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Birch Tree Dryad!

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COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN!!!

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hey remember how nydas okiro from exandria unlimited calamity used his very last breath to drive his sword through his best friends heart, in a desperate, last ditch attempt to save his soul? to save him from eternal suffering? remember how it didnt work . wild stuff.

Something about how Aeor, on the eve of the Calamity, was planning on just... straight up testing a weapon on another city with no apparent provocation, and then a millennium later the Vanguard kills six people on a test run and specifically makes it impossible to resurrect them for no apparent reason

the "you should be wary, because only one side of this table is underestimating the other" -> "i wish for you in the future to find someone who will mourn you when you are gone" -> "do you think that'll break through, or do you think you'll be surprised?" pipeline <3

It's interesting that the member of Bells Hells most vocally sympathetic to Liliana last episode wasn't Imogen, but Laudna. Imogen of course loves her mother and wants to believe the best of her, but her repeat experiences of reaching out to her and getting nothing but cult rhetoric and vague reassurances have left her jaded to the idea that her mother could ever truly change even if she helps them

But Laudna extends sympathy to Liliana, saying she understands what it's like to be a person designed by a force outside oneself and at the mercy of their designs and whims. And I do think Laudna understands what that feels like! It's a pretty apt description of her relationship with Delilah as she perceives it. But I'm doubtful of how accurately it describes Liliana and the other Ruidusborn's relationship with Predathos, especially since we know from Imogen's role in the story that they can resist, they can fight back, and they can choose not to follow the siren's song of Ruidus. But I think Laudna sees enough of her own story in Liliana, and is lacking enough in emotional maturity, that she's drawing a one-to-one comparison where it doesn't really exist

What makes this especially interesting/odd is that there are characters in all this that do have a fairly equivalent experience to Laudna: Derrig and Will. The people killed for convenience as part of a larger plot that they were in no way involved in; murdered as a simple means to an end. But it's a woman that's part of the group that perpetrated that violence that Laudna chooses to relate to

"...and I pull out the stone, and reach out to Dorian."

I am not opposed to combat that has a lot of exposition and puzzles within it - Brian Murphy does it regularly with aplomb to the point that honestly it's a signature style of his, Brennan usually pulls it off, and Matt's had some really bad examples and some really fantastic ones in his massive repertoire, but when it's not done well it's absolutely excruciating and.

aimee carrero is a gift

Someone mail Liliana the Rexxentrum Archive's court proceedings for Trent. I just wanna know her thoughts on that one, since she seems to be of the "but think of the children" mind.

"I KNOW SELF-DELUSION WHEN I SEE IT" "COLD COMFORT FOR MY FAMILY IN THE GROUND" ASHTON AND ORYM DROPPIN BARS

fresh off roughly 14 hours of d&d, I desperately need an audience to rant to that doesn’t care about netherdeep spoilers and also understands consecution

help, who would you fancast as verin thelyss?

party arrives in bazzoxan, and spots verin thelyss. FIRST QUESTION they ask is “is he hotter than galsariad?”