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quiddie · 2 years

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Okay, I see a lot of people talking about Laerryn’s work in terms of the spell Plane Shift. Now I know that’s ultimately my fault because of how I spoke about the remains of the solar bow, but that isn’t what she’s attempting.

Now let me say all this with the grain of salt that I’m not trying to remove all blame from LCS - I know who she is and what I built into her and what she’s capable of and willing to do - but I do think it’s inaccurate to call her uncaring (in terms of the citizens of Avalir) and despotic in her single-mindedness.

First, the Astral Leywright. Simply put, it builds a new leyline road through other planes. Now, Laerryn runs and maintains the engines & batteries, but she doesn’t steer the city. That’s Helmswoman Akami Rowe’s job. That’s the Navigator’s Guild’s choice. *That* is why LCS thinks of it as a gift to the city and to history - it’s an opportunity, not an obligation (or worse, a coercion like Plane Shift would be.) Yes, she’s taken a lion’s share of the energy stored for this Replenishment - but just this once (and what are 7 years to an elf, really?) and the thing she gives back is a new leyline that goes not North or East or South but OUT. (And the solar bow’s planar attunement was primarily to help the AL know the directionality of building a leyline in a new axis.) And Avalir could (not MUST) use it. Anyone can use it.

And sure, maybe the Septarion and the citizens will be too confused or scared to use it at first but that’s fine - the point wasn’t that we have to go NOW, only that this was her one chance to make the leyline at ALL (or at least until the next apogee solstice). So her thought is that the city doesn’t have to understand right now, but eventually they’ll get it and history will remember her fondly for making the road to the next big discoveries a little easier.

Keep in mind, Laerryn is one of the smartest people in the city (e1 “often the most cerebral”) that took a vital but understated job (e1 “no one understands exactly what you do to ask you for anything”) with no laurels attached (e2 her envy when walking through the Magisterium and seeing the resources allocated on their behalf vs. the Court of Workings) so if she wanted glory she could just pick a different job and immediately get the praise her talents would garner. Instead, she dedicated her life to quietly and dutifully protecting the Heart of Avalir, and expanding on the city’s mission statement (travel the leylines collecting knowledge and magic to share with the world).

With all that said, please continue raging at Laerryn’s choices because that’s fun and good and fine and honestly I love watching it. I just wanted to clear up that one fuzzy area.

#critical role #exandria unlimited #critical role spoilers #exu #cr spoilers #exu spoilers #exu calamity #laerryn coramar seelie #don’t get me wrong #she’s ambitious as fuck #but she thinks she’s doing it for the people of avalir #and the future of Exandria #and isn’t that so much worse #now that you see where it led and what she’s done #she broke the world for them. ALL OF THEM.#(but mostly for him)#and she’d do it again #because she still thinks she could win #she doesn’t know what kind of story she’s in

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willowbirds · 3 months

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When C3 is done, do you think Reilorans will end up like Aeormatons?

By that I mean do you think they will be unlocked as playable races in Exandria?

Because if they do, there better be a Reilora PC in a future CR project!

#Please let the aliens become a full time creature just chilling in Exandria #Even if they’re rare like Aeormatons I just want them to show up more in the future and not just be a C3 thing!#critical role #critical role spoilers #reilora

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artbykhuggs · 2 years

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Race Against The Dawn

EXU Calamity was truly a heartbreaking and incredible piece of storytelling to experience. It’s been on my mind for weeks now, so please enjoy my first-ever piece of CR fanart, featuring Zerxus and Tempus.

#critical role #critical role fanart #exu calamity #exandria unlimited #zerxus ilerez #exu zerxus #exu spoilers #exu calamity spoilers #artbykhuggs #art by khuggs #myartwork #digital art #for real though it was insanely good #I really want to rewatch it but I also don’t think I’m mentally prepared to deal with the pain again so soon #have a feeling I’ll be coming back to it again and again in the future though

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beauregardlionett · 5 months

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fearne is girl-bossing her way through the campaign and we love this for her

#favor broker of exandria #future hag <3 #cr #critical role #4sd #4 sided dive #fearne calloway

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morally-grey-girlbosses · 7 months

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Propaganda under the cut.

Yuno Gasai was submitted without propaganda.

Laerynn Coramar-Seelie:

She helped keep a magic floating city in the sky while building a machine to move said city across planes- all while trying to ignore her ex-husband. also both kinda causes the apocalypse but also prevents a huge chunk of existence from being wiped out due to the apocalypse

#poll #tournament poll #round 1 #yuno gasai #future diary #laerynn coramar seelie #critical role #critical role exu #critical role exandria unlimited #critical role exandria

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staticrevelations · 8 months

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becoming more and more convinced that Predathos has corrupted or made some kind of pact with Ludinus the way Vespin did with Asmodeus and that Predathos corrupts those connected to Ruidus like Lilliana and we're effectively heading towards a potential second mini-Calamity

#i could see matt using this campaign to fully transform exandria for the future if there's a C4 #or if C3 will be the last story of this universe/timeline making it one last epic high-stakes high-level all-out war #critical role #bell's hells #cr spoilers #cr speculation #predathos #cr3 #crit role

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evilroachindustrial · 1 year

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"#this expectation of CR to make a statement is *SO* wild"

is it. I mean everyone else is battening down the hatches and preparing for a lawsuit. It makes their silence telling that CR probably got good preferential treatment out of the new OGL so they're gonna side with daddy WOTC.

Mercer's no better than a scab worker if he sticks with WOTC at this point.

Jesus Christ some of y'all have absolute brain worms over this shit.

Why the hell would they need to prepare a lawsuit against Wizards of the Coast and "batten down the hatches"?

As a company, they are in an entirely different place with any possible OGL changes than Paizo or Green Ronin or Kobold Press or any of the other handful of companies that'd be heavily impacted by a change.

Critical Role, as a company, is not built upon the sale of supplement books, systems, or anything else that'd be affected by the Open Game License changing.

They have exactly one book, Tal'Dorei Reborn, that'd be affected by any OGL changes. They do no have these decades of game systems created via this license to worry about.

So yeah, they have absolutely no reason to release a statement about any possible changes Wizards of the Coast might make to the Open Game License, especially if nothing has been officially released. They do not need to release a statement about every single thing that happens in the ttrpg space.

#Critical Role #cr discourse #Like outside of any future Exandria 5e supplements I doubt their legal team are stressing about any OGL changes

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breathalyzerfail · 11 months

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I’m imagining the Cerberus Assembly trading cards are less like baseball cards and more like K-pop photocards …

#critical role #cr spoilers #cerberus assembly #in modern (future?) exandria. dwendalian pop (or d-pop if you will) is taking the world by storm

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candyradium · 2 years

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So. I just finished the EXU: Calamity finale.

God. Fuck. And that's it, isn't it? That's really it. We don't know if people remember what happened that day. If their story gets known. We don't know who's around to tell it. But it did happen, and it did matter. It mattered so much. The ring of brass may have played a part in releasing the Calamity upon Exandria, but they are also the reason that there is now an Exandria left to be recovering from the calamity, over 900 years later.

And there's one person left who truly knows what the ring of brass accomplished. Because he was a part of it.

Fly high, Cerrit. I am so glad that you got to keep your promise.

#candy posts #cr spoilers #critical role spoilers #exu: calamity #exu spoilers #exu:c spoilers #bro i have been crying for like an hour straight i have the biggest fucking headache. and the heat is not helping #GODDDDDD i am. going to be thinking about this one for a long fucking time. IT MATTERED.#THEY MADE BAD CHOICES AND THEY FUCKED UP BUT THEY DID THEIR BEST AND IT. MATTERED. THEY GAVE EXANDRIA THE SMALLEST CHANCE AND IT MATTERED.#and god dont get me STARTED on all the PCs. these bitches have burrowed their way into my soul and are refusing to leave #i just want you all to know that if any of these brilliant dms throw a reference to exu:c into any of their future sessions i will. explode #i will cry long and hard and i will be battered by emotions like a ship in a storm all over again #god i feel like i need a nap or something. i need some paracetamol. this sobbing-induced headache is killing me #fuck.#brennan you are animated by a force whose power i cannot comprehend you masterful bastard.#i hope my tears and turmoil fuel whatever power drives you. because there's a lot of them.

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variations-on-a-flat · 2 years

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You didn't create anything. We have always been here. You came and you shaped, you took and you shaped and you changed, but you didn't create a thing. You're not god, you're a child. You are a child and you're lost, how do you not see that

- Zerxus Ilerez, last First Knight of Avalir

#Avalir #Avalon #zerxus ilerez #critical role #quotes #exu calamity #cr spoilers #exu zerxus #exandria unlimited: calamity #anyone else still in love with how close is to . The great heart city of the once and future king

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willowbirds · 1 year

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The Endless Shadow and The Fate Shaper

I know we are probably never gonna see these guys since they were, you know, CONSUMED.

I wanted to draw an interpretation of them anyway because I felt inspired. You give me lore? I draw it!

#I will be drawing Predathos eventually #I love how much Exandria is expanding!#Gets me really excited for the future of Critical Role!#critical role art #critical role spoiler #cr spoilers #critical role

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iironwreath · 1 year

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Assert [Iona]

Iona patrolled the gallery at its outskirts, arms folded behind her back. When she circled close to Theotae’s current group on one loop, Theotae’s posture changed. Irritation flashed across her face, quick as a spark from a fire, then gone. She caught Iona’s gaze, purposefully seeking her out.

“Centurion,” she called. “Would you come stand by me a moment, please?”

Iona approached. She wasn’t worried, only curious. A challenge had taken residence in Theotae’s eyes, firm and decided. Her feet were already trotting over before she had a chance to read the situation or guess what could have led up to it.

At arm's length, Theotae took her by the waist and swept her in against her side, head turned to catch her mouth in a kiss. Iona started, then smiled, warmth and familiarity taking precedence over surprise. She rested a hand on Theotae’s sternum. It was a polite kiss, lips only—demonstrative, but no less affectionate.

Theotae drew away first, batting her eyelashes. She thrust her gaze back onto the elven noble standing opposite them, hand still firmly clamped around Iona’s waist.

“Does that answer your questions?” she asked curtly, brooking no room for negotiation. The man gulped, then nodded, backing off. Iona blinked out of her daze.

“Will that be all, my lady?” she asked, trying not to look or feel or sound smug.

Theotae grinned with all the smugness Iona repressed, her eyes glittering. “Yes, Centurion, thank you.”

#happy femslash feb #this was actually a suggestion from brett lmao #and i was like hell yeah #writing tag #writing: iona #iona #theotae #theotae probs only gets like this when people are annoying about her relationship status #and how it relates to her future etc #tal'dorei #exandria

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honourablejester · 2 years

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“The paladin wasn’t hard to find, even amongst the ruins. No single mortal would ever be hard for him to find, but certainly not this one. The echoes of holy magic still rippled across his skin, the wounding warmth of it, branding deeper than any weapon of the hells. There was no plane on which Asmodeus could not find this man.

Zerxus and Asmodeus, after the ruin. One final gift. One final betrayal.”

This is probably the worst time to post this fic, when the finale is tomorrow and we see just how bad it finally goes. But. After that conversation in Episode 2, I had to. I had to.

WARNINGS: Elias is dead. Zerxus found him. And Asmodeus approaches him in the aftermath. So, um. Pain. A lot of it.

#exu calamity #exandria unlimited calamity #fanfic #zerxus ilerez #asmodeus #future fic #pain #character death

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seafleece · 2 years

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man the messed up thing is that i have had to accept that i just will never be able to enjoy cr like i used to no matter what they do. there was so much vitriol thrown at me and other people that it actually was traumatic, and i just. have to live with how embarrassing that is. i have to watch it secondhand unless i Know they’re not backing out of doing something gay because i will never trust them not to default on it and every time they refer to a trans character i’ll expect misgendering from at least one of them. the idea that sam is playing a he/they is pure cognitive dissonance like how often is they even used. once a session or?

#it’s so EMBARRASSING #if i could just not care that would be so great like i would walk away in a second and have done it months back #but no. people’s words and actions have to affect me #anyway #i also like bristle when someone works with them and i hate that too #bc they mostly suck passively and i can’t fault people for doing the occasional collab it just makes me wonder. how much they know #and how much similar treatment they think is fine #and as someone who wants to make games and maybe more formally publish the games i run in the future i’m like #i would not want to work with them but also i know they are literally the best publicity you could imagine #and i could literally do so much with exandria #call me when imogen and laudna kiss and they don’t take it back #and i am avoiding exu:c for my own good.#that’s the tl;dr

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warlordfelwinter · 1 year

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maybe i'll give yaz an exandria specific backstory...

#i dont know much about cr so id have to look into drow and stuff there #but the most likely chance i have of playing in a module in the future #would probably be call of the netherdeep #oc: yazmyr #personal #knowing me I'll make two backstories for him #one for exandria and one for toril #and I'm also thinking of giving him like a fun peacock spider body #there's a cute black and white one called skeletor that i love

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psychicdamaged · 2 years

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Quotes from EXU Calamity I'll Be Thinking About for the Rest of Time

"Of course I'm safe. You'd never let anything happen to me." / "I would never let anything happen to you."

"Dad. You know I won't look like this when you get home."

There are a lot of stories in Exandria of mortals who stumbled their way into Feywild and fell in love with an enchanting fairy that they met there. But there's one story of a fairy who stumbled into this world and fell in love.

And in that instant realizes you can hold all the knowledge in the world. But if it dies with you, it doesn't matter.

"I promised you I'd never forget." / "I promised you I wouldn't either."

You hear in your heart, "Darling, no."

Do I know? Do I feel it? That he's gone? / You do.

Laerryn's screams fill whatever secret hallway she's in.

"No, baby. I'll always have my eye on you." And I squeeze their hands.

"I don't know how deeply you have sacrificed to do what must be done, but I know this: There is no god that strides this world that I worship more than I worship your heart... I bear your name. I bear it on this stone. And one day, I will bring you home."

In the kiss, I'll cast Cure Wounds on you.

"It's all on you, smart girl."

And I'll just turn my back on the door and let it close. / No! No, you have to go.

"I'm sorry, my lady. I love you, but I love another more" / "My child, my heart breaks. But I would rather mine break and yours be kept whole."

"But our two cities are like a married couple. We may have our differences. But we are connected by love for eternity. We made a promise to each other, and it's one we must fulfill."

"...and remember the Architect Arcane, Laerryn, the most beautiful woman in the world."

"Yes, it's me. Just look at my eyes. Don't look at anything else. Just look at my eyes, please."

I've kept so many of my thoughts and dreams and wishes for him. I hand it to him. I set it on the ground because I don't expect him to actually take it from my hands. "This is for you. Everything you've ever wanted to know about me and your father, it's here."

"Dad, dad, wait. I'm sorry. I'm sorry." "You have nothing to be sorry about." / "I do." You see, you haven't even looked in his hands. He's holding a basket with a spell kite attached.

"I don't know why I didn't send it." / "I know why, and it's okay. It's okay. Elias, I love you from the moment I laid eyes on you. Everything that I wished for you to know about me, it's in this book. Take it with you. You'll always be five years old to me no matter how much you grow."

You know me. I would never have let my guard down like that. I took those blows.

As I go down, I make sure I don’t miss

"I know what you gave. You found a path beyond the stars. I do not know whence the gods came from, but I know that you found it in your heart. I promise you, Zerxus, I will find that place. I will find the secret of how these worlds were made, and I will come and find you and bring you home."

"Yes, brother. All will be well."

"You think we'll ever get there one day?" / "Of course we will. We're the Okiros."

When you think of the future and what people will say of this time, do you think anyone will talk about how beautiful your dream was? / No. But that's all right, because it was real for us. For those who survived, they will remember, and it will inspire them to dream of things far greater.

What are Patia's final thoughts? / Just that there are many more dreams to come.

"I've been able to become anyone I want my whole life, but I just want to be with you."

"And for whatever time we have left, I love you. I have always loved you, and I will always love you." / "I love you, too." I'll just kiss her.

"The Brass Ring endures. I want you to know you gave us a chance." / I don't think you hear anything back. Just, you feel relief.

The fire, as brightly as it may burn, does not burn so brightly as your love, which shines the brightest in your last moment, having given this world a chance. Ash, heat, rising faster than you can imagine from the earth. And on a 31, at the very top of that cloud, the last member of the Brass Ring gets to keep his promise to his family.

You fly for weeks over oceans choked by ash and soot. You don't get to give your kids the world that they deserve, but you get to give them the world that they can fight for with you.

In Exandria, I don't know that your story will long be known. I don't know who will remain to tell it. But it did happen and it did matter. And though Calamity is here, because of you, it will not be here forever.

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