He repeats, over and over, “Kill me.” Finally, Ashin complies and sets the camp on fire before going back to the settlement to get answers to her burning questions.
She weeps and promises to save him, but he only wants an end to his misery. After a Joseon military camp official catches one of the rapists leaving Ashin's sleeping quarters late one night, he tells the man never to return but does nothing to punish him.ĭuring one of her reconnaissance missions, Ashin is shocked and horrified to find her father imprisoned in the camp, his limbs cut off as punishment for betraying his fellow Jurchen. It is revealed when she is older that Joseon soldiers have been raping her (likely since she was a child due to a reference by one of them to an odd place she would sleep when she was younger). The Commander also sends her out to spy periodically on the military camp of Pajeowi. He places her in a military settlement post, where she begins to mainly work as a butcher, a job she learned from her father, while training secretly and relentlessly with a bow and arrow in the woods. Ashin finds her father’s necklace dangling from the feet of one of the dead that has been strung up on posts and believes he has been killed as well.īeing the sole survivor of the massacre, Ashin goes to the Commander and begs for him to avenge her family. Upon returning to her village, she is shattered to discover that it has been burned to the ground and everyone has been killed.
While she is gone, the Pajeowi military, led by Ai Da Gan, descend on Ashin's village in the middle of the night. She studies the ancient wall glyphs to understand its properties and effects, desperate to help her mother.
While casually spreading the tiger rumor in the Pajeowi camp, Tahab is threatened by a Jurchen soldier who implies he knows that Tahab is a Joseon spy spreading falsehoods.Īshin’s ill mother becomes worse, so she runs back to the hidden cave shrine to learn more about the resurrection plant. Tahab does so with the continued faith and loyalty that Joseon would ultimately uphold its promise to help his people, despite Ashin warning him that if the story is a lie then he could be putting himself in danger. The Commander instructs Tahab to travel to the bordering Pajeowi tribe and spread the message that a tiger killed the men. After Min Chi-rok confronts Cho Beam-il who confesses that he and his men murdered the 'trespassing' Jurchen, Min-Chi-rok travels to the Seongjeoyain village to conduct damage control and prevent an erupting conflict against the Kingdom by the Pajeowi. Animals mutilated their bodies post-mortem, however the Deputy Commander of the Chupajin group, Min Chi-rok, discovers a bead in the hand of one of the dead Jurchen's that leads him to believe the group was actually killed by Cho Beom-il, a high ranking member of the Haewon Cho clan, and his elite guards. Two Joseon guards find a group of 15 Pajeowi Jurchen dead, piled naked in a heap with a tattoo on the backs of their hands. He agreed in the hopes that the king would grant Seongjeoyain governmental representation, which would improve Min Chi-rok lives of its people. Ashin's father was called up to be a spy because he had pledged his loyalty to Joseon earlier. As a result, the Joseon army recruited a group of Jurchens from Seongjeoyain to monitor the Pajeowi. The Pajeowi had gathered their army at the basin of the Pajero River. Tensions were high between Joseon, the central kingdom, and the Jurchen border tribes of Pajeowi. Set before the events of the first season, it delves into Ashin's origin story and her experiences growing into a scorned woman that turned against the Kingdom of Joseon.ĭuring her childhood, Ashin lived in the Northern village of Seongjeoyain with her ailing mother and her father Tahab, who was one of the Jurchen people living in Joseon and the head of their settlement. Tragedy, betrayal and a mysterious discovery fuel a woman's vengeance for the loss of her tribe and family in this special episode of Kingdom.
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