IT BEGAN WITH…
…The arrival of three Roman brothers to the island of Britain…
AMBROSIUS, UTHER and URYEN…
They arrived with vengeance in their hearts…
They came to avenger their father, Lucius Castus, a commander of the IX Legion,
slain by the tyrant Vortigern…
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KING VORTIGERN, who ruled with an iron fist of cruelty and contempt, had plunged the realm into chaos and ruin. Utilising an assortment of dark magic and evil practices in his pursuit of ultimate power…
In Dinas Emrys he constructed his dark tower, the ancient tool in which he would syphon magic from the Dark Lands…
And with that foul magic summoned an evil beast from the depths…
…The White Dragon…
…
But in the south,
a spark had ignited the flames of rebellion.
Where a young boy had been discovered…
Anointed and confirmed by fae he would grow to lead the old ways…
…He was MERLIN and he brought with him the sacred blade…
EXCALIBUR…
…
It was with the aid of the young Merlin that the Roman Brothers were able to unite the Britons and the native mage communities.
They marched on Dinas Emrys as one nation…
men and women, rogue, warrior and mage…
Together they stemmed the tides of darkness…
Merlin brought forth the Red Dragon from the eternal fire.
And with the Sacred Blade in hand, did they defeat the tyrant king…
His dragon fell and so too did his Tower…
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In the end…
The brothers were chosen as kings of Britain…
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…URYEN was given kingship of the Wild North to govern and took the symbol of the Unicorn…
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…UTHER was to rule the Southern Territories…
…He chose the symbol and name of Pendragon…
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…And AMBROSIUS, the eldest, became High King…
He chose to honour the boy Merlin and made for his royal emblem the bird of the boy's namesake…
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…For a time, they ruled well…
For a time, there was peace…
…
…But peace is not eternal…
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I was not a huge fan of how the movie opened with some strange title crawl like Star Wars. I imagined the one I wrote to be recited aloud, a backdrop of a stylistic animation much like in Ryse: Son of Rome with the story of Damocles, or the Tale of the Three Brothers from Harry Potter. Something more dynamic than words against a black screen.