"Why aren't you here?" "Isn't he great?" "Not bad for a slave, huh?" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "You got him!" "What a fight!" "He is so powerful!" "Yeah!" "Yes, that's it, kill him!" "That was amazing!" "Bravo!" "I'm really happy you enjoyed the entertainment from our fighters," "Lord Akilonius." "Today has been an excellent day." "Think so, Valeria?" "Perfect father." "I don't think I've ever seen anything so horrifying." "Well in that case let's repeat it, no?" "Wouldn't be a problem at all." "Next year, Flavius, next year." "I see, well uh, well if you ever you ever, change your mind..." "May I show you my gladiators, since your daughter asked?" "The few, that I have left anyway." "The first one is Harkon." "It was two years ago that I bought from the mines." "He wears light armor because of a minor problem with his back." "Ok there's uh, more than a little something with his eyes." "This one here is our Otis!" "He was a runner." "Don't remember where I got him from." "All I know is that he's strong as a horse, and fast as a hound dog." "Stray dog is more like it." ""Stray dog" you say!" "?" "Oh that's a funny one, a stray dog he said." "You stray dog." "Stray dog." "That's a good description." ""Good one"." "And last, I show you, my Dragar!" "Also known as "The Beast of the North."" "He's clearly my best one, Noswaldian stock originally." "His tribe killed lots of our men." "Horrible tribe." "I want him." "Ma'am, he's not for sale." "This is the one I want." "Valeria, he's a Noswaldian." "And that's why he'd be so expensive if he were for sale." "And?" "I never had a gladiator of my own." "And do what with him?" "You've got no business with him." "Please tell her, father." "In any case, I mean if you like we can talk about the other two, can give you a good deal with them..." "Is it my birthday or not'?" "That doesn't mean you can act with insanity." "Exactly, now the other two over there..." "Alright, alright, alright..." "I'll buy him for you." "Thank you." "Let's go inside." "Now we get to talk price, am I right?" "We'll talk Inside." "I'll give you a good deal for him, I..." "I wasn't thinking about selling him." "But now that you mentioned it..." "And take him to the Baths." "Get that stench off of him." "Buying her that slave was a mistake." "You're spoiling her." "I know what's best for my children." "And the children of the House of Akilonius, I'll give them only the best." "Have I ever disappointed you?" "But then you never like the rich girls I show you at court, you're in love with a slave." "When is the wedding?" "Thank you." "On the next Moon." "No one expects it?" "You tell her?" "It doesn't matter." "This is our custom and she will obey it." "With your mother it was the same." "Come on son, come on." "Be careful and watch your sister." "Don't let her alone with all those hypocrites and people-pleasers in this place." "Now, go." "You're making the biggest mistake of your life, slave." "Hand her over." "Right now." "Stay back!" "Do you think I'm gonna let you take my daughter just like that?" "I'll let her go once I'm away from here." "I'll crucify you on the gates of this place!" "I'll find you, wherever you go..." "I'll be waiting for you." "I told you to watch her!" "You did this!" "Wait, what do you mean?" "Your monster took my daughter." "Took her in what way?" "He kidnapped her!" "He kidnapped her and then he escaped!" "But what could I..." "Falco?" "Falco!" "Muster up the scout troops." "Bring the scouts, now!" "Guards!" "Octavius, send messengers everywhere in the area." "I want all the roads sealed off and all the patrols on alert." "A reward, my reward to any mercenary, any soldier, any dirty little farmer who captures, or kills the Noswaldian." "Arm yourself." "Arm yourself!" "Pick up a damned sword!" "And you." "Get those lackeys you brought with you." "And follow me outside, do it right now!" "From now on you all follow my orders!" "You have no idea how powerful my father is, slave!" "Do what I say, if you wanna live." "What is it, Falco?" " I found tracks." " Where?" "On the mountain, due North." "I followed them to a point, but then they disappear." "How far ahead are they?" "He must have changed his course." "Probably take us, 3 or 4 hours." "There, what I tell you?" "If we had taken the horses we'd be on them by now." "In this terrain here?" "The horses would slow us down!" "We'll get horses later if we need them." "We're loosing daylight." "What are your orders?" "There will be no rest." "We need to make up for all the ground that we've lost!" "Anybody who doesn't keep up and falls behind, gets no food, gets no water!" "Now let's move out!" "Just stay back there." "It's what you want from me." "Get on with it and leave me here." "Do it." "Then let me go." "Someone give me a logical answer." "How is it possible we haven't found him?" "I sealed off every way in and out, we should have caught him!" "He's got the home advantage, he knows the land well." "And we can factor in luck." "You know what the big factor is, the only big factor here is your incompetence!" "Look over there..." "Horse thieves, Wanderers, cutthroats." "Can't trust any of them." "If I had the Empire with me and its real soldiers, just a few real men and this would be over!" "Listen." "I've got new plans for you." "We're gonna surround him, and then I'll kill him like a dog." "I'm taking my guards and heading north to Noswaldy." "There's an Imperial Outpost here." "We'll get there fast, and ask for reinforcements." "And you, this is when you'll go on foot behind them, toward the North." "We will come down to south and trap him both ways." "Soldier, go find Flavius, and don't let him escape." "That snake will come with us." "Falco!" "You're in command." "Make sure you don't lose his tracks!" "Father wait!" "Why did you put him in charge like this?" "Why am I even here?" "You don't trust my ability?" "It's nothing to do with that." "It's about experience." "You know you can trust me, I would never fail you." "Put me in charge and everything will go smoothly." "I've been training for years." "Then you know the most important thing is a practical mind and to stay disciplined." "And by the Gods what I say is what goes for everyone!" "Don't you see them?" "Those soldiers there have their own code." "That's why I've left Falco in charge." "But we won't forget, we're paying him." "You look out for us." "Make sure he makes no mistakes." "Where to, Flavius?" "Umm, now?" "Uhh I wasn't going anywhere..." "I was trying to get a little comfortable... this tree I really like it." "Back to your post." "Get back to your post at once!" "We've got a long way to the outpost." "Tell me, what can I, what can I do for you?" "I'm just a, simple slave trader." "I'm not any good at fighting, I'm a weakling not worth the trouble." "I'm no use to you." "Then there's my asthma, the mosquitoes biting me, ants everywhere." "I don't think I'm any use to you." "I should stay back and you should move on now." "I'm not gonna fall for that." "My daughter is in danger because of you." "If she gets hurt, I'll make sure that you suffer." "You'll stay with us until the end." "I'm a prisoner of yours now?" "If that's what I say you are." "And you will do what I tell you to." "Others have tried that before I must say." "You know this is pointless." "What do you mean?" "All this." "This hide and seek." "This madness of yours is leading you nowhere fast." "Sooner or later you're going to be dead when my father finds us." "There'll be no escape for you." "Just forget it." "You'll never make it out of this place." "I will live!" "Only cowards talk like you." "You have no right to say what I can or cannot do." "Only I get to say that!" "I'd learn that fast if were you!" "Something you want you fight for it." "You don't stop, you do whatever it takes!" "Here you are telling me I can't make it because you don't think I can make it." "In the old days for boys to become warriors they were left in these woods." "They had to survive alone with no help for two weeks." "Each boy by himself." "Whoever had enough will to survive and struggled made it." "I wanted to be accepted into the warrior cast." "I fought hard, I bled hard, I starved, I nearly died." "I did what I had to." "I conquered my fear." "But my cousin Fulgrim, on the other hand, he was like you." "He was a failure." "He could never believe in himself." "He gave up." "And then what?" "And then came the Empire." "But that doesn't mean that we give up." "We adapted and survived." "That's what we always do." "But how could you understand?" "There's no way to learn all this locked up inside a palace." "That's right." "It's not the same." "I'll just wait right here and look after the horses!" "Go!" "Bring Flavius here." "The white one is kicking hard!" "Where is the fortress?" "The guards?" "The battlements?" "Nothing we can see shows any sign an Empire was ever here at all." "We come in the name of the Emperor." "Where is the guard?" "Where is the fortress?" "General, I don't think he understands our language." "Don't be fooled by appearances." "He understands me." "He understands me perfectly." "I want to see your leader at once." "This means you wait here." "Flavius, with me." " Why don't I..." " I said move!" "Visitors, my Lord." "I will see them." "Akilonius." "General of the Empire." "The 3rd Legion." "Are you the commander of the guard?" "The guard?" "Us Northerners do things little differently." "My people may be wild ones, but surely I serve the Empire here." "We're pursuing a slave." "He escaped kidnapping my daughter." "I need your men to capture him." "I understand you." "I'll do what I can." "Meanwhile the weather is rough." "Rest here for a little while." "When it clears, I'll help you out with what you need." "Let's not waste time;" "We need to go as soon as possible." "We will be walking all night." "You should rest now that you can." "I won't take orders from you, Falco." "Remember your place." "I've seen the way you look at us." "Like we're less than you." "The other men don't like you." "I don't blame them." "They're not my equals." "I pay you all to do a job that's it." "That's all I expect from you." "We're not going to be friends." "Problem is war gets messy." "You aren't going to need friends." "You'll need comrades." "Brothers." "To stand by you with one purpose." "To fight together with you." "And possibly die together too." "Forgive me, but this is something you noblemen will never understand." "Ever." "And in the end you'll die alone in the end." "I don't think I've ever seen so many men crammed into such a small ditch like that." "They were stepping over their dead so they could reach our position." "Even then, we held them back." "Remember that time I was out of arrows, and then I threw everything I could find?" "Yep, never forget it." "You even threw the Imperial banner at em... so they couldn't tell if we were with them or against them." "Yeah yeah yeah." "The same thing happened when we fought the Battle of Gazar!" "Gazar?" "What are you all talking about?" "We were selling protection to that merchant from Coverton." "You guys are such liars!" "Then you remember what happened rig ht before every battle." "In that short time when everything got quite, somebody from somewhere would start to sing... and that song would spread to everyone." "We stand as one!" "We stand as many!" "Lord Octavius, I'm sure you've got a story to share." "No more stories for tonight, let's get some rest." "Fletcher, you're on first watch, keep your eyes open." "You have 4 hours and then we're moving out." "Here will do fine." "What do you mean?" "I'm leaving you here." "They'll find you soon enough." "Just be careful there are bandits in these parts." "We found him." "Tell your men to launch their attack." "Wait a minute, somethings not right." "He's setting her free?" "That's not what I see." "We have to attack now!" "We came for Valeria, I won't risk my men for no reason." "I don't care." "This slave must meet his death." "I'll handle this, do something and we could lose our chance." "Shoot him." "You might hit Valeria." "Shoot him!" "Right." "For now just take care of the wounded, then bury the dead." "I'll go find Octavius." "I'm late, I'll head for the Outpost." "I was sure you would come back to us one day." "Forgive me." "Forgive you for what?" "If I could, I would've never left without you." "That doesn't matter." "I always knew that you were alive." "I'm finally free, Brenna." "We have a chance to start over again." "All in good time, my love." "Valeria?" "By the Gods, I never thought I'd see you alive." "Are you alright?" "I'm fine." "Where's Father?" "Where's he?" "He went to get help in the north, but now I found you." "No men with you?" "Yeah, the others are waiting for us." "Why did you ask that?" "What you, don't you think I'm enough?" "Let's go." "Why are you acting like this?" "What did he do to you?" "Did he hit you'?" "He touched you?" "I would cut off his hands if he dare lay a finger on you." "Nobody can put his hands on you." "Nobody!" "Stop it." "What you mean stop this now?" "Don't worry it's me." "I love you." "Stop it now!" "It never gonna happen again." "Why?" "I'm gonna tell our father." "I'll tell him all of it!" "It doesn't matter." "Our father he doesn't care." "He was always telling me he wanted the blood of the family to stay pure." "You lie too much." "You'll be my wife." "That's always been the custom of our House." "You must've known this." "Don't touch me!" "Never touch me again!" "I will touch you as much as I want!" "Dragar!" "Shut." "Dragar!" "Dragar!" "Let my sister and me go and my father will let you live after this." "He'll be here any minute with all of his mercenaries." "They'll slay you!" "Just spare my life, please let me go!" "I'll give you anything!" "If you want Valeria?" "Keep her then!" "I'll give you gold;" "I'll give you women." "I'll give you anything please just let me go!" "Please just let me go!" "Look at her." "Look at her!" "How much longer does this go on?" "The weather's still rough." "You need to wait." "I need to wait." "I need to wait!" "?" "Just how much..." "It's not just my daughter out there, it's also my son." "He is in danger too!" "I welcomed you in to my home." "I could have left you outside to freeze, with the wolves." "So now let me also remind you that I am a General of the Empire." "Enough of this!" "It's your duty to the Empire to assist us." "The sun that sets here is different." "If any harm comes to my family..." "I swear to you..." "I'll bring an army and I'll wipe this place off the earth!" "DO it." "Get up!" "Get up!" "You stink like wine!" "Let's go we're out of here!" "I said we're out of here." "All of you out of here!" "Can we speak now?" "Spill n." "Alright." "This is really simple." "Her father hired me to track you down and bring her back to him." "If he were here now, he would be asking for your head." "But he's not here." "Which means that I don't have any quarrel with you." "We could end this, without any bloodshed if you get what I mean." "Yeah." "And what do you want me to do now?" "First you give me the girl, then I take her back, and that's the end of the story." "You know I still am standing here." "And how do I know her father won't follow after me?" "He's not coming after you." "Her father left for an Outpost to get some help." "I'll bring him his daughter, everything will be fine." "And you can go wherever else you have to go." "Excuse me, but don't I get to have a say in any of this at all?" "That works." "Take her and get out of here." "Hey!" "Good plan." "Let's go." "Can either of you just shut his big mouth!" "Did anyone ask if I agree?" "Now look.." "I'm not going anywhere." "I'm not going back to my hypocrite father!" "Hey look..." "No, I won't go!" "I'm not somebody's property." "Nobody gets to drag me around like that." "I make all my own choices and damn anyone who tries to force me otherwise 'cause they're gonna have hell to pay." "I'm not going back to my father." "I hate him!" "Yeah." "I've got to get back to my home." "You can take of this." "Bravo." "Bravo you egotistical piece of slop!" "Go back, go back to your pigsty!" "So listen, after what happened back there," "I'll get in trouble." "Shouldn't we just get out of here?" "Why don't you shut up?" "Anybody who works for my father;" "I can't trust them." "I don't want anything to do with you." "I've decided to follow Dragar." "Unbelievable..." "And they tell me I talk in my sleep." "But you should hear yourself, no offense." "You were shouting in your sleep calling a woman's name, it was..." "Bran..." "Brenna." "She your wife?" "Yeah." "How long has it been?" "Been 4 years now." "Since I was made into a slave." "4 years is really a long time." "It was nothing believe me." "I would do it again, if I had to do it." "Yeah, but a lot of things can change in a really short time." "Well I don't care." "I just wanna get home in one piece." "I miss her." "You love her a lot." "How's a person not supposed to love his family?" "Beautiful girl, eh?" "Funny, isn't it?" "You know how many stories have been written?" "How many adventures, how many wars have started because of a woman?" "And you aren't you doing the same?" "Mind your business." "I'm doing that." "And it has cost me dearly." "You know, I once met a woman." "She was pretty." "Was thinking we could make a family." "She and I." "Of course the Empire had other plans." "When they call you, you have to go." "At least the pay was good." "I had to be away for a little while." "I won't go into detail, but we got into trouble with Apostates of the Dragonphoenix Church, some Wizards, with some Corsairs and..." "Never mind." "After 6 or so months," "I went back home." "She had another man." "Just know this, Barbarian, a woman can hurt you more than the pain of swords plunged in between your ribs." "You'll wish you'd gone and died in battle." "Our women wouldn't do anything like that." "They're braver than your men." "Now what's wrong?" "We're going in circles." "That's what's wrong!" "We passed through here before I know." "It feels like something's got us trapped in this place." "Hey, you just got confused." "You need to let go of my good arm right now." "What were those things?" "Did they follow us?" "I don't hear anything." "Let's..." "Better back off!" "Or else?" "You'll do what?" "Are you alright?" " I saw..." " I know." " You alright?" " Yes." "Thanks a lot for leaving me alone back there." "What now?" "Let's go now." "I think we'll find our way out of here." "Here, look." "This road takes us..." "This road takes us directly northwest," "So if we follow it that way we'll find the Outpost." "You'll go that way." "I'm going back to my home." "And me?" "What about you?" "What will become of me?" "Not my business." "So you don't care?" "So I promised to set you free." "After what happened with the other guy, you chose to follow me." "Now I'm going home." "And you, go wherever you want." "Dragar is right." "You saw it with your own eyes." "The world is far too dangerous for someone like you." "Wouldn't it be better if you just went home?" "Go back home for whom?" "So what are you gonna do then?" "Wander around these mountains and woods?" "Is that your plan?" "I guess..." "Yeah, I guess so." "Valeria, whatever problems you may have with your father can be solved by talking things over..." "I don't know what happened with Octavius and I don't care." "I took on a mission to take you back to your father." "And that's final!" "Dragar is going home, and we're going to the Outpost now." "And nothing else matters, Valeria." "If I see Akilonius, I'll tell him you're already dead, or that we lost you." "I wonder what you'll tell him about his dead son." "I'll think of something." "Forgive me." "Forgive you for what?" "If it had been up to me, I would have never left you." "Do you know how much I had to go through to..." "Dragar!" "I'm a free man, Brenna." "That means we can start over again." "But how?" "I know a long time has passed." "But I'm here now." "Come, let's go inside." "How are things going in the village?" "You'll see." "And the men from the Empire?" "You have any problems with them?" "No, no." "We took care of things as much as we could." "Alright." "Eh, you still have it?" "There's something I have to tell you." "And what's this?" "It's been over four years... and then just like that, you turn up from nowhere." "Like nothing ever happened..." "Something inside me told me you died." "But I came back to you." "Isn't that what matters?" "Too late for that." "I was alone for a long time." "I didn't know what I was supposed to do, or where I should go." "And so I decided to move on and to accept your death." "I came back here just for you." "Just for you." "You have no idea what I went through." "I risked my life and the lives of others so I could come come back to you." "What changed you?" "How'd they get you?" "Nobody did anything to me, Dragar." "I had to make my choices." "I had to adjust." "To survive." "The way we live, the way that our people will always do whatever it takes." "Are you done?" "Fulgrim?" "You Traitor!" "Traitor eh?" "What I offered our village and Brenna, was a life beyond their dreams." "I expanded their limits." "I turned a bunch of uncivilized people into warriors." "And I became a God." "And now you...?" "You really thought that Brenna would wait for you forever?" "Fury?" "Anger?" "Apparently, you still believe that you can face any challenge that comes your way with raw strength, I see." "That's too bad." "You've spent too much time as a slave." "You've forgotten what it means to truly be free." "Maybe I should show you something." "You believe in the Gods, Dragar?" "The Gods never helped me." "That's just because you never believed in the right ones." "The Grim Reaper of Souls, the Messenger of Total Anguish..." "Ilsarel." "Mother, The Conqueror of Lethanian." "He who 200 years ago almost brought the whole Empire to its knees." "But Lethanian didn't win." "Lethanian was a fool who believed in the Empire's rules." "He didn't respect ilsarel the way that she deserved to be." "But my name is not Lethanian." "And I give to the Glorious Mother, all that she truly deserves from us." "I am her Will on this earth." "And the Soul Eater is her Hand." "She chose me for this." "And when the Sun and the Three Moons line position as one," "I will do her bidding in all things." "Nobody's unstoppable, Dragar." "Everyone bows to somebody at some point." "Even you, just wait and see." "Tomorrow before you die I'll have you bow before me." "Take him away and chain him up with all the others." "This isn't an Outpost." "Somethings going on." "Are you sure we came to the right place here?" "I've got my bearings right." "They caught him." "Impossible..." "It can't be that this place is..." "What?" "Your father's Outpost, and Dragar's village are one in the same." "Which means your father is also a prisoner." "I'll wait till it gets dark, then I'll see what's going on." "You better wait back here." "I'm going with you." "You're staying here." "I am going with you." "Dragar rescued me." "Stay behind me." "Where is my daughter?" "Where is my daughter?" "What you do to her?" "What you do to her?" "I'm going to find the armory." "You take these keys and open the cages as quietly as possible." "Take them, hurry up." "I can't stand that, could you stop that whistling now!" "Valeria?" "Valeria!" "Can you hear me, Valeria?" "It's your father." "Why are you here?" "We saw that you had been captured, so we came to help you escape." "Falco?" "On his way." "Valeria what is this?" "Talking with the Barbarian?" "This is the monster who kidnapped you, Valeria!" "This is the "monster" who treated me with honesty unlike you or my brother." "What are you talking about?" "You know very well what I'm talking about." "Octavius, where is he?" " Falco!" " Who's that!" "?" "Where are the others held?" "They've got them close by." "We walked into a village of lunatics." "Take your weapons and get out of here." "I'm out of here." "Go now we'll catch up later on." "We're gonna talk." "Now just set me free." "I'm your father." "I think you lost that privilege." "To fall by the hand of a slave..." "So be it." "Do it now." "There will come a time when you'll regret doing this." "Where are they?" "A bit further down;" "Getting weapons." "We're all ready to get out of here." "Where is your father?" "Drop your weapons." "DO it." "Farewell." "But why?" "Go tell the others to hurry up now." "We're leaving." "How do we get out of here?" "Go that way." "Just go straight until you find the river." "And you?" "They're close." "We should hurry." "There're more of them coming from the east." "They will surround us." "I say we split up right now and go." "And I say you're not our commander." "But he's right." "You work for me from here on out." "And I'll double your reward." "Again with that junk?" "This time it'll work." "Stay in position." "Kill as many as you can." "They're going to have to lure us out." "We we stand as one!" "We stand as many!" "Fulgrim?" "Fulgrim?" "Otto!" "Otto!" "I told you before." "I bow to no one." "I did not seek you." "Where will you go?" "I don't know." "Wherever the road takes me." "This is all I have left." "And the only thing I trust." "I'm tired too." "Of noblemen, the Empire, all of it." "I'll take Valeria home and then probably work as a mercenary." "The pay is good and it's a better job overall." "You know, you could always join us." "Semi" "I should thank you." "Look after yourself, okay." "You too." "And if you ever need anything all you have to do is ask me you know that..." "Just don't become like your brother and father." "You become like them, I'll find you." "I don't know why you're not coming with me." "You still have a bounty placed on your head, don't you know that?" "Every mercenary out there will be looking for you." "You're even and outlaw to your own nation, Dragar!"