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chipthekeeper

"'Badger?' And I've got Nature's Tongue, so I can really speak to him."

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captainofthetidesbreath

Bren Brenatto. close enough. welcome back, Stonejaw Strongjaw

littlebosslady7

The cast takes their bows. (src)

warrioreowynofrohan

Azune Nayar is not someone who was failed in his youth by the adults around him.

Azune Nayar is someone whose childhood and youth were marked by adults who, faced with bad choices, made the less-worse one because they cared about him.

His parents starved themselves to give him and his sister the chance of being recruited as child soldiers by a mercenary group, because that was the only way to protect him from starvation.

Thjazi Fang saw a child abandoned by the roadside, desperately, determinedly, and implausibly claiming he could fight. Thazi Fang was in the middle of waging a rebellion against the powers of Araman. That rebellion wasn’t the best place for a child of twelve. But it was a better place than abandoned by the roadside or picked up by another mercenary group, and Thjazi cared, so Thjazi took him in and assigned him to noncombat work away from the front lines.

By 15 Azune was fighting on the front lines. (In an earlier war, the same was true of Thazi at that age.)

Thjazi’s rebellion failed. He asked his brother Hal to look out for the teenage Azune. Hal did so, treating Azune as part of his family. Hal did the same for other people who needed it. Being like family wasn’t the same as being Hal’s kid.

The tragedy of Azune isn’t that he was failed or abandoned or uncared for or used. The tragedy of Azune is that the best that people who cared about him could give him still wasn’t the same as what he needed, because being an adult doesn’t make you all-powerful. Azune’s problems weren’t created by those who loved him. They were created by the world he lives in.

Azune lived his adult life for the Torn Banner because it was the life he knew; or out of loyalty; or because they were the ones trying to change that world into something different.

He offers understanding and empathy to enemies (Julien) and strangers (Vaelus). He learned that somewhere.

He will self-immolate for a cause. He likely learned that from his parents, who did it for him, and from Thjazi, who did it for the same cause.

miss-holloways

Critical Role: Campaign Four Episode 28: Chasing Shadows

littlebosslady7

The cast in their Mighty Nein pirate cosplay (src)

demigoddessqueens

King and Queen of Exandria’s seas

foldbaron

writers-solace

I don't think Tolkien is a good fantasy writer because he scored the highest at some objective Best Fantasy Book Test that every fantasy writer has to take, I think he's a good fantasy writer because he created a world based on things that he was interested in. I feel like a lot of fantasy writers think that they need to create a whole language for their world because Tolkien did and obviously his books are the best so they have to emulate him, but Tolkien did that because he was a linguistics nerd. I think the lesson to be learned from him is not that you have to include elves and deep history and new languages, but that you have to write endlessly about the things you are a huge nerd about and use those things to create your fantasy world

the-fluffy-folio

Pet Stone - DnD Homebrew Magic Item

Is it alive...or just really, really old magic? The Pet Stone looks like an ordinary rock, but attune to it and you might just be adopting something. Nobody's cracked the mystery yet, and good luck finding one that isn't already hoarded by a turnstone gnome. Perfect quirky addition for your wondrous items collection or DnD loot table.

More magic items, weird wondrous objects, and questionable loot await on my Patreon - dig in!