While in the town marketplace one day, Lyla (Lucy Lawless), Deric's beautiful young wife, is taunted by a couple of bigoted vendors who are openly opposed to her marriage to a centaur. Deric (Peter Muller) arrives to find Lyla being harassed by the unsavory Merkus (Neil Holt) and seizing the bully by the throat, he overpowers and humiliates him. Merkus, incensed by the confrontation, plots his revenge while Deric goes off to buy food in the neighboring village. That
