#wizard hubris

[reiinai]

‘The City Who Took on the Gods — and Lost’

Took some liberties over the night the Gods repaid the hubris but my piece for @artists-guild-of-exandria Critical Role fan art project Role for Initiative is the fall of Aeor! ⚡️🔥

I will always jump at the chance to draw anything Aeorian 🥂

[ttrpgeewhiz]

That's great.

That's a huge win.

[nothingimportanttoseehere]

The amount of foreshadowing in episode 12 of wbn:wwwo is unbeleivable on a relisten. Steel lowkey reveals the citadel's whole schtick of the secret court to Ame, but Ame has no reason to question it because of her station as a witch. These wizards are really out here trying to find exploits in the world like reality is a speedrun

[definitelysapphic]

I want to crawl into Aabria’s ear and root around in her brain. Her characters are so fascinating. She’s not afraid to give them the juiciest flaws. She is the drama. It’s incredible to watch.

[37crowsinadress]

[noodlesarecheese]

Today I’m thinking about hubris, and why it’s associated with wizards in particular.

I think it has to do with how power is acquired. 

So martial and melee classes get power from training, skill, some natural talent. You can acquire as much as you put in the effort to get, but there is a hard limit to what your body can do. No matter how much I train, I won’t be able to stop a train with my hands or drop kick an airplane..

What about other spell casters then? Well, most spell casters get their power from either an outside source or some innate ability. If you get your power from a powerful being, force, or belief, then you’re dependent on that to get more. Stop following that god, break your promise to the archfey, or lose faith in your conviction and you stop getting power. Then you have to find another source or do something to get back in the good graces of your patron. It can be a humbling experience, but it also puts a limit on the amount of power you can achieve on your own.

If you’re born with your power, or a power is awakened within you or whatever, then you gain power through...training? Unlocking new abilities? It depends on how well you understand your own abilities. Eventually you run into the same problem that you have with muscles, though. There’s a limit to how much your body can handle and how quickly you can learn.

Wizards, though, gain power through study. They can gain power rapidly just through finding another wizard’s notes, and then can continue build on that power. Magic routinely breaks the laws of physics and does what should be impossible, so, to a wizard, anything is possible if you solve the right puzzle in the right way. 

But most importantly, there’s no real limit to the power a wizard can gain. Because while there may be a limit to how much knowledge you can store in your head at one time, a wizard’s power can be stored in writing. Forget how to do a spell? No problem, just check your spellbook. Not sure what rune to use? There’s probably a book that explains it, or you can do trial and error and then record the solution. Find someone else’s spellbook? Congrats you now know several new spells!

In short, any class or person in general can be arrogant, but Wizard Hubris exists specifically because wizards have no hard limits to their ability to gain power.

[coffeekrunk]

Two-ish theories on the divorce

1. Laerryn told Loquatius what happened to Evandrin (while skimping some details about maybe kinda sorta accidently sending him to another plan) and he said something like, "If you continue to put yourself at risk for such reckless endeavors I cannot stand by your side."

And laerryn being stubborn and obsessed with her pursuit to move beyond the magical means of her born plane said,

"Then, don't. "

And that was that

2. Laerryn didn't tell Loquatius anything, let herself be consumed by guilt over losing her friend and let it fuel her desire to move to another plane to make sure his death meant something damn it and in her workaholic tunnel vision frenzy left Quay farther and farther behind until he finally, feeling underappreciated and isolated from his wife, filed for divorce .

And then like another user said found out the truth via Elena getting too close and hid the truth about Evandrin's disappearance and his knowledge of it from even Laerryn herself

I'm leaning more towards two but theorising is just fun

[moonhoundlanding]

I still can’t get over the name the EXU:Calamity characters gave their group: Ring of Brass

The strange juxtaposition between the audacity of claiming only roughly 14 people are more politically important than you in your world. (And the characters definitely think they’re bigger movers and shakers that those 14)

Versus the almost childish nature of the name itself. Gold to Silver to Brass. It seems like the name children come up with when asked what they want to be when they grow up. Teacher, we’re going to found the Ring of Brass- it’s like the Ring of Gold but better!

And I desperately want to know if anyone outside the group calls them that (or even knows they’re a group, but that’s a different thread)