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This is about Vespin and Zerxus
#critical role#exu calamity#cr asmodeus#lord of the nine hells#vespin chloras#zerxus ilerez#exu zerxus
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you know what i am so glad that exu calamity gave us insight into vespin chloras's reasoning and everything because now i can confidently say that the guy who kicked off the point in exandria's history that killed 2/3 of the population and fundamentally changed the way the gods interact with the world had more understandable reasoning than ludinus da'leth does.
#critical role#vespin chloras#ludinus da'leth#also do not think this is me saying that vespin's plan was Good by any means#it is the perfect example of wizard hubris#its just that ludinus's plans are so insanely bad and fundamentally flawed#that it makes trying to replace a betrayer god and starting a centuries long divine war seem understandable
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XI. The Last Stand
The final battle for Avalir and the fate of Exandria...
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#insight from reddit i havent seen discussed here#exu#exu calamity#exandria unlimited#critical role#exu spoilers#critical role spoilers#brennan lee mulligan#vespin chloras#taco talks
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Something I've wondered about the Matron is if she's ever found herself regretting the precedent she unintentionally set with her ascension. The little lore we've gotten on her predecessor indicates that he had it coming and she did something genuinely good by replacing him, but her many imitators during the Age of Arcanum just wanted godhood for the sake of personal power and glory, and the only one who actually understood the deeper idea at work -- overthrowing a corrupt power and replacing them with something better -- was the one who fucked up everything for everyone.
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While I’m spamming everyone anyway, and with the understanding that I’ve sort of run out of words again, I’m just going to mention that I had a lot of feelings about Zerxus’ decision to try and cleanse Vespin Chloras.
Like, immediately on the back of failing apocalyptically to redeem the Lord of the Hells. Immediately after selling his own soul and leaving Evandrin to take up the mace. Immediately after probably the single most trauma this man has ever experienced. In the instant aftermath of all of that.
He tries again. One more time. To redeem one more person.
Because he’s alone. Everyone’s down or dead or yelling at him. He’s damned, he’s transformed, he’s surrounded by bodies. He needs help. So he tries. The same action that damned him and damned the world. The same action Evandrin thought was beautiful.
And he tries it on Vespin Chloras. The man who, exactly the same as him, damned himself and damned the world. The wizard who woke the betrayer gods. The man who started the calamity.
The man who looked at him, just for a half a second as he emerged, with tormented understanding underneath the mask of monstrosity.
Zerxus saw that, that tiniest of hints, and reached out.
And in return, though he can only buy Vespin the tiniest of moments, so far gone, so far owned, Vespin immediately does everything in his power to buy them both time. Alters Zerxus’ contract, grants him until sunrise. Drops a timestop, lets Zerxus get everyone he can up, tells them where they need to go, throws himself as far away from them as possible before the damnation creeps back in.
Like, this man has been a screeching inhuman hell puppet the entire time we’ve seen him. The epitome of monstrousness. He sold himself and he sold the world. But he wasn’t evil. He was trying, in his own self-aggrandising, hubristic fashion, to do good. Much like, well, the Ring of Brass. He woke Asmodeus. He paid every possible price. He will never be free. He will never be sane. And he knows it. He will go down in history as Exandria’s greatest villain. The Lord of the Hells will never let him be forgotten. He is damned, as thoroughly as anyone can be damned.
And when he looked at Zerxus holding that mace, he felt understanding. And Zerxus, on the back of that tiniest hint of remaining humanity, reached out.
And Zerxus doesn’t have the power to save him. He doesn’t have the power to do more than grant one moment. One moment of freedom, one moment of sanity. They can only give each other such tiny, tiny things. A second. An hour. The barest fraction of what they’ve both lost, what they’ve both sold. But it’s what they can give, and they give it immediately. The instant they have the chance.
I just. I do have a lot of feelings about these two incredibly damned men, these men damned by their own actions and arrogance, these men who damned not only themselves but the whole world, just trying to give each other everything they can in this tiny moment that they’ve bought.
Sometimes, redemption works, even if only for a moment. Sometimes, that’s enough.
And if it can work once. If there was enough good remaining for that spark once. Then maybe, as Zerxus and Evandrin hoped, it can work again.
Even on the left and right hands of Asmodeus. If not the god himself.
#exu calamity#exandria unlimited calamity#episode 4#spoilers#zerxus ilerez#vespin chloras#brotherhood among the damned#if only for one moment
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You’re Vespin Chloras. You’re one of the most brilliant arcane minds during the peak of arcane knowledge in the history of Exandria. It came to you in a dream. You’ve cracked the code of the Matron’s ritual. You can do it. You can become a God. You realize, though, setting out to strike down a prime deity is morally wrong.
That’s okay though, You’re Vespin Chloras. You’re one of the most brilliant arcane minds during the peak of arcane knowledge in the history of Exandria. You can use this power. You can strike down one of the Betrayers. They’re locked away, the world will never know. You can remake the Betrayer’s Domain in your image, as you see fit.
You’re Vespin Chloras, and it’s dark. The Candles are lit. The Ritual has be gone. There’s a ripple of wind. It’s hot. Something’s wrong. You hear a laughter. Deep and bellowing. Your genius begins to slip from your mind. You don’t know where you are. Darkness. Screaming and agony replaces rituals and runes.
You’re Vespin Chloras? You think? When you have a moment of Clarity. All you’re sure of though is The Master is right. It’s mortals’ fault you’re like this. Their shortsightedness. Their hubris. You must have revenge. You must make them hurt.
You’re Vespin Chloras! What has happened?! Where are you?! Who is this ma--oh. You realize what’s happened. The Lord of the Hells seduced you with knowledge. Planted the hubris for the ritual in your mind. That’s not important now, though, this man...this Zerxus, you know his name, you don’t know how, has granted you but a moment’s clarity again.
You’re Vespin Chloras. You’re the most brilliant arcane minds during the peak of arcane knowledge in Exandria. A moment’s clarity is all you need. You grab the Mace. Stop time. Help this man save the world before the darkness and hatred returns. History will remember you as a villain, but that doesn’t matter. You helped save the world.
#critical role#cr spoilers#exu calamity#Vespin Chloras#I just...have A LOT OF THOUGHTS about his fall#okay?
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The final fight of EXU Calamity really was the Ring of Brass playing hot potato, except the hot potato is Hope and the players are bleeding out and getting struck down the more they play, just barely doing what they can before passing on, ensuring the remaining players have a chance to do what they need to do to keep Hope in the air.
Zerxus defending the group, purposely taking blows before the sun rises and he is no longer himself.
Nydas making sure he “doesn’t miss” when he goes down
Patia releasing a nineth level Wish from her body as she falls
Cerrit diving in with the Natural 20 against Vespin Chloras
Loquatius’s readied Healing Word just in time as something that would have killed Laerryn hits her
Laerryn finishing the spell just in time and ensuring (with Nydas’s inspiration) that Cerrit makes it out to find his family.
Hell, even Vespin Chloras in that brief moment of clarity, buying Avalir more time through Zerxus. And Callum Staffwright and Orwyn too. The desperation and determination throughout the finale is just so heart wrenching.
#guys I love this mini series so much#exandria unlimited: calamity#ring of brass#vespin chloras#callum staffwright#cr orwym#EXU spoilers#cr spoilers#critical role#EXU calamity#Exandria calamity#threadcount ramblings#cr meta#zerxus ilerez#nydas okiro#patia por'co#cerrit agrupnin#loquatius seelie#laerryn coramar seelie
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calamity 2? calamity 2.
#FOR REAL THOUGH. FOR REAL those who forget history are doomed to repeat it and all that.... ooooghhh#cr spoilers#aceart#critical role#ludinus da'leth#vespin chloras
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I like to think Vespin and Zerxus became tight post-Calamity
#and subject asmodeus to their disgusting friendship#critical role#exu calamity#vespin chloras#exu zerxus#zerxus ilerez#asmodeus#lord of the nine hells#cr asmodeus
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For the purposes of this ‘Wizard Stupid’ means blinded by all possible negative consequences by hubris.
Yussa is being counted as ‘Calamity era’ because his age is unknown.
This is only accounting for known Wizards, Zerxus Ilerez despite overwhelming levels of hubris is not a Wizard and cannot suffer from Wizard Stupidity, he has his own special brand Age of Arcanum Stupid.
#critical role#exu calamity#laerryn coramar seelie#patia por'co#halas lutagran#ludanis da’leth#yussa errenis#vespin chloras
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IX. The Tree, Sundered
Through a series of tragic events, the Tree is sundered and Vespin Chloras and the Lord of Hells begin to enter the material plane...
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Cerrit kills Vespin
Also a cute Marisha and Lou hug
#critical role#cr spoilers#exu#cr exu#episode 4#exandria unlimited#exandria unlimited: calamity#calamity#cerrit#travis willingham#marisha ray#lou wilson#brennan lee mulligan#vespin chloras
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Here we have my absolute favorite match-up of the first round. Age of Arcanum bastard versus Age of Arcanum bastard. I personally would LOVE to witness these two duke it out for real, but for now, let's just go over the facts here.
As of present day Exandria:
Vespin Chloras doomed and then helped save humanity, and for both of those actions, he is now a fiend suffering for all eternity in the employ of the entity he tried to bind, Asmodeus, Lord of Gaslighting.
Halas Lutagran survived the Calamity by being a paranoid ass bitch, but in spite of all of his cleverness, he is currently stuck in a gem of his own creation which is probably being stored in the back of Caleb's underwear drawer.
They are both certified The Worst. They are both iconic. You decide, critters.
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With Vespin being a Malconvoker and Halas having spells like Trap the Soul in his spellbook, I love the implication that Age of Arcanum Exandria follows older editions of D&D.
The power disparity between magic users and martial classes was an infamous problem of these earlier editions, and that lends itself well to a world with such a strong emphasis on the power of magic. The rules indeed apply.
And Age of Arcanum characters having access to spells, classes, and items no longer found in 5e is an effective way to show (also mechanically) exactly how much knowledge was lost in the Calamity.
#critical role#exandria lore#exandria unlimited#age of arcanum#dnd#cr meta#vespin chloras#halas lutagran#exu calamity
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