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00:00:0019 years have passed since Zorlok the Necromancer slew the gods, raised an army of the undead,
00:00:13and was finally defeated by Maric and the Redthorns.
00:00:17The events Daerons now refer to as the Year of the Dead.
00:00:21In the aftermath, Daerons retook their land from the tenuous hold of their Vitalian occupiers.
00:00:27But there's been little in the way of rebuilding.
00:00:29Instead, the country is largely lawless and disordered, communities struggling to survive
00:00:34amongst the ruins.
00:00:36And Teela's prediction that in the absence of the gods, magic would soon fade from the
00:00:41world has proven prophetic.
00:00:43The ways of mages and sorcerers are vanishing.
00:00:47Only petty witchcraft remains in dark corners of the land.
00:01:27Oh dear, I didn't mean to spook your horses.
00:01:44My name is Ristul Criswood.
00:01:47I'm a marshal, a daerer, and the elf is called Laerys.
00:01:52Now these do well.
00:01:54All the introduction they need is hanging around their stretched necks.
00:01:57You see, Lae and me, we've been appointed by the Magistrate's Council to purge the last
00:02:03of the red and black ratbags still befouling our otherwise beautiful and free land.
00:02:10You see this?
00:02:12Right there?
00:02:13Yeah.
00:02:14That is the market of Vitalian Legion.
00:02:18No matter where these fikers run, no matter how many years, they've been marked.
00:02:23So there's no doubt.
00:02:25So who are you, friend?
00:02:29Just a stranger.
00:02:30All right.
00:02:31Where are you headed?
00:02:34Somewhere else.
00:02:35What's she got in your wagon?
00:02:37That's not your concern.
00:02:38Is that right?
00:02:39I've got to tell you, we had a hell of a night tracking those two bleeders into the valley.
00:02:44I mean, they put up quite a fight.
00:02:46You know, Lae and me, we lost both our horses for our blades tasted flesh.
00:02:51It's stranded out here, to be honest.
00:02:53You know, we could really use a ride to Desolation's End.
00:02:55Yeah.
00:02:56It's a roadside inn a ways up the mountain.
00:02:58What do you say?
00:03:03That's out of my way.
00:03:04I need to make it through Kricker's Pass before the storm hits.
00:03:08I've heard of you.
00:03:10Not just a stranger.
00:03:12The stranger, they call him.
00:03:15Bounty hunter.
00:03:17Mercenary.
00:03:18Murderer.
00:03:20Travels with a black iron wagon.
00:03:22I'm an apothecary by trade.
00:03:25By the look of it, that wagon was built for more than herbs and medicines.
00:03:30You, uh, you got a bounty capture in there?
00:03:33Stay away from the wagon.
00:03:35All right, stranger.
00:03:38You see, we've heard of Italians still paying good money to get smuggled out of Dera.
00:03:42Roughly close to the border up here.
00:03:45Could it be some rich Vitalian rotter you're carrying in there?
00:03:51I don't work for the red and black.
00:03:52Never have.
00:03:53Never will.
00:03:54Well, then there's no reason why you shouldn't give a marshal and his deputy a ride.
00:03:59I could order you, you know.
00:04:01By authority at a magistrate's council.
00:04:03That authority only gives you the right to kill Vitalians.
00:04:06You have no command over law-abiding Derans or their property.
00:04:11And what if we insist?
00:04:16You think you can stop both of us with those?
00:04:20The tips are soaked in.
00:04:22Manticore, then.
00:04:23We'd be dead within 20 heartbeats.
00:04:42Hopper, carry my arse.
00:04:47You bitch bastard!
00:05:11Hey!
00:05:41Your companions look a little peaky there, traveller.
00:06:08Found this boy injured on the road.
00:06:11He's got the mark of a slave.
00:06:14I'd be someone's runaway.
00:06:16God's in their graves.
00:06:18Someone's runaway slave, all right.
00:06:21Mine.
00:06:22Arlan!
00:06:23Bring the grog from my room.
00:06:26The strong stuff.
00:06:28If this one survives, it'll be all to good beating.
00:06:36Well, give it here, you daft girl.
00:06:38Get started on a poultice.
00:06:41Passed a couple of red and black hunters on the road.
00:06:44The bloodthirsty kind.
00:06:45I thought they might have cut the boy up for sport,
00:06:47but that wound wasn't made with a blade.
00:06:52Arnold, this is...
00:06:53Magic.
00:06:54Dark magic.
00:06:57Good luck with him.
00:07:00You're leaving?
00:07:01I need to make it through Kruger's Pass
00:07:03before the rest of this storm hits.
00:07:05Well, you're too late for that by now.
00:07:09Not all that's coming down out there.
00:07:11I'll take my chances.
00:07:13There's no chances to be given, I assure you.
00:07:16I've been on this mountain over 40 years.
00:07:19I know how she storms.
00:07:21Unpassable for another day at the very least.
00:07:29Do you have any animals in your barn?
00:07:31My wagon can't be kept with others.
00:07:33Why's that?
00:07:34What you got in it?
00:07:36Delicate cargo.
00:07:38I need my wagon untouched.
00:07:40I need that barn to myself.
00:07:42Nothing in the barn at the moment.
00:07:46Likely to stay that way long as a storm lasts.
00:07:55I'm Giblock, by the way.
00:07:57Owner and keeper.
00:07:59What do they call you?
00:08:01They call me Stranger.
00:08:04Arlen here will take you to the barn
00:08:06and help you stable your horses.
00:08:08Keep an eye on you.
00:08:10I'll do as I learn.
00:08:19Arlen!
00:08:20A stranger here needs his horses fed and watered.
00:08:23Just one more moment with Arad.
00:08:25A cheek on you!
00:08:27Talking back in front of a guest!
00:08:30You don't hit her.
00:08:32You don't hit her.
00:08:33You don't lay a finger on them while I'm here.
00:08:42You return the boy to me,
00:08:44so I'll forgive you this once.
00:08:47But no one tells me what to do under me own roof,
00:08:51with me own property.
00:08:54You call that stranger?
00:08:58Let's go.
00:09:02Let's go.
00:09:11There you are.
00:09:18Thank you,
00:09:20bringing Arad back to us.
00:09:23Have you any idea what happened to him out there?
00:09:27She's good luck.
00:09:29She keeps the barn clean and the vermin away.
00:09:33She'll watch over your horses for you.
00:09:39What's in your wagon?
00:09:41It's alive.
00:09:43It's hurt.
00:09:49It's a dangerous animal,
00:09:51but it can't escape its fate.
00:09:55But it can't escape, so you've nothing to fear from it.
00:09:58Now, I need you to promise me something.
00:10:01While I'm here, you won't come into this barn alone.
00:10:06There may be others that are curious about the contents of this wagon,
00:10:09so if your master takes an interest, or anyone else for that matter,
00:10:13starts to ask questions, wants to come in here,
00:10:15you tell me.
00:10:17Agree?
00:10:20Agreed.
00:10:24Agh!
00:10:55Boys, wake.
00:10:59And he's got a story to tell.
00:11:10Go on, lad. Tell him.
00:11:16The village.
00:11:18Slaughtered.
00:11:20Burned to the ground.
00:11:22I saw the smite this morning.
00:11:24He ran away in the middle of the night.
00:11:26Got as far as Linwith.
00:11:28He saw the massacre himself.
00:11:30Tell him what you saw.
00:11:33A witch.
00:11:38An old woman.
00:11:40With a limp.
00:11:45Half her face fallen and grey.
00:11:48Who is this witch?
00:11:50That's Mehitabal Crow.
00:11:52She lives alone on the mountain.
00:11:55Used to be stories of her learning herself the old dark magic,
00:11:58but it's been years since she's bothered anyone.
00:12:01She wanted me dead.
00:12:03The village is cursed.
00:12:06The life turned out of them.
00:12:10Then...
00:12:12Then the whole place caught fire.
00:12:15She said it was...
00:12:17It was...
00:12:19The power of...
00:12:23Of Solok.
00:12:28A necromancer is dead.
00:12:30Defeated by America, the Redthorns.
00:12:32Nineteen years ago.
00:12:34The Darkspawn was destroyed.
00:12:36Ah, no woman's mad.
00:12:38Harlan.
00:12:39You're safe now, Ered.
00:12:41No. No, you don't understand.
00:12:43What is it?
00:12:45When I got up and ran,
00:12:47she called to me.
00:12:49Screaming that she'd find me,
00:12:51wherever I went.
00:12:53She swore that I'd see her again.
00:12:55Before the sun rose the next day.
00:12:58And that would be the last thing I saw.
00:13:02Great Elves.
00:13:03She's helped her.
00:13:05She's coming for me.
00:13:08She's coming tonight.
00:13:09You're safe here.
00:13:11You're home. We won't let anything happen to you.
00:13:14Oi, lad.
00:13:16Nothing to fear now.
00:13:18Take this.
00:13:20It will help you sleep.
00:13:22Go on, lad. Drink it.
00:13:24Do your nerves good.
00:13:27I think me own nerves could use some good doing too as well.
00:13:37This mate of old Crow.
00:13:39She know who the boy belongs to.
00:13:42Would she know to find him here?
00:13:46I don't know.
00:13:48I never said a word to another woman.
00:13:51Seen her shape across the mountain once a year maybe.
00:13:55Smoked from her chimney on occasion.
00:13:58You said it's been years since you bothered anyone.
00:14:02What was it like when she did?
00:14:06He's asleep.
00:14:09Good.
00:14:10Best thing for him.
00:14:12What now?
00:14:14What are we going to do?
00:14:17Do?
00:14:19The witch, if she's coming here...
00:14:22She's an old crone.
00:14:24Walks with a limp.
00:14:26I can hardly believe she made it down to Lenwith.
00:14:28And making the climb up here in this storm.
00:14:32Whatever happens, will you protect Ered?
00:14:36Please protect him.
00:14:41No evil will harm the boy tonight.
00:14:49Even the heartiest of wayfarers won't be brave in this weather.
00:14:52Trust me.
00:14:53You're the last traveller who'll have darkened this door.
00:14:55I'm sure of it.
00:14:58Help me with the boy.
00:14:59I'll take him to the larder.
00:15:01Ered?
00:15:03Come here.
00:15:06Don't answer that door until I come back.
00:15:28Come on, keep your unders on.
00:15:33Who's there?
00:15:34It's us, you bastard.
00:15:36Who?
00:15:37Risto and Lei.
00:15:38You in the business of keeping in or not?
00:15:40We're soaked to the bone out here, Gib.
00:15:42Anyone else out there with you?
00:15:44Well, there's a couple of Italian legions that...
00:15:46No, we're all alone.
00:15:48All right.
00:15:50You see buckets out there.
00:15:52Your welcome's gotten a little cold since last we lodged with you, Gib.
00:15:56Well, I wasn't expecting to see anyone coming in out of that tonight.
00:16:03You.
00:16:05Well, isn't this just perfect?
00:16:07Thought this place was too far out of your way, you lying sack of slop.
00:16:10And how did the two of you make it up here without your horses?
00:16:13We fought our way up here.
00:16:15What's left of them, anyway?
00:16:17Between the boot rot and the blisters.
00:16:19Oh, I'm not sure what's left when I take this boot off.
00:16:25Oh, my poor dearies.
00:16:28If I lose a toe because of you, I will cut yours in your sleep tonight.
00:16:32There'll be no threat swearing under this roof.
00:16:35Huh?
00:16:36Or you'll be right back out there in that cold wet.
00:16:38Well, you got anything warm to eat?
00:16:40No.
00:16:41Huh?
00:16:42Or you'll be right back out there in that cold wet.
00:16:44Well, you got anything warm to eat, Gib?
00:16:46I am dog hungry.
00:16:48The last I'll have soup for you in not too long.
00:16:50I can have a bring it to you if you want to wait for it in your bedchamber.
00:16:53No, I'll do my waiting right in front of that fire, thank you very much.
00:16:56Fine, then.
00:17:05You two know of any goings-on down at Linwith this morning?
00:17:09I know what I've seen from across the valley before the storm hit.
00:17:12It's burnt to the ground, mate.
00:17:14Whole damn village.
00:17:17You weren't close enough to see what happened.
00:17:19Uh, no.
00:17:21Had our hands full with a couple of rascally Vitellian fikers,
00:17:24as this man can attest.
00:17:26Why?
00:17:28What have you heard?
00:17:29Just saw the smoke. Same as you.
00:17:32Did you see anyone else coming from that direction today?
00:17:35What, besides you? No.
00:17:37How about tonight?
00:17:39Anyone else coming up the mountain towards this inn?
00:17:42In that storm?
00:17:44Well, you can't see shite out there, mate.
00:17:46I mean, I couldn't see ladies' arse in front of me face-safe when the lightning flashed.
00:17:52Why?
00:17:54You, uh...
00:17:56You expecting a guest coming in out of that wet hell tonight, Gib?
00:18:01No respect in a damn soul.
00:18:11I'm sorry I didn't go with you, Eret.
00:18:22Two more boarders for the night.
00:18:25I'll clean the soup.
00:18:26Two more boarders for the night.
00:18:29I'll clean the soup.
00:18:30What are you doing when you touch his forehead like that?
00:18:35It's all right.
00:18:38I won't tell you more.
00:18:45It's a gift.
00:18:47Sometimes when I touch people,
00:18:50I see the things they want to hide.
00:18:52What do you mean?
00:18:53It's like my way with animals.
00:18:56But when it comes to people, I see what makes them different from animals.
00:19:02I see their shame.
00:19:04Animals don't feel it.
00:19:07Pain, they can feel. Fear, grief even, but...
00:19:12Animals don't feel shame.
00:19:15Only people.
00:19:19Arlen.
00:19:21Do you know anything more about what happened at Linworth?
00:19:25No.
00:19:28Only I know why Eret went there.
00:19:31To find the grave of his parents.
00:19:35So he's been planning to run away for a while.
00:19:38We both have.
00:19:40I'm not ungrateful.
00:19:42I'd imagine Giblock's a fairer master than many when he's not been drinking, but...
00:19:45Eret and I...
00:19:47always wanted to see more of the world.
00:19:50When it came to it, though...
00:19:51I didn't have the courage.
00:19:53And...
00:19:54And I thought if I didn't go, he wouldn't either.
00:19:57I told myself I was protecting him, but I was just a coward.
00:20:01Don't be hard on yourself.
00:20:02Your fate might have been like the rest of Linworth had you gone with him.
00:20:07Do you think it's true?
00:20:10That the witch has found a way to harness the power of death like Zorlok?
00:20:16I don't know much about that sort of thing.
00:20:18But you were in Daera during the Year of the Dead.
00:20:21Was it as horrible as they say?
00:20:23What do they say?
00:20:24They say it was an unimaginable hell.
00:20:38That sounds about right.
00:20:40Did you ever meet Maric?
00:20:43Maric of the Red Thorns?
00:20:44She defeated Zorlok.
00:20:45She was a slave, did you know that?
00:20:47A runaway.
00:20:50I... I heard that.
00:20:53Every guest...
00:20:55that comes to Desolation's End...
00:20:58I ask them for their accounts of the Year of the Dead.
00:21:00If they've ever met Maric or Daegon...
00:21:03Teelo or Thane...
00:21:05they know their stories.
00:21:08But it's Maric I most like to hear about.
00:21:11I don't know much about him.
00:21:13But it's Maric I most like to hear of.
00:21:16Most just repeat stories they've heard from others.
00:21:19Some claim to have met him themselves, but most of those are probably lying.
00:21:24But every tale I hear...
00:21:26I write down in this.
00:21:32It's what Erred and me dreamed of.
00:21:35We wanted to be like the Red Thorns.
00:21:39They didn't leave the world the way they found it.
00:21:43They sacrificed for the good of others.
00:21:46They saved us.
00:21:49Sometimes I wonder if we were worth saving.
00:21:57Tell me.
00:21:59What do you see from the boy?
00:22:01What's his shape?
00:22:07I think...
00:22:09every orphan's is the same.
00:22:11The shame of being an orphan.
00:22:14Arlan! The suit!
00:22:19Sir?
00:22:22I said animals don't feel shame like people do.
00:22:25There's one animal that does.
00:22:27Only one I've come across my whole life that does.
00:22:31And which animal's that?
00:22:33The one you're keeping in your wagon.
00:22:37How much coin you got stashed away here, huh?
00:22:40Because I noticed you ain't spent much on upkeep.
00:22:43Not on this suit so thin you can read a book through it.
00:22:46If you knew how to read.
00:22:48Keep laughing, knife ears.
00:22:50Shouldn't surprise you to hear I'm scraping by, lad.
00:22:53I don't believe you, Kim.
00:22:55There is a miser's hoard here somewhere.
00:22:57Believe it or don't, but it's true.
00:23:00Desolation's ends it.
00:23:03Ghosts are what it used to be.
00:23:07Who the hell was out there tonight?
00:23:10Guess there's someone even unluckier than you and me, lad.
00:23:17You gonna open the door, Gib?
00:23:22What, you gotten too feeble to slide the bar yourself, old dwarf?
00:23:26Aye.
00:23:34Who's there?
00:23:36Master Dwarf, my name is Eamon Thadric.
00:23:38I have a young woman with me who's been injured.
00:23:40We're both in need of shelter tonight.
00:23:42Drop your head.
00:23:44What?
00:23:45So I can see your faces.
00:23:47Good evening.
00:23:49And the woman?
00:23:53Anyone else out there with you?
00:23:55I would hope not on this dreadful night.
00:23:57Welcome to Desolation's End.
00:23:59Please warm yourself by the fire.
00:24:01Thank you, good dwarf.
00:24:04And hello to you.
00:24:07As I said, my name is Eamon Thadric.
00:24:09This young woman is Razmanai.
00:24:11You're hurt.
00:24:13I came upon a village this morning.
00:24:15Massacred, burnt to the ground.
00:24:17I'm afraid I'm the only one who's hurt.
00:24:19I'm afraid I'm the only one who's hurt.
00:24:21I'm afraid I'm the only one who's hurt.
00:24:23I'm afraid I'm the only one who's hurt.
00:24:24I came upon a village this morning.
00:24:26Massacred, burnt to the ground.
00:24:28Poor woman was the only survivor.
00:24:30Lenwyth?
00:24:31Yes.
00:24:32We heard none survived.
00:24:34Who did you hear it from?
00:24:36Let's get Arlan to see to this.
00:24:38Aye.
00:24:43Master Dwarf, my horse is in need of stabling.
00:24:45I trust you have someone that can feed and water, huh?
00:24:48Aye.
00:24:50That can be arranged.
00:24:52And there is another matter.
00:24:58We'll discuss that later.
00:25:14May I?
00:25:22This wound...
00:25:25It's not a burn.
00:25:27It's dark magic.
00:25:31I've seen something like it in the northern tribes of my people.
00:25:35Such wounds are difficult to heal.
00:25:39Was it the Witch of the Mountain, then?
00:25:42The Witch was there, to be sure.
00:25:45All night.
00:25:47I heard her voice.
00:25:49All night.
00:25:53My sleep was full of terrors.
00:25:55Then I woke to a nightmare.
00:25:59Everyone dead.
00:26:02Everyone but me.
00:26:05Ghastly, the state of that village when I came upon it.
00:26:10Dead in the road, in their homes, in their beds.
00:26:15Young and old alike.
00:26:17And by some miracle, this woman was spared.
00:26:21Fate, I suppose, led me to her.
00:26:24Who is this Witch of the Mountain you're talking about, Gib?
00:26:28Mehitabel Crow.
00:26:30An old recluse.
00:26:32Lenworth was once her home.
00:26:34Until seventeen years ago, when she was banished.
00:26:38Banished for what?
00:26:41Evil.
00:26:43They say she was a healer.
00:26:44Quite skilled at it, too.
00:26:47Till the Year of the Dead.
00:26:50She saw Zorlok's power and became obsessed with necromancy herself.
00:26:55Determined to resurrect the children she'd lost in her infancy, she was.
00:27:00Deeper, darker, she delved until she went mad with it.
00:27:05The villagers.
00:27:07Echoed ways to her witchcraft.
00:27:10Forced her to leave.
00:27:11But that weren't the end of Lenworth's trouble with her, was it?
00:27:16The beast.
00:27:18Aye.
00:27:20Not one moon after Mehitabel left, a monster came to Lenworth.
00:27:26Killed more than a dozen villagers before they drove it home.
00:27:31Now you tell me that weren't the witch's doing.
00:27:37Perhaps a small part of it.
00:27:39Perhaps this morning.
00:27:41A new and final act of vengeance on the village.
00:27:46But why now?
00:27:48The gods below only know.
00:27:51I did the best I could.
00:27:55You've got some skill there.
00:27:59Where are you from, Greybeard?
00:28:01I'm from Gelton.
00:28:04You're a long way from home.
00:28:05What brought you to the valley?
00:28:07What's that?
00:28:09Was Lenworth your destination?
00:28:11Oh, no.
00:28:13I'm hunting elk.
00:28:16Elk?
00:28:18Yes, a favourite hunting ground of my youth.
00:28:22A sort of pilgrimage to my glory days.
00:28:27Any luck?
00:28:29The hunt?
00:28:31No.
00:28:32But I think Providence has found me a more worthy purpose.
00:28:40Master Dwarf, my horse is still out in the wind and the rain.
00:28:44It'll be ruined by morning if it's not suitably sheltered.
00:28:47Arlen?
00:28:49The man's horse, sir.
00:28:51Take it to the barn.
00:28:53Let the girl stay, Pud.
00:28:55I'll stay with your horse.
00:28:58Very good.
00:28:59I'll stay with your horse.
00:29:01Very good, fine, yes, thank you.
00:29:10Let me do it.
00:29:13I'll stable the man's horse.
00:29:18You can't go out there alone.
00:29:20Not tonight.
00:29:22I don't want you leaving Ered.
00:29:25I don't trust this man, Aemon.
00:29:26He's hiding something.
00:29:28I don't know what it is, but he's desperate not to be found out.
00:29:32Anyway, if the witch is coming here, it's Ered she's after.
00:29:37Not me.
00:29:39It should be me that goes.
00:29:42Straight back.
00:29:44And stay away from the wagon.
00:29:57That's a well-crafted hilt at your side, Greybeard.
00:30:00The rest of the sword is masterfully made.
00:30:04My name, again, is Aemon Thadric.
00:30:08This was a gift from General Rogar when I commanded the Sixth Cavalry.
00:30:13General Rogar?
00:30:15You fought the armies of the dead?
00:30:17Defending Dera from the Necromancer's hordes has been my life's highest honor and privilege.
00:30:23How long after the attack this morning did Aemon find you there?
00:30:29I can't be sure.
00:30:32Two hours, perhaps.
00:30:35And the decision to come here, to Desolation's End, was that your idea or his?
00:30:41He said it was the nearest place to seek shelter.
00:30:44I'm not sure.
00:30:46I don't know.
00:30:47Is it painful?
00:30:50Your arm.
00:30:54The girl's a natural healer.
00:30:57Tell me, did you hurt your leg this morning, as well?
00:31:02I noticed you favoring your left when you walked in.
00:31:06No, it wasn't my fault.
00:31:09It was the Necromancer's.
00:31:12I noticed you favoring your left when you walked in.
00:31:16No.
00:31:18Something I've had since a child.
00:31:20A bad foot.
00:31:23I once had a friend with a similar elm.
00:31:27Stranger.
00:31:29You have that right. That's what you prefer to be called.
00:31:33I've now heard the colorful story of what brings the Marshal and his elf deputy to Desolation's End tonight.
00:31:38May I hear yours?
00:31:40I'm just passing through.
00:31:42Oh, come now.
00:31:44Indulge an old man who enjoys hearing the wayfaring tales of his fellow Daerons.
00:31:48The Stranger is a ruthless bounty hunter.
00:31:52Ah.
00:31:54So we all have come hunting, it would seem, and whose bounty are you currently after?
00:31:58I'd rather not speak of it.
00:32:00He'd rather not say, because he's got him caged in his wagon in that barn out there.
00:32:05Ain't that right, Stranger?
00:32:07Must be a hell of a bounty, too.
00:32:09Won't let anyone near it.
00:32:11Nor tell the man's name.
00:32:13Am I to understand you have a live prisoner out there in that barn in this cold?
00:32:18You realize come morning you may have killed the man.
00:32:21You told me nothing of this, lad.
00:32:23It's not a man. It's a wild animal.
00:32:26And the barn's shelter is plenty.
00:32:28A wild animal?
00:32:30And my mare has just been sent to share its roof.
00:32:34It's shackled and caged.
00:32:36Your horse is fine.
00:32:40You'll be safe and warm here.
00:33:01Are you cold?
00:33:06Hungry?
00:33:10Can you hear me?
00:33:13I hear you.
00:33:15You're...
00:33:17You're not an animal at all.
00:33:20Don't be so sure.
00:33:22Who are you?
00:33:33Was that Linwith?
00:33:35Linwith?
00:33:36Linwith!
00:33:38Linwith?
00:33:40What do you know of Linwith?
00:33:43Are you the beast?
00:33:47The one the witch summoned years ago for her vengeance on the village?
00:33:51There's little I know.
00:33:53Before...
00:33:55Before?
00:33:57Before the curse.
00:34:01Was it Mehitabel Crow? Did she curse you?
00:34:04Mehitabel.
00:34:06I can't...
00:34:08I can't remember her.
00:34:11What can you remember?
00:34:13A child.
00:34:15A girl.
00:34:17Her mother...
00:34:19was killed.
00:34:24Stop!
00:34:26Stop asking me to remember!
00:34:27Was there any indication this morning where Mehitabel Crow may have headed to?
00:34:32Whether she continued down the valley or back up the mountain?
00:34:36No.
00:34:38Did you see anyone on the mountain road on your way up here tonight?
00:34:41No, but truthfully, it was hard to see anything at all.
00:34:44Well, you two asked me and Leigh the same question.
00:34:47What's this about?
00:34:49They think the witch is coming here.
00:34:50Oh, gods and their griefs. That is what you think.
00:34:53Now, what the hell is going on here? What are you not telling us?
00:34:56That witch coming here, what for?
00:34:59Is it true?
00:35:01If you've reason to suspect it's even a possibility, I think we deserve to know.
00:35:08I found Giblock's slave boy injured on the road, and I brought him here.
00:35:13I'm sure you know where he is.
00:35:15I found Giblock's slave boy injured on the road, and I brought him here.
00:35:20He was down in Lynweth and saw the whole thing.
00:35:24But before he escaped, the witch made a threat.
00:35:29A threat?
00:35:31She said she'd find him by night and... kill him.
00:35:35You mean to tell me that that witch that just massacred an entire village using dark magic and hellfire is making her way here?
00:35:43There's no reason to believe that the witch even knows where he's from, let alone where he went.
00:35:49What's more, it's storming so hard out now, the old crone couldn't make it up here if she wanted to.
00:35:54Ah, well, these two just made it here, and they ain't got powers beyond the natural.
00:35:58Where's the boy now?
00:36:00Resting.
00:36:02Given Behittable Crow's story, I can make some cruel sense of her attack on the village, but the boy is just a runaway.
00:36:09Why would she be so determined to go after him?
00:36:11Apparently he was born in Lynweth, before he was orphaned.
00:36:16Could I speak with the boy? Perhaps our families know each other?
00:36:21Once he wakes.
00:36:23You folks are acting like this is all well and good!
00:36:26There is a murdering man hag out there who's more than likely on her way to this inn tonight!
00:36:31We will deal with the witch if she comes.
00:36:34Oh, really?
00:36:35Yes, really, that's all we can do.
00:36:36Well, you know what me and Laeros are going to do?
00:36:38If that witch comes here raising hell, we're going to offer her the boy in exchange for her leaving in peace.
00:36:43That's really your position as a marshal, derer?
00:36:46It is, greybeard.
00:36:48Quiet!
00:36:50Listen.
00:36:57It's Arlen.
00:36:59You sure about that?
00:37:06Arlen, that you?
00:37:07Yes, sir.
00:37:09Anyone else out there with you, lass?
00:37:10No, sir.
00:37:19You see anything out there, sweetheart?
00:37:21No.
00:37:22Good.
00:37:23Everything all right in the barn?
00:37:27There's no bow nor arrows with Eamon's horse, nor on his person.
00:37:32It's strange to bring only a sword for an old cunt.
00:37:36Arlen.
00:37:38After you're done the washing up, why don't you check on the boy?
00:37:42Ered!
00:37:46You shouldn't be up and about. You need to rest.
00:37:48Well, I'll put himself now.
00:37:50Come on, then.
00:37:52Let's give him a moment.
00:37:55I've got some questions for you.
00:37:57Now, this witch.
00:37:59You saw her boy?
00:38:03Yes, sir.
00:38:05And what she look like?
00:38:07She riding in on a horse or on foot?
00:38:10Witches don't ride horses.
00:38:13They ride the wind.
00:38:14All right, that's enough questions for now.
00:38:18Ered.
00:38:20This is Resmah Nigh.
00:38:22She was at Linweth when it all happened.
00:38:27Yes.
00:38:35I'm glad to know I wasn't the only survivor.
00:38:39It's given me hope there may be others who escaped like you.
00:38:45Perhaps it would be less overwhelming for you if we spoke privately.
00:38:49In your room you could lie resting.
00:38:52Could I have some supper first?
00:38:54More than a day since he's had anything to eat.
00:38:58Of course you can.
00:39:04Thank you.
00:39:25The girl.
00:39:27She's young to be so skilled a healer.
00:39:30Where is she from?
00:39:31Linweth, actually.
00:39:33Same as the boy.
00:39:36Not siblings though?
00:39:39Might as well be.
00:39:42Both lost their families years ago.
00:39:44Far too young.
00:39:46The girl's parents.
00:39:48Do you know their names?
00:39:52Sure I have it written somewhere.
00:39:58I'm curious.
00:39:59How has a youth from Gelting come to hunt so far from home?
00:40:05My father was a valet to a battalion magistrate.
00:40:10Afforded me some privileges of travel and education not available to most young boys.
00:40:16I was lucky.
00:40:18What was the battalion magistrate's name?
00:40:22Kaldine.
00:40:25Kairos Kaldine.
00:40:27Kairos Kaldine.
00:40:45I'm sorry.
00:40:48That's all right. I'll get you another.
00:40:51Get a rag and clean it up, you daft girl.
00:40:56Thank you.
00:41:19Herod.
00:41:22You look like you need to lie down.
00:41:24Let him finish his supper first.
00:41:27Herod.
00:41:29Soi.
00:41:33Come here.
00:41:36Stay back!
00:41:39What's going on here?
00:41:41Keep your hand off that crossbow.
00:41:55Let him go.
00:41:57I can't.
00:41:59You don't understand.
00:42:01There's so much you don't understand.
00:42:25No!
00:42:32You don't know what you brought here, stranger.
00:42:35Something evil.
00:42:37You have doomed them all.
00:42:51Holy hell!
00:42:52I fucking knew it!
00:43:09An alteration stone.
00:43:15Back on that.
00:43:23Come on.
00:43:36When the storm's passed, we'll take her body out and burn her.
00:43:52Hey!
00:44:05The animal you...
00:44:07have in your wagon...
00:44:10was it the beast that attacked Linwith years ago?
00:44:18It may be.
00:44:20If it was...
00:44:23then it's the beast that killed Herod's parents.
00:44:28And mine.
00:44:35Why haven't you killed it?
00:44:41I may yet.
00:44:44There's something...
00:44:46I've wanted to ask.
00:44:47You don't have to tell me.
00:44:51When I took your hand in the barn...
00:44:54I heard something from you.
00:45:00It was a woman's scream.
00:45:04It sounded as if she was beaten.
00:45:10That's from long ago.
00:45:13I don't know.
00:45:14That's from long ago.
00:45:19I was young.
00:45:22But old enough to have done more.
00:45:28Before the year of the dead hardened us all...
00:45:36I was a coward.
00:45:39I was an apprentice to an apothecary near Gelding.
00:45:42He had a slave girl with a lame foot.
00:45:45One he was sure he could beat into submission.
00:45:48But she was no ordinary girl.
00:45:52A spirit wouldn't break.
00:45:56But this only made the apothecary's anger grow.
00:46:01Until the night a Vitallian guard...
00:46:04brought her home as a runaway.
00:46:06The apothecary was so angry...
00:46:09that he beat her within an inch of her life.
00:46:13I should have stopped him.
00:46:17I should have done something.
00:46:20But that night...
00:46:23I was just as much a coward as all the nights before.
00:46:32So she stopped me.
00:46:36Killed him.
00:46:39Nearly killed him in the process.
00:46:43That was the night that she ran away forever.
00:46:47She asked me to go with her.
00:46:49Still, I was...
00:46:52too afraid.
00:46:57Merrick?
00:47:01The girl was Merrick?
00:47:07I've done a lot of shameful things...
00:47:11since the year of the dead.
00:47:15But nothing haunts me more...
00:47:21than that night...
00:47:23when I stood by...
00:47:27doing nothing...
00:47:31while Merrick was beaten...
00:47:32in the frozen stream.
00:48:02Mmm.
00:48:04Mmm.
00:48:32Mmm.
00:48:50Ahh!
00:48:55Stranger!
00:49:02Stranger!
00:49:25He's dead.
00:49:27What's happened?
00:49:29I got up to put more coal in the stove...
00:49:31and he's dead.
00:49:38What's wrong with you?
00:49:41It's dark magic.
00:49:47No!
00:49:48This is the witch.
00:49:50There's a vengeance still among us.
00:49:51The witch is dead, boy.
00:49:53Let's get you back to bed.
00:49:55Come on.
00:49:57Like...
00:49:59could she have...
00:50:00I mean, can they do that?
00:50:03Why don't you and Lyaris take the dwarf down to the cellar...
00:50:05and find out for yourself?
00:50:06Yeah.
00:50:08Lay?
00:50:09Lay, we got work to do!
00:50:13Find something.
00:50:14What?
00:50:16No.
00:50:18I was just...
00:50:20looking for any hint of what may have happened.
00:50:23Nothing of note?
00:50:26Let's all meet in the front hall.
00:50:28Shall we?
00:50:30I'll tell the marshal.
00:50:32His elf...
00:50:34won't sleep with the body.
00:51:00Ugh!
00:51:31Still dead.
00:51:38You'll be all right.
00:51:41The stranger won't let anything happen to us.
00:51:46The witch is cold as ice.
00:51:49So...
00:51:54I'm going to get you out of here.
00:51:56I'm going to get you out of here.
00:51:58I'm going to get you out of here.
00:52:00Who killed the dwarf?
00:52:04Well, if no one will say it, then I will.
00:52:06Greybeard, you were the one who brought the witch here in the first place.
00:52:10That's ridiculous!
00:52:12I thought I was helping a young woman in distress, you know that!
00:52:16What we don't know is what brought you to the valley to begin with.
00:52:19I've told you.
00:52:20An elk hunt.
00:52:22With no bow nor arrows.
00:52:24If this really was your favourite hunting ground as a youth,
00:52:27then you know better than I.
00:52:29This is the wrong season for elk in this valley.
00:52:33Their herds move west this time of year.
00:52:36A migration so reliable that the Garindan used to measure their age by it.
00:52:41So...
00:52:43What really brings you here?
00:52:46I had business with the dwarf.
00:52:49Business? What business?
00:52:51Oh, is that a dwarf that's now lying dead in the cellar?
00:52:54Looks like you came out ahead in that transaction, eh?
00:52:56There were...
00:52:58certain papers I needed from him.
00:53:01So that's what you were searching for in the dwarf's room?
00:53:17What's it say?
00:53:27Eamon Thadrock.
00:53:30Darenborn, gelting.
00:53:32These are your papers of identification.
00:53:34I don't understand, why did Gib have them?
00:53:38Because the dwarf was a forger.
00:53:41Well, that looks a bit like a good one.
00:53:43So these...
00:53:44Aren't his real name.
00:53:46Nor where he's from.
00:53:48What's your name, Greybeard?
00:53:51Kaldeen.
00:53:52Is my guess.
00:53:54Kaldeen.
00:53:56That's a Vitalian name.
00:54:00Fucking hell.
00:54:02A red and black.
00:54:06General Rogar's right-hand man?
00:54:11And look at that.
00:54:13A legion commander.
00:54:15How many Darens...
00:54:17lost their lives,
00:54:18dignity and property,
00:54:19so you could earn that rank?
00:54:24It's true.
00:54:26I carried out the will of the Empire.
00:54:29But Dera has always been my home.
00:54:33When the Year of the Dead came,
00:54:34I did serve under General Rogar,
00:54:37fighting the armies of the undead
00:54:40alongside Darens.
00:54:42That was no lie.
00:54:46My wife is Daren.
00:54:49My son is Daren.
00:54:53I only sought out that forgery
00:54:55to protect them from the stain of my past.
00:54:59Well, Commander,
00:55:00looks like Desolation's end
00:55:01is gonna get his third corpse tonight.
00:55:05Sheath your sword.
00:55:06What the hell, stranger?
00:55:09You gonna prevent a marshal from performing his duty?
00:55:11I guess I am.
00:55:17What for?
00:55:18You think because he killed a few undead
00:55:20alongside our countrymen,
00:55:21that makes up for decades of abuse?
00:55:23No.
00:55:24But being a Vitalian
00:55:25doesn't change the fact that
00:55:26there is a murderer in here amongst us.
00:55:29In fact, it proves it wasn't him.
00:55:31How do you figure?
00:55:33What if he killed the Dwarf
00:55:34to cover up his little secret?
00:55:35When have you known of a Vitalian
00:55:37even before the Year of the Dead
00:55:39that knew the ways of old magic?
00:55:41But who killed the Dwarf?
00:55:42You're so smart.
00:55:43What is the obvious answer?
00:55:45The Elf.
00:55:46Didn't ask you.
00:55:47Red and black.
00:55:48He's flaunted his knowledge of dark magic
00:55:51since I arrived.
00:55:53The woman's wound.
00:55:54The witch's stone.
00:55:55Clearly he's seen plenty of it before.
00:55:57How do we know he's not a practitioner himself?
00:55:59After seven years partnered with his Elf.
00:56:01If he knew how to use magic to kill someone,
00:56:04I'd have seen it before.
00:56:05Trust me.
00:56:06I don't trust you.
00:56:08You've been pocketing the Dwarf's trinkets all night.
00:56:12Did he find you out?
00:56:14So you had your partner kill him in the night?
00:56:16Yeah, keep talking, Vitalian.
00:56:18Your noose is around your neck
00:56:19the more you speak.
00:56:20I don't hear a denial.
00:56:22What did the witch say?
00:56:24She said you brought something evil here.
00:56:26What did you bring?
00:56:29It's the animal he's got in his wagon.
00:56:32That's what it is.
00:56:34The witch.
00:56:35What did she say?
00:56:37You have doomed them all.
00:56:39And now he's gone and killed the damn Dwarf,
00:56:41just like she said.
00:56:42That animal didn't kill the Dwarf.
00:56:43How do you know that?
00:56:44Because I know.
00:56:45Well, maybe that's not good enough right now
00:56:46with the four of us trying to kill each other
00:56:47in the middle of the night.
00:56:48I think we deserve to hear a bit more about this animal.
00:56:51Yeah, what the hell is it, stranger?
00:56:55Lower your blades.
00:56:58And I'll tell you.
00:57:09I captured the Beast of Black River.
00:57:12You lie.
00:57:13I'm sorry.
00:57:14Should I know of this Beast of Black River?
00:57:16For the past 15 years, maybe more,
00:57:19no traveler dared cross the Black River Forest.
00:57:22There's a beast there.
00:57:23It'll tear you limb from limb.
00:57:25Large bounty on its head.
00:57:26Most hunters gave up on it years ago.
00:57:28Why?
00:57:29Because they're dead.
00:57:30The Beast is shackled and caged.
00:57:32That iron has held strong across half of Dera.
00:57:35It cannot escape.
00:57:37In my experience, cages hold until they don't.
00:57:40Hang on. Hang on.
00:57:42You had a chance to kill the Beast of Black River,
00:57:44and instead you captured it live.
00:57:46Why?
00:57:47That's not your concern.
00:57:48No, no, no, that is our concern.
00:57:50Because if that's the Beast that you've brought here,
00:57:52you've put us all at risk.
00:57:54Now, the Keeper of the Inn is dead,
00:57:55and what seems like a fulfillment of a witch's soothsaying.
00:57:58And I think we deserve to see for ourselves
00:58:00whether that thing is still in its cage or not.
00:58:02I have to agree.
00:58:03You're not going to that barn.
00:58:05Why the hell not, stranger?
00:58:07If you think that's so secure, then what's the danger?
00:58:09The danger is there is a murderer in here with us.
00:58:12Yeah? Who is it, then?
00:58:13I don't know!
00:58:14I don't know!
00:58:15But it's not the Beast!
00:58:17Are you sure?
00:58:21Whatever's in your wagon,
00:58:24it is cursed.
00:58:28See?
00:58:29Even a girl agrees.
00:58:37Get back in the larder.
00:58:38Stay with Herod.
00:58:41Lock the door.
00:58:45You come with me.
00:58:47You can see for yourself that it hasn't escaped.
00:58:49You two stay here.
00:58:52What the hell was that we're coming to?
00:58:53Fine!
00:58:54But when we get back,
00:58:55I don't want to hear another word about this Beast.
00:58:57Understood?
00:58:58Yeah, yeah, of course, mate. Yeah.
00:59:14I couldn't find them, Arlen.
00:59:34I couldn't find my parents' graves at Linwith.
00:59:40Herod.
00:59:44When I touched the woman's arm,
00:59:47I saw the dead of Linwith.
00:59:50The village burning.
00:59:52I saw it because she was ashamed of it.
00:59:56And I thought it was just the guilt of surviving.
00:59:58I didn't realise it was the guilt of having done it herself.
01:00:06I still don't understand why she came for you, though.
01:00:11The Ottobish went mad.
01:00:15Your face.
01:00:17You're hurt.
01:00:19It must be from when the witch grabbed me.
01:00:23It's fine.
01:00:32I think we need to tell the stranger you met Meredibor before yesterday.
01:00:36No one needs to know that.
01:00:40They won't understand.
01:00:41I think the stranger would.
01:00:44He knew Merrick.
01:00:47He was her friend.
01:00:48The witch said it was Zorlok's power that slaughtered the village.
01:00:53Could it somehow be what killed Giblock as well?
01:00:57I don't know.
01:01:01The others have gone to check on the stranger's wagon.
01:01:04It may be what Meredibor warned of when she died.
01:01:06Erud.
01:01:08I think it's the beast that attacked Linwith years ago.
01:01:15The beast that killed our parents.
01:01:18I want to see it.
01:01:19No.
01:01:21No.
01:01:23I promised the stranger we'd stay here.
01:01:26Please.
01:01:28Sleep. You need your rest.
01:01:31I'm sorry.
01:01:33Sleep. You need your rest.
01:01:42That beast is a pitiful creature.
01:01:48Whatever it is, it hates itself.
01:01:54I think deep down, all evil things hate themselves.
01:02:03See? Secure.
01:02:06Now, wait. How do we know that thing is in there at all, huh?
01:02:13We can't see nothing in here.
01:02:15What?
01:02:16Well, no, no, no. Yeah, there's something in there.
01:02:19That's enough.
01:02:20Hang on, hang on.
01:02:21Give me that lantern, eh?
01:02:32Hey, this ain't a beast.
01:02:35I don't think this is an animal at all.
01:02:37All right, calm down.
01:02:42You got a man in there, stranger, huh?
01:02:44Why are you lying to us about it?
01:02:46Oh, I'm not lying.
01:02:47Yeah, we'll see about that, eh?
01:02:50Yeah.
01:02:54There's only one reason why you and Wallace believe that this is a beast and not a man.
01:03:03Come on.
01:03:18See that?
01:03:19You're a red and black lover, huh?
01:03:22You've been transporting a vitalian to his freedom.
01:03:25Shut the door.
01:03:27Oh, I ain't sick of you acting like you're in charge.
01:03:30I'm the gods damned in their graves, Marshal.
01:03:33Not you!
01:03:35Looks like we're going to be spilling some vitalian blood tonight after all, eh?
01:04:00Come on.
01:04:30Come on.
01:04:53We all want to fight back.
01:04:54You think that's going to make us go quicker for you?
01:04:56You're wrong.
01:04:57I am enjoying this.
01:05:01Don't worry, your apothecary friend is next.
01:05:07Dane, we're still leaving B.
01:05:11Yeah, crawl away, scum.
01:05:14You're a real bitch bastard, you know that, stranger?
01:05:17You know aiding a vitalian in their escape from there is a hanging offence.
01:05:22Are you hearing me?
01:05:23You're a dead man, stranger.
01:05:25Lock the door.
01:05:28Lock that door.
01:05:30Come on.
01:06:00No!
01:06:01No!
01:06:04No!
01:06:31It was you.
01:06:34You killed Master Sycamore!
01:06:41No! Aaron!
01:07:00No.
01:07:10You all right?
01:07:11Yes.
01:07:13But Aaron...
01:07:24Thane!
01:07:28Thane.
01:07:31Thane.
01:07:36Aaron!
01:08:00They are as...
01:08:02Aaron.
01:08:05Aaron.
01:08:06He hasn't come back.
01:08:09It was my fault, I should never have brought the beast here.
01:08:12Don't move.
01:08:13Please.
01:08:15I've done the best I can, but the wound is deep.
01:08:18The boy's a murderer.
01:08:21If that beast hasn't got to him already,
01:08:24he's going to pay for his crime.
01:08:27Has Aaron ever done anything like that before?
01:08:31What he did to the beast.
01:08:34Not like that.
01:08:36There were times when we were young.
01:08:38If he was upset, he could hurt people without touching them.
01:08:43Hurt people?
01:08:45Make them suddenly ill or weak.
01:08:49We told your block about it once.
01:08:53Called it devilry.
01:08:55Tried to beat it out of him.
01:08:58It's been years since it happened, though.
01:09:01We'd almost forgotten about it.
01:09:05Almost?
01:09:07I should have told you.
01:09:13Ered was afraid to let anyone know.
01:09:18But it wasn't yesterday he first met the witch.
01:09:23Last moon,
01:09:24he happened upon her on the mountain,
01:09:26and she asked him about his gift.
01:09:30How did she know about it?
01:09:31I don't know.
01:09:35But she said she wanted to help him with it.
01:09:38Teach him to use it properly.
01:09:41I told him to stay away from her, but he...
01:09:45He thought it would get us closer
01:09:47to becoming a team of heroes like the Redthorns.
01:09:51Twice he snuck out.
01:09:52Twice he snuck out at night after Giblock had gone to bed
01:09:57to meet her at her cottage.
01:10:00And Linwith?
01:10:02Did he go there to meet her, too?
01:10:07No.
01:10:11I don't know.
01:10:15That's not what he told me, but I fear he's been keeping secrets.
01:10:19But you didn't suspect that he...
01:10:22killed your master?
01:10:24No, but...
01:10:26when I examined again the witch's arm,
01:10:31it became suddenly clear to me.
01:10:34The same magic that killed Giblock
01:10:37was used against the witch at Linwith.
01:10:40Who else would try to protect the village from the witch but Ered?
01:10:46Why did the beast go after Ered?
01:10:49Like it was drawn to him.
01:10:51I don't know.
01:10:54I do.
01:10:59It was the old dark magic, the point wields.
01:11:06Among my people,
01:11:09when someone is cursed by dark magic,
01:11:14he forever recognizes it in others.
01:11:21The beast...
01:11:24sensed within the boy that same power that has tormented him for years.
01:11:28Lee? Arlen? He needs...
01:11:33It's time to say goodbye, partner.
01:11:36No.
01:11:38And I won't say it, you knife-hit bastard.
01:11:42Why...
01:11:45to be so young?
01:11:48To wield the power of death?
01:11:52You're the worst person.
01:11:58Lee?
01:12:00Lee?
01:12:02Lee?
01:12:09Come with me.
01:12:14Oh, God.
01:12:22No.
01:12:47I heard you out there calling for Thane.
01:12:52That beast wasn't...
01:12:55Thane of the Redthorns.
01:12:59He once was.
01:13:01What happened to him?
01:13:04Well...
01:13:06Sometime after the Year of the Dead,
01:13:10after he and Teela had set up life together as husband and wife,
01:13:16Thane was cursed
01:13:17by a sorcerer who called himself
01:13:21the Disciple.
01:13:23The Disciple?
01:13:25Yes.
01:13:28Thane remembers little about how it happened,
01:13:30but one thing he is certain of.
01:13:34The Disciple killed Teela.
01:13:42For more than 15 years.
01:13:45For more than 15 years,
01:13:47Thane remained a beast.
01:13:50How did you find him?
01:13:52I was only after the bounty.
01:13:56But when I realized that the creature was cursed,
01:14:01I thought that curing it might be easier than killing it.
01:14:06Finally,
01:14:08I worked out a mixture of monkshood and starleaf.
01:14:12That did the trick,
01:14:13but I wasn't prepared for the man who emerged
01:14:18or the condition he would be in.
01:14:22The little that Thane remembered only made him want to die.
01:14:28And his form...
01:14:30His form wasn't stable, so I had to keep him caged
01:14:33for his own safety as much as anyone else's.
01:14:35Where were you taking him?
01:14:38They say there are still masters of the old magic in Golgotha,
01:14:44so I was headed there
01:14:46in the hope for a permanent release of the curse.
01:14:51Finding Thane,
01:14:57it felt like a chance to make amends to memories.
01:15:01It felt like a chance to make amends to Merrick.
01:15:05I was too cowardly to help her in my youth,
01:15:08but now I could help her friend.
01:15:11Her friend who had been the brave companion that she needed
01:15:16to stand by her when I wouldn't.
01:15:23Failing Thane now
01:15:25Failing Thane now
01:15:29feels like failing Merrick all over again.
01:15:33Wait.
01:15:45Your name is Egan.
01:15:49The apothecary's apprentice, you...
01:15:50You made Merrick's leg brace.
01:15:53She wore it for years.
01:15:56She wouldn't have been able to escape without it.
01:16:00She couldn't have done half the things she did
01:16:02if it weren't for your kindness.
01:16:06You've more than made up for any cowardice.
01:16:13I failed you
01:16:16and Herod as well.
01:16:20Even trying
01:16:22makes you the most selfless man to ever walk through those doors.
01:16:29Alan, there's something that I need to talk to you about.
01:16:31Something that I found in Giblock's room.
01:16:35Oi!
01:16:37There's smoke. Hop on a mountain!
01:16:40That's Meridabel's chimney.
01:16:43Herod must have gone to her cottage. He's alive!
01:16:45Yeah, makes it easy enough, eh?
01:16:48What are you doing? You're going after him.
01:16:49Oh yeah, and I'm hauling him to the magistrate's court.
01:16:52He's just a boy. He's confused.
01:16:54He's a slave who killed his master.
01:16:57That's not going unpunished.
01:16:59What's more, the dwarf's murder directly led to my partner's death.
01:17:02Oh, your own stupidity did that.
01:17:05I ain't putting that boy in shackles.
01:17:07And if he shows any resistance, magic or otherwise, I'm gonna kill him!
01:17:11I'll come with you.
01:17:12That's what, so you can protect him from me?
01:17:16If that elf was right,
01:17:17then the beast is after the boy as well.
01:17:20And you don't want to be alone when you cross its path.
01:17:24I don't want the boy hurt.
01:17:28I'll convince him to come willingly.
01:17:30You can hardly stand up, mate. How are you gonna climb that mountain?
01:17:39Fine. Fine, we'll go together.
01:17:42You just remember, this is Marshal's business.
01:17:44Alright? I'm in charge, yeah?
01:17:48You're in charge.
01:17:54You've given up hope for Thane.
01:17:57You're willing to kill him?
01:18:00Trying to cure him has cost too many lives.
01:18:03If killing him means sparing another of his victims,
01:18:07then it has to be the right choice.
01:18:11I want to go with you.
01:18:13I want to go with you.
01:18:16Whatever's happening with Ered, he thinks he's all alone in it.
01:18:19And he's scared.
01:18:22You have to stay here in case he returns.
01:18:26I won't let the boy come to harm.
01:18:31You have my word.
01:18:42Come on.
01:19:12Come on.
01:19:36You have doomed them all.
01:19:42Where is it?
01:20:13Come on.
01:20:37Ered.
01:20:43Do you know who that belongs to?
01:20:48Mine.
01:20:52Zorlok?
01:20:54Yes.
01:21:00Why is it here?
01:21:03I cannot say.
01:21:05The Hittable and her conjurings were after my time.
01:21:10But you know one who can, don't you, Ered?
01:21:14One who could grant you what you wish most.
01:21:19To know where you come from.
01:21:21To know who you are.
01:21:28The Disciple.
01:21:31Only he can give you the answers you seek.
01:21:33Only he can give you the answers you seek.
01:21:38Hittable warned me to stay away from him.
01:21:40Yes.
01:21:42She would.
01:21:44She feared you, didn't she?
01:21:47The Disciple will not fear you.
01:21:50He will put you on the path to your destiny.
01:22:04I don't want this.
01:22:06You are singular.
01:22:09The gift you bear is a burden.
01:22:12And a lonely one.
01:22:16The Disciple understands that, Ered.
01:22:20You must seek him out.
01:22:24Can I ask you a question?
01:22:27Yes.
01:22:29What is it?
01:22:31Can Arlen come with me?
01:22:35Arlen wouldn't understand.
01:22:38She sees you only as a murderer now.
01:22:42Just as the Witch did.
01:22:46Only the Disciple can help you now.
01:22:50You're lying.
01:22:54Arlen's still my friend.
01:22:56You know I'm right.
01:22:57You know I'm right.
01:23:00You feel it.
01:23:05Well, you wouldn't have run away from her.
01:23:13No.
01:23:16Leave me alone.
01:23:20Go away!
01:23:27I'll go in alone.
01:23:29I don't want the boy frightened.
01:23:31If you're not back with him soon,
01:23:33I'm coming in after you both.
01:23:46Ered.
01:23:47No!
01:23:48You! Stay back!
01:23:51What are you doing here?
01:23:54I just want to talk to you.
01:23:58Son, the Beast is loose on this mountain.
01:24:01We think he's coming after you.
01:24:03I don't believe you.
01:24:05This power you have,
01:24:07the thing that came out of you when the Beast attacked,
01:24:10the power that killed Giblock,
01:24:14it scares people.
01:24:17But I bet it's pretty damn scary for you too,
01:24:20isn't it?
01:24:22See, I once had a friend with the same power.
01:24:25Marek?
01:24:27Yes.
01:24:30That power scared me.
01:24:32It scared everyone who witnessed it.
01:24:35People told her that there was an evil inside her.
01:24:40She began to wonder if they were right.
01:24:44But Marek learned how to control that power.
01:24:47She decided to use it.
01:24:48For good.
01:24:51It's that power that Marek used to save the world.
01:24:59But it's also that power that the Beast is drawn to.
01:25:02That's why we need to get you off this mountain
01:25:05and down to safety.
01:25:10If I...
01:25:13If I go with you,
01:25:14what's going to happen to me?
01:25:20You killed your master.
01:25:22You'll have to face the consequences of that.
01:25:24But I will be with you
01:25:26every step of the way, right by your side.
01:25:30I'll plead lenience in front of the Magistrate.
01:25:36I will protect you.
01:25:37Maybe I don't need your protection.
01:25:40I don't need it.
01:25:42I will protect you.
01:25:43Maybe I don't need your protection.
01:25:45From the Beast or the Magistrate.
01:25:48You saw what I did to it.
01:25:50But do you really want to spend the rest of your life running?
01:25:54In fear?
01:25:55I'm an orphan and a slave.
01:25:56My whole life has been fear.
01:25:57Ered, it doesn't have to be that way anymore.
01:25:59Please, come.
01:26:01Come with me.
01:26:05No.
01:26:12Ered.
01:26:25Are you...
01:26:26I'm all right.
01:26:27Ered, how could you?
01:26:29He wants to see me punished.
01:26:31That's all any of them want to do with me.
01:26:33The witch, Master Giblock, all of them.
01:26:36Why did you do it?
01:26:39Why did you kill Giblock?
01:26:41Why?
01:26:46I'd gone down to the cellar
01:26:48to retrieve the talisman from a hittable's body.
01:26:51The key to my past, she called it.
01:26:54Giblock couldn't sleep.
01:26:55He couldn't make sense of it.
01:26:57The witch so determined to kill me, she was willing to die trying.
01:27:00When I got up from the cellar, he was waiting for me.
01:27:02All right.
01:27:04It was you.
01:27:06You know.
01:27:08You called evil, didn't you?
01:27:10I've always known it.
01:27:12Don't deny it.
01:27:13You snuck out before.
01:27:15You're doing it again.
01:27:17I don't want...
01:27:24Let me be a lesson to you, Ered.
01:27:29I'm not going to let you go.
01:27:30Let me be a lesson to you, Ered.
01:27:42He was going to separate us, Arlan.
01:27:45And now you've figured out what really happened at Linwith.
01:27:49What do you mean?
01:27:51The witch's vengeance.
01:27:54Wasn't what cursed the village, was it?
01:28:01I didn't mean to.
01:28:07It just happened.
01:28:09I just wanted them back, Arlan.
01:28:12Your parents?
01:28:16You thought you could bring them back from the dead, is it?
01:28:19That's why you were looking for their graves?
01:28:21I could have done it.
01:28:23Is that what Mehedabal was teaching you?
01:28:25No.
01:28:27The witch was scared of my gift.
01:28:31She only wanted to show me how to restrain it.
01:28:34When I got to the graveyard that morning,
01:28:37my parents' names weren't there, meaning the dead.
01:28:42But Mehedabal Crow was there.
01:28:44That's when she confessed.
01:28:46It wasn't the beast
01:28:48that killed my parents all those years ago.
01:28:51It was her.
01:28:53She wouldn't tell me why,
01:28:54only that she regretted it every day since.
01:28:57And that it was her fault.
01:28:58I was born the way I was.
01:29:01With this
01:29:03gift, this
01:29:05cursed
01:29:06power of Zorloth.
01:29:13I didn't mean to hurt the villagers.
01:29:16Only her.
01:29:24And when she saw what I'd done to Linwith,
01:29:27she blamed herself.
01:29:29Ered!
01:29:30She said
01:29:31the only way she could fix what she'd done
01:29:34was to kill me.
01:29:37Ered, you should have told me.
01:29:39I was afraid you'd hate me.
01:29:41How could you not?
01:29:43Your...
01:29:45Your gift is so good.
01:29:50Mine's
01:29:52evil.
01:29:53I
01:29:54will never
01:29:55hate you,
01:29:56Ered.
01:29:59You
01:30:00will never lose me.
01:30:05We're a team.
01:30:08We always will be.
01:30:12But right now we need to get to safety
01:30:14because the beast is still on the mountain.
01:30:17Right, that's enough jabbering on in here.
01:30:20What's going on?
01:30:21Ristul, it's fine.
01:30:22Did it again, did he?
01:30:23Boys, you are gonna hang for what you've done.
01:30:25I'll make sure of it!
01:30:26No!
01:30:28Ered!
01:30:37Ristul waits.
01:30:38He's more powerful than we think!
01:30:44Don't you move, you little shite!
01:30:47You try any of that dark magic,
01:30:48I'll send this poison bolt right through your heart.
01:30:54Ristul!
01:30:55Ristul, stay back!
01:31:06Ered?
01:31:13She doesn't understand.
01:31:15None of them do.
01:31:17They will only fear you.
01:31:20You cannot trust them.
01:31:22You can only trust yourself.
01:31:30Ered, no!
01:31:51Please.
01:32:01You shouldn't have come.
01:32:02The witch's warning.
01:32:04I realized it wasn't about the beast.
01:32:06She meant Ered.
01:32:08After what he did to Linwid.
01:32:10The Hitchable was trying to stop him from harming anyone else
01:32:12and I...
01:32:13I didn't see it because I didn't want to,
01:32:15but Ered's become too dangerous.
01:32:18Huh?
01:32:21Ered!
01:32:26Ered!
01:32:28You said we'd always be a team!
01:32:30We still can be.
01:32:39You're right, Arwen.
01:32:41I am dangerous.
01:32:43And I don't need you anymore.
01:32:51No!
01:33:21Come on.
01:33:31I'm sorry, Zane.
01:33:36Ered!
01:33:45Ered!
01:33:47Where are you going?
01:33:52To find out who I am.
01:33:57If you come looking for me,
01:33:59I won't hold back.
01:34:02We're enemies now.
01:34:09Arlen.
01:34:15I can redress this.
01:34:17I can.
01:34:22No.
01:34:25No.
01:34:26Please.
01:34:51This is...
01:34:56That belonged...
01:34:58to Teela.
01:35:03Your mother.
01:35:07My mother.
01:35:11And...
01:35:16And my...
01:35:19My father.
01:35:22They...
01:35:30They would be so proud of you.
01:35:35No, please.
01:35:36Please don't leave me.
01:35:40You'll be all right.
01:35:42Arlen.
01:35:51You're braver than you think.
01:36:05No, please.
01:36:08No!
01:36:10No!
01:36:21No.
01:36:42Arlen.
01:36:45No!
01:36:47Please!
01:36:51No!
01:37:22Hey, Bristol! Where's my meal?
01:37:24Yeah, all right, all right!
01:37:27I've been waiting!
01:37:28Oi! Keep your unders on!
01:37:31Ah.
01:37:32You're off then.
01:37:37Well, there's no claim on you.
01:37:40I'm not going to let you down.
01:37:42I'm not going to let you down.
01:37:44I'm not going to let you down.
01:37:46I'm not going to let you down.
01:37:48I'm not going to let you down.
01:37:50There's no claim on you for now.
01:37:52But if any relation to Gibbs turns up,
01:37:54you'll be their legal property.
01:37:56You'll go to them.
01:37:58And so will this tavern you've taken ownership of.
01:38:02I guess we'll both be hoping that old dwarf's the last of his line, eh?
01:38:07Arlen.
01:38:13Mind yourself out there, yeah?
01:38:20All right.
01:39:20♪
01:39:32♪
01:39:44♪ I've wandered this world
01:39:48Fought so long
01:39:51Many thousand years
01:39:56What names I could speak
01:40:00Mighty ones
01:40:03Mourned with ancient tears
01:40:09Stars burned out still
01:40:12I can't let go of you
01:40:14Seas dried up and valleys move
01:40:17Only you could move me
01:40:21Empires and races
01:40:23Sunk beneath the earth
01:40:25And still your names live on my breath
01:40:29Echoes passing slowly
01:40:44A world that was free
01:40:48Golden leaves
01:40:51Forest full of wonder
01:40:55Now known but to me
01:40:59All I got
01:41:03Who once called me brother
01:41:06Armies tread
01:41:08All to ash and spread their death
01:41:11Will you have me linger yet?
01:41:14All I've seen and can't forget
01:41:18I would give my next ten thousand silver moons
01:41:22Just for one more day with you
01:41:27Take me home
01:41:30Across the sea
01:41:38Across the sea
01:41:48Echoes passing slowly
01:41:57♪
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