Conclusion: Dinosaurs

Observation: you couldn't see a thing.

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Thaisha has an awkward question for Sir Julien...

[quiddie]

I’m absolutely DYING. THIS IS PERFECTION. 🥹

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[comrade-durak]

[yghiilra]

So different, yet kindled all the same.

I’ve loved their dynamic ever since they first met, and the last couple of episodes have only made me love them more 😮‍💨

[see-arcane]

Another re-watch because I cannot stop picking at that big spotlight with Primus at the meeting.

Yanessa supposedly casts a Zone of Truth on him. Zone of Truth can be cast by bards, clerics, paladins, and druids. Yanessa is none of these. Even if she secretly were, the following means she either faked the casting, or simply held her tongue about Primus not actually submitting to it.

“It was never my intention to slaughter any who sit now at this table.” Past tense. And there are more ways to kill than a slaughter. Questionable.

“The window has closed. We were running out of time. […] It is no longer a threat.” Tannesar has been gathering sand and dust for ages. Tansul made it in his ancient lifetime. What tight schedule was your undead angel project possibly on, Primus? Lie.

Lore drop about the Royal House of Obridai, to which all the currently Sundered Houses once knelt as vassals. The ancestors of Einfasen, Cormoray and Royce only acquired the lands they did because their ancestors knelt to the kings of Obridimia and the Shapers, despite being of more ancient magic lineage to Aramán. A historical point that none of the houses can refute. Truth.

‘Royce quarrels with Einfasen, Einfasen with Cormoray.’ Aranessa went to Otto as an ally. Otto said his house had friends with House Cormoray who they’d speak to about commending Murray. Primus is trying to tilt a narrative that doesn’t align with his speech. Lie/Questionable.

“Seventy years ago, we had an emperor.” More history. There was an emperor still ruling at the time of Tansul’s slaying. Truth.

“I speak truth to you now. My plan with the Deva Vindicta was the same as always.” Cue a reveal of broad real estate plans with the other Sundered Houses’ names staked out on them. “Western Telmora to the Einfasen. Eastern Telmora to the Cormoray. The Golden Orchard moved from its proximity to the closed doors of Faerie into the Tenebral Reaches for use by my family, and Yanessa, the razing of Telmora’s druid groves. Plenty of real estate to build cathedrals. We are true allies to all of you here. The Deva Vindicta was not meant to slaughter you. It was meant to make you kneel. […] The Vindicta would’ve been our winning gambit in the game that we all play here.” House Tachonis is not playing the same game, full stop. They don’t care about the Material Plane or its politics except as an obstacle prior to dying away to their growing empire in the Tenebral Reaches, where all souls bow to them. The Sepulchral Lord business with Grandpa Nullus is sign enough. The Deva Vindicta might have an extra use of making other lords bow to the Tachonis in life, but that’s secondary. The focus is on an existential scale, not a mortal one. It’s believable that the Golden Orchard is a coveted target. It’s believable that they’d want the druids to lose some of their foothold. It’s a shrug as to whether Tachonis cares enough about living Aramán to divvy it up to fellow lords or not. Lie/Questionable.

“Lord Einfasen, how goes the search for the Jotunøks? My Lord Cormoray, I understand that your grant at the Pentevral has gone through. Congratulations. I heard there was some celebration at the old Kalystra quarries? And I’m glad you’re well, Lady Halovar. Terrible case of bellows fever going around, wouldn’t you say? And of course, your wonderful Aspirants. How exceptional that these demons are here because they have been…saved.” Translation: Tachonis has eyes and ears aware of all the other Sundered Houses’ secret projects. Those same Sundered Houses had only guesswork to go off of with Tachonis, if that. It took all our heroes risking their lives and working overtime to dredge up enough evidence to reveal a fraction of what Tachonis, the house that works in shadow, was actually working on. Primus was caught off guard at the meeting’s start because he was shocked that any secret of his house could leak at all, let alone through the mystery of the reconstituted candle. Even so. Tachonis knows much more about the other houses than any of them even suspect of Tachonis. Truth.

[INSERT ARISTO ASSHOLE CLASSIST SPIEL HERE.] Part sales pitch. Part earnest shitty belief. It means nothing for House Tachonis to kneel to another house in life when they still rule in death. Questionable.

When questioned, Primus insists his push to have Thjazi Fang executed was only to bait Aranessa and her company to rush into range. Mentions the Candle of Slaughter requires noble blood to be spilled for it to work. The former is a good cover, entirely leaving out the significance of the Tachonis scar on Thjazi, intended to force him into servitude in death. The latter is a unique confession to make about how the spell components of your murder candle work in a room full of nobles. An admission so unflattering it would be taken for a grudging truth by his audience. (And possibly a good protection for later, if or when the second Tachandle is lit and used to kill off a bunch of nobodies for another slaughter.) Lie and a (Questionable) Truth.

“That is the sum total of it. I’ve told you all I can.” LIE. LIE. LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE.

Petra and Ryah, behind him: “We have much to discuss, my lords and lady, of the Revolutionary Council and its weakness following the assassination attempt on the Timmonish king and the Photarch.” An assassination attempt they knew was coming. Possibly all of them knew it and/or had a hand in it. They all wanted King Gus dead and the Council weakened. “There have been heated words exchanged. We need not make a decision tonight. Let us calm ourselves and let cooler heads prevail.” That the same line you sold to Amadah before you went hunting for Occtis on Altradler? “Come. We have laid a feast for you as a token of our apologies.”

Ma’ams. Ladies. My heroin chic skeletal gals. I know the “Zone of Truth” wasn’t “”cast”” on you, but come on. Your dad spent half his time here openly lying to everyone’s face about the Royce and Occtis killing and had to have his apology*** dragged out of him like pulling teeth. That Fantasy Doordash buffet was not laid for any apology. Either you’re up to some Red Wedding poisoning shit—thanks for mentioning the need for noble blood to spill, Primus!—or House Tachonis is simply incapable of opening its mouths and telling the truth at the same time.

And what a surprise. Primus and Yanessa want a private ‘just us priestly houses~’ chat while the other houses (plus a Termina!) get herded to the dinner table. Shocking.

Azune called it in the Overture without even knowing it. He thought he was seeding something unique, kicking up old embers of grudges and alliances by scheming to turn the priestly houses against the former rebels. But it isn’t anything new at all. Even if Yanessa doesn’t know the full scale of what Primus and his family are up to, they are the closest allies of the houses. We just saw the Photarch have his back during the whole truth*-telling speech in order to bullshit the other houses. Have to wonder what they’re planning next.  

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[see-arcane]

Other thing I’m going insane about! The Tachonis candle (Tachandle)! The big reveal was obviously a sucker punch to Primus. He knew exactly what it was and exactly what it meant for his bullshit lies about the Palazzo Davinos and Occtis’ murder with all these casters around. That’s the scare for him and when he knows he has to start putting actual effort into finessing the room.

But before that. When Tyranny sees he looks like he’s about to vomit. That he’s terrified.

All he can say is, “How—? How do you..?”

How does Einfasen have this artifact of his family’s when it was melted away? The answer, we know, is that its black wax was abandoned in the Palazzo Davinos. The corpses were cleared away. The blood. Everything spotless. Except for that wax on the floor. Why wasn’t that cleaned with the rest? It was still human fat, viable to be swept up with the rest of the organic mess. Still a risk to any who can divine secrets from objects. Primus’ panic in the present shows how aware he is and had to be of what the candle could reveal as evidence.

And yet it was left behind. Perhaps with the assumption that his vassal crew would take care of it and the other repair work and magic sanitization that would come with the day after. Could be. A noble needn’t clean up after himself beyond what his necromancy can deal with. But! Now he sees the assumption was wrong! The black wax was already missing, reconstituted into the candle, before his people showed up to set dress the gala. Meaning someone out there got their hands on the wax the night of the massacre, right after the Tachonises and ghouls cleared out, Mended it, and delivered it to Einfasen as evidence.

That How? isn’t just a question of ability. It’s a question of Who?  

True, Otto did not namedrop Azune in his dressing down of Primus. Presumably Groto’s name is unavoidably there in print on the paperwork. But with hindsight, I don’t know how Azune’s name can’t be in the documentation that Primus himself had copies of—that all the Sundered House heads presumably got briefed on. At best, I wouldn’t put it past the Einfasens to be careful about it; precious and secretive about a young man who might just be of their own blood.

Except Capt. Nayar was namedropped by the Candescent Creed at the Hallowed Round within this same evening. Because House Halovar knew about the promotion. Perhaps because Filoneus clocked the name of his favorite Good Man(!) and passed it on to the clerks. Possibly after reading the brief from Einfasen.

Meaning that if Otto and Harondus were more proud than cautious, more adherent to the rules than secrecy, Captain Azune Nayar might actually have his name right there in ink for Primus to see as the lead inspector on the case against him. The same fine Arcane Marshal who also led the investigation on the Palazzo Davinos. What a fine cover for this sorcerer to have ‘happened to find’ the black wax at the crime scene, when Primus knows that shit should have been scrubbed out of existence by the same crew who cast abjuration bleach all over the place.  

I hope like hell it’s just Groto’s name in there—sorry, man—because if House Tachonis puts two and two and Azune together, they’re going to know the sunset sadman is the guy who nabbed the wax and remade the candle the same night they used it.

…and, if that other Overture shoe is still waiting to drop, it might lead someone in the family to recognize the very same Arcane Marshal their fake Misty Step spell glyph was designed to fool in the Thjazi escape attempt just a week and change ago.

tl;dr: Please let them all be too busy to follow this lead. Let them have bigger fish to fry. Grandpa Nullus has them on a schedule, nobody has time to deal with one measly sorcadin. Just keep the goth grind rolling, Primus, move move move, pay no attention to the Arcane Marshal behind the curtain

[ryttu3k]

#Brennan please let the Einfasens have been smart about this#let them have pulled strings to leave Azune’s name out of the paperwork#that’s their new special little guy and maybe relative#surely they wouldn’t dangle his name in front of Tachonis? Surely??#seriously though I am sweating#just one clue could be enough to lead to Azune and the other Schemers#and we still don’t know where the hell Trimus Tachonis is!#the lady who ACTUALLY ARRANGED the fake gala!#her schedule is free as hell for dealing with loose threads! fuck!!#just.#just let them skim past this.#go focus on Grandpa Nullus’ to-do list guys hustle hustle

[kerosene-in-a-blender]

Is your Dungeons and Dragons character too happy? Are they too settled into their life and thusly require some kind of personal tragedy to motivate them to leave it and take up a life of adventuring? Try Primus Tachonis!

Primus Tachonis is an all-purpose personal tragedy creator sure to spur your character to adventure specifically so they can get his ass. Whether you need an old money asshole muscling in on an institution beloved to your PC or an evil sorcerer to slaughter their entire family Primus Tachonis has the magic and the social station to create whatever tragedy is required to serve your backstory.

Primus Tachonis is so versatile as a backstory tool he has professional D&D players raving:

Primus Tachonis killed my character's best friend and now she has to figure out who she is without him! -Laura Bailey I wrote a light backstory because I was still feeling out the setting and my dungeon master used Primus Tachonis to turn my brother into a statue! -Travis Willingham Primus Tachonis is trying to take over my character's magic school and endangering her students, and she will not have that! -Marisha Rey I had intended my character to have a tense but ultimately repairable relationship with his father, but then my DM used Primus Tachonis to rip his skull from his head. Now my character is on a quest to kill every member of Primus' noble house! -Matthew Mercer My character was a happy and established local playwright until Primus Tachonis had his little brother executed. Now he's taken up the sword again in his brother's stead! -Liam O'Brian I needed someone to murder my character's wife and daughter and my dungeon master suggested Primus Tachonis, and I couldn't be happier with the result! -Robbie Daymond Even works on members of his own family! -Alexander Ward

So don't miss out on the one-man solution to forcing your character to feel the call to adventure, try Primus Tachonis today!

[godlessondheimite]

he’s wet. he’s hysterical and he’s wet. he’s in pain, he’s wet, and he’s still hysterical. i didn’t say a name but i bet he popped into your head.

[stuckinapril]

I’ve had tumblr for 4 years but some of you bitches have had it for a decade. It’s time to seek penance

[stuckinapril]

wait I’m curious now . Reblog this with how long u’ve been on tumblr for. Dating back to ur oldest blog ever !!!

[foralittlewile]

According to Andy Weir's Eridian biology document, Eridians are better multitaskers than humans will ever be, but the trade off is they're physically incapable of locking in. SO funny to me. Yes this species can build a diorama while simultaneously blitzing through mathematics equations and also partaking in intense gossiping, but they cannot do any of those things for longer than, like, half an hour without going crazy. Species of supercomputers cursed with the TikTok attention span.

Rocky mocks Grace when he says that Rocky is distracting him by starting complex conversations while he's Trying To Do Science. "Human brain have to stop activity just because talking question? Useless! One track mind!"

Then Grace is on hour six of his "trying to recreate skittles" hyperfocus and Rocky is like What The Fuck. Statement.

Yeah human brains can only do a single very consuming task at a time but it can do it for a very long time. The one track in our one track minds spans multiple countries. Persistence predators, babey.

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[consultingcriminal-deactivated2]

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[heavensarcher]

For no particular reason I’d love for Australians to remember that the website “they vote for you.org.au” exists and you can type in any Australian politician and get a list of their voting patterns.

Any way Hanson has been at government like 50% of the time, is being bought by billionaires, consistently votes for things that hurt working class Aussie or against things that would help them. I refuse to let this country fall to fucking American style hate politics - I hope she dies 🙏🏻

[vault-heck]

We all love the "becoming the very thing you sought to destroy," trope. but I have a growing fondness for "destroying the very thing you sought to become"

[the-boring-distopia]

Nobody uses the "you think they discovered each other's bodies?" meme in the locked tomb fandom because the answer would either be:

1. Canonically yes (plot relevant)

2. Canonically yes (murder investigation)

3. Mercymorn elbows deep inside Judith's guts

4. Canonically no but there are 12 fics

5. A discussion whether lyctorhood counts

6. Canonically?? kinda?? (soup)

7. Ianthe and the mischivious misadventures of a flesh adept

8. Canonically yes (Harrowhark "let me put my tongue in yo mouth" Nonagesimus regrowing Ianthe's arm)

9. Mercymorn's canonical necromancy x-ray vision of the human body

10. No, because even though Pyrrha and Wake fucked the body was not Pyrrha's so it does not count (Pyrrha of Theseus argument)

[crazy-brazilian]