01x06 - By Gelfling Hand ...

[bunniefuu]

[overlapping yelling]

- Please! You have to listen.
- [Paladin] Move!

You're making a terrible mistake! You...
[grunting]

Let us go right now!

[grunting]

- The Skeksis k*lled my mother!
- Be silent!

Or I will silence you!

You will never silence me!

- Well...
- [Brea yelps]

[Paladin yelping]

You two Paladins.

- Your services are no longer required.
- [grunting]

Run along back to your new All-Maudra.

These Gelfling here have just the vigor
we're looking for.

[grunting]

- Load them in!
- [Paladin] Turn around!

And their little Podling, too.

- [Paladin] Get in! I won't tell you again!
- [Hup shouting]

Move!

- [Deet] Let us go!
- Gelfling!

[overlapping shouting]

[Ritual Master] Come on! Get in there!

- [commotion]
- Silence! Get in!

Go, Gelfling! Stop whining!

Silence!

No!

[Lore rumbling]

[groaning]

To the Castle of the Crystal.

- [zapping]
- [Armaligs groaning]

- [Deet] Help!
- [Brea] Please, my lords. Please!

- Help us! Please, help!
- [female Paladin] Don't do this, my lords.

Let us out!

Let us out!

[overlapping yelling]

[whispering]

[Brea] Help us!

- Someone!
- [Deet] Let us go!

[gasping] Huh.

The Skeksis have Deet.

And Brea.

We have to do something.

You have no idea what horrible things
the Skeksis will do to them.

We won't abandon anyone. I promise.

- But we'll have to act quickly.
- [Naia] Let's mount up.

- [grunting]
- [galloping]

- [Naia] On your right!
- [Rian] Follow me!

- [Naia] Hi-yah!
- [Armaligs bellowing]

Watch out!

[overlapping shouting]

[sighing]

[sighing]

[throne rumbling]

Hm?

- [gasping]
- [glass clinking]

- [footsteps approaching]
- [gasping]

[shrieking]

[gasping]

[Lore rumbling]

[panting]

[glass shattering]

[yelling]

[Armaligs bellowing]

[Brea] Oh, what's going on?

Help! Someone help!

Where are they taking us?

Please!

[yelling]

[female paladin] Trust the lords.

- [panting]
- [Hup speaking Podling language]

You must learn
to control your temper, skekVar.

[scoffing]

We were sent to collect Gelfling,
not spill blood!

I did what was necessary.

I only hope, for your sake,
the Emperor sees it that way.

- The Emperor is forgiving.
- [Ritual Master] Of course.

If there's one quality our Emperor
is known for,

it's mercy.

- [chuckling]
- [sighing]

[Armaligs moaning]

[yelping]

[panting]

- Why have we stopped?
- Hm...

[Deet] Huh?

- What's happening?
- Yapa...

[Deet] Where are we?

Why we not go?

- I don't know. Is something wrong?
- [gasping]

- [Kylan] Down!
- [Naia] Skeksis!

[growling]

Rian!

- [Brea] What's going on?
- Rian? Rian is here!

[gasping]

I hear you're looking for me!

[huffing] Arrogant trifle!

[Rian] What's the matter?
Too scared to come out and face me?

[growling]

- Now!
- Go!

[yelling]

Stay low!

[panting]

- [Kylan] Brea.
- [gasping]

- Kylan!
- We're here.

- We're going to get you all out.
- Somehow.

- Huh?
- [female Paladin] Please help, please!

- [Hup speaking Podling language]
- [grunting]

- [cackling]
- [zapping]

[Armaligs groaning]

[moaning]

[rumbling]

What was that? What's happening?
Come on, we need to get on.

Open up!

Move! Look out!

[growling]

[gasping]

[overlapping yelling]

- What are you doing?
- Squashing a pest!

[moaning]

- But we're not moving!
- I know that!

[Armaligs wailing]

What's it doing?

[Ritual-Master wheezing]

What is that foul thing?

- Huh?
- [yelping]

[snorting]

It's some creature! Get away, fiend.

[gasping]

Let go!

[all gasping]

- My carriage!
- [Naia] Everyone, out!

- This way!
- Come on, let's go! This way.

- Let's go. Go. Don't stop!
- Come on.

- This way!
- This way. Don't look back! Come on.

Don't stop, move it.
That's it. We've gotta go.

- [Brea] You saved us.
- [Lore rumbling]

I've never seen such a creature before.

[yelping]

Good day. Uh...

This is Lore.

He's my protector.

Thank you, Lore.

You'll die for this impudence,
you noxious Gelfling!

[gasping]

[gasping] What are you doing?

- It's coming for us!
- I demand you stop where you are!

Halt! That's far enough!

[yelping]

What shall we do?

- We must escape without delay!
- At long last, you've had a good idea.

Yes.

- [zapping]
- [Armaligs moaning]

Cowards!

[panting]

[panting]

[gasping]

- [Lore rumbling]
- Uh...

Hello there.

[panting]

Rian.

Brea!

Thank you.

You were so brave!

- Uh...
- [sighing]

- [Paladin whispering] That's him.
- [Hup sighing]

- [male Paladin] I think it is.
- [female Paladin] It is.

- I'm glad you're safe.
- [female Paladin] It is.

- That's Rian.
- He's a k*ller.

- [female Paladin] He's the traitor.
- Huh?

- And a m*rder*r.
- This is all his fault.

- I should go.
- You're not going anywhere.

Enough, Paladins.

We owe our lives to Rian.

He is no more our enemy
than the Skeksis are our friends.

Tell them.

Hm.

Everything the Skeksis ever told us
was a lie.

[Paladins gasping] Huh?

But it's hard to recognize the light when
you've spent your whole life in the dark.

Today...

Today you have glimpsed
the true face of your lords.

Dreamfast with me.

Learn the secrets they keep from you.

Then spread the truth across Thra,

so we may finally unite as one
against our true foe...

the Skeksis.

[gasping]

I will dreamfast with you.

[gasping]

I will dreamfast with you.

- [male Paladin 1] I will dreamfast.
- [female Paladin] I will dreamfast.

[male Paladin 2] I will dreamfast.

[male Paladin 3] I will dreamfast with you.

- [Paladins overlapping] I will dreamfast.
- I will dreamfast with you.

[exhaling]

Our beloved All-Maudra is dead.

Now, as is tradition,

the windsifters will deliver
six pieces of her crown

to six Maudras

that they might come together
to reassemble it

and place it upon the brow
of the new All-Maudra.

[breathing deeply]

[singing in Gelfling]
♪ Ru Aiki ♪

♪ Ru A'ela ♪

♪ Ru Ada'a Ru ♪

[chirping]

[wings fluttering]

♪ Ru Aiki ♪

♪ Ru A'ela ♪

♪ Ru Ada'a Ru ♪

[chirping continues]

[wings fluterring]

[metal clinking]

[squeaking]

[fluttering intensifies]

Gelfling need an All-Maudra
who will not be swayed from the path

set for us by the Lords of the Crystal.

A beacon of light in these dark times.

I shall be that All-Maudra.

Princess Seladon,

your mother must be returned to Thra.

The burial rites must be observed.

There will be no rites.

- But the All-Maudra...
- ...was a traitor!

- [gasping]
- [Seladon] Now she'll be made an example.

We will burn her.

- For shame!
- [all gasping]

For Thra.

[chirping]

[Chamberlain panting]

Gelfling!

Gelfling of Stone-in-Wood!

Hm?

- Huh?
- A Lord of Crystal walks among you.

Bring water! Bring food!

Come out and fetch. Now!

[huffing]

Huh?

What is this? I give orders!

Do as told!

Have you no respect for lords? [panting]

[shrieking] Ow!

Who threw peachberry?

[panting]

Who shows such disrespect?

Ha!

I see you! I see you!

Stonewood warriors, I command. Go!

Find culprit! Punish! Make pay!

- [thudding]
- [screeching]

You dare blaspheme!

[shrieking]

Snarking woibles!

[wailing]

My face!

How could you? I protect Gelfling!

You owe me!

We owe you nothing!

- We know what you did!
- Drainer!

[yelping]

- Drainer!
- [male villager 1] Drainer!

- [grunting]
- [screaming]

- [female villager 1] Drainer!
- [male villager 2] Drainer!

- Drainer!
- Stop!

- [Chamberlain] Stop, please.
- Drainer!

- [female villager 2] Get out of here!
- [Chamberlain] So mean!

- Dirty drainer!
- [Chamberlain] Please!

[villagers overlapping] Drainer!

[screaming] Back, savages!

- Drainer!
- Oh, stop it!

- [overlapping yelling]
- Get out!

- Drainer!
- Drainer!

- You're not a lord at all!
- Drainer!

[screeching]

Stop!

[rumbling]

The General and the Ritual Master
have returned...

without the promised volunteers.

[laughing]

- The Emperor won't like that.
- [Scroll-Keeper chuckling] No.

[both cackling]

- This should be interesting.
- Let's go.

The rest will have gathered by now.

[Paladin] Before they set off
for the Crystal Desert,

the Princess Brea warned us that we were
being taken to the castle to be drained.

- I don't believe it.
- None of us did!

Praise Thra, we were rescued
by two of your fellow guards.

- Oh!
- Rian and Gurjin.

When we dreamfasted,
we saw the truth for ourselves

and vowed to share their story.

Perhaps he speaks the truth.

But Rian has the mind sickness.
The Skeksis look after us Gelfling.

- Yes.
- I cannot dreamfast their memories,

but I know what I saw.
I risked my life to bring you their truth.

The lords ex*cuted the All-Maudra!

The General swung the blade
that took her life!

- And your sister in arms... Mira?
- Yes.

She was m*rder*d. But not by Rian!

The Skeksis twisted the Crystal
to drain her essence.

[all gasping]

- Those vicious makrats!
- Duplicitous squirms!

- We must rise for our fallen guard!
- Yes! Yes!

Yes! Spread the word and gather arms.
We take this castle this very night!

- [cheering]
- [guards] Yeah!

[Gurjin] We've been walking forever.

Doesn't Lore ever stop to rest?

- [Naia] Do rocks need to rest?
- [Deet sighing]

[Gurjin]
Well, usually they just lie about.

[Naia] Well...

not Lore.

Unfortunately not.

[panting]

Whoa! What a view.

[gasping]

What is that?

[Brea] The Crystal Desert.

[Deet] It's beautiful!

They say the sands never stop shifting.

Crossing the desert on foot will be
about as easy as walking on water.

We should set up camp for the night.

- See what solutions the morning offers.
- Yes.

- I'll start a fire.
- Looks like another night

- spent sleeping on the ground.
- Hup? Help me find some wood.

Hup!

Uh...

[Naia] Must you complain about everything?

[Gurjin] It's not my fault
that everything's terrible.

[sighing]

[Naia] We're not in the Sog anymore.

[Gurjin]
I never thought I would miss home...

as much as I do.

[rumbling]

- It is beautiful, though, isn't it?
- Yes.

[sighing]

I keep thinking
if I turn my head fast enough,

I'll see my mother's face.

[voice trembling]
Or if I listen hard enough,

I'll hear her voice.

But I won't.

I'm so sorry, Brea.

Seladon was right. It's all my fault.

I have to go back to Ha'rar.

I can't just leave her like that
on the floor.

Going back now won't help anyone.

I should be there to bury her.

Send her essence back to Thra.
That there are ceremonies.

Well, maybe we could have
our own ceremony right here.

That would help.

- Thank you.
- That's what friends do.

We help.

[gasping]

[sobbing]

You're a true friend.

[crying]

[chuckling]

[sniffing]

[sighing]

- Longneck! There you are.
- Hm?

[grunting]

[groaning]

Mother Aughra,

I see your eye is open once again.

Yes. I have heard the Song of Thra,

no thanks to your riddles! Hmph!

- Yet you found your answers.
- All but one.

Hm...

How it all ends.

[Aughra] Many pieces on the board,

many possible outcomes.

Aughra must guide all
to bring about the best one.

- [Archer grumbles]
- Hm!

Like herding Fizzgig.

And where does my path lead?

Into the sands to face the Hunter.

[sighing]

Mm...

I cannot defeat my dark half.

[Aughra] You will find a way.

But not without sacrifice.

And if I fail?

The heroes of Thra will be lost.

Mm...

- I will end the hunt.
- [Aughra] Good.

Get a move on. You Mystics
are not known for your swift speed.

- We have much to do.
- Hm...

And where do you go?

On to Stone-in-the-Wood

to prevent a terrible mistake.

Hm!

Will we meet again, Aughra?

Hm...

Some things...

even Aughra cannot see, old friend.

[groaning]

[grunting]

[creature squeaking]

[Kylan] Life and death are a circle...

not a line.

There is no end,

no beginning.

Today, our beloved All-Maudra
has returned to Thra.

Though we cannot be there
to guide her essence home...

we will sing her memory across the wind.

I will bind your words
into a dream stitch.

All those who find this seed
will know her as you did.

Speak for the dead.

Share your best memory

that we may all know her goodness.

[Brea panting]

I'm...

Oh, I'm not sure. I...

Did she have a favorite song?

- Favorite joke?
- Food?

Did she have a favorite place?

I... I, I don't know how to begin.

My father wasn't what you'd call
the affectionate type.

I was a soldier, not a son.

At least that's how it felt.

But when we fought the Hunter...

and the gobbles...

the two of us, side by side...

suddenly I was both.

Every lesson he ever tried to teach me
suddenly fell into place.

His final words were "Be brave."

So that's what I'll do...

for my captain.

Mm.

For my father.

Mother was never shy
about saying "I love you."

Usually before she made me do
something tedious.

“I love you. Get out of bed."

Or "I love you.

Now, go and fetch that report
on crop rotation.”

I thought it was something
all mothers had to say.

But when I looked in her eyes

as her light faded...

I realized...

she meant it every single time.

[sighing]

[singing]
♪ Tsian oo as ae oo-oo am ♪

♪ Bez a-a-a puy-um tsa ♪

[Kylan and Deet singing]
♪ Tsian tse a-oo as ae oo-oo am ♪

♪ Bez a-a-a, puy-um tsa ♪

[Kylan, Deet and Brea singing]
♪ Nu mi-ami oo-a-be ♪

♪ Tso-o-o-am be-na-ub ♪

- ♪Tsian-oo-as-ae oo-oo-am ♪
- [playing flute]

♪ Bez a-a-a puy-um tsa ♪

[all singing]
♪ Nu mi-ami oo-a-be ♪

♪ Tso-o-o-am be-na-ub ♪

♪ Tsian oo as ae oo-oo am ♪

♪ Bez a-a-a puy-um tsa ♪

- ♪ Nu mi-ami oo - a - be ♪
- [Hup sighing]

♪ Tso-o-o-am be-na-ub ♪

[whimpering]

I loved you with all I had.

[gasping].

I'm sorry it wasn't enough.

[sniffling]

[solemn music playing]

[firewood crackling]

[foreboding music playing]

- [yelling]
- Huh?

[Gourmand] Foul treachery!

[Gelfling screaming]

[Gourmand] Treacherous Gelfling!
You'll be drained for this!

- [Gelfling] Let me go!
- [Gourmand] We'll feast on your essence!

[Gelfling] No!

[Gourmand] Oh, I do hope you taste better
than you fight.

[Gelfling] Please, my lord! Please!

Please!

[Gourmand cackling]

- [Gelfling screaming]
- [panting]

[Maudra Fara] The windsifters have flown.

I return
with my piece of the Living Crown.

[sighing]

The Stonewood clan rushes to the Vapra
in their time of need.

Maudra Fara.

The Whisper Stream has overflown
since the flight of the windsifters.

Please, tell me true.

How did she die?

My mother refused Skeksis
their volunteers.

- [sighing]
- She openly defied them

and paid the price for her insolence.

So the rumors are true.

Your mother was a titan.

She never ran from a fight
and never gave up the high ground.

She wielded truth

like a Stonewood wields an axe.

We revered her,

and we will avenge her.

No! No! The Skeksis are our lords.

We do not defy our lords.

Their justice was no more harsh
than her crime demanded.

Grief has clouded your mind, childling.

I am no childling!

I was there. I saw what happened.

[Maudra Fara] Several of your Paladins

are traveling the land
telling a very different story.

Skeksis are harvesting us for essence.

- Draining us of our very life force!
- Lies!

The All-Maudra was a traitor!

She betrayed the Seven Clans!

You speak madness.

[Seladon] I speak...

as the All-Maudra.

[sighing]

[creatures squawking]

[Chamberlain] Where is everyone?

Look at mess.

[growling]

No guards?

No watch after whole clan revolts?

- Heedless ingrates!
- [Gourmand moaning]

That's good.

[moaning]

That's better.

That's the best.

What is matter here? Have all gone mad?

- [gasping]
- [grunting]

- And now public micturition?
- [farting]

- Chamberlain, have you not heard?
- [Chamberlain yelps]

- Ooh, ah... Excuse me.
- Ugh!

The General m*rder*d the All-Maudra.

- The General?
- Yes.

- At the Emperor's command?
- No, no!

No command at all.

And then the castle guards
rose against us.

We crushed them!

[cackling]

It has been a long time
since I have experienced

the heady thrill of armed combat.
[hiccups]

Emperor must be very angry at General.

Hm...

Perhaps I rejoin at sire's side.

Yes?

Come, come. See for yourself.

Mm...

[snickering]

[General] What a feast!

- [music machine playing]
- [overlapping Skeksis chatter]

[Ritual-Master]
I'm overcome by zeal! Such ardor!

[Podlings shuddering]

[Gourmand] Oh, yes. Look, see.

Ha!

Oh, my!

Sweet essence!

[overlapping Skeksis chatter]

[slurping]

[Collector] Delicious!

[laughing]

[slurping]

[cackling]

Ah!

- It's so good!
- [burping]

- Essence everywhere.
- [cackling]

Anyway, as I was saying,

essence goes much better
with roasted snoutling.

- Hear, hear!
- You're probably wondering

how we came by all this essence.

Ah... it's a delightful tale.

After the guards were defeated,

we started draining them.

Now, we feast on essence!

[cackling]

Don't worry. We kept the Podlings.

[chortling]

[speaking Podling language]

[Skeksis yelling]

[squeaking]

[commotion]

[snarling]

[hacking]

Stop! Stop!

Stop the music. I bring news!

Terrible news! Stop!

- Cease all merrymaking!
- [Skeksis] Bah!

[Emperor]
Chamberlain! I see you standing here,

but no Rian.

What do you have to say
before I punish you

for your continued failure?

[Skeksis cackling]

As you celebrate,

Gelfling of Stone-in-Wood rebel.

An entire clan
has taken arms against Skeksis.

I was drawn into heated battle.

- I face grave danger.
- [burping]

I fought my way out at own personal risk
to bring you this report.

[Skeksis] Bah!

Stone-in-the-Wood you say?

Yes. Yes!
Because of General's blundering violence!

Bah...

- Nonsense.
- SkekVar k*lled All-Maudra

against Emperor's wishes.

Caused all of this. Order is upended!

- [growling]
- Huh?

[laughing]

[cackling]

The General has set us free.

Never again will the Skeksis
have to bear the burden

of pretending to care
for these useless Gelfling.

[General] We will take what is ours
without games or pretense.

We will rule forever!

[cheering]

But... But, Emperor...

Emperor.

The Chamberlain here may've inadvertently
provided us with our next meal.

The Stonewoods' defiance

is all the justification we need

to clear them out of their village
and into our larders!

[cheering]

- We must have more essence!
- More essence!

- More!
- More!

[cackling]

- More essence!
- More essence!

[Skeksis chanting] More!

More essence!

More essence!

[sniffing]

What is that I smell on you, Chamberlain?

[sniffing]

Oh! Peachberry!
SkekSil stinks of it.

[groaning]

Into the bath with you, Chamberlain.

Ah, disgusting.

- Ugh, stinks!
- [Scroll-Keeper] Get out!

- You stink!
- [Ritual-Master] Go on with you!

[Scientist] Filthy! Out!

Begone!

- Yes. Begone, Chamberlain!
- [Chamberlain whimpering]

Remove your fetid stench
from our presence!

[Skeksis laughing]

[guard] Let go!

Let me go!

[cage rattling]

- [door locking]
- [indistinct muttering]

[female Paladin] Let us out!

Let us out!

- [sighing]
- [Tavra] Do not lose hope, Paladin.

Princess Tavra.

- You're alive.
- For now.

I'm sorry about your mother.

What about my mother?

You don't know.

She stood up to the Skeksis.
She tried to save our lives, but...

[exhaling]

- But she's gone?
- [gasping]

[prisoners muttering]

Then she died doing what she had to do.

What she always did.

Protecting Gelfling.

Mm...

We must stay strong, Paladin.

For the All-Maudra.

For the All-Maudra.

[wind blowing]

Maudras...

as we all expected,

Maudra Argot of Grot
did not make the journey

but sent back her piece
of the Living Crown with her blessing.

And so I join it with mine.

You may now deliver your blessings

upon my coronation.

The Spriton bless the All-Maudra.

The Sifa bless the All-Maudra.

Hm.

The Dousan bless the All-Maudra.

Hm.

- The Stonewood withhold.
- What?

[gasping]

Maudra Laesid.

The Drenchen withhold.

Oh, no.

[Maudra Mera]
This has never happened before.

[scoffing]

I am the eldest daughter
of the fallen All-Maudra,

heir to the Vapran throne,

next in the line of succession.

The All-Maudra
has not always been a Vapran.

But the Skeksis decreed it.

- Yes.
- The Skeksis who imprison our children

- and take our lives for themselves.
- [sighing]

A w*r is coming, and Seladon
is not the one to lead us into battle.

It's my mother's crown. It belongs to me.

I would've followed her
into a nest of Spitters, but not you.

- [gasping]
- [Maudra Fara] I challenge Seladon...

for the Living Crown!

- Fara, don't do this.
- Let us not act rashly.

Better we wait and bide our time.

Maudra Fara, I beg you to reconsider.
We cannot stand against the Skeksis.

[Maudra Fara] They are few, we are many.

We can fight! I will lead us to victory!

But the Skeksis are immortal.

How can you defeat an enemy
that cannot die?

Maudra Fara has invoked a challenge.

It is her right to choose the nature.

- Trial by air.
- [gasping]

Tests and trials are the Skeksis ways,
not Gelfling.

How have we come to this?

Be wary, Fara.

Seladon is very clever.
She leaves nothing to chance.

[scoffing] I would wager on the strength
of my wings against hers any day.

[Seladon] I accept.

Trial by air.

Victor takes the crown.

Of course.

I will take no pleasure
in besting you... childling.

[scoffing]

[creature bellowing]

Mm?

[exhaling]

- [creature bellowing]
- Hm?

[sighing]

- [bellowing continues]
- Hm?

[grunting]

Easy, Lore. Easy, Lore.

[Hup grunting]

What is that?

[bellowing]

The Dousan.

I've never met a Dousan before.

They rarely travel
beyond their beloved desert.

The Dousan are the only clan forbidden
from being castle guards.

The Skeksis told us they worship death.

[bellowing]

Whoa!

[gasping]

[grunting]

He looks fun.

[Hup chuckling]

Gidakai kae.

To the great All,

may the dead become one with Thra again.

May we feel their tears in rain

and their warmth in the suns.

Though they are gone,
they remain with us still.

That was beautiful.

But trifling compared to the depths
of your emotion.

Your song was carried to us
on the desert winds.

We heard its melody
and were deeply moved.

These passings
were very important to you. True?

We have taken many losses.

Friends, parents...

even the All-Maudra.

Yes, we have heard of her passing.

The windsifters have flown.

[inhaling] She was my mother.

I should've known, Princess.

My name is Rek'yr,

Sandmaster of the Southern Xeric.

I'm Brea.

- Here, a simple charm, Princess.
- Oh!

Huh.

Made from Moog bone for protection.

If I or any of my crew
can be of assistance...

Uh...

Actually,

a few of us seek safe passage
across the Crystal Desert.

Bennu and myself
would be happy to carry you.

It would be an honor
to take you, Princess.

Thank you.

My friends and I need to reach
the Circle of the Suns

- as soon as possible.
- You seek the Circle?

A cursed ruin.

- Dangerous. Forbidden.
- [gasping]

Allow me to escort you
to the Wellspring instead,

a verdant oasis with crystal...

No. If you're too scared,
then it's all right.

- We can find another way.
- Very well. Very well.

I will take you as far as I am able.

Thank you. We are forever in your debt.

- Mm.
- [Rian clearing throat] Um...

Would you excuse us?

Thank you.

What are you doing?

Wait. You don't trust Rek'yr? Why?

- [overlapping chatter]
- Well, for starters,

he's a Dousan.

- They're obsessed with death.
- They're not obsessed.

He gave you bones.

- I like it.
- Uh...

- [overlapping chatter]
- [groaning]

We graciously accept your offer.

Then we sail at your command.

Hm.

Sail at your command!

[imitates farting noise]

I don't like him either.

Come on, Hup. It'll be fun!

- [giggling]
- [Hup speaking Podling language]

[bellowing]

Well, I suppose
this is where we say goodbye.

We must light the fires of resistance.

And spread the truth
across the Seven Clans.

Come here.

- [Rian] Mm.
- Farewell, Rian.

Take care of yourself.

You too... bold Gurjin.

Ha! I like that. Bold Gurjin.

[laughing]

[wings flapping]

[bellowing]

So, the hunt continues.

Don't fear. She's only a frightened child.

She's no threat.

So you've chosen
the course for this day's trial by air?

- We'll fly Raunip's Pass.
- A dangerous route.

[Maudra Mera] How many trine
since a challenge was issued?

I don't even know.

Six hundred and thirty-nine.

This is a wretched business.

Seladon is late. More games!

[Maudra Fara] Perhaps smashing her wings
upon the rocks will knock some sense

into the entitled little princess.

Enough waiting.
It's obvious Seladon dares not face me.

The Living Crown is mine.

[gasping]

The princess.

She looks like a Skeksis.

Loyal Maudras,

I am humbled by your presence

on the day of my coronation.

You are not All-Maudra.
Not while my challenge stands.

Or have you forgotten?

I remember well.

I hereby forfeit my claim
to the Living Crown.

- What? Is it over then?
- [gasping]

Take your soiled trinket, Fara.

This crown belonged to my friend!
Your mother.

Her traitorous blood
has forever stained the Living Crown.

What was once a symbol of Gelfling unity

is now the sad relic
of a failed rebellion.

That is why I have forged a new crown

to symbolize a new future

for all Gelfling.

You defile her legacy
with that abomination.

And you invite ruin
with your feckless rush to w*r.

Oh!

- The Skeksis, in their infinite wisdom...
- [scoffing]

...named me All-Maudra
upon my mother's death, just as...

Skeksis are draining Gelfling!

- Lies.
- You will never be All-Maudra!

I am All-Maudra.

[groaning]

[grunting]

No!

I will have justice!

- [gasping]
- [Fara yelling]

I will see the Skeksis punished
for their crimes.

I will be All-Maudra!

You will bow.

I will never bow!

[grunting]

Then you will crawl! [grunting]

[yelping]

- [crown shattering]
- [all gasping]

- [moaning]
- [Maudra Laesid] Fara!

This...

This is the discord my mother has sown.

This is the inevitable end of rebellion.

Gelfling turning on Gelfling.
We stand on the brink of anarchy!

[panting]

Bow before me, Maudra Fara.

And together
we will prove our loyalty to the Skeksis

and snuff this fire
before it burns us all.

[panting]

As you burned your own mother.

[gasping]

Paladins!

[gasping]

Escort Fara from the citadel.

- No need. I know the way.
- As do I.

It is the rest of you who are lost.

[groaning]

[Fara whimpering]

And what will you three choose?

Order...

or chaos?

This is not the Gelfling way.

It is now.

[gasping]

[fantasy music playing]