#ExU Divergence

[mayapapaya33]

I am deeply in love with how deeply in love Brennan is with Critical Role. He wrote his buddy a love letter and created a raccoon trap to get him to experience it and I think that's beautiful.

[shorthaltsjester]

Critical Role: 10 Years of Storytelling

Campaign 1, Episode 115, "The Chapter Closes." // Taliesin Jaffe, in "As D&D booms, 'Critical Role' makes its own kind of nerd celebrity" by Sarah Parvini // Campaign 3, Episode 31, "Breaking Point" // On Loving by Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. Sholeh Wolpé // The Legend of Vox Machina at NYCC 2022 // 8-bit Stories // Campaign 1 Wrap-Up // “Without You Without Them” by boygenius // Campaign 2, Episode 141, "Fond Farewells." // Campaign 3: Behind the Set // Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka // Campaign 1, Episode 115, "The Chapter Closes." // Explanation of the final Vex’ahlia playlist by Laura Bailey // Liam's Quest: Full Circle // Backwards by Warsan Shire // Exandria Unlimited: Kymal, Part 2 // Explanation of Fearne’s second playlist by Ashley Johnson // Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson // San Diego Comic-Con 2023, Critical Role: Fireside Chat & Cast Q&A // Exandria Unlimited Cooldown: Divergence Episode 4 // Campaign 3, Episode 23, "To the Skies." // Explanation of the final Percy playlist by Taliesin Jaffe // "For Good" by Stephen Schwartz // Campaign 3, Episode 91, "True Heroism." // Exandria Unlimited: Calamity, Episode 4, "Fire and Ruin." // Campaign 3, Episode 121, "A New Age Begins."

[mediumdata]

Exu divergence rewatch just for the little faces Liam makes when Matt does something in game that totally plays into the secret narrative.

[galacticjonah]

"For the first time in a lifetime, you feel the rays of the rising sun. Like the warm embrace of a long lost brother."

Was hard to pick what scene to illustrate for this episode, but I went for the one that made me cry the most...

[kingcael]

Gods of Exandria

[automatictrashwolf]

"I needed a mom, not to fight for a boss"

😭

[olessan]

"It took my whole, entire mortal life to remember who I was... and now it's time for you to do the same, my brother."

[raenalt]

I think about "can you lift a hammer? Can you drag a hoe?" multiple times every day now

I fear it may become a vocal stim

[castielreal]

oh man i just can’t. liam wiping matt’s tears off his face, matt closing his eyes when hugging him- them pulling eachother closer. jesus man

[ariadne-mouse]

"The Moonweaver wears Liana's face... or perhaps it is more correct to say, Liana wore the Moonweaver's."

Sometimes your sister turns out to have been a god and it's okay

[lyadrielle]

just a lil guy learning to swim!

[mayapapaya33]

I want Brennan to DM a Pirate miniseries in Exandria, as a treat. He broke our hearts thoroughly and now I feel like we deserve a bit of whimsy and swashbuckling as recompense for the emotional damage.

[dumpster-fire-sapphic-failgirl]

BLeeM’s EXU trilogy has a very strong through line that while love may not be the most powerful magic (the most powerful magic is Chronomancy!), love *is* one hell of a driving force

[justsomeone76]

I'm insane over the fact that the one aspect of Fiedra that Asmodeus didn't account for was her parental instinct. He sees her ruthlessness, her cunning, her willingness to cheat and fight and kill to protect herself, so he tempts her with riches and safety and freedom from her rotten lot and he knows she will say yes, because she is a liar, a survivor, a roach who always has an out, just like him, and Asmodeus always chooses to save himself.

She should say yes, but against all odds, she says no.

But she says no. She says no, and destroys the key to give back Timothy his soul. She says no to save a young boy because she is at heart a parent. Just how she chose to save and protect Crokus (even if it came with a fuckload of emotional baggage and mistakes) at every chance. Just how she chose to protect, to be the watchful parental guardian at Torm's Hill. Fiedra says no, not because she isn't ruthless and cunning and selfish, but because she is a parent and she loves her children.

And of course Asmodeus doesn't see it coming, because parental love is the one thing he never understood. Fiedra Marriw is perhaps the first person in all of EXU to truly beat Asmodeus, to see through his lies, to foil his plan completely, and she does it through the power of a parent's love.

[mareastrorum]

Brennan: As a forever DM, the idea of you getting a chance to play in your world and me letting you be like, "You know what, after years of being the Greek chorus, behind-the-screen NPC guy, I got a shot to be a PC. I think I'll be support." And I went,

"Over my dead body."

Brennan: Over my dead fucking body, my man. No, actually, oh, you wanna be a dwarf? Guess what! You're fucking The Dwarf, my man.

Matt: It's so fucked.

[natelm2nd]

If I had a nickle for every mini-series featuring a fucked up god-less world airing on Critical Role in 2025 I'd have two nickles...