#dezran thain

[neinofthem]

i’m sorry to be an uninformed essek stan, but what is lord lord from around?? i’ve seen it mentioned a few times but i do not know what it is 😩😭

don’t be sorry it’s sort of a meta thing ok so basically esseks stupid disguise name is lord dezran thain. thain is another spelling of thane, which is the anglo-saxon word for lord. so when you’re saying lord thain you’re saying lord lord. he named his super secret inconspicuous alter ego lord lord. and THEN when jester is asking him where he’s from in nicodranas he’s like ‘… places.’ and she’s like no but where and he’s like, ‘um. around? around… in nicodranas?’ so essentially essek thelyss, spymaster and uber-suave courtier can’t think of a better alias than lord lord from around. how he got as far as he did is a complete mystery.

[burningsuitfire]

So thinking about Caleb's accent and how he sounds like Essek and Caleb being bad at accents and Essek's accent undercover and trying to connect all the dots.

Look at it this way. In campaign 2, Matt's Essek voice and accent changed wildly almost every other sentence.

Caleb and Cad (and Jester) had no clue undercover Essek's accent wasn't authentic. They barely noticed he was nervous, let alone faking anything. When they met on the Assembly's boat and Mercer rolled for Dezran where they saw his nerves, they still couldn't catch he was faking a Nicodranas persona (also again pointing out "Thain" was 100% Mercer googling noble names and not meant to be a bad cover) even with Caleb's memory, Caleb and Caduceus's extremely high passive perceptions, and Jester's background as a Nicodranas native.

And then of course Caleb's roll with frumpkin revealed it all, but it took that snooping and very high stealth roll to truly realize, and later Mercer has said he didn't expect them to catch Essek, blaming it on them rolling so high on a number of checks.

In contrast, when Astrid (an established elite spy for 15 years) was disguised and undercover in the lavish chateau, she got her fake Marquesian accent noticed immediately by (very unperceptive) Fjord of all people, who's never even visited the country... and yet he had no clue about Essek's accent or persona.

[illuminati-by-nature]

“i’m from a town that’s outside” has major “i’m lord lord from around” vibes, for all of you drow-Dorian truthers!!!

[icouldbeherpocketbacon]

[neinofthem]

a poll that essek CANT LOSE

essek thelyss

essek thelyss

essek thelyss

dezran thain

essek thelyss

Voting ended onFeb 18, 2023

[icouldbeherpocketbacon]

Nott proposes to poison Essek at the party (https://youtu.be/SV8eKqbZZNQ?t=4560) during their initial discussions after the revelation of Dezran Thain and then she does it