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Before we start, just a quick warning that this episode will feature violence and sexual

content that may not be suitable for everyone. shields his eyes against the blazing afternoon sun and looks up and down the field.

As far as the eye can see, there are soldiers, thousands upon thousands of them.

Some are in the saddle trying to calm their horses as they snort and stamp.

Others are on foot, their armor clanking as they butt heads to psych themselves up.

Somewhere in the distance, trumpets are blowing.

Around him, Emperor Otto can hear a hubbub of different languages.

Men shout instructions and encouragement to one another in dialects of German, Flemish, French, and even English,

making last minute demands for weapons or water, yelling abuse.

They speak half a dozen languages and more because the soldiers in Otto's army come

from all across Western Europe. They're united by a single common enemy.

The King of France, Philip Augustus. Otto's army and Phillips have been stalking one another for days,

fainting and second-guessing each other as they trample the countryside of northern France and Flanders.

Now on the 27th of July 1214, they're finally facing off in a fields near a bridge called Bovine.

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