A rescue mission is required and, for reasons not dwelt on for too long because they might not make sense, Tir Asleen sends the kids: Kit, Jade, Graydon and a plucky kitchen maid called Dove (Ellie Bamber). This is, in more ways than one, not what she wants.īut then, calamity! Despite Tir Asleen’s attempt to live a quiet, neutral life as a sort of Switzerland in a world of murderous sorcery, demonic invaders raid the castle and kidnap a prince. Kit is the bride in the aforementioned arranged union, so now she faces dutiful domestic inertia with nervous nerd Graydon (Tony Revolori). Out on a nearby rocky outcrop, tomboyish princess Kit (Ruby Cruz, the murder victim’s best pal in Mare of Easttown) sword-fights lustily with her friend and training partner Jade (Erin Kellyman), before reluctantly returning indoors to put on the dress her mother, Queen Sorsha (Joanne Whalley, reprising her film role), has laid out for her. Is she dead, hidden or banished? The residents of Tir Asleen don’t know. The mystery hanging over it is the whereabouts of Elora Danan, the child of destiny whose rescue was the plot driver of the original movie. In the film it was a battleground of spells, curses and witchery, but we learn that now it has forbad magic – this is very much the sort of place where people say “forbad” – to secure a peaceful existence. We return to Tir Asleen, which in long shot is a castle CGI’d into the Welsh countryside and in closeup is a standard fantasy community: knights, four-poster beds, banquets to celebrate an arranged marriage to unite two ancient kingdoms, and so on.
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