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Hurry up.

>> Who is [music] that?

>> Who else?

>> A slave from the northern mines.

>> Look at him. The thing from the

slaughter pits finally learned how to

walk.

>> [laughter]

>> He smells [snorts] like dirt and

rebellion.

>> Kneel before the nobles of Valcare.

>> If your sword needs my knees to look

tall than it [music] is too small.

>> Stop.

Slave,

do you know where you are [music]

standing?

>> On stone.

Below a crowd of cowards.

>> Dogs always bark loudest before [music]

they learn the chain.

>> Then come closer and teach me.

>> [music]

>> Let you witness the magic of the royal

family.

>> [laughter]

>> Lord Cassian will make him crawl and

beg.

>> A mine slave dares to challenge House

Draken? [music]

>> This is mercy.

>> You will fall before the pain truly

begins.

>> Is that magic

or just a winter draft?

>> Impossible. The suppression ring should

crush his spine.

>> How is he still standing?

>> Try again. [music]

I almost felt that.

>> Kneel.

>> What the hell?

Is this how your empire collects taxes?

>> [laughter]

>> Then let me see if you can still laugh

in fire.

>> Lord Cassian, do not use fire.

>> Finally,

something a little warm.

>> Then let me see if you can still laugh

in fire.

>> Now, the mud should learn some manners.

Something is wrong. Sentus, what is

wrong?

>> [music]

>> Ashes understand obedience better than

slaves. Then why am I so bored?

>> Who is speaking?

>> Impossible.

>> No one survives noble fire. Then [music]

find me a fire worthy of a real noble.

>> Sentus,

>> [music]

>> this prisoner insulted the crown.

>> Who put those chains on you?

>> People who are afraid to kill me.

>> He is a border criminal.

Star iron is not used to chain

criminals.

>> [groaning]

>> No attacks outside the trial.

No attacks outside the trial.

>> Sentus,

>> [music]

>> he provoked me.

>> And you answered like a frightened

child.

Sentress, [music]

the council brought him here for

judgement, not honor.

Can you speak for yourself? [music]

>> I can, but your empire prefers chains

over answers.

>> Bring in the trial stone.

>> THAT IS THE HEAVY GUARD TRIAL STONE.

>> Only the empire's elite are qualified to

touch it.

>> The selection begins today. Only those

who can lift the trial stone may stand

before the war council. [music]

>> You want a slave to compete with nobles?

>> I want the empire to stop screaming and

start measuring.

>> Watch closely. [music]

This is what bloodline looks like.

>> Then I hope it weighs more than your

pride.

>> Let the slave see what Imperial training

looks like. [music]

>> [applause]

>> Failure.

>> [groaning]

>> Enough!

>> Why is it this guy [music] again?

>> Lord Cassian been definitely lifted.

>> [music]

>> Draven blood never fails.

>> THIS IS THE POWER OF NOBLE BLOOD.

>> Your turn, beast. [music]

>> You call that lifting it?

>> Let us see how much power you really

have.

>> His hands are chained. How can he lift

it?

>> Forget lifting it. The runes will crush

him the second [music] he touches it.

>> Let him try. Humiliation is cheaper

[music] than execution.

>> Your turn, beast. [music]

>> The chains make the trial unfair.

>> Do [music] not beg for mercy on my

behalf.

If he is truly that strong, the chains

should not matter.

Save it for him.

Then lift [music] it.

>> [laughter]

>> AH, NO MAGICAL RESPONSE.

EVEN THE trial stone refuses to

recognize him.

>> Enough. Take him away. [music]

This farce is over.

>> Heavy things should learn some manners.

This is the empire's strength.

>> [clears throat]

>> This is the empire's strength.

>> No magic.

>> That is [music] impossible.

>> No slave can do [music] that.

>> You needed [music] three spells to lift

it to your knees.

Should I clap?

>> Record this.

>> [music]

>> Rylan Voss lifted the trial stone

without using magic.

>> Centrus,

the council may object.

>> Then record that the council is afraid

of ink.

>> He cheated! He used hidden gravity

craft. A lower blood body cannot defeat

noble magic.

>> When pride loses, it calls the truth a

trick.

>> Then let us expose this trick.

>> Stand down.

>> He is a fraud [music] and a threat.

>> He passed the trial.

>> Only nobles can pass trials. Monsters

can only be inspected.

>> [music]

>> Do you need more men, young Lord Draven?

Then let [music] me see how long you

need to hold out.

Your thunder is loud,

but too weak to belong to the sky.

Not yet.

Do not look into his eyes.

>> [music]

>> What are you afraid to even look at me

now?

>> That thing humiliated noble families and

attacked Lord Cassian.

>> Cassian attacked first.

>> [music]

>> You would stand against noble blood for

a chained criminal?

>> I stand with the facts I [music] saw

with my own eyes.

Tomorrow, we demand [music] a second

trial.

>> The second trial has not been used in

years.

>> Then use it again. If he [music] is

human, let him pass by the rules. If he

is a monster, erase today's record.

>> You cannot execute him just because your

pride was wounded.

>> No.

Let him live long enough to break.

>> You do not [music] want the truth. You

want revenge.

Then it is settled. Tomorrow, the

[music] second trial, the spirit beast

cage judgment.

>> The spirit beast cage.

Santis, he is dangerous.

>> Then open the door slowly.

>> The council [music] ordered that no one

may meet him alone.

>> Since when does the council outrank the

temple's right of judgment?

>> Did the empire send its brightest candle

to see if the monster is asleep?

>> You were arrested at Ashan border 3

years ago. Charges: treason, forbidden

bloodline, and resisting Imperial

judgment.

>> [music]

>> That is a very full basket of charges.

>> Did you commit treason?

>> I had no king to betray.

>> And the forbidden bloodline?

>> Ask the people who fear [music] it.

>> What are you?

>> Wrong question.

>> Then what is the right question?

>> Who buried the answer?

That beast is tomorrow's trial.

>> They said it was under control.

>> The empire likes to call cruelty

control,

>> [music]

>> as long as the paperwork looks clean.

>> Now this looks like a real trial.

>> I bet he does not last 1 [music] minute.

>> Second trial, spirit beast calming.

The candidate must survive for 5 minutes

without killing the beast. [music]

>> How merciful. All he has to do is stay

alive.

>> Let him be brave now.

Who hurt you?

>> Stop the trial!

>> Are you afraid for your prisoner.

>> Do not TOUCH THE BEAST SEAL.

>> Let his mind endure what his body is

hiding.

Your trial drove a spike into [music]

its neck.

>> Bring it to the council table.

>> [music]

>> Forged. [music]

>> A spirit beast bowing to a prisoner is

unnatural. This proves he is corrupted.

>> [music]

>> When cruelty fails,

you call mercy corruption.

>> KILL IT BEFORE IT SPREADS THE

CORRUPTION.

>> NO ONE TOUCHES IT.

>> SANCTUS Serlan has lost her judgment.

You fear this beast because it no longer

obeys pain. [music]

Does that remind you of me?

>> Raylan Boss has provisionally passed the

second [music]

trial, but will enter the Holy Tower's

mental judgment.

>> Let his mind [music] endure what his

body is hiding.

Mental judgment.

>> In the name of Sanctus Serlan, open the

sealed truth.

Someone erased the reason he was

convicted. [music]

>> Or erased why he was left alive.

>> You know the truth?

>> I [music] know its shape.

The truth itself was sealed.

Three years [music] ago, the Imperial

Army found a lost royal tomb there.

After the expedition [music] entered the

royal tomb, they brought back three

things.

A star iron chain, a broken royal seal,

[music] and one living man.

>> Ryland.

>> They called him a criminal because

calling him an heir would shake the

throne.

>> Heir to whom?

>> Saintess, reading sealed files is not a

good habit.

>> [music]

>> This is the temple's forbidden archive,

not how strains parlor.

>> Defending a slave by day, digging up his

secrets by night. Should I tell the

council you have chosen your beast?

>> Tell them I chose evidence.

>> [music]

>> Then I choose punishment.

>> Tess Solan violated Holy Tower archive

law

>> [music]

>> and showed dangerous sympathy towards a

sealed prisoner. I investigated because

the [music] empire erased the evidence.

>> No.

You investigated because a chained man

pleased your conscience. [music]

>> Tell us, Saintess.

What did he promise [music] you?

>> Far less than the threats you offered.

>> Watch your tongue.

>> You wanted to judge me.

Then hear the full answer.

>> Look, slave. Even a holy woman falls

when she stands too close to [music] the

mud.

>> You should not risk yourself for me.

>> You are not [music] the one on trial

here.

Their fear is.

>> Don't laugh. Get ready for the trial.

Sit down.

Sign it. Admit you used forbidden

influence to deceive the Saintess.

She might keep her title.

Try writing the truth.

It is harder to tear apart.

>> Stop!

>> Then let the mind speak what the mouth

refuses to admit.

>> You cannot start the mental judgment

here.

>> Emergency authority, the prisoner has

[music] corrupted the judgment process.

This is an abuse of judicial authority.

>> [music]

>> Hide the crown. Save the child. [music]

>> Cut the projection.

>> We cannot cut it off.

>> Impossible.

This is [music] a false memory.

>> No, this is what your empire buried.

>> The last blood of Ashak.

>> Now it is your turn to explain.

>> Ashak is only a myth.

>> No, duchess. It was once a kingdom.

>> [screaming]

>> He is creating illusions.

>> Mental judgment cannot create memories

out of nothing. [music] Unless he is not

human.

This proves he must be sealed.

>> You still choose chains.

>> Rylan, control it.

>> Do not stand too close to me.

>> Then give me a reason.

>> If these chains break, I do not know

whether the king wakes first or the

ruins.

>> You heard him. He admitted he is

dangerous.

>> By council authority, Rylan Voss will be

transferred to the obsidian arena before

dawn. [music]

>> The obsidian arena is not a court of

judgment.

>> Another arena, fine.

Bring heavier stones.

>> This is not a joke.

>> No.

It is a [music] pattern.

Tonight,

the chained false [music] king will face

the iron twins.

The rule is very simple. You are not

allowed to kill him, but you can make

him kneel down and admit defeat.

Let the audience teach him humility.

[music]

>> Open the gates.

>> Council orders, you may not enter the

obsidian arena.

>> What if the council [music] ordered you

to cheer?

>> KNEEL!

>> [screaming]

>> BREAK HIS PRIDE!

>> [music]

>> DO THEY COME [music] IN PAIRS because

one man is not enough embarrassment?

>> Open the third gate.

>> What is locked behind the third gate?

>> Not a person.

>> If he is a king, let him command stone.

>> If he is a monster,

>> [music]

>> let stone crush him.

The empire still likes hiding behind

dead things.

>> HE CANNOT HOLD OUT.

>> Move aside, or I will make this a holy

tower incident.

>> Sanctus, I [music] did not see you pass.

>> ENOUGH!

>> WHAT THE HELL? HOW COULD he possibly

knock [music] down the statue?

>> Sleep.

Do you still think the chains were meant

[music] to hold me?

Sleep.

>> If even the obsidian colossus bows to

him, what exactly [music] can he

command?

>> Star iron chains are not meant [music]

to bind flesh. They are meant to seal a

crown.

>> A crown?

>> The kings of Ashan did not [music] use

magic like ours. They had command blood.

Stone, beasts, storms, oaths, every

ancient thing would recognize them.

>> So, the trial stone, the spirit [music]

>> is the colossus.

>> They remembered before I did.

I was 17 when Valcare burned Ashan.

>> [music]

>> They locked my crown beneath the palace

and called my survival a crime.

>> The broken royal seal is still in the

Imperial Treasury. [music]

>> If they return the royal seal to you,

the chains will fail.

>> Or something worse will wake up.

>> [applause]

>> Thank you for confirming the royal

seal's location.

>> [music]

>> By order of the council,

Santis Solan is to be confined.

The prisoner is prepared for execution

at dawn.

>> You really should stop saying the word

dawn.

>> Who signed the execution [music] order?

>> Do not blame the empire, child. Blame

yourself for being too soft [music]

toward a ruined man.

>> You are afraid of him.

>> I fear fools doing foolish things with

symbols.

One chained man lifts a [music] stone

and farmers start whispering about the

old king.

Because the old king was wronged.

>> [music]

>> You were chosen to bless the throne, not

question it.

>> [music]

>> Then the throne chose the wrong

saintess.

Good.

>> [music]

>> There you go.

To the treasury. [music]

If this door opens, I am a traitor.

If it does not, [music]

we are cowards.

>> [music]

>> Unauthorized bloodline.

Only royal blood can take it.

>> [music]

>> Then we need another way.

Or different blood.

You followed [music] us.

Did you think I would not expect a holy

girl to play thief?

You have royal blood?

Distant enough to be elegant, close

enough to open doors.

It is rejecting him.

If it can wake a king, it can crown me.

Where is Lord Cassian?

>> No word yet.

>> What has he done?

>> Fool.

>> Kneel!

ALL OF YOU, KNEEL!

>> PROTECT THE NOBLE SEATS! PROTECT THE

NOBLES FIRST!

>> [screaming]

>> RELEASE RYLAN!

>> SANCTUS, [music] council orders.

>> Are you guarding a piece of paper

or a city?

>> Do it.

>> [music]

>> Now they will remember the right voice.

>> No, the royal steel IS IN MY HAND!

>> [music]

>> YOU ARE HOLDING BONE, not blood.

>> Do not stop! I command you to continue!

>> Remember Ashgar.

>> [groaning]

>> That is impossible.

>> You say that often.

It has never helped.

>> The royal steel is corrupting Cassian.

>> [music]

>> I AM NOBLE. I DESERVE IT.

>> TRUE WORTH DOES [music] NOT scream its

own name.

Let [music] go.

>> No,

I will not lose to a chained corpse.

>> Then lose to a living king.

>> It is mine.

IT SHOULD BE MINE.

>> A stolen thing will never belong to you.

>> [screaming and groaning]

[music]

>> The royal seal obeys him.

>> Do not be fooled. He planned [music]

this rebellion.

Cassian stole the royal sign. The

treasury records will prove it. Arrest

the Saintess.

>> [music]

>> No.

>> You dare defy the council?

>> I am finally serving the empire, not the

people feeding on it.

>> [music]

>> Can it break the chains?

>> If they all break, every Ashkan command

[music] beneath this city will wake. Not

everything remembers mercy.

>> [bell]

[music]

>> Return imperial property.

It was never yours.

Then the war begins.

>> Raylan Voss is not a wronged [music]

prisoner. He is the last heir of a

defeated enemy kingdom. Anyone who

shelters him commits treason.

>> Is he telling the truth?

>> Wasn't Ashkan an evil kingdom?

>> My lord, the nobles remain loyal.

>> Your knees react quickly.

Give it back [music] and I will spare

the girl.

>> He means you.

>> I figured that out.

>> [music]

>> You would threaten your own people?

>> Rebellion [music] spreads through

crowds. Fear cures crowds.

>> Do you see?

He is gathering subjects.

>> No.

You pushed them here.

>> We need evidence or he will turn the

whole city against you.

>> I found a copy of the military order

from the day Ashkan fell.

>> [music]

>> The butcher finally took off his mask.

>> [music]

>> War requires decisions.

Only children call them crimes.

I was 17.

>> This is emotional manipulation.

>> No.

>> [music]

>> This is history with witnesses.

>> I sealed the false records.

I was ordered to erase Ashkan's request

[music] to surrender.

>> You should have died with your ink.

>> [music]

>> Come on, child of Ashkan. I did not come

to take your throne.

I came to dig [music] out the truth you

buried beneath it.

>> Truth cannot rule.

Power can.

>> Then learn the ancient power.

>> Stop here!

>> [music]

>> The palace was built on Ashkan ruins.

>> Not ruins.

A sealed capital.

>> STOP HERE!

>> [screaming]

[music]

>> A KING DOES NOT KNEEL.

A people [music] cannot be sold.

A city does not forget.

Where are you going, duchess?

>> I owe you nothing.

>> You owe the dead a name.

>> Beneath this palace

are all the records you burned. [music]

>> The other half of the royal seal.

>> Did you think I [music] only preserved

paper?

>> What is that? [music]

>> A crown shard corrupted by hatred.

>> A dead kingdom makes the best soldiers.

>> [music]

>> What do we do?

>> If I break the final chains, I can

command them.

>> [music]

>> Then why are you waiting?

>> Because Ashkar's king commands not only

stone, but anger.

>> Old royal city, obey. Clear the

rebellious crowd.

>> [screaming]

>> Raylan, look at me.

If you wake the anger,

I will call you back.

>> [music]

>> You might fail.

>> Then make it worth trying.

>> Remember your king.

>> [screaming]

>> Remember your king.

>> [music]

>> Stand up. I did not break my chains to

collect knees.

You bled for this crown, and now you

reject it?

>> [music]

>> I refuse to become you.

>> [music]

>> What are you going to do?

>> Choose.

>> You cannot defeat the empire alone.

>> I am not alone.

>> [music]

>> The black crown [music] never chose you.

>> Cassian, return to your bloodline.

[music]

>> I hated you

because you made me feel small.

>> You did that yourself.

>> That is true. [music]

>> Silence him. [music]

The regent wanted the royal seal

corrupted.

He needed a monster to justify war.

>> I do not ask for forgiveness.

I only ask you to record the truth.

>> [music]

>> It will be recorded.

>> He flenders the shard into himself.

>> If the empire will not obey, then the

empire must be remade.

>> Then let us end the crown sickness

[music] here.

>> Tell me the cost.

>> [music]

>> If I rip the crown out by force,

the whole city could collapse.

>> Then find another way.

>> There is no OTHER WAY. RULE OR RUIN,

that is kingship. [music]

>> No, that is fear wearing gold.

Kneel, last king.

>> Listen to me.

You said you did not break your chains

to collect knees, then do not give yours

to him.

>> Wrong command. I do not kneel to

thieves.

>> [music]

>> Impossible.

>> [music]

>> Not rule,

release.

>> No,

POWER MUST BE TAKEN.

>> THAT IS WHY IT LEFT YOU.

>> [music]

>> The crown has accepted you.

>> [music]

>> Your majesty, House Moranak has always

respected [music] ancient bloodlines.

>> Stop crawling. You will dirty the floor.

>> Will you wear it?

>> I was chained [music] for 3 years

because of a crown I never wore.

Let this city decide for itself what

deserves a king.

>> Belara Morcant participated in

falsifying Raymond Vash's criminal

[music] record. House Draven concealed

the royal seal incident and helped hide

the risk of black crown corruption.

Belara Morcant participated in

falsifying Raymond Vash's criminal

record.

>> [music]

>> House Draven concealed the royal seal

incident and helped hide the risk of

black [music] crown corruption.

>> I voluntarily surrender the Draenic

inheritance ward and accept a border

atonement appointment.

>> Absurd! You cannot let a slave judge

nobles.

>> I'm not judging you as a slave. I'm

judging you as the man you failed to

kill with humiliation. Ashkar is not a

machine for revenge. [music]

Valkyrie is not a trophy. The old throne

is empty.

A new order begins with law, not blood.

>> Then who will protect us?

>> Protectors must be seen by the people

they protect.

>> The north wall [music] has fallen.

Something is moving south from beyond

the Ashkar ruins.

>> The thing Ashkath sealed beyond the

north wall has returned. [music]

>> The northern wall has fallen.

>> How many enemies?

>> We cannot confirm.

The blizzard was too heavy. The scouts

[music]

only saw black banners

and one ancient mark.

>> That is not Ashkath.

>> No.

That is what Ashkath was meant to hold

back.

>> What is it?

>> [music]

>> The Oathless Legion.

An army without oaths.

>> What is the Oathless Legion?

>> [music]

>> In the far north of the ancient

continent, there was once an Oathless

Legion that had lost its ruler, its

soul, and obeyed only the [music]

instinct to destroy. The royal line of

Ashkand guarded the border for

generations, not for the empire, but to

hold them back. [music]

>> Then what do we do now? The capital just

survived a revolt. We are not ready for

war.

>> The enemy will [music] not wait for you

to put on a pretty cloak.

I will ride north

to die gloriously,

to begin paying what I owe.

>> Valkyrie needs an army.

>> I refused the [music] throne.

I did not refuse the battlefield.

>> You cannot lead an army alone.

>> [music]

>> I thought you might stop saying the

obvious.

>> Looks like I still need practice.

>> Those who choose to stand,

>> [music]

>> stand.

>> The Solene Holy Tower rides north.

>> The Holy Silver Guard protects the

people. [music]

>> The Draven name has done wrong.

I will spend this life correcting it.

You lifted their stone. [music]

Can you lift our fear?

No.

But I can stand [music] in front of it

until you remember your feet are still

under you.

Your armor finally has no feathers.

>> [music]

>> It is much easier to walk now.

>> Listen!

>> The empire told [music] you blood

decides worth. Nobles told you fear

decides obedience. [music] Chains told

me silence decides survival.

They were all wrong.

>> Today, WE DECIDE.

>> RYAN, THAT BANNER IS feeding on THE

THOUGHT OF SURRENDER.

>> VOLKAN!

>> [screaming]

>> ASKER!

NO ONE HERE KNEELS to the empty crown.

>> What will you call it?

>> The Unchained.

>> [music]

>> Still recording?

>> Every word.

>> Victory is never the end.

A new kingdom has just begun.