🎬 Episode 4 – Blade of the Forgotten
Runtime: ~40 minutes
Read the summary of these series here: Witcher Fans, Prepare Yourselves, Cavill’s New Fantasy Project Goes Even Darker
🌫️ Prologue – Voices in the Wind (3 min)
Mist rolls over the Vale of Whispers, a cursed region abandoned since the Age of Sundering. The wind here speaks in languages no tongue remembers. Shadows move without source, and trees weep sap like blood.
A lone figure wrapped in emerald robes chants to the trees. “The blade sleeps. The king waits. Let the fire-walker come.”
In the distance, Alaric and Lysara cross the threshold into the Vale. Neither speaks. Their journey grows darker.
🌲 Act I – The Path Into Silence (5 min)
The trees of the Vale loom like sentinels, twisted by ancient magic. No birds sing. Even their horses refuse to go further.
“We walk,” Alaric says, tying his cloak tighter. “Steel drawn. Fire ready.”
They pass ruins, pillars wrapped in thornvine, altars carved with sunken runes. The silence grows unbearable. Whispers begin. Soft, at first. Then louder.
“Alaric.”
“Oathbreaker.”
“She will burn because of you.”
Lysara grabs her ears. “Make them stop.” Her fire flickers at her fingertips, struggling to ignite.
⚰️ Act II – The Tomb in the Stone (6 min)
They descend into a collapsed cavern beneath an overgrown shrine. The walls are lined with effigies of a long-dead king: Eltharion the Lost, a hero who faced the Void and vanished into myth.
At the heart lies a pedestal of blackened glass. Floating above it is a sword, elegant, ancient, bound in silver chains. As Alaric approaches, the whispers cease. For a moment, only breath and heartbeat remain.
The sword speaks in his mind.
“I remember. Do you?”
Visions strike him: a battlefield of ash, a crown of fire, a choice undone. He stumbles back. The blade refuses his hand.
💀 Act III – Trial of Memory (7 min)
Alaric and Lysara become separated within the cavern. The stone shifts like a dream. Each is forced to relive trauma.
Alaric sees his brotherhood fall again, blades through their backs, poisoned by orders he obeyed. He sees the girl he failed to protect in Highmere. Voices taunt him: “You are not a hero. You are a weapon turned loose.”
Lysara, meanwhile, sees her mother burning at the stake. The villagers who jeered. The wardens who watched. One of them bore silver armor.
“It wasn’t me!” Alaric shouts as the illusions twist. “I didn’t kill her!”
Lysara nearly lets the fire consume him, but something within her resists.
“You are not my enemy,” she says through tears. “You’re my shield.”
🔥 Act IV – The Blade Reforged (6 min)
Alaric returns to the pedestal. He kneels, not in worship, but in truth.
Alaric: “I am broken. But not finished.”
The sword stirs. The chains fall. The steel gleams with a dull, ghostly light, like flame remembered.
The Blade of Eltharion binds to him, not with magic, but purpose. It is not a weapon of war. It is a weapon of redemption.
As he lifts it, runes burn into his palm. A second whisper echoes:
“Now you walk the line… between legend and curse.”
🌪️ Act V – The Warden of the Vale (6 min)
Upon emerging from the cavern, the druid in emerald robes, Morwen, once a protector of balance, awaits them. But he is no longer mortal. Twisted by Void corruption, his limbs stretch unnaturally, his voice layered with inhuman tones.
“You awaken what should sleep,” he hisses. “That blade will not save you.”
A battle erupts. The forest comes alive, roots lash like whips, branches claw. Alaric and Lysara fight back to back.
Lysara’s flames finally stabilize, shaped by resolve. She scorches the treacherous vines while Alaric duels Morwen in a clash of steel and dark magic.
The final blow comes not in anger, but in mercy. Alaric impales the druid and whispers: “Rest.”
Morwen’s twisted form crumbles, and for a moment, the Vale is still.
🌸 Act VI – The Bloom After Fire (4 min)
As they exit the Vale, a small flower blooms at their feet, delicate, violet, impossibly alive in cursed soil.
“Hope,” Lysara says, kneeling beside it. “Even here.”
Alaric sheaths the blade. It hums, not with power, but with purpose. A fragment of a larger truth.
They look back one last time. The Vale, once cursed, now whispers not warnings… but thanks.
🎵 Final Montage (3 min)
- In the heart of the Dominion, a scrying pool shatters. “The Blade is awakened,” a masked figure hisses.
- A scholar hidden in the library of Eronval marks a page with fresh ink: “Eltharion’s Line Endures.”
- Lysara dreams of a rising mountain and a voice that calls her Daughter of Flame.
- Alaric watches the stars from their campfire, whispering a name not spoken in years: “Vaelin.”
📜 End Credits – Episode 4: Blade of the Forgotten
The road ahead twists toward unknown dangers, but now Alaric carries more than steel. He carries legacy. And as he and Lysara step into the deeper wilds of Eldros, the true war has only just begun.
The Shadow of Eldros sharpens.