Glaive,
you will never be able to reach Lyssa.
I need weapons, not symbols.
Once, the Glaive was
a very powerful weapon.
It can be so again.
But only in the hands of the right man.
For only the right man
can retrieve the Glaive.
Am I that man?
I wish I knew.
I cannot go with you.
Don't worry. If it's there,
I'll come back with it.
If you do not come back with it...
...you'll not come back at all.
You have been brought here for a marriage.
I am the king you will choose.
Do not use it until you need it.
- How will I know when?
- You'll know.
If you lead me to the Black Fortress,
I'll use it soon enough.
That will not be so easy.
At each sunrise, the Black Fortress moves.
Sometimes it is in the mountains,
sometimes in the desert...
...sometimes in the sea.
Never the same place twice.
But you told me you knew where to find it!
There are kingly virtues other than bravery.
Courtesy is one of them!
I'm sorry.
It's the thought of Lyssa there.
Yes...
Yes.
Well, I, too, was young...
...once.
I, too, loved as you do.
But your love will be...
...luckier than mine.
What I told you is that I knew
how to find the Fortress...
...and that is by seeking the vision
of the blind Emerald Seer.
But his place isn't known either.
It is known to me.
It is a day's journey from here. Come.
Help!
Help! I'm drowning!
This might have been quicksand!
I might have been sucked to my death
while you stood there gawking!
Where is this place?
A forest near the Granite Mountains.
Blast! 1,000 miles off course.
Well, I was rushed.
There was a difference of opinion
concerning a gooseberry pie.
The man
left it sitting on his windowsill.
- What did he expect?
- Perhaps he expected to eat it.
For that rudeness, lout,
I think I'll turn you into a bat.
Might teach you some manners
to hang upside down for an hour or two.
The Hill People lack the power to do harm.
We shall see about that, old man.
We'll see about that!
No, that's a recipe for hot fudge sauce.
Oh well, it'll have to be a goose.
Fat and ugly.
Very fat. Very ugly.
From that, you see what I could've done
to you if I were a vengeful man.
You may leave me now.
Dear, dear. Let me see now...
The forest is not safe,
you'd best travel with us.
Me, travel with you?
Do you know who I am?
No.
I am Ergo the Magnificent.
Short in stature, tall in power...
...narrow of purpose and wide of vision.
And I do not travel with peasants
and beggars. Goodbye.
Wait! Wait for me!
I've just remembered
I have urgent business in this direction.
What business?
Staying alive.
I will allow you to go
wherever you please within these walls.
For this is the palace from which you
will rule this world and countless others.
You cannot escape me.
You will be my queen.
You're no great chooser of roads, old man.
This way will save us half a day's travel.
Robbers.
They're men, we don't know yet
whether they're robbers.
Faces that ugly
could only belong to robbers.
Don't worry. I'll turn them all into pigs.
You're surrounded by a hundred men!
A hundred is not enough!
Well, what have we here? A fighter!
Besides, you're short about 90 men.
Let's just kill them and be done with it.
Soft, Rhun! I don't kill men
without good reason.
Nor do I. And be thankful for it.
You're escaped prisoners.
Every one. Thieves, bandits,
fighters and brawlers.
Desperate men.
- As desperate as you'll ever see.
- Good.
Those are the kind of men I need.
You need?
Well, see, these men
follow no man but me...
...and I follow no man at all.
- Would you follow a king?
- A king?
Many lunatics wandering
through the countryside claiming to be kings, huh?
Would you follow a king
to the Black Fortress?
Now I know you're a lunatic.
I wouldn't follow my own father
to the Black Fortress.
- If he could find it!
- Not that he'd be foolish enough to do such a thing.
Is it foolish to defend your world?
To fight for your homes and families?
If the invaders