#cr3e99

[floweroflaurelin]

I’m still hungry.

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Critical Role Downfall

[revvethasmythh]

the archheart being an aeormaton is SO great because he is the god of arcane magic. a god of the arcane infiltrating the blackened heart of contemporary arcanum, a divinity in the guise of the city's greatest arcane achievement: life created without the gods. what a concept

[justalittlebluetiefling]

"I just love family drama" says the one who literally usurped their way into the family.

[dnd-shows-have-my-soul]

I don’t think enough people are talking about the ages of these characters. Because we are given actual ages, which is something I initially thought was very odd. But now with the information that each PC is the mortal incarnation of a specific god, it really shares much about the plan they devised. Specifically about when the planning happened and the order they went in.

Trist and Asha are the oldest (39 & 38 respectively). Then SILAHA at 30, Emhira at 29 and finally Ayden at 15.

Melora and Sarenrae went first, both desperate to stop the city, one fueled by hatred, the other by loss. It is likely that the truce was called right after the Everlight lost most of her following to Asmodeus’ betrayal. Did she throw herself into this mission because of her grief? Is that why she connected so tightly to Trist and her life? Was she grieving her own?

Corellon and Matron were next, descending 10 years after the previous gods. The god of beauty and arts becoming artwork himself. The mortal turned god becoming mortal once again. Do you think she was scared to go back? Or was it a welcoming feeling? Being grounded by bones and blood, death allotted once again? Is what why she waited? Because she worried about the souls that would die without her greeting? Or was she simply afraid?

And finally, Pelor, sweet sweet Ayden. The last one to be born. The last one to leave. He likely stayed as long as he could. Keeping himself present and whole until he literally couldn't. He was the sun, he was life, he was hope. He was a god until he was a man and even then. When did he realize? When did his parents? Did they know from the moment he was born that there was a light within him? Or did their child walk into the fields one day and return an entity?

The fact that so much storytelling can occur within a single, unspoken detail is amazing to me. What an incredible thing indeed.

[thequeenofmyownscreen]

"-Should we split up the healers ?

-No, I think for this, it will be okay."

GUYS YOUR MINISERIES IS CALLED DOWNFALL stop saying things like that !

[pearlaquaoceans]

The amount of stuff knocking around in my head about episode 99 have me thinking nonstop about some of the gods and I gotta write it down. This might not make sense or it might not be how the gods will appear by the end of the three episodes but oh man am I invested right now.

Sarenrae - I could have only dreamed for Ashley to play the everlight but she is and it is perfection. I have missed the warmth of Sarenrae since VM and to have her back is fantastic and to have Ashley who showed such a love for her as Pike is so beautiful and wonderful.

I am totally behind Sarenrae falling in love and having a family in her mortal form. She loves humanity much like Pelor but being the goddess of forgiveness, she can understand them more and see their flaws but also the beauty in those flaws. I think because she forgives she can also see humans as the full beings they are and she loves them still. How could see come to Earth and see the good in people, and allow them forgiveness when they do wrong, and not love them? Humanity is messy and falling in love is messy and families are messy and it fits so much with what she governs that it just feels right to me. Her being a school teacher feels right to me. I fully believe she is going to carry the scent of the top of her children's heads for as long as she holds that mortal form.

Pelor - This one surprised me. He has always been shown in a domineering and stuffy light. He is a god in a traditional sense who seems untouchable, unreachable, and unparalleled in his grandeur. So the moment Nick Marini spoke as him, I was shook because it was so very... gentle. Warm. Present. I cannot remember the last time my feelings on a character did such a left turn that I was not expecting. As soon as he spoke I was in. I was invested.

And Pelor is in that traditional way, a god. Someone who loves his creations but also sees them as.. feeble. Needing guidance from the gods. It is a hubris that any god is capable of. Yet because of that, he is equally caring. This is the Pelor I had never seen. We have seen him be kind in a way with Vex, demanding with his followers, and unforgiving of the sins commited in his name, but we have not seen him gentle. And here, we see him so gentle. So caring for their creations. He wants them to survive, to feel more than just pain in existence. For the first time I truly believe he loves humanity. Maybe it will change in the next few episodes but for now.. I for the first time, care about him.

The Matron - Mmmmmaaaannnn I would expect nothing less than for Laura to play her. They are forever twined and I am so happy she is. The matron is.. so complex and I am stubborn and did not come into this believing I would feel anything but stubborn anger towards her for what she did to Vax even if she didn't really do anything wrong. I do believe she would have given him a long life but she could not and so she has instead chosen to keep him by her side and seeing this version of her... I can see it. I can see Vax giving her a sense of life that she has not felt in many many centuries.

As soon as Laura talked, I felt.. a warmth for her. A feeling, but I was not prepared on any level for the moment she said Purvan's name, to start sobbing. I don't know why but just knowing him and some of his journey, the mirror to Vax, the man who follows his queen and guarded her... I cried. I cried for him and I cried for her. I love that she is the goddess to know intimately what humans are capable of and knowing how little they would hesitate to destroy the gods. She also is willing to remind the gods of the fragility of man. I kinda love it. Damn it.

Melora - Man, the playing of her as relentless in her hunger is so interesting. Because nature exists to eat. Eating is survival. And survival is harsh and uncaring. Nature will not put compassion above survival. Melora is often played as warm and nature can be that but a world that has been choked by smoke and ash for a hundred years is a Melora that is haunted and starving. I love it.

I just really love the three all playing the gods they have been closest to or affect by in the campaigns. I love it. Its such a brilliant move.

[sj2d3d]

thank you taliesin jaffe for fucking with gender