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*cries in GM*

Burning fires, broken constellations, all the signs Maybe we were never written in the stars, always lost in time Cause I see your light reflected in mine And I don’t feel like letting you, letting you go So I’ll chase you down, don’t wanna admit This truth that I already, already know

(c) Derivakat – Star Trails

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now get him pregnant

my dear boy Teo and his beloved Egaeon, who will later turn out to be Nyarlathotep in human guise

here he shows Teo the Ley Lines

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Master, my beloved

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Let me sign beneath it

I love Aroden. No, really

I came to this through all five stages of acceptance.

Yeah, I started out with "fuck Aroden" for many of the decisions he made and the things he did (or didn't) do

And then I stumbled upon Tyrant's Grasp, Arazni's story in Arcadia, and... I thought harder than I probably should have.

I don't like to think of the god of humanity as a selfish jerk. But I do like to think of the god of humanity as... A man. You know, humans. At their best and at their worst. Aroden made feats as much as he made mistakes. His mistakes were extensions of his feats, and his feats were extensions of his mistakes.

He wasn't perfect.

I like to think of him as a hero in a Greek tragedy - a man who makes decisions he thinks are right, but which lead to disastrous results. Because he doesn't know what the audience knows.

And the other layer of Aroden is that I like to think of him as a man. A terribly lonely man who, by virtue of his position, can't get close enough to anyone to tell them everything that's on his mind. Hell, he's a mortal who lived an incredibly long life even before he became a god. Who probably wanted to be loved. But for whom the only way to feel love was through worship.

Who wanted to be a hero, a defender of humanity, but then watched as his great victories turned into even greater losses. The Age of Glory, the Golden Age of humanity - the age of utopia under the protection of the living god - was to be the greatest of them all.

And in the end. The best thing he could give humanity was his own death. After all, the gods can be destroyed. But humanity will survive.

Aroden has the potential to be a tragic hero. And between the jerk and the tragic hero, I choose the hero.

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always watch your back even if you're high-lvled lich

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Ekko: oh my gods I can finally have Powder back even if it's for a short While! I get to tell Benzo that I love him. I have the comfort of knowing they're alright in another timeline. My inner child is healing!

Meanwhile Jayce: Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death-

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The whole Arcane Season 2 be like

Girls: *smash faces*

Boys: *keep getting flushed down the time-space toilet*

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Okay, now I have to commission the "put it on tar-baphon" version

BBEG of our current campaign - lich Tar-Baphon, my GM's @drartslog description

yassification was successful!

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The yassification was a choice with no regrets. He's fucking perfect now.

WHERE DID THE HELMET GO YOU LITTLE MONSTER, HE'S LITERALLY UNRECOGNIZABLE NOW, LMAO

The canonical violet spaghetti Tar-Baphon always makes me cackle but I respect the WAIST and whoever thought it up

Anyway, let me bow and kiss these boots

BBEG of our current campaign - lich Tar-Baphon, my GM's @drartslog description

yassification was successful!

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So are you less upset about Adar's death since it was Sam instead of JM? I promise I don't mean that in a sarcastic way it's an honest question. I assume we all knew he'd be dying at some point since he's just one small piece in a larger puzzle and not the "Big Bad" and obviously it bothers some more than others but I'm curious if the recast changed how you feel/felt.

Yeah, it certainly was this way. Sam's a good actor but JM's performance struck a very deep chord. One I now know for sure he wanted to strike (there a post on his Instagram where he explains the exact things I saw him deliver). Sam's Adar is good and Sam does Adar justice but my heart doesn't break over him.

Also, I was ready for this by now. When season 1 ended I was horrified Adar would die, like, in ep 1, making his whole quest pointless and hopeless. Well, his quest still ended hopelessly and pointlessly but they've been setting ground for this tragedy and I'm alright with that.

More than anything I was afraid they were going to make Adar's death a disgrace, a humiliation or just kill him off in some bullshit way. I've seen a canon do this once to one of their minor villains (fuck you Disney Star Wars) and in no freaking way I'd want to see this again.

But it turned out to be... alright. It was tragic, sorrowful and hopeless in a good way. I saw it and I knew the writers knew what exactly they were doing (Star Wars didn't. I hope so.). It was also beautiful because Sauron baited Adar in with what he loves most: his Uruks. But because it wasn't the Adar that was so close to me, but rather a more distant one, it didn't hurt me that much. I know JM's performance would have been devastating

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yes please

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In his notes for translators, Tolkien suggested that the Witch-king of Angmar, ruler of a Northern kingdom with its capital at Carn Dûm, was of Númenórean origin.

Keeeemeeeeen!

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I just remembered a thought of mine that Sauron's PROBABLY the one who invented the art of fencing

So yeah, going up against him with a sword is like, whatcha gonna do, stab ME? girl i don't just know the drill, i CREATED it

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From my side of the blade, I say they never said anything about a PC being tortured...

no, my boy doesn't know the “PC should never torture” rule

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So... Is Kemen gonna get a ring?

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We will, probably, cause Numenor. Either we're getting him as Halbrand or as a entirely new guise. And I'm leaning to Halbrand as Pharazon has already seen him

just realized we will probably never see human halbrand again and i am :(

i will miss this beautiful pathetic mischievous face

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Now give Charlie Vickers an Emmy