#Leiland

[faneth]

Until we meet again.

[dropoutconfessions]

to the person earlier who went off angry about how evan is treated like the main character in mismag, listen that's a flaw of the show not the fandom. Brennan spends sooooooo much time in that season both talking about his own character and making his curse THE Big Fucking Deal of the season. Then Erika enables it by having their character constantly talk about how hot and tortured he is.

Honestly my one critique there is that Aabria as the DM should have never let Brennan have a storyline that made him the Harry Potter insert for the series if the focus of the campaign was supposed to be the group. As a DM, if one of my PCs got that off balance with stealing the spotlight I would talk to them and find ways to pull other characters into the fold more so they don't get sidelined like especially Danielle was that season.

I think we watched different mismags, pretty sure it was the other players focusing on Evan, Brennan was just dm describing his character. Evan was Leiland from Bloodkeep if he actually could succeed on rolls in that way.

I'd also like to say, certain sidequests (Tiny Heist, Mice & Murder) are based around stories where there is a main character. Some one has to be the Danny Ocean, the Sherlock Holmes, and in the case of Mismag, the Dark Lord. Brennan has mentioned previous to Mismag that on the rare opportunities he gets to be a player character, he asks the dm what he could do to best serve the narrative. Assuming he did that here as well, it's likely that Aabria wanted someone to play a Dark Lord archetype, and given no one else did that, Brennan stepped up to plate.

But I don't think Aabria, like, ignored the other pcs, both K and Sam had huge narrative control during certain sections of the story, and Whitney was basically team leader the whole campaign.

The fandom is absolutely the problem here, outside of confessions, no one ever talks about that last paragraph. This fandom has hella blorbofied Evan to the detriment of every other pc.

[emptyjunior]

What if we talked more about this

What if we honed in and analysed and really focused on this

[the-znoze]

i hate drawing armor so i decided to forgo clothes all together

[rabdoidal]

anyway i rewatched bloodkeep again and im thinking about them (the platonic co-parents of darkness)

😈 kofi link in bio if you’re feeling generous 😈

[auteurdefeu]

If this was established years ago, why has no one posted fics of it 😔

(I’m on my Bloodkeep rewatch and that duo means the world to me, I desperately need someone to talk to about it)

[skeletonthecreator]

im literally like so ill about leiland escape from the blood keep its insane. something about never being needed by the people in your life as much as you need them. something about never knowing how much you are actually worth because no one has ever told you. something about being an absolutely gay disaster in a 100s year long one sided relationship where you gave everything and he gave Nothing. something about learning to start healing and realizing you deserve better with the help of your friends. and something about being all of these things and also being an evil king of the undead who commits war crimes. i love him.

[dimension20pcbracket]

it's a shame we have to pit them against each other, because I'd love to see them get together over mimosas and bitch about Titania and Zaul'nazh.

note that this is not the place to vote for Rowan Berry; she has her own poll coming up later in the round! do not let your feelings about Rowan influence this vote!

[aq2003]

matt as a dm: lawful neutral . plunges the players into the fantasy world and makes everything as 1000% immersive as humanly possible. long flowery descriptions and vivid imagery

matt as a player: im going to play a queer man that so desperately needs to go to therapy

[acourtoffeyandfables]

[kelseyjunemartin]

Escape from the Bloodkeep Character Analysis: Leiland

Leiland/Kraz-Thun is the leader of the the Vinguri, the dark lord's wraith servants. He has given up everything to serve Zaul'Nahz, to the point that he is figuratively and literally withering away. He has even given up the name Leiland in favor of the name his master chose for him, Kraz-Thun. He wears a crown of chains imbued with a piece of Lord Z's soul, symbolizing his subservient bond. Leiland has developed an unrequited co-dependent relationship with the Lord of Shadows. It is apparent that Lord Z's cruelty has worn at Leiland when he has to chant to himself "You are loved. You are important," before speaking with Zaul'Nahz.

Leiland's unfulfilled desire for approval from the dark lord leads to resentment against the other Vinguri and especially Maggie, the two of whom repeatedly snap at each other throughout the show, clearly rivals for Lord's attention.

More than any other character, Leiland is associated with failure. He is introduced as he returns from another failed attempt to retrieve Lord Z's crown from the two halflings. Leiland's many failures are embodied by his multiple encounters with the halfling, Galfast Hamhead, who constantly eludes him.

Leiland's inner journey revolves around realizing his loyalty and service to the dark lord has been misplaced. This is epitomized during the fall from the airship as he witnesses Maggie in labor. “Falling, as the wreckage passes by him and he’s accepted this, failure after failure after failure. His eyes close, as he just feels the wind rushing past him, thinking that all the sacrifices he’s made for the lord that is now gone. ‘What have I accomplished? Nothing. What reason is there to remain and endure?’”

His transformation occurs when he realizes he deserves someone that appreciates him. This is found after the party decides not to resurrect Zaul'Nahz, but to instead crown Maggie's newborn, which she decides to name Leiland Jr. “I’m naming my son after the name of yours that I prefer,” Maggie says. This shows the two of them overcoming the resentment that Lord Z had stoked between them.

After accepting the baby as his new liege, Leiland undergoes a symbolic and actual resurrection where he reemerges cast in angelic white. “Hide no longer behind your helmet. I would have the world behold the face of my right hand,” Leiland Jr. tells him. The casting aside of the chain helm demonstrates Leiland's development into a stronger more independent person that no longer needs Zaul'Nahz. Afterwards Leilands failure streak comes to an end and he proves a vital help in the battle at the Tomb of Ultimate Evil.

Leiland's journey concludes with him now serving Leiland Jr., who represents a new better kind of Evil. Though he is given one final task by his new lord, pulling together the last loose end for Leiland, and that is to bring him the head of Galfast Hamhead.

[faneth]

Kraz-Thun, the royal hound

[dropoutconfessions]

i know bloodkeep isn't that popular and this would ultimately not be worth it for them but if dropout decided to make a plush of J'er'em'ih I'd buy it in an instant (i finished bloodkeep two days ago and i haven't stop thinking of J'er'em'ih)

once again breaking my silence to say please if there is any power listening to me, make this real, every single bloodkeep player has become some sort of dropout regular, bring back some bloodkeep love

[d20unfuckability]

Leiland vs Cody Walsh

"HE HAS THAT 2012 LOKI SWAG"

"cannot emphasize enough how many foam prop swords this man has in his room. his sheets smell terrible. the floor is vaguely sticky from spilled monster. and there is no way that this man washes behind his ears, if you know what i mean. and that's not even *touching* on the way he talks."

[the-znoze]

got skullkisses brainrot

[im-really-tired-and-stupid]

Rewatching escape from the bloodkeep and just… Leiland is such a pathetic failure, we know he’s capable and very powerful but.. oh my gogmoth it’s glorious