What is this?
We use this air pocket as an extra layer of precaution.
Only the Highborns can breathe water as well as air.
Plus, it keeps the animals out.
They get kind of messy.
Vulko. Here I am, old man.
After all these years, you finally get what you wanted.
Arthur, I wish it was under better circumstances.
I can't believe Orm attacked.
It wasn't an attack.
Legally, he's not allowed to yet.
What he did to your surface warships was merely a warning.
What provoked it?
King Orm and your father were ambushed by the surface.
By the surface? I don't think so.
They still think Atlantis is a fairy tale.
I was there.
A surface warship fired at us.
Now, Xebel sides with Atlantis,
giving Orm a fleet big enough to force the other two kingdoms to join him.
If we're going to prevent this war, you must dethrone him now.
How many times do I have to tell you? I don't wanna be king.
You don't understand.
Once he is named Ocean Master, it'll be too late.
The power at his disposal will be unlike anything you have ever seen.
I'm from the surface. No one is gonna take me seriously.
Okay? I don't even know where to begin.
By winning the hearts and minds of the people
by proving to them that you're worthy, and retrieving this.
Hmm.
I already got one of those.
Not like this one, you don't.
This is the Lost Trident of Atlan.
Oh, I know the story.
It's more than a story. It's real.
It was forged by the greatest weapon masters in history.
Crafted from Poseidon's steel for King Atlan,
the first ruler of Atlantis.
Legend says the trident was imbued with the power to command the sea.
So what happened to it?
To know that is to go back to the time before the Great Fall,
when King Atlan ruled over all that was,
when the kingdoms of Atlantis were one.
It was a time of great prosperity and technological advancement.
We had unlocked the secret of unlimited energy
at a time when the rest of the world
still thought the earth was flat.
But we became too ambitious,
too hungry for power.
The ocean swallowed us, and Atlantis sank.
But the very power that collapsed our civilization
also paved the way to our future.
It gave us the ability to breathe underwater.
And so, we evolved.
Others regressed, became savage.
And the king lived out the remainder of his days in self-imposed exile.
Neither he nor the trident were ever seen again.
One of our archeological teams uncovered this a few months ago.
It's an ancient recording dating back to the First Dynasty.
I believe it contains Atlan's final message to his people
and the whereabouts of the Sacred Trident.
So, what does it say?
We don't know. The technology's too old.
The cylinder bears the markings of the Deserter Kingdom.
You must take it there and retrieve the message.
The clue to Atlan's final resting place is inside of this.