#there’s wizard hubris

[the-big-nope]

This all really helps put into perspective even more than ever how much of a DUMBASS Ludinus is. He’s watching this too, watching these unfathomably powerful beings curbstomp Aeor in a matter of minutes. And he wants to bust out the thing that EATS THOSE??!

[andi-o-geyser]

oh god he even named his new home the brass skull he’s literally never gotten over them

[bookshelfdreams]

yk when you see someone share a finished handmade item that they clearly spent a lot of time and money on and it's just. The absolute tackiest thing you have seen in your life. And then you ask yourself why someone would waste all those resources on such an eyesore.

(no, of course you can't relate to that because you're a much nicer person than me)

In any case.

BEHOLD!

A wool coat!

The top fabric is handwoven and handspun, the whole thing is sewn by hand, too.

Leftovers. Barely anything, all things considered, which is very satisfying.

This thing took me well over 3 years to make, on and off. And now I'm done.

Thank you for your attention.

[saturdaysky]

you lose sight of it, somehow, when you consort with gods: how fragile mortals are, and how precious.

[gale of waterdeep & my pc, mayhew of nowhere in particular]

[balleater]

i've already made posts about this so many times but every time the raven queen's ascension gets brought up and its talked about like she did it for immortality or purely for power it makes me go a little insane because the story of her being a follower of the god of death before her and taking his place specifically because he didn't respect death is one of the best things about her lore in my opinion. that one of the biggest differences between her and those who failed attempts at ascension is that she did because of faith and not to spite it.

[fuzzy-set]

I found my new hyperfixation 😳

[thevalleyisjolly]

I like to imagine that every so often, Caleb and Essek go on vacation which entirely consists of two weeks of Essek trying to brute force teleport them into Aeor so that Caleb can have another go at that necromantic gem in the pillar.

[your-localfriendandboy]

Still reeling from Ludinus “I hate the gods, they can’t be trusted” Da’leth being asked what proof he has that Predathos (an immortal being 10 times more powerful than any god) won’t destroy exandria and he basically said “I asked him and he said he pinky promised that he won’t hurt us and I believe him”

Like he’s supposed to be this hyper intelligent arch mage and he didn’t think to like… run some tests??? Do some experiments??? Hello???

[ttrpgeewhiz]

That's great.

That's a huge win.

[essektheylyss]

Unstoppable force meets... Immovable Object?

You know, like the... like the dunamancy spell—you get it. Moving on.

[runespoor7]

I think that something to keep in mind about WQ is that she's like that (playing braincell holder) with WWX not because she has any shred of common sense, but because WWX thinks he's the smartest person in every room he's in, and no, SHE's the smartest person in every room she's in

she's Like That because she's a woman in STEM. her name is Dr Wen Qing actually.

[andi-o-geyser]

Ludinus Da'leth has arrived moodboard

[captainsparklefingers]

What I want to know is why Ludinus is convinced that Predathos will stop with just the gods.

This is what we know about Predathos, with the new information from Downfall:

- It, like the gods, came from Tengar. It wasn't some extraplanar entitiy that came to their home and drove them out, it (or what would become it) was born in the Orchard of Possibility, when Edun picked a fruit from a new tree and went away, becoming this point of lightnessness.

- The collapse of Tengar was this all consuming nothingness growing larger and larger. It wasn't hunting or anything like that, it just drew and sucked things in and made them into nothing. It WAS nothing.

- We can't say for sure, but it's possible that as the nothingness grew, it was forced into a more tangible physical form like the gods were as they fled, but we don't know that. So we don't know is Predathos is still this nothingness entity, or if it's taken on more and is something that can be contained. Well, it's contained now, so something happened.

- It didn't follow the gods immediately to Exandria, it arrived sometime after the Founding, but before the Schism, and the gods sealed it away with the Elementals into what is now Ruidis... but not before it consumed two more gods.

- It's definitely got a more tangible consciousness now, it wants to be awakened and released, but it sounds like it needs some sort of vessel?

- It's (supposedly) got a core of glass with big spikes sticking upwards throughout the moon, and that all is remnants of its last form from when it was sealed...which doesn't tell us much about what Predathos used to look like except that whatever it was was pressurized to the point of forming glass that's similar to obsidian (and magic).

- Ludinus does not seem to be a candidate for the vessel, since he's not Ruidisborn.

- And Ludinus thinks, or claims, when it's released it will be happy with consuming just the gods...which is weird because we just saw it consumed their ENTIRE PLANE OF EXISTENCE RIGHT AFTER BEING BORN.

So with all of that in mind, I once again ask: what makes Ludinus think this can be controlled? What makes him so sure that this will end with the deaths of the gods, that Predathos will be satisfied and malleable?

[saturdaysky]

hunger is whatever shape the moonlight pulls your shadow into.

The cover and first two pages of a comic about Essek and touch, set just after episode 97 and the reveal of his treachery.

There are nine pages. I will post them in batches as I finish them, and each post will be updated with the links to the other pages. 💜

I've had this idea sketched out for several years (check out my user icon, which hasn't changed since I made this account 😉 ), and I am excited to finally sit down and finish it! Here's a close-up of the Rosohna and Xhorhaus panel on page 2.

An absence is also a presence, no?

Poetry source is ONE SIDE OF AN INTERVIEW WITH THE GHOST OF MARVIN GAYE by Hanif Abdurraqib.

[balleater]

you know what i am so glad that exu calamity gave us insight into vespin chloras's reasoning and everything because now i can confidently say that the guy who kicked off the point in exandria's history that killed 2/3 of the population and fundamentally changed the way the gods interact with the world had more understandable reasoning than ludinus da'leth does.

[reiinai]

-and you see the long, white hair of Ludinus Da’leth

Critical Role Imagined Screenshot series (Bell’s Hells, c3e45)

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…look.

What’s sexier than wizards..?

I accept any and all judgement. Carry on.