lemur

Video game loser and local art rat. Found everywhere under send_moon06. 22

[hackslash-sendmoon]

angel with a pincushion

[taree-png]

they broke me out of art block...

[therosecleric]

something something "pretty boy" but can we also talk about occtis' skeletal hand?

i'm the most predictable person in the world for drawing this moment, though i think my favorite part about this scene was occtis whispering "i appreciate that" after kattigan healed him, considering literally no one else in the room had given him any sort of medical attention after he had the undead equivalent of a heart attack

[screechfoxes]

CRITICAL ROLE 4.31 Trick of the Light

+ bonus live Laura reaction

[chipthekeeper]

obsessed with Thimble waving at the undead pals Occtis conjures up

[snarkspawn]

the shadow

[therosecleric]

azulien nation STAY IN LINE we must hold strong for the next 6 months

[nat1vibe]

Aramán’s little soldier boy

[inwytt]

Do you think he misses her? 🥺

…Cause I miss Juliens haste mode, he was entirely too OP

I had to follow up Aranessa’s portrait with a sadboi Julien companion piece, it just felt necessary lol

[trailertrashgrog]

brennan has put a lot of care into building a setting where there is no immutable source of evil within the world. it makes the villains rich and diverse. placing the onus of the sundered houses' villainy upon sorcery as a concept is simply flattening the setting at every level. sorcerers aren't evil. at no point is the concept of innate magic considered bad.

sorcerers are just a fact of the setting. they're not evil because they're sorcerers and they're not sorcerers because they're evil. sorcerers exist because of ancient pacts or boons or a chance of biology or simply being born in proximity to magical places, and that's clear in all of the sundered house mythos. i think speculating that the ancient versions of the sundered houses got their magic nefariously is falling into the "some things are Just Evil." we can't assume that because the human sorcerers of modern aramán are engaging in class warfare, their ancestors were wicked.

there are sundered houses who took the heroic position of defying the shapers during the shapers war. the priestly houses are rotten not because sorcerers are rotten but because wealth and resource hoarding and the dismissive carelessness they treat mortal life with is evil. otto einfasen isn't evil because he's an einfasen, he's evil because he took a commoner girl's head off with a hammer. and there's endless nuance to be found here: the einfasens are nominally allied with the protagonists, but it doesn't render them heroic, they're still canonically authoritarians. the royces are complicit in every evil done by the sundered houses for the last 70 years, but they are inexorably tied to the heroes in a positive way and are making active efforts to break away from the evil system.

additionally: assuming that the primordials were bad because they wed the shapers is a big leap. the shapers murdered them. thaisha saw the desecration of tehana's shrine in favor of trozhna as wrong and insulting. if it were one evil covering another, it would not have been impactful to notice the desecration. the primordials might have been a neutral or evil force on the world, we don't actually know, but they are a part of the foundation of the world, so it's more likely that forces of nature are simply a neutral concept.

aramán is a setting where evil consistently is shown to be an active choice. even the shapers. there is no indication that they were just born bad. they chose to come to aramán, kill the primordials and repress the population, turning them into playthings in their sibling squabbles as they bent the world to their will. those are the reasons they are evil, not because they come from Evil Land.

brennan is using a lot of heightened fantasy genre conventions. it speaks to lord of the rings and a song of ice and fire and old fairytales and legends, but this campaign takes ideas about good and evil from classic D&D settings, and fixes them. good and evil are a choice, always. a demon can do good. an angel can do bad. the villainy is complex. there is no evil race or class (in the D&D sense of the word). complaining about the villains shows a lack of understanding of the setting.

[trailertrashgrog]

"he was a physical presence" uh huh sure physically present where, kattigan

[npc-dude-art]

Oh no the old man yaoi got me. They Compel me. Also KitKatt is such a fucking cute ship name

Teor Pridesire is really testing the limits of my art skills tho

[acebender]

Kattigan: "You okay to be splitting up?"

Teor: "Yes, of course. You might be a little exposed without me, but separation makes the heart grow fonder."

[drawsmaddy]

[ID: A digital drawing of Teor Pridesire and Kattigan Vale from Critical Role. They're standing together holding beer cans, Kattigan with his chin resting on Teor's shoulder and a hand on Teor's waist. They're both looking off to the right with unimpressed expressions as Kattigan asks "Do you know what the fuck they're all talking about?" and Teor responds "No." End description.]

They're gonna go check the perimeter

[quiscuit]

The only one who ever asked, my last confidant.

[captainofthetidesbreath]

[gvalesdraws]

obligatory fav characters sketches