Athelstan reflects on the importance of family and how it is a blessing that one turns to for comfort and support.

Athelstan reflects on what it means to be a savage which lurks within each and every one of us.

Athelstan considers the expectations that the gods place on man and how a man can determine if he serving the gods or merely himself.

Athelstan consults The Seer in order to determine how the long the gods will test the Viking people and what more he must do and give up.