#orym and laudna too... someone in the last ep said 'kill' in a way that reminded me its been SO LONG since weve had a laudna whisper. kms

[astralleywright]

another week.

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Do we think Marisha will want to bring Laudna back? Matt said it's always the player's choice if their character dies. Do we think she'll let BH's bring her back?

Oh man. I paused the ep at the break last night to process and gif and I haven't finished the ep yet or been on tumblr to see what anyone else thinks. c1 and c2 spoilers below!

Whatever happens, I think we're gonna be waiting. Vox Machina were high enough level that when people died, they had raise dead or resurrection and most of the time it wasn't a question of whether or not someone would come back as long as the ritual worked. I think just Percy when Tal thought his story could end there, but ultimately decided to bring him back. But with Molly, like now, they were too low level to have access to spells beyond revivify, so they didn't have any way of bringing him back on their own. Same for Laudna. Delilah can't help, they don't have any higher level spells, it would set a bad precedent and remove all stakes to bring Keyleth in... so we're talking at least two levels? I think? before they would have a way to bring her back on their own. Whether or not Marisha would want to trade in her backup character at that point... it feels like there's more story with her to tell. With Delilah still up in the air, with things left unsaid with Imogen... I don't know.

Death is so fucking unfair. I will never be over losing Vax, a character I connected deeply with after losing my own mom to cancer and seeing Liam go through the same thing and how it affected Vax moving forward just... it hit me really hard. I thought for sure if someone stayed dead it would be Orym because he's so desperate to protect everyone around him and ran AT Otohan with his high initiative when everyone else was deciding to use theirs to run away, and losing him to the same assassins that killed his husband... oof. It would have been terrible, and amazing, and hard, and perfect. It's unfair that Laudna's life has been so unendingly tragic. She was used by Delilah, spent decades wandering, scaring people, and up until the last few years with Imogen and now everyone else she was so alone. But man, the last two episodes have been some of my favorites of the campaign. The emotions in- and out of character have been SO HIGH. I really cannot decide what will happen! We know Imogen will want to bring her back, but storywise, by the time they are ABLE to, will that be what's best for the story? I don't know!!! I can't even decide what I want to happen!! The tragedy if, after everything, she stayed dead?? Would be so unfair. She deserves better than for her death to a message for other people, TWICE. Or maybe she'll pull a Tary and decide that once they can pull her back, she will return, because she needs to beat Delilah and she should get a happy ending. Things are SO up in the air with her, it's hard to imagine never seeing her again, but that is what death is so... man. I just don't know.

I'm so on the fence, I think at this point I'm just along for the ride. Whatever happens, the party is going to be deeply affected by this moving forward, and I can't wait to see where it ends up.