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greykolla-art · 2 months
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Audio from Critcal Role, Calamity ep 4.
I’ve wanted to visualise this BANGER line for so long!
Thank you Alastor for fitting such a good villain speech!👏👏👏
Here’s also my favourite frames:
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fia-bonkginya · 11 months
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another calamity thought that i have like. every day. is that patia cast teleport in the finale. she cast teleport. she had that spell, she had access to it, she had the slot for it. she went off by herself and she cast teleport. and she used it to send all of her knowledge to a child who was safe, a child she trusted.
but the thing is. the thing is. she could have teleported herself. she could have so easily gone off alone, spoken to her grandfather’s statue, and left. left avalir, gone somewhere far away. do you understand. she could have left. she had the spell she had the slot. and patia por’co, instead, sent her knowledge and her memories and a small reminder of what the city once was to a girl who could make something better, and she fought and died with her friends, her family.
she could have left. and yet, i think, she always knew that she couldn’t.
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puwumats · 11 months
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first words dimension 20: the ravening war | critical role: calamity
aka: two more crossover seasons and we'll be able to make the atla opening
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quietsphere · 2 years
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Bolo from Aeor doesn't fuck around.
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panwithafrogman · 2 years
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has anybody made one of these yet
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trashyshrew · 1 year
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“All things end - lives, stories, even ages.” 
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rambowsempei · 2 months
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Calamity, so many of them had a chance to escape this fate.
Cerrit can fly. He could have flown away with certainty towards his children.
Nydas could have mounted his dragon and also flown away.
Patia could have teleported away, instead of teleporting the orb.
Loquacious could have gone to the Feywild.
Zerxus, theoretically, could have let his soul rest.
Could Laerryn have teleported? Could she have made it to a dais? Likely. She was the greatest mage of her time.
But they all stayed. They all believed they had a chance to stop the calamity that they helped bring on, and were willing to give up everything to save as many people as possible.
Every age of time is full if hubris, but also full of people who believe in people. And it's amazing.
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lady-sappho · 8 months
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Just found this in my camera roll from when calamity aired, the fact that this is so in sync will never not be funny to me
[clip from critical role’s Exandria Unlimited: Calamity miniseries, episode 2, bitterness and dread, timestamp 3:14:29]
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env0 · 2 years
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EXU: Calamity said love is the strongest force in the cosmos. That we break and make the world for those we love. That we will ruin ourselves or become our best selves, or both with and through the power of love. That even amidst grief and tragedy there is always a thread of hope pulling everyone through towards that tomorrow. That dreaded, hopeful, destined morning.
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that-ari-blogger · 5 months
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A Perfect Metaphor And A Perfect Joke
I put out a post a few days ago discussing some Critical Roll speeches, and I couldn't help but notice how people seemed to like that. So, I thought to myself: CR has some phenomenal moments, and I happen to have some more thoughts on them, so why not share?
With that said, Loquatius Seelie is a fascinating character played by a phenomenally skilled improviser. Allow me to explain.
SPOILERS AHEAD FOR CRITICAL ROLL CALAMITY
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Before I unpack this speech, I would like to briefly examine who Loquatius Seelie is. And I'll start with an analysis of his mechanics. I'm not going to go into detail on his spells and abilities, instead I would like to instead bring up his choice of class. In the EXU Calamity Wrap-up, Sam suggested that Loquatius began at 1st level as a warlock, and took the remaining 11 levels as a bard, and I think that is quite interesting. Where everyone else was a liar pretending to tell the truth, Loquatius was an honest man pretending to be a liar. He had got swept up in the drama of it all, and kept taking levels in bard as he descended more into the personality he created for himself.
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"Fire"
I feel the need to stress that this speech was written in the break. There was no clever marketing team who laboured for hours. This was Sam Riegel pseudo-improvising. That's not what I'm analysing, it just needs to be said.
Anyway, what is this speech about?
Life. Life needs things to live, and a world needs people to inhabit it. But there's more, this is a farewell to the age of arcanum, and in a fitting send off, it breaks down all of the pompous ceremony and for the first time in a while, gets real.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the replenishment is cancelled. Our centuries old bond, severed."
This is all nice, but what happens next is fascinating. Its the end of an era, and instead of looking back at what has happened, the speech looks to the future.
"Our two cities are like a married couple. We may have our differences. We may not have the same goals. We may even separate for a time. But we are connected by love for eternity. We made a promise to each other, and its one we must fulfill."
The symbol of marriage is a ring, it's a fascinatingly old tradition, with discoveries in ancient Egypt that date back 3000 years, and the symbolism behind this is both obvious, and subtle. The ring represents a cycle, an infinite loop. The ring doesn't represent the marriage, but the promise to each other.
In this broadcast, Loquatius brings the Age of Arcanum to a definitive close, tricking an entire city of hubris to go down in flames in order for the new world to be born. And to everyone else, he invokes marriage, the ultimate promise of a future, everlasting.
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"Remember your Avalir siblings and the sacrifices we made for you. Remember Cerrit, the Eyes of Avalir, and his bravery. Remember Nydas, the Dragon, and his sense. Remember Patia Por'co, Keeper of Scrolls, and all the wisdom she brought. Remember brave Zerxus and Evandrin, the First Knights of Avalir. And remember the Architect Arcane, Laerryn, the most beautiful woman in the world. And also, remember the Market of Wonders"
This is such a phenomenal send off, not just because of who he's mentioning, or because of the sheer force of acting skill that Sam is throwing around. This is phenomenal, because of what it asks the next age to remember. Bravery, wisdom, and beauty.
Loquatius can never know what will happen in the next age, but he begs whoever will hear this, to take just these things forwards. Be brave, be wise, be beautiful.
But that joke. "Remember the market of wonders." Brennan has credited Joseph Campbell with the phrase: "Comedy completed the revelation that drama begins." And for the life of me, I couldn't find where Campbell said this, so I think this is a Brennan Lee Mulligan original.
Perspective is important, and if you have only good things, like the Age of Arcanum, you get complacent. But if you have only bad things, such as the calamity is shaping up to be, the pain loses its meaning. Your senses dull. This joke is a dying man going out with a defiant smile, but its also a message to the world. Don't give up on joy, or hope, in the face of Armageddon, because that's when you need those things the most.
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"I'm Loquatius Seelie-- And I'll drop my golden complexion and just use my true face, my true changeling face-- saying: Seelie you later."
This is unironically my favourite moment of the speech. Because its the final moment, and the face of an age has stopped all pretences. No special effects, no whimsey or buttering up the truth. The dead cannot lie, at least, not as easily. Try as you might, you go out as you are, you can pretend to be something else, or you can change, but when you finally shuffle off this mortal coil, that's it, there's no more pretending. Loquatius Seelie goes out not as a performer and presenter, but as a husband, and a hero.
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godaweful · 2 years
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romance isn't dead it's just a changeling proposing to his ex-wife he still loves at the very end of the world on his bonus action with a raven feather and her replying with "we need to live through this!" and eating the feather (because she doesn't have pockets) and then dying together in an apocalypse less than an hour later
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dangergggg · 1 year
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2. I don't know if your story will long be known. But it did happen.
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fia-bonkginya · 11 months
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do you ever rewatch the exu calamity finale and realize that all of avalir burned, but the agrupnin home was the first. the whole city fell to the fire of the nine hells, to the demons and fiends and asmodeus himself, but the agrupnin home burned first. cerrit pressed a candle to the wall of his own home, in anger and self-loating and grief and desperation, and the home burned. and then cerrit flew away, at the end of it all, and had a chance to build a new one.
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puwumats · 2 years
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marisha is all of us during episode 4
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Ludinus is far too good at his job
Ludinus Da'leth isn't an underdog fighting the tyrannical rule of the gods and I will die on this hill. Dude has been running the CA for centuries, so he's ridiculously good at manipulating the facts.
He is a tyrant who hates that there is someone out there who can do to him, what he does to others.
"We are not their beautiful children." Of course he'd think that, because he's the type to see parenting as a means of holding power over someone else - instead of a guardian raising their ward to be self-sufficient and then letting them go.
Yes, the gods are like the mortals - but not in the way that Ludinus sees it. He wants to lift mortals (specifically him and his ilk) to the level of gods, rather than bring the gods down to earth and humanise them.
Ludinus doesn't need any more soldiers, he confessed as much to Imogen and Fearne. He doesn't need action - he needs inaction. He needs to sow seeds of doubt in his enemies, so they hesitate just long enough for him to get a step ahead.
Dude reminds me of some far-right politicians, and it makes me love to hate him even more.
Anyway, fuck Ludinus Da'leth and his evil-ass mind games
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detect-undead · 10 months
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Laerynn Coramar Seelie
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