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[ Ethereal music plays ]
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[ Wind gusting ]
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[ Breathing heavily ]
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[ Breathing hoarsely ]
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[ Wind whistles ]
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[ Groans ]
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[ Dramatic music plays ]
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[ Ominous music plays ]
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[ Gasps ]
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[ Creaking ]
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[ Gasps ]
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THE GUARDIAN:
Oh, daughter of man.
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The Bloom is the last light
of the gods.
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Would you die to take it?
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I've not come in violence,
Guardian.
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Like those before,
you came here seeking.
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Turn from this place.
Take flight.
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The Bloom weakens, Guardian.
You must see that.
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No one has braved the mountain
for an eon,
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and now you come
offering me knowledge.
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Go before I cut you down.
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The Bloom has spread?
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How?
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In dreams and in flames,
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I have seen a single spore
of your Bloom
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carried on the winds
down from this mountain,
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through the tall trees
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to at last take root
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in another
of man's hidden places.
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I have come from that place
to find you
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to put an end
to your long vigil.
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But there are things,
so many things,
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that man cannot know,
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must not see,
our dreams are.
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The night you came here
has fallen into myth.
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Scholars have called it
The Night of a Thousand Suns.
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But I dreamed
The Bloom's dream,
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and it led me here.
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The journey was long...
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painful.
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I regret only...
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that it has taken me
so very long to find you.
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Time has had little meaning
on this mountain,
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but your arrival
on the same dawn
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that The Bloom withered
cannot be mere coincidence.
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What has changed
in the world below?
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My home was the
Great Swamp of Bastal.
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Though the men who came
called it the All Sorrow.
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It stretched
from horizon to horizon,
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and I, Tzod,
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was both its servant
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and its queen.
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[ Crow caws ]
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[ Indistinct chanting,
rhythmic drumming ]
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[ Tribe chanting "Bastal!" ]
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This fame is the Bastal
among us.
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It is the mouth of the swamp.
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It is the eye of the swamp.
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Stare!
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Stare into our mother!
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And she will stare back!
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[ Screeches ]
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[ Bow creaks ]
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[ Croaks ]
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[ Woman screams ]
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[ Groans ]
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Invaders!
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Destroy the wretches!
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Spare the witch.
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[ Screams ]
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TZOD: [ Grunts ]
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[ Chains rattle ]
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[ Grunts ]
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[ Screams ]
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Evil.
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Bind her.
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Bring her with us.
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[ Metal clinks ]
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TZOD: [ Grunting ]
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[ Crows cawing ]
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[ Chains rattle ]
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[ Water splashes ]
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TZOD: [ Grunts ]
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You took me from Mothers Swamp
to serve this place?
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No!
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I took you from Mother Swamp
to die in this place.
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Welcome to civilization,
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where the fearful
and ignorant toil.
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and the foolish delight
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in delusions of power.
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And the... [ Sniffs ]
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...the only... [sniffs]
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scent on the wind is human shit.
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Why? Why bring me here?!
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We all have masters to serve.
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[ Spits ]
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[ Laughs ]
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[ Chains rattle ]
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[ Scoffs ]
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GUARD: Halt, outsider.
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[ Horse neighs ]
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What brings you to
the mighty city of Pyr?
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The Lord Pyrantin,
son of Uxon,
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has requested the presence
of a scholar
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from the Pantheon Ashurban
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to witness and record
the rise of your path...
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[ Grunts ]
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[ Scoffs ] Mighty city.
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I am that scholar.
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I'm called for Mr.
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Announce me.
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GUARD
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Announce yourself.
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Worm's cock.
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[ Chuckles ]
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[ Metal clanging ]
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WOMAN: The last wagon is lost.
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Who knows
when the next will come.
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MAN: I heard
they slaughtered them all.
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I hope it's true.
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[ Chuckles ]
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[ Door creaks ]
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[ Sinister music plays ]
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[ Woman moans in distance ]
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Lord Pyrantin.
Ghal-Sur at your service.
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Tell me, Ghal-Sur,
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how close is my city
to your hallowed border?
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Why, it's no more
than a day's ride.
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Precisely!
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And yet...
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it has taken a full season
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to send even a single scholar
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to mark my historic
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achievements.
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Why?
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Apologies, Lord.
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Your father's empire
expands quickly and the...
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Ha!
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Forget what my father has done.
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He's half a world away
from here.
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This city will be the very tip
of the Empire's spear
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into this savage land,
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and you are all too blind
to see it.
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I can only apologize so much.
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Stifle your apologies.
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Despite your...
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sloth...
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you have managed to arrive
on a momentous day,
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for we have finally
brought an end
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to the wretched mud folk
who have plagued our progress
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since we broke ground.
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Sit.
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Sit, Scholar!
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Take note of how a true ruler
manages an empire.
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Bring her in!
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[ Slurps ]
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[ Chains rattle ]
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As you commanded,
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we brought you the swamp witch
to kneel before you, Pyrantin.
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Lord Pyrantin, Mongrel.
Lord.
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You wouldn't be lord of anything
without...
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[ Grunts ]
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[ Screams ]
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Don't resist.
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It'll only make it worse.
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So tell me, Witch...
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[ Dramatic music plays ]
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...what makes you so special
that your savages
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have named you queen of a bog
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as wretched as the All Sorrow.
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The name of the Great Swamp
is Bastal!
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She brings no sorrow
to those who love her.
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"Love her."
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I'm going to spread her open
and take what I want from her.
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She will know sorrow...
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just as
your damnable savages did
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as they lay bleeding
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in your fetid muck.
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A fate you'll wish you...
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had enjoyed.
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Lay her out.
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[ Sinister music plays ]
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Record every crack of my whip,
Scholar.
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Before you take your pleasure...
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Lord...
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I should have you know,
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while we were lying in wait,
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she put on quite a show,
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filled the sky with blue flames.
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Well...
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show us your swamp trickery,
Witch.
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[ Chains rattle ]
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Perhaps I'll ease
your suffering.
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[ Dramatic music plays ]
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[ Chanting softly ]
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[ Chanting intensifies ]
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What does it mean, Witch?
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[ Shouting chants ]
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[ Screams ]
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[ Metal clangs ]
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No!
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This woman is protected
by the High Order of Ashur,
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scholars
of the Pantheon Ashurban.
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I will not let you harm her.
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You librarians have
no authority here, whelp.
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I hope you'll remember that
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when the snows come,
your larders empty,
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and you're killing each other
for a mouth full of frog meat.
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You'll be begging at the
Pantheon's gate for bone meal.
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You'll be lucky to get even that
unless the two of us
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walk out of here unharmed.
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[ Whimpers ]
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[ Inhales deeply ]
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Drag him to the cells.
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Maybe we'll get lucky.
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She'll tear his heart out
for her swamp magic.
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PYRANTIN: [ Whimpers ]
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[ Screams ]
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[ Screams ]
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Argh! Don't leave me here!
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The Order will hear of this!
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[ Footsteps fade ]
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[ Sighs ]
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[ Growls ]
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PYRANTIN: [ Whimpers ]
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Careful, you fools.
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I am in pain!
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Bring me more wine!
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You knew, Mongrel.
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You knew she would
try something,
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and you let her do it.
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Nonsense, Lord.
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PYRANTIN: Careful! Careful!
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[ Screams ]
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You will be in my service
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until the end of your days.
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Or yours... Lord.
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- [ Whimpering ]
- [ Ominous music plays ]
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PYRANTIN: [ Screams ]
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In the tomes of times past,
I could be lost.
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[ Muttering indistinctly ]
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[ Groans ]
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[ Sighs ]
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[ Dramatic music plays ]
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[ Groaning ]
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How?
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PYRANTIN: Oh, you cretins.
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Oh, you...
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He will kill us, you know?
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Then we'll die.
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I don't want to die!
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[ Sighs ]
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Say something.
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Who were you
before you joined this Ashur?
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I was nobody.
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An ignorant peasant boy
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till the Ashur opened
their books to me.
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They've amassed all
the knowledge of the world...
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To what end do you seek?
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- I...
- TZOD: You.
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[ Sighs ] I don't know.
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Then think on that
before you die.
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[ Somber music plays ]
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[ Clanging ]
277
00:19:39,543 --> 00:19:44,682
You gave me a face
to sew fear into my subjects.
278
00:19:44,715 --> 00:19:47,017
My father always taught me
279
00:19:47,051 --> 00:19:51,790
to repay kindness in the like.
280
00:19:51,822 --> 00:19:54,926
You burned my face.
281
00:19:56,727 --> 00:19:58,763
I...
282
00:19:58,795 --> 00:20:01,699
burned your swamp.
283
00:20:01,733 --> 00:20:04,802
[ Gasps ]
284
00:20:04,836 --> 00:20:06,772
Take a look.
285
00:20:10,108 --> 00:20:12,676
[ Flames crackle ]
286
00:20:12,709 --> 00:20:15,346
[ Whimpers softly ]
287
00:20:17,548 --> 00:20:18,717
Oh!
288
00:20:18,750 --> 00:20:20,452
Oh...
289
00:20:20,484 --> 00:20:24,923
- [ Whimpers ]
- Enjoy the view.
290
00:20:24,955 --> 00:20:26,890
[ Cackles ]
291
00:20:26,924 --> 00:20:28,593
[ Sobs ]
292
00:20:32,696 --> 00:20:34,666
[ Grunts ]
293
00:20:34,698 --> 00:20:39,503
[ Haunting music plays ]
294
00:20:39,536 --> 00:20:41,939
[ Screams ]
295
00:20:41,973 --> 00:20:44,776
[ Sobbing ]
296
00:20:49,679 --> 00:20:52,417
Your swamp burns.
297
00:20:52,449 --> 00:20:55,152
Free us.
298
00:20:55,186 --> 00:20:57,922
It healed me.
299
00:20:57,955 --> 00:21:00,524
Can it do more?
300
00:21:00,558 --> 00:21:03,094
It is power, yes?
301
00:21:03,127 --> 00:21:04,829
Use it.
302
00:21:04,861 --> 00:21:07,998
[ Dramatic music plays ]
303
00:21:17,108 --> 00:21:19,578
TZOD: [ Blows ]
304
00:21:22,914 --> 00:21:25,016
[ Blows ]
305
00:21:26,617 --> 00:21:28,587
[ Screams ]
306
00:21:32,622 --> 00:21:35,025
[ Dramatic music continues ]
307
00:21:45,168 --> 00:21:47,973
[ Somber music plays ]
308
00:21:56,914 --> 00:21:58,850
Come! We must flee!
309
00:21:58,882 --> 00:22:00,751
The Pantheon will protect us.
310
00:22:00,784 --> 00:22:03,687
[ Sobs ] No!
She is my mother.
311
00:22:03,721 --> 00:22:05,056
Don't be a fool.
312
00:22:05,089 --> 00:22:07,492
Let survival be your revenge.
313
00:22:07,524 --> 00:22:08,826
[ Horses gallop in distance ]
314
00:22:08,859 --> 00:22:10,928
[ Dramatic music plays ]
315
00:22:11,529 --> 00:22:14,099
Ride them down!
316
00:22:37,554 --> 00:22:39,590
Die, Scholar!
317
00:22:39,623 --> 00:22:41,592
[ Horse neighs ]
318
00:22:49,300 --> 00:22:50,702
PYRANTIN: [ Screams ]
319
00:22:58,809 --> 00:23:00,011
No.
320
00:23:00,043 --> 00:23:01,513
No!
321
00:23:01,545 --> 00:23:04,681
I-I can stop them.
It... It's not too late.
322
00:23:04,715 --> 00:23:08,753
TZOD: [ Chanting indistinctly ]
323
00:23:08,785 --> 00:23:11,121
I-I... It's not too late.
324
00:23:11,155 --> 00:23:12,590
I... I...
325
00:23:12,622 --> 00:23:13,924
Oh, please stop!
326
00:23:13,957 --> 00:23:15,560
Please!
327
00:23:18,094 --> 00:23:20,531
No.
328
00:23:20,564 --> 00:23:22,032
Stop!
329
00:23:22,065 --> 00:23:23,767
Please stop.
330
00:23:23,801 --> 00:23:25,837
Father will hear of this.
331
00:23:25,869 --> 00:23:28,005
He will revenge me.
332
00:23:28,039 --> 00:23:30,075
[ Ominous music plays ]
333
00:23:32,176 --> 00:23:36,047
- [ Gagging ]
- [ Water bubbles ]
334
00:23:49,726 --> 00:23:52,095
[ Gasping ]
335
00:23:52,128 --> 00:23:53,665
Why?
336
00:23:53,697 --> 00:23:56,066
Why?!
337
00:23:56,100 --> 00:23:57,234
[ Gags ]
338
00:23:57,267 --> 00:23:59,836
Ghal-Sur...
339
00:23:59,869 --> 00:24:02,139
[ Breathing heavily ]
340
00:24:20,390 --> 00:24:22,627
Tch!
341
00:24:28,331 --> 00:24:31,069
TZOD: The Barbarian
returned to Pyr
342
00:24:31,101 --> 00:24:34,037
to claim what he thought his.
343
00:24:34,071 --> 00:24:35,773
The scholar rode
to the Pantheon,
344
00:24:35,805 --> 00:24:37,174
Bloom in hand,
345
00:24:37,207 --> 00:24:39,776
and in the Great Swamp
swallowed me.
346
00:24:39,810 --> 00:24:43,147
[ Water bubbles ]
347
00:24:43,179 --> 00:24:45,048
THE GUARDIAN:
You confess your own death,
348
00:24:45,081 --> 00:24:48,018
and yet, you stand before me.
349
00:24:48,051 --> 00:24:51,356
[ Dramatic music plays ]
350
00:25:02,899 --> 00:25:04,902
[ Helmet clangs ]
351
00:25:07,671 --> 00:25:11,775
Now I wonder if you are not
simply my own madness,
352
00:25:11,809 --> 00:25:13,811
a vision come to torment me.
353
00:25:13,843 --> 00:25:17,849
As The Bloom withers,
I fade from this place.
354
00:25:25,188 --> 00:25:28,192
Do you not feel warmth?
355
00:25:30,727 --> 00:25:33,263
My story simply is.
356
00:25:33,296 --> 00:25:36,333
To cause you torment
is not my intent.
357
00:25:37,801 --> 00:25:42,307
Was I wrong to keep The Bloom
from them for so long?
358
00:25:44,340 --> 00:25:49,214
There is no mercy in the stars,
no hope for man.
359
00:25:52,183 --> 00:25:55,386
I cannot say
what could have been.
360
00:25:55,418 --> 00:25:57,722
But I can tell you what was.
361
00:25:57,754 --> 00:25:59,791
The story continues.
362
00:25:59,823 --> 00:26:01,225
Will you listen?
363
00:26:04,829 --> 00:26:08,198
While my body lay
in the embrace of the swamp,
364
00:26:08,232 --> 00:26:11,969
the sacred Bloom traveled
with a scholar called Ghal-Sur,
365
00:26:12,002 --> 00:26:15,306
and my dreams traveled with it.
366
00:26:15,339 --> 00:26:18,142
A lifetime of seasons passed,
367
00:26:18,175 --> 00:26:22,280
until once again, another came,
368
00:26:22,312 --> 00:26:24,881
one bearing secrets.
369
00:26:24,915 --> 00:26:28,319
[ Somber music plays ]
370
00:26:28,351 --> 00:26:32,023
[ Indistinct shouting ]
371
00:26:43,868 --> 00:26:47,338
[ Shouting continues ]
372
00:26:55,478 --> 00:26:58,381
MAN: Go the scholars, you wench!
373
00:26:58,415 --> 00:27:00,118
[ Screams ]
374
00:27:00,150 --> 00:27:02,085
MAN
375
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,222
[ Shouting continues ]
376
00:27:12,428 --> 00:27:14,131
- GUARD: Open the gates!
- GUARD
377
00:27:14,165 --> 00:27:16,000
Protect the books!
378
00:27:16,032 --> 00:27:18,436
[ Shouting continues ]
379
00:27:22,540 --> 00:27:24,242
[ Screams ]
380
00:27:31,215 --> 00:27:34,417
Go! Protect the books!
381
00:27:34,451 --> 00:27:37,789
[ Shouting continues ]
382
00:27:37,821 --> 00:27:39,224
Charge!
383
00:27:48,565 --> 00:27:50,433
[ Breathing heavily ]
384
00:27:50,466 --> 00:27:52,771
[ Shouting continues
in distance ]
385
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,075
OLD MAN: Coins?
386
00:27:58,108 --> 00:28:00,477
Food? Anything?
387
00:28:00,511 --> 00:28:03,147
I've been gone from Pyr
for many seasons, Old Man.
388
00:28:03,179 --> 00:28:04,581
What has happened?
389
00:28:04,615 --> 00:28:06,884
Why did the Ashur take up arms
at their gates?
390
00:28:06,917 --> 00:28:10,053
Dark times have befallen us.
391
00:28:10,087 --> 00:28:14,025
Great Mongrel the Eunuch King
has died
392
00:28:14,058 --> 00:28:16,394
after a very long reign.
393
00:28:16,426 --> 00:28:19,030
He has left no sons.
394
00:28:19,062 --> 00:28:20,430
You'd think someone
would have realized
395
00:28:20,464 --> 00:28:22,899
that might be a problem
with a eunuch king.
396
00:28:22,933 --> 00:28:26,904
[ Chuckles ] Went off behind
the mountains, he did.
397
00:28:26,936 --> 00:28:31,508
Now the city starves.
398
00:28:31,542 --> 00:28:33,578
But you do not answer
my question, Old Man.
399
00:28:33,610 --> 00:28:36,513
Why?
Why did the Ashur take up arms?
400
00:28:36,546 --> 00:28:38,348
Why do you think?
401
00:28:38,381 --> 00:28:40,584
The scholars care little
for our troubles.
402
00:28:40,618 --> 00:28:42,485
The Ashur are noble scholars,
Old Man.
403
00:28:42,519 --> 00:28:46,590
No, they have all the secrets of
the ages locked in that tower,
404
00:28:46,623 --> 00:28:48,558
yet they share nothing.
405
00:28:48,591 --> 00:28:51,195
What they do not share
is surely too vast,
406
00:28:51,227 --> 00:28:53,263
too complex for the uninitiated
to comprehend.
407
00:28:53,296 --> 00:28:55,031
Be careful.
408
00:28:55,064 --> 00:28:58,602
I can smell the rotting pages
of your books, Scholar.
409
00:28:58,636 --> 00:29:02,005
They will do little good
when the crows come
410
00:29:02,039 --> 00:29:04,876
and pluck the eyes
from your skull.
411
00:29:04,908 --> 00:29:07,277
Doom comes to the Pantheon.
412
00:29:07,311 --> 00:29:09,480
Doom comes to Pyr!
413
00:29:09,513 --> 00:29:12,582
Doom! [ Cackles ]
414
00:29:12,616 --> 00:29:16,119
Doom! [ Cackles ]
415
00:29:16,153 --> 00:29:19,423
Doom!
416
00:29:19,455 --> 00:29:21,958
WOMAN: Grand Inquisitor,
we do not have the soldiers
417
00:29:21,992 --> 00:29:23,494
to protect the library.
418
00:29:23,526 --> 00:29:25,462
They will rally against us!
419
00:29:25,495 --> 00:29:28,365
Starving people care nothing
for the centuries
420
00:29:28,398 --> 00:29:30,434
of stored knowledge
we hold here.
421
00:29:30,466 --> 00:29:33,204
- The books will burn!
- Along with the rest of us.
422
00:29:33,236 --> 00:29:36,474
Councilors, please.
423
00:29:36,506 --> 00:29:40,577
We will endure...
424
00:29:40,610 --> 00:29:45,549
just as we did
during the Withered Spring,
425
00:29:45,581 --> 00:29:52,122
the Red Tempest, and
The Night of a Thousand Suns.
426
00:29:52,156 --> 00:29:55,926
The Pantheon is immortal.
427
00:29:55,959 --> 00:29:57,661
And in a season's time,
428
00:29:57,695 --> 00:30:00,665
that horde will have
dried up and blown away
429
00:30:00,697 --> 00:30:04,301
like so much dust
on a long forgotten tome.
430
00:30:04,334 --> 00:30:05,402
[ Blows ]
431
00:30:05,436 --> 00:30:07,003
What if we taught them?
432
00:30:07,036 --> 00:30:08,405
If we opened our gates...
433
00:30:08,438 --> 00:30:11,942
Enough, San-Al!
434
00:30:13,409 --> 00:30:15,478
I'll refer you
to the sacred vows
435
00:30:15,512 --> 00:30:19,350
you swore to order.
436
00:30:19,382 --> 00:30:22,519
To gather and protect
the knowledge of man.
437
00:30:22,552 --> 00:30:25,121
Our vows call also for mercy!
438
00:30:25,155 --> 00:30:29,627
Our order has no responsibility
to the men themselves.
439
00:30:29,659 --> 00:30:31,195
Our gates,
440
00:30:31,227 --> 00:30:35,498
our food stores stay sealed.
441
00:30:35,532 --> 00:30:36,701
Ah!
442
00:30:36,734 --> 00:30:40,670
Especially now that Phae-Agura
443
00:30:40,704 --> 00:30:43,040
has finally returned
444
00:30:43,072 --> 00:30:45,109
with, I trust,
445
00:30:45,141 --> 00:30:48,545
a bounty of tomes to be indexed,
446
00:30:48,579 --> 00:30:52,951
translated, and archived.
447
00:30:54,752 --> 00:30:56,119
Go forth.
448
00:30:56,153 --> 00:30:59,223
Fulfill your vows.
449
00:30:59,255 --> 00:31:02,225
[ Indistinct conversations ]
450
00:31:06,030 --> 00:31:08,099
Argh, Phae...
451
00:31:08,131 --> 00:31:11,101
I am doomed to forever wrestle
452
00:31:11,135 --> 00:31:14,038
with these ineffectual cretins.
453
00:31:14,071 --> 00:31:18,242
Now, it has been long since
I have left the Pantheon.
454
00:31:18,274 --> 00:31:21,277
I would hear of your travels
with my own ears.
455
00:31:21,311 --> 00:31:23,214
Tell me...
456
00:31:23,246 --> 00:31:25,782
did you reach the temples
beneath Ka-Mul?
457
00:31:25,815 --> 00:31:28,685
Yes.
458
00:31:28,718 --> 00:31:30,420
And many of the vaults
were flooded,
459
00:31:30,454 --> 00:31:32,623
just as your research
showed they would be.
460
00:31:32,656 --> 00:31:35,792
I passed through ruins
of unknown design and origin,
461
00:31:35,826 --> 00:31:38,662
a world waiting
to be rediscovered.
462
00:31:38,695 --> 00:31:40,297
The sacred texts
were hidden deep
463
00:31:40,330 --> 00:31:43,300
within a statue bearing
only a single eye.
464
00:31:43,332 --> 00:31:45,702
URUQ: God of their
nameless mound.
465
00:31:45,735 --> 00:31:47,604
PHAE-AGURA: Mm,
rumors of the statue
466
00:31:47,638 --> 00:31:49,506
being trapped proved false.
467
00:31:49,540 --> 00:31:52,109
Once I was inside,
their knowledge came to me
468
00:31:52,141 --> 00:31:54,244
as if with a desire all its own.
469
00:31:54,278 --> 00:31:56,781
I've returned with a great
number of them for the library.
470
00:31:56,813 --> 00:31:58,615
I hope you didn't
leave the best books
471
00:31:58,648 --> 00:32:00,751
heaped upon that wagon.
472
00:32:00,783 --> 00:32:02,152
Show them to me.
473
00:32:02,186 --> 00:32:05,755
[ Bells toll in distance ]
474
00:32:05,789 --> 00:32:08,658
This one in particular
caught my eye.
475
00:32:08,692 --> 00:32:10,728
Yes.
476
00:32:10,761 --> 00:32:13,330
This is truly a wonder.
477
00:32:13,362 --> 00:32:16,266
But what is the script?
478
00:32:16,300 --> 00:32:18,735
I cannot read a page of it.
479
00:32:18,769 --> 00:32:21,739
[ Tolling continues ]
480
00:32:26,176 --> 00:32:28,612
[ Ominous music plays ]
481
00:32:38,488 --> 00:32:40,123
[ Flame whooshes ]
482
00:32:40,157 --> 00:32:42,592
[ Ominous music continues ]
483
00:32:48,799 --> 00:32:51,269
[ Whirring, clicking ]
484
00:32:59,443 --> 00:33:02,080
[ Ominous music continues ]
485
00:33:15,225 --> 00:33:17,661
[ Ominous music continues ]
486
00:33:32,176 --> 00:33:33,843
[ Door creaks ]
487
00:33:33,877 --> 00:33:35,745
Ghal-Sur?
488
00:33:35,779 --> 00:33:39,383
Inquisitor Uruq.
489
00:33:39,416 --> 00:33:41,619
Have you brought me another one?
490
00:33:41,651 --> 00:33:44,888
These have run dry,
491
00:33:44,921 --> 00:33:46,489
I'm afraid.
492
00:33:46,523 --> 00:33:48,391
No.
493
00:33:48,425 --> 00:33:51,294
I have come to request knowledge
494
00:33:51,328 --> 00:33:55,331
of our oldest
and wisest scholar.
495
00:33:55,365 --> 00:33:59,470
Oldest, wisest...
496
00:33:59,503 --> 00:34:02,506
and most imprisoned!
497
00:34:05,274 --> 00:34:09,480
URUQ: From the temples
beneath Ka-Mul.
498
00:34:14,518 --> 00:34:17,253
It is not in any script
499
00:34:17,286 --> 00:34:21,225
I have encountered
in my studies.
500
00:34:21,257 --> 00:34:23,460
You've spoken for ages
501
00:34:23,493 --> 00:34:26,429
of a key to unlock
the true potential
502
00:34:26,462 --> 00:34:30,400
of the flowers
you wear around your neck.
503
00:34:30,433 --> 00:34:34,504
Perhaps this is that key.
504
00:34:34,538 --> 00:34:38,876
These are the old names
in the old script.
505
00:34:38,909 --> 00:34:41,545
This is indeed the ritual
I've so long dreamt of.
506
00:34:41,578 --> 00:34:43,280
I have been chained here,
507
00:34:43,313 --> 00:34:47,218
kept as a pathetic oracle
for the Ashurban for too long.
508
00:34:47,250 --> 00:34:50,987
This ritual will reveal what
these corpses never could.
509
00:34:51,020 --> 00:34:52,422
Release me!
510
00:34:52,456 --> 00:34:53,490
Feigned!
511
00:34:53,522 --> 00:34:54,857
I'll no more release you
512
00:34:54,891 --> 00:34:57,962
than I'll let the council
control the library.
513
00:34:57,994 --> 00:35:02,799
Your impulses
would overtake you.
514
00:35:02,833 --> 00:35:05,536
Not impulses, Uruq.
515
00:35:05,569 --> 00:35:07,837
Studies.
516
00:35:07,871 --> 00:35:11,308
What is the nature of the power
you would unleash.
517
00:35:11,340 --> 00:35:14,011
[ Speaks foreign language ]
518
00:35:14,043 --> 00:35:16,846
It is unspeakable power.
519
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:21,419
Whatever you dream,
you will have.
520
00:35:26,355 --> 00:35:29,259
I will not free you,
521
00:35:29,293 --> 00:35:32,429
but I have a proposition.
522
00:35:32,462 --> 00:35:37,268
I bring you what you need
to perform the ritual,
523
00:35:37,301 --> 00:35:39,837
and you...
524
00:35:39,869 --> 00:35:42,373
share its power with me.
525
00:35:42,406 --> 00:35:44,842
Share it?
526
00:35:47,009 --> 00:35:50,013
Yes.
527
00:35:50,047 --> 00:35:52,750
Our words shall fill
528
00:35:52,782 --> 00:35:57,554
the living ears
of gods long dead.
529
00:35:57,587 --> 00:36:00,424
Pray that they respond.
530
00:36:02,025 --> 00:36:05,363
What must I do?
531
00:36:12,935 --> 00:36:15,805
[ Incanting indistinctly ]
532
00:36:22,478 --> 00:36:25,616
[ Incanting continues ]
533
00:36:42,098 --> 00:36:44,901
[ Gags ]
534
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:52,677
Take this.
535
00:36:55,811 --> 00:36:57,348
Why?
536
00:36:57,380 --> 00:36:59,984
What is it that you need?
537
00:37:01,951 --> 00:37:03,486
Blood.
538
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:07,791
I'll need more blood.
539
00:37:07,824 --> 00:37:11,061
[ Chuckles ]
540
00:37:11,094 --> 00:37:14,532
[ Cackles ]
541
00:37:22,172 --> 00:37:24,808
PHAE-AGURA: But the people
starve at our gates.
542
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:27,511
This is not how
it's supposed to be, friend.
543
00:37:27,543 --> 00:37:28,878
Aye, maybe not.
544
00:37:28,911 --> 00:37:30,947
But it is how it is.
545
00:37:30,980 --> 00:37:33,383
If we do nothing,
then the Pantheon will fall.
546
00:37:33,417 --> 00:37:34,784
Can't you see that?
547
00:37:34,817 --> 00:37:38,054
Be thankful you're in here
and not out there.
548
00:37:38,087 --> 00:37:42,392
[ Somber music plays ]
549
00:37:42,426 --> 00:37:43,726
What does the great text
550
00:37:43,759 --> 00:37:45,995
of Og-Nesh say about
contentment?
551
00:37:46,029 --> 00:37:51,502
"Clear your eyes, and you will
see it before you at all times."
552
00:37:51,534 --> 00:37:55,038
This has been a comfort,
my friend.
553
00:38:04,181 --> 00:38:07,851
[ Dramatic music plays ]
554
00:38:16,793 --> 00:38:19,063
[ Music intensifies ]
555
00:38:41,650 --> 00:38:45,656
[ Incanting
in foreign language ]
556
00:38:51,661 --> 00:38:54,731
[ Haunting music plays ]
557
00:38:54,764 --> 00:38:57,735
[ Both incanting
in foreign language ]
558
00:39:00,804 --> 00:39:04,809
[ All incanting
in foreign language ]
559
00:39:23,125 --> 00:39:25,763
[ Incanting continues ]
560
00:39:44,547 --> 00:39:48,017
[ Incanting continues ]
561
00:40:12,107 --> 00:40:16,045
[ Indistinct shouting ]
562
00:40:16,078 --> 00:40:18,114
The food's in there!
563
00:40:18,147 --> 00:40:20,182
- [ Growls ]
- MAN: Take it!
564
00:40:20,215 --> 00:40:22,085
Or we burn it all down.
565
00:40:22,118 --> 00:40:25,255
- [ Indistinct conversations ]
- [ Bell tolls ]
566
00:40:30,993 --> 00:40:34,063
We're under attack!
To arms!
567
00:40:34,096 --> 00:40:36,799
[ Dramatic music plays ]
568
00:40:40,002 --> 00:40:42,038
Burn the Pantheon!
569
00:40:42,072 --> 00:40:45,742
Throw down your arms
and return to your city!
570
00:40:45,775 --> 00:40:48,979
The Pantheon's winter reserves
could never feed you all.
571
00:40:49,011 --> 00:40:50,179
Perhaps not,
572
00:40:50,212 --> 00:40:53,649
but we will fill
our bellies tonight!
573
00:40:53,683 --> 00:40:55,351
Kill the scholars!
574
00:40:55,384 --> 00:40:59,288
[ Cackles ]
575
00:40:59,322 --> 00:41:00,590
[ Indistinct shouting ]
576
00:41:00,623 --> 00:41:03,293
The library must be preserved.
577
00:41:08,732 --> 00:41:12,268
Burn the Pantheon!
[ Cackling ]
578
00:41:12,302 --> 00:41:15,372
[ Dramatic music continues ]
579
00:41:15,404 --> 00:41:17,873
Kill them all!
Skin them alive!
580
00:41:17,906 --> 00:41:20,209
[ Cackles ]
581
00:41:20,243 --> 00:41:21,777
[ Grunts ]
582
00:41:21,810 --> 00:41:23,580
[ Laughs weakly ]
583
00:41:25,714 --> 00:41:27,350
[ Screams ]
584
00:41:41,264 --> 00:41:42,933
[ Shouting continues ]
585
00:41:55,277 --> 00:41:57,080
The blood you require,
586
00:41:57,112 --> 00:41:59,215
it is flowing.
587
00:42:00,949 --> 00:42:04,788
Then let us begin in earnest.
588
00:42:09,324 --> 00:42:11,794
[ Incanting
in foreign language ]
589
00:42:16,398 --> 00:42:19,737
[ Incanting continues ]
590
00:42:29,078 --> 00:42:31,748
[ Incanting continues ]
591
00:42:37,821 --> 00:42:39,188
[ Crowd screams ]
592
00:43:06,116 --> 00:43:10,286
[ Sinister music plays ]
593
00:43:24,467 --> 00:43:26,269
[ Warbling ]
594
00:43:26,302 --> 00:43:29,906
[ Electricity crackles ]
595
00:43:29,938 --> 00:43:32,375
[ Roaring ]
596
00:43:42,451 --> 00:43:45,089
[ Muttering ]
597
00:43:48,491 --> 00:43:51,828
[ Electricity crackles ]
598
00:43:51,860 --> 00:43:54,063
[ Breathing shakily ]
599
00:43:54,096 --> 00:43:56,465
PHAE-AGURA: Stop this madness!
600
00:43:56,498 --> 00:43:58,033
There's another way besides
601
00:43:58,067 --> 00:44:00,103
cutting each other down
in the streets.
602
00:44:00,136 --> 00:44:02,806
We have books that tell which
of the All Sorrow's plants
603
00:44:02,839 --> 00:44:04,507
are edible and which are poison.
604
00:44:04,540 --> 00:44:07,843
We can teach you to survive!
We can teach you to...
605
00:44:07,877 --> 00:44:11,982
We will teach them nothing.
606
00:44:12,014 --> 00:44:14,217
The wisdom of the library
607
00:44:14,250 --> 00:44:18,255
is for the greatest minds
in the world of men.
608
00:44:18,288 --> 00:44:20,523
Inquisitor... what happened?
609
00:44:20,556 --> 00:44:23,125
I am enlightened.
610
00:44:23,159 --> 00:44:25,529
Now I deal with these wretches.
611
00:44:25,561 --> 00:44:28,364
Would they take our vows?
612
00:44:28,397 --> 00:44:30,833
They can't even read the words!
613
00:44:30,866 --> 00:44:32,134
They're animals!
614
00:44:32,168 --> 00:44:34,471
And if they do not
flee the Pantheon,
615
00:44:34,503 --> 00:44:37,406
they will be slaughtered
as animals.
616
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:41,779
[ Indistinct shouting ]
617
00:44:45,348 --> 00:44:47,851
Inquisitor!
618
00:44:47,884 --> 00:44:50,286
Cease your necromancy!
619
00:44:50,319 --> 00:44:52,255
[ Somber music plays ]
620
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,061
- [ Groans ]
- [ Sword clangs ]
621
00:45:01,063 --> 00:45:03,299
No!
622
00:45:05,235 --> 00:45:07,503
[ Dramatic music plays ]
623
00:45:07,536 --> 00:45:09,406
Inquisitor, what have you done?
624
00:45:09,438 --> 00:45:12,875
A traitor
to the order of the Ashur,
625
00:45:12,909 --> 00:45:15,878
just like the counselors.
626
00:45:15,911 --> 00:45:18,982
I shall shape a new Pantheon,
627
00:45:19,014 --> 00:45:23,118
one with no place for those
whose resolve is so...
628
00:45:23,152 --> 00:45:25,889
weak.
629
00:45:25,922 --> 00:45:29,492
Think of all
that is gathered here.
630
00:45:29,525 --> 00:45:32,529
I shall be oracle to the world.
631
00:45:34,130 --> 00:45:35,898
[ Laughs ]
632
00:45:35,931 --> 00:45:37,967
[ Screams ]
633
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,903
[ Breathing shakily ]
634
00:45:40,936 --> 00:45:45,275
Beggars, kings, and gods alike
635
00:45:45,308 --> 00:45:47,510
will kneel at the Pantheon gate
636
00:45:47,543 --> 00:45:51,915
for merely a sliver
of the knowledge I will command.
637
00:45:55,118 --> 00:45:58,355
- [ Grunts ]
- [ Sword clangs ]
638
00:45:58,388 --> 00:46:02,092
I will no longer need the books.
639
00:46:02,125 --> 00:46:05,094
I shall drink them in
640
00:46:05,127 --> 00:46:08,197
as I have drunk the life blood
from the fallen below us!
641
00:46:08,230 --> 00:46:10,433
PHAE-AGURA: You word
is the font of knowledge.
642
00:46:10,465 --> 00:46:13,036
The books are more important
than any man.
643
00:46:13,069 --> 00:46:16,139
That is our oath.
That is our purpose!
644
00:46:16,172 --> 00:46:18,275
I'm making a new oath!
645
00:46:18,308 --> 00:46:20,310
Fealty unto me.
646
00:46:20,342 --> 00:46:22,612
No.
647
00:46:25,147 --> 00:46:27,083
[ Bell clangs ]
648
00:46:30,085 --> 00:46:32,121
I am Phae-Agura,
649
00:46:32,154 --> 00:46:34,523
scholar of the library
of Ashurban,
650
00:46:34,556 --> 00:46:36,259
protector of knowledge,
651
00:46:36,292 --> 00:46:38,661
and I will not let you do this!
652
00:46:38,694 --> 00:46:42,298
[ Electricity crackles ]
653
00:46:42,331 --> 00:46:45,668
I'm afraid there's no room
in my new order for heroes.
654
00:46:49,605 --> 00:46:50,974
[ Breathing heavily ]
655
00:46:51,007 --> 00:46:55,244
[ Thunder crashes ]
656
00:46:55,277 --> 00:46:56,446
[ Gagging ]
657
00:46:56,478 --> 00:46:58,948
[ Speaks foreign language ]
658
00:47:03,085 --> 00:47:05,522
[ Screeches ]
659
00:47:10,592 --> 00:47:13,163
[ Breathing heavily ]
660
00:47:13,196 --> 00:47:15,299
[ Whirring ]
661
00:47:17,266 --> 00:47:20,237
URUQ: [ Laughs ]
662
00:47:21,703 --> 00:47:23,639
[ Screams ]
663
00:47:27,009 --> 00:47:28,511
Oh, make it stop!
664
00:47:28,543 --> 00:47:30,246
Make it stop!
665
00:47:30,279 --> 00:47:32,349
Make it stop!
666
00:47:32,382 --> 00:47:34,551
Oh! [ Screams ]
667
00:47:41,424 --> 00:47:43,726
[ Screams ]
668
00:47:43,759 --> 00:47:45,696
[ Gasps ]
669
00:47:53,168 --> 00:47:57,007
TZOD: Once freed, Ghal-Sur
destroyed the Ashurban Pantheon.
670
00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:58,308
The books burned.
671
00:47:58,340 --> 00:48:00,377
The scholars were slaughtered.
672
00:48:00,409 --> 00:48:03,279
Ghal-Sur pried secrets
from The Bloom,
673
00:48:03,311 --> 00:48:05,348
and using them,
he amassed great power,
674
00:48:05,380 --> 00:48:07,417
raising an army of disciples.
675
00:48:07,449 --> 00:48:09,118
He had overcome death,
676
00:48:09,152 --> 00:48:11,154
and he had glimpsed
into the eye of the un...
677
00:48:11,186 --> 00:48:13,656
Ruin and doom!
678
00:48:13,688 --> 00:48:18,261
I had hoped to spare the world
the horror of revelation.
679
00:48:18,293 --> 00:48:22,331
The promise of The Bloom is
meant as a dream, unfulfilled...
680
00:48:22,364 --> 00:48:24,234
In Ghal-Sur's hands,
The Bloom is...
681
00:48:24,266 --> 00:48:25,435
[ Gagging ]
682
00:48:25,467 --> 00:48:27,503
I'll hear no more of this!
683
00:48:27,536 --> 00:48:29,505
You would choose ignorance?
684
00:48:29,538 --> 00:48:33,542
You who has see the secrets
of the stars themselves.
685
00:48:35,411 --> 00:48:37,246
Let me fade.
686
00:48:37,279 --> 00:48:39,715
Let me not hear
the pain of the world.
687
00:48:39,748 --> 00:48:43,218
I've served a long,
solitary penance already.
688
00:48:43,252 --> 00:48:45,522
I know you have,
but you are not the only one
689
00:48:45,554 --> 00:48:48,357
who has faced the void
without succumbing to it.
690
00:48:51,661 --> 00:48:55,231
Let me now tell you
of moments of great dignity
691
00:48:55,264 --> 00:48:58,835
as the armies of Ghal-Sur
cross the land.
692
00:48:58,868 --> 00:49:02,138
[ Marching ]
693
00:49:02,170 --> 00:49:06,342
[ Dramatic music plays ]
694
00:49:22,257 --> 00:49:25,061
[ Tranquil music plays ]
695
00:49:48,717 --> 00:49:51,420
[ Marching in distance ]
696
00:49:51,453 --> 00:49:54,590
Go now!
An army approaches!
697
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:06,469
[ Clicking ]
698
00:50:06,502 --> 00:50:10,340
[ Horn blares ]
699
00:50:13,842 --> 00:50:16,480
[ Baby cries,
indistinct shouting ]
700
00:50:26,721 --> 00:50:30,659
[ Doors creak ]
701
00:50:30,692 --> 00:50:33,162
[ Shouting continues ]
702
00:50:44,674 --> 00:50:47,476
[ Dramatic music plays ]
703
00:51:03,226 --> 00:51:06,628
[ Indistinct shouting ]
704
00:51:06,661 --> 00:51:09,398
[ Men groan ]
705
00:51:09,431 --> 00:51:11,868
[ Glass shatters, wood snaps ]
706
00:51:20,409 --> 00:51:23,713
[ Men groan, woman screams ]
707
00:51:23,746 --> 00:51:27,684
A glorious conquest for Pyr!
708
00:51:27,717 --> 00:51:30,954
But our triumph tonight...
709
00:51:30,987 --> 00:51:32,855
will pale when compared
710
00:51:32,888 --> 00:51:34,424
to the immortal grandeur
711
00:51:34,456 --> 00:51:36,826
of our conquest tomorrow.
712
00:51:36,859 --> 00:51:39,261
MAN: All hail, Ghal-Sur!
713
00:51:39,295 --> 00:51:41,998
[ Soldiers cheer ]
714
00:51:42,031 --> 00:51:44,766
We shall shatter
715
00:51:44,799 --> 00:51:47,703
all those who oppose us.
716
00:51:47,737 --> 00:51:51,674
We shall make them in our image.
717
00:51:51,706 --> 00:51:55,978
Their knowledge is ours.
718
00:51:56,011 --> 00:51:57,913
Look to the horizon.
719
00:51:57,947 --> 00:52:01,618
It tells us that there's still
a world left to conquer.
720
00:52:01,650 --> 00:52:04,987
Pyr will stretch
from the Inevitable Sea
721
00:52:05,020 --> 00:52:08,524
to the Deserts of Ul-Imir.
722
00:52:15,998 --> 00:52:17,766
[ Screams ]
723
00:52:21,503 --> 00:52:24,040
We launch.
724
00:52:24,072 --> 00:52:25,775
[ Sinister music plays ]
725
00:52:25,808 --> 00:52:27,576
[ Whip cracks ]
726
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:40,023
[ Rain patters ]
727
00:52:40,056 --> 00:52:44,594
[ Somber music plays ]
728
00:53:00,775 --> 00:53:02,645
They're gone.
729
00:53:02,677 --> 00:53:05,648
Everyone's just gone.
730
00:53:12,755 --> 00:53:15,392
[ Somber music continues ]
731
00:53:45,420 --> 00:53:49,058
[ Somber music continues ]
732
00:54:05,907 --> 00:54:09,045
[ Wind gusts ]
733
00:54:26,462 --> 00:54:27,897
[ High-pitched whining ]
734
00:54:44,712 --> 00:54:46,815
[ Blows ]
735
00:54:50,018 --> 00:54:52,754
Did you find anything
for us to eat?
736
00:54:52,788 --> 00:54:54,023
No.
737
00:54:56,058 --> 00:54:57,826
I did find this.
738
00:55:04,933 --> 00:55:08,437
It can at least consecrate
our hearth.
739
00:55:12,907 --> 00:55:14,777
[ Animal howls in distance ]
740
00:55:14,810 --> 00:55:17,947
[ Dramatic music plays ]
741
00:55:36,264 --> 00:55:38,134
GULL: The stars!
742
00:55:38,167 --> 00:55:40,969
Like... Like sparrows falling
743
00:55:41,002 --> 00:55:44,973
into the lake of ice
and diamonds.
744
00:55:45,007 --> 00:55:47,644
They feel so warm to me.
745
00:55:49,545 --> 00:55:51,880
Distant travelers
stopped briefly
746
00:55:51,913 --> 00:55:54,216
to huddle around campfires
on their journey
747
00:55:54,250 --> 00:55:58,721
across the very spine
of night's great body.
748
00:55:58,753 --> 00:56:02,192
And did these travelers
lose their homes, too?
749
00:56:03,958 --> 00:56:08,897
Are they as powerless against
their nature as we are to ours?
750
00:56:08,931 --> 00:56:12,101
The great dark...
It's back is to us.
751
00:56:12,134 --> 00:56:14,536
I don't think it's concerned
with such things.
752
00:56:14,569 --> 00:56:16,571
To it, our births and deaths
753
00:56:16,605 --> 00:56:21,210
are mere embers drifting free
from tiny fires.
754
00:56:21,243 --> 00:56:24,779
It's comforting, in a way.
755
00:56:24,813 --> 00:56:27,183
All that night makes
the darkness here
756
00:56:27,215 --> 00:56:29,150
seem so much smaller.
757
00:56:29,183 --> 00:56:30,619
[ Crack ]
758
00:56:30,652 --> 00:56:32,721
DAE: [ Gasps ]
759
00:56:32,755 --> 00:56:36,526
[ Footsteps ]
760
00:56:36,558 --> 00:56:38,927
Oh, no.
761
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:41,196
Gull, should we run?
762
00:56:41,230 --> 00:56:42,932
[ Footsteps intensify ]
763
00:56:42,964 --> 00:56:46,034
No, there's nowhere to run to.
764
00:56:46,067 --> 00:56:47,870
It's too late.
765
00:56:50,605 --> 00:56:52,073
Our little lives...
766
00:56:52,107 --> 00:56:54,310
so short, so sad.
767
00:56:54,342 --> 00:56:56,811
I'm so grateful that
I've gotten to share
768
00:56:56,844 --> 00:56:58,680
so much of mine with you.
769
00:57:01,650 --> 00:57:02,985
Don't be afraid, Gull.
770
00:57:03,018 --> 00:57:05,288
Remember all embers fade.
771
00:57:05,321 --> 00:57:09,891
Those flames forever
rekindled and extinguished.
772
00:57:09,924 --> 00:57:13,929
I wonder what our fire light
looks like to them.
773
00:57:20,235 --> 00:57:24,340
I would have a tale
from you, Guardian.
774
00:57:24,373 --> 00:57:27,810
The Bloom has shown me
many things,
775
00:57:27,842 --> 00:57:29,878
but I know nothing
of its mother's journey
776
00:57:29,911 --> 00:57:33,648
before opening here
on this mountain.
777
00:57:33,681 --> 00:57:37,152
They sang songs of it
when I was a boy.
778
00:57:38,987 --> 00:57:42,290
Even now, having seen so much,
779
00:57:42,324 --> 00:57:46,329
I cannot tell where truth
gave way to myth.
780
00:57:48,797 --> 00:57:51,333
Beyond light and smoke,
781
00:57:51,366 --> 00:57:53,835
the gods raged in blindness,
782
00:57:53,868 --> 00:57:59,874
their hands without purpose,
but to wield tools of war.
783
00:57:59,907 --> 00:58:01,844
[ Indistinct shouting ]
784
00:58:05,647 --> 00:58:07,916
The head of one,
severed from its body,
785
00:58:07,949 --> 00:58:10,319
spilled blood into the sky,
786
00:58:10,351 --> 00:58:13,188
filling it with both
light and dark.
787
00:58:13,221 --> 00:58:15,691
[ Dramatic music plays ]
788
00:58:21,163 --> 00:58:25,701
The final dream
of the dead god...
789
00:58:25,734 --> 00:58:27,402
his sons.
790
00:58:27,435 --> 00:58:29,170
The world was theirs.
791
00:58:29,203 --> 00:58:32,641
Anything they dreamed
became manifest.
792
00:58:32,674 --> 00:58:35,210
[ Sinister music plays ]
793
00:58:35,243 --> 00:58:40,048
In time,
one son dreamt of mankind.
794
00:58:40,081 --> 00:58:44,886
And so came their first breathe.
795
00:58:44,920 --> 00:58:47,923
For ages untold and uncounted,
796
00:58:47,956 --> 00:58:51,661
men and women lived
in the shadow of the sons.
797
00:58:51,694 --> 00:58:54,397
[ Thunder crashes ]
798
00:58:54,429 --> 00:58:56,132
To man,
799
00:58:56,165 --> 00:59:00,936
the sons were uncaring gods
of their world.
800
00:59:00,969 --> 00:59:02,838
What they learned of it,
801
00:59:02,871 --> 00:59:04,907
they taught themselves...
802
00:59:04,940 --> 00:59:06,442
and they survived.
803
00:59:06,475 --> 00:59:09,911
[ Buffalo screeches ]
804
00:59:09,944 --> 00:59:12,681
The sons dreamed of rain...
805
00:59:12,714 --> 00:59:14,917
so floods came.
806
00:59:14,949 --> 00:59:16,985
[ Somber music plays ]
807
00:59:17,018 --> 00:59:20,455
And mankind learned of loss.
808
00:59:20,489 --> 00:59:24,226
MAN: [ Sobs ]
809
00:59:24,259 --> 00:59:25,761
Man came to the sun
810
00:59:25,793 --> 00:59:28,464
and begged him to dream her
once again.
811
00:59:28,496 --> 00:59:30,398
He learned another lesson
that day.
812
00:59:30,431 --> 00:59:33,802
His gods were not
merely indifferent...
813
00:59:33,835 --> 00:59:36,337
they were cruel.
814
00:59:36,371 --> 00:59:38,840
He swore revenge.
815
00:59:40,909 --> 00:59:43,979
He promised his followers
the world,
816
00:59:44,011 --> 00:59:46,915
and then he showed them
how to take it.
817
00:59:46,949 --> 00:59:49,752
[ All cheering ]
818
00:59:57,326 --> 01:00:00,929
The blood, the violence,
it bound them to him.
819
01:00:00,962 --> 01:00:03,165
And they named the man Seer,
820
01:00:03,197 --> 01:00:06,435
the first king of men.
821
01:00:06,467 --> 01:00:08,337
For an age,
822
01:00:08,369 --> 01:00:12,141
Seer led the hunt
for the remaining sons.
823
01:00:12,174 --> 01:00:15,811
He struck again and again.
824
01:00:15,844 --> 01:00:20,416
[ Dramatic music plays ]
825
01:00:20,449 --> 01:00:22,251
[ Thunder crashes ]
826
01:00:22,284 --> 01:00:25,186
[ All cheering ]
827
01:00:25,219 --> 01:00:29,058
His rage, insatiable.
828
01:00:37,098 --> 01:00:38,433
At last,
829
01:00:38,467 --> 01:00:40,436
asleep in the snowy foothills,
830
01:00:40,469 --> 01:00:44,005
Seer found the son
who had first dreamed man,
831
01:00:44,038 --> 01:00:46,908
the same son
who had refused him.
832
01:00:46,942 --> 01:00:50,513
[ Dramatic music continues ]
833
01:00:50,545 --> 01:00:53,114
Knowing his dreams
had come to kill him,
834
01:00:53,147 --> 01:00:55,483
the son fled up
to the mountain's peak.
835
01:00:55,516 --> 01:00:58,788
As a child, they told me
if you listened carefully,
836
01:00:58,821 --> 01:01:01,891
you could still hear
the cries of the battle
837
01:01:01,924 --> 01:01:03,926
echoing on the wind.
838
01:01:03,958 --> 01:01:06,228
[ Men shouting ]
839
01:01:17,105 --> 01:01:21,911
Seer proclaimed his victory
to herald a new era of peace.
840
01:01:21,944 --> 01:01:24,547
They say it lasted but a year.
841
01:01:24,580 --> 01:01:27,348
Glory be to Seer,
the first king,
842
01:01:27,382 --> 01:01:30,520
same as all
who have followed him.
843
01:01:33,956 --> 01:01:37,126
One man waited
atop the mountain.
844
01:01:37,159 --> 01:01:39,028
Perhaps he felt sorrow
845
01:01:39,060 --> 01:01:41,963
at the death
of the world's old masters,
846
01:01:41,996 --> 01:01:46,002
perhaps simple curiosity
held him there.
847
01:01:48,203 --> 01:01:51,473
What he expected to find,
I cannot say.
848
01:01:51,505 --> 01:01:54,409
[ Dramatic music plays ]
849
01:01:54,442 --> 01:01:56,344
What he did find...
850
01:01:56,377 --> 01:01:58,479
The Bloom.
851
01:01:58,513 --> 01:02:01,150
[ Dramatic music continues ]
852
01:02:18,299 --> 01:02:22,071
[ Warriors shouting ]
853
01:02:22,103 --> 01:02:26,107
And there, he saw
the true dark beyond the light.
854
01:02:26,141 --> 01:02:29,378
the sons of gods were
the sons of gods themselves,
855
01:02:29,411 --> 01:02:31,447
and they, too, sons of gods,
856
01:02:31,480 --> 01:02:33,349
on and on.
857
01:02:33,382 --> 01:02:38,888
Every god, a god of death.
858
01:02:38,920 --> 01:02:41,623
[ Screams ]
859
01:02:41,656 --> 01:02:45,093
In the dark, he saw that
man's newfound world
860
01:02:45,127 --> 01:02:47,897
was nothing but dust,
861
01:02:47,929 --> 01:02:51,433
and he vowed that he would spare
the race of man this truth.
862
01:02:51,465 --> 01:02:54,103
He vowed to keep
from them The Bloom
863
01:02:54,136 --> 01:02:56,304
and the scope of its revelation.
864
01:02:56,337 --> 01:03:00,441
He chose to grant mankind
a gift...
865
01:03:00,475 --> 01:03:03,045
ignorance.
866
01:03:03,078 --> 01:03:05,313
[ Dramatic music continues ]
867
01:03:05,346 --> 01:03:07,382
Eventually, man came.
868
01:03:07,415 --> 01:03:10,618
He knew that they would.
869
01:03:10,652 --> 01:03:13,389
They were desperate for hope.
870
01:03:13,422 --> 01:03:17,025
He spared them nothing.
871
01:03:17,058 --> 01:03:18,927
They would not be the last.
872
01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:20,995
And so it went for ages
873
01:03:21,029 --> 01:03:22,598
until...
874
01:03:25,266 --> 01:03:28,036
Perhaps the burden
had grown too great.
875
01:03:28,069 --> 01:03:32,340
Perhaps the archer
was simply too skilled.
876
01:03:32,373 --> 01:03:34,944
No matter the cause, he fell,
877
01:03:34,976 --> 01:03:37,679
and the cycle began anew.
878
01:03:37,712 --> 01:03:39,614
Another dread revelation,
879
01:03:39,647 --> 01:03:44,019
another guardian
to stand watch over The Bloom.
880
01:03:49,725 --> 01:03:53,328
I, too, came here seeking hope.
881
01:03:53,362 --> 01:03:58,234
Two tyrant kings had been at war
since my birth.
882
01:04:00,168 --> 01:04:01,503
Just before the harvest season,
883
01:04:01,536 --> 01:04:05,474
their conflicts
came through our fields.
884
01:04:05,507 --> 01:04:09,311
Our crops burned.
My children starved.
885
01:04:09,344 --> 01:04:12,481
Wounded, raging, I set out.
886
01:04:14,549 --> 01:04:18,219
We fought, and he fell.
887
01:04:18,252 --> 01:04:22,023
Many times, I've wished
it had gone the other way.
888
01:04:22,056 --> 01:04:26,328
I wanted to know the truth
behind the myths of my youth.
889
01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:28,529
I learned it.
890
01:04:28,563 --> 01:04:31,767
I remember now so vividly
my first sight of it,
891
01:04:31,799 --> 01:04:34,535
my first breath of it.
892
01:04:34,569 --> 01:04:36,438
It was intoxicating...
893
01:04:36,471 --> 01:04:39,608
all that I'd hoped, more.
894
01:04:42,444 --> 01:04:44,313
I went beyond the stars,
895
01:04:44,346 --> 01:04:46,048
beyond time.
896
01:04:46,081 --> 01:04:48,117
There, I saw the truth.
897
01:04:48,150 --> 01:04:50,252
in the face
of the endless light,
898
01:04:50,284 --> 01:04:53,355
everything mankind
fights and dies for,
899
01:04:53,388 --> 01:04:55,424
lives and hopes for,
900
01:04:55,456 --> 01:04:57,659
it is meaningless,
901
01:04:57,692 --> 01:05:00,262
It is all for naught.
902
01:05:00,295 --> 01:05:04,600
And I knew then what every
Guardian before me had known...
903
01:05:04,632 --> 01:05:10,038
that humanity must be protected
from that truth.
904
01:05:11,706 --> 01:05:15,244
Why not destroy The Bloom
if it was so powerful?
905
01:05:18,712 --> 01:05:21,016
I ask you...
906
01:05:22,817 --> 01:05:26,654
...who are we to destroy
the mysteries of the night.
907
01:05:26,688 --> 01:05:29,425
We merely stand at the threshold
908
01:05:29,458 --> 01:05:32,360
between men and gods.
909
01:05:32,393 --> 01:05:34,763
If I had known
910
01:05:34,795 --> 01:05:37,532
what was happening below...
911
01:05:37,565 --> 01:05:40,435
I would have.
912
01:05:40,469 --> 01:05:44,239
The spores of your Bloom...
913
01:05:44,272 --> 01:05:46,542
my fault.
914
01:05:48,476 --> 01:05:50,679
I am so tired now.
915
01:05:50,712 --> 01:05:53,614
Daughter of man,
let The Bloom die.
916
01:05:53,647 --> 01:05:55,316
Leave.
917
01:05:55,350 --> 01:05:59,788
Let these words of my failure
be my last.
918
01:05:59,821 --> 01:06:01,857
No.
919
01:06:01,889 --> 01:06:04,625
This night is not yet done.
920
01:06:04,659 --> 01:06:08,430
Listen, that you might know
how I came to find you.
921
01:06:08,462 --> 01:06:11,633
And hear the fate of the world.
922
01:06:12,500 --> 01:06:15,303
[ High-pitched whining ]
923
01:06:17,672 --> 01:06:19,541
[ Dramatic music plays ]
924
01:06:19,574 --> 01:06:22,211
[ Warriors shouting ]
925
01:06:34,255 --> 01:06:36,524
[ Explosions in distance ]
926
01:06:37,726 --> 01:06:40,662
Why do so many fight
for Ghal-Sur?
927
01:06:40,694 --> 01:06:44,298
Mighty God King Ghal-Sur's
promise of eternal life
928
01:06:44,331 --> 01:06:46,868
has brought the weak willed
to his cause.
929
01:06:46,902 --> 01:06:49,138
We fight to survive.
930
01:06:49,170 --> 01:06:52,573
They fight for the chance
to escape death.
931
01:06:52,607 --> 01:06:55,511
I am eager to spill their blood.
932
01:06:55,543 --> 01:06:57,779
Don't wish for their deaths,
Sparrowcrow.
933
01:06:57,811 --> 01:06:59,348
Wish that death might stop.
934
01:06:59,380 --> 01:07:00,616
SPARROWCROW: You wish for peace.
935
01:07:00,648 --> 01:07:02,351
I'll wish for revenge.
936
01:07:02,384 --> 01:07:04,253
[ Groaning ]
937
01:07:04,286 --> 01:07:07,255
[ Warriors shouting ]
938
01:07:17,933 --> 01:07:20,235
[ Metal groaning ]
939
01:07:23,438 --> 01:07:26,575
[ Men screaming ]
940
01:07:29,243 --> 01:07:31,446
WOMAN: The walls are holding
against the ground troops,
941
01:07:31,478 --> 01:07:32,947
but our scouts to the West
942
01:07:32,980 --> 01:07:34,683
report a new breed
of war machine.
943
01:07:34,715 --> 01:07:37,286
How long until
they're inside the city walls?
944
01:07:37,319 --> 01:07:39,955
That depends on an array
of factors, Your Grace.
945
01:07:39,987 --> 01:07:41,857
Morale of the troops,
supply trains,
946
01:07:41,889 --> 01:07:44,458
- the next batch of grain...
- No more than two sunsets.
947
01:07:44,491 --> 01:07:46,861
[ Women gasp ]
948
01:07:46,895 --> 01:07:50,699
This is not what your aides
have been telling us, General.
949
01:07:50,732 --> 01:07:53,802
Two sunsets.
950
01:07:53,835 --> 01:07:55,837
Then our home will burn,
951
01:07:55,869 --> 01:07:58,639
and the world will begin
to forget that it ever existed.
952
01:07:58,672 --> 01:08:01,709
Tonight is the last night
of books of Uxon.
953
01:08:01,743 --> 01:08:03,946
Be sure of it.
954
01:08:03,978 --> 01:08:06,781
[ Tense music plays ]
955
01:08:14,255 --> 01:08:15,757
[ Sighs ]
956
01:08:15,790 --> 01:08:18,694
Jae taught us that King Uxon
established this order,
957
01:08:18,727 --> 01:08:21,530
that it might always
watch over the city,
958
01:08:21,562 --> 01:08:24,465
not that it would idle
and wait for its destruction.
959
01:08:24,499 --> 01:08:26,802
We've got to do something.
960
01:08:26,834 --> 01:08:30,605
Nothing will end this war,
short of an impossibility.
961
01:08:30,638 --> 01:08:35,276
Ghal-Sur is immortal.
Ghal-Sur must die.
962
01:08:35,310 --> 01:08:38,714
Let us fly to his black heart
and cut it from its cage.
963
01:08:38,746 --> 01:08:42,517
How?! His fortress lies
beyond the Great Swamp.
964
01:08:42,549 --> 01:08:45,419
He is sequestered
behind massive iron walls
965
01:08:45,453 --> 01:08:47,990
in a tower made of death itself.
966
01:08:48,022 --> 01:08:50,926
His airships will return
to the city walls.
967
01:08:50,959 --> 01:08:52,761
Tomorrow, we board
one of those ships
968
01:08:52,794 --> 01:08:54,463
and ride it back to our Pyr.
969
01:08:54,495 --> 01:08:57,565
[ Scoffs ]
A foolish plan.
970
01:08:57,598 --> 01:08:58,900
Hmm.
971
01:08:58,932 --> 01:09:00,968
Perhaps.
972
01:09:01,002 --> 01:09:04,772
You both believe it can be done?
973
01:09:04,806 --> 01:09:07,375
SPARROWCROW: Better
to die in glory.
974
01:09:07,409 --> 01:09:09,777
Then tomorrow,
975
01:09:09,811 --> 01:09:12,281
we take back the air.
976
01:09:17,718 --> 01:09:20,755
[ Sinister music plays ]
977
01:09:28,596 --> 01:09:30,598
The flying machine approaches.
978
01:09:30,632 --> 01:09:34,036
Wait till it gets close enough
for the catapults to launch.
979
01:09:36,036 --> 01:09:37,806
Argh!
980
01:09:50,084 --> 01:09:52,654
[ Wind whistles ]
981
01:09:59,526 --> 01:10:01,395
MAN: Attack!
982
01:10:01,428 --> 01:10:03,798
Enemy attack!
983
01:10:03,831 --> 01:10:04,865
[ Gasps ]
984
01:10:04,898 --> 01:10:07,869
[ Men shouting ]
985
01:10:15,075 --> 01:10:17,378
[ Creaking ]
986
01:10:19,780 --> 01:10:23,618
[ Men screaming ]
987
01:10:30,924 --> 01:10:32,627
For Uxon.
988
01:10:32,660 --> 01:10:36,498
For Jae, we strike.
989
01:10:41,402 --> 01:10:44,940
[ Sinister music plays ]
990
01:10:54,516 --> 01:10:56,652
So much lost.
991
01:10:57,451 --> 01:10:59,487
The elders taught
of the Great Dead Swamp
992
01:10:59,521 --> 01:11:01,889
and the fall of the Ashur.
993
01:11:01,923 --> 01:11:04,426
But how could they?
994
01:11:04,459 --> 01:11:06,962
How could we have been so blind
to this vast, ruin
995
01:11:06,995 --> 01:11:09,832
until it was at our gates?
996
01:11:14,569 --> 01:11:16,937
Look, his black Pantheon,
997
01:11:16,971 --> 01:11:19,141
just as Jae used to whisper
of it.
998
01:11:19,173 --> 01:11:22,944
Is it as you imagined?
999
01:11:22,977 --> 01:11:25,781
It's worse.
1000
01:11:27,714 --> 01:11:32,420
[ Tense music plays ]
1001
01:11:41,529 --> 01:11:44,866
MAN: God-King,
your brave fallen soldiers
1002
01:11:44,898 --> 01:11:47,602
have returned from
the Uxon front.
1003
01:11:47,634 --> 01:11:50,004
Will you grant them your gift
1004
01:11:50,038 --> 01:11:53,642
and let them live again
beyond the mountains?
1005
01:11:53,674 --> 01:11:55,877
We ask not for an answer.
1006
01:11:55,910 --> 01:11:58,013
Only a sign.
1007
01:12:00,682 --> 01:12:02,951
[ Dramatic music plays ]
1008
01:12:16,998 --> 01:12:19,567
Great God-King Ghal-Sur,
1009
01:12:19,601 --> 01:12:22,571
we humble ourselves
before your mercy.
1010
01:12:22,603 --> 01:12:25,574
We serve in the hope
of your favor.
1011
01:12:29,910 --> 01:12:33,848
Let the rebirthing process
begin.
1012
01:12:33,882 --> 01:12:36,218
[ Eerie music plays ]
1013
01:12:51,900 --> 01:12:55,036
[ High-pitched whining ]
1014
01:13:09,584 --> 01:13:12,187
[ Metal rattling ]
1015
01:13:18,825 --> 01:13:20,594
It is time.
1016
01:13:20,628 --> 01:13:23,932
If the ship lands, we won't
make it over the iron wall.
1017
01:13:26,133 --> 01:13:28,136
May we three meet again
in this life,
1018
01:13:28,169 --> 01:13:31,840
for we know there is no other.
1019
01:13:31,873 --> 01:13:33,976
[ Wind gusts ]
1020
01:13:53,861 --> 01:13:55,264
[ Soldier gasps ]
1021
01:13:57,264 --> 01:13:59,567
[ Growls ]
1022
01:14:04,905 --> 01:14:06,206
Try to keep us level.
1023
01:14:06,240 --> 01:14:08,544
I'm gonna clear
the rest of the ship.
1024
01:14:31,932 --> 01:14:33,569
[ Man screams ]
1025
01:14:48,950 --> 01:14:51,587
[ Tense music plays ]
1026
01:15:18,879 --> 01:15:19,847
[ Metal clangs ]
1027
01:15:19,880 --> 01:15:21,281
[ Gasps ]
1028
01:15:21,315 --> 01:15:23,218
[ Shouts ]
1029
01:15:35,929 --> 01:15:37,865
[ Metal clangs ]
1030
01:15:41,768 --> 01:15:46,240
There's a pest
in my forge engine!
1031
01:15:46,273 --> 01:15:48,944
[ Grunting ]
1032
01:15:59,352 --> 01:16:01,022
[ Gasps ]
1033
01:16:02,923 --> 01:16:04,792
[ Groans ]
1034
01:16:06,928 --> 01:16:08,764
[ Metal grinding ]
1035
01:16:13,500 --> 01:16:15,369
[ Grunts ]
1036
01:16:22,043 --> 01:16:23,178
[ Straining ]
1037
01:16:23,210 --> 01:16:25,112
[ Metal grinding ]
1038
01:16:30,250 --> 01:16:31,852
[ Grunts ]
1039
01:16:32,219 --> 01:16:34,321
Aaah!
1040
01:16:56,511 --> 01:16:59,047
[ Sizzling ]
1041
01:16:59,079 --> 01:17:01,048
[ Groans ]
1042
01:17:23,103 --> 01:17:26,374
[ Glass shattering ]
1043
01:17:53,100 --> 01:17:54,936
[ Groans ]
1044
01:17:56,236 --> 01:17:58,038
[ Groans ]
1045
01:18:01,575 --> 01:18:04,346
[ Clanging ]
1046
01:18:12,553 --> 01:18:14,923
[ Crunching ]
1047
01:18:28,102 --> 01:18:30,038
Aaah!
1048
01:18:53,526 --> 01:18:56,297
Who dares?
1049
01:18:56,329 --> 01:18:58,031
I do.
1050
01:18:58,065 --> 01:19:02,236
Our people have suffered
long enough.
1051
01:19:02,270 --> 01:19:04,504
Your people are nothing.
1052
01:19:04,538 --> 01:19:07,575
Your species is meaningless.
1053
01:19:07,607 --> 01:19:11,645
I am a god!
1054
01:19:11,678 --> 01:19:14,047
- [ Bones cracking ]
- Aah!
1055
01:19:14,080 --> 01:19:16,517
[ Groans ]
1056
01:19:18,686 --> 01:19:20,554
[ Groans ]
1057
01:19:21,355 --> 01:19:24,426
You failed, little bird.
1058
01:19:33,301 --> 01:19:38,572
I wonder, do gods also suffer?
1059
01:20:14,407 --> 01:20:16,678
[ Tense music plays ]
1060
01:20:45,005 --> 01:20:47,542
[ Tense music continues ]
1061
01:21:05,759 --> 01:21:08,562
[ Dramatic music plays ]
1062
01:21:33,320 --> 01:21:35,690
[ Grunts ]
1063
01:21:35,722 --> 01:21:38,426
[ Dramatic music continues ]
1064
01:21:58,344 --> 01:22:01,682
The Bloom yet lives.
1065
01:22:13,494 --> 01:22:16,764
[ Wind whistling ]
1066
01:22:26,507 --> 01:22:31,611
Those that have stared
into the great dark.
1067
01:22:31,645 --> 01:22:34,348
The Bloom does not forget
who they were.
1068
01:22:36,316 --> 01:22:39,619
That's how I knew you were
still here, Guardian.
1069
01:22:39,652 --> 01:22:43,324
For so long, we're shielded
the world from that
1070
01:22:43,356 --> 01:22:45,560
which it could not fathom.
1071
01:22:48,529 --> 01:22:50,831
Legends and myths
were no barrier
1072
01:22:50,865 --> 01:22:54,469
when The Bloom's power
was unleashed.
1073
01:22:54,502 --> 01:22:59,139
Could it ever
have been otherwise?
1074
01:22:59,173 --> 01:23:02,877
It's too late to change
what has happened.
1075
01:23:02,910 --> 01:23:06,347
But not too late
to change what will be.
1076
01:23:06,379 --> 01:23:11,218
THE GUARDIAN: Must knowledge
only come at a terrible cost?
1077
01:23:11,252 --> 01:23:13,221
Rest now.
1078
01:23:13,254 --> 01:23:16,157
And I will make the slate clean
1079
01:23:16,190 --> 01:23:21,396
so that mankind may see
the stars with their own eyes.
1080
01:23:30,504 --> 01:23:32,473
Wait.
1081
01:23:32,505 --> 01:23:33,708
Wait!
1082
01:23:33,740 --> 01:23:36,243
Someone approaches.
1083
01:23:42,249 --> 01:23:45,820
Do not worry.
I called him here.
1084
01:23:45,852 --> 01:23:48,822
You have given me what I need,
your sacrifice.
1085
01:23:48,856 --> 01:23:52,260
I thank you for it.
1086
01:23:52,293 --> 01:23:56,464
Know peace at last, Guardian.
1087
01:23:56,496 --> 01:24:00,368
You have stood your watch
until its very end.
1088
01:24:03,270 --> 01:24:05,772
[ Whooshing ]
1089
01:24:11,378 --> 01:24:14,348
[ Dramatic music plays ]
1090
01:24:33,499 --> 01:24:37,204
There must be
a million faces I've forgotten
1091
01:24:37,237 --> 01:24:39,472
over the centuries.
1092
01:24:39,505 --> 01:24:43,410
Not yours, swamp witch.
1093
01:24:44,544 --> 01:24:47,815
Once again, you have The Bloom,
1094
01:24:47,847 --> 01:24:51,651
and once again,
I will kill you for it.
1095
01:24:51,685 --> 01:24:55,455
This is the very last
it will grow.
1096
01:24:55,489 --> 01:25:00,227
The final breath of The Bloom's
power upon this world.
1097
01:25:00,261 --> 01:25:02,797
Your cause is lost.
1098
01:25:02,829 --> 01:25:06,900
There are so many secrets
still to pry from it.
1099
01:25:06,933 --> 01:25:10,538
I shall become
the truth behind truths.
1100
01:25:10,570 --> 01:25:13,440
I will be the gates
of knowledge,
1101
01:25:13,473 --> 01:25:15,575
the very Bloom manifest!
1102
01:25:15,609 --> 01:25:19,280
Do not mistake ritual for truth.
1103
01:25:19,312 --> 01:25:22,415
Do not mistake
the desire for power
1104
01:25:22,449 --> 01:25:24,786
with the desire for knowledge.
1105
01:25:27,053 --> 01:25:28,989
Kill her.
1106
01:25:33,459 --> 01:25:35,262
[ Gasps ]
1107
01:25:36,829 --> 01:25:39,266
[ Panting ]
1108
01:25:43,404 --> 01:25:45,373
[ Groans ]
1109
01:25:48,842 --> 01:25:51,579
[ Praying in foreign language ]
1110
01:25:51,611 --> 01:25:55,850
Your swamp incantations
cannot help you here.
1111
01:25:55,883 --> 01:25:59,320
[ Continues
in foreign language ]
1112
01:26:05,859 --> 01:26:08,428
[ Rumbling ]
1113
01:26:14,834 --> 01:26:16,770
[ Continues
in foreign language ]
1114
01:26:49,736 --> 01:26:51,739
[ Groans ]
1115
01:26:53,906 --> 01:26:55,075
Huh?
1116
01:26:55,109 --> 01:26:56,678
Aah!
1117
01:27:02,648 --> 01:27:04,785
[ Grunting ]
1118
01:27:05,585 --> 01:27:07,088
[ Screams ]
1119
01:27:24,771 --> 01:27:26,606
[ Hisses ]
1120
01:27:28,642 --> 01:27:30,511
[ Screams ]
1121
01:27:31,945 --> 01:27:33,813
[ Groans ]
1122
01:27:33,847 --> 01:27:36,951
Feel the might
of the emperor god!
1123
01:27:38,485 --> 01:27:40,420
[ Grunts ]
1124
01:27:51,731 --> 01:27:53,433
[ Groans ]
1125
01:27:55,134 --> 01:27:56,936
[ Hissing ]
1126
01:27:56,969 --> 01:27:58,740
[ Groans ]
1127
01:28:01,607 --> 01:28:03,744
Aah!
1128
01:28:06,914 --> 01:28:09,050
[ Screeching ]
1129
01:28:18,926 --> 01:28:22,196
I am...
1130
01:28:22,228 --> 01:28:24,498
You are nothing.
1131
01:28:24,530 --> 01:28:26,734
Look to the stars, Ghal-Sur.
1132
01:28:27,034 --> 01:28:28,969
[ Screeching ]
1133
01:28:29,002 --> 01:28:34,441
Tremble before the immensity
of the night!
1134
01:28:39,111 --> 01:28:41,415
[ Dramatic music plays ]
1135
01:29:03,169 --> 01:29:08,743
[ Ethereal music plays ]
1136
01:29:21,954 --> 01:29:26,493
[ Somber music plays ]
1137
01:29:26,562 --> 01:29:31,562
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1138
01:30:06,266 --> 01:30:09,837
[ Tranquil music plays ]
1139
01:30:39,031 --> 01:30:42,904
[ Tense music continues ]
1140
01:31:12,199 --> 01:31:16,236
[ Tense music continues ]
1141
01:31:46,967 --> 01:31:51,339
[ Tense music continues ]
1142
01:32:21,468 --> 01:32:24,372
[ Tense music continues ]
1143
01:32:55,235 --> 01:32:58,906
[ Tense music continues ]
1144
01:33:28,301 --> 01:33:31,871
[ Tense music continues ]