01x02 - The Vision of Taliesin

[bunniefuu]

[tense music]

[baby crying]

Behold Taliesin of the radiant brow

and in his voice will be
born a kingdom of summer.

Hail, Taliesin, I
confess I should not like

to miss the chance to fight
under your blessing once more.

Then you shall have it.

[thunder roaring]

[soldier clamoring]
[limbs thudding]

Ah!

Your father has given
audience to a large group

of strangely dressed Britains.

Our father, Morgain.

King Elphin Ap Gwyddno,

I present to you my daughter,

the Princess Charis savior of our people.

[crowd cheering]
[hooves clopping]

[horse neighing]

I know the price for
the power you display.

I'll never spill blood for power.

You will be my bard proclaiming my reign

in the world of men.

[weapon thuds]
[flesh mushing]

[creature speaking in a ancient Celtic]

Taliesin.

You are my father, that the
gods should w*r for my soul.

The treasure is my son, a
bard of extraordinary talent.

♪ Hoo-hah ♪

It wasn't my intention

to intrude into your thought.

[gate thuds]
[bull grunts]

You intruded it into my soul.

I know what the bull god offered you,

Cernunnos has offered me the same.

And?

I made the same choice you did

Then damn us both.

[Annubi] True power is
k*lling what you love, little girl.

Not letting it k*ll you.

[flesh mushing]
[animal screaming]

[screen booms]
[suspenseful music]

[screen swooshes]

[suspenseful music]

[weapons clattering]
[people chattering]

Death before sl*very!

[dramatic music]

[feet clacking]
[dramatic music continues]

Elphin, you can't let
this happen. [panting]

Elphin, no, we don't have
to do this now. Come on.

We don't have to do this.

We don't have to do this!

Stay back, stay back, stay back!

You're supposed to be our king!

[crowd clamoring]

[walls rumbling]
[crowd clamoring]

[dagger clanks across the floor]

[dramatic music]
[crowd clamoring]

[walls rumbling and crumbling]

[crowd clamoring]

[rocks crashing]
[dramatic music]

[Charis speaking Atlantean]

[Avallach speaking Atlantean]

[Charis speaking Atlantean]

No, Ah! [grunting]

[wall explodes]
[crowd clamoring]

Annubi!

[dramatic music]

Help me. [grunting]

[group grunting]
[dramatic music]

[Annubi speaking Atlantean]

[dramatic music]
[Avallach groans]

[dramatic music]
[rocks crashing]

[sword clinking]
[dramatic music continues]

[rocks crashing]

[boulders exploding]
[dramatic music]

[Charis speaking Atlantean]

[wall explodes]
[rocks crashing]

[Charis speaking Atlantean]

[dramatic music]
[rocks crashing]

[Charis speaking Atlantean]

[child whimpering]
[rocks exploding]

[dramatic music]
[Charis panting]

[wall explodes]
[rocks crashing]

[dramatic music]
[child whimpering]

[buildings crashing]

[Charis speaking Atlantean]

[dramatic music]
[buildings crashing]

[dramatic music]

[dramatic music continues]

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[dramatic music continues]
[choir vocalizing]

[dramatic music continues]
[choir vocalizing]

I was with my Lord in the heavens

when Lucifer fell into the depths of hell.

I carried a banner before Alexander.

In each, I called the stars by name

from North to the South.

I was an architect of Nimrod's tower.

I was three times in
the prison of Arianrhod.

I witnessed the destruction
of Sodom and Gomorrah.

I upheld Moses through the sea.

I was with my Lord in the
manger of oxen and asses.

I called stars by name
from North to South.

I was Architect of Nimrod's tower.

I received my awen
from Ceridwen's Cauldron.

In the dark times men may
find Him and see the light.

In the dark times men
[speaking indistinctly].

[dramatic music]

[hooves clopping]
[Taliesin speaks indistinctly]

I received my awen
from Ceridwen's Cauldron.

Taliesin?

Some people call me poet and bard,

henceforth I shall be known
as prophet Taliesin I am,

and my name shall remain until doomsday.

What have you done?
My Lord, we have done little

but listen to his declarations all night.

Taliesin, Taliesin?

There you're, Hafgan.

Father, I have met the Great Light,

the Supreme Spirit,
the Lord of All Worlds.

There are many spirits, Taliesin.

Yet my Lord reigns over them all.

I know that gods w*r for you, son.

My God has died for me.

Maybe so, but I need you now.

There are pressing matters at hand.

Pressing matters?

Father, nations not yet
born must come to know him.

Enough!

We're leaving, boy.

What's happened?

The Atlantean King
would make sl*ves of us.

Avallach spoke in ignorance.

Men have had their throats cut for less.

Come. We are no longer
welcome in these lands.

[dramatic music]

[saddle patting]

[buckles clinking]
[dramatic music continues]

[hooves clopping]
[buckles clinking]

[pensive music]

[feet clacking]

[chair clacking]

The Savior of Her people should not

be lurking in a crypt.

Don't call me that.

You should not be ashamed

of the name you've earned.

Your brother secured the ships.

Only because you beset him.

None of us believed your prophecy.

It's a sorry god that demands
the blood of his people.

And a sorry people who give it.

And yet,

if I had given myself to Bel...

No, it was arrogance

that doomed Atlantis.

My arrogance.

And would you doom us again?

Why have you sent the Cymry away?

I offered them a great gift, a new start.

Land of their own.

You offered them sl*very, Father.

I only asked that they defend our people.

They are a warrior race after all.

And what are we?

We? We've seen enough w*r.

What you asked would've
made them less than a people

and Elphin less than a king.

King without land is no king at all.

[feet clacking]

[suspenseful music]

All of this is an illusion,

an echo of a voice that has died.

And soon that echo will cease.

[suspenseful music]

But it has not ceased yet.

[suspenseful music]

[feet clacking]

Do you love him then?

I don't know.

[feet clacking]
[suspenseful music]

[suspenseful music]

[optimistic music]
[birds squawking]

[hooves clopping]

[hooves clopping]

[feet thuds]

You ride with purpose, Singer.

Charis, I had to see you.

And so you have.

[suspenseful music]
[lips smacking]

What is it?

[feet clacking]
[suspenseful music]

My people are leaving these lands and-

Sh, whatever has gone wrong,

we can make it right, together.

[tense music]

[feet clacking]

[Taliesin inhales]

Makieviea.

[flame roars]
[tense music]

Why, Morgain?

To show you, my love,

[feet clacking]
[suspenseful music]

I have power too.

Think of what we could be together.

What we could accomplish.

What of your foal?

The one we saved in birth?

I don't hear it.

She's asleep.

I'd like to see.
Do not mock my sacrifice.

[ominous music]

Men are weak, Taliesin.

Unwilling to pay the
price for better world.

But not you.

I will do whatever is required.

But you, your gifts come so easily.

Do not presume to know
what I have sacrificed.

I would know. I would know you.

I would know your ways.

I would be your wife, Taliesin,

your lover, and your queen.

Together we could build
the world more powerful

than Atlantis itself.

Atlantis rests the bottom
of the sea, Morgain.

[feet clacking]
[ominous music]

There is a new power at work in the world.

I've seen it.

A God who does not ask us to sacrifice

what we love, but who
sacrifices what He loves for us.

[suspenseful music]

[Taliesin grunts]
[hooves clopping]

[horse neighs]
[hooves clopping]

I pray you find Him.

[optimistic music]

[hooves clopping]

[optimistic music continues]
[hooves continue clopping]

[rope creaks]
[Charis crashes]

[tense music]
[Charis panting]

[weapon clicks]
[tense music continues]

[button clicks]

[raiders clamoring]

[sword clinks]
[raider grunting]

[dramatic music]

[foot thuds]
[raider groans]

[spear thuds]
[flesh mushing]

[Charis and raider crashes]

Ah! [grunts]

[raiders clamoring]
[weapons swooshes and clinks]

[spear thuds]
[raider growls]

[Charis coughing]
[tense music]

[Charis crashing]
[raider growling]

[foot pounds]
[raider groans]

[rock thuds]
[raider whines]

[weapon thuds]
[Charis whines]

[Charis coughs]
[ominous music]

[foot thuds]
[raiders grunting]

[raiders crashing]

[dramatic music]
[raiders clamoring]

[horse neighs]
[optimistic music]

Charis?

[optimistic music]

[Taliesin sighs]
[optimistic music continues]

[horse neighs]

I've never seen these men before.

Irish sea wolves.

No doubt they came up Mor
Hafren looking for easy plunder.

Clearly they didn't find it.

If you'd seen me in the bull ring,

you would not look at me that way.

[mellow music]

Marry me, Charis.

What?

I will not be separated from you,

not by my father or yours.

Then you have heard.

Even now my people prepare to ride.

Charis, look at me.

I love you.

Do you not speak to me of love.

Why? Are you not worthy of it?

I told you, my life ended out there.

But here, Charis. Here, it begins again.

We are each given only one life, Singer.

No, we're given another

if we'd receive it.

Pretty words, perhaps you should put them

in one of your songs.

Charis, Listen...

[tense music]

[lips smacking]

[door clattering]

[feet clacking]

Charis, what has happened?

I was attacked while riding.

The Cymry, while you show them generosity,

they scheme against you.

He is a fool who can no
longer tell friend from foe.

That was not the Cymry
but the Irish raiders.

Father, I would speak to you alone.

[fire crackling]

[feet clacking]

[door thuds]

He poisons your mind, Father.

You are out of line.

Are you hurt?

Had the singer not been there...

Had the singer not been
there, I would not be here.

What reward would you have me give him

that compares to what I've
already offered his people?

Taliesin seeks no reward,
nor would he accept any.

What then?

You must reconsider
your offer to the Cymry.

Must?

Give them the land
unencumbered by any condition.

Must?

We will not survive without them.

Enough!

[Avallach snorts]

I know it has been lonely for you.

Taliesin is an ally. Nothing more.

You swear?

Mm.

[Avallach chuckles]

You are not to leave the
palace again until they've gone.

You would make me a
prisoner in my own home?

We are a noble people.

Our race is a noble race.

It need not be this way!

I will not give my
daughter to a barbarian.

If you want to marry,

I will find someone, one of our own kind.

There are many in my brother's house

who would gladly marry you.

Tactfully put Father.

I might be more grateful were I one

of your brood mares.

[Avallach chuckles]

[feet clacking]

You drove me away once before.

Do you remember?

[suspenseful music]
[fire crackling]

Please, please, do not
drive me away again.

Allow me to go to him freely

so that I may return freely.

This is more bitter to me than death.

No, you cannot bind me
to you with false feeling.

I'm dying here, Father.

Every day I die a little more.

And I say you shall not leave.

[suspenseful music]

[feet clacking]
[suspenseful music]

[hooves clopping]
[ground crackling]

[feet thuds]
[metal clinking]

[fire crackling]

Taliesin, at last.

Father, I must speak with you.

We may speak on the trail.

Tonight there's work to be done.

You would leave so soon?

Not soon enough.

We may mend this rift yet.

I've spoken with Charis.

The princess?

She'll speak to her father on our behalf.

The old fool will not bend.

That is your anger talking.

I will not listen.

He's Faer Folk are just that:

anemic, weak armed men
unwilling to fight for their own.

Don't mince words.

We should take the land that we need.

We're not thieves.

No, we're less than thieves.

Father, these people have known w*r

beyond anything we have ever seen.

They are cowards.

[suspenseful music]

Do you know why
Avallach walks with a limp?

He was betrayed by his own brother kings

in a terrible civil w*r.

Avallach was tied face-to-face
with his own dead son.

For three long days, he lay in the heat,

in the stench waiting to die.

He's no coward.

Enduring hardship does not
make one an honorable man.

Is he the one speaking of theft and w*r?

Why beholdest the
mote in thy brother's eye,

but consider not the beam in thy own?

[fire crackling]
[suspenseful music]

[feet clacking]

[hand pats]

I would be less than a king

if I ignored open insults
to our people, Taliesin.

[fire crackling]
[tense music]

It's time to go.

[fire crackling]
[buckle clinking]

A woman with beauty
and spirit, a treasure.

One need not be not be the great Taliesin

to see the love written on your face.

It's true. I do love the Princess Charis.

[fire crackling]
[tense music]

I would marry her.

Is she the one who taught you that riddle?

[chuckles] No, old friend.
It's from the Great Light.

I met Him in the other world.

I see.

He's the one, Hafgan.

Mm.
I'm certain of it.

He lived as a man among men in the east.

Think of it.

I remember the elders
telling me of this God Man

in the east,

but there are many gods.

Would it not be best to worship this one

alongside the others?

Why worship the creature
when the creator is present?

And yet to turn away from
the gods of our fathers?

[fire crackling]
[tense music]

I will not abandon the Princess Charis.

Your path has ever
been your own, Taliesin.

Where you came from, no man knows.

Where you are going, no man can say.

[fire crackling]
[tense music]

But you will be missed

by those who have carried you this far.

[fire crackling]
[tense music]

[dramatic music]

[fire crackling]
[feet clacking]

[soldiers speaking indistinctly]

[Morgain humming]

[Morgain continues humming]
[suspenseful music]

[Morgain continues humming]
[feet clacking]

You should know the stables
would be locked and guarded.

If you were planning on
trying to escape the palace.

You sing the bard's song.

I find his music soothing.

Do you not?

[feet clacking]
[suspenseful music]

I have no quarrel with you, Morgain,

but let us have an understanding.

An understanding, how so?

About Taliesin.

He has declared his love for me.

[feet clacking]

And it is his wish that
we should be married.

[suspenseful music]
[feet clacking]

Cowbane.

If you don't cook them properly,

you become their victim.

As if they eat you inside out.

[dramatic music]

You would have drowned
on the shores of Sarras

if not for me.

I held you in my arms.

Comforted you in the hull
of that wretched vessel.

And am I to thank you
for this life that I have,

ignored and forgotten?

Shall I revere you like the rest of them

and call you savior?

I forbid you to interfere in my affairs.

[scoffs] Oh.

But you are choked with doubt, aren't you?

You are too sure of yourself.

[feet clacking]
[weapons clinking]

Am I?

[dramatic music]

Father, don't do this!

[door knocking]

Father!

[door knocking]

[Charis panting]
[thunder roaring]

[fire crackling]

[feet clacking]

[items clacking and crashing]

[lid clicks and thuds]

[suspenseful music]

[window thudding]

[dramatic music]

[thunder roaring]
[window squeaks]

[eerie music]

[sword clinks]

[feet clacking]

How did you get up here?

What, a bull dancer afraid of heights?

I tried to come to you.

My people are leaving in the morning

And my father has hardened his heart.

We can't stay here.

Our people will not see reason tonight,

but they may yet if we leave,

You would leave your home?

There is no life for me here, Taliesin.

Not without you.

[fire crackling]

[lips smacking]

[Taliesin and Charis panting]

I would wait till we're married

in the way of the Christians.

I'm sure I could trust
another god, Taliesin.

Then trust in me.

[feet clacking]

Wait.

[feet clacking]

[sword scratching]

I had this sword crafted for my father

by the High King's own smith.

[Taliesin exhales]

Surely there's no other like it.

Even among my people, it has no rival.

An art lost to the sea,

like everything else about our home.

My father rejected the gift.

We were estranged and...

But now

I offer it to my husband.

[Taliesin chuckles]

[eerie music]
[Taliesin gasps]

[sword clinks]
[tense music]

[spirits chattering indistinctly]

The writing says,

"Take me up."

And here,

[dramatic music]

[spirits speaking indistinctly]

Cast me aside.

Cast me aside.

You can read our language?

Perhaps it's best to

leave it here with your other belongings,

so your father may be
assured of our return.

[feet clacking]

[sword clinks]

Forgive me, Father.

[lid creaks]
[latches clinking]

[lid thuds]

[crickets croaking]

[water sploshing and burbling]

[Dafyd and Taliesin laughing]

Brother, hey.

[Taliesin chuckles]
[Taliesin panting]

[mellow music]
[flame roaring]

[water burbling]
[mellow music]

[mellow music continues]

[water sploshing]

[eerie music]
[people clamoring]

[flames roaring]
[ground rumbling]

[uplifting music]

[sword screeching]
[uplifting music continues]

[uplifting music]

[sword slices]

[uplifting music continues]

[Charis panting]
[water sploshing]

[mellow music]
[Charis panting]

[Dafyd speaking Latin]

[Dafyd speaking Latin]

[Dafyd speaking Latin]

In no mine Patris, et
Filii, et Spiritus Sancti

Amen.

[crickets croaking]
[fire crackling]

[mellow music]

[mellow music continues]
[fire crackling]

[uplifting music]

[uplifting music continues]

[birds squawking and chirping]

[ground crackling]
[birds chirping]

Where are you, my love?

A place I've never been.

Free.

Something left me, when I came out

to the water last night, I...

A tormentor who's been
my constant companion for

as long as I can remember.

Jesu will not share you
with the spirit of the past.

It is for freedom He's made you free.

How is it you know so much
of the Good God's ways.

Wherever I came from,
it was for this purpose,

to know Him

and to proclaim Him.

[birds chirping]

I have nothing to offer, my love.

No wedding gift but myself.

No home, no lands.

[birds chirping]

All the world belongs to us, my lady.

Then where shall we go?

Dafyd the priest has kin in the west.

Perhaps they'll receive us in his name.

[Merlin squawking]

What is it?

I'm not...

What have you found?

A hawk.

A Merlin.

[birds chirping]

[wings fluttering]

Ah!
Easy.

I'm trying to help you.

[birds chirping]
[mellow music]

[Merlin chirps]

Sh.

[Merlin squawking]

[mellow music]
[birds chirping]

What are we going to do with you?

Most wild things cannot
be healed, Charis, they die.

[optimistic music]

I didn't.

[Taliesin chuckles]
[optimistic music]

[buckles clinking]
[hooves clopping]

[dramatic music]

[dramatic music continues]

[buckles clinking]
[dramatic music continues]

[dramatic music continues]

[dramatic music continues]

[dramatic music]

[feet clacking]
[metal clinking]

[sheep bleats]
[hooves clopping]

[people chattering]

[wine sloshing]
[feet clacking]

Lord Pendaran, the bard
Taliesin of Elphin and Gwyneth.

[group murmuring indistinctly]

[wings fluttering]
[feet clacking]

Do you offer the bird or the girl?

[group laughing]

I offer a song, King Pendaran,

and greetings from your kinsman, Dafyd,

priest of Jesu, the Most High.

Dafyd is a fool.

He spoke highly of you.

Let's just leave. There are
others who would welcome us.

It seems King Pendaran suffers from a lack

of common courtesy.

Worry not, though the cure
is painful, it's rarely fatal.

Sing beggar, you're
beginning to tax my generosity!

Our most grievous hardship indeed

when one obviously has so little to spare.

[cup clinking]
[group groans]

[suspenseful music]
[fire crackling]

Lord Pendaran, I know something of these

so-called derwydd holy men.

[suspenseful music]

[staff clacks]

Any man can play the
harp and call himself a bard.

Allow me to prove him before he sings.

[suspenseful music]
[group whispering]

[staff knocks]

Tell me, if you can,

the qualities of the

nine bodily humors.

You take unfair advantage, friend.

Druid wisdom does not
embrace such hollow falsehood.

[chuckles] The man deems false

what he does not know.

[group laughing]

Then tell me,

what is the proper sacrifice

to restore virility

and to which god is it made?

There is but one True God

and a true bard makes no sacrifice

for that which can be
cured with simple herbs.

[Calpurnius snorts]

Herbs, the man says, herbs. [chuckles]

[group laughing]

Lord Pendaran, the man is a liar.

And worse, he is a blasphemer!

So you are discovered.

You will be flogged and driven out,

but your lady will stay.

If a man can be flogged from your court

for speaking the truth,

then I think you've listened long enough

to this false priest.

[staff knocks]

I will have your tongue, beggar.

Not before I have yours, son of lies, sh!

Hleed ramo felsk!

Hleed rasmo felsk!

Mlur flag in.

[group laughing]

Hleed ramo felsk!

[dagger clanks on ground]

[group laughing]

Meeko relumi relumi!

Sh, sh, sh, sh, sh.

Relumi!

You may have to learn
to speak like a man again,

but at least you'll still
have your tongue to do it,

which is more than you'd have given me.

Enough!

[swords slicing]
[tense music]

♪ Summer light in time recedes ♪

♪ The cold air claims ♪

♪ The leaves, the leaves ♪

♪ And many a woman ♪

♪ Who waits for word ♪

♪ The cost of the fighting season ♪

♪ The cost of the fighting season ♪

♪ Math ap Mathonwy ♪

♪ Ruled the western lands ♪

♪ Gwynedd, Dyfed, and
Lloeger in his hands ♪

♪ All his eyes be held, be held ♪

♪ And all the people were his realm ♪

♪ When the dew of creation ♪

♪ Was still fresh upon the land ♪

♪ The fair maiden, Goewin was her name ♪

♪ From Don Pebin, westward then she came ♪

♪ Offering it seemed, it seemed ♪

♪ Life eternal to the king ♪

♪ As long as that sweet virgin ♪

♪ Held his feet and knew no shame ♪

♪ Summer light in time recedes ♪

♪ The cold air claims ♪

♪ The leaves, the leaves ♪

♪ And many a woman ♪

♪ Waits for word the cost ♪

♪ Of the fighting season ♪

♪ The cost of the fighting season ♪

♪ Math came home from w*r only to find ♪

♪ His maiden's magic
had in fighting time ♪

♪ Been claimed by force ♪

♪ By force and guile ♪

♪ The magic stolen from fair child ♪

♪ Now neither king ♪

♪ Nor lass would know ♪

♪ The life of olden times ♪

♪ Summer light in time recedes ♪

♪ The cold air claims ♪

♪ The leaves, the leaves ♪

♪ And many a woman awaits for word ♪

♪ The cost of the fighting season ♪

[suspenseful music]
[fire crackling]

[spirited music]

[necklace clacking]

I am your servant, King Pendaran.

No, no, you are the master of all men

within the sound of your voice.

I stand ashamed and humbled before you.

Know by this, Taliesin shall reside here

as bard to me,

and you will receive and honor him

as your master.

For such he is.

[forearm slaps]
[uplifting music]

[uplifting music continues]

The Merlin is restless.

I believe he's ready to fly.

[seat creaking]
[spirited music]

[lips smacking]

Should we give him a chance to prove it?

[feet clacking]
[spirited music]

[spirited music continues]

[uplifting music]

[buckles clinking]
[hooves clopping]

[wings fluttering]
[Merlin squawking]

[horse snorts]

I was raised beyond those mountains.

I've never heard you
speak about your home.

We haven't found it yet.

But I see it.

I've seen a land shining with goodness

where each man protects
his brother's dignity

as well as his own,

where w*r and want have ceased

and all men live under the same law

of love and honor.

I've seen a land

bright with truth

where a man's word is his pledge

and falsehood is banished,

where children sleep safe

in their mother's arms

and never know fear

or pain.

I've seen a land where kings
extend their hands in justice

rather than reach for the sword,

where mercy, kindness,

compassion flow like deep water

over the land,

and men revere virtue,

revere truth, revere beauty,

above comfort, pleasure or selfish gain.

A land where peace reigns

in the hearts of men and faith blazes like

a beacon from every hill

and love like a fire from every hearth.

Where the True God

is worshiped and His
ways are claimed by all.

[spirited music]

It's a wonderful dream.

Nah, it's not a dream.

It's the true world.

But it's not our world.

No, not yet.

It's the Kingdom of Summer.

The kingdom that will

shine like the suns so
that all men may know

and see what the Good
God intended for it to be.

And I will be its king.

Charis, Charis?

[dramatic music]
[Charis screaming]

Push, push, girl.

[Charis screaming and whimpering]

[Charis screaming and whimpering]

[hands thud]
[suspenseful music]

[Taliesin sobs]

Jesu befall me.

[Taliesin speaking indistinctly]

Please. [sobbing]

Please.

[Taliesin sobs]
[suspenseful music]

[door clattering]

[feet clacking]

Hafgan? [chuckles]

[Hafgan chuckles]

Dafyd? What do you here?

We bring news of peace between our people

and King Avallach.

Peace?

The Atlantean king
has repented for his evil

and sought the forgiveness of Jesu.

And of your father.

He seeks the same from
you and his lady daughter.

He offers you his kingdom, Taliesin.

[Taliesin chuckles]

You'll be king of the
Summerlands, Taliesin.

The Kingdom of Summer?

King Avallach sends this
as a sign of his sincerity.

[sword clacking]
[suspenseful music]

[sword scratches]
[spirits speaks indistinctly]

[sword scratches and clinks]

[sword clinking]

Lady Charis, my wife,

she's not well.

[Charis whining and grunting]

Push it, girl!

[Charis whining and grunting]

I'm here.
Push it.

I'm right here.

Ah, ah!

Move side now.

Ah! [panting] Hafgan?

[Charis whining and sobbing]

Ah, ah! [whimpering]

Dafyd, Dafyd, ah!

Go again, I can see it, lady, push!

Push it out now.

[Charis screaming and whining]

[flesh mushing]
[Charis panting]

No. [panting]

The baby's dead.

No, no, no!

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!

[Charis crying and whimpering]

No, no, no, no!

[Charis crying and whimpering]

No, no. [crying and whimpering]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Charis crying and whimpering]
[somber music]

No, Taliesin, Taliesin, no, no!

[Charis crying and whimpering]
[somber music]

Taliesin?

[somber music]
[thunder roaring]

[water pattering]
[Taliesin sobbing]

No, Taliesin!
Taliesin?

Taliesin?

[somber music]
[Taliesin whimpering]

Jesu!

[somber music]

Jesu!

Taliesin!

[somber music]
[water pattering]

[thunder rumbling]
[Taliesin humming]

[Taliesin humming]
[spirited music]

God in heaven.

[Taliesin humming]

[baby gasping and babbling]
[baby whining]

[Charis and Taliesin chuckling]

[baby cooing]
[spirited music]

[Taliesin chuckles]
[Charis chuckles]

[baby cooing]
[Charis chuckling]

My son has the eyes of a hawk.

A Merlin.

[spirited music]
[Charis chuckling]

[baby cooing]

[Charis chuckling]
[Taliesin sighs]

[arrow thuds]
[thunder roaring]

[somber music]

No, no.

Die!

No!

[thunder roaring]

[Hafgan screams]

No!

[somber music]
[baby crying]

[thunder roaring]
[somber music continues]

[Morgain panting]
[somber music continues]

[baby crying]

[dramatic music]
[rain pattering]

[dramatic music continues]

[dramatic music continues]

[dramatic music]

Merlin Emrys has returned

to the land of the living.

They say Merlin is of the fearful,

my king, they call him endless, immortal.

Merlin was a myth before
our father was even born,

but he is legend in these lands.

He's nearly an otherworldly being.

Merlin died long before you

and I were born.

A great darkness is
falling upon this land.

Until this island is ruled by one,

there will be no peace.

Here is your hope and
the hope of our people.

A king will arise to hold
all Britain in his hand.

A high king will be the
wonder of the world.

[soldier screaming]
[swords clinking]

You.

[dramatic music]

[somber music]

[somber music continues]

[somber music continues]

[somber music continues]

[somber music continues]

[somber music continues]

[somber music continues]

[somber music continues]

[somber music]

[somber music continues]