#dunamancy

[disarmonia]

Continuing the Critical Role theme, here's another from last year, everyone's favourite ✨hot boi✨ Essek and his dunamancy shenanigans. Hey, since I just created this page and trying to gain some sort of following here on Tumblr (mainly so my original art also gets attention), please consider following.🥰 k thanx luv you xxx MY TIP JARS HERE ❤️‍🩹

[undead-knick-knack]

Not Caleb's first time being in a throuple ;)

[artofcarmen]

Its 7am on a monday and im just thinkin about neutral evil Essek Thelyss ♥

Definitely have some things I want to change, shorten the hair a bit, decide on jewelry, and gauntlets or no? Included a quick doodle of how his cloak/robes would lay over his clothes when closed. Still exploring, but the base ideas are there!

[raggedyandroid]

The Shadowhand

"The Bright Queen nods towards you and glances over towards one of the nearby male drow figures sitting to the right of the dais. Very handsome, head held high, looking down upon this with a curious glance. A similar mantle to what you noticed Lythir wearing, but much more elaborate. You can see the robes that he's wearing that pretty much entirely obscure the body. They just fall, they go entirely around the mantle and close in the front so it's this beautiful, draped, deep purple and black robe that completely obfuscates the body. "

[threadroseart]

I love all of the "Essek respectfully inspects Ashton's brain" takes. But I would like to offer an alternative.

"Morally dubious disaster wizards trying their best when presented with temptation."

[ariadne-mouse]

*takes out a map of Rexxentrum* Look,

[cowboy-juno]

The time rabbit herself

Chronurgy wizards have such potential to be tragic and doomed by the narrative and I don’t think we talk about it enough

[mediumdata]

Really can't wait for Essek to realize what is sloshing around in Ashton's head.

[barkyshark]

Concept for my party member's new warforged, Stargazer. Made with the intent to house the soul of his maker, essentially an artificer's own way of attempting lichdom, Stargazer gained consciousness instead and travels the world being a proper fancypants and confusing all with his German accent

[towards-toramunda]

Do you ever think about dunamancy and start vibrating or

[my-small-universe]

Gravity Fissure

[mayapapaya33]

LMFAO I love Taliesin so much, he just decided to set off his Dunamancy powers in front of the Bright Queen. hahahahahahahahahaha I haven't even watched what happens yet I'm so excited. This is such a bad Idea Taliesin knows exactly what he's doing I love it. Essek literally said 'hey, be careful, people are going to think you are a walking heresy and also want to dissect you' and Ashton was like, 'eh fuck it, hey Dunamancy lady, check this out!' It's so funny.

[undead-knick-knack]

You know what. Fuck you.

*undunas your mancy*

[artofcarmen]

Shadowhand Essek Thelyss - The Hungering Void

Evil AU art of Essek if he had stayed neutral evil, met Bren when he was a full scourger, and instead of healing each other, fed into their darkness and conspired to remove the rest of the Assembly and Kryn elite from their way.

[mindovermuses]

Hold up! Stumbled upon this on a post comparing Essek C2 vs C3 and THIS just jumped off of the page and smacked me in the face:

Original Post

Essek "My Partner" Thelyss, who so easily could've been a big bad, side by side with Ludinus if the M9 hadn't saved him... Believes the beacons were created in the Age of Arcanum.

The M9 found evidence of dunamancy and beacon symbols in Aeor.

Ludinus is using beacons to help power the Malleus Key and gave Otahan a harness feeding her distilled dunamancy.

Was dunamancy somehow part of the plan in the Age of Arcanum to destroy/replace the gods?

[topaz-mutiny]

It’s interesting that in recent episodes of CR there was a bit of insight into Ashton’s memory issues that he mentions repeatedly during the early episodes of the campaign. Where they’re iffy on showing the Hells people he knows because he can’t remember if their current relation is good or sour.

I think it’s due in part to their dreams - Ashton recently admitted that his dreams are not only fucked up, but are of alternate realities.

Of course he’d have memory issues. The poor fucker is having hyperrealistic dreams about themself and real people they know in alternate realities, and that can be so confusing even without a TBI.

Doubting your own memories and confusing them with dreams is absolutely terrifying.