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Gods, no.

2
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Pike... what did she do?

3
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She went through the portal.
And Grog. He was...

4
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-Are they both dead?
-No.

5
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Pike was wearing a medallion,
the one that got the cultists through.

6
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She-she might have survived.

7
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But there's no orb, no portal,
no way to follow. They're just...

8
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Gone. It's hopeless.

9
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Stop panicking.

10
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Grog may be...

11
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But there is a way to get to Pike.

12
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And it lies beneath Whitestone.

13
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Delilah has clearly been using the orbs
to travel to this other realm,

14
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this Thar Amphala.

15
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Well, we have an orb of our own.

16
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Percy, you shut it down.

17
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Then we'll just
have to wake it back up.

18
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<i>And hope...</i>

19
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<i>that wherever she is,</i>

20
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<i>Pike stays alive till we find her.</i>

21
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All right, you fucks.

22
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Let's finish this.

23
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What are you waiting for? Come on.

24
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The Whispered One awaits you.

25
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What?

26
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Friends of yours?

27
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Waiting for your false idol
to materialize?

28
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Waiting for you.

29
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Sister Pike.
It's good to see a friendly face.

30
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This is a bad dream.

31
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Vox Machina does not lose.

32
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Oh, I assure you, we do.

33
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It just normally doesn't hurt this much.

34
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But not teammates. Friends.

35
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This is not how I imagined
adventuring life.

36
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Is anyone else
having trouble breathing?

37
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I wish I could say it gets easier.

38
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Talking helps, but right now, yeah,
it's supposed to hurt.

39
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Percy sees it as a problem to solve.

40
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We all... we all cope differently.

41
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New growth.

42
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It worked.

43
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Easy now.

44
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Ah, there's no time to worry about me.

45
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There is.

46
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Vax, I... I think I should
show you something.

47
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First we find Pike.

48
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Until then everything else can wait.

49
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You may have been closer to them,
but we all share in this horrible loss.

50
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Let there be some comfort knowing Pike and
Grog's sacrifice will never be forgotten.

51
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It was an impossible task.
They carried us all on their shoulders.

52
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As they rest, so too can this horror
finally come to an end.

53
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Sorry, how do you mean?

54
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With the other orb destroyed,
the way is shut. It's over.

55
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-Nothing is over.
-As I've been saying.

56
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Yeah, we lost Grog,
but Pike is still trapped.

57
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We could reach her
through the ziggurat orb.

58
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She could be alive over there.

59
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"Could be"? Yeah, I don't know.

60
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Your optimism is admirable, but the risk
of reactivating the Orb is far too great.

61
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It could allow the Whispered One
to return right beneath the castle.

62
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We don't know that.

63
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Surely you wouldn't endanger our home
again on a gamble, would you?

64
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You've all been through
a tremendous ordeal.

65
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Perhaps consider that we know nothing
about Thar Amphala or its origin.

66
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It may not even sustain life.

67
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-Pike is probably long dead...
-Enough.

68
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I've left loved ones behind before.

69
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I swore I would never make
that mistake again.

70
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Brother, a word.

71
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How?

72
00:06:13,791 --> 00:06:17,500
My body has been confined to this plane,

73
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but as belief in me has grown,
so has my strength.

74
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I've been able to apparate
in your realm to a select few.

75
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The Whispered One.
It's been you this whole time.

76
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What can I say?

77
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You lied! To them, to me,
to my grandfather!

78
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You know what? I deserved that.

79
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Now you die.

80
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Wait. That's different.

81
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Before you use that blade,
there are things you need to know.

82
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More lies?

83
00:06:59,958 --> 00:07:02,208
I understand your hesitance,

84
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but my truth is exactly
what your Everlight is afraid you'll hear.

85
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No more secrets. After all,

86
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you let my friend Zerxus speak.

87
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Zerxus. H-How?

88
00:07:17,250 --> 00:07:21,166
That's what set all this in motion.

89
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The same choices being offered to you
that led him to his prison.

90
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Poor devil's been ignored
for a thousand years.

91
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Can you blame him
for wanting to break the cycle

92
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of pain and indifference?

93
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Isn't that what you want, too?

94
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You cunting doughnut.

95
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How dare you accuse me
of sentimentality?

96
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Percy,
you are undermining my position.

97
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Oh, and we're conveniently
forgetting your part in this.

98
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I should stop them
before we're down another De Rolo.

99
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Are you sure?
It sounds dangerous in there.

100
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Darling, I know sibling spats
all too well.

101
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Sometimes a sympathetic ear
is all that's needed.

102
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Wouldn't be here
in the first place.

103
00:08:02,208 --> 00:08:04,583
-Hope I'm not interrupt...
-What?

104
00:08:04,666 --> 00:08:08,250
I'm sure the last thing
either of you want is an outside opinion,

105
00:08:08,333 --> 00:08:11,041
but in this case, Percy dear,

106
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Cassandra is absolutely right.

107
00:08:14,500 --> 00:08:18,416
Accept my apology
on behalf of your pigheaded brother.

108
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In his absence you have single-handedly
led this city back to prosperity,

109
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a fact he seems to have forgotten.

110
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No one could do what you've done.

111
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The Orb will remain untouched,
you have my word.

112
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As a new noble, this is my home, too.

113
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Well, thank goodness he married up.

114
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Have you lost your senses?

115
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Now, now, Percy darling.
Don't say anything you'll regret.

116
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We are absolutely going through
that fucking orb. Tonight.

117
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You...
you won't be needing that.

118
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Allow me to show you around.

119
00:09:11,375 --> 00:09:13,583
To be honest,

120
00:09:13,666 --> 00:09:15,458
this place is rubbish.

121
00:09:15,541 --> 00:09:18,375
I didn't choose to be here, I was forced.

122
00:09:18,458 --> 00:09:20,833
I know. I saw everything.

123
00:09:20,916 --> 00:09:23,833
Ah, your visions.

124
00:09:23,916 --> 00:09:25,708
You didn't see everything, my dear.

125
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<i>Only what the gods wanted you to see.</i>

126
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<i>And what do you want?</i>

127
00:09:30,833 --> 00:09:32,333
<i>Answers, same as you.</i>

128
00:09:32,416 --> 00:09:35,916
Like why you'd risk your life coming here,

129
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not knowing what lay on the other side.

130
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Grog would've done the same for me
a hundred times over.

131
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Sounds like a good friend.

132
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We're both trying to fix things, and both
refuse to accept when we're told we can't.

133
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I don't resent this prison,
I wish to change it, make it better.

134
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All I've ever wanted to do
is to remove pain from the world,

135
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to give people power over their own fate,

136
00:10:03,166 --> 00:10:06,583
but that went against someone's plan.

137
00:10:06,666 --> 00:10:10,208
I'll never understand why
the gods would impede that.

138
00:10:10,291 --> 00:10:13,208
Power and knowledge
are meant to be shared.

139
00:10:13,291 --> 00:10:17,958
You got nice words, I'll give you that...
but I don't buy 'em.

140
00:10:19,041 --> 00:10:21,833
Then may I show you something?

141
00:10:34,916 --> 00:10:36,625
Grog!

142
00:10:43,541 --> 00:10:46,416
Your friend is quite stout.

143
00:10:46,500 --> 00:10:50,708
I've seen much worse from those
that come through uninvited.

144
00:10:50,791 --> 00:10:53,708
Restoring his body
took a great deal of power.

145
00:10:53,791 --> 00:10:56,875
Raising him to life will take even more,

146
00:10:56,958 --> 00:11:00,041
and I'm limited here for now.

147
00:11:00,125 --> 00:11:03,125
Y-You can bring him back? Well, h-how?

148
00:11:03,708 --> 00:11:06,583
So much has been kept from you.

149
00:11:06,666 --> 00:11:09,250
This is only the beginning.

150
00:11:09,333 --> 00:11:11,458
No, I can't trust you.

151
00:11:11,541 --> 00:11:14,083
I've seen what your followers have done

152
00:11:14,166 --> 00:11:16,458
to Grog and countless others.

153
00:11:16,541 --> 00:11:21,416
You're right. The Children
of Truth have done horrid things,

154
00:11:21,500 --> 00:11:26,791
but my followers understood that,
if we succeed, none of it will matter.

155
00:11:26,875 --> 00:11:28,583
The hell are you talking about?

156
00:11:28,666 --> 00:11:30,625
{\an8}Every follower I gain,

157
00:11:30,708 --> 00:11:34,791
{\an8}every act of defiance on your world
fuels this cause.

158
00:11:34,875 --> 00:11:37,708
We are his sight.

159
00:11:37,791 --> 00:11:40,708
-<i>Divine energy funneled here.</i>
-We are his voice.

160
00:11:40,791 --> 00:11:42,541
<i>And used to bring them back.</i>

161
00:11:42,625 --> 00:11:45,083
<i>All I've ever dreamed of
is ending the pain</i>

162
00:11:45,166 --> 00:11:48,125
<i>of losing those who mean the most to us,</i>

163
00:11:48,208 --> 00:11:52,541
so we never have to feel the sting
of mortality again.

164
00:11:53,958 --> 00:11:58,750
Pike, I am trying to cure death.

165
00:12:01,791 --> 00:12:04,541
So, will you listen to my story?

166
00:12:17,125 --> 00:12:18,750
Matron...

167
00:12:19,833 --> 00:12:22,541
it hurts.

168
00:12:22,625 --> 00:12:25,875
Shh. I'm here, you're safe.

169
00:12:27,375 --> 00:12:29,625
Couldn't ask for a better nurse.

170
00:12:29,708 --> 00:12:31,750
Though I wish I were a better patient.

171
00:12:31,833 --> 00:12:33,708
Well, the moaning is a lot.

172
00:12:33,791 --> 00:12:36,916
Luckily, I happen to be
in love with you, and...

173
00:12:38,125 --> 00:12:39,583
I'm totally amazing.

174
00:12:39,666 --> 00:12:41,333
What's this?

175
00:12:41,416 --> 00:12:44,291
An elixir that can reverse divine curses.

176
00:12:44,375 --> 00:12:47,583
It's derived from a rare flower sample
I found in Delilah's lab.

177
00:12:47,666 --> 00:12:51,166
She was trying to grow
a full bloom to cure Sylas, but...

178
00:12:51,250 --> 00:12:53,916
well, she couldn't nature like I can.

179
00:12:54,416 --> 00:12:56,291
Love,

180
00:12:56,375 --> 00:12:59,458
we can't trust anything
that comes from her.

181
00:12:59,541 --> 00:13:02,083
But the Matron is okay?

182
00:13:02,166 --> 00:13:05,583
At least Delilah was fighting for someone
other than herself.

183
00:13:05,666 --> 00:13:07,958
-Kiki.
-It's just...

184
00:13:08,875 --> 00:13:12,541
if we're heading into
who knows what in Thar Amphala,

185
00:13:12,625 --> 00:13:14,833
will you at least consider it?

186
00:13:16,541 --> 00:13:19,625
Who am I not to heed
the Voice of the Tempest?

187
00:13:23,333 --> 00:13:28,166
We disabled the Orb's field,
so now we'll disable the disabling.

188
00:13:28,250 --> 00:13:30,666
Pretty sure that's just enabling, darling.

189
00:13:30,750 --> 00:13:33,916
The key will be doing it
without raising an alarm.

190
00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,666
My sister has Pale Guard
posted atop the ziggurat.

191
00:13:36,750 --> 00:13:38,875
Luckily, the underground tunnels
should work nicely.

192
00:13:40,416 --> 00:13:42,666
T.D., how are the amulets faring?

193
00:13:44,958 --> 00:13:48,750
Wonderful. In no way
spiraling that, if these aren't perfect,

194
00:13:48,833 --> 00:13:51,791
more of my truest friends
will be turned into tapioca.

195
00:13:51,875 --> 00:13:54,666
Tr-Tremendous.

196
00:13:57,916 --> 00:14:01,416
Tary, look at me, your Little Elf Girl.

197
00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,000
Tell me what's on your mind.

198
00:14:04,083 --> 00:14:07,333
I can't do this.

199
00:14:07,416 --> 00:14:10,416
All I see are Pike and Grog's faces.

200
00:14:10,500 --> 00:14:15,416
They were the first ones who accepted me,
who treated me like a hero,

201
00:14:15,500 --> 00:14:18,166
and now they could be gone.

202
00:14:18,250 --> 00:14:23,333
I'm glad Doty's not here.
This chapter would be such a bummer.

203
00:14:23,416 --> 00:14:26,458
Happy endings are only guaranteed
in storybooks,

204
00:14:26,541 --> 00:14:29,458
but you're more than a story to me.

205
00:14:29,541 --> 00:14:34,375
You've held your own in darkest times
and done it shining like a gem.

206
00:14:34,458 --> 00:14:36,791
You're not some hero from fiction.

207
00:14:36,875 --> 00:14:38,791
You're the real deal.

208
00:14:38,875 --> 00:14:43,166
You are Taryon Darrington of Vox Machina.

209
00:14:43,250 --> 00:14:47,750
Now, don't fuck it up. I hate tapioca.

210
00:14:52,208 --> 00:14:54,958
You can't expect me
to take your words on faith.

211
00:14:55,041 --> 00:14:58,583
Which is why I ask you
to believe your own eyes.

212
00:14:58,666 --> 00:15:00,583
You wield Mythcarver,

213
00:15:00,666 --> 00:15:05,000
a divine weapon from the Knowing Mistress
that reveals the truth

214
00:15:05,083 --> 00:15:08,541
not only of the present but also the past.

215
00:15:09,958 --> 00:15:12,625
Our blood is special.

216
00:15:12,708 --> 00:15:15,375
It tells our story.

217
00:15:15,875 --> 00:15:17,791
What will I see?

218
00:15:17,875 --> 00:15:21,041
My life, the good and the bad.

219
00:15:24,750 --> 00:15:30,041
<i>Before the Calamity,
a great plague decimated Exandria.</i>

220
00:15:30,125 --> 00:15:32,083
<i>Trying to make sense of it all,</i>

221
00:15:32,166 --> 00:15:37,083
<i>my studies of the arcane led me
to a beautiful, talented woman</i>

222
00:15:37,166 --> 00:15:42,125
<i>whose grief over her lost loved ones
matched my own.</i>

223
00:15:42,208 --> 00:15:46,166
<i>Together, we sought a way
to reach the gods,</i>

224
00:15:46,250 --> 00:15:50,625
<i>to implore them to undo
their transgressions against us.</i>

225
00:15:50,708 --> 00:15:53,750
<i>They did not answer.</i>

226
00:15:53,833 --> 00:15:57,708
<i>Their silence only fueled
our passion for knowledge</i>

227
00:15:57,791 --> 00:16:00,625
<i>and our love for each other.</i>

228
00:16:00,708 --> 00:16:05,416
<i>So we vowed to find a way
to create a new world</i>

229
00:16:05,500 --> 00:16:08,416
<i>where no innocent fears death,</i>

230
00:16:08,500 --> 00:16:12,125
<i>to challenge the gods' so-called order.</i>

231
00:16:12,208 --> 00:16:15,041
<i>She was so close.</i>

232
00:16:16,375 --> 00:16:19,791
<i>But the gods
could not stand to be questioned.</i>

233
00:16:19,875 --> 00:16:22,583
<i>Their way was the only way.</i>

234
00:16:22,666 --> 00:16:26,208
<i>She was taken from me as punishment.</i>

235
00:16:26,291 --> 00:16:29,541
<i>I was cast out, cursed.</i>

236
00:16:29,625 --> 00:16:34,916
<i>Alone again, I was overcome
with grief and fury</i>

237
00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:38,875
<i>not just for her but for the truth
that was stolen from us.</i>

238
00:16:38,958 --> 00:16:40,458
<i>From all of us.</i>

239
00:16:40,541 --> 00:16:43,708
<i>I swore to even the scales once more,</i>

240
00:16:43,791 --> 00:16:47,166
<i>even if I had to become a god myself.</i>

241
00:16:50,166 --> 00:16:53,625
This woman you loved.
Do you know what happened to her?

242
00:16:53,708 --> 00:16:56,500
The Matron of Ravens
not only destroyed her

243
00:16:56,583 --> 00:17:00,000
but eliminated every trace of her
from existence.

244
00:17:01,083 --> 00:17:02,875
Tell me, Pike,

245
00:17:02,958 --> 00:17:06,750
is a spiteful god worth dying for?

246
00:17:13,083 --> 00:17:14,083
Keyleth?

247
00:17:19,250 --> 00:17:22,958
<i>Your fate nears, Champion.</i>

248
00:17:23,041 --> 00:17:26,666
No more riddles. Speak plainly for once.

249
00:17:26,750 --> 00:17:30,000
I can't help anyone
if you don't tell me what's going on.

250
00:17:30,083 --> 00:17:33,125
<i>All you need know
is that your future beckons you</i>

251
00:17:33,208 --> 00:17:35,375
<i>toward Thar Amphala.</i>

252
00:17:35,458 --> 00:17:39,000
<i>My gift shall protect you
in the battle ahead.</i>

253
00:17:39,083 --> 00:17:41,791
We're not interested in battles.

254
00:17:41,875 --> 00:17:43,625
We want Pike safely home.

255
00:17:43,708 --> 00:17:46,041
None of us have a death wish.

256
00:17:46,125 --> 00:17:49,041
<i>And yet death is your destiny.</i>

257
00:17:49,125 --> 00:17:52,875
<i>You've been preparing for it
since our bargain was struck.</i>

258
00:17:52,958 --> 00:17:57,416
<i>I grant you this power,
more than any mortal could bear.</i>

259
00:17:57,500 --> 00:18:00,333
<i>As the threads of fate reveal themselves,</i>

260
00:18:00,416 --> 00:18:02,500
<i>you will confront the Whispered One.</i>

261
00:18:02,583 --> 00:18:06,500
<i>He will meet his end, as will you.</i>

262
00:18:06,583 --> 00:18:11,916
<i>It is fate, leading to its
inexorable conclusion, my herald.</i>

263
00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,958
<i>My right hand. My champion.</i>

264
00:18:24,250 --> 00:18:26,000
Vax?

265
00:18:26,083 --> 00:18:28,375
We have to find the others.

266
00:18:28,958 --> 00:18:30,500
Brother?

267
00:18:31,083 --> 00:18:33,083
I'm sorry about before.

268
00:18:33,166 --> 00:18:36,000
I've poached you a bottle of Courage
to bury the hatchet.

269
00:18:37,083 --> 00:18:39,000
It's a very good year.

270
00:18:41,166 --> 00:18:44,708
Really, Percy, I-I realize you're under
tremendous pressure,

271
00:18:44,791 --> 00:18:47,291
but I just wanted to say thank you.

272
00:18:49,583 --> 00:18:52,500
He wouldn't dare.

273
00:19:01,875 --> 00:19:04,333
And she actually gave you some clarity?

274
00:19:04,416 --> 00:19:05,916
In a sense.

275
00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:09,250
I think there's a way to tip
this shit situation back in our favor.

276
00:19:09,333 --> 00:19:10,500
Really?

277
00:19:10,583 --> 00:19:12,666
Does this mean you're ready
to take the elixir?

278
00:19:12,750 --> 00:19:16,125
Not yet, but keep it close.

279
00:19:16,208 --> 00:19:18,333
You will have to trust me.

280
00:19:19,333 --> 00:19:20,333
When we arrive,

281
00:19:20,416 --> 00:19:23,458
I'll disconnect Doty,
which will reactivate the Orb.

282
00:19:23,541 --> 00:19:26,875
We use the amulets to enter
Thar Amphala, rescue Pike,

283
00:19:26,958 --> 00:19:31,125
close the Orb behind us, and pray we don't
get obliterated by a mad sorcerer-god.

284
00:19:31,208 --> 00:19:33,041
I'm more worried about your sister.

285
00:19:35,083 --> 00:19:38,125
Look, I get it. I do.

286
00:19:38,208 --> 00:19:40,416
I've lost so much, too.

287
00:19:40,500 --> 00:19:42,833
This isn't about grief, Pike.

288
00:19:42,916 --> 00:19:44,208
Or revenge.

289
00:19:44,291 --> 00:19:47,375
I'm fighting for the right
to control our own fate.

290
00:19:47,458 --> 00:19:49,250
And that scares the gods.

291
00:19:49,333 --> 00:19:52,541
So much so that they sent champions
to seal me away,

292
00:19:52,625 --> 00:19:55,916
-including your ancestor Esreé.
-Yeah.

293
00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:58,375
I saw. You killed them.

294
00:20:00,666 --> 00:20:04,750
No, their own gods did.
They were sacrificial lambs.

295
00:20:04,833 --> 00:20:08,291
Pawns. The gods fed off their faith,

296
00:20:08,375 --> 00:20:10,250
then tossed them aside.

297
00:20:16,166 --> 00:20:19,541
Each one, even your Everlight.

298
00:20:19,625 --> 00:20:23,458
It is our worship
that keeps them in power.

299
00:20:23,541 --> 00:20:25,000
Fueling them.

300
00:20:25,083 --> 00:20:29,291
They offer their version of truth
and cast all others aside.

301
00:20:29,375 --> 00:20:34,583
"He shall live. She shall die.
Why? Because we say so."

302
00:20:34,666 --> 00:20:37,375
And woe to anyone who questions them.

303
00:20:37,458 --> 00:20:42,083
But you, you can shine a light
on their hypocrisy.

304
00:20:42,166 --> 00:20:44,750
Me? Wh-What does that...

305
00:20:44,833 --> 00:20:47,416
You are special, Pike.

306
00:20:56,125 --> 00:21:00,208
Your bloodline descends
from celestial origins.

307
00:21:00,291 --> 00:21:04,625
Blessed to transcend the barriers
between the realms of life and death,

308
00:21:04,708 --> 00:21:07,666
mortality and divinity.

309
00:21:07,750 --> 00:21:12,833
The gods used Esreé and discarded her
when she served her purpose.

310
00:21:12,916 --> 00:21:16,875
Her blood flows through your veins

311
00:21:16,958 --> 00:21:22,458
and is the key to sealing me away forever
or helping me ascend.

312
00:21:22,541 --> 00:21:26,416
Celestial? No. Wilhand would have told me.

313
00:21:26,500 --> 00:21:28,583
How could he have known?

314
00:21:28,666 --> 00:21:32,250
The gods hide truths that challenge them.

315
00:21:32,333 --> 00:21:34,750
What's important is what you do next.

316
00:21:34,833 --> 00:21:38,375
The Everlight said
you could choose your own path,

317
00:21:38,458 --> 00:21:44,541
yet they all lead to the same end,
the illusion of free will.

318
00:21:44,625 --> 00:21:49,458
I offer you something the gods
never would, a real choice.

319
00:21:51,791 --> 00:21:56,041
Heads up, if these amulets do not
work, it's not because of the quality.

320
00:21:56,125 --> 00:22:00,041
I chipped two nails carving the filigree.

321
00:22:00,125 --> 00:22:02,916
Well, well, well.
Look who lied to our faces.

322
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,833
You'd risk the lives
of everyone in Whitestone?

323
00:22:05,916 --> 00:22:07,541
For just one person?

324
00:22:07,625 --> 00:22:10,333
Not "one person." For Pike.

325
00:22:10,416 --> 00:22:14,625
We love you all, but I'm afraid
we cannot let that happen.

326
00:22:14,708 --> 00:22:16,791
Step aside.

327
00:22:17,291 --> 00:22:20,750
Friends, I'm sure we can talk this out
like grown-ups.

328
00:22:20,833 --> 00:22:22,583
Just hand over those amulets.

329
00:22:26,833 --> 00:22:28,333
Then we'll just take them.

330
00:22:29,416 --> 00:22:30,916
Damn it.

331
00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:32,291
Get them back.

332
00:22:33,833 --> 00:22:35,250
Stand down.

333
00:22:38,416 --> 00:22:40,291
Sunder stone.

334
00:22:41,833 --> 00:22:43,916
I wouldn't try anything if I were you.

335
00:22:56,166 --> 00:22:57,625
Got 'em.

336
00:22:57,708 --> 00:22:59,875
Uh, we'll apologize later.

337
00:23:00,458 --> 00:23:02,375
Everyone to the Orb!

338
00:23:06,250 --> 00:23:07,916
I'm disengaging Doty.

339
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,250
Hurry, everyone take one.

340
00:23:10,333 --> 00:23:11,833
Wait, there's only four?

341
00:23:11,916 --> 00:23:14,208
You honor me with your disbelief,

342
00:23:14,291 --> 00:23:16,208
but I'm not going with you.

343
00:23:16,291 --> 00:23:18,041
You always said I got in the way, right?

344
00:23:18,125 --> 00:23:20,416
Well, let me get in their way.

345
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,916
I know real heroes when I see them.
Now bring back our friends.

346
00:23:26,500 --> 00:23:27,833
Hurry.

347
00:23:28,416 --> 00:23:29,833
It's open!

348
00:23:35,750 --> 00:23:38,708
-Open the fucking door!
-Let us through!

349
00:23:38,791 --> 00:23:42,958
"The Last Stand of Taryon Darrington."
Ooh, great title.

350
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:47,666
Doty, take this down!

351
00:23:50,041 --> 00:23:53,708
{\an8}This is a lot. I need more time.

352
00:23:53,791 --> 00:23:55,791
{\an8}My followers are ready.

353
00:23:55,875 --> 00:23:57,541
Forces gather against me.

354
00:23:57,625 --> 00:24:00,166
I'm afraid time is in short supply.

355
00:24:00,250 --> 00:24:01,791
What if I say no?

356
00:24:01,875 --> 00:24:03,458
Such is your choice.

357
00:24:03,541 --> 00:24:06,583
Your blood is what I need
to return to Exandria,

358
00:24:06,666 --> 00:24:09,625
and it must be freely given.

359
00:24:09,708 --> 00:24:11,541
You must believe.

360
00:24:11,625 --> 00:24:13,791
Choose to strike me down,

361
00:24:13,875 --> 00:24:16,750
and my crusade will be at an end.

362
00:24:16,833 --> 00:24:18,875
Kashaw, Wilhand, Grog.

363
00:24:18,958 --> 00:24:22,166
Your fallen friends will remain so,

364
00:24:22,250 --> 00:24:25,166
or together we will save them

365
00:24:25,250 --> 00:24:28,958
and countless lives
who have suffered under the gods,

366
00:24:29,041 --> 00:24:32,750
ensuring no one endures the loss you have.

367
00:24:40,916 --> 00:24:44,500
Well, Pike? Will you help me?

368
00:24:56,500 --> 00:24:59,333
Brother, your armor.

369
00:24:59,416 --> 00:25:00,666
The blight.

370
00:25:00,750 --> 00:25:03,291
It feels different, better.

371
00:25:03,375 --> 00:25:06,791
The Matron was right. It isn't a curse.

372
00:25:06,875 --> 00:25:10,291
Still, how are we supposed
to find Pike out there?

373
00:25:11,541 --> 00:25:14,166
{\an8}She's always had faith.

374
00:25:14,250 --> 00:25:17,708
Let's hope ours doesn't run out.

375
00:26:07,875 --> 00:26:08,875
Chirp.