Previously on "The Outpost"...
There's a black kinj. Maybe the only weapon that'll kill Yavalla.
- And where is it? - There's someone in the Plane of Ashes
- who might know where it is. - Who?
- My father. - We need your help. Now.
Bring the Outpost into my fold.
- They're all infected! - Get that barricade up!
- Has anyone seen Falista? - Hello there.
- You came for me. - Stay close to the wall.
I'll come right behind you, okay? Go.
Use your power to protect the Queen.
- This is the place. - Talon, I think that's your father.
- That's him. - Don't touch me!
This has gone on long enough.
You live like an animal,
hiding in the darkness eating the gods know what.
I have done everything I can to reason with you.
There's nothing but death for you down here, Yavalla.
You shouldn't have come.
I have waited an eternity for you to come around.
I shall wait no more.
It is time to unlock the power
you have kept from me all these years.
You can either leave right now
or I'll add your bones to the pile.
But I'm not giving you the box.
Give me more light.
Fools, don't let him touch you!
Move.
- The box. - Never.
Saivek, the box.
Priestess?
- Open it. - Don't!
Oh.
- Oh. Well done, Corven. - Yes, Priestess.
It's a curse, Yavalla.
It will end with death for everything.
- Even you. - When the portal reopens,
we will take back what we lost.
Time to go.
Don't leave me, Priestess!
You won't survive.
But I served you faithfully.
Yes, you did, and I thank you.
I hope you don't suffer too much.
Come.
Hey. Set me free.
Set me free! I have to stop her!
No!
No.
No!
I told you! It's death.
He's right. I am death.
How are you still alive? No one could survive that.
Because I'm cursed, that's how.
You have the black kinj.
How do you know about that?
Who are you people? Did Yavalla send you?
Don't touch me!
I don't need to touch you,
but I'm not leaving you like this.
Look at how many he's killed. They were my friends.
- He'll kill you next. - If he wanted to kill me,
he wouldn't have stopped me from touching him.
He'll kill me! Don't do it.
You're the one that did this to me.
We're not with Yavalla. We're from the green world.
Yavalla has already conquered most of the other world.
We need the black kinj to stop her.
Well, how did she get there? How did you come here?
My wife would never have opened the portal.
Your wife died a few years after you abandoned her.
How do you know about that?
She passed the Asterkinj to her daughter.
My daughter? Talon.
Is she still alive?
Oh, thank the gods.
How... how do you know all this?
Do you know her? Do you...
Do you know Talon?
I am Talon.
He should never have come after me.
He had to.
He loves you.
He loved you.
Even with his dying breath, he was thinking of you.
- What do you mean? - His last words were,
"Use your power to protect the Queen."
Falista, he died saving your life.
I believe when he said "protect the Queen,"
he meant protect what I represent, protect the Realm.
Listen to me, he loved you.
It was the last thing he said to me
before he went to save you.
I'm so sorry.
I'm being so selfish.
You lost someone you loved as well.
That thing in my head managed to kill the person that attacked Tobin,
but it nearly killed him as well.
I can't control it.
I'm afraid I'll be no help to you.
This violence is futile!
Enough suffering has been caused.
Enough lives have been lost.
You have been told that we are possessed
and we can't think for ourselves.
These are all lies.
The Queen lies to you so she can rule over you.
She would rather see you dead than make peace with Yavalla.
I know there are some of you who are ready to join us.
- Don't be afraid. - Not Munt.
How could you even consider that?
Join us and live.
You don't have to die today.
No, don't listen to him. Don't listen to him!
You all know Munt, and that is not him.
It's Yavalla trying to trick us.
Janzo. My brother.
Tear down this barricade and join me
in the warm embrace of Yavalla's mercy
or you will die cold and alone.
There's so many of them.
60,000 give or take.
I've seen enough.
Is this all that remains of the little world I've conquered?
Almost a disappointment.
Look at all this death.
Unlike your Queen,
I did not wish to hurt anyone.
And to Queen Rosmund, I say only this,
how many more lives will you sacrifice?
Do you really care so little for your subjects?
And your friends, will you sentence them to death
or will you give them the freedom to choose for themselves?
You dare speak to me of freedom?
You who enslaves the minds of your people?
Has one of your followers chosen to join you,
or have you forced each and every one of them?
My people are happy.
Much happier than yours, I assure you.
And do they know how short their lives will be?
Dying in weeks because of your disease?
Not dying. Becoming part of me.
We're spent enough time talking. Go ahead and attack.
We'll see how many of your followers are dead
by the time the sun goes down.
I know how much you love to lose your followers
before their time, brief though it may be.
- What are you doing? - I've been one of them.
The more she has, the stronger she feels.
She won't want to lose so many.
For the sake of preserving lives,
I will grant you one hour
to peacefully surrender.
Let your army think carefully
before following you to their graves.
So it kills anything you touch?
Yes.
But my kinj makes me immune to the effects of other kinjes.
No, not the black one. The Terakinj.
If I touch you, it will destroy you
and anything inside you, including your kinj.
So it'll kill Yavalla and her white kinj?
If I can get close enough to her, yes.
Then there's no time to waste.
We have to bring you back with us right now.
And what are you gonna do, huh?
Pick me up and throw me at Yavalla? I can barely move.
I had those spears stuck in me for gods know how long.
Look at me. And if any of you tries to help...
Yes. Dead, we know.
Can the Terakinj be passed to someone else?
Yes, but not to one who already has a kinj in them.
Wren. You can pass it to Wren,
and she can get close to Yavalla.
How would you get close to Yavalla?
Yavalla's my mother.
Zed, I don't know if I could.
What if I can't bring myself to do it?
No! I'm not passing it to anyone.
I've taken enough lives.
I won't have a young,
innocent death on my hands as well.
Death? Why? Would Wren die?
The black and white kinjes will destroy each other,
along with their host bodies.
So if you touch Yavalla, you'll both die?
Yes.
Is there no other way to save my mother?
She would have to give up her kinj willingly,
and the white kinj has a steel grip on the mind that carries it. I'm sorry.
If there's no other way to save her, then I can do it.
- I think. I think I can be the one... - No!
I refuse to send a woman off to kill her own mother.
- Someone has to do it. - The kinj will heal my insides.
It could take days.
You're in bad shape. We don't have time for that.
I'll do it. I can pass my kinj to Wren,
- and you can pass your... - No! This is my burden, no one else's.
We may already be too late.
I'll heal. I-I just need some water.
I'm thirsty as hell.
It's all we had left.
Go. Take the second left tunnel.
There's a spring down that way.
The water will help me heal faster.
Go. I'll stay with him.
Unbelievable.
Yavalla has offered us our lives if we surrender,
but they will be very short lives.
Is that what you want?
Look, I am the only one who has experienced
what it's like to be part of the United.
It's like your mind is swallowed up.
Your body withers away with every passing of the infection.
It is a slow and awful death.
And I can assure you that it is better to die today
than to have your life sucked out of you by that demented witch.
I swear to each and every one of you,
surrender is not an option.
Now, we have won hard battles before,
and we will be victorious again today, my friends.
Hail, Queen Rosmund!
Well done, Your Majesty.
That speech is just what they needed to hear.
Commander Spears, listen to me.
Now we just need to think of a way...
Garret, listen to me.
We can't win this fight.
What? We have a chance.
No. You know as well as I do we don't have a chance.
I just... I wanted to say that at the end of it all,
I'm glad you're here with me.
You said to them that we would win this battle.
Yeah, I lied, Garret, for their own sake.
I would rather my men die fighting today
than succumb to Yavalla's control.
I have experienced what it's like. Death is preferable.
No, there is always a way.
What about Talon? Don't give up on her yet.
She's already been gone too long. She's probably already dead.
You don't know that! If she finds the black kinj...
Yes, if, if, if! If she finds it. If it even exists.
If she doesn't get killed by a Blackfist or a Lu-Qiri
or just the bloody environment of that place.
All right, then we should make our escape
and live another day to figure something out.
Garret, I'm not running away.
There's nowhere to run.
We will find a way.
All right? This is... This isn't the end.
So, kill Yavalla in a suicide attack?
- That's your plan? - Something like that.
So you're just giving up on living then?
I gave up on living the day I got this curse handed to me.
Look at you, Talon.
So strong.
I'm so glad I got to see you again...
Before you leave me again?
Your ears.
Cut the points off to blend in with humans.
- It's clever. - I didn't do it to be clever.
I was scared for my life.
I watched humans murder Mother and Eremus
just 'cause they had pointy ears and black blood.
They slaughtered our entire village.
I'm sorry, Talon.
I only ever wanted what was best for all of you.
You were just a little girl. Eremus had only just been born.
So why'd you leave us then?
The Prime Order were gathering kinjes.
I was tasked with saving a captured Dragman.
When I found her, she reached out her hand.
And like a fool, I took it.
I swear to you, Talon,
I had no idea what I was doing.
When I found out what kinj she had passed to me, I...
I couldn't go near any of you.
It was too dangerous.
You could have at least stayed in the Realm.
Look at me.
Look at my existence.
Any living creature I touch dies.
I couldn't be anywhere near others.
Especially not my own children.
Rosmund, what is your answer?
Will you show mercy to your subjects?
Or will your throw away their lives
in a feeble attempt to save your own?
It is to you that I offer mercy, Yavalla.
You stand to lose a hundred
for everyone one of us you gain.
I have been United, and I will do anything
to protect my people from you and your control.
You have made your last mistake.
Tear down the barricade and bring me her head.
Attack!
Spend your arrows well! This is only the first wave.
Spears in the front! Two rows staggered!
Crossbows in the back!
Stay strong! Stay strong!
Stay ready! Ready!
Leave it, Gwynn! Leave it!
Fall back!
Come on.
She can control it.
Falista.
Shh.
I see you learned to control that horrible thing inside your head.
Well done.
I'm sorry. I tried. There was so many of them.
Shh. Shh. Don't talk, okay? Just breathe. Breathe.
- This doesn't look good. - We have to help her, Janzo.
You must have something that could extend her time
till the kinj can cure her.
I do, in my lab. I need my... my hapsweed.
Put this on here, please. I need my hapsweed and my suture kit.
Without that, there's very little I can do.
And without her, we won't survive a second wave.
- All right. Then I'll go. - Impossible. You'll never make it...
Through the same holes in the barracks walls.
If Tobin can get to Falista,
then maybe I can get to my lab and back.
- I'll come with you. - You stay here.
I'll be more stealthy by myself.
Shh, shh.
It's okay, it's okay.
Oh.
It hurts, Mum. It hurts so much.
Tell me about yourself. I don't know anything about you.
All right, I'll go first.
Since last we spoke,
I've been living here in this dank cave
wondering if my daughter was alive, if...
If she was happy, what was she doing?
Does she look like her beautiful mother?
That's everything about my life all these years.
Now your turn.
Well, for a long time I just wandered from town to town.
Finding food where I could,
learning to fight from whomever would teach me.
I was the only Blackblood left.
Couldn't trust anyone.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry you had such a hard life.
Hardly compares to how hard yours has been.
You have your mother's fighting spirit in you.
That's how you made it this far.
- Ready to go yet, old man? - Almost.
Okay, Janzo's gonna help you. There's Janzo.
Oh, thank you, gods. Janzo, you're just in time. She's not doing good.
They're staying just outside her range.
It's like they're waiting for something.
- Janzo, no! - No!
The red power is gone.
Hold the line! Hold the line!
- Give me your sword. - Hold! Hold strong!
Come with us, Cor. It's beautiful in their world.
There's trees as green as emeralds,
water everywhere you look.
No. Yavalla is there,
and now death is going there.
If we fix things there, I'm coming back for you this time, Corven.
I promise.
Ready?
- Do we have a plan? - We find Yavalla and you touch her.
I like this guy.
You going to be all right?
I'll miss you, dear Wren.
- Where's Yavalla? - I don't know.
- Janzo! - Gwynn.
Janzo? Janzo?
Talon.
Garret, no.
Saivek.
Garret? Garret?
Garret, easy.
Garret, I don't want to hurt you.
Gwynn, where's Yavalla?
We need to get him close enough to touch her.
I don't know. She could be anywhere. Why?
If he touches her, both them and their kinjes will die.
If you don't know where she is, who would know?
Everyone I know of is under Yavalla's control
except for the people in this room.
Saivek, here we are again.
Something familiar about this situation,
don't you think?
Janzo, wake up. Janzo!
You should have left him in the Plane of Ashes, Talon.
Daddy can't...
Mother, I won't join you.
I'd rather die.
Wren.
Ketma...
_
I'll hold her back. Try and pry him free.
But whatever you do, don't touch him.
Xaba.
Wren? Wren? Wren.
Don't do this.
My darling child, I... I will not let them infect you.
- You're lying. You're lying. - No.
Just like you lied to me all along.
I swear it. I swear.
I will let you walk away free.
I ju... I just can't lose you.
Wren, listen to me, I am your mother.
No, you're not.
I don't have a mother. Not anymore.
Sorry, Mother. Of course I didn't mean that.
I know, my love.
Go ahead. Do it.
I will when Yavalla commands me to.
I can't do it, Talon.
Together.
I'm sorry, Talon. I failed you.
Pass it to me. I can do it.
I... I can't. You have a kinj.
Go. Go, Talon! Make your escape!
Wait. You can pass your kinj to somebody else?
As long as I make contact long enough for it to pass
instead of kill the person.
But it will kill him.
All these years I've felt like I wanted you dead.
And now I just want more time.
I know.
Me, too.
Gwynn, you'll die!
Sorry, Talon.
Good-bye, Talon.
- Why would you do that? - I didn't have a choice.
It's for the good of the Realm.
But if we lose you, who's going to rule the Realm?
You'll figure it out.
I don't want to lose you, Gwynn.
It's just me and you against the world.
- It's always been that way. - It's always been that way
since the day you walked in the door.
You stood by me in every bad decision I've ever made
and you're my best friend.
- Are you ready? - No.
Are you?
Not in the least.
Victory is mine.
Zed?
Now do you see?
Admit it, it was a mistake to betray me.
You...
You're alive?
Where is Ketma?
What about Saivek?
- He's dead. - He cannot die. He's...
Stop them.
Stop them!
- You lose, Yavalla. - No.
Die, you witch!
- Falista. Falista! - I'm all right.
She's alive.
Her kinj must have kept her alive.
Why are they kneeling?
They're bending the knee to you, Talon.
They see you as their new leader.
Their leader is dead.
Long live their new leader.
What have they done?
They released the gods.
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