MacduffProd | Empire of Bones II | original story opening credits [tcc] @MacduffProd | Uploaded 7 years ago | Updated 8 hours ago
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* plot synopsis:

Generations after the collapse of the Artan Empire and the following disappearance of near all forms of magic, the Inquisition remains one of the most powerful institutions in the lands of the clan-ruled south. Led by one family, it enforces the laws and punishments set by the ruling Council, where all Clans have seat and word.
If the Inquisitor is the spine, his niece Vlarka is his right arm. Executioners and diplomats, warlocks and warriors, she and four other Blackhands act as the Inquisition’s envoys, protected and marked by their dark masks and banners.

Soon, though, the first dragons since the fall of the Empire cross the northern mountains into Clan territory and even more awake from their decade-long slumber. The long-awaited negotiations with the warlord Tarrac are more essential to keeping the peace than ever. The alliance is to be strengthened by bond of marriage between him and the Inquisitor’s eldest daughter Raika, a seer. However, when one of her prophecies predicts grave misfortune should they be married, it is Vlarka who steps in to protect her cousin, and offers to forsake the role of a Blackhand and wed the warlord in her stead. Not only must she quickly learn how to rule a Clan, balance power-grasping generals and combative widows, and but it is her husband’s land the dragons descend upon next … and so the hunt begins.
DUN DUN DUN
(What follows is a story with dragons, blood (of the family kind and of the spilled kind), some earthbound magic, politics, complicated relationships, some dorks in armour and many other things)

* title:
...refers to the fallen Empire, the remains of which are still causing most of this trouble

* characters:

› Claudia Kim as Vlarka – the Inquisitor’s niece; a warg, a warrior, and a little to eager to prove herself to her family; has a very close relationship with most of them, despite her official bastard status; likes warging into weasels and scaring Bhakti to death
› Ben Robson as Yanec – the Inquisitor’s eldest son; grooms his much younger sister to take his place as heir, since he knows himself to be too gentle and lenient to enforce the Council’s Law (but he enjoys mercy and feasts and afternoons with his children, so he doesn’t mind); also loves splitting skulls and staring down his mother’s enemies
› Olga Kurylenko as Raika – the Inquisitor’s eldest daughter; a seer, very loyal, but devious; has the lazy elegance of a sated cat; has definitely killed at least four people
› Uli Latukefu as Bhakti – one of Vlarka’s personal guard; a total teddybear, accompanies Vlarka, never knows when to speak and when to be quiet, so he’s just always quiet unless he’s alone with someone (and sometimes even then)
› Dianne Doan as Taaliel – a translator, brewer and Vlarka’s friend; mixes exquisite new alcoholic drinks and is therefore a rather rich woman
› Amy Wren as Morvrei – Yanec's wife and mother of his four children, a witch behind her timid nature; the Inquisitor often keeps her council because behind her silent manner, she gives good advice, even if it’s blunt and hurtful if need be; gives a mean back massage, but only in exchange for honeyed treats
› Joanne Whalley as Thuira – the Inquisitor’s first wife; also the eldest living member of her old family, so she had to formally forsake her old life with the Inquisition and her children, and take up the Council seat for her Clan; mother of Yanec and Raika; especially feared Council member
› Svetlana Khodchenkova as Nevah – the Inquisitor’s second wife for 16 years; loves her extended family greatly, the iron heart of the Inquisition; likes to weave pretty twigs, ribbons and the bones of her ancestors into the exquisite hairstyles of her homeland
› Remy Hii as Aire – a young dragon warrior riding with Tarrac, goes to painful lengths to maintain the image of a mysterious foreigner shrouded in fire and shadows, but actually imitates stupid horse faces on a daily basis and may or may not have stuck a walnut up his nose to win a bet (he did win) (and he actually is a dragon warrior, so his image isn’t all that wrong)
› Matthew McNulty as Aindrar – one of the other Blackhands; has a fondness for poisoning, drowning and tulips
› Ray Stevenson as the Inquisitor – left his name behind when he assumed the title of Inquisitor aged 23; it is whispered that his wife calls him by a pet name from her homeland, and he wishes that this be the name said by his grave
› Mads Mikkelsen as Chieftain Tarrac – a warlord claiming disputed land; a well-read man, yet highly superstitious and wary of anything magical; has a deep, disturbingly beautiful singing voice


* for the people in the credits, i picked the respective peeps from my favourite shows that are in some way similar to this

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