#Chroma Conclave

[disarmonia]

Raishan 🐉

Just a quickie of this gorgeous dragon woman while I work on a thousand bigger projects. Finished catching up with The Legend of Vox Machina and daaamn I wish I had more time to create more fan art, it's so good. Another dragon coming soon, can you guess which one?🤔 If you like my art, consider tipping! MY TIP JARS HERE ❤️‍🩹

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Cover Art by Aaron J. Riley

[manueltorresart]

All hail to the Cinder King. Here is finally Thordak, the ancient red dragon who leads the Chroma Conclave. Voiced by Matthew Mercer on @criticalrole and by Lance Reddick (who passed away last year) on The Legend of Vox Machina.

[ginger375]

How did I completely forget that Vox Machina was back?!?

So much drama within the party, but can I just say how gorgeous the dragons look?

[snooneko]

Just Another Day - The Chroma Conclave arrives in Emon

(10 years! Folks, I really, really love Exandria. Each one of my art pieces is a little love letter to the world Matt et al. created.)

[demigoddessqueens]

IT’S ON SIGHT YOU CHAPPED LIZARD

[mayapapaya33]

I'm rewatching Exu: Calamity and I think they made a mistake with the name. The real title should be Exu: Actually, Vasselheim has good reasons for how it operates, even if they're dicks about it sometimes. Maybe it was too long, so they went with the snappier CALAMITY! Instead lol.

The end of the Calamity was only 840 something years ago. With Elves and dragons running around, some of them are definitely old enough where, if they didn't live during the Age of Arcanum themselves, their parents or grandparents would have and they would have been told a thousand stories of the fuck heads in flying cities who destroyed the world and were super annoying and dangerous long before they did that. Many more would be born during the latter part of the Calamity or raised by people who survived the Calamity who passes on those stories. Depending on the race we are talking anywhere from direct witnesses (Like the Bright Queen and Ludinus) to like 2-5 generations removed. Even humans with our short lifespans, it's really not THAT long, especially if you've got a bunch of old ass elves around teaching history class from a first person pov for like 500 years lol.

Intellectually people know that Critical Role, the world of Exandria is a post apocalypse story. Exandria is a scarred landscape that is just beginning to bounce back from the brink. But because it is recovering, it's easy to forget sometimes that it IS POST APOCALYPTIC. So people looking at Vasselheim in the modern day are like, 'bro, you really need to chill, everything's fine.' And Vasselheim is like... 'Chill? I do not understand the meaning of this word. And everything is fine... for now. We will be a bastion of civilization when the end times come once more. Fare thee well traveler.'

Then everyone rolls their eyes and moves on with their day. But if you really think about Vasselheim's isolationism and strength and distain for arcane magic in historical context, you can't really blame them. Are they over the top about their dislike of arcane magic? Sure. Is it quite possibly the most understandable over reaction in the history of over reactions? Also yes! They haven't made it illegal, they are just going to keep an eye on you, so you don't pull a Vespin Chloras and doom the planet to another few centuries of choked skies and sundered landscapes, that's all. Vespin was IN Vasselheim! Of COURSE they have strong feelings about it. The (Almost) End of the World began in Vasselheim due to arcane magic. If they had been stricter, maybe it wouldn't have happened at all!

And it really does paint their actions in Campaign 1 in a different light as well. Their isolationism can come across as shortsighted and selfish, until you view it from their point of view. Which is that they are constantly under threat, they know for a fact that Asmodeus wants their city destroyed, they are a bastion for the Prime Deities in a world filled with many heathens (lol that's where the dickishness comes in) and the Betrayer Gods would take any sign of weakness in their defenses and attack with glee. Hearing it in C1 it sounds like an excuse not to help against the Chroma Conclave, but it is literally just the truth from what I can tell. In BOTH Calamity and Downfall they have mentioned destroying Vasselheim being on the Betrayer God's to do list lol. If I was on a Betrayer God's to do list specifically, by name, I too would be somewhat paranoid and would not really want to disarm any portion of the city to go do something else. No matter how important the something else might be.

Vasselheim was basically like; Look, I'm very sorry to hear about your Dragon problem, that sucks, truly, but if we go out all willy nilly and leave this city undefended, it'll be fucked when we get back. When you have a real plan, come back and get us and we'll join you for the big fight. Until then, it's up to you, here you can have Kima as well, she's been desperate to get out of here anyway, and here's some supplies. We have larger concerns than one continent being attacked by four ancient Dragons. We are the seed bank for civilization for when shit inevitably hits the fan. We are the doomsday bunker for the Apocalypse, four Ancient Dragons are terrible, but they are not the Apocalypse. And they are right. Looking at it all in context, The Chroma Conclave are small potatoes. Horrific, monstrous, life destroying, but compared to the threat Vasselheim is preparing for, nothing.

They are the doomsday preppers of Exandria, except the threat is real and they are only letting their collective trauma and ptsd inform their decisions a little bit. They are actually fairly rational all things considered. This city withstood the entire Calamity. The stewards of the city must feel an enormous weight and responsibility to keep it safe going into the future. Imagine the pressure. Are you going to be the one to fuck it all up, after thousands of years? Sounds like a nightmare to me. The level of devotion and conviction required to keep something like that going is incredible.

[servancastillo]

One more day until The Legend of Vox Machina Season 3 premieres Nation wide. First 3 episodes air tomorrow. This is the drawing I made while streaming Live last night! For future streams, please check out my channel at, twitch.tv/kenyu05

[sylvanidae]

My Choma Conclave prints are now up on etsy!! Please have a look and maybe leave a heart on my shop <3

[cringefaecompilation]

yes i made this post specifically for the cougar joke with otohan and cree. sue me

(slightly more passive aggressive one about briarwoods under the cut)

[gingersnipe]

a disguised Raishan tears open the fire plane, unleashing Thordak the Cinder King to wreak new horrors upon the continent of Tal’dorei…

@artists-guild-of-exandria

[locuas642]

About the Chroma Conclave

Now that they revealed the connection between Thordak and the twins, I can say it.

in the original stream, the Chroma Conclave as a group was responsible of having commited a personal offense against at least one of the members of Vox Machina (as oppose to the Briarwoods and Ripley who were Percy's personal nemesis).

Umbrasyl took Westruun.... Duh. but what the show changes was that Westruun was Pike's childhood home and where Wilhand brought Grog after he saved him. In other words, it was their childhood home. As you can guess, this also gave everyone further reason to want to liberate Westruun from Kevdak and made Grog's fight with him even more personal.

And in the original stream, Grog was the one who got the killing shot to Umbrasyl, fully liberating Westruun from those threatening it.

Vorugal, as I mentioned in another post, killed Tiberius. Which despite how much of a bad person his player was, the characters did take Tiberius death hard and fought to defeat Vorugal as much to stop the Chroma Conclave as it was to liberate the ruins of Draconia.

Raishan was Keyleth's most personal enemy in the entire campaign, Furious by what Raishan did. and Raishan........ that might still come up.

and Finally Thordak was the culmination of Vex and Vax's backstory of having lost their mother as a result of Thordak's rampage. And so it was almost fitting that Vex was the one to shatter the crystal while Vax was the one to kill him.

But I understand that particular change to give the shattering to pike rather than Vex. and only half of it is the need to give Pike her much deserved focus for the battle she had to miss.

the other thing is that each of the members of Vox machina have been able to "claim" the kill, obtaining the title of Dragonslayer.

Grog against Brymscise (originally Vax's)

Scanlan against Umbrasyl (Originally Grog's)

Vex & Keyleth against Vorugal (Originally Vex's)

and now Pike and Vax against Thordak (Originally Vex & Vax's)

I think you can tell where I am going with this.

since there is only one dragon remaining, and only one person yet to be able to claim the title of Dragonslayer.

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Vox Machina: The Chroma Conclave by Livia Prima

[manueltorresart]

The last of the Chroma Conclave, the ancient green dragon Raishan. The head started based as a meanier dilophosaurus thingy and I'd like to think the crest is retractable. Also I added some kind of goose tongue because those beast have the meaniest tongues in nature. Voiced by Matthew Mercer on @criticalrole and by Cree Summer in The Legend of Vox Machina.

[divinegayness]

When its an androgynous bad bitch competition and these three pull up

[simplegeneral]

There you are, playing your games and committing crimes against the lesser races... When all of sudden... You are reminded of your duties by your boss in a call

There we are folks, Umbrasyl, the final chroma conclave member for me to draw, lets be honest, the blue guy does not count, he is season 1 material.

Those are the real businessdragons.