S1E1: He Will Be Iron
Genghis: Birth of an Empire Season 1
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Yesugei, khan of the Wolves, destroys a Tartar raiding party in a blizzard and rides home to find his second son being born, the infant's fist closed around a black clot of blood. His mother reads it as a life shadowed by death. His father declares he will be iron and names him Temüjin. Years later a twelve-year-old Temüjin leads his brothers up a towering red hill to steal eagle chicks, only to watch Yesugei give the prize he wanted to the bondsman Eeluk. That night his father tells him he will be sent to live among his mother's people, and childhood ends.
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S1E2: The Cold Face
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S1E3: Unless He Dies
Temüjin races home and reaches his father in time for a last word before Yesugei is gone. At the funeral fire the bondsman Eeluk claims the tribe by force and blood, and Hoelun and her children are stripped of everything and driven onto the empty plain, left to starve as the carrion birds circle.
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S1E4: Say His Name
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