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Fall decor game on point.

Die Strickjacke des Zauberers

(The Magician's Cardigan)

A Caleb Widogast-inspired crochet sweater for all the dirt wizards out there. Featuring thirteen embroidered squares and two pockets perfect for keeping your spell components handy.

What's sexier than wizards?

Nothing.

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The Party Split

CW: self harm, suicide

So I’ve been thinking a lot about the party split for a couple weeks. Obviously we know that Team Chetney’s Personal Hell are on the material plane, but what about Orym, Ashton, and Laudna?

Where are they and why them?

My first thought after Matt’s initial description was that they are somewhere on the other side of the Divine Gate. It seemed to fit because each of them has died and been brought back. Maybe that’s the dividing line.

But then I remembered Fearne also died at the same time as Orym and both were brought back with the Revivify spell. But I can’t shake the thought that those three must be beyond the Divine Gate and the fact that both Ashton and Laudna have truly *died* seems like too much of a coincidence to overlook.

So, I’m now wondering if something in Orym’s past is also placing them in that *really died* category. We know that the weapons used made it impossible for even Keyleth to bring Will and Derrig back. When if Orym was also killed in the battle by a traditional weapon and was one of the few able to be resurrected.

Or, perhaps, he survived the battle, but the grief of his loss was too much and Orym tried to end his life. He was brought back by Keyleth and it was she who gave him purpose again in sending him on his mission to discover the identities of the attackers. She understands his grief maybe better than anyone and knew that he needed to not only have something to keep him going but also that his healing would be easier away from the constant reminders of Will in Zephrah.

I think he has truly been dead, in the way Laudna and Ashton have been dead, and that is why he is part of the trio currently beyond the realm of the material.

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Finished my Laudna sweater just in time for trick or treating!

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Finished my FCG sweater!

Smiley (Holi)day to ya!

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Look, I love Fearne, but there is a part of me that low-key hopes Ashley just plays Mister for the rest of the campaign.

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Finally caught up on Critical Role and I have a lot of thoughts about FCG and where their trajectory might be from this point on.

1. We got our best glimpse at a pre-Calamity Aeormatons in EXU through automatons of Avalir. They were created with one purpose: service.

2. FCG is significantly more advanced than the robits of Avalir, but I think that is because Aeor had cracked the code on the arcane equivalent of artificial intelligence. Aeor had advanced enough so that their automatons could provide more complex services.

3. Dollars to donuts that FCG was one of many cleric-bots developed to alleviate both the physical and mental suffering of the Aeorian population. We know from EXU/Zerxus that a god isn't needed to channel this kind of power.

4. Due to WIZARD HUBRIS ™, the denizens of Aeor never considered their creations anything more than a means to an end. Capable of mimicking personhood in a way indistinguishable from the wizards around them, though certainly NOT people themselves.

5. For an indeterminate amount of time, they poured their pain and trauma into FCG and others like them with no thought given on the impact it would have on them. Why would you wonder how a toilet felt about the turd you left behind in it?

6. They were incorrect, of course. FCG is clear proof that somewhere along the way, Aeor's arcane AI lost the artificial. Aeormatons crossed the Rubicon and became something more. Something with thoughts, feelings, fears, and hopes. Something with a soul.

7. And that's where they went wrong. Blinded to the personhood of the Aeormatons, they neglected to install any kind of emotional release valve (physical or otherwise).

8. We now know that stress from holding this volume of emotional baggage has caused FCG at least twice now to disassociate and lash out violently in self-defense.

9. Thanks to Imahara Joe we also know that there are an unknown number of Aeormatons awakening all over Exandria. It is likely they will be creations of similar sentients to FCG but with different designations. We know they existed through the discovery of Devexian in C2.

10. Think about that. Aeormaton soldiers with no choice but to kill. Aeormaton servants who were abused by their owners. Aeormatons who were discarded as trash when a newer model came out. All coming back online with centuries worth of unresolved trauma corroding their circuits.

11. FCG is the canary in the coal mine for the possibility of a very real robot uprising. Unless these Aeormatons can be identified and provided ways to process their abuse by those who created them, I think we're going to see more episodes of robot-on-person violence.

12. And, if what FCG, a *cleric-bot*, could cause enough destruction to take out an entire adventuring party imagine what an unhinged soldier-bot could unleash. Or, worse, the havoc a group of Aeormatons could unleash together. The robot apocalypse is NIGH.

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Bells Hells are back tonight so it felt like the right time to finally iron my cross-stitch! 27,883 total stitches!