#c3 eps

[maesonc-artistic-adventures]

“If there is anyone here, who were to finish the job—put me down….i remember thinking: I hope it’s Seedling. I hope it’s Orym.”

[leafspiritz]

i have this pet headcanon that imogen actually inherited relvin’s eyes (but tinted by the moon). and when liliana looks at her she’s seeing a little bit of both the people she left behind 🌙

[sir-gunk]

Calliope Petrichor - Serpent Knight, Meteor Witch

this episode was too cinematic not to draw

[ariadne-mouse]

The tactic of "don't evade the guard dog. BECOME the guard dog. Impersonate the guard dog. Profit" truly was inspired. Got them out of a battle map the size of a bottle cap

[lilpandrea]

Psst just so everyone knows, Robbie has done cover songs for three ships of videogame characters he has voiced before on his YouTube channel. I'm just saying, the chances of him making another one (or even an original song) for Dorym isn't that low of a possibility. We all know how much Dorian means to him and because of recent events in-campaign (they're fucking canon baby!), I'd say the possibility is even higher 🙏🏼🤞🏼Manifesting💚🩵💕

[danwhobrowses]

Ashton "I serve the weak, I serve the forgotten, I serve the dirt beneath our feet" Me "Saviour of the broken, the beaten and the damned?"

[zwoftt]

at this point, every small gesture and moment from dorym feels like they're making out with each other

[suaimhneas-gairid]

when the table reacts like this

[venator-signum]

the fucking whiplash i got from going into a Liam O'Brien induced crying session on the couch to cackling at the crown keepers not knowing shit

[pocketgalaxies]

crazy how in c2 they'll have three extensive convos checking in with each other while traveling like an hour in-game meanwhile in c3 they've been on the moon for days and still haven't discussed the following:

laudna fucking ate a guy

imogen's mom is a mythical legend amongst the enemy

orym vs. laudna's response to imogen giving into predathos

how did chetney suddenly learn to make hypnotizing toys

delilah briarwood

"some of us are expendable, we should get captured"

anything and everything they said during the trust exercise, including but not limited to:

laudna not being able to distinguish her thoughts from delilah's

imogen's disgust at delilah's inevitable presence

chetney's fear that his new family will leave him

orym's feelings about dorian

fcg relieving stress through murder

fearne's insecurities about their chances of success

ashton's guilt about the shard

and more!

[paperglader]

It’s nice to know that no matter what happens on critical role episode 50 of campaign 3, it’s gonna be gay, because marisha decided to show up like this:

This woman is ready to go!! and I thank her deeply for her service.

Marisha:

[dirigibleballoon]

"If I promise to treat you well..... will you let me torture you forever?"

"You already do."

I'm sick I'm ill that was diabolical. How was so much conveyed with this exchange. The longing. The pain. The fundamental disconnect of their worldviews but being able to understand each other all the same

[famousflowermagazine]

what kills me is that after otahan killed orym he was reaching for the sending stone to maybe hear dorian's voice before he died, like that moment broke my heart honestly like can you imagine orym hearing dorian's voice through the sending stone being the last thing he hears

it's just heartbreaking honestly.

[astralleywright]

it was great to have Matt really emphasize a point he's made before last night-that the history of Exandria (including that contained within the official books) is not a neutral, untouched retelling of events but a narrative written by the victors.

one of the many thoroughlines of Campaign 3 has been the power of knowledge; of who has it and who doesn't, and how the powerful employ it for their own ends. the most obvious example is surely the Weave Mind, whose staggering control over what its subjects know on both a macro (erasing entire histories, making Ruidians see the dreams of Exandrians) and micro (being able to enter their minds at any time) level compromises much of what we learned of Ruidis during our first trip there. but similar behavior is reflected all across Exandria, by the Weave Mind's enemies as much as it's allies.

like the Weave Mind, Vasselheim also erased massive parts of Exandrian history-the death of two gods by Predathos, and the subsequent creation of Ruidis as a prison- from the world. Both they and the Ruby Vanguard hunted down members of the Grim Verity and the Omen Archive for discovering this information, and for conducting research about Ruidis and Ruidisborn. the Vanguard infiltrated and actively recruited from that research as well, even, as seen in the case of Liliana.

Liliana, who left her home and her family in the first place to find answers about her powers and her nightmares-and thus, her pain-that she would never have a chance of learning in Gelvaan. in fact, many Ruidisborn we meet seem to find their way to the Vanguard because they want answers, or belonging; this reveals the harm done by Vasselheim's repression of knowledge. by trying to keep the truth of Ruidis out of "the wrong hands", they helped create the conditions, the lack of access of answers, the suspicion and ostracization of Ruidisborn, that have let their worst enemies thrive.

there's a problem with accessability to education across all of Exandria, really. public libraries seem to be largely nonexistent, especially with regards to higher level knowledge. even the incredibly benevolent Cobalt Soul restricts access to the wealth of information it has, and for many of the same reasons Vasselheim obscured information regarding Predathos; they don't want that knowledge being abused by the wrong person. but determined practically, "the wrong hands" tend to be those who don't already have power and access. the very first scene of the campaign is Imogen being denied entry from a university library, all but explicitly because of her lower class status and lack of connections with the upper echelon of Jrusar. if Imogen hadn't been able to get in, or if she had been found by members of the Ruby Vanguard before the Grim Verity, who knows where she'd be right now? what she'd believe, even if she had doubts about the Vanguard's methods? (would she even know the full breadth of their methods? or would they keep that from her, too?)

and on the other hand: surely the head of the Cerberus Assembly wouldn't be restricted from almost any library, right? especially not after a trade or a bribe or a spell or two?

[ariadne-mouse]

this smol man can fit so much sadness in him

[strelitzien-gewaechs]

THEYRE BACK AND THEY SUCK SO MUCH!