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karrahe · 1 year

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Love eternal 🥺 Loquatious and Laerryn

#loquatious seelie #laerryn coramar seelie #Critical role #CR #exandria unlimited calamity #cr laerryn #Laerryn #Loquatious #ExU #Dnd #Art #Fanart #KarrahEArt #KarrahE

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silvascribble · 2 years

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Headcanon that Loquatius gave Laerryn her RingBracelet of Masks

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the-last-knight-of-avalir · 2 years

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Tag yourself Ring of Brass edition

#exu calamity #exu #exandria unlimited #critical role #critrole #zerxus #laerryn #loquatious #nydas #patia #cerrit #I'm 50/50 Zerxus and Laerryn

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myth-carver · 2 years

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A long post about some fey.

So it wasn't quite my first D&D game, but in the first one that mattered. For 4 real-life years, I played a man named Altaire Wydion. Raised among eladrin and fey, a knight of the Seelie Court.

Seasonal eladrin weren't even a concept that existed yet. All we knew of Lady Elmenore the Unforgiving, high warqueen and matriarch, was a single line listing her titles in the original Tal'Dorei Guide. There was no canon. My DM and I played around in the space however we liked.

She was 'Unforgiving', said the book. Fey have many sides: We decided Elmenore was a wise ruler, loving and kind to her loyal courtiers, but ruthless to all who went against her. House Wydion, we decided, was a family that had been under the warqueen's thumb since time immemorial; an order of knights serving her every will and whim. On a long-forgotten day eons ago, the House had struck a bargain -- one that left every Wydion bound to Elmenore's service forever. Each Wydion youth who grew up to join her knights swore an oath to uphold her law. None could leave on pain of death.

Altaire was born to Gienah Wydion, commander of the house's knights and first in Lady Elmenore's heart. As heir to Gienah's legacy, he idolized his mother and wished from early youth to follow in her footsteps. He was kind of heart, a little mischievous, prone to gentle pranks; endlessly talkative, silver-tongued, and in later years would take quite a few happy acquaintances to his bed; but more than all this he held his mission as a knight above everything. The Seelie Court was locked in eternal battle with the Unseelie, with vicious tactics often called for to beat back the enemy. Though many of the acts the young squire Altaire was asked to commit against the Court's enemies left him uneasy about his Lady's law, still he did his best to uphold her commands.

Altaire was half-eladrin, half-high elf. A mortal elven man. Upon his 100th birthday he was recognized as adult, sworn in as a full knight of the Court, and sent to the Material Plane to patrol as an enforcer against fey who fled the Lady's justice. While there he met his father, the Syngornian soldier who his mother had once invited to her bed while stationed with other Syngorn troops in the Feywild. Altaire grew to love his Syngornian family, and traveled wide and far across the Material Plane, growing to love it and its people too.

After decades of traveling, learning to love this realm from the distance of a guest, he met new friends. They formed an adventuring company called Draak Vir, doing good works far and wide across Tal'Dorei for profit and acclaim. Across many adventures they worked often alongside a delegation from Ank'Harel, friends of J'mon sa Ord themself, one a drow named Kenath -- a paladin of redemption with whom Altaire shared a special bond.

And through all their travels Lady Elmenore delivered edicts to her knight: Execute this fey, apprehend that fey. Though troubled about some of those orders, Altaire did as he was told, fulfilled his oath. But sometimes his friends would ask him. Sometimes Kenath, alone at night, would ask him.

Is this who you want to be? Are you happy with the path you've been made to walk?

Another order came one day: Bring your companions to my great festival, that I might see their skills. Draak Vir traveled to the Lady's festival in the Feywild, along with some of the other friends they'd made. In victory they earned a great boon: One wish, anything within an archfey's power, and Elmenore would grant it to them.

Meanwhile, one of their friends decided to amuse his own liege lord, Artagan. He took advantage of the Lady's distraction and stole her royal crown, absconding all the way back to the Material Plane with it. The outcome of that action was inevitable.

Return to your post, and execute your traitorous friend. Retrieve my crown. I see how your loyalty wavers. Prove yourself a true knight of my court.

Meanwhile still, they received word that trouble was brewing in the Material Plane. An undead horde might be released upon the world unless they took extraordinary magical means to stop it. Altaire's paladin, Kenath, was directly in the crosshairs of the worst danger of all.

And meanwhile still. The boon they'd earned could do nearly anything. The freedom of House Wydion, impossibly, was somehow within reach.

So many choices to make. Would they save the Material Plane, and one singular drow, but leave one singular family to its eternal, miserable fate? Would they secure a new life for the Wydions but leave the mortal world to face Orcus's armies unprotected, one singular drow perhaps lost forever? No matter what they chose, could Altaire raise his sword to take back that crown, to cut down a friend, simply to uphold the oath he'd planned to live and die for?

There are many stories of mortals stumbling into the Feywild, falling in love with a faerie that they meet. There is one story of a faerie who ventured to the realm of mortals, fell in love there, and died there. I like to imagine that the memory of Loquatious lived on in the Feywild's histories, a cautionary tale taught to young Seelie, about one of the children Elmenore had loved best.

Stay here. Our land is chaos and serenity, beauty and rot, sorrow and ecstasy, everything you need already. Stay home. Stay safe. The world of order is grey and cruel.

But well over 800 years later -- just a generation or three of elves after the Calamity -- there came a young knight who never was much for book learning. Who never quite listened to all the cautionary tales that his elders might have liked him to.

Altaire left his burdened family behind to rescue the Material Plane, to rescue one particular drow. Altaire delivered his queen her stolen crown, looked her in the face, and told her that he could not cut down a friend over so petty a slight. For the first time in untold millennia, a Wydion broke their oath.

He fled to the Material Plane. His home. He was pursued by the Seelie Court. His knight-captain, his mother, cut him down to fulfill her own oath. As he lay with blood draining from his cooling corpse, in secret, his mother pressed a Revivify to his chest.

Never return to the Feywild. Never speak to us again. Stay here, Altaire. I'm proud of you.

He fled to the arms of that paladin of redemption, the drow who had asked him, Is this who you want to be? He stood with his friends against the hordes of the Abyss to secure Exandria's future once again.

There are two stories of a faerie who ventured to the realm of mortals, fell in love there, and died there. I never imagined I would watch the tale of Exandria's apocalypse and find a story I had told looking back at me.

Loquatious, Altaire Wydion will never know who you really were at the end of the day, at the end of it all. But I think, if he could reach back through the centuries. He would take your hand and tell you that you did the right thing.

#exu #taladventures #exu spoilers #cr spoilers #spoilers #loquatious #elmenore #altaire

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glossolali · 2 years

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SAMUEL RIEGEL

THE AUDACITY

i'm fucking ded

#loquatious #laerynn #cr spoilers #critical role #exu c #glossopost

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vinthetiefling · 2 years

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😭😭😭

#loquatious #loquatious I-hate-my-ex-wife also I LOVE THAT WOMAN!!!

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kingcael · 2 years

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calamity

#cael does art #exu spoilers #critical role #critical role spoilers #patia por'co #laerryn coramar seelie #loquatious seelie #zerxus ilerez #nydas okiro #cerrit agrupnin #uhhhh Brennan censor bar

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stardusted-bookworm · 2 years

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LOQUATIOUS IS NOW MY FAVORITE CHARACTER

#cr spoilers #exu spoilers #sam riegel #loquatious

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plantskiddo · 11 months

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never not thinking about them

#exu loquatius #loquatious seelie #laerryn x loquatius #loquaerryn #critical role #critical role fanart #critical role art #exu #cr exu #exu calamity #laerryn coramar seelie #exu laerryn #exandria unlimited #exandrian lore #age of arcanum #exandria unlimited calamity #aabria iyengar #sam riegel #aabria my beloved

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lilyproxin · 8 months

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going through my old catalogue and revamping my old pieces to use as prints someday so heres a laerynn (@quiddie) and loquatious version 2 electric boogaloo :D

#critical role #exu calamity #laerynn coramar seelie #loquatious seelie #aabria iyengar

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trashyshrew · 2 years

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“All things end - lives, stories, even ages.”

#critical role #exu calamity #critical role calamity #laerryn coramar seelie #loquatious seelie #nydas okiro #zerxus ilerus #patia por'co #cerrit agrupnin #the ring of brass #oh #my #god #this story was DEVASTATING and i loved it #if the characters don't look like they are supposed to oops #i drew first and looked things up later

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mostgeckcellent · 2 years

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I'm pretty sure A Court of Fey and Flowers was filmed before Calamity. which means that Brennan making Sam roll insight against his own deception was ACTUALLY inspired by Aabria doing the same to him first. which I love.

#acofaf #captain kp hob #exu: calamity #critical role #dimension 20 #d20 #loquatious seelie #aabria iyengar #brennan lee mulligan #a court of fey and flowers

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bisexualdivorceebattle · 1 month

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Round 1

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#When I'm in a hard to remember name when you don't know the characters competition and my opponent is this poll #fitzchivalry farseer #realm of the elderlings #loquatious seelie #critical role

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hurricane-brotatochip · 2 years

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god but exu: calamity has me so emotional

because the betrayer gods’ hatred didn’t doom the world, and the wizards’ spite and pride in their magic and their city didn’t doom the world, and we see that now after last episode. hatred and spite are powerful motivators, and pride, of course, but love is far, far stronger.

and love to the point of pride, pride as a weapon of love, that is what doomed the world and it is heartbreaking and beautiful, and it was love, it was powerful and genuine love and that innately mortal desire to protect what can be hurt and taken from you with everything you have, love is what doomed the world and what opened the door for the betrayers to return - and laerryn and the others were manipulated, of course they were, and she had no way to know what would happen as she cast that spell but it never mattered because she never for a moment cared what might happen because that tree that fucking tree it hurt her best friend and it hurt her husband and laerryn is proud and foolish and short-sighted as we all are but she loves so, so deeply and so, so completely that as asmodeus split that tree she’d never liked, i bet she thought ‘fine. as long as my husband is alive, it is worth what you will do.’

and that is why the world will burn and the gods will lock themselves away because a mortal’s love and hubris are not distinct. how often in these tales do we hear how love conquered all? how brave love makes one feel, to the point of challenging gods? how often does it ring true that due to a mortal’s love for their friend, their family, their city, their world, they find the strength, they find a means to victory from that love? and how fast that line blurs, how suddenly you realize that for love you have not saved the world but doomed it. and how soon do you realize that you do not regret it

#critical role spoilers #exu calamity spoilers #exu: calamity #exu calamity #exu:c spoilers #exu spoilers #exandria unlimited #exu laerryn #exu loquatious seelie #exu meta #critical role thoughts #god this fucking show #character thoughts

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your-turn-to-role · 1 year

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so im getting to the end of my finally watching exu calamity

for the most part i haven't really made posts on my reactions here bc most of what i'd have to say has already been said, i've been seeing those meta posts around since calamity came out

but god the one unexpected thing about loquatius and laerryn i can't get over is just all of aabria's little reactions to quay's choices here

like. i know laerryn loves him as much as he loves her, but she's not good at showing it. she's deeply pragmatic, which means while loquatius is having huge moment after huge moment illustrating just how much he's willing to sacrifice for her, she's making sure she can do her job. because she has to. even if that means leaving him to die in the calix chamber, because she couldn't have saved him, and if she died trying then the whole world would be lost

but at the same time, she did all of this for him. it was so important to her to finish the leywright that solstice, because she has a longer lifespan than quay, and he wouldn't be with her to see the next one. she was distraught when she felt him slip away from her over the telepathic bond, even though she'd chosen to let it happen

part of the reason their marriage failed the first time is they just don't talk. there's so little communication between the two, not just on laerryn's side. quay has the big moments, yes, but how many of those does laerryn even know happened? she doesn't know that he fired elena to protect her from being blamed for evandrin. she doesn't know he prerecorded a broadcast to be played in the event of his death, that would tell the city not about laerryn's mistakes, but that it was loquatius himself who failed them, and laerryn tried everything she could to save the city. she doesn't know that he turned down a call from his queen and his family to come home and be protected from the apocalypse, bc he'd rather die trying to save laerryn, avalir, and his new family, than live without them

but aabria does.

and that gives way to the tiniest most hard hitting fourth wall breaks

like when quay turns his back on the seelie queen's offer - aabria immediately gives a small "no, no, you have to go"

laerryn needs him here. the story needs him here. there is no benefit to quay leaving, except that quay would be alive, and that's what laerryn desparantly wants, so it comes out in aabria

when we get to the climax, too, the big fight where all they're trying to do is keep laerryn alive long enough to activate the leywright, and it gets to quay's last turn? the first thing aabria says is "run. run."

laerryn is pragmatic. aabria knows this is a tragedy, and has been so far the most gung ho about playing into the tragedy. from a pragmatic perspective, loquatius should stay with laerryn, it gives the world a better chance of survival. narratively, loquatius should stay with laerryn bc that's how this story is supposed to go. and personally, loquatius should stay with laerryn because he can't bear to do anything else

but twice, she tells him to leave. because in this story where every single character is forced to reckon with which they love more, their city or their family - laerryn chose the city once. more than once. here at the end of all things, she won't do it again

#anyway i see why y'all went feral over these two now #(also hi finished calamity a while back but just remembered this was sitting in my drafts)#(but like)#(them......)#exu calamity #laerryn coramar seelie #loquatious seelie #meta #cr thoughts

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meetthefatess · 2 years

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Okay because I haven’t posted in a bit here’s a drawing from a loquaerryn sketch page I never finished

i just think that loquatious is quite clingy as a principle, but laerryn did not let go of him the entire second half of episode four okaythatsallbye-

#SORRY I HAVE NO TIME :(#she’s like “’okay what’s the plan :)’#‘my string bean husband is staying right here actually :))))’#digital art #sketches #exu calamity #critical role #critical role fanart #critical role art #exu: calamity #critical role spoilers #exu: c #loquatious seelie #laerryn coramar seelie #loquaerryn #faerie fire #she’s carrying him around if that’s not clear

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