#Mythcarver

[narukyuu]

I love him so, so much.

[biblicallyaccuratesandworm]

You know, always felt like Mythcarver was the least interesting of the Vestiges in the stream. First, Matt made it specifically for Scanlan, so it’s locked to work with Lore Bard abilities, which kinda sucks for an important magical item but it doesn’t even mesh well with Sam’s style of play anyway. Scanlan is a pure support, using his spells and bardic inspiration in combat to buff allies and debuff ennemies. He rarely used Mythcarver as an actual weapon and mostly took advantage of the Cutting Word buff.

But the fact that it was used in the show to reveal the locations of the other vestiges, instead of having Kamaljiori just tell them, is really cool. I love the idea of Mythcarver as “linked to all myths”. I’d definitely revamp it as a reskined staff that allows to use cool thematic spells like Heroism, Beacon of Hope and Legend Lore.

[tatzelwyrm]

Can I talk about the Swamp Boy for a moment? Because I love that Umbrasyl's involved in Ripley's hunt for the Vestiges because a) it keeps him more involved I the main plot and makes the confrontation between him and the party more personal, but also because b) he's kinda dorky.

Like, I understand Thordak's point, I'm on his side here (what a sentence). Umbrasyl is a dragon, why does he need a sword or a bow?

But... but... look at him!

When he first gains Mythcarver, being a quadruped, he holds it with his tail like he thinks he's a Dark Souls boss!

It's adorable!

Next time we see him the sword is strapped to his forelegs with a chain?

That can't be comfortable. Also, he sure didn't put that there himself. Ripley, was that the best you could for him? Like, I know she doesn't actually care, but this is so disrespectful.

Also I appreciate Mythcarver's efforts to grow a few feet for Swampy after shrinking down for Scanlan, but Umbrasyl is still a dragon and it's strapped to his leg. It's doing nothing!

This week, Ripley brings up how powerful he'll be with the Titanstone Knuckles, a set of gauntlets.

Gauntlets. Gauntlets?!

How is he going to wear them, Anna? He doesn't have hands!

And now I can't shake off the image of what it would have looked like if Umbrasyl had actually acquired all of the Vestiges. I'm sure he would have found ways to strap them to his body.

He would have walked up to Thardak and gone "look who's more powerful now" Just... covered in trash he can't actually use.

It would have been glorious.

[andi-o-geyser]

Okay, but when Mythcarver appeared I honest-to-god screamed its name like a teenage girl at a Harry Styles concert and like. It is. A fucking sword. A literal fucking sword. It’s not even a talking sword; I feel like I cannot stress enough that it does not have a personality. It is a normal ass enchanted sword that Scanlan will use 1 (one) time and then never again, but I apparently could not care less because it’s my blorbo now

[ankorhead]

Swordtember Day 18: Bard

[criticalpolls]

Part One will consist of Vestiges found by Vox Machina and will be judged by its Exalted state. Below is a link to each Vestiges page on Encyclopedia Exandria, if you need a refresher on it's abilities. This poll is basically asking, which of these items do you think is the best to bring into a high level battle?

Cabal's Ruin

Deathwalker's Ward

Fenthras

Mythcarver

Plate of the Dawnmartyr

Spire of Conflux

Titanstone Knuckles

Whisper

[gorgynei]

there was one shot in the trailer of scanlan with mythcarver but not sure what ep that could be

you are right!! i totally missed that the first 100 times i watched the trailer, but scanlan does have a sword in these shots, which is probably mythcarver. its when theyre beginning the attack on umbrasyl so if i had to guess its episode e11

[ahmoseinarus]

AKA Scanlan has actually unsheathed the damn thing. Was Mythcarver the only Vestige in the group to never Exalt? Or did Matt just give up and Awaken and Exalt it on each of the two occasions when Sam actually used it? One time only after Matt blatantly (and very frustrated) said “Mythcarver is humming in its scabbard at your side—it wants to be used!!!” prompting Sam to groan and reluctantly draw his Vestige of Divergence.

Oh Sam… all that stubborn “I’m a caster, not a sword user! This is useless!” Like his refusal to use Halfling Luck… he does it just to be a turd and troll his friends cuz he thinks it’s funny when they wanna strangle him…. Omg he drives me crazy, why am I smiling now, just thinking about it?! 😅. God luv ya, Sam…. You’re still an asshole, but god luv ya… CritRole just wouldn’t be CritRole without him 💕

You know what I think my favorite change that they've made in the adaption from game to screen might be?

Mythcarver getting to be useful.

[utilitycaster]

Do you think any of the other items the party has rn (ie Ashton’s hammer, Imogen’s robe) could become more relics of the red solstice? If yes, which god do you think would bless them? Vox Machina probably not, they’ve got all their vestiges already, but do you think the Mighty Nein could earn any?

I don't think this will be much of a focus, to be honest; Matt just poked fun at his Campaign 1 fetch quests. I especially don't think it will be a significant focus of the Mighty Nein as I think they and Vox Machina will only be viewpoint characters for their specific missions; a couple episodes at most. And, to be honest, one of my favorite things about the Mighty Nein is that they were never terribly focused on magic items to the ridiculous (affectionate) extent Vox Machina were. No shade to Vax but I think a lot of people did not realize that without two vestiges and an overpowered homebrew item and a bending of the rules re: smiting on thrown items, he's just a guy with 30 feet of movement who can attack twice with a dagger in melee and pump in a second level smite once he gets to the high levels.

I think it is possible with Bells Hells, but I suspect it will only really be those who sought out any kind of relationship with a god, even if it's relatively last minute. I'd love to see an exploration of Braius since I really don't think Asmodeus is fueling those paladin levels, but otherwise, Imogen and Ashton are currently the only ones with plans, so the gods in question are the Stormlord and the Arch Heart. It would be a nice touch, personally, if the Changebringer showed up and perhaps imbued the fragments of FCG with something minor, but I'd also be happy if the only relic we have is Seedling simply because again, Orym's the only one who's really been pursuing this consistently.

Just for a quick elaboration, I think one thing with the Vestiges that Matt realized is firstly, if he gives the party a list of everything, they will try to catch 'em all, which led to some episodes in C1 that, frankly, didn't have much connection to the characters and their goals (specifically the Fire Plane stuff; also while its retrieval was great, Scanlan used Mythcarver like, twice, and once was to do a two gnomes in a trenchcoat situation); and that you can end up with some really fucked party balance. I remember in Campaign 2 when people felt like everyone should get a Vestige again once it became apparent the Star Razor was one, but Fjord was a sword-focused character who put immense work into a relationship with a god; some classes and characters are just not item-based in the same way. To make D&D balanced, sometimes some characters get more toys; and also, following specific narrative paths is rewarded by the GM because it involves player dedication or risk or is just really fun and cool.*

I will also note that while time is short, not all the Vestiges of Divergence were tied to a deity. One could get a relic created by mortals; I don't, for example, know what Dancer and Imahara Joe are up to.

*at the risk of taking a pretty straightforward post and turning into an avenue of discourse, this is yet another reason why the "Raven Queen/Wildmother relationships with Vax and Orym are abusive" arguments feel in such profoundly bad faith and, quite frankly, taste, that they're hard to even engage with. It's such a deeply bleak and cynical worldview out of game to say "yeah, I think the GM is looking at an interesting player choice and is punishing them for it," even more so with a player like Liam, a person who is not precious with his characters and does not see tragedy or death in the service of a cause at the close of the story as narrative failure.

[amberantlers]

*squints*

If Umbrasyl used mythcarver to locate the armor then why did it show up as being in Ank'harel if the real one was in hell?

[jae-birde]

HOLY SHIT WE HAVE AN INTRO AND A DATE Y'ALL!

It's October 3rd, mark your goddamn calanders, we're getting season 3 y'all!

[flowersforvax]

I liked how they merged some of the magical items together to keep the show moving quicker, like the boots of haste/death walker's ward and Mythcarver/the potion of shit scrying

[playerkingsley]

I am enjoying the sort of useless & comedic role percy has been relegated for tlovm season 2 thus far (barring y’know. the drama), but I do also hope the new glove device doubles as diplomacy & missile-snaring so we get all the potential projectile catching to come

[bisexuel]

"why can't you ever just be sincere" looks into the camera so painfully

[diabeticgirl4]

So Much is going on I can't liveblog fast enough omg

[gorgynei]

With the latest batch of episodes, it seems like they really are tweaking all of the Vestiges. Fenthras MAYBE got the blazing bowstring (with those fire arrows)? And it seemed like the bramble shot might be more frequent? Couldn’t tell what might be functionally different with the Titanstone Knuckles, but I adore that the punches have a thunder sound effect.

(combining these bc they're similiar)

i definitely think fenthras has blazing bowstring added in! saundor/fenthras did not have a fire attack in c1. overall it seems like they're playing up the elemental power of fenthras and using that as an opportunity to add in vex's blazing bowstring! i love that theyre combining the character's iconic abilities into the vestiges :)) its a great way to naturally let them get more powerful and its fun. plus the minor aesthetic changes to the festiges are fun

like! its a literal blazing bowstring! i also noticed that fenthras has no actual bowstring in tlovm, various types of magic just appeared to hold the arrow whenever saundor pulled back. in c1 fenthras had a very powerful and easy to pull back string but it was still physical, so im curious if vex will add her own string or if the magical string is staying

saundor used an electric charged arrow and brambleshot, but in slightly different ways than they appear in c1. fenthras RAW has electric damage added to every attack and brambleshot could only be shot once per rest (in it's awakened state), but they changed it so the electric damage is like an elemental attack and brambleshot is used a looot more than once. i definitely expect the brambleshots to be nerfed when vex has fenthras though so she'll probably be lowered down to once per day

for the knuckles i actually dont think they're gonna see much change for it's abilities/stat bonuses! most/all of its abilities are pretty easy to show with animation (enlarge, strength boost, increased damage) and we've seen most of it already on kevdak. some of the reason why deathwalker's ward and fenthras had other abilities added in might be because their bonuses are a bit more amorphous (AC boost, bonus to hit/dmg, adv on death saving throws, etc.) and harder to obviously visualize. but the knuckles are simpler! i love already what they've done with it, the knuckles feel terrifying on kevdak

i cant wait to see the rest of the vestiges :-3