"Please, I beg you..." "I told the truth!" "I'm not a witch!" "My daughter!" "No!" "CITY OF VILLACH 1235." "A.D." "You all have been found guilty of witchcraft and consulting with the devil." "If you would save your souls from perdition, repent now and confess your sins." "I confess!" "I confess." "I confess." "Go on, Child." "Did You signed a pact with Lucifer?" " Yes." "I signed a pact." "I confess!" "Please, I beg you!" "have mercy!" "I made ointments for a couple but it was just pig's Fat not witchcraft, I swear it!" "Priest?" "You gonna burn in hell." "Do it." "No!" "Please!" "Ne, Wait!" "Wait!" "You said that you're would spare me." "Your Soul, child." "Your Soul will be spared." "But the body must be consigned to God for absolution." "No!" "..." "No!" "please, I beg you!" "Wait!" "Thier bodies must be pulled up." "There are words wich must be spoken, from the book of Solomon to unsure they not rise again." "They have been hanged and drowned." "That's dead Enogh for me." "Season of the witch" "Gulf of Edremit Age of the crusade" "Gulf of Edremit 1332." "A.D." "Today you are truly blessed!" "Today, you fight for God himself!" "Today, yoy're holly warriors , baptized in the blood of our unholly enemies!" "Look to the rabble down there, Behmen, just waiting to meet the Lord." "I pity anyman whose last face they see is yours Felson." "The only sin you will face this day is failure!" "Whom ever slays most men drinks for free." "I'll take the 300 left, you take the 300 on the right." "But If we divide them evenlly who will buy tonigts drinks?" "Oh, you're buying tonight man." "Prepare your battle!" "Fine." "I'll kill all 600 my self." "Draw your arms!" "Charge!" "I have nothing but a powerfull thirst baby" "You're buying, my friend." "Siege of Tripoli 1334 A.D." "Let the sands burn rage with the blood of advocates!" "Strike down our unholly enemies!" "Battle of Imbros 1337 A.D." "Battle of Artah 1339 A.D." "Do not yield on to every enemy of God has fallen!" "Do you ever get the felling, God has many enemies?" "Being his friend is not so easy either." "Battle of Smyrna 1344 A.D." "They are godless people!" "Infidels!" "They sinned against God and against his only son, Jesus Christ!" "They must be punished" "Do not fail him!" "Strik down with his vengeance!" "Let non survive!" "Thousands lost souls through the fires of Hell, a glorious day for the Church!" "You call this glorious ?" "!" "Murdering women and children?" "Know your place, Knight." "You pledge your life for the cause." " For God, not for this." "I am a herald of God in this world, his voice rings ever in my ears." "Perhaps it's not his voice you hear." " How dare you?" "I am the voice of the church!" "bathed in truth and blameless in light of mine Lord." "You're no more than a robber blood on his hands!" "Who controls your insolent tongue, Behmen?" "Let's get the hell out of here." "You can not leave!" "Who's going stop us?" "Coast of Sryria One month latter" "Sheep roaming free and no shepherd in sight." "Did they jumped the fence?" "!" " All of them?" "We have been walking all day and have not passed a soul." "Keep your souls and only find a chicken." "Hello !" "Is anyone here?" "Hello!" "What happened to them?" "!" " I do not know." "We have seen so much death you and Some deserved, some not." "But What is one do,to deserve a death like that?" " Nothing." "Finally a town!" "We might be recognized." "We should go around, Behmen." " Go where?" "!" "The horses won't carry us." "They are farm animals." "We need Propper Hourses food..." "Provisions." "Please, let them come to me!" " I beg you!" "Please, take us!" "No more!" "Lord all mighty, Heavenly Father" "Accept the pain and suffering we restore upon our selves." "Find deed to the awkward to free us!" "From this Terbile suffer." "What madness is this?" " Plague." "Plague?" "!" "Like No other." "The pestilence over all the land." "Is there no cure?" " None." "How long is it been so?" "Three years in a season." " How many dead?" "Some says as many in three and four." "But with my own hands I have buried two children and the wife who born them." "But, How is it you you dont know this?" " We're travelers, we have only recently returned." "Here you are, two of my finest." " Thank you." "Leave it!" "Felson, this way." "What is it now?" "They saw my sword's Crest." "I told we should've gone around." "You two!" "Stand fast!" "Shit!" "Fine." "Come with me." "Drop it!" "Remove the hood and the mask." "Arest these deserters." "Wait!" "Let me see that." "This is yours?" "Follow me." "I hope we are on our way to dinner." " What you want with us, Priest?" "That's not up for me to say." "Pardon me, your eminent." " What is it, Debelzaq?" "This the knight's sword." "Come closer." "Tell me your name." " I am Behmen of Blybrook." "Behmen, yes ..." "And your comrade," "Felson." "Your names are known to me." "Your victories have become legends." "Yes, I'm stricken..." "The Plague is everywhere." "It's a curse called up from Hell." "Brought upon us by The Black Witch." "The Black Witch?" "!" "I myself heard the confession." "The Witch must be taken to the abbey of Severak, where the Monks possess the last copy of an ancient book, rituals that will destroy the Witch's powers," "And End... the plague." "What is this to do with us?" "Our ranks have been decimated." "You must deliver her." "My best knight, Eckhart has allready pledged his services, as has our priest Debelzaq." "I ask the same of you." "Will you serve the church, once more?" "I can not." " You swear in front of God." "Have you been released from this vow?" " My vow is to God not the men how murder in his name." "You know the penalty for desertion." "I ask again Behmen of Blybrook." "Do you serve God and the church ?" "I serve the church no more." "In there both of you." "What do they do with deserters any way?" "Hang them?" "Burn them?" "Probably both." " I know." "If I the one who say on the matter..." "I prefer to hanging." "Is that the witch?" "!" "That It is not what I see." "The priest said she confessed." "We both know the church can be Most ... persuasive." "I am Sorry, I Put you into this Felson." "These dungeons go." "And this one is not so bad, we spent nights in much worse places than this." "At least i have." "What's that smell?" "That would be you." ""I serve the church No more"" "Did you see the priest face?" "He looked like someone pissed in his holly water." "Theyaregodlesspeople!" "Infidels!" "They sinned against God and against his only son, Jesus Christ!" "They must be punished!" "You want to speak with the Cardinal?" "Tell him we will deliver the girl to Severak, on one condition." "That she is given a fair trail." "You can not bargain with the church." " This is not for your church." "And we want our weapons returned." "And all charges dismissed." "We're here." "The abbey is here." "The distance is nearly 400 leagues That's roughly Six days travel." "As you can see, we charted a course." " You would lead us through here?" "That is the most direct route, yes." " Across the river, through... 300 Leagues of heavy forest, and a mountain pass?" "This forest is called Wormwood." "It's not a place to be trifled with." "Men have lost their way there, and were never to be seen again." "Tell me, Priest, have you ever made a journey yourself?" "No." " Natuarally." "These are the best maps in the land." "But, we will do better to have a guid." "You know, someone who has travelled from here to there." "A tax collector, prehaps a merchant?" "There is someone, but..." "Ah..." "Visitors!" "What can I do for you gentlemen?" "Prehaps, you woud like to help me with fruit, or kick me in the groin." "You're Hagamar?" "The swindler?" "!" "Yes." "I mean no!" "I am Hagamar, but I never swindled anyone." "I sold relics." "Genuine Relics." "Where did sell your trinkets?" "Everywhere." "I have happy customers from here to Prague." "And in Severak?" " Yes." "The monks." "I sold them the tail of an asteroid and a flit from Egypt." "Quite a bargin, I am sure." "Then you know the way to the abbey." " Like the back of my hand." "I'd happy to draw you a map, only..." "The bailiff has prepared to pardon you." "On one condition." "You serve as our guide to Severak." " Condition accepted." "If I were to relase you however, and you attempt to flee ..." "Such thoughts are beneath you sir, I swear by all the saints, me they struck me dead , were I to lie." "They will have to get in line behinde me." "Do we understand each other?" "The Witch is unconscious, she was given a powerfull sedative in her food last night." "Open the cell." "We will be removing the witch for transport." "She's just a girl." " Don't be deceived." "Catch her Felson!" "Hold her!" "The sooner we get her to Severak, the better." "Now she is sedated." "Who is that?" " The Witch." " Witch?" "No body said anything about a witch." "What did you think we are going to Severak, to sell trinkets?" "Kill the witch!" "You gave us this infection!" "You brought the wrath of God upon us!" "Take the witch out of our land." "And take the plague with you!" "Demon!" "She is watching me." "Put your mind on something else." "She is trying to frighten you." "It's working." "How did you come upon this girl?" "She was found just outside of Maburn, wandering, muttering strange things words, no one can understand." "This makes her a witch?" " No, but it's a sign." "And with in the fourth night of her arrival, plague has swept over us." "It was the same for every town she passed." "There's no talk of such a girl passing through my village yet, the plague came." "She is stronger than she looks." "Do you belive she is a witch?" "!" "But you felt her strength, would you say, it was that of a girl?" "I have seen girls destroy men without lifting a finger." "How many times do we need to go over this?" "We were in France, for God sake." "And things she did in the bed chamber." "She robbed you out of the year's wages." "Yes, but  she gave me so much in return." "Look at us." "Barely a month out of service to the church and here we are deserters, in the service of the church." "You know we are being followed." "Let's give him a royal welcome." "Come of the horse." "Who are you and why you're following us?" "I asked you a question boy." "He's an altar boy and services to the Cardinal." "My name is Kay." "My father was a knight." "Yuran Wolenbar, he also faught in "Imbrose" prehaps you have heard his name." "What do you want?" " I want to come with you to Severak." "Easy boy." "To pledge myself to your service." "In exchange, for which I ask your word that you will vouch for me upon our return, so that I may be knighted." "The services of an altar boy I feel safer already." "I would have you know, I have been written in the lists twice and I won flags for valor." "That's not a tournament boy." "Go back to your mother." "This is a free road oldman and I do not need your permission to travel it." "Give the lad a chance to retract the remark." "My sincere apologies." "Not to me, to him." " That I can not." "He insulted me first." "I am going to teach this one some manners." " Go easy, Felson." "Use the other hand." "I do not want him dead." "Just send him on his way." "Be quick about it." "With pleasure." "Not bad for an altar boy." "What the devil was that?" "Stand and fight like a man, you little jackrabbit." "Enough!" "Perhaps you can be of service." "I heard what the cardinal said, about Your heroism in the Crusades." "I'd have gone too but I was too young." "You're one of the lucky ones!" "Well,Tell me about it, where did you enlist?" "It was a priest who came to Felson's village." "He told us: "whoever went on Crusade, would receive blessings from the church"" ""Remission from sin"." "It was the part about sin that perk young Felson is interest." "That's not true." " So he asks the priest :" ""what sins would be forgiven"..." ""Would they forgive adultery?" The priest says : "Yes"." "For two year pledge"." ""What about theft?" "Yes, for a three year pledge "" "So Felson mulls it over and says to the priest:" ""Better sign me up for ten"" "I brought you some food." "And warmth." "You're not like the others." "You're kind." "Was it Debelzaq, who hurt you?" "This place you taking me..." "What will happen to me there?" "Your innocence or guilt will be decided." "There was a girl in my village who was suspected of being a witch." "They put stones in her pockets and cast her into the lake." "If she drown, they would have known she was human." "But she didn't." "She lived." "They called it proof of magic, and burned at the stake." "Nothing of the kind will happen to you." "You will be given a fair trial." "You have my word on that." "She has talk anything?" "!" "Why are you ask?" " I only want alert him." "The witch is deceiver." "She turn one man against the another." "Whose to guard the wagen." "Guard the wagen?" "The girl is caged." "And I am tired." " I will go." "Prehaps someone else should take the first watch." " I'll go." "Do not worry, lad, there will be plenty of time between here and Severak." "Eckhart be watchfull." "I came to relieve you." "Not tired?" "No." "No!" "I don't sleep much these days." "I was thinking about how much the girl reminds me of my daughter." "Sorry for your lose." "What her name?" " Mila, her name was Mila." "Tell me, father..." "You say the Cardinal has given his word that she will have a fair trial." "But has he not also given his word end to the plague?" "What do you suggesting?" " Can you imagin the reaction of the people if she were not to be found guilty of witchcraft." "No Father, you know as well as I the church cannot afford that, not now." "No." "No, our responsibility is to deliver her for trail." "The monks will decide her fate." "Exactly." "The monks will decide her fate and I will not be a part of this," "No will the others, hopfully when they have heared what I have to say." "Wait!" "Please do not go." "Please, do not leave me alone with him." "Are you afraid?" "Listen to me." " Eckharte..." "I am not let it..." " Calm down." "Give me that key!" "How did she escape?" "She took the key from around my neck." "Which way did she go?" "Maybe she followed this road to the village." "Kay and Eckhart that way." "She's in the squar!" "There she is." "This is a grave..." "this is a mass grave." "Father!" "Wait here." "Father?" "Mila?" " Father?" "I'mhere." "Eckhart!" " Mila?" "!" " Father?" " Mila ...." " Father , where are you?" " Mila!" "My child." " Father?" "Is that you?" " Do not run away!" " Father." "Mila?" "!" "Papa..." "Mila?" "Eckhart!" "Felson!" "Behmen!" "Where you are?" "He came running out of no where." "Why did not he stopped?" "Why did not he see me?" "What dear God, what have I done?" "What have I done?" "He looked me in the eye, but he didn't see me." "He called me Mila." "Behmen." "I had to run, I had no choice." "I could not let him touch me again, I'm so sorry." "Please Please, do not take me back there." "Please, I beg you, please..." "Heavenly Father, we pray thee." "take thy servant Johan Eckhart, own to the Heavenly realm." "For he was a soldier of the cross and fought in thy name, and in the name of Thy only Son, Jesus Christ." "And thus did he die for the glory of God." "Amen." "Amen." "Would anyone care to offer some words?" "Let his sacrifice, not be in vain." "Behmen!" "Behmen!" "I must speak with you." "What is it now, Priest?" " You must warn the others be careful in her presence, not to, not to discuss personal matters, things she might use against..." "Listen to me!" "It was the witch, killed Eckhart." "You heard what Kay said, his mind was not his own." "She overheard us talking of his daughter." "What exactly are you suggesting?" "She sees the weakness that lies in our hearts." "And once she sees that, she will use against us." "Crusader!" "I am truly grateful for your help." "You're very brave." "A man like you could never stand to see young girl come to any harm." "Debelzaq believes , you are the blame for Eckhart death." "And you believe him?" "After what he did to me?" "I had no reason to harm Eckhart, he was nothing but kind to me." "He told me, I look like his daughter." "I can see his death weighs heavy on your mind." "Allow me to ease your pain." "Some good deeds can done even from behind bars." "Kay... remember this, It was not your fault." "It was the witch." "No one else." "He died by my sword." "It could just as easily have been another's." " But it was not." "It was mine." "I killed him." "Why are we stopped?" "You call that a bridge?" "Last time I saw it was eight or nine years ago." "I remember it differently." "Is that our reward for taking a swindler as our guide." "I told you, I am not a swindler." " You're not much of a guide either, are you?" "!" "How we are supposed to get across this rotting temper." "You are blaming me for the bridge?" "You're the one who led us to it." "You're the one..." "Behmen." "Behmen!" "Take everything of the wagon!" "Bring the horses across." "One by one." "It will be on my count of three." "One, two, three!" "My hands!" "Can not hold out much longer!" "Help!" "Hagamar, hitch a rope to the horses, that we will use them to pull the wagon." "If you let me out, it will be lighter." "Please, I can help." "It won't hold." " It will, push." "Push!" "You won't make it!" "Let me out." "Come on!" " Push!" "That was a little too close!" "I've saved your ass a hundred times." "Have a little faith." "Kay, bring me a fresh wrap for priest's hand." "It would be a shame if you bleed to death." "Thank you." "Felson!" "The flask." "Really?" "What is this place?" "Hagamar, where are we?" "The Wormwood forest." "Damn fog, like a veil before my eyes." " We haven't strayed from the path, have we?" "I can barely see my own hand in front of my face." "The only reason you're around is because you claimed you knew the way." "I know the way, it's just i can't see the way." "Maybe you like to try leading the way, huh?" "Enough, both of you!" "Okay, we camping on the road." "Wait for the fog past." "Kay told me what happened on the bridge." "He says, you saved his life." "With one hand." "Hard to believe." "We believe what we want to believe." "Do you believe I am a witch, Behmen?" "You are not afraid of me, are you?" "Trouble sleeping?" "My self as well." "I am not sure if it's the fog, the altitude..." "It's unsettling." "Even for a knight." "Let alone spineless scavenger like my self!" "That's not what I meant." "No...!" "Behmen, how many more are going to die before we reach a Severak?" "None, if I can help it." " And if you can't, what then what?" "Forgive me if I seem reluctant to put my life in your hands." "But I have a better solution." "We kill the bitch!" "Here and now, be done with it." "We tell whose back in "Molbow", she tried to escape, she meant us harm..." "What can we do?" "We had no choice." "And who will be the wiser?" "I, for one." "Did you hear that?" " What it's it?" "What is happening?" " Listen." " Quite." "Wolfs." "What do we do?" "Kill many as you can." "Oh no." " Get the horses, I'll take the wagon." "Behmen!" "It's too late." "We can not help him." "Behmen!" "What are you doing?" "Behmen, what are you doing?" " He is doing what comes naturllay killing the innocent." "You can not do this!" " Step aside Two lives have allready been lost." "No one grieves for that more than I." "Step aside or this arrow will be yours!" "If we fault her now, those lives will have been lost in vain." "Or will not be lost!" "Four lives will be spared." "And what are four lives, compared with the thousands more will be lost if this plague is not ended." "I know, there maybe no room in your heart for God, Behmen." "But in my heart I know he would not abandon us, in God's name..." "No man has spilt more blood in God's name than I." "A benevolent God, what are odds thus takes a man!" "If you kill her, you will not have God to blame." "Only yourself." "He ends the say." "Look." "Severak ..." "We've come a long way, Behmen." "Crossed oceans, deserts." "Seen things a few men have seen." "When this is over, I think i like see the valley where I was born." "And you?" "I have no such yearnings for home." " Then come with me," "I will shaw you my home." "We will sit in the hall where my forefathers sat and a drink ale." "And tell tales, few men have lived to tell." "A fewer still will believe!" "Either we will know the truth, my friend." "We will know." "Hello !" "..." "Is anyone there?" "Where are the monks?" " The chapel." "At this time, they should be in vespers." "My brothers, forgive the intrusion, but we have traveled far." "It can not be!" "He would not abandon us." "God would not abandon us." "We must go, there is no hope here." "Only the plague." "Go where?" "!" "These men were our hope." "We are in God's hands now." "Prayer is our only salvation." "Our Lord in heaven, Hallowed be thy name." "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done..." "As it is in heaven Give us this day, our daily bread" "And Forgive us our trespasses..." " Get up!" "...we forgive those how trespass against us..." " Get up!" "And lead us nary to temptation." " But deliver us from evil." "A last..." "Debelzaq..." "The Key of Solomon book of wich the cardinal spoke." "Within this pages is sayed to be all the rituals, prayers, and incantations used by holy men, through out the ages to defend against the forces of evil." "Can you perform the ritual?" "What have we here?" "Is this the fair trial you promised me, Behmen?" "You see with your own fate." "Let it be known to all here present And before God, himself." "that this woman stands accused of witchcraft," "That she is admitted to call up the plague against all mankind." "I'm flattered." "But I must confess..." "I have deceived you..." " You think you can save yourself by recanting, but you're wrong, speak the truth now before God!" "The truth?" "Do not speak to me of the truth, you hypocrite." "For centuries you and your ilk have been burning, hanging, crucifying anyone who stood in thier way." "In truth, I shall thank you." "The church has sent more souls to Perdition than all of the wars, famines and pestilences is put together." "That's a lie, Witch!" " Debelzaq, the ritual!" "And you, Behmen?" "All you needed was a child to save." "Someone to ease your pitful guilt." "Do you truly think that saving one racked wave, would change anything?" "Come Behmen." "Your sins are legend." "How many innocent have fallen beneath that very blade?" "!" "Theyaregodlesspeople Infidels" "They sinned against God and against his only son, Jesus Christ!" "They must be punished" "How could you know?" "This no witch!" "This no witch..." "Do not utter those words!" "We're gonna need more Holly water." "Here!" "Tell me, Behmen..." "Are we going in there to defeat the demon?" "Or to save the girl?" "Both." "I have found more holly water." " You've done well." "This as far as you go, Kay." " I don't understand." "This is not your battle." "I took a vow to join your cause." "I release you from your vow, there's no shame in it." "Honor is not as thing to be dismissed or forgotten." "A vow must be fulfilled, else, there is no vow at all." "Even at the cost of your life?" " Even then." "Kneel, Kay." "Speak after me." "Grant me courage, O Lord..." " Grant me courage, O Lord..." "For I'm thy servant." " For I'm thy servant." "And guard me with strength into battle..." " And guard me with strength into battle..." "That I may crush thine enemies ..." " That I may crush thine enemies ..." "As dust before the wind." "As dust before the wind." "Amen." " Amen." " Amen." "Rise a knight." "Felson..." "What is it?" "I know in my heart, I haven't earned this." "You will." "The Demon could've escaped any time." "Why did it wait untill we reach Severak?" "Prehaps escape wasn't its purpose." "It wantes to be here." "Debelzaq, you said Eckhart tried to free her." "And I will not be a part of this..." " Father!" " Mila?" "And it killed him, and Hagamar too." "He stood in its way." "Wekillthebitch!" "Here and now, be done with it." "It wanted to come here from the very beginig." " My God!" "The sooner we get her to Severak, the better." "He's right." "Everything it's done, has led us here." "Over Here." "Why would a dying monk do this to him self?" "!" "Why would he tie himself to a desk?" "It's a passage from Book of Solomon." "Have more over here" "And more." "They were Copying it." "To spread the wisdom of Solomon to all the corners of the earth, the pietism beyond." "It wants the book!" "That why the demon deceived us into believe in the girl was witch." "It knew that a witch will be brought to those who possess the Book of Solomon." "You've seen what this plague has done..." "If the book would've fall into the demon's hands..." "We would face an endless darkness." "It's our last defence." "I should thank all of you." "You sacrificed so much to deliver me here." "And now you've brought me the book." "Debelzaq ..." "Silence!" "Watch out!" " Behmen!" "Where are they?" "!" "Who?" "The Monks?" "You can weaken it!" "You have to keep reading." "The head..." "Cut off their heads!" "They're like cockroaches." "Felson!" "You have no idea how bad cause of book cause to me till over the centuries." "I destroyed the others." "This is the last one." "You'll be buying tonight my friend." "Felson!" "Finish it!" "Behmen..." "What can I do?" "Keep her safe." "God be with you, Felson." "It's strange..." "To owe so much to someone I've never even knew." "I do not know what to say." "Say what is with in your heart." "My name is Anna." "I owe you my life." "God keep you." "Will you tell me about them?" "I want to know them." "So the plague past and life returned to the land." "ThereareManywho Say the plaguewasnothing but a pestilence that finally broke,  likethepassingofa fever." "Theydon'tknow the darkness that almost was." "Thesacrificesmade..." "Theheroeslost..." "I'lltellthierstory." "Iwas there ." "Iknow."