Ancient tribes, rival bloodlines and a land caught between myth and history collide in Arthdal Chronicles, a South Korean fantasy drama that imagines the earliest stirrings of civilization on a fictional continent called Arth.
What is Arthdal Chronicles about?
Set in a prehistoric world where scattered tribes are only beginning to organize into something resembling nations, Arthdal Chronicles follows the people drawn into the founding of the walled city of Arthdal, the seat of a new order taking shape across the land. Bloodlines, prophecy and personal ambition tangle together as different tribes and clans jockey for standing in a world still defining what leadership, law and loyalty even mean. At the center are figures pulled between the old ways of their scattered peoples and the pull of a new, more centralized power taking root in Arthdal itself. The series treats its ancient setting as more than backdrop, building an entire mythology of gods, spirits and origin tales around the human drama of alliance and betrayal. Rather than a single linear war, it plays out as a slow accumulation of rivalries and shifting loyalties, tracking how a civilization's earliest institutions get built on top of very personal conflicts.
About the cast
Lee Joon-gi and Shin Se-kyung lead the ensemble, playing central figures whose fates are tied to Arthdal's founding. Jang Dong-gun and Kim Ok-vin round out the principal cast, embodying rival tribal and political interests that shape the story's central power struggle.
Context & significance
Arthdal Chronicles was produced as a large-scale South Korean fantasy series, notable for building an original ancient world rather than adapting a historical period directly. Filming took place across multiple countries, reflecting the scale of its ambition to construct a self-contained mythology and landscape for its fictional continent.
Watching Arthdal Chronicles on Ktime
Arthdal Chronicles streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving Farsi-speaking viewers full access to its dense mythology and dialogue-heavy political drama. A free K-Time account and login is all that's needed to start watching, through a Farsi-language interface built specifically for the Iranian diaspora audience.