Essentially, I thought too long about the "what if Orym multi-classed into a barbarian and got to release all that pent-up rage?" idea. And he asked Morrigan to make him "more capable." HOW DOES THAT MANIFEST??
YA'LL. You know if something remotely like this happens, we'll be able to hear Travis scream with delight through the fabric of space-time.
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[Image Description: a sketchy comic about Orym's deal with Nana Morri.
Panel 1:
(Wide shot of Orym struggling to get up, using his sword to push himself up. He's bleeding from multiple wounds, and the sky above is red, Exandria a small blue dot in the sky.)
Badguy (offscreen): You are just a lone, little man in a big fight. What can YOU do?
Panel 2:
Fearne: ORYM! (She reaches for him)
Panel 3:
Nana Morri (her voice in Orym's mind): Get up.
Orym: N-Nana Morri? (his silhouette hacks up a mouthful of blood)
Nana: Get up, little Ashari.
Panel 4:
Orym: I... (Close up of his left eye, where a yellow-green light has started to shine. Blood trickles down his face, over his eye)
Panel 5:
Orym: would like... (Close up of his right hand, clenching the sword)
Panel 6:
(A ghostly red silhouette of Nana Morri hovers in the air over Orym, her fanged smile and clawed hands filling the space. Orym is standing, but a little crookedly. Yellow-green light continues to waft like smoke from his left eye.)
Nana: You aren't done yet.
Orym: ...to rage.
The Crown Keeper and Fearne&Orym reunion is going to be very interesting because you have Fearne, who hesitated to take the shard because of the impact seeing dark!Fearne had on her, possibly seeing Opal again.. like this. She gets a front row seat to one of her very good friends heading down that path of corruption that she herself was scared of.
Then you have the Crown Keepers just seeing the toll these last few months have had on Orym and Fearne. I wonder if there would be any guilt from Dorian, knowing he left and came back to such a drastic change.
That Orym did get the answers he was looking for and he is crumbling under the weight of them. That Fearne has had to experience so much more loss and anger in these last few months than she had in over 100 years and she still doesn't know what to do with some of these feelings.
My hot take on Bell's Hells right now is that they keep releasing teakettles of pressure with little fights and team building exercises but we need a Bard's Lament volcano level of blowing up and breaking apart before we get anywhere
I can’t overstate how much I adore that Nana Morri has vibes of 1000% being the BBEG in someone else's campaign but in Bells Hells she's just Fearne's quirky Grandma that has a tiki bar, plans company retreats for them, and maybe has a Medusa-esque statue garden on her roof but we don't worry too much about that