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Two. Created. By

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Jason Blue. The

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Old Kingdom. As

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a boy, he studied the history

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with such hunger that his parents

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often found him a sleep. With

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one she pressed upon the cover

1:19

of a dusty tome stolen from

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the Palace library. Bound

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volumes with names like

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L Can Kings of

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the Planes Age early.

1:30

Workings of Silk an iron

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in The Empire Flight In

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Motion and Practice. There

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were too many to name,

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but never enough to read.

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His eyes burned and crackled

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by nights and words and

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images of times the go

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washing over him like thick

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waves of worry dazzling his

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mind. He

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taught himself to read the old

1:58

language at an astonishing. Age

2:00

and even his tutors were alarmed

2:02

by his appetite for the deeds

2:04

of past era's the glory of

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the past and the thrill of

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bringing it to lies. He

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was a noble from the

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flightless class with from a

2:16

family of no significance. It

2:18

allowed him to avoid much

2:20

expectation, which for him was

2:23

fine. He

2:25

would find out later that his

2:27

parents were radicals, have a different

2:29

sort that moved and rebellious circle.

2:32

Circles. That worked for

2:34

an end to the cruelty

2:36

of the caste system of

2:39

practice they sell kept their

2:41

people from to enlightenment. All

2:44

could not be free as some were none.

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But. All the same, they went

2:50

about their noble duties, most of

2:52

all seeding the voracious mind of

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their son, Robin Blue. One.

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Book Fascinated Robert above

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all. A

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volume of dubious veracity.

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A tome that divided

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the Tudors into believers

3:07

and attackers. It

3:10

was simply. Title: The Old

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Kingdom. It

3:14

was said that an eagle of the

3:16

past had tried to burn all copies

3:18

of the book. Finding.

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It's ideas so roses that

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he put to death any

3:25

court discussing it. Still,

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It endures long after that

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ego was replaced by another.

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and yet another. and yet

3:34

another. Eventually, the

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politics and wars of time

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buried the book. Don't the

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edges of it's perturbations? It

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would occasionally resurface from age

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to age, enjoying of fashionable

3:48

lies in Yonkers circles as

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a dangerous fantasy. Until

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it took root and the mind

3:55

of Robin Blue. and

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became something and tire leo

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The book was written by a

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commoner who signed his name only

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as Gull. Gulls

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were mythical birds of the old

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world that dwelled upon the lake

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with no shores, a

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body of water that occupied a

4:16

great portion of the imagination of

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his people. Legend

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goes that one enlightened emperor

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of the Green Age was

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so obsessed with proving it

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existed that he sent

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a convoy of more than

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one hundred warriors, healers, tutors,

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and artisans on a trek

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to find it. Only

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one returned, a

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young page who never spoke one

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word of the entire affair. But

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what of the old kingdom? What

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was held within? The book

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contained letters and diary entries

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of the mysterious Gull that

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when taken altogether painted a picture

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of their people's history that

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was far different than any taught

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in the palace halls or preached

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by the sky-lark. It

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had many tears of ponderance and

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often veered off course, but the

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story at its heart was thus.

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The underbrush was not the

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wasteland where the worst

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of their people dropped from grace

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to smother and wretchedness, but

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rather it was the

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early domain of the people of

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the sky. It

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was from the underbrush that

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all their people ascended. He

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called it the Old Kingdom. The

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Old Kingdom was formed not long after

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the lost age by the first people.

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It was a place that

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offered safety from whatever horrors

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thrived below. The

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ancients built and built there in

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the first layers of what would

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be come the mild high oaks.

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They were all one people.

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The Old Kingdom was harsh in

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its early days but grew to

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a splendor, like

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a riot of flower buds upon

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the branches. These

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early people thrived and became

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many. They felt

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kinship with the birds who shared the

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branches with them, so took

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them into their hearts and shused them

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to their souls. The

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lost world they came from was so

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cruel that they felt they could

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only move into the next one if

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made new through this avian

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welding. They

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became the birds and

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from then determined that

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they would not be at rest until

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they found a homeland in the sky

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ever upward. And so

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was born the greeting that stays

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with their people to this day.

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Ascend, an ascend

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they did. The

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proof, wrote Gull, was

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the abandoned snaking tunnels made through

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the thick branches of the mild

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high oaks that remained to this

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day. He claimed

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they enabled the people of the Old

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Kingdom to make their way into the

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tops of the trees where they built

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the empire of the sky. This

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was far different from what was

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taught by the Tudors, which

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was that the abandoned tunnels were made for

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the wars of the Crow Age. When

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Robin first let the ideas

7:36

of the Old Kingdom find

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fertile ground in his mind,

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he did not expect them to shape the rest

7:43

of his life, to color how

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he saw the world until the day he

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left it. But it did,

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like a lantern lit that would

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not go out, notions

7:55

that would become ideas, Ideas

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that would become his creed. We

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are all one people. The

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cure for the sickness of

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our time is to cut

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out the right that divide

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us. Years later,

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as he looked up at the

8:14

monks who surrounded his bedside doing

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all they could to keep his

8:18

life from leaving his body, he

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thought of the day he found

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the poor. House

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was propped up in the corner

8:27

by the breakfast plate, calling to

8:29

him with a strange power. He

8:32

remembered how is so as decisions

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of the old Kingdom came into

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life and his mind. And

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then he sells to Cease was over

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as soon as he read it himself

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for their. But death

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would not come on that day. Instead.

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What would come on that day with

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the stealing of his blood to the

8:55

creation of what his father was would

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come to call. The

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New Kingdom. Birds

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of Empire stars Gwendolyn Bradley

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Strand as the Keeper. Written

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and directed by Jason Lou.

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Executive Produced by Jason Lou

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Rob Hurting. David. Heading

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in Shenzhen. See you. Producers.

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Edited and next. I will. sandy.

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Original score and composition I Dare

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and. Music editor

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Will Andy. Supervising

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Sound effects editor and Sound

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Designer Randy. Audio

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Director Chrissy Cirelli. Script.

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Supervisor Jc Heinz. Production

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