Marco Minici

[after falling down a sinkhole and finding the entrance to the Kingdom of the Deserters]

Arthur Curry: [laughs] That was awesome. Oh, look what I found.

Mera: [raised eyebrows] What *you* found?

Arthur Curry: Yeah.

Nuidis Vulko: We invite you, King Nereus, to be the first to join King Orm's alliance!

King Nereus: As if we had a choice, Vulko! By law, you need four of the Seven Kingdoms to ascend and attack. The Lost Nation and the Deserters have long perished. The Trench? Nothing but animals. The Brine will never join you, and the Fishermen are cowards - without me and my army to convince them, your plans are stillborn. But I know what you really want. Once you've obtained the friendship of four kingdoms, you will be renamed... Ocean Master.

Orm: That is merely a title.

King Nereus: I'm no fool, King Orm. As Ocean Master, you will be commander of the greatest military might on this planet!

Orm: I am the natural choice to lead.

King Nereus: Are you? What of the rumors that there is another? An Atlantean living amongst the surface? One of royal blood?... You may sit on the throne of Atlantis, but your claim to it is weak. How can you possibly hope to unite the empire?

Orm: My mother's bastard has never even been to Atlantis! His loyalty is to the surf...

[explosion]

Nuidis Vulko: Surface dwellers! TO ARMS!