Tristan Hughes

He founds some cities, he makes alliances, he imposes his rule, forces people to, but it's

It's not really a deep, deep thing because he isn't there long enough.

And he has reached the limit of his power.

I want the scenic route.

I mean, again, what is the purpose of it all now?

And it's been fuzzy for a long time.

But you come to each of these communities.

They're proud, independent communities.

He tells them to surrender.

They say, no, why should we?

So he storms them and he massacres everybody.

And then he comes to the next one and the same thing happens again and again.

And it's brutal.

And you have the case where he's quite badly wounded.

He's shot by an arrow in the chest during one of the assaults on these things where he's, again, got impatient with his own men.

He felt they were hanging back when they were, just they were short of ladders.

So runs up the only ladder there is, followed by a couple of his sort of close bodyguards and companions who are thinking, oh dear, you know, we've really got to be there because it'll be...

we don't want to be blamed for the king getting killed.

But the ladder collapses because they're isolated for a while.

They jump down into the city and sort of lay about them with swords.