“The Skeksis will stop at nothing to preserve their dominion over Thra. “here is hope, for we have glimpsed into the future and seen our fate lies in the hands of the Gelfling…” the Heretic (Andy Samberg) tells Rian, Brea, and Deet while putting on a puppet show about the legend. That sword, according to the Heretic and the Wanderer-a linked Skeksis and Mystic, respectively, who live together at the Circle of the Suns-can help the Gelfling defeat the Skeksis. In what looked to be a last-ditch effort by the Gelfling, Rian formed the Dual Glaive, a double-bladed sword that his father once wielded in the Arathim Wars.
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They were branded traitors and liars by their own kind, but they soon saw for themselves the destruction that the Skeksis had wrought. Rian, Brea, and Deet (Taron Egerton, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Nathalie Emmanuel, respectively) spent the better part of Age of Resistance attempting to convince the other Gelfling that not only did their Skeksis rulers want to drain them for their essence but that that the Gelfling needed to rise against the Skeksis to save Thra.
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The battle at Stone-in-the-Wood, the home of the Stonewood Gelfling clan, was a long time coming. The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance introduced us to an expansive and magical world on the brink of civil war, but amid the destruction of Thra over the Skeksis’ attempt to gain immortality and the lies to cover that up remained glimmers of hope, as well as a game-changing clash to end the first season season.