The first Xhorhas episode of campaign 2 is fascinating because the Mighty Nein are clearly expecting it to be an awful place filled with bad people. Knowing the home they discover within it, this arc is a masterful way of showing the power of dehumanizing propaganda.
They constantly refer to the people they encounter as “the bad guys” even to their faces (especially the Kryn) and barely seem to consider the idea that the people there will be just like people anywhere else. They’re reluctant to help fellow travelers, they hold a lot of ignorant prejudice based on what they heard back in the Empire, and it’s hard not to almost wince at the things they say, knowing the actual culture they’re about to encounter.
This is an experience the audience has alongside them, which also makes it notable. I don’t remember these comments from my first watch; this is insight that I’ve only gained upon rewatching these episodes and realizing exactly how little the Nein understood about the Dynasty, and exactly where all of that information had come from.
Given where they end up, I had genuinely forgotten that propaganda was all they’d known of the Dynasty before they made the snap decision to go through that tunnel and change the course of the campaign. I’m excited to watch this shift in perspectives happen with the wisdom of hindsight as I continue my rewatch!
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gale. honey. sweetheart. dumbass beloved.
this makes you sound like a sorcerer. are you a sorcerer. you kind of sound like a sorcerer and not a wizard.
mr "being a wizard is my entire identity and I know nothing about myself outside of it"
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‘Why?! Why all the nat 20s on the porn?!’
Robbie, my friend, that’s what we call a…
Clitoral hit!
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what if I was a wizard who recently escaped the feywild and you were the changeling who'd tried to steal my identity and also we kept trying to kill each other but i just wanted my life back and you just wanted a loving family and also what if we kissed
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I miss when u could see like 400 new discord servers every day just scrolling on tumblr. what am i to do when i cant join a discord, send an intro, and then mute it to never look in it again every day
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i’m really liking what we’ve been seeing of chetney’s softer, emotional, more wizened sides lately. between his conversation with orym about will and the subsequent gift, gently trying to lead fearne to the realization that her nana was the one behind the postcards, catching onto dusk, even some of the way he’s talked about being a werewolf n his connection to the gorgynei. chetney is slowly revealing himself to be an Extremely emotionally intelligent dude but he’s usually moving at such breakneck comedic speed that it’s hard to tell
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When your mother tells you to run away or give in to the dark powers that hunt your bloodline but you have a goth gf now
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