#king dwendal

[criticalrolenpctournament]

NPC ROUND 1, POLL 24

Otis Brunkel v King Dwendal

Otis

Dwendal

Voting ended onJun 12

Please vote for you favorite LGBT+ NPC character!

[thenevarranaccord]

The Might Nein - S1E1 in 15 Gifs

This contains spoilers for season 1 episode 1 of Amazon Prime's "The Mighty Nein" as well as possible spoilers for Critical Role campaign 2.

Caleb and Nott:

Caleb Widogast is a homeless wizard who is having a bad day. He gets shoved in horse manure by bullies, he can't pick the lock on the pet shop he's trying to break into, and then he himself gets robbed by a goblin called Nott the Brave (no comma). Even though Nott overpowers Caleb when he catches up to her, she ultimately takes pity on him and returns the pouch she stole. It didn't have anything valuable in it anyway.

Nott offers Caleb a deal: She will help him break into the pet store if he buys her some booze. (It's easier for a human to buy it than for a goblin.)

They break into the magic pet shop and Caleb gets the ingredients he needs, but Nott sees a Wanted poster with Caleb's picture, offering a hefty reward for turning in the wanted murderer. She considers turning him in.

As Nott decides to turn Caleb in for the reward money, Caleb casts the spell he needed the ingredients from the pet shop for. Caleb casts find familiar and summons Frumpkin, Caleb's familiar who is based on his childhood cat. Unfortunately, Caleb isn't able to hold the spell for long, but witnessing this show of magic from Caleb changes Nott's mind about turning him in.

Caleb and Nott agree to travel together for a while. Nott can help Caleb obtain his spell materials, and Caleb can help Nott obtain alcohol.

The Luxon Beacon

The Luxon Beacon, an item of extreme religious and practical importance to the Kryn Dynasty, is stolen by three Dwendalian Empire Volstruckers: Astrid, Eadwulf, and Dain.

The Volstruckers realize too late that they've walked into a trap. The beacon's defensive magic causes a large explosion at the Dwendalian border outpost between the Kryn Dynasty and the Dwendalian Empire.

Trent Ikithon, the Archmage of Civil Influence for the Dwendalian Empire, is giving his young students a demonstration in torture when he's interrupted by a Volkstrucker named Owelia. Owelia tells Trent Ikithon that the king has summoned him. When Trent arrives at the palace, King Dwendal plays a message from The Bright Queen, the ruler of the Kryn Dynasty. The Bring Queen accuses the Dwendalian Empire of stealing the Kryn's sacred beacon, and she tells King Dwendal that if the beacon is not returned, there will be war. King Dwendal knows nothing about the beacon, and Trent Ikithon accuses the Bright Queen of engineering the whole thing as an excuse to declare war on the Dwendalian Empire. King Dwendal says to prepare for war.

Ikithon returns home, and Astrid, Eadwulf, and Dain are waiting for him with the beacon. Astrid and Eadwulf made it out of the blast relatively unharmed, but Dain, who was at the center of the blast, is badly injured and in extreme pain. Ikithon tells Dain that the Empire will be forever grateful for his service, and Dain dies. The beacon begins to glow.

Dain's soul is pulled into the beacon. Astrid is upset, but Ikithon tells her to instead rejoice, because the beacon "is the key to everything."

Beau

Beauregard Lionett is the rookie on an investigation team from the Cobalt Soul monastery. King Dwendal has sent the Cobalt Soul to investigate the cite of the explosion at the border outpost. Beau notices that the corpses at the site are showing accelerated decomposition, and she finds a piece of refined residuum imbedded in the gate. Based on these and other clues, Beau theorizes that the Kryn soldiers were chasing after thieves at the explosion site, but her superiors dismiss her suspicions out-right, opting to give the king the explanation he wants to hear.

Beau explains her theory to Archivist Zeenoth, who brought her into Cobalt Soul. It goes badly. Not only does he not listen to her, he tells her that he's transferring her back to the library. After their fight, Beau follows Zeenoth down to the Mudtop Ward. He disappears inside of a shop and Beau follows him through a secret passage. The passage leads to a room full of gnomes refining residuum. From there, Beau follows Zeenoth to another room and sees him meeting with Owelia. It's clear that Zeenoth is working with the Volstruckers.

Beau attempts to follow Owelia, but Owelia notices her and attacks. Beau is nearly killed in the fight.

Beau wakes up in the quarters of Dairon of the Cobalt Soul. Dairon sews Beau up and explains to her that the Volstruckers are "elite wizard assassins." Officially, they do not exist. They are trained by someone in the Cerberus Assembly, but the Cobalt Soul does not know whom. The Cerberus Assembly is a council of power-hungry mages in the Dwendalian Empire.

Dairon reveals herself as an Expositor, a Cobalt Soul spy. Dairon has been investigating the Cerberus Assembly for a while, and now she wants Beau's help.

[talesofthedice]

Started Mighty Nein and King Dwendal immediately reminded me of MacBeth

[luciferousnacht]

Huzzah! Here is my piece for the Tourist's Guide to Wildemount: Autumn edition. King Bertrand Dwendal, leader and namesake of the Dwendalian Empire.

Thanks @tgtw-project for letting me add my 2 copper to this project!

[animatrobin]

Prince Segeric Essex Dwendal of the Dwendalian Empire, second son of King Bertrand Dwendal

PC of @reece-alex-burton

[sunstarelanor]

I know the Nein (and some fans) are worried about Ivar and the consequences of what he might say, but I don’t think the Nein need to be worried as much as they are about consequences such as being arrested or something similar with the Empire. I rather believe that Ivar’s actions will complicate the situation the Nein have with the Cerberus Assembly, and especially Ludinus. This will mostly affect Caleb and his goals, as he doesn’t have the Cobalt Soul directly backing him like Beau does (DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY! or at least nearly.), and he is the most invested in breaking up the Cerberus Assembly.

Of course, if in the future we get information on what Balenpost believes to have happened with Vess Derogna this can change, but as of the beginning 2020/2021 holiday break, I believe Ivar isn’t that big of a threat, because:

1. Ivar is a hired tracker like Dagen. He, like Dagen, probably doesn’t honestly care about empire politics or who does what where. He just cares about keeping his life and being paid, which leads me to...

2. Ivar was/is essentially being paid by Ludinus Da’leth, as he was hired by Da’leth’s annex. (you’re down TWO annexes now Ludinus. You’re gonna have more interns than Nightvale community radio), so if Ivar does report anything to anyone, it’s likely gonna be to him. Why is this significant? because LUDINUS HAS VESTED INTEREST IN KEEPING THE MIGHTY NEIN’S NAME IN THE CLEAR when it comes to Empire matters, for the following reasons: 

Ludinus knows/Is smart enough to figure out: 

2a. If the Mighty Nein’s name get tarnished in the eyes of King Dwendal and are publicly held responsible for the death of Ludinus’ Annex (which is what Ivar believes happened), the Nein’s history will DEFINITELY be looked into by the Empire separately from the Assembly, up to and including the Nein’s part in ENDING THE WAR which would likely include looking more into the research on the Beacons. This is EXACTLY the opposite of what Ludinus wants, as we know per Essek.  

2b. the Nein know about the extra beacon. He took them to see the extra at vergesson before the peace talks. It seems probable Essek passed on the information that the Nein knew the CA had an extra and were concerned about the Cerberus Assembly giving back the wrong one, and then Ludinus allowed Beau and Caleb to examine the 2nd dynasty beacon on the boat. If Ludinus turns the Nein in, they could turn him in as well. 

2c. the Nein were hired by Vess to do... something. (if Icky figured it out, then Ludinus sure AF did as well.)  and likely wants to know what Vess is up to and what secrets she might be keeping.

2d. if he keeps the Nein in the clear, suddenly he has leverage over our favorite group of adventures to be used for who knows what. This is, in my opinion, probably worse case scenario, but they’re typically pretty good about figuring ways around blame and blackmail, especially since they DIDN’T kill his annex. If Vess’ disappearance and/or death is figured out though, this COULD put them into a lot of trouble, pending on what happens with Lucien and the Tomb Takers. If all goes well, the Nein delivering information on Vess, as per 2c, may be the price of them getting off with a slap on the wrist, and if they’ve already ended the possibility of the Somnovem/Cognoza coming back, then they’d likely be willing to part with that particular information, if only in part. Especially if Beau writes and turns in a report to the Cobalt Soul about it first. 

additionally, 

3. If Ludinus chooses to turn in/against the Nein for any unknown reason that might help him in some way (he likes his current position, so i can’t see a reason why he would), King Dwendal also does NOT want the war to continue, as it led to many empire losses- a large part of the reason he willingly entered peace talks w/ the dynasty (interestingly, the heavy empire losses were a result of the military information the Nein provided to the dynasty after that first scry, although i’m not sure if anyone of the group except Beau and MAYBE Caleb realizes this)- and it’s clear to the King that the Nein have some connections to and favor with the Dynasty. I don’t think he’d want to do something (like arrest the Nein) that might piss off the dynasty and reignite the potential for war (and the Kryn do seem rather quick to make war and feel justified doing so. The idea that war-is-normal/inevitable isn’t something that sets Essek apart from the rest of the Kryn, that seems like a dynasty wide thing imo.)

So yeah, I don’t think Ivar is gonna be a huge-ass problem for them. At most, it will add an additional layer of complication their political situation and cause problems for Caleb’s goals. But I don’t think it will be a HUGE deal. 

[straightcriticalrole]

King dwendel (or whatever his name is) is treated as reasonable for his entitlement and racism because he is the king and otherwise the Cricks will get in and win. Oh and after the m9 return the beacon to the bright queen, they steal it and take it back to the empire where it belongs so that is can be 'contained' and 'studied'

locks it in a museum and refuses to give it back bc he claims the empire can better study it (no im not salty about the london museum why would you think that)

[mel-a-tonin]

y'all im so obsessed with all the crunchy military history segments in the Wildemount book,,,,gjxhxhjd

here's the start of a king bertrand dwendal—im thinking about doing a dire portrait gallery of all the current court officials BUH