Episode Title:
Awakening
Episode Description:
After Snake reprimands his men for mistreating the slaves, he introduces himself to Thorfinn. He suddenly draws his sword, but this time Thorfinn reacts and blocks Snake with a powerful kick, revealing that he still has a will to live. Arnheid tells Pater about the incident and he treats Thorfinn's wounds, but Thorfinn immediately heads back into the woods to continue tree felling. When Einar asks if he has been to war, Thorfinn replies he has been at war since he was a child, and killed more people than he can remember. That night, Einar wakes in a rage from his pent-up hatred of warriors and begins to choke Thorfinn who at the same time is having a nightmare in which he is fighting demons who are trying to kill him. Einar stops choking Thorfinn who wakes screaming with the memories of what he has done in his past and thanks Einar for waking him, but Einar berates him for what he sees as a selfish nihilistic attitude and they both try to go back to sleep. A final scene shows a white-haired ruler visiting a battlefield graveyard in the moonlight.
