#imogen temult: threads.

[wyrdhearth]

@dreadna : [ blood ] sender notices that receiver is bleeding ➵ imogen temult.

❝ oh, laudna, it's nothin'... ❞ imogen trailed off, once she'd noticed laudna's gaze on her arm. the fabric of her gauzy blue dress had ripped and bloomed with a vibrant spread of red. she barely noticed the sting of her wound; her eyes were too dark, too busy worriedly surveying laudna for her own injuries. it was night time still and otohan's assassins could still be out there –– they'd all but fought to the death, and bell's hells were worse the wear for it.

stepping over a mangled and necroding body, imogen set her fingers upon laudna's arm. ❝ forget me –– are you alright? ❞ concern shone plainly on her face, imogen's face pinched tight with that damning clench between her ribs. this was the reason her father had turned her away, the reason she'd kept the world at arms' length for so long –– love, which left her breathless and aching. but she'd bear it all, bleeding and everything, for laudna. ❝ I thought I saw... for a second, I thought... you looked like her... ❞

NON - VERBAL ANGST : accepting.

[imogens-temult]

CRITICAL ROLE: CAMPAIGN 3 Episode 6: Growing Bonds and Teasing Threads

[sparring-spirals]

Every time, every time Fearne/Laudna/Imogen introduce people to Pretty and are reminded, in quick succession:

- Pretty really IS that delightful, and there's a reason they collectively agreed to date him (beyond the panic distraction)

- They did in fact, collectively date Pretty and have to explain that to people.

- They are, collectively, no longer dating Pretty and have to explain that, because hes delightful and it was amicable!

- They are no longer dating because he broke up with them.

- By the time they get to this point of the explanation, its always consistently awkward despite there being absolutely zero bad blood anywhere.

- It's only awkward for Fearne, Imogen, and Laudna.

- They are surprised by this.

- Despite this, they will always come back and see Pretty the next time they are in the city and enthusiastically introduce any new friends to him.

- If only there was a way to avoid this awkwardness!

- Anyway this is our friend Pretty!!! Hes great. Oh he's our ex (collectively). Yes he broke up with us not the other way around-

[caeslxys]

Something I think is extremely interesting thematically when it comes to connecting what Downfall and the ideas it tackled to the overarching narrative of campaign three is that the things Downfall made a point to showcase of Aeor—Cassida, Hallis, the visual of an aeormaton proposing to her partner, the specific and intentional decision to shed light on a far from insignificant amount of the population being civilians or refugees—is that it plays in perfect parallel across from what is happening (and, really, has been happening) to the ruidusborn on Exandria in present.

Bear with me for a moment. Aeor is ultimately a city that was collectively punished for the decisions of its leadership. We could (and, judging by the amount of discourse around this particular topic already, probably will) argue about what the Gods’ motivation for all of this was—whether it be that they could not, in the end, bear to kill their siblings or that they were terrified at the prospect of mortality—for me it is a very healthy dose of both—but for this I am much more interested in the latter. They were scared. That, really, is the driving force behind both this arc and their role in c3 as a whole.

Why I point this out is: It is far more interesting to me, especially as we go back to Bells Hells this week, to dissect the Gods and their decisions not purely on sympathetic motivation alone but as beings in the highest seat of power in the highest social class in Exandria.

So, having established that the Gods (in relation to mortals) are more a higher social class than anything we could compare to our real life understanding of divinity and that Aeor was eviscerated largely because of their fear—what is the difference between those innocents in Aeor caught in the trappings of their autocratic government leadership and a divine war on the ground, and those of the ruidusborn being manipulated both by Ludinus and by the very thing that inspired such visceral fear in the Gods to start with. I would argue very little.

I think of Cassida, doing what she genuinely thought was right and good and would save people, her son, and the object of her worship—and how that did not matter enough to any of them to spare her because of the fear they held at the very concept of mortality. I think of Liliana and Imogen, one of which we know begged for the gods to help her or send her a sign for years on years, and how every single one of their largest struggles could have been avoided had the gods loved them, their supposed children, as much as they feared what they could be. I think of how the thing that did save Imogen, in the end, was a woman who herself existed in direct defiance of the gods will. I think of that young boy, sixteen years old, that Laudna exalted on Ruidus.

I think it’s completely fair to judge Aeor’s overall society as deeply corrupt—it was!—but its leadership and police force are not a reflection of every one of its citizens. Similarly, it is fair to judge the Ruby Vanguard as corrupt—it is!—but its multiple heads of leadership and even the god-eater further are not a reflection of every one of its members.

Notably, and what I think the Hells will latch onto, this did not matter to the Gods. It did not matter that Cassida was trying to help. She was still too much of a risk. Will it matter, what Imogen does? Will it matter, if that young boy is in the blast radius when they decide to take no further chances?

I’ve seen a lot of people say that the Hells will side with the gods and I don’t think I agree. Especially as Imogen has been scolded and villainized over and over for daring to try and save her mother—who herself has been seen by some as an irredeemable evil in spite of her drive being the exact same—her family—but when it’s the Gods it’s justified? When it’s the Gods, it’s sympathetic? Too sympathetic to criticize further than “they’re family”?

I obviously do not think the Gods should die or be eaten or what have you, and I certainly don’t agree with Ludinus (though I find him much more compelling than just a variation of hubris wizard), but when talking about the Gods in Aeor and in present it isn’t really at all about their motivation or their family. It can’t be. Too many people, including our active protagonists, lives have been effected for it to be as cut and dry as “they’re family”. These are your children. They are your family, too.

[jadequarze]

Imogen doodles ❤️

[staticrevelations]

unfortunately i don't know how to be normal about laudna confessing that she thinks she's a bad person and a few days later imogen calling her Saint Laudna

[pocketgalaxies]

laudna imogen connected threads of fate ;~; ;~; ;~;

[lightningtitties]

the horrors persist (bell’s hells hiatus) but so does imogen temult’s unhinged gay behaviour (laudna’s red thread in the imogen dice set)

[davestriderwithabowtie]

Today's thought: imodna and ghost quartet parallels. The prophetic dreams of Imogen and the inevitability of the storm. Young Laudna, betrayed and used like the soldier, a stolen starchild.

[andi-o-geyser]

i just 😔 i can’t tell you what’s going on it’s just 😣 too painful imogen you have to run! 😖run owo and never look back just trust me, a woman you barely know, and run far from here! 😫 run far from this place where you know for a FACT i actually am, because if you come here it’s too dangerous and ludinas, the man i’m working with, will hurt you😩and i would never want that for you baby girl😢i just want you safe and happy, ☺️i’m doing this for YOU🥺i’m so scared about what will happen😥 but don’t worry, i need him as much as he needs me 🫡 what does that mean? do i think he’s wrong? no, i actually agree with him. we need to kill the gods, imogen ☹️ why won’t you understand?😩 join me, but also run, your mama will take care of everything 🥺 all of this is out of my control, 🤕i’m not responsible for this, but also i’m one of the three leading people in the doomsday cult but ignore that 😣 i’m just trying to do the right thing!😊 i’ve never done anything wrong ever why don’t you believe me after seeing all the hurt 😕and pain 🙁and death ☹️my actions have caused in addition to me being somebody who was meant to be your mother🥰 but instead abandoned you and now uses you as more of an excuse for my bad behaviour than a daughter i actually care about because if i was any mother at all i would never have done what i’m doing when seeing that it’s directly endangering you, 😖but it’s okay because i drank the kool aid and imogen darlin 😚you’re so beautiful baby, 🤭you’ve grown so much, ☺️you’re so powerful, 🥹but run from that cause we need to release a god eating entity! 😤i HAVE to do this🥺

[bloodymyhands]

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[sparring-spirals]

imogen fumbling shit is just eternally good fodder for memes, alright. and its at least partly BECAUSE of how powerful she is. someone tripping while using a nerf gun? funny. someone dramatically hoisting up an outfit matchin heavy death laser gun and then immediately tripping and landing on their face? phenom. sometimes she goes "GROVEL" and the enemies grovel and we all go "oooooh" and "aaaahhh" and sometimes she just gets fully ignored and gets so huffy and petulant and ineffectually burns a cantrip just to be petty about it. sometimes she smites her enemies into dust with one move and renders a tree in half after threatening and other times she fucking. falls down a flight of stairs and accidentally sets everything on fire. fires a gun at her own team. loses all her hair. turns blue. etc.

Imogen lifts a humongous sand squid into the sky with her mind powers. Imogen is also falling out of a sky ship and landing on the desert sand far below and just. lying there. while her friend plays the flute in the background. epic hot failgirls NEED the HEIGHT to FAIL FROM. u gotta swing and miss sometimes!!! AND you gotta be REAL petty about it when u miss!!!! fucking fantastic.

[ludinusdaleth]

thinking a lot about how the vast majority of the people who are central pillars to what has shaped imogen - laudna, liliana, ludinus, even orym - are people who, by justifying themselves saying they are saving others (saving her), have given in to chasing power and throwing away a chance for a life of peace (often with her), when she has had to be insurmountably selfless and not give in to the calling in her soul, to prop most of them up, to give them chances.

laudna gives in to delilah to save the world, to save imogen, not realizing shes throwing away being herself with imogen, living together in a cottage; on the flip side, liliana is doing all of this to live on that temult ranch again with her daughter & husband, not realizing she has pushed her daughter away and to become a vessel is something she cannot walk away from. ludinus thinks hes saving the next generation, saving liliana's kin, not realizing he has slaughtered futures like the gods he hates, and is the reason imogen has had to become a soldier like her mother, dressed like him, like an archmage of war. orym takes a fae pact with flowers in his veins and has become almost entirely a vessel for stopping ludinus, struggling with the burden of taking down imogen if she steps out of line, not realizing she respects him like no other and has been put in a position where she cannot give in in large part because he as the other "leader" of the bells has.

she has to pull laudna back from the edge and then listen to liliana say she has to pull ludinus back from his. she has to stop orym's fury at liliana when she has her own heartbreak at own mother, and she is the first to follow ludinus to bear empathy to him when he is the reason her mother & friends & partner are ripping at their seams. she watches fearne & ashton fit into power with their titan shards, she watches folk accept chetneys lycanthropy, she watches everyone she loves or hates struggle with power and the grief & desperation that led them to it-

and she cannot give in.

she cannot give in. she has to be the last sane one left.

how long can she be the most selfless person alive as everyone near her is ready to explode, and all she wants is a shred of kindness from the universe?

is this the curse of the moon of ill omen? or is it the threads of fate around her that she has chosen to love or fight or try to forgive, choking her alive?

[immult]

high on the martyrdom of imogen temult rn. on her legacy even. with the reveal that the golden threads of fate intercrosses with predathos' tethers, the conjuring of the visage of vespin chloras was done knowingly after all. why would the matron have him say to imogen that you and i are similar, if not.

[fearnesbells]

favorite details of the witches’ new outfits!!!

IMOGEN’S BRAAAAAAID. AN ECHO OF HER MOTHER, MOTHERFUCKERS… go look at @leafspiritz’s post on this subject. OHHH IMOGEN TEMULT YOU AND YOUR MOTHER MAKE ME INSANE.

FEARNE. IS. WEARING. THE. WITCH. BRACELET. THE RED THREAD. MMMM YEAH. INTERWOVEN WITH THE FLOWERS. THAT’S MY GAL. ALSO HER DEER NOSE!! YIPPEE WAHOO!! I AM IN LOVE WITH FEY FEARNE!!

forgive the fact that this is two pixels. the delilah necklace. Whuh Oh. reminds me of @distant--shadow’s art. Filled With Fear.

[xombigirl]

New Merch Monday

First up we have the Orym of the Air Ashari Dice Set! The sharp-edged set is translucent with white flowers inside, light green numbering, and an icon of a crescent moon on the 20-side of the d20 die.

Next we have the Imogen Temult Dice Set! The sharp-edged, purple set features specs of glitter with red knotted thread inside, metallic gold numbering, and a lightning bolt icon on the 20-side of the d20 die.

Next we have an Ashton/CR Patch Set. This set of 8 iron-on embroidered patches of symbols and icons related to both Critical Role and Ashton Greymoore.

Finally we have the Ashton Greymoore Jacket! The black denim jacket features distressed shoulder seams to echo Ashton's trademark vest, a red and black flannel panel across the top of the front and back, with jersey knit for both the sleeves and full hood.