Talon: Previously on "The Outpost"...
They'’re not gods, and my kinj makes me immune to their powers.
You don'’t have one, so stay out of it.
Get that key to Janzo and destroy it!
- It'’s the key to the Skevikor. - Luna: It'’s the key.
- [ ghostly whispers ] - It'’s talking.
Janzo: Are you sure you'’re writing down everything it'’s saying?
Those are the names of the Seven.
Vorta: Until you bring yourselves to us,
we will torture her.
Go, go!
- Tobin! - Run!
It is your turn to return to the fold, Golu.
[ music playing ]
Don'’t you move. What are you doing here?
What is that? Is that your blood?
I need to get to Gallwood Outpost.
If you lend me a horse, I'’ll make sure it's returned.
Gallwood Outpost?
You'’re the Blackblood we heard about.
We know what you did for the Realm against Yavalla.
We'’ll give you whatever you need.
- Thank you. - But you'’re badly hurt.
- I heal quickly. - Wait here.
[ gasps, chokes ]
[ horses whinnying ]
[ screaming ]
[ screaming continues ]
This is the price of immortality.
That'’s enough, Janya.
You must keep a reserve to wake the Kahvi.
Destroy their dwellings so they do not repopulate.
[ horse whinnying ]
Life in this world has increased since our first arrival.
It will feed us well for a long time to come.
[ theme music playing ]
Garret: Talon?
Oh! Sorry.
Are you all right?
- Tobin saved me. - Well, where is he?
Where is he, Talon?
They killed him for his kinj.
Resurrected another one of them.
So that means there'’s five of them now.
You and I have the only two kinjes left.
- They'’re coming for yours next. - Yeah, I know.
They'’re slaughtering people now.
On the way here, I saw them burn an entire village.
My kinj protected me.
Then we need to hide you.
Both of you. Can they sense where you are?
- Where your kinjes are? - I don'’t think so.
They didn'’t seem to see me at the village.
All right, we might still have time then.
- Time for what? - I don'’t know. Devise a plan.
Just let me get cleaned up.
All: To Tobin.
He could'’ve gotten out of there whenever he wanted,
but he stayed to save me.
He'’s a cocky son of a bitch,
but he'’s a good man and a good king with too short a reign.
Speaking of reigns, who rules our people now?
I mean, in a preposterously short amount of time,
we'’ve lost two queens and a king.
Who'’s in charge now?
Tobin left Garret in charge.
Why change things?
Because when people find out he'’s dead,
they'’ll have no reason to follow me.
Agreed.
They'’ll be more political chaos and competing factions
against humans and among Blackbloods.
It'’s the last thing we need right now.
Then the people can'’t find out that Tobin is dead.
What?
How many people know that Tobin has been killed?
The four of us and those monsters out there, right?
So why do the rest of the people need to know right away?
Because the people deserve to know the truth.
Their king and queen have been slain.
The best thing for them, for all of us right now, is to maintain order.
Focus our energy on defeating our real enemy,
not fighting amongst ourselves.
Zed'’s right. We deal with the so-called gods first.
- Then we tell the people. - Talon.
We tell no one of Tobin'’s death.
Garret remains commander for now, agreed?
- Both: Agreed. - I don'’t like it.
How long before those things are at the gate?
I don'’t know, but not long.
[ muttering ]
Talon, you'’re back!
Ah, I knew His Majesty wouldn'’t fail.
What is it?
What are we all so sad about?
Where'’s King Tobin?
He'’s away tracking the enemy, Munt, like the hero that he is.
Aye. What a king, eh?
Yeah. Yeah.
Going to prepare him something nice just for him.
- He'’ll like that. - [ Munt muttering ]
Thank you.
I know. I couldn'’t believe it either.
Now Garret insisted that he be kept behind bars.
I think it'’s a little over-cautious.
Some might say even a little bigoted,
but he seems not to mind.
Well, who are you talking about?
Talon...
...meet 3-1-3.
He'’s one of them, Janzo. One of those so-called gods.
Janzo: No. I mean, well, yes, that'’s everyone'’s first reaction.
- He looks just like them. - You have seen the Masters?
Masters?
That'’s what he calls the Seven.
Talon, he'’s no threat. I promise.
We found him underneath the Outpost beneath the Skevikor room.
We believe there are thousands more like him.
Thousands?
I thought there were only seven to be woken
by the seven kinjes.
Seven Masters.
Thousands of Kahvi.
Slaves.
Why are you here?
Because the man called Garret put me in here.
Talon: No, I mean your people.
The Kahvi.
Why are the Kahvi here?
We are meant to wake at the opening by the hand of the Masters.
Our only purpose is to serve the Masters
who will use you all as fuel.
Fuel?
Sure, Janzo, no threat at all.
Talon.
We believe his people were brought here
from the Plane of Ashes.
How long ago, I have no idea.
Oh, and he'’s desperate for his Naviaspore.
I need my Naviaspore.
Talon: And what'’s a Naviaspore?
From what I can tell,
it'’s what he calls the gold kinj,
the kind Yavalla had.
Vorta, she had hundreds, maybe thousands
of glowing gold things in her arm and hand.
She did?
That explains the tubes.
- Tubes? - Come with me.
Tubes.
You see these tubes that run from the handprints of the altar?
There was a singular tube exactly the same as these
connected in the back of 3-1-3'’s neck when he was in the pod.
Figured it was a way to deliver something into the Kahvi.
I thought it might be some sort of life-giving substance,
but what if all these tubes
are used to deliver those gold kinjes that you saw in Vorta
to the entire Kahvi population?
To control them?
Exactly.
To enslave them.
There are seven handprints.
Do you think it requires all seven of them to work?
I'’d assume so.
Aster'’s love for the creatures of this world
has blinded him to our purpose.
[ baby fussing ]
Janzo: Talon?
No, it had to be Aster.
One of the Seven. It was like I was seeing his memories from ages ago.
Aster. Asterkinj.
Ah, of course. Your kinj is his soul.
My flashes were no doubt from my kinj'’s original owner as well.
That does follow our theory that each kinj
must hold the essence of one of the Seven.
- Mm-hmm. - Their memories must be intact in your kinjes.
When you touched the Skevikor altar,
well, it must'’ve triggered them somehow.
Yeah, but what do the memories tell us?
I don'’t know. They seemed random.
I mean, my was just standing in the Skevikor room with the other Masters.
Well, mine was weirder.
The creature was using my kinj
to make some human woman kill her own baby,
and then one of the other Masters stopped it.
- And was it Aster? - No idea. It was just flashes.
I'’m not sure if I'd know it was him anyway.
When Vorta had me captive,
she kept saying Aster was the Betrayer.
If it was Aster who saved the human baby, well,
those monsters might consider that a betrayal.
It'’s like there's something I should be seeing,
I just can'’t work it out.
We need to figure this out soon,
because those things are coming for me and Talon.
Well, maybe there'’s a hint of it in my texts.
- I'’ll keep searching. - Thank you.
Can we talk?
If this is more about who should be leading the people, I'’d rather not.
No. No, it'’s not that.
Last time we saw each other, I felt like you were pulling away from me.
In the woods?
When we were running for our lives?
You know what I mean.
Zed said it might have to do
with the near extinction of the Blackbloods
and you feeling a pressure to be with your own people.
So now you'’re going to Zed for insight into our relationship?
No. No, I'’m coming to you.
- Is it true? - No.
Maybe. I don'’t know.
Ever since that slaughter, I feel like I'’ve failed my people
for not bringing them through soon enough.
- No, that was not your fault. - It was my fault.
Now if I have to ask myself if I'’m turning my back on my people for being with you.
Wren is the Blackblood High Priestess, and she'’s with Janzo.
Do you think she'’s turning her back on her people?
No.
I can'’t do this now.
- Where are you going? Talon! - I need some air.
And I see you changed your clothes.
Yes.
The most uncomfortable thing I'’ve ever put on my body,
and I don'’t understand why humans wear those things.
What'’s this?
Taste it.
Go on.
- Wilderberry. - Mm-hmm.
Do you remember being sent to pick bucketfuls when we were still in the green world?
We'’d eat them all ourselves and claim the frost had gotten them.
And the stains on our fingers and lips used to give us away every time.
Mm.
Come with me in the morning and I'’ll show you where they grow.
Zed, you want it to be like old times between us.
- It can'’t be. - Why not?
Every day I wake with the loss of our people pressing down on my chest.
Every day there'’s nothing to do but grieve
while I care for orphans being raised humans.
You want me to forgive you for not bringing us here sooner, but how can I?
Because it wasn'’t his fault.
It was mine.
Zed pleaded, argued.
He even tried to force me
to bring the rest of the Blackbloods through,
and I refused.
I had no idea it would end the way that it did,
and I'’ll always be haunted by that.
But if you need someone to blame, it'’s me, not him.
You didn'’t have to do that.
Why haven'’t you told her?
'’Cause I'd rather they blamed me than you, if you were going to lead us.
I'’m not.
Have you thought any more about the visions we had?
I can'’t stop thinking about them. Especially that child.
Any idea why they would try and kill it?
No, I don'’t know what any of it means
or if any of it means anything at all.
One thing I do know is killing babies is nothing to them.
And killing anything and everything is nothing to them.
Hey. We are going to stop them, Talon.
How?
Guess I'’m afraid we'’re running out of time.
Nah, you'’re worth more in pieces.
[ screaming ]
[ ghostly whispering ]
[ whispering continues ]
Damn it.
Janzo!
I'’ve got another bloody screaming object here.
Sounds just like that Skevikor key thingy.
You'’re welcome.
So you stole this for yourself from Dred'’s collection
when you were getting the Skevikor key?
Gonna give me grief for robbing that Prime Order ratbag?
It wasn'’t his to begin with.
No doubt. No.
Any indication in his reliquary
as to what he might have thought it was?
Not really.
Just laying among countless other pieces.
I grabbed the shiniest.
So you say it spoke to you like the Skevikor key did?
Mm-hmm, when I tried to pry one of the gems out.
Huh. Must mean that it triggered your Drag--
no, no, please.
It must mean it trigged your Dragman abilities,
which may mean it'’s pertinent to our search for answers.
Did you understand anything it was saying?
Screams is all.
Seven crystals in the same colors as the seven kinjes.
Yeah, obviously.
But this shape isn'’t the heptagram of the Seven
that we'’re familiar with.
This arrangement isn'’t like anything we'’ve seen before.
I wonder what it means.
Well, thank you for bringing it to me.
You did the right thing.
Don'’t I get a few beads for it at least?
Could'’ve got a sack full of coin for it on the street.
No.
I'’m not going to pay you for a stolen relic
that might be help in saving us all,
yourself included. You'’re welcome.
Fresh linens for the king'’s room.
That'’s fine, Munt.
Looks like he received some post.
- Yes. - Any news from His Majesty?
Not today. No.
Ah.
When is he coming back, you suppose?
Uh, no, it'’s difficult to say.
Commander Spears,
the one thing I like most about Tobin
is he always tells me the truth,
even when it hurts.
Munt.
Come inside. Take a seat.
These here and this here.
- Please, yeah. - Yeah.
- Or these, um-- - No, Munt.
I have to tell you something, and it'’s going to be difficult for you to hear.
Oh, try this ear then.
Tobin would want you to know
he thought of you as a friend.
- Let'’s do this ear-- - Munt.
Yeah?
Tobin'’s been killed.
What'’s that?
He was slain rescuing Talon
from those things that held her captive.
Unh-uh. That don'’t make no sense.
I know it'’s difficult to take in.
No, no. He'’s the king.
If he was dead, the whole Realm would know it.
Oh, that'’s just it, Munt. They cannot know.
We have to maintain the illusion that he is still out there.
We cannot have the people fall into chaos
while those things are out there trying to kill us all.
- He was my friend. - Yeah.
He was the only one that ever treated me
- more than a bartender. - Munt--
Apart from Janzo, only he has to.
He'’s my brother by blood, and then there'’s Warlita--
I think of you as more than a bartender.
You can come to me any time.
I don'’t like you as much as I liked him.
There needs to be mourning.
And there needs to be pyres built and black banners hung.
Munt, the mourning will have to be kept in secret.
- No. - In our hearts only, just for now.
Think of it as a final act of service to your king.
No. No.
- And to your friend. - No.
- Please. - No.
Munt.
Munt, all right.
- All right. Easy. - [ sobs ]
- My best friend. - I know. I miss him, too.
You are a hero, Munt. You are a hero.
I know. I know.
Talon said I might find you here.
Did she?
She said this is where you come to brood.
- What'’s that? - A peace offering.
- Wilderberries. - Janzo told me where to find them.
Does this mean you'’ve forgiven me?
It'’s hard letting go of the anger, Zed.
When it'’s gone, what do I have left?
I'’ve felt directionless ever since we left the Plane of Ashes.
And what about the children? You have them.
I'’m no caregiver. I'’m a warrior with no war to fight,
and all I see you focused on are the causes of the humans.
I don'’t understand why you work so hard to help them.
Look, us Blackbloods that came through the portal before you,
we almost destroyed the world by enabling Yavalla.
The humans, they fought alongside us to stop her.
I'’ve come to realize we're all in this together, Nedra,
and this world, it belongs to all of us.
- Ooh, here'’s something maybe. - Hmm?
Right, in trying to answer Talon'’s questions,
why Vorta wants Aster woken last
and why she calls him the Betrayer...
- Mm-hmm. - ...I'’ve come across this.
"Seven there were in the beginning, masters of the world.
When six departed, one remained
and walked among the first Blackbloods,
teaching them the ways of life."
One remained. Could that be Aster?
Betraying the six by helping Blackbloods?
I thought Blackblood lore regarded all seven gods as benevolent.
I know. So did I.
Like I said, these texts are muddy about everything.
How goes it with Luna'’s medallion?
Still can'’t figure out its purpose. Look here.
If these seven crystals
- corresponded to the seven kinjes... - Or seven gods.
Or seven gods, why is it in this configuration?
I mean, this shape isn'’t recorded in any Yindrian
or Blackblood symbology, is it?
No, not that I'’ve seen,
nor in any of the glyphs from the Skevikor room.
Hmm.
The red, green, and orange crystals
are clustered together here.
Didn'’t Talon say that the bodies of Kultor, Janya, and Levare
were all buried in the same tomb?
Yes. Yes, you'’re right.
And their corresponding kinj colors were--
Red, green, and orange. Is there a connection?
- Wren, look. - What?
Janzo, is there something on my face?
Hmm.
Thank you.
We know that the tomb of Kultor, Janya, and Levare
lay beneath the Chamber of the Three in the Capital.
Yes.
Talon and Zed told us
that Tera'’s tomb is on the coast
north of Abbot'’s Harbor.
I believe we'’ve just figured out
where the last two bodies of the gods are buried.
- To our king. - And our queen.
It'’s not right pretending this didn'’t happen.
They should be avenged,
and it'’s gonna be me that does the avenging.
How are you going to do that?
- I don'’t know. - Munt.
I don'’t want you to go out there and get killed.
I like having you around too much.
You do?
Talon: So these are the locations to the two last tombs?
- Are you sure? - Yes. The other five line up perfectly.
I'’d wager my left arm that the bodies of Golu and Aster lie sleeping here and here.
Yes, for the first time we know where their comrades are before they wake.
- We have to use this. - Well, how?
We break into their sarcophagi, they'’ll be unconscious,
kinj-less, and vulnerable,
and we destroy the bodies of Golu and Aster.
Exactly, then there will be no reason
for the other five to come after your kinjes,
because, well, the bodies of their comrades will be destroyed.
I'’m not convinced that would work.
I mean, Janya seems to have even greater
resurrection powers than Two had.
Talon, I'’ve just realized where this is.
This is the Shrine of Vor-Anden.
What? Aster'’s buried at the same place we found Zed'’s kinj?
Also seven kinjes were there at one point, right?
Well, that'’s brilliant. You know exactly how to get there.
I'’ll go to Golu's tomb. If we destroy their bodies,
our kinjes will be worthless to them.
I'’m just not sure that'’s the right plan.
At least not for Aster.
You know, the so-called gods call him the Betrayer.
Mm. It would be nice to know
why they call him that before we destroy him.
There was one thing I read, Talon.
An obscure passage in the ancient texts
referring to six of the seven gods departing the world
while one remained with the first Blackbloods helping them.
- Aster? - Well, it could be, but it doesn'’t say.
Well, why are you just telling me this now?
Well, we only discovered it moments ago.
We presumed it was one of dozens
of the contradictory passages in the text.
If that passage is referring to Aster,
then he could stand to reason to be an ally to us.
You'’re making a lot of assumptions.
Maybe. But think about it, Zed.
If Vorta doesn'’t want Aster woken,
maybe that'’s exactly what we should do.
The enemy of our enemy is our friend.
You want to wake one of the Seven ourselves?
Are you crazy?
The only way to do that is by sacrificing yourself, Talon.
But if maybe if I give my kinj up willingly to Aster,
- it might work. - Like it did for Falista?
From the seven handprints in the Skevikor room,
it seems all seven are needed to complete their mission.
Waking Aster will only get them closer to their goal.
I'’m not sure.
All right, either decision could be the wrong one,
but maybe if we get to him before they do,
he could help us.
Yeah, or he could help them end all life in our world.
If this thing triggers your memories,
show me something I can use.
Lord Aster, what have you found?
A new world for us all, full of life for the taking.
Its inhabitants are weak, primitive.
Then let us prepare to relocate.
It is time to re-suspend the Kahvi.
Zed'’s right.
I need to kill it.
That looks painful.
It'’s like my whole body was on fire.
Ouch.
Luna, thanks to the medallion you gave Janzo,
we now have a chance to destroy one of those creatures before it wakes.
I was never properly compensated for that contribution, by the way.
I want you to come to the Shrine of Vor-Anden with me.
- Why? - Well, it seems like the Dragman played a role
in keeping the Masters sleeping.
- I may need a Dragman. - Admit it.
- You just want me to come because you like my company. - That, too.
- Will you come? - What else do I have to do?
Killing someone while they slumber?
That'’s low, even for you, Zed.
See? I knew you'’d approve.
- I think you should come with me. - What?
Well, you said it yourself. You feel directionless.
This is a cause worth fighting for.
Come on, I need someone by my side in case things get hairy.
What about Talon?
She'’s going to Aster's tomb. I'’m going to Golu's.
You'’re a warrior, so come be a warrior.
Hello, 3-1-3.
I'’ll speak to the prisoner alone, thank you.
Well, go on! Out!
Do I have to get my friend Commander Garret Spears involved?
Are the soldiers treating you well?
- Well? - Are they bothering you?
They are not kind.
See, they fear what they don'’t understand.
But you do not fear me.
Oh, no. No, I'’m only intrigued.
When I was connected to the voice of the Masters, I feared nothing.
Now everything is uncertain.
Do you think perhaps that could be a good thing?
Separation from the Master'’s voice, I mean,
gives you a chance to choose for yourself.
To choose?
Yes, to make a choice.
For example, I'’ve brought you two options for your meal.
One is my soup that you had in my laboratory the other day
and the other is porridge that you had yesterday.
Which do you choose?
- Soup. - All right.
3-1-3.
Does this sequence mean anything to you?
Janya, Kultor, Levare,
Aster, Golu,
Tera, Vorta.
The names of the Masters.
Yes, but is the order--
is the order of any relevance to you?
You see, Luna, she heard it from the Skevikor key,
and she just kept hearing it over and over.
Nothing?
I like soup.
Yes. Yes, of course you do.
See?
No one had to tell you to choose that.
You just chose what you wanted
and it made you happy.
3-1-3, I want you to consider
what you might want to choose for yourself.
Beyond the food and the jail cell, what do you want?
I want to hear the voice of the Masters.
Yeah, let'’s just forget about the Masters for one moment.
What would make 3-1-3 happy?
- Others. - Others?
They sleep awaiting their Naviaspore.
Oh, the Kahvi?
I miss them.
Wait, so you'’re telling me
that Kahvi form emotional attachments like humans do?
Oh, 3-1-3, I'’m so sorry.
It must be incredibly difficult
to be without your kind right now.
Difficult, yes.
You poor thing.
Right.
I'’m going to do everything in my power I can
to make sure that your friends remain safe, all right?
I'’m going to, um...
I'’m going to tell Captain Garret Spears about all of this,
and then the more he knows about you,
well, the less fearful he'’ll be!
Zed! Zed, wait. Wait.
Zed, are you going off
to fight those things that killed--
um, that killed, you know.
Yeah, we are.
Although hopefully there won'’t be much fighting involved.
We'’re destroying one of their comrades before they wake.
That'’s good enough for me. I'’m coming with you.
Munt, there'’s no need. We can--
There is need. Tobin was my friend.
- Munt, look-- - Zed, let him come.
Fine, but fair warning, those things are after my kinj.
This could turn out to be very dangerous.
That'’s all right.
I'’m feeling a bit dangerous myself.
- Munt! - Oh, let'’s go, let's go, let'’s go, let's go.
- Munt! - Oh, Warlita.
What do you think you'’re doing?
I'’m sorry, Warlita, but I have to kill them who killed Tobin.
I thought we talked about this.
We did. It didn'’t change my mind though.
It'’s something I have to do.
You come back to me, you understand?
Yeah, I will.
All right. All right, big guy. Let'’s go.
Zed. Zed. Did you see that?
Heard you were leaving again.
I was just coming to find you to say good-bye.
And that'’s it?
What do you mean?
- Talon, do you love me? - Garret.
It'’s a simple question. Do you love me?
- Yes. - When I thought I might lose you to those creatures
that held you captive, one thing was crystal clear.
I would be lost without you.
I want to be at your side always,
- for the rest of my life. - What are you saying?
I'’m saying I want to marry you.
Talon, I love you. Will you marry me?
I can'’t believe you're asking me this right now.
Why?
'’Cause there's too many things going on.
People are dying, Garret. So much is uncertain.
Well, it seems like it'’s always that way.
Which is why in a world of uncertainty,
this, us, is one thing that I know
will always be right.
This isn'’t the right time. I have to go.
No.
Talon!
That was a quick good-bye.
You and Spears in a rough patch?
Never been better.
That may be the first time that you'’ve lied to me, Talon.
Ah, Warlita, have you seen Janzo? Is he inside?
No, I know he took some soup to the prisoner in jail.
That was over an hour ago.
Janzo! Janzo!
- Janzo. Janzo. - Mm?
- Up, come up. - Wren?
- What happened? - 3-1-3.
- 3-1-3? - What?
The list. The list!
The list from the Skevikor key.
[ tumblers clank ]
[ rumbling ]
3-1-3, what did you do?
I made a choice.