#xorhas

[sfaira]

I love all the Essek fanart on here, I had to finally draw the floaty boy myself. I love him. Cleaner version and a concept sketch I did.

[aldercaps]

sipping some tea in the Xorhaus

[tomepact]

hey ... hey ............ thinking about the fact that if tharivol and vespin kept running they would forever have the hells on their heels. and that's why vespin left, even though it almost guaranteed that he'll be dragged back to the hells. but then maybe asmodeus would be satisfied and forget about the drow navigator.

YEAH............always running but ultimately, i don't think tharivol would care.

the world is a terrible place when he finds vespin again. the end of days literally happened. as far as anyone alive in the moment is concerned, this is it. this is how it'll be forever.

but tharivol -- tharivol's someone who knows there are other worlds out there. and more than that, he has access to a ship that can go to those places.

he'd offer vespin a spot on the ship. ask if he wants to see anywhere that's not exandria. maybe they'll end up somewhere that asmodeus can't reach him. maybe they can find a place that they've only read about in books, or they can find someone who can fix whatever's happening or. . .something. anything.

(it's not possible. the hells are almost always a constant. but he can dream.)

[beawake]

I saw someone say they finally realised why the liked c2 the least, and that made me realise why it stays my favourite.

Other than the fact that I just like all the PC's, I feel like the interpersonal relationships are more different and unique.

The party feels more like a found family, and in part Molly is to thank for that, his dead shocked everyone into closer relationships, but also it feels like all the characters and their backstories mattered more.

VM, other than Percy's story, always went for the overarching bigger events and they were motivated by backstories but they mattered less. Even without the connection of Thordak killing the twins their mom, they'd have gone after them.

And BH has also been guided by bigger things, Eshteross guided them first, and they kept getting pushed into directions then (I'm fuzzy on the details) and while the big story is also important to some of their backstories it still feels like it matters less.

But the M9 were always motivated by their backstories and it feels more like their own motivations made them stumble upon the big things, ending the war that didn't matter all that much to them, and the Somnovum was important, but they got there because of Molly, they ended the cult because of Yasha.

In a way it cements M9 also as really some assholes cause the big good things they did were done because of selfish reasons, but it just feels like the every time they were motivated by backstory beats. Going to the sea, going to Xorhas, going to Eiselcross, etc.

[foggy-tea94]

More thoughts on recent Critical Role Campaign 3 recent episodes

Some of this might be hot takes. 🤷🏻‍♀️

People are all up in arms about somebody pressuring Imogen to do something she is afraid to do, and certain parts of the fandom and some of the characters themselves are all up in a tizzy.

I don’t recall ANYBODY being in a tizzy like this when over half the damn party was trying to pressure Fearne into taking the shard, which she said on multiple occasions over pretty much every episode since they got the damn thing until she took it in the Feywild, that she didn’t want it, that she was scared of what it would do to her.

Where are the people calling Imogen and Laudna out for pressuring Fearne to do something she said she was scared to do, on more than one singular occasion? Where are the people calling them bad and evil and awful for that?

But Orym telling Imogen that they need her here in this fight because they can’t win this without her, and pressuring her to use her connection to Ruidus, which she has been all gung-ho to do—even excitedly done, in previous episodes, is the ultimate bad guy here? 

The math ain’t mathin’ here people.

Either villainize all attempts at peer pressure within the party, or just maybe, look at things in the context of the situation. Don’t pick and choose which ones are acceptable and which ones aren’t.

If Orym is a piece of shit for pressuring Imogen, then so are Imogen and Laudna for pressuring Fearne.

Now putting that rant aside, I love all of the cast and I love all the characters of Bells Hells. None of them are perfect and they all have their issues, and I love it. I think it’s all so juicy. Let these characters become like people, let them feel like people!

I actually really like this campaign. Not more than I liked campaign one, but I feel like I get the story line more than what I did with campaign two. To me, campaign two didn’t feel cohesive until Eiselcross, Aeor, or heck just before the Somnovum. The story doesn’t get cohesive at least until they were in Xorhas at the very earliest. While with campaign one and campaign 3, their goals/purposes/linear story arc overall, has been way more cohesive from the start. Things tie back in at every twist and turn, leading towards the overall story.

So I’m all down for good inter-party conflict and found family. Whatever the cast of critical role wants to throw at us.

[camelliasblooming]

mighty nein teleporting to xorhas from the spa has me laughing so hard lmao

[inkyu]

!NOT MY HOMESTUCK OC THIS IS AN ARTFIGHT ATTACK :3!

anywhooos this GIF took ALL. DAY. and I like how it turned out :3

It looks bad on tumblr but it looked fine on artfight qwp I wonder why JKFBDGJHDGFB

Character(s) attacked: https://artfight.net/character/3172935.tahhae-kileer | https://artfight.net/character/3159717.latana-xorhae

[average-lesboy]

LATANA XORHAE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

most normal indigoblood why would she ever be a mutant um er erm uh hm er

[thatonegaybastard]

Actually. Fuck it ask my homestuck ocs questions if its Q&A time you van also ask lorem ipsum characters because I've been thinking snout them lately

Homestuvk ocs you can ask

Olly

Jay

Jess

Susan

Drizee

Lizzos

Romzis

Zerzia

Lurzar

Jadeblood who's name is UNIMPORTANT

This random girl I made in the dollsim named *checks hand* Latana Xorhae

[terresdebrume]

Taliesin (& others), when the Xorhas alliance thing begins: we'll have to be discreet to avoid being killed on sight when we get back to the Empire

Also Taliesin, less than 5 episodes later and five minutes after Caduceus enters the house: I'm going to make a sixty foot tree on top of my tower AND put spotlights on it for good measure

[nian101]

Watching cr for the first time while folowing crit role blogs is fucking wild i have decided. I havent evan met essek yet (i think im v close im in xorhas) and your telling me in campaign 3 its the crossover of the century where evereyone gets to die???like c2 and c3 charas and maybe c1 to add some spice?? What are you guys going through?

[veth-brenattos-mental-state]

The urge to rewatch the c2 xorhas episodes grows ever stronger. I am 20 episodes behind on c3.

[chucktaylorupset]

fanfic i wont write friday ur turn now go 🤔

Immortaljailor more like ImmortalEnabler

In honor of the new lovm content, have some cr ideas that were never to be

When I still watched campaign 2 live and they were deep behind enemy lines in Xorhas for the first time, I was like huh pre-canon bren/caleb would hate his future self if he saw all this, almost as much as present canon caleb hates himself right now.

What if De-aging AU?

So this would have Caleb getting hit with a spell that de-ages him. At this point in canon, Beau and Nott are the only ones who Really know his backstory, and Bren thinks a lot of very unfortunate things about being in Xorhas and surrounded by "monstrous"/"Xorhasian" races like a half-orc and goblin, it mostly falls on Beau to take Bren aside in private to say that they are on an undercover mission behind enemy lines, and Beaus the one in charge as a Expositor for the Cobalt Soul on behalf of the empire to extract a kidnapped alchemist. Beau is stressing and working overtime to get Bren to cooperate and also Not Try To Report Into A Higher Up Or Handler or ask questions about what his rank and mission is or how his parents are doing, but also to protect Caleb's privacy from the group. I love Beau, so I imagine it'd mostly be about the pressure of the lie but I'm me so imagine also a lot of dramatic irony and people being confused about how sweet wonderful caleb grew out of That.

[kyoodledoodle]

Cr2 fans!!

[tomepact]

loras 22 insight check to see how hymnal's doing since leaving the barbed field

they've traveled far since the battle in the barbed fields. they still roamed the countryside of xorhas, but they had put the fields long behind them to dip into the vermaloc wildwood, with its boldly bright trees guiding their steps. they've been told to be careful, as many great beasts wander the woods, but that they were free to travel on their own if they wished.

it's a quiet night near a burbling brook, the water almost lulling them to sleep. here, hymnal kneels with his hands folded, the bead of light spinning a lazy comet's tail over his head. he's still kneeling when loras speaks up and asks him how he's feeling.

there's a smile that answers him, hymnal's face serene in its expression, as he responds i'm fine. it is how it must be.

the words, however, carry an undertone of something aching -- it's the sound of something folded carefully and tucked away, pushed into a corner to think about once his companion had gone quiet and still for the night.

he's having nightmares still of hellfire and vespin's bloodied fingers dragging against his cheekbone. he reaches to touch the spot when he thinks loras won't notice, before he bends to wash his hands in the creek and move to make sure they have food prepared for them.

deception from hymnal: 15 + 6 = 21.

[asunsetinacup]

Tiefling Horns

@criticalbakes​ Week 6- Jester Lavorre

For Jester, the pastry queen, I knew I had to make something pretty special. Rewatching the campaign 2 I still laughed at her outrage that Xhorhas doesn’t have elephant ears or their cinnamony flavor! (I mean I get it, never eating cinnamon sounds like a terrible life) Instead of going with the fried dough county fair verity, I went with the flaky, puff pastry kind.  With the fruit fillings, they ended up looking like tiefling horns, so I renamed them! I went a little overboard on the baking this week with a pretty cute strawberry batch, a yummy cinnamon one, and blueberry one good enough for a hag :)  

This recipe is based on the mini elephant ears from king arthur flour, however, my method is a little different. 

Ingredients

Rough Puff Dough:

2 1/4 c All Purpose Flour

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking powder

12 tbsp. cold butter, cut into pats

3/4 c sour cream

Granulated sugar to roll the dough out onto

Cinnamon Filling:

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1/4 c powdered sugar

Fruit Filling:

1/2 c freeze dried fruit (I used strawberries for 1 batch and blueberries for another)

1/2 c powdered sugar

(Choose 1 filling)

Process

1. In a mixing bowl, whisk together flour, salt and baking soda.

2. Cut  the butter into the flour with 2 butter knives or a pastry cutter until the butter is about the size of a pea. 

3. Stir in the sour cream until a very stiff and rough dough forms, then turn the dough out onto a floured surface.

4. Shape the dough into a rectangle and fold in thirds like a letter. Use a rolling pin to flatten back out into a rectangle. Repeat folding a flattening 2 more times. Wrap the dough tightly and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.   

5. To make the cinnamon filling, combine the ingredients. To make the fruit fillings, blitz everything together in a blender or food processor until it becomes a fine powder, then sift to remove any clumps or seeds. 

6. Cover your work surface with a layer of granulated sugar. Then roll 1/2 the dough out to a 14x7 rectangle on top of the sugar. Cover the surface of the dough in 1/2 of the filling and press it gently into the dough. 

7. Roll both 14 inch long ends tightly towards the center of the dough like a scroll. They should meet in the middle. Gently press each roll together to keep the shape tight. Cover tightly in plastic wrap and freeze for 2 hours.

8. When your dough is ready, preheat the oven to 425F/200C. 

9. Cut the cookie log into 1/4 inch thick cookies and place on a tray 1 in. apart. 

10. Bake for 9* minutes, flip and bake for 3 more minutes

*watch these cookies closely, you may have to adjust the time. Look for them to just start to turn golden around the edge.