32,168 --> 00:11:34,209 And thank you again for the troops. 192 00:11:34,293 --> 00:11:35,709 Your Highness. 193 00:11:38,459 --> 00:11:39,459 [groans] 194 00:11:39,543 --> 00:11:41,876 She's more snake than a woman. 195 00:11:44,459 --> 00:11:45,376 [door opens] 196 00:11:45,459 --> 00:11:46,668 [approaching footsteps] 197 00:11:46,751 --> 00:11:48,376 Mirana, you have returned. 198 00:11:48,459 --> 00:11:51,376 Father, you seem to be having a good day. 199 00:11:51,459 --> 00:11:54,459 The days are always good under our unflagging sun. 200 00:11:54,543 --> 00:11:59,626 In the night, though, I must admit, dark times do visit upon me. 201 00:11:59,709 --> 00:12:00,793 How was your trip? 202 00:12:00,876 --> 00:12:02,668 I encountered something. 203 00:12:02,751 --> 00:12:05,751 Something awful and powerful. 204 00:12:05,834 --> 00:12:08,126 A stone that glowed crimson. 205 00:12:08,209 --> 00:12:10,418 -A stone? -[Mirana] What is it? 206 00:12:10,501 --> 00:12:14,626 A half-remembered dream or a nightmare that came to me while you were gone. 207 00:12:14,709 --> 00:12:17,293 I saw a red rock, in a cave… 208 00:12:18,084 --> 00:12:19,501 in the snow. 209 00:12:19,584 --> 00:12:23,501 You were lost in its song. 210 00:12:25,084 --> 00:12:27,543 It was only a dream, Father. 211 00:12:27,626 --> 00:12:31,001 Do not trust me. Do not rely on me. 212 00:12:31,084 --> 00:12:34,168 Even sanity feels like madness now. 213 00:12:34,251 --> 00:12:35,584 Oh. [shushes] 214 00:12:35,668 --> 00:12:37,001 Don't say that. 215 00:12:37,084 --> 00:12:40,626 Death comes for me. Prepare for it. 216 00:12:41,209 --> 00:12:45,334 When you were born, the Oracle offered you a gift of prophecy. 217 00:12:45,418 --> 00:12:50,126 He told me I would know when the time had come for you to collect it. 218 00:12:50,959 --> 00:12:55,251 Find him. Take the stone. Find your answers. 219 00:12:55,334 --> 00:12:56,959 [Mirana] I don't want to leave you again. 220 00:12:57,043 --> 00:12:58,126 You must. 221 00:12:58,209 --> 00:12:59,501 Just remember, 222 00:12:59,584 --> 00:13:04,043 the Oracle speaks truths that sound like lies 223 00:13:04,126 --> 00:13:06,751 and lies that conceal the truth. 224 00:13:06,834 --> 00:13:08,293 He foresaw this. 225 00:13:08,376 --> 00:13:11,376 Or perhaps-- Or perhaps, I just imagined it. 226 00:13:12,001 --> 00:13:14,751 [Emperor Zal sobbing] 227 00:13:16,834 --> 00:13:21,043 Sherzi! There you are. Sing with me. 228 00:13:22,251 --> 00:13:23,459 Of course. 229 00:13:24,043 --> 00:13:27,168 [Mirana humming] 230 00:13:30,959 --> 00:13:33,293 [grandiose music] 231 00:13:41,293 --> 00:13:43,168 [Mirana] You know that little voice in your head, 232 00:13:43,251 --> 00:13:46,043 the one that chimes in when you're trying to decide something? 233 00:13:46,126 --> 00:13:47,918 It always leaves me wondering, 234 00:13:48,001 --> 00:13:52,043 is that the true me or is that the devil tempting me to error? 235 00:13:52,126 --> 00:13:54,418 You're still thinking about those monsters in the village. 236 00:13:54,501 --> 00:13:56,251 No, the Oracle. 237 00:13:56,876 --> 00:13:59,376 What if he tells me things that wouldn't have come true 238 00:13:59,459 --> 00:14:00,543 if he hadn't spoken? 239 00:14:01,251 --> 00:14:03,668 Fate always seemed a noose to me. 240 00:14:03,751 --> 00:14:05,793 Well, there's fate, and there's destiny. 241 00:14:05,876 --> 00:14:08,418 Fate is for cowards and fools. 242 00:14:08,501 --> 00:14:10,793 Destiny is what you make it. 243 00:14:12,251 --> 00:14:14,501 [tranquil music] 244 00:14:16,501 --> 00:14:17,668 Destiny. 245 00:14:39,126 --> 00:14:44,543 Mirana, daughter of Zal, Princess of the Sun… 246 00:14:45,668 --> 00:14:47,834 come to say farewell. 247 00:14:50,209 --> 00:14:52,209 [Mirana] You must know why I'm here. 248 00:14:52,293 --> 00:14:55,334 Oh, not even you know why you're here, 249 00:14:55,918 --> 00:14:58,793 because you have not yet arrived. 250 00:14:58,876 --> 00:15:00,376 I don't understand. 251 00:15:00,459 --> 00:15:02,251 [Oracle] Of course not. Not now. 252 00:15:02,334 --> 00:15:04,126 Not yet. 253 00:15:04,209 --> 00:15:05,959 I will make you some tea. 254 00:15:06,793 --> 00:15:09,668 Under the shadow of this red rock, 255 00:15:09,751 --> 00:15:12,334 you will see what blinds you. 256 00:15:12,418 --> 00:15:15,001 Come in, under the shadow. 257 00:15:15,084 --> 00:15:16,918 You will have your answers, 258 00:15:17,001 --> 00:15:20,084 and you will wish you never sought them at all. 259 00:15:20,168 --> 00:15:21,626 Do I have a choice? 260 00:15:21,709 --> 00:15:26,209 [Oracle] You are free. You can leave my temple now, as you will. 261 00:15:26,293 --> 00:15:30,293 But we both know, as much as it feels like a decision, 262 00:15:30,376 --> 00:15:34,876 your path has been set since the moment you saw the Direstone. 263 00:15:34,959 --> 00:15:35,793 Direstone? 264 00:15:37,126 --> 00:15:39,334 [intense music] 265 00:15:48,459 --> 00:15:49,501 [mysterious voice] Remember. 266 00:15:57,459 --> 00:15:58,918 [pants] I remember. 267 00:15:59,668 --> 00:16:00,959 I'm not me. 268 00:16:01,043 --> 00:16:02,584 Not this me. 269 00:16:02,668 --> 00:16:04,751 [Oracle] Hah. The hiss of fate. 270 00:16:04,834 --> 00:16:08,293 He did this. The Invoker did this. 271 00:16:08,376 --> 00:16:11,293 No. The Pillars of Creation did. 272 00:16:11,376 --> 00:16:15,209 He used them, collapsing all realities into one. 273 00:16:15,293 --> 00:16:16,459 This one. 274 00:16:16,543 --> 00:16:19,001 He silenced infinite souls. 275 00:16:19,084 --> 00:16:24,959 But your voice, a god's voice pierced the void. 276 00:16:25,043 --> 00:16:26,626 The Pillars of Creation? 277 00:16:27,668 --> 00:16:30,376 If they made this, then this can be unmade. 278 00:16:31,709 --> 00:16:34,459 With more difficulty than you know. 279 00:16:34,543 --> 00:16:38,376 I'm afraid your divinity has fled you. 280 00:16:38,459 --> 00:16:44,001 What power you have is granted by your father and destiny. 281 00:16:44,084 --> 00:16:49,334 Your Radiance, the prophecy you came for, I would speak it. 282 00:16:49,418 --> 00:16:50,959 Thank you, no. 283 00:16:51,043 --> 00:16:53,751 I've heard your prophecies before. 284 00:16:53,834 --> 00:16:57,501 The Devil of the Moon would turn Selemene's lotuses against her, 285 00:16:57,584 --> 00:17:01,126 heralding the return of Mene and the destruction of all things. 286 00:17:01,209 --> 00:17:02,709 That came true, it seems. 287 00:17:02,793 --> 00:17:04,543 Yes, it came true. 288 00:17:05,043 --> 00:17:09,418 But tell me, was it fate, or was it destiny? 289 00:17:09,501 --> 00:17:12,043 You'll forgive me if I leave that question to you. 290 00:17:12,918 --> 00:17:18,209 You will travel into darkness, and save what you love 291 00:17:18,293 --> 00:17:21,793 by allowing what you've loved to die. 292 00:17:22,834 --> 00:17:26,084 [Oracle] Restoration requires destruction, 293 00:17:26,168 --> 00:17:30,209 Princess of the Sun, Princess of the Moon, 294 00:17:30,293 --> 00:17:33,543 Princess of nothing at all. 295 00:17:36,126 --> 00:17:38,418 [pensive music] 296 00:17:43,918 --> 00:17:45,126 Marci? 297 00:17:46,334 --> 00:17:48,626 Oh, gods, Marci. 298 00:17:50,251 --> 00:17:51,626 Let me look at you. 299 00:17:51,709 --> 00:17:53,668 [sentimental music] 300 00:17:56,959 --> 00:17:58,918 [Luna] The Oracle said something obnoxious. 301 00:17:59,001 --> 00:18:01,543 I would have separated him from his tongue long ago. 302 00:18:01,626 --> 00:18:03,459 But the bastard always saw me coming. 303 00:18:03,543 --> 00:18:06,501 He was… obscure. 304 00:18:06,584 --> 00:18:09,126 And why do you look like you just came from a funeral? 305 00:18:09,209 --> 00:18:10,126 It's nothing. 306 00:18:10,709 --> 00:18:12,084 It seems more than nothing. 307 00:18:12,168 --> 00:18:15,668 Have you ever had a dream where someone you love wronged you? 308 00:18:15,751 --> 00:18:19,751 You know they did nothing, yet, the sting remains. 309 00:18:19,834 --> 00:18:21,418 I wronged you in a dream. 310 00:18:21,501 --> 00:18:23,834 You were wronged more gravely. 311 00:18:23,918 --> 00:18:26,418 My father, he is not well. 312 00:18:26,501 --> 00:18:30,334 I know you will care for him and care for the people. 313 00:18:30,418 --> 00:18:31,709 [Lina] Princess? 314 00:18:31,793 --> 00:18:34,126 [Mirana] I will not be returning to The Imperium. 315 00:18:34,209 --> 00:18:36,084 Where you go, we follow. 316 00:18:36,168 --> 00:18:39,043 Where I go now, the guard, their captain, 317 00:18:39,126 --> 00:18:42,168 and The Slayer would be noticed, and quite unwelcome. 318 00:18:42,251 --> 00:18:43,668 You're headed into Shadowlands. 319 00:18:43,751 --> 00:18:47,209 I won't leave you unescorted to the tender mercies of the elves. 320 00:18:47,293 --> 00:18:49,876 You can, and you will. 321 00:18:49,959 --> 00:18:53,001 Please, stay by my father's side, both of you. 322 00:18:53,084 --> 00:18:57,334 Do not trust Tihomir, and do not trust my uncle. 323 00:18:57,418 --> 00:18:59,043 You're not making any sense. 324 00:19:00,168 --> 00:19:02,543 Trust I am trying to set things right. 325 00:19:03,209 --> 00:19:04,126 Lina. 326 00:19:04,709 --> 00:19:07,626 You worry you are capable only of destruction. 327 00:19:07,709 --> 00:19:08,959 I know better. 328 00:19:15,876 --> 00:19:17,168 [Mirana] I'm not from this world. 329 00:19:18,084 --> 00:19:23,418 I'm not the Mirana you grew up with, and loved, and served so selflessly. 330 00:19:24,751 --> 00:19:28,209 And you're not my Marci, but I watched you… 331 00:19:28,293 --> 00:19:29,959 watched her… 332 00:19:30,043 --> 00:19:31,709 Gods, it's… [sighs] 333 00:19:33,251 --> 00:19:36,293 The Mirana you knew thought there was no greater pain 334 00:19:36,376 --> 00:19:39,584 than looking into her father's eyes and seeing a stranger. 335 00:19:39,668 --> 00:19:42,876 But in the other world, the one I come from, 336 00:19:42,959 --> 00:19:45,626 Father was right. I failed. 337 00:19:45,709 --> 00:19:49,334 I lost you. I lost-- I lost everything. 338 00:19:49,418 --> 00:19:51,751 [sentimental music] 339 00:19:53,918 --> 00:19:56,084 There are two paths before me. 340 00:19:56,168 --> 00:20:00,959 Down the first, righting a wrong so perverse, 341 00:20:01,043 --> 00:20:03,918 I can't even comprehend it completely. 342 00:20:04,001 --> 00:20:08,251 Down the other, this life. This stranger's life. 343 00:20:08,834 --> 00:20:12,001 [sighs] I feel trapped in someone else's dream. 344 00:20:14,126 --> 00:20:15,168 Where is it? 345 00:20:16,418 --> 00:20:17,459 It's gone. 346 00:20:18,793 --> 00:20:20,251 Well, how could it be gone? 347 00:20:20,918 --> 00:20:22,751 There's only one moon. 348 00:20:25,376 --> 00:20:27,709 [Filomena] The threat is unprecedented. 349 00:20:27,793 --> 00:20:32,376 The stones have fallen all over the world, even here in the Nightsilver Woods. 350 00:20:32,459 --> 00:20:34,668 Where they land, chaos follows. 351 00:20:35,293 --> 00:20:38,668 And where are they falling from? 352 00:20:38,751 --> 00:20:40,001 The moon, Highness. 353 00:20:40,084 --> 00:20:43,959 Our moon is crumbling and raining this down upon our heads. 354 00:20:44,043 --> 00:20:45,501 The moon. 355 00:20:45,584 --> 00:20:49,209 Then they are gifts from Mene. This must be her will. 356 00:20:49,293 --> 00:20:53,584 If they are gifts, they are strange and troubling gifts. 357 00:20:53,668 --> 00:20:58,918 N-- Not every creature, so exposed, is reduced to a gibbering cannibal. 358 00:20:59,001 --> 00:21:03,876 A few, a very few, seem able to resist the worst of the effects 359 00:21:03,959 --> 00:21:07,126 and are visibly… empowered instead. 360 00:21:07,209 --> 00:21:12,668 Just a handful of such beings could pose a threat to the Dark Moon Order 361 00:21:12,751 --> 00:21:16,626 and our Lady's ability to maintain peace across her dominion. 362 00:21:16,709 --> 00:21:19,543 The Helio Imperium and Zal's Praetorian Guard 363 00:21:19,626 --> 00:21:21,084 have already been troublesome. 364 00:21:21,168 --> 00:21:24,084 You're saying that those troubles would grow? 365 00:21:24,168 --> 00:21:26,376 Perhaps exponentially, Highness. 366 00:21:26,459 --> 00:21:28,876 I would request an audience with our Lady. 367 00:21:28,959 --> 00:21:31,668 If she has some intent, I would like to divine it. 368 00:21:34,376 --> 00:21:35,709 [Althing member] Impossible. 369 00:21:35,793 --> 00:21:41,001 Forgive my daughter. She isn't usually given to overreaction. 370 00:21:41,084 --> 00:21:43,334 Disturbing the goddess is quite unnecessary. 371 00:21:43,418 --> 00:21:46,376 The stones can be collected, their effects contained. 372 00:21:47,168 --> 00:21:48,793 I will personally see to it. 373 00:21:50,543 --> 00:21:51,959 [Filomena] Overreaction? 374 00:21:52,043 --> 00:21:54,584 These stones may be a conduit for an entity 375 00:21:54,668 --> 00:21:56,709 whose power could surpass any of the gods. 376 00:21:56,793 --> 00:21:58,668 Quite a conclusion. 377 00:21:58,751 --> 00:22:00,876 I don't imagine you shared it with The Althing. 378 00:22:00,959 --> 00:22:02,918 [scoffs] Of course, I didn't. 379 00:22:03,001 --> 00:22:05,209 Something like that? They're not prepared. 380 00:22:05,293 --> 00:22:06,376 Correct. 381 00:22:08,043 --> 00:22:09,001 What are you… 382 00:22:09,084 --> 00:22:12,751 Some mysteries are better left as mysteries. 383 00:22:13,501 --> 00:22:16,084 That applies to them, not me. 384 00:22:16,168 --> 00:22:19,918 Filomena, for once, when I tell you something, listen. 385 00:22:20,001 --> 00:22:21,459 I always listen. 386 00:22:21,543 --> 00:22:23,543 Listen and obey. 387 00:22:23,626 --> 00:22:24,459 [scoffs] 388 00:22:24,543 --> 00:22:27,918 This is dangerous. This is death. 389 00:22:28,001 --> 00:22:30,168 Leave this problem to me. 390 00:22:30,251 --> 00:22:32,834 Trust that I know best. 391 00:22:33,334 --> 00:22:34,251 Fine. 392 00:22:35,043 --> 00:22:36,334 [Invoker] I am proud of you. 393 00:22:36,959 --> 00:22:39,876 You're all that matters to me. Trust that, too. 394 00:22:41,626 --> 00:22:43,751 [mellow music] 395 00:22:47,001 --> 00:22:48,959 You're wrong, Father. I listen. 396 00:22:49,543 --> 00:22:52,084 It's the obey part I've never been very good at. 397 00:22:55,876 --> 00:22:58,084 [lively music] 398 00:22:58,834 --> 00:23:02,584 [indistinct chatter] 399 00:23:07,126 --> 00:23:11,918 He said, "Tonight, we dine! Tonight, we drink! 400 00:23:12,001 --> 00:23:14,501 The village is saved!" 401 00:23:14,584 --> 00:23:16,459 -[crowd cheering] -[patron] To Bram! 402 00:23:17,043 --> 00:23:19,251 I'll return with fresh cups for everyone. 403 00:23:21,209 --> 00:23:22,918 Barkeep, another round. 404 00:23:26,501 --> 00:23:29,626 It's good to see some things haven't changed. 405 00:23:29,709 --> 00:23:31,751 Sorry. What hasn't changed? 406 00:23:32,334 --> 00:23:36,043 Your love of jumping in front of lines at bars, Davion. 407 00:23:36,126 --> 00:23:38,168 [suspenseful music] 408 00:23:39,418 --> 00:23:41,543 Of course. It's you. 409 00:23:42,209 --> 00:23:45,459 Took me a second in this dim light. Um, let me get you a drink. 410 00:23:45,543 --> 00:23:49,251 Your favorite is… something strong. 411 00:23:50,334 --> 00:23:52,793 Whiskey, right? We had a wild night after-- 412 00:23:52,876 --> 00:23:55,251 [Mirana] I'm not one of your nameless conquests. 413 00:23:55,334 --> 00:23:57,376 They all have names, lovely. 414 00:23:57,459 --> 00:24:00,668 But I'm in my cups, and my memory just isn't what it was when… 415 00:24:00,751 --> 00:24:03,584 Yeah, I'm not here to share a drink or your bed. 416 00:24:03,668 --> 00:24:05,751 I have a need of a Dragon Knight. 417 00:24:05,834 --> 00:24:07,459 I have need of you. 418 00:24:07,543 --> 00:24:08,876 This wyrmling you've slain. 419 00:24:09,626 --> 00:24:11,168 I'm hunting something bigger. 420 00:24:11,251 --> 00:24:12,793 -[gulping] -The Crimson Devil. 421 00:24:13,584 --> 00:24:15,834 The Father of Fire. 422 00:24:16,918 --> 00:24:18,543 I'm hunting Slyrak. 423 00:24:23,084 --> 00:24:25,084 [closing theme music]