02x05 - Bargain

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You would come here to hallow deep.

Are you pleased?

Are you satisfied?

When we make it through this labyrinth,
then I will be satisfied.

If we make it through.

You cannot follow me here, Domination.
Not here. Not even you.

What do you mean, if?

This place does not willingly release
its prey.

Then why have you brought us here?

Because this was the wish of your
leaders.

Despite of my warnings.

So we are lost before we begin.

We are not lost, Neve.

Nor I as the means to see us to our
goal.

A gift from Kartalos.

A thaumaturgical compass.

This one shall guide us to the lantern
of Strala.

And the one who wields it. The truth
seeker.

I thought she was lost.

Lost and bound here.

captured by the riptides of shadow.

Lost, but not beyond finding.

We believe the talisman can lead us to
the light of her lantern.

Such a relic has the power to dissipate
the shadows of even this foul place.

Though I continue to question why no one
has used a talisman before, why have we

abandoned one of our own?

Because the danger to
Hamahal is now greater

than the risk incurred by its rescue.

We have neither the time nor the desire
to linger in these halls.

Lead on, Lorai.

And will always be.

No, no.

Flesh without soul.

Fruit without fruit.

of necessity.

Too late.

Your daughter is beneath the waves.

Her soul is here.

Your efforts are in vain.

Do you bring hope, or further confusion?

I am Niamh Blacktallon, and we have
ventured into Harrowdeep to find you. In

finding me, you have become lost in
time.

Lorai of the Eidoneth guides us to you.

And with your help, she will guide us
out of the Nethermaid.

Out to where?

To the realm of the fiend Belacor, to
whom we bring vengeance.

Then you bring me not just liberation,
but a worthy quarry.

Let the enemies of Sigma and of Truth
tower before us.

So there is no deception between us. I
must tell you that my last encounter

the Daughters of Kain did not end
amicably.

He did not.

I am a pariah, a follower of the Crone
Seer. My own encounters with my sisters

have not always ended amicably either.

I have spent a long time in Harrowdeep.

To survive is to forge unusual alliances.

Then this is no different.

There is one great difference.

You offer me the chance of vengeance.

Eternus is the one who condemned me to
this place.

Then let us seize this chance.

Then should you have been here long
since, I gave the Winged Ones orders to

bring the rest of the harvest
immediately.

I will wait no longer.

We will proceed.

But know this, Aeternus. If what you
have brought me is insufficient, you and

your men will take the place of the
wretches you've failed to bring me.

Why do you wish for two portals to
different realms?

What do we need of so small an entrance
to Harrowdeep when we march on

Hammerhall? We will not march on
Hammerhall immediately.

First, we will drown it. The shadow
substance that runs through Harrowdeep

be gone. It is more than an element in
reopening my passage to Hammerhall.

It is my first and greatest as*ault.

This final harvest will unleash the
shadow seeds upon Sigma's twin city.

Begin the ritual.

We cannot save them.

No. But perhaps we can free them.

It will not matter.

Calpheon?

Though I have left this place
before, I can never truly escape it.

What do you mean?

Harrowdeep.

It is as though I am bound to it,
cursed to forever walk its shadow paths.

I have thought myself abandoned.

We must trust in Sigmar's plan.

I will hunt them down, my lord.

Their fiends will adorn the steps of
your throne.

No.

No. But the vermin in the fortress must
be found.

They will be a new cause.

I have one more useful task for you.

I live to serve.

Return to Herody.

Gather the new...

Is that awful?

Not quite.

They seem certain of the route.

Loroid guidance has been unerring thus
far.

This will work, then. We will corner
Balakor in his lair.

Yes.

What is it?

I should not know this.

How could you not?

I know, but...

They bear the mark of Bellacor.

We must stop this.

We are close to our goal.

We are.

I will not leave the
enemy to do as they will.

We cannot afford to be distracted.

Find and hold the way open.

Rosted and I will deal with these wretches.

We will not abandon these swords.

You have my word.

Very well.

A more vital battle awaits beyond the
gates of Harrowdeep.

It must be.

Traitor!

What I do, I do for Sigma and the
greater cause.

You need not understand.

You shall not utter Sigma's name.

It is well, then.

Yes, the bargain is fulfilled.

Then it is time we leave this place.

The mark of heraldry is on our souls now.

We will never truly leave.