1 00:01:26,229 --> 00:01:27,750 Neve. Be gone, Neve. 2 00:01:29,150 --> 00:01:30,430 What else is there to say? 3 00:01:30,790 --> 00:01:31,790 We failed. 4 00:01:32,270 --> 00:01:33,470 At least he's dead. 5 00:01:34,950 --> 00:01:36,690 Better that than letting him escape. 6 00:01:36,990 --> 00:01:38,730 Better still if we had taken him alive. 7 00:01:39,930 --> 00:01:41,470 I have led you badly of late. 8 00:01:42,010 --> 00:01:43,510 But our next hunt will be different. 9 00:01:43,930 --> 00:01:47,790 Aye. Let our quarry squirm like... 10 00:01:49,530 --> 00:01:51,090 A shrask eel. 11 00:01:51,770 --> 00:01:54,770 Do they squirm? Very much so. 12 00:01:55,410 --> 00:01:59,570 One of those, then. They will not escape our grasp. 13 00:02:00,410 --> 00:02:04,190 I am not worthy of your faith, old friend. 14 00:02:04,670 --> 00:02:10,350 These days I... Enough self -pity. I must answer to Lord Carthelon. 15 00:02:18,090 --> 00:02:22,230 Without knowing it, she is escaping your guardianship. 16 00:02:22,670 --> 00:02:24,330 No thanks to you. 17 00:02:24,730 --> 00:02:27,970 You should be holding her dangerous memories in check. 18 00:02:28,370 --> 00:02:31,470 You need not remind me of our bargain. 19 00:02:32,410 --> 00:02:33,730 Evidently, I must. 20 00:02:34,250 --> 00:02:38,430 A much greater power than mine has hold of her tides. 21 00:02:38,810 --> 00:02:41,610 I cannot prevent the deluge much longer. 22 00:02:41,870 --> 00:02:46,570 And if you wish to speak of our terms, what of your pledge? 23 00:02:47,390 --> 00:02:49,350 What of the treasure you promised? 24 00:02:49,790 --> 00:02:51,730 You will have it. 25 00:02:52,090 --> 00:02:58,410 But if need falls... Tides turn, Wolf of Sigmar. 26 00:02:58,870 --> 00:03:03,790 I begin to wonder if this prize is worth the price of pain. 27 00:03:05,050 --> 00:03:07,970 We both know the value of such a soul. 28 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:18,520 The fault is mine and mine alone. 29 00:03:18,740 --> 00:03:20,540 I am ready to relinquish command. 30 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:25,120 You are where you need to be. 31 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:28,840 It is my most profound wish for that to be so. 32 00:03:29,700 --> 00:03:32,420 It is not a question of wish or doubt. 33 00:03:33,060 --> 00:03:34,880 It is the will of Sigmar. 34 00:03:35,860 --> 00:03:39,540 We all have pasts, Black Talon. We all cast shadows. 35 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:42,320 But we are not our yesterdays. 36 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:44,620 That is Sigmar's gift to us. 37 00:03:44,970 --> 00:03:46,810 The blessing of his great forge. 38 00:03:47,190 --> 00:03:51,450 But what if I... Neve, is it your place to question Sigma's choices? 39 00:03:51,830 --> 00:03:53,070 I would never presume. 40 00:03:53,570 --> 00:03:55,050 And yet you do. 41 00:03:56,050 --> 00:04:00,790 Do you imagine your past is darker than any other soul now clad in Sigmarite? 42 00:04:00,890 --> 00:04:05,210 That your half -remembered darkness is bleaker than any of the burdens the rest 43 00:04:05,210 --> 00:04:06,210 of us carry? 44 00:04:07,150 --> 00:04:08,390 What if it is? 45 00:04:08,930 --> 00:04:10,370 Darker than all others. 46 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:16,120 Darker than Tornus the Redeemed, who once led the armies of the Plague Gods. 47 00:04:16,579 --> 00:04:18,940 Tornus knows his past, my lord. 48 00:04:19,339 --> 00:04:23,360 I do not. Shouldn't I know the sins that once stained my soul? 49 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:27,500 Sigmar chose you and freed you of your past. 50 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:30,060 You are shaped by your choices now. 51 00:04:30,460 --> 00:04:35,760 You have shown your worth scores of times, and you must continue to do so. 52 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:37,860 is your duty and your privilege. 53 00:04:39,580 --> 00:04:40,680 You are wise. 54 00:04:42,090 --> 00:04:43,390 I have my moments. 55 00:04:48,690 --> 00:04:51,170 This will be a food hunt. 56 00:04:53,330 --> 00:04:54,710 You still have the scent? 57 00:04:54,990 --> 00:04:58,890 The flow around that sigil is no stranger to me now. 58 00:04:59,110 --> 00:05:02,710 It is blood in the water, tainting the tide. 59 00:05:03,270 --> 00:05:05,850 How close will you need to be to detect its presence? 60 00:05:07,950 --> 00:05:09,690 Closer than I desire. 61 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:13,200 So be it. 62 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:27,140 We are Sigma's hunters. 63 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:32,700 His blade. 64 00:05:39,020 --> 00:05:42,160 Our foes can run, but we will bring them down. 65 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:56,740 They can hide, but we will drag them into the light. 66 00:06:05,610 --> 00:06:08,590 escapes the sons and daughters of the Storm God. 67 00:06:49,710 --> 00:06:50,750 Your flight is over. 68 00:06:57,490 --> 00:06:58,590 Fill another. 69 00:07:01,730 --> 00:07:03,930 Then our hunt has just begun. 70 00:07:09,290 --> 00:07:14,690 How many of you are there? 71 00:07:18,860 --> 00:07:22,600 We are merciful, but our mercy has its limits. 72 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:24,740 Take your mercy. 73 00:07:25,060 --> 00:07:26,560 Burn it before me. 74 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:28,200 What do I care? 75 00:07:28,820 --> 00:07:34,220 When the gods you serve come for your soul, you may find that you care deeply. 76 00:07:34,500 --> 00:07:38,920 You may find that you wish you had turned to Sigmar for protection. 77 00:07:39,380 --> 00:07:40,380 Protection? 78 00:07:41,020 --> 00:07:44,100 Where was Sigmar's protection when it mattered? 79 00:07:50,060 --> 00:07:55,640 Sigmar is blind to the tears of the grieving and deaf to their cries for 80 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:56,640 vengeance. 81 00:07:58,180 --> 00:08:02,720 If it is how he wishes, so be it. 82 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:06,660 There are gods who hear the calls for revenge. 83 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:14,980 There are no answers for you on my tongue, nor in my heart. 84 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:19,120 Those you hunt, we do not know each other. 85 00:08:20,110 --> 00:08:21,610 How did you get into the city? 86 00:08:21,990 --> 00:08:22,990 Simple. 87 00:08:23,510 --> 00:08:24,510 Easy. 88 00:08:25,730 --> 00:08:26,730 Shadows. 89 00:08:31,250 --> 00:08:32,750 You hear it too? 90 00:08:34,750 --> 00:08:39,850 The darkness, it whispers, tells us where to go, what to do. 91 00:08:48,110 --> 00:08:50,150 What did it tell you to do in Hamahal Aksha? 92 00:08:51,030 --> 00:08:53,630 You took me before I knew. 93 00:08:57,210 --> 00:09:00,890 You have nothing. You know nothing. 94 00:09:01,190 --> 00:09:05,290 The whispers will become a murmur, a roar, a scream. 95 00:09:05,870 --> 00:09:09,230 And you know nothing. 96 00:09:27,150 --> 00:09:28,650 We are not closer to the truth. 97 00:09:29,330 --> 00:09:31,170 Perhaps. Perhaps not. 98 00:09:31,430 --> 00:09:33,290 She told us more than she thought. 99 00:09:33,650 --> 00:09:38,310 However many agents of the enemy are in Hamahal Aksha, they do not yet know what 100 00:09:38,310 --> 00:09:41,650 they are here to do. Which means... we have time. 101 00:09:43,810 --> 00:09:45,670 You think she spoke the truth? 102 00:09:46,010 --> 00:09:47,390 We must assume the worst. 103 00:09:47,910 --> 00:09:49,110 Multiple targets. 104 00:09:49,850 --> 00:09:51,210 Protection must be arranged. 105 00:09:51,590 --> 00:09:52,590 But for where? 106 00:09:52,990 --> 00:09:55,850 Where they can wound the city most grievously. 107 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:57,720 The ports. The granaries. 108 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:00,320 The reservoirs. 109 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:03,080 The realm gates. 110 00:10:10,140 --> 00:10:15,760 If the realm gate falls... Then, 111 00:10:16,180 --> 00:10:19,500 Hamahal, Aksha, and Gyra fall with it. 112 00:10:21,100 --> 00:10:23,920 Neither side of the city can survive without the other. 113 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:30,900 And if we lose Hamahal, we lose all the settlements beyond our walls that rely 114 00:10:30,900 --> 00:10:31,940 on the city for aid. 115 00:10:32,180 --> 00:10:35,220 The prisoner carried nothing more lethal than a dagger. 116 00:10:35,940 --> 00:10:40,140 Tainted they may be, but how could any of them hope to destroy a realm gate? 117 00:10:40,780 --> 00:10:43,560 The mark of ruin runs deeply. 118 00:10:43,900 --> 00:10:49,640 I cannot divine its full nature. It is shrouded in impenetrable depths. 119 00:10:50,340 --> 00:10:54,100 But I sense its vile strength. 120 00:10:54,990 --> 00:10:58,170 Its potential to drown us in ruin. 121 00:10:58,410 --> 00:11:00,430 So where does that leave us? 122 00:11:00,710 --> 00:11:03,170 I will speak with Lord Karthalos of what we have learned. 123 00:11:03,610 --> 00:11:04,730 And what we dread. 124 00:11:05,670 --> 00:11:07,010 Then we hunt anew. 125 00:11:17,270 --> 00:11:18,270 Here. 126 00:11:19,370 --> 00:11:21,510 A small morsel. 127 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,200 Hardly worth your attention, Great Aeternus. 128 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:31,840 It is the attention of others it will draw, and their attention matters. 129 00:11:33,680 --> 00:11:35,080 Their attention? 130 00:11:35,500 --> 00:11:36,940 Or hers? 131 00:11:38,900 --> 00:11:43,460 You are fortunate that I like you, Therion. 132 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:49,520 Otherwise, I might gouge out your all -seeing eyes. 133 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:52,860 Ride out, my warriors. 134 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:57,280 Burn what stands and bleed what moves. 135 00:12:02,220 --> 00:12:06,460 We need nothing but the brand of our passing. 136 00:12:10,020 --> 00:12:12,080 So it begins. 137 00:12:16,260 --> 00:12:19,840 I have received word that the stronghold of Ajiricus burns. 138 00:12:20,460 --> 00:12:23,040 and one of the main trade routes, the Hamahal, lies closed. 139 00:12:23,500 --> 00:12:26,160 All they left behind was their mark of ruin. 140 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:28,440 It must be a distraction. 141 00:12:28,780 --> 00:12:31,660 The target is important, but not important enough. 142 00:12:31,980 --> 00:12:37,000 Agreed. The enemy means to turn our eyes from the threat already within the city 143 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,900 walls. So we ignore the attack. 144 00:12:39,180 --> 00:12:43,500 What about the townspeople? Hundreds are dying and the loss of such a trade 145 00:12:43,500 --> 00:12:45,540 route. We may lose thousands more. 146 00:12:46,420 --> 00:12:48,400 It is too late for a Jiricus. 147 00:12:49,870 --> 00:12:52,410 Our forces in Hamahal are stretched thin. 148 00:12:53,010 --> 00:12:55,630 Every blade we possess is on the city streets. 149 00:12:58,650 --> 00:13:02,830 No one can approach the target sites without being examined for the sigil. 150 00:13:05,390 --> 00:13:09,670 A great many mortals are being butchered in the wildlands beyond the city walls, 151 00:13:09,890 --> 00:13:12,450 my lord. And they die in the God -King's name. 152 00:13:13,290 --> 00:13:15,770 We cannot further deplete our garrison. 153 00:13:16,030 --> 00:13:17,930 Hamahal must be our priority. 154 00:13:19,750 --> 00:13:24,030 However... Distraction or not, there may be clues there regarding the nature of 155 00:13:24,030 --> 00:13:25,030 our enemy. 156 00:13:25,310 --> 00:13:27,030 You see the truth of it. 157 00:13:27,670 --> 00:13:28,830 Go, Altrus. 158 00:13:36,870 --> 00:13:40,070 Spread out. See what you can find. But be careful. 159 00:13:40,470 --> 00:13:42,390 Nothing is as it seems with this foe. 160 00:14:47,820 --> 00:14:48,719 Have no fear. 161 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:50,580 I'll kill the rest and then... 162 00:15:57,450 --> 00:15:59,810 In this, all merit to you. 163 00:16:01,990 --> 00:16:03,610 Defeated so easily. 164 00:16:08,330 --> 00:16:11,390 He should never have chosen you. 165 00:16:11,890 --> 00:16:17,210 By what right does such a creature as you judge Sigmar's chosen? 166 00:16:19,130 --> 00:16:20,130 Sigmar? 167 00:16:31,530 --> 00:16:36,110 What do you hope to gain from this skirmish? The city is too well defended. 168 00:16:36,330 --> 00:16:38,830 I am not here to discuss Hamel. 169 00:16:42,570 --> 00:16:44,430 I am all ready. 170 00:17:00,940 --> 00:17:02,440 I am here for you. 171 00:17:04,839 --> 00:17:11,119 And you are here to meet your past. 172 00:17:11,819 --> 00:17:13,060 My past. 173 00:17:13,540 --> 00:17:17,200 I know you can sense it. There in the shadows. 174 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:24,460 It does not matter. But it does. 175 00:17:24,859 --> 00:17:28,099 We are your past and your future. 176 00:17:28,780 --> 00:17:31,340 Velakor awaits your return. 177 00:17:34,060 --> 00:17:35,140 Velakor. 178 00:17:37,120 --> 00:17:38,640 The realm gate. 179 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:41,000 No. 180 00:17:41,820 --> 00:17:42,820 No. 181 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:53,780 She draws close. 182 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:57,880 And what sweet misery it will be. 183 00:17:58,250 --> 00:18:02,170 when he sees the fractured weakling you have become. 184 00:18:07,170 --> 00:18:10,590 Remembrance is fealty, Niamh. 185 00:18:15,890 --> 00:18:16,890 It 186 00:18:16,890 --> 00:18:26,810 cannot 187 00:18:26,810 --> 00:18:27,810 be.