#ka'mort

[ludinusdaleth]

gods & titans.

-Critical Role Campaign 3, Episode 107, "Under the Arch Heart’s Eye"

[deramin2]

Sitcom where it's the Luxon, Ka'Mort, and Rau'shan sharing a townhouse in an aasimar and are arguing over renovating the place to their own tastes. The Luxon took the mind and the rage, Ka'Mort took the body and made an earth genasi, and Rau'shan took the right arm and the cracks. Maybe a mockumentary like What We do In The Shadows. Slowly find out they've formed a casual polycule. They roast the Exandrian Pantheon regularly.

[masterqwertster]

To expand upon the idea of communing with Ka'Mort and/or Rau'shan just a bit further:

The remnants of Ka'Mort and Rau'shaun are probably the closest thing Bells Hells can get to a neutral assessment of Predathos and the threat it is.

being dead and thus beyond caring, Ka'Mort and Rau'shan have little concern for the future of Exandria (maybe concern for Ashton and Fearne's continuing survival as the vessels of the shards, but if Predathos is bad at Plane Shifting, there's a good chance they could be fine)

they are not on Predathos's psychic hooks like the Ruidians and Rudiusborn

to our knowledge, they have not been threatened with being eaten by Predathos, and so for them its sealing/banishment was not a matter of raw survival

they have seen Exandria both before and after the gods' arrival. They know how to live without the gods and truly do not need them to be on/around Exandria

not to mention they didn't try to stop the gods from setting up the systems and changes they did, so it's not like the titans were against the gods' presence and interference up to a certain point

the Schism was kicked off by mortals having arcane magic and the titans objecting violently, making it not a direct act against the gods, but rather the gods making it a fight when the Primes stepped up to protect mortals. So the bad blood that led to the battles of the Schism and extinction of the titans was largely unrelated to how the titans felt about the gods themselves, and more about their creations, at least until the fighting began. (Probably)

because yeah, the titans are stated to have tolerated the gods more than anything, but it sure as hell wasn't the hate that those championing the extinction of the gods have today. So it seems unlikely the titans wished the gods dead and/or gone at the time Predathos arrived

So with all of that, the titans' reason for participating in getting rid of Predathos should be relevant to why releasing Predathos is a bad idea. Because for the titans, the gods were very take it or leave it during the Founding. To be moved to act against something that was a threat to the gods alone means that either the gods made a good argument or deal to get the titans to act, or Predathos was in fact a very big problem for things besides the gods that it was going to eat/kill.

I really think that is the perspective needed: beings who were (originally) neutral on the gods but were also alive to see Predathos come to Exandria. And then decided that Predathos needed to go.