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I shall return home and take the throne!

Brother, no wolf’s claw, but me at thy gate’s keep.

My lord, we live humble lives in a remote village. Our people were attacked by the marauding barbarians led by

Treachery, a serpent’s tongue, coiled 'round their kinfolk’s honor.

Legends sing of them, noble samurai, Vikings bold, unity in strength.

An axe age, a sword age. Shields are riven. A wind age, a wolf age. Before the world goes headlong.

In the vast dominion of Nordheim, King Cnut reigned, his rule just but unyielding. With imminent threats looming from neighboring

Reading Neil S. Price’s The Viking Way, and man, Vikings were all about epic verbal showdowns. Maria Dahvana Headley’s Beowulf-inspired rap battles in VIKINGS vs SAMURAI is gonna be killer!

Father, I see your contempt for me. I hear disdain drips from your voice like venom. They brand me “Failson,

His head will be on a pike before I let him end Tōshirō's life! That is mine for the taking.