#the arch heart

[undead-knick-knack]

Call me crazy but I don't think following thru on BBEG's plan yourself doesn't make it any less evil

[dreaming-of-hope]

I think one of my favorite things about Brennan's DMing is his physical shifts when he changes to specific characters. And when he drops into Asmodeus, it's not a chest puff, proud, it's a slithering settling into a chair to watch the chaos unfold. Also shoutout to when he decided to become Bolo and you see him literally lurch into the scene

ME TOO! Brennan is such fantastic actor and he uses all his tools when it comes to make memorable DMPCs. I've been thinking so much about this since last thursday when, and I'm sorry for the big SPOILERS, The Arch Heart imitated Asmodeus to try to convince Braius. Abubakar's impression wasn't perfect and it wasn't meant to be, as he wasn't Asmodeus in the flesh, but the way he lowered himself, the way he locked eyes with Sam and made him doubt whether or not he was the real deal, it all felt very Brennan coded.

[definitionofacritter]

tfw your friend secretly crosses a fucking ocean to play a deity / GM for the first time in his life and you had no idea he was even in the country, much less your studio

Abubakar Salim, the man that you are!!!

[seanflnnerty]

[floweroflaurelin]

METEOR SWARM!!!!

[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.

[marvelousbelladonna]

Matt leaves the seat and the FUCKING Arch Heart himself comes in

[shorthaltsjester]

Why are your children bound by rules you will not follow?

Critical Role, Campaign 3, Downfall Parts 1-3 // Commandments of The Prime Deities according to the Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn

[quipxotic]

I’ll say it again, there is not going to be a clean, painless solution for the overarching issues of Campaign 3. People are going to die. Exandria is going to change. The choice here is to find a way to preserve as much life as possible, to protect as many as possible. Last night’s episode made that even more complicated, not less.

Personally I love it, it’s going to make for juicy PC decisions and storytelling. And, to be honest, having the Arch Heart echo the same argument Ashton has been making for months our time made me laugh out loud. I’m still not sure either of them are right about the option they’re advocating but it is delicious to have an actual god agree with the logic of the loudest anti-divinity voice in the party.

[acebender]

The Arch Heart

[vandersprodigy18]

Something poetic about how it was The Arch Heart who reigned chaos upon the greatest arcane achievement of mortals, The God Hammer, with meteors.

How He was the one who made the decision to redirect the energy blast into the city, the decision that the other Primes did not want on their shoulders.

The Arch Heart, who gifted mortals with magic, was the one to put an end to the Age of Arcanum.

[undead-knick-knack]

[setsailforthestars]

The Arch Heart, god of magic, who gifted it to mortals and has been so proud of what they accomplished even as it threatens their existence, redirecting the energy to crash the city and bring down Aeor— destroying the knowledge that could kill the gods and possibly life as they know it.

And 100 years ago a wizard, a student of this magic, named Laerryn Coramar Seelie, did the same thing— to save Exandria itself.

[ihaveatypeanditstrickstergods]

I gotta ask...

Reblog for sample size and all that.

[andi-o-geyser]

abubakar salim the man you are i’m so fucking sorry i fear i need him sooo bad y’all

[marvelousbelladonna]

Divine faces revealed!

S. I. L. A. H. A. aka the Arch Heart

Trist aka the Everlight

Ayden aka the Dawn Father

Asha aka the Wildmother

Emhira aka THE RAVEN QUEEN!!!