Askeladd: The Journey of the King that Never Was

Following Askeladd's life from Makoto Yukimura's anime / manga hit Vinland Saga.
This is a timeline of Askeladd's life from birth till death. Though to be fair, we only get to know a little bit. Askeladd's one of if not the biggest character of the first arc. Today I want to lay out his life in order to better understand his roots and why his story ends the way it does.
Currently I'm working on a bigger video which goes into Ask in some depth. Leave your thoughts on him in the comments and you'll help me out heaps.
Thanks!
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[@abysschef5078]

Even to this day he is my favorite character from Vinland saga

[@bastabey2652]

Askeladd is one of the most sophisticated deep characters I've ever watched.. he sits in the gray zone between good and evil

[@valeriewinter6217]

Lmao this is so misunderstanding the whole character. Pal, he murdered countless innocent people for nothing else but cheap personal gain. He is evil. He is just generally more smart than other Vikings to be able to recognize that he is evil and that he is doing bad things and the absurdity of the whole Valhalla bellief

[@lalboimanlun1230]

Bruh he is completely evil.

[@mili3d551]

@@lalboimanlun1230 No he is not did you even watch anime..

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

Askeladd isn't his real name. He's Lucius Artorius Castus.

[@joshuadistura7450]

I can't believe I missed this upload. But keep up the great work!!

[@NorthernWind_Vlll]

Thanks for this amazing recap for the most amazing season 1 character in Vinland Saga. I simply can't wait to relive Farmland with the upcoming season 2. The trailer looked promising. As for the story in general, it's my favorite ongoing manga at the moment and I'm looking forward to seeing jusy how does the author plan to wrap it up.

[@SeaGee]

Thanks mate! Getting real excited to see Farmland animated next year too. Keen to see how they adapt it

[@eldenrah9959]

This was great!! You had my attention from start to finish! Great job!!!!

[@SeaGee]

Thanks so much!

[@mightybryan1033]

That’s why he doesn’t care for the villages he destroys, their people were the ones who destroyed Britannia, and that’s why he says he’s the rightful king

[@alexvaughan1013]

I hate to be that guy, but the people in those villages had nothing to do with their ancestors who destroyed Britannia.

[@coal4208]

@@alexvaughan1013yeah it’s obvious he’s just retaliating or just using that as a way to justify his actions

[@barakato]

​@@alexvaughan1013 you are true, askeladd didn't care though.

[@valeriewinter6217]

No, and this video failed completely to understand Askeladd's character. This excuse is stupid completely and Askeladd is too smart and self-aware to use this as an excuse to murder people. Especially since he believes violence itself to be completely stupid. He is a man with a mind from several centuries later living in a world that is not ready for his type of thinking. He doesn't care about those villagers because he believes there's no point in changing anything - the world may soon be ending, Artorius is not coming, and, by his own words - there are too many morons who love violence like his own father and he could never kill them all. And Askeladd himself is "just a Viking" (his words again), he could never fill the role of Artorius. So what he does instead is integrating in the current world and being damn good at it - he is one of the strongest and cruelest people of his era. And he is just waiting for the end of the world or Artorius - whatever comes first - to come. It's when he starts growing old, he starts growing soft - there's a feral kid that attached himself to Askeladd following him around - and as Askeladd grows old, he wonders more and more what that kid going to do after Askeladd is gone (no way he thought of it only when he was dying lol. it is obvious he has been thinking it for quite some time and just finally voiced it when he didn't have to care about anything else - I.e. when he was already dying). And then a chance to make his own Artorius falls into his hands - and so he seizes it.

[@sebastianmayer2501]

Great video my g. Keep it up!

[@SeaGee]

Thanks so much!

[@user-bw6ij2ke1p]

wow great video love it

[@SeaGee]

Thanks! I love your profile picture

[@Sindbaddidnothingwrong701]

Great Video

[@SeaGee]

Thanks!

[@alpha4ever455]

Dope video

[@gngs1130]

good vid

[@SeaGee]

Cheers!

[@mintcookie8491]

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[@SeaGee]

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[@mintcookie8491]

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[@gitexercise9021]

Not sure who this video is for. Unlike the Johan video, the story of Askeladd is not hard to understand or piece together. And for those that haven't watched the show, why would they watch a spoiler of the most interesting character? Also the timing of this video could have been better. Releasing it closer to the vinland season 2 start would have given it an algorithm boost. I have loved most of your videos thus far, so don't take this the wrong way.

[@SeaGee]

All good, cheers for being upfront. Honestly, it's for me. I'm working on a long form video on Vinland Saga at the moment and wanted something exactly like this as a resource. But perhaps you're right and I should hold all this off till near the end of the year

[@Panda-kn6zo]

Amazing video

[@gandiikovec6436]

Great Video