A battlefield buried in dust. A nation splintering under the weight of defeat. And then—when hope was spent—a rider appeared.
No banner. No bloodline. No name.
Some said the ground shook beneath his horse. Others swore the war turned the moment he charged. Was he flesh and blood… or something born from desperation and faith?
This episode follows the rise of a legend forged where steel meets belief—where stories become weapons and hope rides into battle. We trace how a single figure, real or imagined, united a fractured people, terrified their enemies, and reshaped the destiny of a nation.
But legends don’t come with receipts.
Was this divine intervention—or a story sharpened by centuries of retelling? Faith… or fiction?
By the end, one question remains: Does it matter if the legend was real—if it changed everything anyway?
🎧 Saints & Sinners—where myth bleeds into history, faith rides into battle, and the truth refuses to stay buried.
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