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These scrolls are
more than 2,000 years old.
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- There we are.
- What do they say?
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Well, this first one...
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will be of special interest
to you, Captain.
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- Oh?
- It's sailing directions.
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The first written authority.
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The only way to restore Kassim is to
undertake a journey to their country?
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Ajourney to Hyperborea,
the land of the Arimaspi...
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is the only possible way
of restoring Prince Kassim.
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These other scrolls
confirm the legend.
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It tells of a warm
and green valley...
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at the northern most point of the world,
surrounded by wide seas of ice.
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There in the valley of Hyperborea...
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the Arimaspi built a shrine,
the shrine of the four elements:
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Earth, fire, air and water.
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Within that shrine is the source
of all their extraordinary power.
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This power enabled them to preserve
their valley against the glacier...
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and to change or transform
the nature of matter.
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I have been experimenting
with a similar power.
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- Is there truly such a valley?
- Oh, beyond a doubt.
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Then how soon can you be ready
to sail?
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The journey would be impossible.
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You would be traveling
in the coldest regions in the world.
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Cold? Certainly.
Difficult and dangerous? Perhaps.
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But not impossible.
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And we shall have you
to interpret the scrolls.
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I'm too old.
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- Besides, there's so little time.
- Come with us, Melanthius.
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It can't be that this noble prince shall
spend the rest of his days in a cage.
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- Dione, light the candles.
- The shrine is his one chance...
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and you're the only one
who can lead us there.
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Please say you will.
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- Where did you find that?
- With the scrolls.