#gau drashari

[ihaveatypeanditstrickstergods]

Rewatching the Briarwood episodes of LoVM for the first time since they came out and it's wild the extent to which the Gau Drashari lore and the Tree of Names from Calamity recontextualize Keyleth trying to commune with the Sun Tree

[smilelikeawolf]

Keyleth: "Evontra’vir was once a Gau Drashari itself. When the most powerful connect to the lands and the natural spirits, they suffuse themselves and connect to the land, extending their lives. Some feel a calling to return to the land. Some connect to the land, rather than pass on. Others become trees themselves."

[wearepaladin]

I think I’ll just add a teensy thought about tonight’s Critical Role, and that I will always admire Matt’s love of Marisha that he still creates bits of lore related to her first character that is relevant years after the first campaign is ended and tied to the story on how it all began. To love to the point of creation, after all, is a beautiful thing.

[cicatrixtwigs]

Okay, I am very aware how much I fucking love Calamity, but some group trying to do something to ley lines on the goddamn apogee solstice and one of their earliest known actions was to try to assassinate the leader of the (Gau Dr)Ashari?

Those druids that fucking forever ago were using the leylines and the tree of names to keep out "those things beyond which should not come"

*Screams into the void*

[beedreamscape]

Pasting the Gau Drashari letter from the CR Transcripts for easier access.

"Honorable Magister,

your assurances are taken in the most generous spirit possible. I do not distrust you, the person, for all people are children of Exandria. But what I distrust is enchantment, the enchantment of a people and of their ways. The wizards of Avalir have proven time and again that they do not see limitation. They do not see the limitation of a city that will be born aloft into the sky, nor do they see risk. I wish that I could trust you. I wish that my order could trust you. I wish that we could, in good faith, tell you of the tree's purpose. Sorrow fills my heart for even if you kept your word, the wizard behind you, if they knew the nature of the tree, I can only imagine would see all that they could do with it and not what they could do for it. I implore you. The endless skies of Exandria are yours. The wonders of your imagination are your only master. Please, simply tend to this tree and do not ask again. We cannot trust you with its secrets. 

Head Druid of the Gau Drashari, the Temple of Toramunda."

[annemarieyeretzian]

I’m shocked, shocked to find that the people advocating for the removal of the gods and restoration of the primordials at any cost and fuck everyone else are a cult! /s (also love that the ashari were like “get our name out your mouths and leave us the fuck out of this.”)

[ashes-to-asher]

Elias has red hair, right?

Crack theory: Elias survives, lives with the Gau Drashari (later known as the Ashari), fathers a long line of half-elves with red hair, eventually resulting in Keyleth

[vestigesofperversion]

ok I haven’t watched Part 3 yet but hear me out

Calamity AU where the Betrayers in their first shots fired destroy the Arboreal Calix in a century-long awaited massive fuck you to the Gau Drashari, suddenly and unintentionally allowing Laerryn enough unfettered arcane energy in the clutch to transport Avalir to another plane using her Leywright, to the chagrin of the limbered-up Primes & Betrayers, thereby saving everyone from impending doom but also making Avalir the “Most Likely to Become an Astral Fleshy Hivemind” of the floating cities.

Like sorry Aeor, you’ve had your timeline. Give me Charlie the Hodmedod in Campaign 2. Give me a very confused sphinx eternally floating and pitching alts on his roar. GIVE ME RING OF BRASS SOMNOVEM, YOU COWARDS