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[pocketgalaxies]

"you hold within you a poem so beautiful that it could convince reality to kill a god." JESUS CHRIST.

[soupnspace]

i was curious and my curiosity has been satiated

[oddthesungod]

beauty, divine. ✨

[sky-scribbles]

I'm in awe of how well each god's attitude toward Aeor reflects their divine domains.

Emhira, the matron of Ravens, sees no reason not to bring the city down. Death is inevitable. The Raven Queen does not quarrel with resurrection, and she does not quarrel with killing, because all souls come to her, sooner or later - what's a few decades more or less? What's the point of risking herself and the family she's joined, the order she's created, for the sake of postponing death?

Ayden, the Dawnfather, is the god of light and life and growing things. Those druid levels aren't for show; he's the god of agriculture. He looks at Aeor and sees that a harvest may yet come from barren ground. It's not in his nature to tear out roots; it's his nature to help things grow. You can't heal everything. You always have to try.

Silaha, the Arch Heart, looks at Aeor and sees its beauty. It's full of magic. Silaha is not opposed to destroying Aeor, because beauty never lasts: a flower dies, a spell fades, a shining tower falls. But neither is he convinced that Aeor has to die, because beauty is something to be treasured and cherished. Let's relax, let's get a drink, let's think this through. Beauty is wonderful, whether it lasts or not.

Asha, the Wildmother, wants to survive, because that is what wild things do. Predators kill to eat, and prey kills to defend itself. Aeor has backed her into a corner, and her fangs are bared. Nature is death as well as life, nature is brutal, nature endures at all costs. Civilisation no longer speaks to her. She's hungry. She's angry. Her teeth are looking for a throat, ready to tear, ready to protect what is hers.

Trist, the Everlight, hears talk of death and says no. The Everlight, who has let herself fall in love with a mortal and have mortal children, even knowing how much it's all going to hurt. Whose nature is to see the worth in broken things, violent things, irredeemable things. Who looks at the cruelty of Aeor and does not deny it, but will not let anyone forget that everyone here is a person. The bravest of all of them, to look at Aeor and say this, too, is worth saving.

[johnnyspells]

[floweroflaurelin]

METEOR SWARM!!!!

[undead-knick-knack]

I think Ludinus might have inadvertently converted all of Bells Hells to worshipping the Arch Heart

[definitionofacritter]

S.I.L.A.H.A. ||| Corellon the Arch Heart

[toaarcan]

Molaesmyr, or "Why wiping out a city is okay if you're me", by Ludinus Da'leth.

I was waiting for a drop like that, to be honest. To find out that Ludinus has already done what was, for the gods, their darkest moment, and for him it was Tuesday.

The gods destroyed Aeor because Aeor was pointing a gun at their heads, for them it was self-defence and they still tried to find other options first. Ludinus destroyed Molaesmyr to try and reach the moon, and wrote it off as an acceptable loss.

And the thing is, the people of Molaesmyr were just as, if not more helpless against Ludinus than Aeor was against the gods! Aeor had a god-killing weapon in their basement that they were gearing up to use! And when the gods did attack Aeor, they had to do so in mortal form, which rendered them much weaker. For the first half of the battle in the Factorum Malleus, Aeor is winning, the gods are losing HP and falling to bad saving throws and getting interrupted at every turn. It's only once SILAHA gets free of the stun and manages to drop his Meteor Swarm on the wards that the tide turns.

There was no such chance for Molaesmyr. They probably didn't even know what he was doing until he'd already exploded their homes. They weren't pointing a gun at him. They were just in the way.

But it's okay when Ludinus has vastly more power than anyone else and throws their lives away to achieve his goals.

I think gods like the Dawnfather, the Everlight, the Arch Heart, the Lawbearer, the Knowing Mistress, and the Matron of Ravens care vastly more about the mortals that Ludinus claims to champion than he does. I think it broke their hearts to kill as many as they did, while for Ludinus, it was easy.

[c-kiddo]

quick drawing of Asha in a digital painting style i dont usually draw in but whatever, ill stop messing with it and just post. i like her a lot

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[captainofthetidesbreath]

it's actually SO funny that SILAHA, Corellon the Archheart, the god of magic and the arcane in addition to beauty and art, while not a literal wizard here IS being peak wizard about it all and is like "yes, yes, the atmosphere sucks, but look at how BEAUTIFUL! the architecture! how advanced the magic is! absolutely magnificent! ignore all the other stuff for the moment :D"

[pocketgalaxies]

i love the 5 minute gap between "i'm going to cast meteor swarm" and "METEOR SWARM!!!!!!!!!!" in which two million counterspells and clarifications need to occur

[snowbreeze64]

downfall

[poisonghoulart]

S.I.L.A.H.A - Beauty

[ludinusdaleth]

"If you created this space again, would they be dancing like they are now?"

-Critical Role Campaign 3, Episode 100, "Downfall Part Two"

[marvelousbelladonna]

Downfall Characters

Ashely Johnson as Trist (aka The Everlight/Sarenrae)

Nick Marini as Ayden (aka The Dawn Father/Pelor)

Laura Bailey as Emhira (aka The Raven Queen)

Taliesin Jaffe as Asha (aka The Wildmother/Melora)

Abubakar Salim as S. I. L. A. H. A. (aka The Arch Heart/Corellon?)

Noshir Dalal as The Emissary (aka The Lawbearer/Erathis?)

(it seems the 6th member decided to send a proxy)