Delve into history's boldest reconnaissance mission during the Mongol invasion of Georgia.

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Music tracks featured:

• "Achilles", "Action", "Ambiment", "Ambush", "An Upsetting Theme", "Asian Drums", "Autumn Day", "Black Vortex", "Call to Adventure", "Crusade", "Desert City", "Dreamlike", "Drums of the Deep", "Enigma", "Five Armies", "For Originz", "Hall of the Mountain King", "Healing", "Journey To Ascend", "Luminous Rain", "Machinations", "Mirage", "Mourning Song", "Night Vigil", "Odyssey", "Overture", "Passing Action", "Realizer", "Revival", "Rising Tide", "Rite of Passage", "Ritual", "Silent Night", "Sunshine", "The North", "The Pyre", "The Sky of our Ancestors", "Thunderbird", "Unholy Knight", "Vanishing", "Vortex"

Music by Kevin MacLeod available on incompetech.com, licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0. More info at creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.

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