#cerberus assembly

[demigoddessqueens]

Official Ludinus and Liliana art!!! 🔥

[captainskells]

Ludinus Da'leth, The Mad Mage of Wildemount

[cassafrasscr]

The fact that Ripley's backstory with the Cerberus Assembly in TLoVM means that Ludinus is ultimately responsible for her bullshit as well as Delilah's, is just... hng.

I knew had his fingers in a lot of pies, including Vox Machina's... but I do love seeing it play out onscreen.

[mayapapaya33]

I know it's almost certainly last on the "to be animated" list after Calamity and Dalen's Closet and the Search for Grog/Bob, but honestly, almost more than all of those, I want The Darrington Brigade to be Animated.

I want to see The Owlbear roll around and stealth impressively for no reason. I want the Owl and Bear puns and the cheesy "definitely not batman" jokes. I want Pretty and Macaroni Samsonite's ridiculous voices. I want the stupid duck jokes about Lionel that imply but never quite reveal anything, so you're left going... wait a minute... is he??? I want the Cerberus Assembly cameo. I want Hazel to stomp around as a one-woman band in the least stealthy manner possible. I want to see Tary's husband! I want them to fight Quackthulu and for the animation only audience to be so incredibly confused and to laugh so hard they bust a rib.

The Adventures of the Darrington Brigade is set in 826 PD which is between C1 and C2. Vox Machina are between 810-812PD and The Mighty Nein are between 835- 836PD. The search for Grog/Bob is directly after C1 in 812 PD because it only took 10 minutes for Grog to do something stupid after saving the world lol. Dalen's Closet is 813PD.

In the Animated universe, we are currently at the end of season 3 of TLOVM and they are working on The Mighty Nein. We don't know when exactly season 1 of The Mighty Nein is coming out but probably sometime in 2025. I think it would be really cool if at some point down the line, once TLOVM is complete, maybe once some of the Cerberus Assembly lore has happened in the Animated Mighty Nein, they released a special animated feature/ short film of the Darrington Brigade. It builds out the universe, it shows off more of the landscape, it shows a wider cast of characters and personalities and abilities, it gives lovely hints about the Cerberus Assembly's activities, it's also just hilarious and I want it.

[undead-knick-knack]

[thekraftykrakens]

That smug bastard (not at all affectionate).

My other cards in Prism's collection so far: Lady Briarwood, Astrid, Jenna Iresor

[onarete]

Prism mentioned having Cerberus Assembly trading cards and I got carried away,,

reblogs appreciated!! <3

[demigoddessqueens]

Asshole (affectionate, derogatory)

[somewhatsentientspellbook]

mf has been hiding behind a wall of corrupt wizards for centuries

[mayapapaya33]

Ok, I am a minute and twenty seven seconds into episode 7, If this floaty wizard bitch is Trent Ickythong with some other cerberus assembly members I am going to scream. The little girl is totally Anna Rilpey, love that we are going to get some backstory on her. She's from The Dwendalian Empire so it checks out. This is insane if I'm right.

[blorbologist]

Astrid for your trick and trick prompts!

Trick! >:D This was super tricky(hah!) to pull off, but I wanted to poke at a bit of the other ramifications of the recent events in Wildemount, and Astrid is perfect for that <3 my gorl <3

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The Soul don’t trust her. Wiser not to: her use as a witness against Trent was because she had been useful to him as a tool, and now she sat at the same table he had, lined with instruments at her disposal. 

But when her office clatters with the fall and tumble and screams of a dozen dozen magic items falling, inert (not dead), her Sendings don’t go through. Not to them. Not to Caleb. Not to Eadwulf. Not even, in desperation, to -

Astrid curls up on the floor, mouth agape. Her scar burns, again. Her glyphs boil, again. Her head strikes back at her for the arrogance to want to know why and know, and know, and know if -

(They are your leylines, Master Ikithon had purred, walking a nail through a sharp angle. Conduits to magic as those of Exandria. Roads to power.)

The king speaks in weak rage, anger born of fear, the Cerberus Assembly conspicuously headless. And Archmage Astrid Becke, littlest of their number, can think only of her chair at this table and who held it before her.

(Divinity is shackled, it seems. Magic struggling to follow leylines.)

(He’s free. Of course he is. Has to be.)

(She’s dead, screams the itch in her scars, a map to her obituary. Dead, dead, dead.)

But Master Ikithon is nothing but a footnote to his most resplendent and revered Highness King Dwendal, most insignificant of his name. Where is Ludinus, he bellows. Where are my wards? Who is responsible? What Crick did this? 

I don’t know, is all they can say, more unsettling for the people who usually know too much.

The rest - Uludan, Hass, the rest of the snakes. They knew what Trent did to them, they know she knows, they still see her as useful, a tool, even at the table. They look to her, Archmage of Civil Influence, not expecting her to be the one to. Making her play the part anyways. No, her people use Sending. Sending is not working. 

(No response. Has he already -?)

Hours of meeting. Increased security. Insistence to take advantage of the opportunity to dispatch a few daggers in key places. Astrid strides out and away, not looking at the other heads of her order. Keeps her own high, on swivel, because - 

She’s expecting the arm that grabs her. Expects the lines - they match, fit together, continue from her wrist to his bicep. 

“Eadwulf,” says Astrid. “Wulf -” 

“Blumenthal,” he replies, in croaking gasps. His shirt is undone - the silver raven feather gleams like a dagger, or death. “Ikithon.”

They go.

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Of course. Of course. Even after it all. Astrid Becke at his seat. Astrid Becke who locked the collar around his neck. Caleb Widogast (not Bren Ermendrud) was the one he chose. The most naive of their three, the one who let the bastard live.

She cries, in the cradle of her mothers’ graves, that she dare be relieved.

🎃Trick or Treat! Send me an ask and you'll get a trick (angst) or treat (fluff) ficlet in return! 🎃

[song-of-baldy-ron]

Delilah finally getting some more Cerberus Assembly tea during this interrogation with Astrid:

[amsayshi]

Okay.

Hear me out.

I have this idea that hasn't left my head since the end of C2 and I need to let it out. I am of the mindset that the intricate web of wizard spies were kind of overlooked and underpowered towards the end of the campaign AND I can't stop thinking about them. Like they were spoken of as if they were an urban legend... So what happened to them in the aftermath? They were basically mist. How could they possibly catch all of them?

So here's some prompts that I want to write but have never gotten around to or can't write because of my disorganized head.

Prompt #1:

What happens next.

Volstruckers in the aftermath of Trent's capture. What happens to a shadow network of wizard spies when their leader is taken into custody? Do they surrender, slink back into the shadows, or reorganize into an independent spy network?

Prompt #2:

So pretty much the same as the above but cozy second chance romance for a bunch of assassins.

Haha So we follow a volstrucker who disappears into the shadows and reemerges as a tavern owner who refuses to look back on their time as an assassin spy until a familiar face pops into their tavern for a drink.

Anyway I still am fascinated by the wizard spies and wish we spent like...so much more time with them.

Give me an EXU series on former volstruckers finding their way in this worlddd. Would they all be ludinus followers!? Would the leftover volstruckers be on the moon?!

Ugh... Every few months I get wizard spy brain rot and it takes a while to push through the hyper fixation.

[mendokayalways]

I’m doing a rewatch of CR C3 just cuz I’m in paralysis mode when it comes to new shit so I’m just rewatching stuff so I just realized that Predathos was sealed away due to an accord between ALL THE GODS and THE PRIMORDIALS and Team Issylra could’ve used that to warn Abedina and the villagers, who clearly hold more faith in the elemental and primordial nature of Exandria than the divine, about Ludinus and the Ruby Vanguard and their message so they would be cautious about this fucking god eater because clearly if the Primordials were scared of it enough to join up with the Gods, it was a threat to existence in general. Those people deserve to keep their faith and not be swayed into something destructive. 

AND ANOTHER THING....the Grim Verity talked about how Liliana grew frustrated with lack of answers from them until she was recruited and Otohan and the Cerberus Assembly.............which brings me back to the lightning bolt markings on Imogen and Liliana that seem to be the arcane focus of their sorcerous abilities WHICH brings me to the absolute faith Liliana seemed to have in Ludinus in the Hellcatch Valley showdown. Based on the timeline and the character’s ages, Liliana was only maybe 10 years older than Caleb when she left Imogen and her dad. She was said to be found by the “Assembly” not Ludinus specifically. But even if Ludinus was the one she directly answered to but was still within sight of other members of assembly say someone like Trent Ikithon who went on to develop residuum based arcane tattoos and experimented on children to create the Volstrucker program......am I going too red string theory or is the math mathing folks???? You decide if Trent Ikithon was inspired to conduct his experiments because of Ruidus Born Markings.

[thekraftykrakens]

My first attempt at one of Prism Grimpoppy's collection of Cerberus Assembly trading cards: everyone's favourite newer archmage. I like to think that Astrid remains less ostentatious than the other archmages and keeps up the habit developed as a volstrucker of dressing in black.

(Also yes I do imagine Astrid as looking exactly like Liam the time he dressed up as her.)

Edit: I've now also completed a Delilah Briarwood card

[sea-buns]

Saw some art that reminded me that Vess DeRogna existed which is literally something I haven't thought about once since her death. It's just so funny to me that this super powerful member of the Cerberus Assembly died in an incredibly horrific way, but is only mentioned a couple of times before the end of c2, and then literally never again.