#CR Ludinus

[twinklestarss]

“[…]A lot of it speaks of patterns of arcana across cultures, across time, across dates and you can see Exandrian calendar fragments. You can see notes on repetition and the shiftings of magic. You can see fonts of arcana and power that overlap with celestial events. There's a lot of noting where things continue to recur over long and short periods of time. […] With that, as you're doing this, you glance around and you can see there are other parts of this chamber where more of these notes are still somewhat present, haven't been taken entirely. So you begin to cut some of this away. You notice that in elements of these notes, it calls out historical specialists, people to reach out to in the world that might know this.”-Matt

Campaign 3 Episode 57: The Sorrow of Molaesmyr

[amplexadversary]

Wow, someone wasn't paying attention during their ecology class.

Nonnative species don't tend to just sit and starve when there isn't anything from their home habitat around to eat. They start consuming local prey.

That's one hell of an assumption Ludinus is riding on to not get eaten himself.

[marypenelope]

Before the new episode tonight - does anyone else find it sus as hell that Ludinus is nowhere to be seen? Caleb and Beau said they haven't seen him in days, and I can't stop wondering why

Like, this is his life's work! His big moment! His magnum opus, even! And he is well aware that several parties are trying to stop him before it can come to fruition!

And yet, rather than guarding the most important - and only undamaged! - Malleus Key in these last, most crucial hours, he's just nowhere to be found??

That is suspicious as hell, and I, quite frankly, am Scared.

[big-moon-little-moon]

ludinus when he comes back from ruidus

pretty cool how you went on a heroic journey to gain the power needed to defeat me. unfortunately i was on a cooler, villainous journey

[yudol-skorbi]

worst tv marathon ever

[ariadne-mouse]

I know Ludinus is very busy but I do think he should get stuck in a room with both Fearne Calloway and Jester Lavorre at the same time while trying to get literally anything done

[revvethasmythh]

Orym has had ENOUGH

[amplexadversary]

I'd like to add, if I may, to the image of Ashton "sprawled across three people."

They're laying with their back across Fearne's lap, head not quite on Essek's lap but resting on his leg, with Ashton's legs on Dorian's lap, and Orym sitting on Ashton's lap sort of up against Dorian and Fearne (You didn't say there wasn't anyone on top of Ashton himself.)

Aeor's worst movie night: a diagram

[ihaveatypeanditstrickstergods]

What Ludinus Expects Will Happen After Viewing Downfall: Bells Hells will turn against the gods and join him

What's Actually Going to Happen After Viewing Downfall: Bells Hells are gonna drop everything to go find the ruins of the aeormaton speakeasy

[percy-derolo]

[twinklestarss]

“There's also part of a small, not even a journal, but a series of of heavy, treated vellum pages that are bound together and these are heavily notes on pages of what looks like they were torn from a religious tome or a book and there are circles around certain sections and notes talking about temple propaganda, talking about inconsistencies and elements of religious rites that are contradictory.”-Matt

Campaign 3 Episode 57: The Sorrow of Molaesmyr

[amplexadversary]

Oh, Ludinus wants to be part of Predathos eh?

I can see that happening if he continues the way he's going.

[demigoddessqueens]

Official Ludinus and Liliana art!!! 🔥

[undead-knick-knack]

Ludinus Da'leth's nightmare blunt rotation

Also my three weed smoking girlfriends

[utilitycaster]

reaction for when people come away from the same show or film with the most wild-ass interpretation you've heard in your life

[toaarcan]

Molaesmyr, or "Why wiping out a city is okay if you're me", by Ludinus Da'leth.

I was waiting for a drop like that, to be honest. To find out that Ludinus has already done what was, for the gods, their darkest moment, and for him it was Tuesday.

The gods destroyed Aeor because Aeor was pointing a gun at their heads, for them it was self-defence and they still tried to find other options first. Ludinus destroyed Molaesmyr to try and reach the moon, and wrote it off as an acceptable loss.

And the thing is, the people of Molaesmyr were just as, if not more helpless against Ludinus than Aeor was against the gods! Aeor had a god-killing weapon in their basement that they were gearing up to use! And when the gods did attack Aeor, they had to do so in mortal form, which rendered them much weaker. For the first half of the battle in the Factorum Malleus, Aeor is winning, the gods are losing HP and falling to bad saving throws and getting interrupted at every turn. It's only once SILAHA gets free of the stun and manages to drop his Meteor Swarm on the wards that the tide turns.

There was no such chance for Molaesmyr. They probably didn't even know what he was doing until he'd already exploded their homes. They weren't pointing a gun at him. They were just in the way.

But it's okay when Ludinus has vastly more power than anyone else and throws their lives away to achieve his goals.

I think gods like the Dawnfather, the Everlight, the Arch Heart, the Lawbearer, the Knowing Mistress, and the Matron of Ravens care vastly more about the mortals that Ludinus claims to champion than he does. I think it broke their hearts to kill as many as they did, while for Ludinus, it was easy.