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THE STORIES AND CHARACTERS DEPICTED HERE WERE INSPIRED BY OUR HISTORY

NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED DURING THE FILMING OF THIS PRODUCTION

My Bey, we don't know if he's telling the truth or not.

Let me kill him for you right here.

If we were to kill an envoy of Ögedei who was here at the orders of our Sultan,

we'd give him the excuse he wants to attack our land, Bamsi.

Ögedei Khan would call our Sultan to account for Noyan,

knowing his army is a stone's throw away from us in Şimal.

What if he's lying? What if this is a ploy, my Bey?

The only way we'll find out for sure

is to have Noyan address Ertuğrul Bey directly.

Abdur Rahman.

-Show Noyan in. -Your wish is my command, my Bey.

May God steer us safely through this.

Gok Tengri...

rotates the world around the sun on and on, never stopping.

He turns it...

to keep our eagerness...

to stand up and fight constant and undiminished.

Here I am again, Ertuğrul.

The spirits didn't want me to die.

The spirits...

know the account between you and me is not yet settled.

You wanted to bury me in the ground.

But mother earth didn't take me.

Mother earth would have vomited a bastard like you out of her soil, Noyan.

Your tongue is as sharp as your sword, Ertuğrul.

I'm grateful to the spirits,

for granting me a wise and brave enemy like you.

Tell me, what is it you want, Noyan?

First, my condolences.

I heard that Halime Sultan died.

She was a courageous woman.

At one time, she gave me as hard a time as you did.

What do Ögedei Khan and our sultan want with me?

You probably heard the khan of the khans, Ögedei Khan,

and I won a famous victory in a great battle recently.

We took Kiev.

The Black Sea, just like the Caspian and the Aral seas, is our sea now.

We rule half the world, Ertuğrul.

Now we're impatient to take the other half.

Get to the point. Why are you here, Noyan?

I am here as Ögedei Khan's envoy, bringing his orders to your Sultan Giyaseddin.

As you'll have surmised, your sultan... swore to follow the orders of my Khan.

But your young sultan has made a request to Ögedei Khan.

And the envoy he chose to convey this request, is you.

So you see, you and I have a long journey ahead of us, Ertuğrul.

My Bey, you can't trust a word he says.

-May I enter, my Bey? -Come, Günalp Bey.

Orders from our sultan, my Bey.

Read it aloud so everyone knows this heathen speaks the truth.

Our sultan...

orders me to be his envoy... to Ögedei Khan.

Our sultan wants you to take this bag with you.

Sugay, daughter, put this thick blanket on too.

It's going to be frosty tonight.

Mother Hayme...

we had our share of trouble from those bastard Mongols too.

They used to raid our tents. They never got tired of harassing us.

They showed no mercy when they slaughtered my family.

I've hated them my whole life.

May God save us from their malice.

I see you have suffered a great deal, daughter.

May God ensure your parents rest in peace.

It's not easy to bear what you've been through.

Amen. Our struggle against the Mongols is very hard.

May God help Ertuğrul Bey and our state.

Amen, my girl. Amen.

As soon as we rid ourselves of one trouble, another rears its head.

We only just dealt with that evil Kopek...

and now it is this bastard Noyan who haunts us.

May God help us.

A new plague has reached our door.

We have to be careful.

If we stand united against the enemy, no one can defeat us.

I hope so, my girl. I hope so.

God help us.

Bamsi,

take Abdur Rahman and Oğuz and five alps.

Noyan will stay at the Hanlı Bazaar tonight.

Your wish is my command, my Bey.

You won't have me stay here as your guest, Ertuğrul?

We don't turn anyone away from our tent, Noyan.

You'll be my guest at the Hanlı Bazaar.

When do we set forth?

You'll find out in the morning, Noyan.

What are you saying, Ertuğrul?

Will you refuse to be your sultan's envoy?

Bamsi.

Get Noyan away from here before something happens to him.

That's all I'll say now.

Alps.

What have they been up to?

All they've done in eat, like bears that've just woken up, Chief Alp Bamsi.

They eat more than me.

Watch they don't choke on it and die.

Whatever Ertuğrul Bey's orders are,

death will come to this heathen by our hands.

You said it, Chief Alp Bamsi. God willing.

God willing. God willing.

Come over, iron man. Come and share my table.

I wouldn't even share my sin with someone like you, Noyan.

But if you can't share my dinner now...

how will you share your stinking state and these glorious lands,

and even those rosy-cheeked women of yours, when the time comes?

What's wrong, iron man? Why hold back?

Or do you want to keep that grudge you nurture all to yourself too?

Its time will come, Noyan. Its time will come.

And when it does, I'll cut out your snake's tongue.

I'll tell you what will happen when the time comes, iron man.

When the time comes,

the spirits hidden in the beech trees will appear one by one.

The screams of these spirits will drown out the sound of your horses.

While your Sultan Giyaseddin washes his father's blood off his hands,

he'll keep on making mistakes, keep on making terrible mistakes,

so that first, he'll have to share his palace with me and then his harem.

Then I'll come back here.

I'll destroy the regime Ertuğrul has maintained.

He'll be scorched by my fire under the shade of his tent.

Along with all his family.

Comrades!

The Avsars, the Kiniks...

the Dodurgas and the Cavdars, will have no place to run.

They'll surrender to the fate laid out for them

on the slopes of Khan Tengri mountain.

They'll stand in front of me with bent necks and kiss my boots.

As for the Kayi, they won't get away just with kissing my boots.

I'll make them taste a less happy fate.

I'll skin Ertuğrul's whole family

and sew myself a great tent out of them.

Skin your bastards first, Noyan, to patch the holes in your rotten flesh

that my Bey made with his sword.

Your foul-smelling, rotten flesh which I wouldn't even use

to line the soles of my boots.

Laugh, Noyan. Laugh.

When the cool dawn wind blows, Noyan!

When the northern goshawk with the grey beard sings;

when the Bedouin horses see their master and neigh;

when the long-bearded stranger shouts; when white becomes black;

when the bride and daughter of the numerous Oghuz

is decked out for battle, for freedom;

when the sun hits the beautifully breasted rough mountains;

when the brave men, the heroes, come together;

the wrath of God, Noyan, will be on you!

God is the greatest!

God is the greatest!

God is the greatest!

God is the greatest!

You keep taking shelter behind the tales of your ancestors.

I came here not to retell tales, I came here to make history.

God is the greatest!

God is the greatest!

God is the greatest!

God is the greatest!

God is the greatest!

God is the greatest!

Our sultan wants to send you into the Mongolian hell, my Bey.

But as long as Noyan remains with us, we won't be safe.

Our sultan knows that you and Noyan are at daggers drawn, my Bey.

So why does he take the risk of sending you with him?

-There, there, Savci. -Give him to me.

Keep on growing, my lion. You're going to be a fine man.

You'll travel these lands on the back of your horse.

Everyone will know you when you put on your sword.

Wolf-eyed like my ancestor Oghuz, my heavenly son.

Son, what is this about our sultan wanting you to be his envoy?

It's important, Mother.

I've never seen Ertuğrul Bey look so worried before.

More pain comes before the last has receded, Günalp Bey.

His alps, brave men, all martyred.

The grief of losing Halime Hatun still consumes him.

He's not being given a chance to mourn his woman.

First brother Ahmet, and now this devil Noyan turns up.

His children...

Those three little boys left motherless.

Our bey will make his decision.

And when he does, he will fulfil his promise,

even if it kills him.

-God protect him. -God protect him.

Do you remember Mother, when I first brought Halime to the tent...

I was an envoy then too.

Now Halime is gone,

and I have the duties of an envoy once again.

It is fate, Mother.

I remember. How could I forget?

Duty is important son,

but going to the Mongol Khan with this evil Noyan...

We can't know what will happen, what troubles you'll face.

Father, are you going to leave us again?

What will we do when you're gone?

I'm big now, but what about Savci?

And Osman?

Look how quiet Osman is when you hold him in your arms.

What if he cries again and wants you?

My Gündüz, my lion.

You said it was important. What if you don't come back?

My mother's gone.

How are we to manage if you go too?

What will we do if you leave this world too?

I've been waiting for you, Alangoya.

Is what I heard true, brother?

Ertuğrul will accompany me to see Ögedei as an envoy.

And you'll kill him on the way.

That depends on what Ertuğrul decides.

What do you mean?

Whether my grudge remains or not depends on what Ertuğrul decides.

What do you want from him, brother?

Victory, Alangoya.

Victory.

A bloodless victory.

Ögedei asked me to persuade the brave Turk beys to obey him.

Beginning with Ertuğrul.

Now, as Ertuğrul is due to come before Ögedei as an envoy...

Ögedei will hear Ertuğrul's decision himself.

We'll win this battle without our swords being soaked in blood.

As for you, Alangoya...

you are to remain as my eyes and ears in these lands.

Rouse the broody hen inside you.

Endear yourself...

to the hearts of Ertuğrul's children and his mother.

Neither Ertuğrul nor his family should learn who you are.

Until we have achieved our purpose, that is.

What if Ertuğrul refuses to obey Ögedei ?

Then they all die, including Osman in his cradle.

Keep your sword sharp and your heart as soft

as the snow on the slopes of Khan Tengri mountain, Alangoya.

Apparently, the fate of the state depends once more upon us doing our duty.

We need to fulfill this duty

if we are going to ensure no lives are lost.

We'll set forth tomorrow morning for Ögedei Khan.

Turgut, Bamsi and some of the alps will accompany me.

Of course, my Bey.

The castle is entrusted to you, Günalp Bey.

Very good, my Bey.

Artuk Bey, you will be responsible for the tribe and the Hanlı Bazaar.

As you command, my Bey.

All of you, keep your eyes and ears open.

Monitor who comes and goes and check them all thoroughly.

Be sure they are who they say they are.

If Noyan has returned...

I've no doubt he's placed his spies in every corner.

After the dark days we've experienced, we head into our toughest mission yet.

May God help us all, my Bey.

Amen, Turgut.

For the sake of our state, we will endure our darkest hour

by turning our hearts as hard as stone as we set out on the road again.

In this blessed cause, we will be separated from the people of our tribe.

If the need arises, we must be prepared to be separated

from our loved ones and our home.

If the state isn't everlasting...

if our homeland isn't prosperous...

our tents, our children, what does any of it matter?

Only that the state exists.

Only that our homeland survives.

Only that we are free.

It is an honor for us to commit our hearts and our lives to this blessed cause.

My Savci.

My Osman.

My Savci.

My Gündüz.

I thank God for giving you to me.

Son, you only just buried your wife...

Your tiny son is still in his cradle. And now this parting...

When the order comes from the sultan, we must surrender to our fate.

You know that, Mother.

Our way is one of sacrifice...

not just our lives, but in leaving loved ones behind.

Go, son. Go.

The decree comes from the state.

You've remained patient through a grueling ordeal...

God willing, you'll come through this.

God willing, Mother.

Father?

You're going too, now?

What will I do with my brothers? Can't you stay?

I can't do that. How could we refuse our sultan's order?

Grandmother will stay with you.

Sugay Hatun, too.

Osman is so much stronger now thanks to her.

And tell you what...

Aren't you the bey of this tent? Do beys ever show fear?

As you command, Father.

You're setting forth on a difficult mission.

My duty is to take care of my brothers.

Yes, just like that, my brave son.

I entrust all of you first to God, and then to grandmother and Sugay Hatun.

Now, it's time for you to show what a brave bey you are, Gündüz.

In my absence, I entrust your brothers and the tent to your care.

You are the bey of this tent when I'm gone.

As you command, my Bey!

God bless you, my brave son.

Don't you worry, my lion.

Sugay Hatun and I will do our best.

Thank you, Mother.

We could have no more important work than taking care of them for you.

Rest assured of that, Ertuğrul Bey.

Thank you, Sugay Hatun.

I should go, Mother.

God bless you.

Ertuğrul...

Be careful.

That bastard Noyan is unpredictable.

I will, Mother.

Until I'm sure he's dead, I'll be sure to watch my back.

I won't give him his chance.

Very good, son.

We've had our fair share of misfortune.

Make sure you come back to us safe, God willing.

With God's permission I will, Mother.

You must start preparing for our migration.

No more obstacles stand in our way.

I hope not, my brave son.

The women and I will make sure everything is ready.

Subtitle translation by Sarper Aman