Unity Without Choice

EPISODE 5 — WHEN UNITY BECAME A WEAPON The steppe had stopped resisting. That was when it

began to move. After the old order fell silent, something unfamiliar spread across the

land. Not peace. Coordination. Tribes that once circled each other

like wary animals now rode in shared directions. Camps formed faster. Messages traveled

farther. Decisions no longer dissolved into argument. Unity had arrived. And unity,

the boy knew, was dangerous. At first, it felt like triumph. Followers came willingly

now. Not as refugees. Not as outcasts. But as representatives—voices of entire clans

placing themselves beneath his law. They brought gifts. Horses. Stories of enemies