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93. Here is the other half! (Murtagh part 2/2) · The Book-Watchers

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  Speaker 1: Leon its results muckmall. That's what it's called bej devina
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  Speaker 1: at that part up. So, this demon fish, known by
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  Speaker 1: the locals as the muck Mall, had been terrorizing the
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  Speaker 1: had been terrorizing the ports for better part of seventy years.
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  Speaker 1: And after visiting the local dives around the city, he
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  Speaker 1: learns from some of the fishermen that about seventy years ago,
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  Speaker 1: there were these foolish boys that had been playing games
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  Speaker 1: near the lakeside. They'd done some fishing, and they did
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  Speaker 1: some stuff that were not really kosher, not using I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure. So these boys were playing around and they
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  Speaker 1: wanted to see how long it would take for some
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  Speaker 1: fish they caught to suffocate. So they pulled them out
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  Speaker 1: of the water and laid them on the ground outside
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  Speaker 1: of the water, and they just wanted to see how
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  Speaker 1: long the fish would last. Right, that's kind of fucked up, yeap.
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  Speaker 1: The thing is is that their little game attracted the
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  Speaker 1: attention of a certain man sorcerer, of a certain sorcerer
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  Speaker 1: with blood red hair and pale skin. It was Dursa
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  Speaker 1: the shade.
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  Speaker 2: Oh like not you, I'm pale skin and red hair.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. In the world of Allegasia, there are these beings
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  Speaker 1: called shades. Shades are sorcerers in the inheritance cycle. Sorcerers
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  Speaker 1: are magicians who use the ancient languish to summon spirits
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  Speaker 1: to serve them. The thing is, sorcery is very dangerous
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  Speaker 1: because compelling spirits to do their bidding is considered is
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  Speaker 1: very dangerous because if they summon the wrong kind of spirit,
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  Speaker 1: those spirits can possess you. And when they and when
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  Speaker 1: they possess you, they turn you into a shade. And
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  Speaker 1: shades are very powerful. They are very powerful spell casters,
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  Speaker 1: and they're also physically more powerful. So in er in
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  Speaker 1: the Aragon world, if you naturally have more magic in
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  Speaker 1: your body, it does have it does have a physical
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  Speaker 1: effect on you. So for elves who are who have
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  Speaker 1: the highest amount of magic users and they are naturally
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  Speaker 1: they naturally have more magic than humans do. They are
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  Speaker 1: physically more powerful than humans. So elves are stronger, they're faster,
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  Speaker 1: all right. They're often described as even at their weakest,
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  Speaker 1: they are described as still being stronger than the strongest man.
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  Speaker 1: So if they're like physically incapacitated, they could still break
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  Speaker 1: your neck with ease. And shades are no different but
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  Speaker 1: shades are even stronger than elves. Yeah, and Durza was
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  Speaker 1: a shade that had been terrorizing Allegasia for a little
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  Speaker 1: over one hundred years, and he had actually at one
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  Speaker 1: point was serving Galbatorux. The thing is, as it turns out,
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  Speaker 1: this this very shade Durza created the muck Maw. He
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  Speaker 1: saw the boys playing, he saw what the boys were doing,
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  Speaker 1: and the boys were terrified of him. But he but
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  Speaker 1: he was like, oh, it's just a game, right, Let's
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  Speaker 1: watch and see who which of these fish lasts the longest.
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  Speaker 1: So they watch as like there was like about four
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  Speaker 1: or five fish that were just flopping on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: All but one of them dies. On the very last
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  Speaker 1: one that starts to die, Dursa picks it up, casts
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  Speaker 1: a spell on it, and throws it back in the water.
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  Speaker 1: A few years later, that very same fish shows up,
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  Speaker 1: but it's bigger and it's meaner, and it was believed
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  Speaker 1: that Derza had placed a curse on that fish to
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  Speaker 1: not only transform it into the muck Maw, but this
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  Speaker 1: the Muckmaw would be compelled to track down those boys.
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  Speaker 1: So for the next seventy years, anytime those boys would
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  Speaker 1: get even close to the close to the to the lake,
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  Speaker 1: Muckmah would show up and tear shit up. It would
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  Speaker 1: destroy ships like small It wasn't big enough to destroy
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  Speaker 1: like an entire sea galleon, but it was big enough
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  Speaker 1: to destroy small fishing boats. It would eat any animal
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  Speaker 1: getting too close to this, getting too close to the
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  Speaker 1: shore fishermen. It was just a terror. And the thing
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  Speaker 1: about it is is that Durza had already placed had
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  Speaker 1: also placed enchantments on it that would make it like
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  Speaker 1: very hard to catch sure as well as kill. So
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  Speaker 1: for seventy years people have been trying to kill the Muckma,
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  Speaker 1: but without much success. Now Murtog had to do that.
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  Speaker 1: But Murtog was confident because they never a dragon, They
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  Speaker 1: never had a dragon writer try it before. So they
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  Speaker 1: figure out that the Muckma. He figures out that the
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  Speaker 1: Muckma would often could often be found in a certain
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  Speaker 1: in a certain marshy area by the lake. So he
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  Speaker 1: leaves the city with and goes back to Thorn and
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  Speaker 1: they fly to this marsh. The thing is, though he
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  Speaker 1: needed another He needed something specific in order to in
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  Speaker 1: order to properly capture the muckmauh. The Werekat had told
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  Speaker 1: him that he would need a scale, a dragon scale,
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  Speaker 1: but not just any dragon scale. He would need the
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  Speaker 1: dragon scale of the dead dragon later ooh, And the
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  Speaker 1: thing is that Murtog the entire time that he was
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  Speaker 1: in the city was he been. He was really just
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  Speaker 1: battling his guilt and his like memories of the last
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  Speaker 1: time he was in Gilead, Because the last time he
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  Speaker 1: was in Gilead, he he was leading the forces of
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  Speaker 1: Galbatorux against the elves, and he himself personally fought Aramis.
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  Speaker 1: And this was where and it was over Gillilead that
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  Speaker 1: Murtog had killed Oramis and Glater. And the thing is
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  Speaker 1: is that Glater was so large that when he fell
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  Speaker 1: from the sky, the elves, rather than take his body
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  Speaker 1: somewhere else, they had buried it. They had burned it
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  Speaker 1: and buried the remains deep within, like deep beneath the earth,
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  Speaker 1: just outside of the city and above where his where
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  Speaker 1: his body was buried, they had planted a large tree.
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  Speaker 1: So he needed to get a good, good line of rope,
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  Speaker 1: and he needed a scale from Glater's body. The thing is, though,
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  Speaker 1: is that in order to get the scale, he had
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  Speaker 1: to be very careful because he knew that the elves
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  Speaker 1: would have placed protective wards around the body to prevent
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  Speaker 1: anybody from trying to loot it. Because dragon skills are
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  Speaker 1: pretty pressure are pretty valuable, he knew he couldn't use
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  Speaker 1: a spell to like just directly call a scale from
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  Speaker 1: under the earth to him, So, getting clever, he uses
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  Speaker 1: a spell to rather, instead of grabbing a scale directly
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  Speaker 1: and pulling it out of the earth, he uses it
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  Speaker 1: to put to draw water from the surrounding area and
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  Speaker 1: push a dragon scale up from beneath the earth, and
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  Speaker 1: he manages to succeed. And the thing is, he made
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  Speaker 1: a mistake of grabbing the scale directly and it does
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  Speaker 1: trigger a a ward which alerts the nearby the elves
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  Speaker 1: in the city, and one of the elves began attacking
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  Speaker 1: h Murtog mentally, and Murtog was able to fight to
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  Speaker 1: fight the elf off. And the thing is, elves they're
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  Speaker 1: very powerful mental duellists, and while Murtog is no is
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  Speaker 1: no novice in mental duels, still, elves are pretty challenging
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  Speaker 1: and he manages to uh get He manages to break
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  Speaker 1: the mental connection with the elf by grabbing his dagger
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  Speaker 1: and stabbing himself and in the leg. Because thing about
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  Speaker 1: mental duels, you can easily distract the assailant on your
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  Speaker 1: mind by causing yourself some form of physical pain, because
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  Speaker 1: they'll feel that pain and it'll kind of cause them
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  Speaker 1: to like the like ow. And he was able to
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  Speaker 1: break the connection. And once he was able to do that,
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  Speaker 1: he immediately dropped the scale, pulled out a little sack,
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  Speaker 1: and uh carefully pick it up without making physical like
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  Speaker 1: skin contact with it. I'm sorry, Am I putting you sleep? No? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm putting okay, I'm just checking because I see you closing.
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  Speaker 3: Your eyes and you know, I don't want to repeat
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  Speaker 3: it that one time got up Okay, I'm all right,
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  Speaker 3: I'm okay. I am a little a little tired. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: but continue, but little I've also up put like I
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  Speaker 3: was up at like five point thirty okay for a
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  Speaker 3: long for a long while. But I'm still I'm still listening.
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  Speaker 3: The last time I did kind of doze off. Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 3: I got you, my god, Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, he manages so anyway, as I was saying, Murtog
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  Speaker 1: manages to carefully pick up the golden scale using a
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  Speaker 1: cloth and puts it in a sack, making sure not
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  Speaker 1: to touch it, and the thing is though when the
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  Speaker 1: elf was it was assaulting him. Some of the nearby
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  Speaker 1: people noticed that he had a dragon scale and immediately
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  Speaker 1: called for help, but Murtock manages to escape. He and
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  Speaker 1: Thorn take off and had immediately straight for the marsh.
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  Speaker 1: Carefully tying the dragon scale to a ligne, he throws
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  Speaker 1: it into the water and using his own mind, he
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  Speaker 1: tries to scan and see if he could detect the
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  Speaker 1: muck Ma, but for some reason, his mind is not
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  Speaker 1: able to touch the muck Mah's mind. Thorn also uses
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  Speaker 1: his own mind to try to sense Muckmah, and while
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  Speaker 1: he does sense it, he describes its mind as like
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  Speaker 1: something slippery, like every time he tries to make contact
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  Speaker 1: with the Muckma, it's like it's mind just slips out
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  Speaker 1: of his mental grasp. So that's another trap. That's another trap,
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  Speaker 1: like another ward that Derza had placed on the muckm
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  Speaker 1: Like Durza had placed an extensive amount of words on
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  Speaker 1: the muckment to make it as hard to kill and
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  Speaker 1: capture as possible. Murtog tries to use the name of
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  Speaker 1: names to strip it of the wards, but every time
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  Speaker 1: he used it, the wards would just come back, and
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  Speaker 1: at first he thought, oh great, is this another wordless
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  Speaker 1: spell in place? But then he realizes that nope, Derza
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  Speaker 1: had placed specific wards on the Muckmaw that would basically
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  Speaker 1: like every time one ward would fail, another one would activate.
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  Speaker 1: So there were like layers and layers of layers of
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  Speaker 1: wards placed on the stupid fish. So again Murtog was like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna have to get my hands dirty.
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  Speaker 1: So he does manage to use the scale to hook
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  Speaker 1: the Muckmah and with Thorn's help, they do snare it.
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  Speaker 1: But the thing is, Muckmah turns out to be more
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  Speaker 1: intelligent and it ends up pulling Murtog deeper into the water.
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  Speaker 1: While in the water, Murtog notices that there was like
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  Speaker 1: a large amount of dead bodies in this marsh. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: He later realizes that this was the last the last
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  Speaker 1: battleground between the Galbatorus's soldiers and the elves. The elves
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  Speaker 1: had pushed the the the remaining soldiers into the marsh
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  Speaker 1: and they had ended up drowning or being eaten by
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  Speaker 1: the muck mal So it was a pretty shocking sight
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  Speaker 1: for Murtog, and something that later throughout the book, he's
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  Speaker 1: not able to really forget because you know, most of
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  Speaker 1: the men that served Galbatorus, they were coerced, they were
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  Speaker 1: forced into servitude, and when the Barden took over, uh
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  Speaker 1: Aragon had used the name of Names to release every
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  Speaker 1: person that was forced to swear allegiance to Galbaltarus in
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  Speaker 1: the ancient language. He releases them. And because of that,
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  Speaker 1: the Masuata had given the old soldiers a choice. You
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  Speaker 1: can continue. We'll let you continue as a soldier as
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  Speaker 1: so long as you swear allegiance to me in the
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  Speaker 1: comment ngue, not in the ancient language. We're not going
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  Speaker 1: to force you into that kind of servitude. Or you
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  Speaker 1: could just go home. You're released from your service. Most
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  Speaker 1: of the soldiers went home, which understandable, like most of
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  Speaker 1: them didn't even want to be a soldier. They were
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  Speaker 1: forced to beat Galbatorus's soldiers. But still, seeing that these
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  Speaker 1: men had been so like needlessly slaughtered and put into
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  Speaker 1: a watery grave deeply affected him. And then anyway back
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  Speaker 1: to the point he was dragged deep under the water
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  Speaker 1: by the muckmaw and he didn't have his sword on,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't have his sword handy. Well, he did have it,
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  Speaker 1: but it got knocked out of his hands, and when
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  Speaker 1: the Muckmaw pushed him down to the to the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the of the marsh bed, he managed to snag
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  Speaker 1: a spear from the bottom of the He manages to
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  Speaker 1: grab a spear from the bottom of the water, and
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  Speaker 1: he jabs it into the Muckmah's head, and surprisingly that
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  Speaker 1: does manage to kill the Muckmah. All this other shit,
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  Speaker 1: all these words and like, he manages to grab the
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  Speaker 1: one thing that can kill it, a stick. But granted
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  Speaker 1: he stabbed it through the eye. Think about Murtog is
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  Speaker 1: that because of what Galbatorks had done to him as well.
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  Speaker 1: Murtog is about as strong as an as an elf. Granted,
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  Speaker 1: after Galviators was defeated and Murtog gave the Eldnari away,
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  Speaker 1: he lost most of that strength because it was coming
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  Speaker 1: from like an enchantment, but he's still much stronger than
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  Speaker 1: a normal human. So when he stabs the Muckmah and
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  Speaker 1: the eye like, he drives that thing right through its
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  Speaker 1: brain and Muckmah dies floats to the surface. Thorn was
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  Speaker 1: able to pull Murtog out of the water and after
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  Speaker 1: recovering for a bit and retrieving his sword, they quickly
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  Speaker 1: pull the Muckmah onto the shore. Murtog cuts off its head,
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  Speaker 1: wraps it in a blanket, and the two of them
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  Speaker 1: head back to the The two of them head back
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  Speaker 1: to the city. Murtog decides to wait until the like
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  Speaker 1: closer to the morning, because this was all happening in
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  Speaker 1: the dead of night, and just as he was leaving,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of fishermen comes upon him. Thorn quickly hides,
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  Speaker 1: which surprises Murtog because Thorns is a pretty big dragon.
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  Speaker 1: But it was like it was funny because like when
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  Speaker 1: the fishermen come upon them, like Murtog looks away from Thorn,
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  Speaker 1: looks back, and Thorn is just gone, Like you can
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  Speaker 1: see that little imp, that little outline, Like so like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: dragons are surprisingly stealthy. Yeah, but when the fisherman comes
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  Speaker 1: upon Murtog and sees the corpse of the Muckmah, they're
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  Speaker 1: really shocked. And he's like, you killed it. He's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it almost killed me, but I got it. Listen, you
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  Speaker 1: guys can do whatever you want with the body, like
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  Speaker 1: takes he grabs like he grabs his he the head,
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  Speaker 1: slings it over his shoulder and he's like, this is
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  Speaker 1: all I need and just walks off. They wait. Murtog
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  Speaker 1: waits until it's closer the morning. He carefully sneaks back
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  Speaker 1: into the city. Luckily, the people that saw him steal
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  Speaker 1: the dragon the dragon scale did not really see his face,
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  Speaker 1: so he wasn't really worried about being recognized. He takes
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  Speaker 1: the head to the first company. He was told by
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  Speaker 1: the wearcat that the captain of the first company will
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  Speaker 1: accept him if he will accept him if he brings
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  Speaker 1: the muckmaas head, because there had been a reward put
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  Speaker 1: out for the muckma's head and captain of the the
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  Speaker 1: captain of the guard was the one who put out
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  Speaker 1: the balance he for the muckmah and he would grant him,
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  Speaker 1: so basically, you would get it. You would get a
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  Speaker 1: hefty award like about I think like two hundred gold
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  Speaker 1: pieces or something. It was a fat reward and pretty
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  Speaker 1: much anything he wanted. So Murtog shows up at the
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  Speaker 1: first Company. He presents the muckmat to the captain of
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  Speaker 1: the of the company and guy's like, okay, all right,
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  Speaker 1: I see you, I see you. Well, here's your reward.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anything else I can do for you? Murtough
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  Speaker 1: was like, yeah, I'd like to join you guys. Oh
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  Speaker 1: Like the guy's like, oh now, why would you want
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  Speaker 1: to do that. Murtoc plays it off as like, oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I fought in the war. I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 1: say which side I fought on, but I fought in
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  Speaker 1: the war, and I'd like to do something other. I'd
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  Speaker 1: like to do something that doesn't involve me having to
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  Speaker 1: kill people.
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  Speaker 2: That's fair.
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  Speaker 1: And Captain of the Guard was like, that's fair. All right,
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  Speaker 1: you're in. And the were Cat had told Murtalk exactly
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  Speaker 1: where he needed to go in order to get to
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  Speaker 1: where the where she suspected the wear Cat chilled the
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  Speaker 1: were cat cubs were being held, and it was somewhere
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  Speaker 1: within THEREX of the First Company. So Murtog he plays
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  Speaker 1: off being the guard. He's given a uniform, he is
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  Speaker 1: given like a he's given us like like new arm. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he has his own armor, but he's given new equipment
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  Speaker 1: and new cloak and everything. So he plays the He
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  Speaker 1: plays the city guard for like a day, and when
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  Speaker 1: nighttime comes, as soon as everybody's asleep, he takes his weapons.
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  Speaker 1: He sneaks down into the cellar where he was told
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  Speaker 1: he'd find the secret entrance leading into where the Wearcats
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  Speaker 1: believe their their cubs were taken, and he manages to
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  Speaker 1: sneak in, and he finds a very strange room. This
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  Speaker 1: room was filled to the brim with magic artifacts like
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  Speaker 1: gemstones that were filled with energy that could be easily
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  Speaker 1: used to power spells. Murtag actually takes one for himself.
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  Speaker 1: He finds tomes and books about all different kinds of arcana,
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  Speaker 1: but one toe he finds he's like, oh, this is gold.
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  Speaker 1: It was a it was a dictionary, a dictionary of well, actually, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's more of a what do you call those books
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  Speaker 1: where it's like a it's a like a like a
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  Speaker 1: translation book, like where it has like a it's like
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  Speaker 1: at the thesaurus. It's a code. It's a code ex exact. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And it's a codex of basically a complete codex of
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  Speaker 1: the ancient language, so all like most of like a
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  Speaker 1: good number of like the known words of the ancient language.
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  Speaker 1: So signing this, Murtag was like, oh, this is a
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  Speaker 1: perfect opportunity because despite his education under Galbatorus, Galbators had
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  Speaker 1: not taught him everything about the ancient language, so there's
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  Speaker 1: still so. While he is a strong dragon writer and
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  Speaker 1: he's a very proficient spell cast, he still falls short
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  Speaker 1: of an Lf or even Aragon, because Aragon he could
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  Speaker 1: speak the ancient language fluently. Yeah, but Mertzog, he just
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  Speaker 1: knows a few phrases and enough to get by for
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  Speaker 1: spells for spell casting. So, taking the gemstone and the codex,
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  Speaker 1: he pockets both of them and he makes it too.
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  Speaker 1: He goes across the room to another door. He tries
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  Speaker 1: to open it, but finds that the door is completely
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  Speaker 1: sealed by magic. And realizing that the wards protecting this
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  Speaker 1: door are being powered by these other gemstones that are
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  Speaker 1: filled to the brim with magical energy, he decides to
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  Speaker 1: try it. Rather than just straight up breaking the wards,
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  Speaker 1: He's going to draw the energy for the wards from
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  Speaker 1: this from the gemstones, So he casts a simple spell
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  Speaker 1: and uses the energy from the gemstones to power the spell.
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  Speaker 1: He just simply casts a fire spell literally burns all
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: the energy from the from the gemstones and completely depowers
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: the wards, allowing him to get through the door. He
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: gets through the door, and he finds himself in somewhat
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: of a weird underground garden with different kinds of like
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: species of plants, and he recognizes that many of these
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: plants are used in some form of magical alchemy, like potions,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: like strange breeds of mushrooms. Some of these plants are
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: so exotic he doesn't even recognize them. There's a bit
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: of a little no one plant. He sees in there,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: a bunch of like gold and silver lilies, like a
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: metallic plant. And that's a little nod back to book three,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: because in book three, Aragon and Aria had encountered some
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: wild spirits, and when they encountered these wild spirits, they
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: had transformed these nearby lilies into these living metal flowers
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: of like silver and gold. So he sees them there.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: That's a little nod back to the original series. And
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: he also sees in a display case a strange, ugly
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: looking egg.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: It's not a strange, ugly looking egg.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: It's not a dragon's egg. He later learns that that
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: egg was actually a razac egg. The razac are these
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: grotesque bird insects like creatures. They have like two primary phases,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: like the nymph phase is where they look more or
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: less human. They could pass as human, but like they
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: have to wear like very baggy clothing and like cows
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: to hide their faces. And while they and they can
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: speak like normal like humans can, but they're highly predatory
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: and they almost exclusively hunt humans. And then there's their
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: adult phase, which is the leather blocka. The leather blocka
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: are about the size of a small dragon and they
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: have wings. So there are these big tarridon looking ugly creatures.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Gone actually encounters them in book three and it's thought
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: that he had killed the last of the razac, but
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: unfortunately he suspected that there were eggs still left over.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: There were probably still razac eggs left over, some hidden
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: somewhere in the kingdom, somewhere throughout the empire, but Murtog
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: doesn't recognize the egg for what it is right now
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: and decides to leave it alone. He goes further into
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: the garden and finds another locked room. He opens it
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: and at first he finds that it's empty and doesn't
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: think that there's anything there. And this is this is
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: disheartening for him because he assumes that, oh, he was
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: too late. The werecat child was taken because the werecats
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: believed that the children were after they're captured and held
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: for about a week and then before eventually being taken
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: out of the city and spirited away to some unknown location.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: It's after they're taken out of the city that the
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: werecats lose their trail. Yeah, so Murtog, thinking it was
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: too late, is about to leave once suddenly he's assaulted
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: by this little ball of fluff. Turns out it was
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: the werecat child that he was looking for, Yeah, and
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: he manages. He manages to subdue it, and he convinces
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: it that he's not there to hurt it, he's there
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: to rescue it. He leads the were cat out of
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: the cell and they are confronted by the first company
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: because they did notice take notice of Murtog's absence, and
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: they pursue him through the underground tunnels. Murtogg is forced
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: to flee through a different direction instead of the way
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: he came. UH takes them deeper into the tunnels beneath
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: the city. He eventually does lose the guards and they
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: go further like deeper underground. The were cat UH at
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: first is mistrustful, but then realizes that well, Murtog's there
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: to help and it has no other choice but to
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: follow him out. UH they eventually do find their way
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: out of the under city and and back up into
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: the just outside of the city. Murtog takes the leads
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: the wrecat back into the city, where it then takes
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: off again and Murtog's annoyed, but whatever, it's free yuh.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: He then heads back to the were cat uh to
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the to the court wear Cat, using the same secret
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: entrance he used before, and when he gets to the
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Werecat's office, it's funny he finds the cub there with
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: the with the court wear cat and yeah, that's when
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: he realizes that this this cub was actually the daughter
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: of the court werecat. Uh. The were cat grateful for
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Murtog rescuing his her cub, she tells She reveals to
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Murtog more about the Dreamers. The Dreamers. The werecats have
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: found that the Dreamers have operations all over Alligasia and
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: pretty much every major city in the human realms at
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: least and Hell and even they suspect and even the
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: realms of the Dwarves. They're not so sure about the elves,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: but it's highly likely that they may have some influence
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: there as well. She reveals to Murtog that the Dreamers
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: often take a ship out of Kenon somewhere further up
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: north and then northern like and then somewhere like far
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: into the northern tip of the Spine, which is along
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: the west coast of Allegasia. So if you keep going
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: and going and going, there's an area that they do lose.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: The workcats did lose the trail of these dreamers. But
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: the ship goes somewhere deep into the north. Because the
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: thing is there is a large lake that q noon
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: is Kenon and Gilead are both can both be found.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Gilead is at the very southern tip of this lake
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: where it turns into this large river that goes further
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: south than eventually connects to Illyria. But the lake is
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: also technically a like a like an inland bay because
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: if you follow it further north, it eventually connects to
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: the sea. But somewhere in that northern tip of the
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Spine where it hits the bay, there's the werecats believe
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: that the dreamers have a headquarters or like basically their
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: base of operations is somewhere in the northern tip of
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: the Spine. So with this information, Murtag thanks thanks the
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: werecat and the werecat's daughter does thank him too, surprisingly
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: because wearcats are very prideful creatures, as most cats are
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: most cats are. He decides to depart from Gilead, but
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: he's nearly but he's nearly captured by the guards again.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: He's nearly recognized and captured by the guards again, and
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: unfortunately he's also recognized by a former noble of galbators
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Is High Court. This dude was the son of a
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: one of the nobles that served or should I say,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: kissed a lot of ass to Galatorush. This dude, while
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: he still retains his connections, has lost a lot of
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: power and influence. He manages to spirit Murtog into a
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: safe into like a safe location. And the thing is,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: this dude wanted to try to convince He wanted to
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: try to convince Murtog into joining joining him and some
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: of the other more faithful of Galbatorux to try to
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: overthrow Nesuata And basically he wanted to try to convince
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Murtog to take Galbaltorus's place and become the new high
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: King of Allegasia. Murtog kind of plays along at first,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: but he eventually just tells the guy to go to
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: get stuffed. And the thing is is that well, the
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: guy had led Murtog into a trap, because the house
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: that this nobleman had taken up residents in was actually
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: a former house that the Force Worn had used, and
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: so like this was like a kind of like a meeting.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: This house was like a gathering place or a meeting
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: place that the Force the original thirteen would use that
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: was outside of Galbaltorux's notice. And they had traps set
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: up in the in that house, special traps that are
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: designed to trap spell casters, very powerful spell casters too,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: and Murtog ends up getting thrown in one. So this
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: trap was called a magician's box. And what it's designed
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: to do is there's spells in place that draw the
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: air from the box, basically creating a vacuum. And Murtog
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: is is not only unable to breathe but cast a spell,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: and and it's like it's puts you in under such
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: duress that he's not able to even form like a
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: coherent thought, to even cast a verblest spell. And the
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: thing is, though his distress does alert Thorn, who immediately
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: like flies into Gilead and tears the house apart. And
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: he manages to grab Murtog. He pulls Murtog out of
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: the trap while Murtog is regaining his composure. This is
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: where we first encounter Thorn's trauma. So, as I said before,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Thorn has developed in a very extreme form of claustrophobia.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: This was due to the fact that when he was
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: still under Galbatorux's control, anytime that Thorn was not being
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: was not being sent out on a mission, Galviatorus would
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: have him chained up and locked away in a in
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: a cage deep with deep beneath Rubain. And the thing
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: is is that we learned we will later learn that Thorn,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: pretty much from the time that he hatched, anytime he
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: was not being actively fed or on a mission, or
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: being or going through whatever training he needed, he was
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: chained up and locked in a in a big dark room,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: deep beneath the palace of Rubine. And the thing is
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: is that Thorn this was done from the moment he
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: was hatched. So from a hatchling to his more mature self,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: he was constantly locked away and it caused him to
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: develop an extreme form of claustrophobia. It got so bad
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: that even when he was under Galbatorux's control. Anytime Galatorus
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: would order him back to be chained and taken back
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: to his cell, he would freak out and try to escape,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: but Galvitorz would use his true name force him to
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: submit and he would be dragged dragged back into his
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: cell where he would be chained up and restrained. And
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: when he was chained, he wasn't just like put in
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: a collar or a little shackle was put on his legs. No,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: he was chained down where he was completely restrained. His
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: movements were restricted. He was helpless. So the reason why
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: I bring that up now is because when he tore
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: up that house, he was already starting to freak out,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: but he was still calm and thinking rationally. But part
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: of the house collapsed on him, and because that happened,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: it freaked him out. Like there was just a small section,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: it wasn't enough to hurt him or restrain him, but
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: when he felt part of the house collapse on him,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: he freaked out. Thorn completely freaks out. He starts the
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: house up, like, starts rampaging, like completely loses himself right
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: total panic mode. He starts he tears up the house completely.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: He rips himself out of the house. People on the
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: street of Gilead see him and they start freaking out.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Thorn grabs, like part of Thorn is at least coherent
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: enough to remember to grab Murtog, so he grabs Murtog
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: takes it off, but in his like panic state, he
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: starts he starts breathing fire on the city and burns
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: parts of it down. But he he takes off, flies
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: off into the wilderness and it Murtog is basically the
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: entire time is just trying hard to like reach Thorn
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: and calm him down. So massive freak out, and Thorn
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: eventually calms down and lands like miles away from the city,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: and he's just shamed himself because for one thing, he
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: didn't he wasn't intending to burn down half of gilly
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Ed again, uh, and he didn't want to hurt anybody,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: But because of his phobia and his because of his
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: traumatic experiences, he ends up panicking and goes out of control. Uh.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Murtog on some level knows that there's gonna be deep
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: repercussions for this, for this incident, and people are now
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: going to view him and Thorn as more of this
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: of these like villainous figures, but at the same time,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Murtog doesn't really care like people can think about. People
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: already think that he is probably the second the Antichrist,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: this antichrist figure, the return of Morzan. You know what's
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: burning down a city half a city gonna do. But
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: still the two of them. He reviews what he had
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: learned in Gilead, and the two of them do commit
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: themselves to trying to be better Murtog every chance they get.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Murtog and Thorn start working on trying to help Thorn
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: overcome his claustrophobia, and they would start. They would do
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: this by starting off slow. They would find like a
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: small copse of trees, and Murtog would just carefully walk
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: with Thorn through the trees to try to get him
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: more like trying to desensitize him, get a more used
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: to being in enclosed spaces again. But still it's it's hard.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: At the just slightest like provocation, Thorn would panic and
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: like run out of the trees. It honestly, it's heartbreaking
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: watching this, but he makes some progress. The two of
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: them decide to fly north and try to find this Headquart.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: The try to find Botchell and find wherever the dreamers
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: are hiding. Their journey takes them to Palanker Valley, like
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: as they're flying. They're flying more of like a north
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: north by west northwest direction along the coast of the
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: of the lake. You know. Let me let me pull
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: up a map of Allegesia so I can give you
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: guys a better idea map of Allegasia. There's a map
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: in the book. And when I was trying to reference
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: the book in the Murtag book, for some reason, Christopher
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Palini decided to like have it labeled in the in
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: the Runic language he uses. So I was like, I
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: cannot read this anyway. All right, let me pull up
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: this map here, pull up the mappy bastard. Yeah, okay,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: let me go to images. Then, like, okay, fuck you,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: let me go to the images. All right, Uh what
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: is this? Oh? Of course there's not a name of
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: the lake. Fucking my face, h uh huh oh, because
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: of course there's not a lake on the dam. There's
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: not a name there. They don't have a name for
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: the lake on this map. So there's qne Oh. I'm
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: sorry anyway, Oh, I'm sorry, I got it totally wrong.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: So Gilliad was not on that same like he. It
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: was on another lake called Issan's Tar. Anyway, peld you
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: define edit that part out. Uh. So they decide to follow.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: They decided to travel north by northwest, going back to
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: the lake that Qunan borders. I cannot find the name
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: of that damn lake. But uh. Their journey takes them
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: close to Palanker Valley, and just as the just as
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: they're about to pass the entrance to Palanker Valley, he
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: whoa your foot up, Nimbolina.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Uh oh oh, okay, all right, all right, you can
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: get her here.
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: M hm.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: We are now joined by nimble little miss nim names.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, your little miss nim names. You did your bib
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: goo mhm. He hello, Hi, he's waving hid.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: H. I saw him white back. Thank you for the gift,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: sehn or John.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Sorry, Johnny, he said, thank you.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: M hm.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: Hopefully you can make work.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: I'll try.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: You got it?
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: Real? Are you saying? Hopefully you can get the God's
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: other thing to work? And wait? Have fun with that?
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Uh? Anyway, So anyway, uh, Birdtog and Thorn. As
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: they're traveling north, Uh, they come across the entrance to
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Palanker and they actually do plan on flying through. They
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: decided to fly through it, but just before they pass
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: the entrance to Palanker Valley, there is a fort. There
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: is a fort on the built on the tip of
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: one of the mountains in like right by the entrance
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: of Palanker Valley. This fort is called Utgard. Utgard was
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: also used as a dragon Writer outpost, and it was
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: also the place that the leader of the dragon Writers
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: was killed by Galbatorix. So Murtog decides to make a
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: quick stop there just because he just wanted to visit
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: the place of the where the last free dragon Writer
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: was killed. The last leader of the dragon Writers was killed,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: pays homage to it, and then he and Thorn eventually do.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: They do leave and continue their way north. As they're
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: flying north, all I see from my perspective, all I
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: see is her butt on your on your microphone.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Her. But he hates me right now because I'm giving
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: her all the give her all the kisses.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'll let you go, Nimba Dan, I can't get
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: any affection god.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: H anyway. Anyway, So after visiting Utgard, Thorn and Murtog
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: continue flying north. They see the settlements of Thrensford and
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Carbo Hall. Uh. Murtog is especially curious to see the
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: home of Aragon because Carbo Hall was where Aragon was
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: born and raised. He sees that most of it is
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: still in ruins because it was destroyed by the Empire UH,
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: but it's been mostly built and they do. He does
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: see that there is like a new keep being built
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: because Nsuaa had made Uh Aragon's cousin Rorin into the
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Earl of Palanker Valley, so he's like, he's now the
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: He's now the lord of palank Palanker Valley, and the
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: valley has become much more richer Undernsuata's rule. Uh, he's
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: going to be leading his p's now in charge of
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: his people. And Murtog has some has a moment of
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: sentimentality because he realizes that Rorin is also technically his
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: cousin as well, because their cousins through their mothers Uh
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: he's their cousins by Murtok's mother Seline m HM. But
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: he realizes that mur Murtog realizes he's probably the last
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: person that Roran would want to meet or be friends.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: So they continue on their journey northward as they're flying
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: over the spine. As they go continue going further north
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: into the spine, he notices that there are some other
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: smaller settlements hidden deep within the From this like, from
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: his aerial vantage, he does see several other smaller settlements
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: hidden deep within the spine, and he realizes, oh, those
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: are the those are Ergyle villages. They knew everyone knew
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: that the Urgles typically make their home far north in
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: the Spine or like the northern more uncharted regions of Allegasia,
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: but no one has ever been able to find them.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: So he's like, oh, that's interesting. You can see the
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: So now he knows where the Urgles are. As they
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: keep flying northward, they do come across another valley and
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: they noticed that this valley is it it's constantly covered
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: by this dark, gray, ashy cloud. And when they reach it,
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: he flies towards the entrance and from his aerial advantage,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: from his aerial view, he could see that there's a
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: strange like settlement deeper deeper within the valley. It's me
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: And as they enter the valley, he notices that it
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: has a strong scent of sulfur, and the ground and
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: the overall landscape looks burnt and brittle. He realizes this
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: is it. They found it, so before they answer the valley,
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: Murzoc has thorn land and Murtog pulls out his armor
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: and dons it, deciding like, all right, we're gonna confront
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: the the dreamers. Might as well go in guns blazing, right,
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: So he pulls he puts on Zarak, he puts on
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: his armor, and with Thorn at hand, they fly it
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: headed first into the valley. They land in the middle
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: of this settlement. They notice that there are people. These
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: people are kind of monastic, so they're like, they kind
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: of look like monks, but you know, without the bad haircuts. Yeah,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: And at first the people are terrified seeing a dragon
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: and a rider here, but Murtog calls him out, says,
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: i'm I came here looking for Batchel. Bring her to me.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: And one of the one of these, one of the
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: villagers approaches him and says, we will take you to
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: our oracle, basically like we'll take you to the oracle,
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: and leads to and leads Murtog to this big temple
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: and he tells he has Murtog and Thorn wait outside,
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: and he goes in and a few minutes later he
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: comes back, and behind and with him are a team
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: of men carrying a litter. And sitting on this litter
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: is this very exotic looking woman. She has a very
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: ageless look to her and very strong angular features, and
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: Murtog is not really sure like how to place her.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: Looks this woman like she she's garbed in kind of
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: like a very like you ever see those old like
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: medieval movies where it's like, you know, Conan the Barbarian,
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: all right, Beastmaster where everyone is scantily clad and everything
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: like that, She's like she's basically clad like Leah from
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Return of the from a Return of the Jedi. Right,
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: And as he's looking at her, he realizes she's a
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: half elf. Oh, so, half elves are extremely rare in
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: alleg Asia, like no one has, like people rarely see them.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: They live as long as their elf parents, but they
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: have human features so they don't have pointed ears, but
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: they have the strong angular features of their eleven parents,
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: and they also possess their longevity and they're very powerful spellcasters.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: So he realizes that, oh crap, so this is Bachell
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: and she's a half elf.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: Don don dom.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: Bochell addresses Martog and Thorn as if there were just
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: her subjects and uh. She welcomes them to the valley,
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: which she calls now Gordoff, and the way she addresses them,
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: she addresses them like a mother addresses a son. And
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: she she reveals that she is the soothsayer of the
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: valley that she uh, she doesn't. She's very cagey with
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: what she tells them. She doesn't tell them much, but
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: she does tell them that she does reveal some things.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: They she she had foreseen that they would, that they
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: would arrive, and their arrival was the will of some uh,
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: some sort of higher power. And while Mertzog tries to
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: get a feel and learn more about her, she doesn't
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: really give them much to go off of. She invites
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: him and Thorn to stay for for some time, get
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: to know the people there, and she would tell him
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: more about who they are, who the dreamers are. She
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: throws a massive feast for them the first night, and
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: he notices immediately that she's a bit of a glutton
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: because she's caught. She drinks a lot of wine, she
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: eats a lot of food, and the thing is her
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: eleven metabolism. She does not gain a single pound look
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: and she doesn't look like she's about to explode from eating,
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: but he agrees to stay, and he's trying to get it.
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: He's trying to learn more from like the people, the
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: servants of the people, and he soon realizes that this
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: is more than just soothsayer. This is a cult. Yeah,
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: this is some sort of cult, and the dreamers are
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: worshiping like from what he can learn, the dreamers are
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: worshiping some dark entity. And I'm gonna find the name here,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: the name of this entity in a bit. But anyway, Murtog.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: The first night that there that they stay there, Murtog
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: sneaks around the settlement a bit. He doesn't go inside
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: the temple because he knows that that he could, he
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: would be at risk of being found out by Baschell.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: He does find a tower where Bachel keeps a large
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: flock of ravens, very nasty in there. But while he's exploring,
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: he does find a pendant inside the inside the tower,
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: It's a pendant belonging to one of the force worn
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: and the implications of this is astonishing to Murtog because
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: that means that because he knew that before Galbatoruz led
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: the rebellion against the other Riders and wipe them out.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: He had fled somewhere into the north and hid in
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: a dark place. It was in this dark place that
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: he had raised his new black dragon Trucan to full maturity,
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: using and twisted him with dark magic before leading him
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: before leading the Force Worn against the Dragon Writers. So
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: as he learns more, he soon comes to realize that
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: now Gorgoth was the place that Galbatorus and the Forceworn
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: had hid before they had led their uprising against the
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: Dragon Writers, and he learns. It takes some time, but
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: he eventually learns that Galbatorus, while he was unhinged even
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: before he uh before he wiped out the riders. He
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: realizes that Bachell, that Bachell had influenced him to the
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: point and had basically Bachell was the reason why galbators
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: became so unhinged. And and while he still seriously doubts
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: that Bachell can see the future and that whatever her
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: so called viewings are, they're definitely they're clearly a result
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: of the noxious fumes that are constantly permeating the valley,
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: because it's it very smells, it smells very strongly of
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: fire and brimstone. M m all right, Murtog does. Eventually, uh,
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: Murtog discovers that that deeper in the valley there is
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: a massive cave.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: He does try to go and explore it several times.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: Once he almost gets caught by the Dreamers as they're
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: coming out of it. Second time he goes even deep.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: He manages to go even deeper, and it's there he
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: discovers what they call the Well of Dreams. And the
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: thing is is that when he finds this well, it's
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: covered and he's not really sure what to make of it.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: But before he can, uh like, before he can leave
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: the cave, Batchell discovers him and confronts him. She tells
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: him that you were basically she by this point she
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: had been telling him that she had foreseen his coming,
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: but she hadn't really told him what for what purpose?
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: And she tells him that he's going to be the
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: champion of this dark entity that they worship. Let me
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: see here this damns there we go. So Baschel reveals
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: that he will be the champ, that he was meant
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: to be the champion of their dark of this dark entity,
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: a deity that they call as lager Being. This being
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: that exists deep within the earth, very powerful and dangerous
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: entity that dwells deep beneath the earth. And she had
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: for she had prophesied that as Lager would eventually rise
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: up from the deep and destroy all of allegation and
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: reshape it right. And she manages to incapacitate Murtog by
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: opening the well of dreams, and this strange, almost lifelike
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: vapor comes out and immediately envelops Murtog, and this completely
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: incapacitates him. So by this point, every night that Murtog
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: had slept in in Algorgov, he'd been having these strange dreams.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: They're pretty much every night, they're pretty much the same.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: He sees like this large flock of dragons, this solar eclipse,
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: like this solar eclipse appear. And then and one of
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: the later dreams, he sees some really dark wing this
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: dark dragon like creature like rise up out of the earth,
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: except this it looks like a dragon, but it is wingless. Yeah,
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: it is massive. Uh uh. He's becomes incapacitated by this,
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: by the this gas simply called the breath, I think
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: it was called uh, let me see here. Yeah, it's
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: just called the breath. Anyway, So after himcapacitating Murtog, she
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: also incapacitates Thorn and has him chained, which basically causes
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: Thorn to freak out again. But because he's been incapacitated
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: by the breath, he's not able to do anything. He's helpless,
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: and Bacho begins to torture Murtog. This goes on for days,
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: and though Murtog manages to avoid her mental assault, she's
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: also using like uh, she's also physically harming him. Uh.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: She cuts to she uses like these gauntlets, like these
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: bladed gauntlets to like carve into his chest and like
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: cause intense pain. She does. She does this for several days,
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: and unfortunately she completely breaks Murtog mentally and U she
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: begins feeding. She begins feeding Murtog uh this elixir that
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: makes it impossible for him to cast magic and for
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: it's not really it's not really clear how long Murtog
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: and Thorn were being held captive, but sometime passes. She
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: basically uh brainwashes him into being her willing servant, and
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: she has Murtogh like redressed in his armor and she
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: starts sending him out on missions. First mission, she sends
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: him on UH he thinks he's slaughtering a try like
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: a caravan of urgles, which he's not really like that
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: beat up about. But when he's done and he kind
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: of comes out of his he comes a bit out
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: of his stupor the breath and the other drugs that
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: he was on kind of clear out of his system
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: a bit, and he realizes that he just slaughtered a
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: caravan of just innocent people. This this kind of brings
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: him back, uh brings him back into focus. And later
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: on when he comes back to nol Gorgoth, they put
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: him in his cell, and uh Murtzog while he's in
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: this cell, he actually he finds that he's not he's
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: not the only one imprisoned, but that there's also an
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: ergyle in uh in an adjacent cell from him, and
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: this urgyle is actually a shaman, so an ergyle spell caster,
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: and this ergle spellcaster Vac tries to get Murtog to
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: help him escape, and uh Murzog, now finding his force
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: of will returning to himself after especially after killing all
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: those people, it was enough to shock him back into
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: like somewhat u some form like former semblance of himself,
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: decides he really needs to break free from batch Hell's control,
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: and Ouvec reveals to Murtog that he has a special
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: talisman that has an enchantment on it that will heal him.
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: So if he could somehow activate it, it'll clear the breath,
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: they the effects of the breath and the other drugs
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: in his system from his body. And the thing is
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: the only thing he needs to do is just power it.
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: The thing is, Murtog is still too far gone to
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: allow us to be able to use it. Does give
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: it to give the talisman to him, and Murtog by
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: this point he had already befriended one of the cultics,
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: a girl, just a young younger girl who had started
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: becomes She had started to become disillusioned by Batchell, because
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: the thing is, it's one of those things where, like,
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: you know, you know, as like these religious occultic groups,
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: they teach you one thing about peace and love and
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: all that crap serving of God, and then they start
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: doing this shit where it's like, oh, this is highly
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: contradictory to what we've been taught. So now that Bachell
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: is becoming more transparent about their intentions and like what
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: they're really intending to do, especially in the servants of Aslager.
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: This girl becomes disillusioned, so Mertzog manages to convince her
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: to bring him food that's not laced with the drugs.
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: And the thing is, there's nothing he can do about
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: the breath because the breath is always administered to him
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: just before he's pulled out of his cells, so there's
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: nothing he can do about that. But he knows that
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: as long as he can free himself from the effects
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: of those drugs that impede him from using magic, he
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: should be able to activate Talisman and clear the effects
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: of both of whatever's left of the drugs from his system,
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: as well as the breath. It takes several days, but
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: unfortunately bachell A bochell, I'm losing my train of thought.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: She what's the word her plans, She accelerates her plans
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: a bit too soon, and she and she pulls Murtog
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: from his cell. He still has both that gem with
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: all that magic energy stored in it, and he has
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: Uvek's charm. And even though he feels that most of
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: the drugs are most of the drug has left his system,
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: he still can't reach his magic, and he still can't
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: draw the power from this from his gemstone, so he's
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: pulled from this, he's pulled from the dungeons, he's administered
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: the breath again, and he's presented to Bachell one more time,
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: and she reveals that she's going to send him in
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: Thorn South to begin leading the Dreamers on their conquest
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: of Allegasia. And as Butchell is about is is about
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: to compel Murtog into doing uh doing her bidding, Murzog
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: finally breaks that barrier preventing him from using his magic.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: He pulls the power from his gemstone and uses it
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: to and uses it to activate the healing charm. The
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: healing charm does its work. It clears his mind from
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: of the effects of the drugs. He uses his magic
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: to distract everyone and he quickly goes and freeze Thorn
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: and heals him. He goes back and freeze Uvek as
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: well and heals him, and the three of them begin
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: their assault and the rest of the of the settlement
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: of and the Battle of nal Gorgoth begins. Now most
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: of these people are not combat are non combatants, and
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: they do. While they do have a small force of
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: UH guards and soldiers there, it's not enough to overcome
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: a dragon and a spell casting urgle and a dragon
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: writer UH. Murzog, like Bachell, flees deeper into deep into
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: the catacombs beneath the temple. Murtog quickly grabs his sword
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: and his and the rest of his armor from behind
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: her altar and chases her down into the catacombs. UH.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: He is confronted by the same no Uh before he
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: follows her. Deeper into the catacombs, he is confronted by
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: that same nobleman that he found that he met in Gilead,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: and the two of them fight. Murtog finally kills him,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: and Murtog and Uvec go deeper into the into the
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: catacombs UH. Murtzog tells Uvek to go back and help
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: Thorn while he pursues Batchell. Deeper into the catacombs UH,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: he encounters more of the cult of the Occultists UH
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: he met. He quickly dispatches them. He goes. He finds
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: the Well of Dreams again, but he goes past it
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: and finds pathway leading even deeper into the earth. He
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: comes upon into an area that indeed they in terms.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: He basically enters the under dark, finds glowing mushrooms, these
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: dark twisted creatures. Some look like these spider like creatures.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: Others look like these weird rat like these rat humanoid creatures.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: Rat humanoid creatures look like these humanoid naked mule rats,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: buck tooth ugly blind, and he encounters these like spider
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: like kind of like like cave scorpions. You know, they
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: have these really they have really strong chittnis armor and
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: their armor is almost impervious to magic. So Murtag has
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: to rely on his on Zarak. And an interesting thing
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: about Zarak I should mention. Just before uh going down
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: into the catacomb. Into the catacombs, Murzog had been contemplating
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: zarac and its history, and he realized that he doesn't
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: want to continue using Zarak as it is. Okay, sorry,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: sorry about that. I had to look up its new name. Uh.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: So Zarak has had a deep history of misery and pain,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: and it was it was used by his father Morzen
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: to cause so much suffering and pain. And Mrzog realizes
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: that he doesn't want to be anything like his father,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: and he doesn't want to continue using Zarak as it
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: is like he's gonna keep He's going to keep Zarak
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: he's not giving it away. I should put that out there.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: But he realizes that he needs to do a really
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: strong rebranding of this sort. He needs to make this
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: sword his and you know it, no longer is it
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: going to be Zarak, but he decides to rename Zarak
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: into Itherring. In the ancient language, ither ring means freedom,
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: because what what Merzak wants to do, What all he's
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: ever wanted was freedom to be free, to make his
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: own choices, to be free of pointless oaths or obligations
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: to serve horrid king. He was forced to swear in
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: the ancient language to serve Galbaltorg's wholeheartedly, and Bachell basically
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: broke him into being a slave as well. And all
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: he has ever wanted to be was free to make
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: his own path, and on some level he's wanted to
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: free the people. He also wanted to free the people
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: of Allegaisia as well, and that's what he wants to do,
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: and that's why he is fighting this fight right now
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: against Bachell, because he knows if he continued, if he
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: had uh, if he hadn't broken free of her control,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: he would have brought more misery and suffering, probably more
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: than even Galbatorix had ever done. And what he wants
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: to do is make sure that the people are free.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: So now he used So what he did was he
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: used the name of names to change uh the sword's
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: name from Zarak to it Ring. And when he does
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: when he did that, so Zarak had the blade itself
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: had a sigil on it, which is which is the
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: actual name of the sword. But when he uses the
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: name of name to rename it to ither Ring, the
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: sigil changes into the career, into the appropriate sigil in
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: the ancient language, meaning freedom. So now he carries the
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: sword ither Ring down into the catacombs. He fights off
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: these these under dark dwelling creatures and he eventually finds Uh.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: He finds Bachell with the remaining with the remaining hosts
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: of her more committed cultists, and he confronts her there.
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  Speaker 1: The thing is, he notices that Bachelle is carrying a
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: weapon called a doth dart. A doth dart is a
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: spear that was created by the elves during the original
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: war of between the elves and dragons, so before there
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: were dragon writers, before dragons and writers were bonded together.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: The elves and the dragons had gone into a massive war,
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: and this war was very violent and bloody. Dragons were
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: killing elves, Elves were killing dragons. And the thing is
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: dragons had their own natural weapons, their their claws, their teeth,
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: and their breath of fire. Elves had magic, but they
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: needed something stronger because dragons are very resistant to uh
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: to elf magic. So the elves created a series of
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: weapons called Doth darts, which are the Darth darts Ya
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: are a series or were a line of spears, and
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: these spears were specifically designed to kill dragons. Last time
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: we saw this particular Doth dart called Niernin, It was
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: used by Ariya to slay shrew Kan. It's for it
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: first appeared in book four of the Inheritance cycle Inheritance Uh.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: It was used by a servant of It was used
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: by a servant of Galbatorz to try to kill Sephira,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: but he failed and the Doth Dart fell into the
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: Varden's hand, and Ariya would later use the Darth Dart
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: to fight and eventually slay the dragon shru Kan. But
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: Bachel had somehow managed to acquire it and she uses
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: it to fight Murtog. The fight was bloody. Murtog uses
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: his own magic against her. She uses her own verbless magic,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: and it was a very close fight. And there's a
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: point where Murtog see, the thing is that Murtog was
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: already like worn out. So did you hear that?
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: I was like, I was like the fuck. Anyway, the
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: fight was bloody, and there was a point where Murtog
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: believes that he almost dies. But the cavern that they're
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: in is a crystal cavern, so there's just like a
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: bunch of these towering crystals around them. So while he's fighting,
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: while he's fighting Bachell, doing his best to hold her off,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: he uses a spell to indirectly affect her. So he
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: casts a spell on one of the crystal pillars to
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: like weaken its structure, and he manages to lure Batchell
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: just close enough up to him, and he uses the
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: spell to break the pillar of crystal and it falls
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: and it crushes Baschell. Half of her is crushed and
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: her and her wards are not strong. We're not strong
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: enough to hold it keep it from completely crushing her.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: So it quickly wears her out and she has no choice,
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: but the spells break and crushes the lower half of
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: her body. Mertzog manages to finish her off. Let me
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: see here, Yeah, he splits her head open with it ring.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: So he met he manages to get the better of her,
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: crushes her lower the lower half of her body with
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: a huge crystal with a huge crystal. She still tries
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: to use one last attempt to kill him, but he
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: met is to overcome her and splits her head open
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: with a ring, and the battle is done, or so
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: we thought, you see Mertzog. Ever curious, uh, Ever curious,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: he decides to look in the center of this crystal cavern.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: He notices that at the very top, at the very
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: top of the ceiling, there is a opening, which he
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: assumes leads up to the Well of Dreams. But at
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: the but on the base of the cavern, there is
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: an even bigger hole leading down into a deep abyss.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: And curious, he goes over and looks down into the abyss.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: And because every few minutes this guyser of breath. Uh,
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: this is where uh, this is where Batchell was getting
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: her supply of the breath from which few up and
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: go up into the Well of dreams. But he noticed
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: throughout the fight. The cavern was constantly shaking. Every few minutes,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: it would like rumble and shake, and a skuiser of
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: the breath would is shoot up into the air. So
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: he curious, he goes to the edge of the cavern
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: and looks down into it, and while he can't see
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: anything because it's just nothing but darkness, he uses his
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: mind and reaches down as deep as he could go,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: and at first he feels he doesn't really feel anything,
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: but he does feel something shifting down there, and that's
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: when he feels the consciousness of a massive creature. We're
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: talking a gargantuan subterranean creature, and it is fiercely and
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: he could tell it's fiercely intelligent, Like this isn't some
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: like mindless, deep dwelling creature. This is like this is
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: like some sort of strange subterranean Leviathan like creature. And
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: in its thoughts were powerful and sinister, and it took
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: notice of Murtog's mind, and it tried to assault him,
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: but in his panic, Murtog cast one final spell that
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: drew the light, the ambient light from around him and
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: focused it into like a pillar like a beam, and
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: shot it down into the hole. The beam of light
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: was so brilliant that it ended up it did end
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: up hurting this creature, and it caused it to like
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: withdraw its mind from Murtog the amount of energy he used. However,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: he was already very like he was extremely exhausted from
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: the expenditure of energy he had used so far, and
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: this last spell nearly killed him, but thankfully he was rescued. Yeah,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: so the thing is is that Thorn could sense Murtog's
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: uh distress, especially throughout the fight with Bachel and Thor.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: Thorn tried to enter the cave, but because of his claustrophobia,
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: he was terrified. But thanks to the urgency, like he
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: could sense that his rider was in danger, and thanks
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: to Uvek's urging, yeah uh, Thorn manages to overcome his claustrophobia,
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: at least for the most part. He's still panicking as fuck.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: He's just like like running down into the cavern. He's
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: basically just like panicking the entire way. Poor guy, just
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: like like like I gotta get some perverse oh god,
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: naked rat people, Crystal, Okay, got you, let's go like
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: just booking it out of there. It was kind of funny.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: But at the same time he was in complete panic mode.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: The thing is is that Murzog was not only was
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: he on the of death because of the because of
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: the heavy expenditure of his magical power, but he's also
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: bleeding out because Bachell managed to get a good stab
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: with the doth Dart, so he was impaled and he's
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: also bleeding out. Murtog ends up blacking out and he
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: doesn't come to for like another few weeks later. When
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: he does come through, he finds that he is in Illyria,
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: capital of Nesuata's new kingdom, and he has a moment
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: of panic. He's like, oh shit, like and but he
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: finds that the cultist girl that he had befriended was
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: there with him. She assures him that he's safe and
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: he's not under arrest or anything, though he is confined
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: to quarters there is armed guards outside, but he does
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: also see that Thorn is there with him as well.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: Think about Illyria is that when it was originally built
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: by the elves, it was also built with dragon writers,
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: mine and dragons as well, So a lot of the
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: buildings and structures are designed to allow dragons to be
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: able to like either walk through or stick their heads in,
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: so there was a space in this uh he was
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: being held in like a like an estate, like near
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: the central palace of the of the city. So it's enclosed.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: Nobody can really see who's in there. Nobody really knows
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: who's in there. Nessuata had it completely uh clear it out,
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: and only select few people know that Murtog and Thorn
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: are in there. This swat is spellcasters and healers managed
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: to patch Murtag up and Uhmsuata herself eventually shows up
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: and they have a bit. They have a really decent
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: heart to heart, you know, Missuata kind of basic kind
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: of she confronts Murtog of the things that he had done,
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: and he also confronts her because throughout his travels he
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: noticed that many people still view him as the as
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: the villain because the thing is, in the end, Murtog
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: was able to break free of his oaths to Galbatorux
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: and helped Aragon and Ariya defeat Galbatorux. But he noticed
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: that nobody's really talking about that, so he does confront
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: her about it, like, so, well, yeah, I did all this,
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: but why haven't you told the people that in the
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: end I did help, and she tells him that she
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: did what she does, admit that she did what she can.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: She told she did tell people that he did he
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: did his part. He helped the people, He helped them
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: defeat Galbatorux. But the thing is is that word like
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: that takes time to travel throughout the kingdom. So it's
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: even though she is pushed, she did push, and she
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: did make it clear that Murtog in the end had
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: turned against Galbatorux. It's more of the matter of, like
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: the story, what story is actually being shared with the people.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: So she shared the story, and she so the people
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: closer to home know that what Murtog has done. The
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: rest of the kingdom, however, not so much. So she
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: admits that yeah, she does meant her failing to like
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: properly clear up clear the air about Murtog. But she
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: also confronts him about things he did, and she manages
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: to get the full story out of him, like what happened,
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: and he tells her and he even tells her that
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: what had what Bochela did, and that the dreamers are
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: still out there, and he also tells her of what
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: he had sensed deep beneath the earth that there is
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: a that Aslager may not be uh as far fetch
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: of a creature, maybe not so far fetched that it
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: most likely exists, but it's something more than just some
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: fixation of a cult. So Nasuata agrees that they need
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: to take this matter seriously, and she's going to start, ah,
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: she's going to definitely start cracking down on the Dreamers
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: because they're that they still oppose a very serious threat,
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: especially if as lag or Is is destined to rise
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: from the earth again are destined to rise from the
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: earth in general. Then she asked Murtog, what are you
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: going to do now? And he's not He's honest, he's
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: not entirely sure. And she admits to him because Murtog,
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: in his time with Bachell, had learned that there had
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: been several there were several people among the Swata's court
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: that are that are basically spies for the Dreamers there,
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: that they are part of the Dreamers. And she admits
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: him that she needs people like she can trust. And
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: while yeah, Murtog had it did his fair share of
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: you know, fucked up shit in the past, he's one
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: of the few people that she can honestly trust. And
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: after talking about it with him more. She convinces him
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: to stay in Illyria. And while he's going to be
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: he's going to be kept under his presence, there is
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: going to keep be kept under wraps for the time being.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: She's going to eventually reveal his presence to the rest
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: of her court and that he's basically come around to
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: her side. Now. Murtog is understandably nervous about this, but
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: he agrees to stay because now he wants to be
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: part of something bigger than himself. He doesn't want to
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: be alone anymore, all right, And he does this very
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: hard thing. He admits that he needs help, which is
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: one of the hardest thing you can do. So it's
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: a unanimous decision made by him and Thorn and Nessuata
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: welcomes him and welcomes them home. And for those of
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: you who read these books, there's clearly some romantic subtext
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: between those two. It was hinted at back in book four,
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: because the two of them do bond in their during
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: their imprisonment in Urubane, and Murtak does help her, is
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: does somewhat help her while she's in prison, before event
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: and before he was eventually able to break free of
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: Galbatorux's oaths, his oaths to Galbatorus. The thing is is
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: that his oaths to Galbatorux were compelled through the use
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: of his true name, because Galbatoruz used his true name
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: to compel him to swear in the ancient language. The
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: thing is is that your your name in the ancient
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: language can actually change, So your true name changes based
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: on how your character changes. And well, because of his
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: affection for Asuata and his desire to help her and
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: protect her. In the end, Murtag's true name as well
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: as Thorn's true name changed, basically allowing them to completely
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: uh break free of their oaths to Galbatorux. That's why
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: they were able to turn against Galbatorux and overthrow them.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: So this is where the story ends. Murtag agrees to
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: stay in Illyria and becomes an ally of Suata's court.
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: Now Ansuata tells him that he will need to swear
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: fealty to her as a warning, like, if we're going
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: to make this work, I need you. I need you
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: to be able to swear fealty to me. I'm not
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: going to force you to swear in the ancient language.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: But still and he is reluctant, and it's kind of
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: he makes it clear he doesn't want to swear himself
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: to anybody, but in this case he will. He will
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: swear to help her in their coming fight. M hm.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: It's kind of a bit of a it's it's a
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: topic of pride for him at this point. It comes
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: down to his pride because he doesn't want to be
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: bound to any one person. But now they have a
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: threat that's even they have a threat that's even bigger
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: than his pride or anything, especially considering if Aslager is
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: going to rise up from the deaths of the Earth
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: and from the scale, from the scale of this creature.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: We're talking like this thing is massive, like shru Kan god.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: I think tru Khan was probably the size of I
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: would say Godzilla minus one. So yeah, he was a
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: gargantuan sized creature, but as Lager seemed like it was
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: the scope of Aslager seemed to be. He was like
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: suggest that he was about the size of a small
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: mountain range. So sorry, James was messaging me. Uh so
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: this is the end of Murtog. I'd to say I
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: enjoyed it. I always enjoy Christopher Pelini's works, and hopefully
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: we get more in the Inheritance cycle. I'm so happy
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: that he decided to continue with it. And you know,
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: not to task shade to Christopher PERLINI, but let's hope
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: we're not waiting another twelve fricking years for another book. Cool,
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: because there, I'm not gonna lie. There is Uh, there
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: is a bit of a like a good time period
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: between each book that he writes. They are pretty lengthy,
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: so it's understandable. I mean it took them like after Inheritance, Uh,
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: it took him almost ten years to write his next book,
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: which was to Sleep Within a Sea of Stars. And
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: then not long after that he did write Fractal Noise. Uh.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: And then now Murtog so he's he's he's starting to
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: push these books out more and more, which I'm really glad.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: I I thoroughly enjoy these books, and I will say
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: to Sleep Within the Sea of Stars is going to
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: be one of the next books we review the next
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: week's episode. Next week's episode, Devin, we are reviewing.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 2: Iron Flame.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: Iron Flame, which is which is the second book of
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: that series? What is that series called again.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 2: The Imperium series.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: The Imperium period. Okay, so next week we're going to
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: be doing the second installation of the Imperium series, and
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: then the week after we're actually gonna go ahead and
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: finally review to Sleep Within the Sea of Stars. It's
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: a book that I've been I wanted to review for
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: some time now. I believe that was one of the
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: books that they were planning on making into a feature
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: length film or if not a series. I know the
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: Inheritance cycle is finally getting its own series on Disney Plus.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: All right, that's right, that's right, It is right, Yeah,
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 2: it is right.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know when it's set to come out. Most
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: likely it's gonna come out in twenty six or twenty seven,
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: so it's good. We still got like another year, a
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: year or two before that show comes out. I can't wait,
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: because Christopher Plini is going to have more, uh, he's
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: gonna have more influence over this book, over this series
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: than he did over the movie, which thank god.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because that first movie, as you all can listen
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 2: back on the episode, it's it was shite.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah it was with shit, so.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was Hopefully he'll have more control over it
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 2: this time around.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was hot garbage like oh my god. I
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: we we had an entire episode where we talked nothing
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: but shit about that movie. And I will say I
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: have a lot of high hopes for this show because
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: so far, Disney Plus did a really good job of adapting,
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: of adapting a really popular young adult like youth novel
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  Speaker 1: into the into a series. I think they did a
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  Speaker 1: really great job with the Percy Jackson series. And two
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be coming out soon. I know. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna come out like later on in twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's coming out in twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty twenty five. Yeah. Which, God, they gotta they
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  Speaker 1: gotta start, they gotta get onto it. They gotta get
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  Speaker 1: on it because it out because season two is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be about the Sea of Monsters, and like I'm excited.
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  Speaker 1: And then I'm just like, I'm really excited for Aragon,
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  Speaker 1: all right, hopefully, like they're definitely I really hope that
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  Speaker 1: they do have they get like an accurate age appropriate
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  Speaker 1: actor because in the book series when at the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of Aragon, he was fourteen yea and he went on
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  Speaker 1: fifteen and I think by the end of the series,
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  Speaker 1: because I think the series took place over the course
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  Speaker 1: of like two years.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: He was like seventeen by the end of the series,
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  Speaker 1: like sixteen or seventeen by the end of the series,
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  Speaker 1: so he was a youngin Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, So thank you all for listening today is up
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  Speaker 3: just catch the next time as would you mind trying
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  Speaker 3: to talk about book until then, Bye bye