S1E3: Unless He Dies
Genghis: Birth of an Empire Season 1
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2m 19s
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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