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Queen's Wish features elaborate scripted encounters that are intended to encourage a variety of character builds and tactics. As royalty of Haven, the player can also conquer forts and rebuild them, choosing what shops and fortifications to build. Getting resources to rebuild the forts is a major activity, and these workshops will be a main source of the character's strength.

Setting Queen's Wish concerns itself with the lost colony of Sacramentum, a land that broke free of the rule of Haven. The player must choose whether to regain control of this colony and win the queen's favor, or break free and find his or her own path. The land of Sacramentum contains a network of old, ruined Haven fortresses. Capturing and rebuilding them is a major part of building the main character's power. Izumi explains this is called Amestrian Technology - Soul Binding which allows them to "switch" between Soul Alchemical forms but without their body.

Soul Alchemical transmutation is the process of splitting the soul apart from the body and binding it to an object. Both forms are sentient, but the soul is suppressed in one form while it's in use. Soul Alchemists can use this ability to switch between two forms to manipulate their own shape. Izumi says someone was stealing the souls of people in Resembool, which could explain where Al's soul has gone.

They decide they need to track down this person, but before they leave town someone steals Ed's Fullmetal Alchemist pocket watch, his only possession aside from his brother before he became human again. The next morning Ed and Al head out to Resembool to investigate, but Izumi suggests they take a train from Central City instead.

They arrive in the town just as a strange man with a large number of alchemical rods strapped on his back steps out of a room, then he throws a glass container with what looks like red-orange gel inside. Did you know Edit. It was filmed near an active nuclear test site in Utah, where 11 tests had reportedly been carried out in the year before the production landed there.

The set was contaminated by nuclear fallout, but the Atomic Energy Commission assured Howard Hughes and the local population that the area was completely safe.

Photographs exist of John Wayne holding a Geiger counter that reportedly made so much noise that he thought it was broken. After location shooting, Hughes had tons of contaminated soil transported back to Hollywood in order to match interior shooting done there.

Over the next 30 years, 91 of the cast and crew members developed cancer. Lee Van Cleef had throat cancer, but died of a heart attack. The count did not include several hundred local Native Americans who played extras, or relatives of the cast and crew who visited the set, including John Wayne's son Michael Wayne. As of June , the article is available in its archive online. Goofs When Temujin throws a spear at a man in a stream, the wire guiding it is visible.

The spear's trajectory is also wobbly. Quotes Temujin : I feel this Tartar woman is for me, and my blood says, take her. User reviews 68 Review. Top review. Worst Miscasting Ever. John Wayne is the consummate cowboy, only Clint Eastwood comes close to approaching the title. So it's really jarring to the sensibilities to see Wayne standing there in a Mongol costume and a cheesy "fu manchu" moustache spouting barbarian lines in his trademark western drawl.

It's like seeing Alec Guinness start acting like Pee-Wee Herman; some serious misalignment of the heavens has happened and maybe that guy on the corner saying "the end of the world is nigh" was right. That aside, "The Conqueror" plays like an epic Cecil B. DeMille movie, with epic lines, epic scenery, and epic music. Say what you want about modern cinema, recent movies as a whole tend to be better researched, with characters, clothing, and sets that are historically accurate.

This movie makes it clear they had no concept what Genghis Khan and his time was like. People, Wayne included, simply say grandiose lines without any inflection, as if they had no idea how to act the part. Through it all, I kept expecting Susan Hayward to claim she was an alien or had fallen through a time machine.

I doubt very many 12th century Mogolian women had red permed hair and wore low cut dresses. Scott-8 Dec 31, Details Edit. Release date March 28, United States.