Summary
“Dakai the Magpie and Regnejee the Wings of Sunset” introduces some more key players while fleshing out their relationships and backstories.
As with the previous episodes in Season 1, Ishura Episode 3, wordily titled “Dakai the Magpie and Regnejee the Wings of Sunset”, introduces a couple of key new characters while also building the show’s political and mythological background. This outing does feel more connected than the previous two, though, as we’re beginning to see how various connections and interlocking backstories are going to matter down the line. This isn’t just a parade of cool-looking heroes fighting for a vacant title, although there’s certainly some of that, but an increasingly developed world that evidently has many stories to tell.
Ishura Season 1 Episode 3 Recap
We already heard mention of Regnejee the Wings of Sunset in Episode 2 – he’s the trained wyvern who is an asset of Taren. But despite him being possessed of special powers – the Thermal Arts we saw him decimate the wild wyverns with in the second episode – his most interesting characteristics are in his personality.
Regnejee and Curte
Regnejee’s wyverns have a mandate to protect the people of Lithia, even though it might go slightly against their nature. The wyverns are conditioned from a young age not to harm humans. We get a sense of Regnejee’s leadership when he punishes one of his wyverns for going rogue and snaffling a nine-year-old girl. The punishment is death, and Regnejee carries it out personally and without mercy. He also suggests that the other young wyverns be reconditioned so that they don’t similarly get the urge to chow down on the vulnerable people they’re supposed to be protecting.
The idea of Regnejee as a protector is reiterated in his relationship with Curte, Taren’s blind daughter. Curte can sooth Ragnejee with song, even when he’s in the midst of a bloodlust, and the two of them have a close bond. It would stand to reason that Regnejee’s loyalty is to Curte more so than her mother, but he’s nonetheless Taren’s agent – at least for the time being.
The Bandit Swordsman
Speaking of Taren’s agents, the other is Dakai the Magpie, another master swordsman like Soujirou the Willow-Sword from Episode 1, but this one much more morally unscrupulous. He has a magic blade – it’s an anime, of course he does – and little compunction about executing anyone in his path.
Dakai is recently back from Nagan, where he retrieved the life seals from the Great Labyrinth and the other golems, and he’s concerned that someone at least as strong as himself must have despatched the Labyrinth. Dakai’s fetch quest brings Taren the Cold Star, but nothing else of value, however, she has another mission for him.
Following Regnejee’s attack on the outlaws and the wild wyverns, the surviving outlaws had snuck into Lithia in disguise and were attempting to weaken the New Principality from the inside for the benefit of Aureatia. Dakai’s objective is to track them down and wipe them out without mercy, figuring out what they are up to while he does so.
How does Ishura Season 1 Episode 3 end?
In a fine action sequence, Dakai does just this, ruthlessly executing the spies – even those who plead for their lives. He’s a dangerous fighter who also seems to have some abilities beyond just a magic sword, but he doesn’t receive much backstory or explanation in this episode, which is mostly just an introduction to his lethality.
After killing the agents, Dakai is in possession of a document that reveals the plans of Aureatia’s Secret Service. Episode by episode, it seems that Taren is accumulating more and more power in his fight against Aureatia.
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