#c4e17

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oh to know a familiar like Scooch

[featherquillpen]

Murray is one of the FOUNDERS of the Penteveral and modern wizardry??? I'm sorry Ms Mag'nesson I did not know your game. No wonder she's so ready to throw the fuck down for the Penteveral.

[masterqwertster]

Well, you can definitely see why Murray gets so pissed about the way the Sundered Houses operate. She's from a wealthy family too, by the sounds of it. Gemstones ain't cheap after all, even if (by dwarf standards?) the Mag'nessons, or at least Murray and her branch of the family, are hicks. And yet it's part of her culture to go on this Hucklewend, a journey to provide acts of service. An idea that they've got plenty, so might as well spread it around, help their neighbors.

And then you've got the Sundered Houses just hoarding everything they can get their hands on. Particularly power and withholding services from the general populace.

No wonder Murray gets super rubbed the wrong way by them. It's really opposite values.

[ariadne-mouse]

I'm going INSANE about wizardry as a concept being so new in Araman. We never got anything like that in Exandria, where going back in time meant going to the peak of arcane power, and the various platforms of magic were all pretty much established in the campaign settings. I LOVE that they're taking a step back here to go, okay, so sorcery is innate and wizardry is the learned study of wielding magic. Someone had to start making new weird gestures and mixing substances and messing with gemstones, and yeah, it's fucking WEIRD and NOVEL and against the cultural familiarity of what came before. Wtf is wizardry??? Let's sit in this concept and wriggle around in it like pigs in mud

[its-your-mind]

c4e17 / c4e4

[laurbailey]

CRITICAL ROLE: CAMPAIGN 4 Episode 17: The Place of Wings

[kiwimintlime]

when we first saw Vaelus's character art, a lot of people – myself included – speculated that she might be a drow due to her purple skin. after being introduced to the character, I personally hypothesized that maybe the death of Sylandri turned her from a wood/high elf into a drow. but now with the description of Hannan being bright blue and Maywyn being apple red I think elves in the world of Aramán are just fun colors Like That™

[your-turn-to-role]

in keeping with alex in his fireside chat saying that he hates the trope of a good character born into an evil family just innately knowing what's good and evil, and there's a lot of fucked up stuff occtis just accepts because he's never encountered anything different, i did also love that thaisha's response here definitely feels a check-in they've had before

like okay, i'm not gonna immediately judge you for just parroting back to me something they drilled into your head, but take a moment here, just check if that actually aligns with your values - no? good.