#areelu vorlesh

[rangedreign]

somewhere down the shore...

mommy areelu is chillin like a villain

[kutkhart]

Art on the theme of the multiverse

[fried-piranha]

mommies！

[notnonart]

weekly art challenge #10 - in the cards

the divine luck of the ever-changing wheel is far more overrated than many people think, and Reshal knows this better than anyone

[darkergrey]

Areelu Vorlesh design simplified for animation activities. Based on a combination of her adventure path look and the crpg design.

[the-8-of-spades]

god I am just so obsessed with Wrath of the Righteous as a story.

Like "x genre story turns out to be y genre" *always* gets me but something about the hard flip from "epic crusade against evil" to "very dangerous whodunit/conspiracy mystery thriller" is just so well done.

Owlcat's ground up rewrite of Areelu as a Machiavellian puppeteer reshaping the world and pitting gods against each other not for mustache twirling Evil™ but out of love and grief.

the constant sinking feeling of "something else is going on here" you get throughout the whole second and third act as you push deeper into the Worldwound and things just don't add up.

every time I hear Searching for Answers play I just feel my skin start to crawl as I wonder if the thread I've chosen to pull will unravel the knot or tighten the noose.

tl;dr if anyone has any other CRPGs or games in general or shows or books or anything that encapsulate the almost paranoid vibe of WotR please lmk

[pierkyn]

Demon ladies from Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous 😳

[r0-x4-nne]

Practicing...

[thatratgo]

The intellectuals of Pathfinder :D

[sansevierias]

"Here are my last words – I regret nothing." ( Art sources: 1 2 3 )

[rangedreign]

your fault for getting attached to the two biggest goofuses on golarion

[nnibarrel]

Polaroid pictures with pathfinder characters, if wotr and km were films and they were actors, that our gang from Pathfinder Ask made! 1) me and @boggubozakatochnihmashinok (Ramien) "I wanted a prop like that too!" (Varn) "This is a blessing of Cayden Cailean!" 2) @ronavorona16 (Lann) "You thought I was always so handsome? But that's a makeup!" 3) @laurelinlote (Tristian and, behind him, Kalikke) 4) Ilrand (Commander and Excess) "Am I real? Is he real? Haha, in fact we are both real." 5) RadSilv (Commander) "This is me auditioning for the role of the сount Arendae. But playing the lead role was also good!" 6) @doctorpasta and @kutkhart (Commander and Irabeth) "Will Deskari become a butterfly after a kiss?" 7) kutkhart and @alittlecrazy23 (Regill and Nenio) "We need coffee. At any cost." 8) kutkhart and Lina (Stitch, Areelu and Regill) "Discussing villainous monologues." Thanks to Kutkh for organizing this!

[fried-piranha]

试试，再不能发我也没辙了……

啊啊啊啊让我进公众tag怎么你了！！！！

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Areelu Vorlesh. The Architect of the Worldwound by Anna Pavleeva (Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous)

[bite-the-bloody-hand]

I have a lot of thoughts about the Secret ending and Endgame but the one that's got me in a spiral [affectionate] right now is

how when you go back to Areelu's lab and you find her memories. You play through this whole situation with her kid summoning monsters and doing stupidass shit right. You see it all and then at the end there's this very odd bit of dialog where the kid is like 'oh mom you'd never actually let me be hurt and you're only letting me explore on my own and someday I'll be big and strong thank you mom!' or some shit like that.

That moment and the kid's horrible death are the only memories you see of him, and then you get to speak to Areelu herself. And what she has to say is so interesting right, she talks about how absorbed she was in her work and how desperately focused she was on essentially saving mankind from themselves that she didn't even realize Inquisitors were at her door until it was too late to stop them from murdering her child.

And of course seeing her kid die like that broke her, of course not being able to resurrect him because Pharasma had already passed judgement made things worse.

But what gets me is that her grief, her regret, is something she's never actually processed. When she talks to you in the secret ending, and you spell out all you've done to understand her, she breaks because she can't see you as anything but her child anymore... which is so heartbreaking to me because she never even knew who her child was.

All she has are her memories, which themselves have literally become projections of her own regrets. The kid we see summoning up Balors at age ten, who fully understood and accepted his mother's motivations, who only ever acted out because of curiosity and never because of a harsh sentiment between them... I'm pretty sure that kid never existed. Areelu, so caught up in breaking the world to avenge and reclaim her child, forgot who that child ever actually was.

The implications of the Knight Commander's time in her Lab suggest that (if you're playing a shorter-lived race anyway) she takes them from some point in childhood to begin her experiments; periodically snatching up and then re-releasing them to assure her long-term study is successful. She's manipulative if not outright coercive, resorting to abusive experimentation, ruining the life of a living child to have perfect dominion over a dead one.

Her tragedy is so delicious to me, I must say.

[kutkhart]

I was just practicing... So many tags (ಡ‸ಡ)