#dunamis

[its-your-mind]

half of bell’s hells: essek come hang out with us at our craft sleepover!! :D

essek, socially anxious:

other half of bell’s hells: or you could stay down here with us at this burlesque show!!! :DDD

essek, aspec:

ashton: or also my head is full of dunamis I’d appreciate if you could take a look and see what you make of it?

essek, given the chance to engage in his special interest: oh thank the light yes please absolutely let’s go right now

[fear-ne]

i'm back bitches!!! bells hells + this amazing generator

bonus dunamis:

[ritadcsc]

Deus anseia um relacionamento constante, íntimo e profundo com você, por isso não Lhe dedique apenas o que sobra de seu tempo, mas O tenha como prioridade em sua vida.

Kristin Nunes em Devocional de toda mulher (p.182)

[aloseirart]

"[...] This object is still so much more than what you understand; its power is indecipherable on the scale of your puny, mortal knowledge [...]"

🌌The Fragment of Possibility🌌

[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.

[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?

[multifandom-damnation]

I really want to know how dunamis influences Ashton.

We understand the Titan portion (maybe, so far) but we know almost nothing about the little vial of pure dunamis that was poured into the gaping wound of their skull. We know that all of their rage abilities have to do with dunamis (Temporal Morass (Time), Violent Gateway (Space), Orbital Decay (Gravity), Probability Matrix (Potential)) and when Imogen and FCG went into their head, Imogen saw reflections of countless Ashton's that could have been.

But what is that going to mean? Is Essek going to show up and say "hey you! i wanna know more about that thing in your head, come with me if you wanna live" or is Caleb going to return and try and teach Ashton about what's going on or is the Becon itself going to speak to Ashton? We already got a lot of closure with the Titans but I'm so curious about the Luxon connection, especially after how important it was in campaign 2 and how many characters it mattered to, so it seems inevitable for such an important thing to be so secretly fundamental to a main character to be revealed in some way.

I don't know what I was saying. I just think that Ashton has so much going on that they don't understand and we don't know the real extent of and I love them a lot and I only want the best for them and if that means getting a "where do you find your strength?" scene with the Luxon then so be it

[luolands]

Essek's Powers

EGtW: Essek is a prodigy who displays an unprecedented talent for the manipulation of dunamis energy

c2e57: You follow Essek and as you do, you feel like your pace is quickened. People pass by, other guards, but they blur past like you're unable to necessarily focus. Something is subtly influencing you to make it difficult to really trace the path you take to where you're going. ... Fjord: Do you not feel the same effects? Essek: No. Time is one of my specialties.

Essek, c2e57: Don't deal much in blacksmithing, not my specialty. [His hand rises out of the curtains that is his cloak and his hand passes. These trails of somewhat translucent, gray energy drift off his fingertips for a second and float there before dissipating.]

Essek, c2e57: While we do have periods of worship in which we give ourselves to the sunlight as part of our means of showing our faith, it does impede our day-to-day business. So as part of our craft, we've found a way to keep it at bay, for as long as we'd like.

EGtW: Twelve hours of daylight each day can become painful and physically detrimental to those beings adapted to subterranean life. To mitigate this problem, powerful dunamancers have woven arcane shields to temporarily block out the sun above Rosohna.

c2e61: The rain seems to fall, but you never see it scatter across the Shadowhand. It seems to drift around and he stays dry amongst the storm.

c2e61: Following below, it's hard to see because the cloak almost meets the ground, but looking below: his feet aren't touching the ground. He's just drifting.

Essek, c2e71: It seems you have made your preparations and are ready to leave? Beau: Yes, you may enter and cross into the threshold. Essek: Thank you. [He glides in. You watch the ball bearings actually separating out around his form. Like there is some invisible force that is pushing them outward, and just generating this strange force that keeps them at bay.]

Jester, c2e74: [I pull out a cupcake] It's fresh, I swear! Essek: [Extends his hand and the cupcake lifts out of your hand and drifts over. He sniffs it.] Thank you. [It vanishes beneath the cloak.]

c2e77: At which point, you watch as she begins to lift up off the ground from the chains and you see Essek, his hand out of his cloak, lifting her off the ground. ... You watch as her entire central torso crushes inward, the chains go taut and you hear the metal bend as some of the chains begin to pull and break in places before she is dropped to the ground limply.

c2e91: And he just drifts off, the gate opens on its own (creak, slam) and he heads up to the interior.

c2e91: Essek approaches, waves a hand, and the gate (creaks) opens and lets you guys in.

Essek, c2e91: Allow me to take care of this for you. [He waves his hand for a second and you watch as the chairs, the furniture (scraping) scoots from the edges into the center, forming a little seating area, table scoots in.]

Essek, c2e91: [He goes ahead and lifts a hand towards the hunk of clay] If I could have some help? [You lift it and it's half the weight it was before you grabbed it.]

EGtW, 2nd Lv. Graviturgy Wizard: Adjust Density. As an action, you can magically alter the weight of one object or creature you can see within 30 feet of you. The target's weight is halved or doubled for up to 1 minute or until your concentration ends.

c2e97: He moves his hand this way and one of the crates (scraping) scoots and he sits on it. Jester: Still cool, still fucking cool.

Essek, c2e97: My entire life, I've been propped up to be perhaps worthy of being one to break those boundaries.

Essek, c2e124: [And he rises and begins to head towards the door. The door opens on its own.]

Essek, c2e131: You are led to the familiar exterior of Essek's chambers. And, as you approach, the door (whooshing) opens on its own. ... As you all enter, the door closes behind you as he curls his hand towards him. And, with his other hand, he drifts out, a chair scooches forward and he drifts down into the chair, one leg crossed over the other.

Caleb, c2e131: Come on in. Jester: Wait, we're naked! Essek: [The doorway opens, stops. And slowly opens. (he sighs) The door opens the rest of its way on its own. ]

Essek, c2e132: Hold on to that, we have our means of drifting carefully. Or we could try to climb- well, you could try to climb. I'll be fine. Veth: Oh, yeah, you can drift. Essek: I can.

c2e132: Partway in your descent, you have this shadow drift by as Essek just drifts over the edge and just glides down past you, like an elevator, and just looks over at you each as he slowly descends towards the bottom.

c2e134: You see, as he starts putting his hands out in front like this, like he's soft throwing objects forward. You watch as rocks start coming out as he's just plucking them, as he pulls the gravity from them, aiding you as you guys go along.

c2e135: You see Essek puts his hand out and begins to concentrate, his eyes narrowing. As he does, you watch as the smooth, relatively untouched stone base of this glass tube device (stone cracking) begin to crack and crumble. You see it get pulled away and dragged under the ground behind, scattering. The glass breaking, and as opposed to shattering around you, being shunted off to the backside of the wall, scattering on the ground.

c2e135: As it all falls away, he turns his hand up, and as he does, it's like an invisible hand digging into clay and lifting through as it sifts past the fingers. You see the rock lift and then crumble, and then there in the center, you see this diamond-shaped gem, of faint dark purple coloration, that was now released. He lifts it and drifts it over into your hand.

c2e135: You guys all were all prepping and doing this space, as this was happening, Essek, you see him begin to cast something and then condense it into his hand. He hands you this small bead, Veth. This is like a marble. And just goes, "Follow my lead." ... A bolt of black lightning arcs out from it, across the way towards the creature. It's a level four Lightning Bolt.

EGtW, 14th Lv. Chronurgy Wizard: Arcane Abeyance. When you cast a spell using a spell slot of 4th level or lower, you can condense the spell's magic into a mote. The spell is frozen in time at the moment of casting and held within a gray bead for 1 hour.

c2e136: [He's wading through the water and he's like] Don't forget to return the favor! Sam: He can't float on the water? Liam: It's a three-inch spell. Matt: It doesn't quite work like that. It keeps him off of solid ground, but it doesn't put him over fluid surfaces. It's not a levitate type spell.

c2e138: He pulls out a piece of dark chalk and finds a section of the floor, and begins to draw different dunamantic symbols in this patterned array, making you progressively more and more uncomfortable as the designs begin to come together. Some of them are little more intricate for even your understanding, but you begin to pick up the basics of it, using this stone as a focus, not unlike how residuum is used as an amplifier device in a number of other laboratories.

c2e138: There's that brief moment where you see Essek, sweat beginning to form on his forehead as he's concentrating, and as you're focusing your spell energy towards this crystal, you see it begin to glow brighter and brighter and brighter, not unlike the way that the threshold crest was taking on that filament-like brightness, but this itself has a deep, deep purplish hue, and you see it begin to flicker, not unlike the symbol that you were seeing, which makes you extremely uncomfortable.  In a moment, you feel this urge to just rush in and stop it, but as you do, Essek twitches his arms around it and then draws his fingers in two different directions, and you see this small tear in reality, a break in reality, if you will. And with that, you can see, in a brief moment, in this sliver, hundreds of realities just brushing by at an endless speed. He begins to take and fold that tear around, like if the tear in space time became a thread, and wrap it around this stone, and as soon as it begins to close on it, (sizzling, shattering) it shatters... and we're going to go to break.

Essek, c2e140: I spent my entire life studying the intent to not let things like this happen to chance.

Essek, c2e141: I have spent my life in the pursuit of the ability to control one's future, and that path has led me to making many mistakes. And my shift begin to wander the possibility of fixing one's past, and since we found this, I've thought of it often.

EGtW, 14th Lv. Chronurgy Wizard: Convergent Future. You can peer through possible futures and magically pull one of them into events around you, ensuring a particular outcome.

[kateeorg]

Something I don't get about Ashton

SPOILERS up to C3 Ep 74

Okay, so... according to the Tree of Atrophy, Ashton was always meant to be born, Efterin was always meant to do the ritual that turned him into an Earth Genasi/Titan of Blood and destroy the rest of the cult.

Yes? Yes.

Except...

Imogen and FCG have been in Ashton's head. The part infused with dunamis. And they saw other timelines where Ashton remained an Aasimar.

Meaning, the whole Titan of Blood destiny thing is not quite so absolute.

So, who's wrong here? The Tree or the Luxon? Or did I miss something?

[bennijie]

woopie

[candelasobscuras]

matt mercer you motherfucker

i'm over here thinking about concepts for my calamity aeor four shot and how my whole thing focuses on potential energy because that's dunamantic, and that's just what the fucking word means. i thought it was made up. what the fuck.

[candles-smite-darkness]

If Ashton has dunamis juice in their head, does that mean they got some hapless consecuted soul's memories?

Are any of Ashton's flashbacks really someone else's memories? Will we find out soon if being in close proximity to the beacon in the Malleus Key activated anything in Ashton's head (especially since it's likely the same beacon whose extracted liquid is in Ashton's head)? How did Ludinus extract liquid dunamis, and what does it mean for any consecuted souls in that beacon?

[asexxxualauthor]

The Dwendalian Empire is Amestris

A German/West European-coded fantasy kingdom that is extremely militant but rather benign to the average citizen (Dwendalian Empire/Amestris).

The strong arm of the kingdom’s military might are the mage-soldiers that are specifically trained to be the attack dogs (Volstrucker/State Alchemists).

They are constantly having border conflicts, especially with the dark-skinned, fair-haired, red-eyed monotheistic denizens of the wasteland to their east (Xhorasians/Ishvalans).

These conflicts are used as an excuse to facilitate the creation of magic weapons capable of incredible power (Dunamis/Philosopher Stones).

And unbeknownst to the civilians, their leader is actually a puppet, and the true master pulling the strings is unfathomably old and a survivor of one of the worst cataclysms known in modern times (Ludinus Daleth/Father)—

���whose lone goal in life is to attack and dethrone god.

[ritadcsc]

Se nós entendermos a soberania de Deus, daremos muito valor à Sua vontade, ao Seu tempo e à Sua maneira de agir.

Sarah Hayashi em Devocional de Toda Mulher (p.210)

[mariliva-mello]

Bendito seja Deus que não nos deixou morrer no deserto. Mas nos fez renascer como uma fênix em chamas 🔥

Mariliva Mello

[astridellejo]

Hyper-rage. You know. Like Luxon hyper-rage.