#Pelor

[ludinusdaleth]

"All of the light, all of the fire is but a shadow... in the face of the Dawn."

-Exandria Unlimited: Calamity, Episode 1, "Excelsior"

[circle-of-wildfire]

arrival of dawn

[shellem15]

"If the gods become mortal, there will inevitably be at least 20 random dudes claiming to be the mortal incarnation of the Dawnfather at any given time." Yes. And one of them will be Asmodeus.

[floweroflaurelin]

What cannot be seen is not gone forever.

[johnnyspells]

Downfall: Part Two

[akitalockwood]

The key to beating artblock is getting really attached to the human child avatar of Pelor who knew

[burr-ell]

asmodeus spitting that "i will ALWAYS hate you", pelor just thundering "do not lie to me" and assuming his true form, asmodeus's presence dissipating. just shot after shot without missing

[toaarcan]

Molaesmyr, or "Why wiping out a city is okay if you're me", by Ludinus Da'leth.

I was waiting for a drop like that, to be honest. To find out that Ludinus has already done what was, for the gods, their darkest moment, and for him it was Tuesday.

The gods destroyed Aeor because Aeor was pointing a gun at their heads, for them it was self-defence and they still tried to find other options first. Ludinus destroyed Molaesmyr to try and reach the moon, and wrote it off as an acceptable loss.

And the thing is, the people of Molaesmyr were just as, if not more helpless against Ludinus than Aeor was against the gods! Aeor had a god-killing weapon in their basement that they were gearing up to use! And when the gods did attack Aeor, they had to do so in mortal form, which rendered them much weaker. For the first half of the battle in the Factorum Malleus, Aeor is winning, the gods are losing HP and falling to bad saving throws and getting interrupted at every turn. It's only once SILAHA gets free of the stun and manages to drop his Meteor Swarm on the wards that the tide turns.

There was no such chance for Molaesmyr. They probably didn't even know what he was doing until he'd already exploded their homes. They weren't pointing a gun at him. They were just in the way.

But it's okay when Ludinus has vastly more power than anyone else and throws their lives away to achieve his goals.

I think gods like the Dawnfather, the Everlight, the Arch Heart, the Lawbearer, the Knowing Mistress, and the Matron of Ravens care vastly more about the mortals that Ludinus claims to champion than he does. I think it broke their hearts to kill as many as they did, while for Ludinus, it was easy.

[gorgynei]

post asmodeus betrayal went like this

[smilelikeawolf]

Ioun: "The only way to protect this world is to step away from it and seal the door behind us."

The Matron: "This is the only home I've ever known."

Melora: "This was ours. We, we... no! No!"

Erathis: "Look how far they came, my love. They almost overtook us by force."

The Matron: "If we do this it protects them from the others as well."

Pelor: "We protect them."

Erathis: "Do we? Look at what you've wrought, Dawnfather."

The Matron: "I have ushered many souls this day."

Erathis: "We killed them for being good. My heart is tired."

[undead-knick-knack]

Father Milo: *looks in Trist's general direction*

Ayden:

[ludinusdaleth]

brothers under the sun.

-Critical Role Campaign 3, Episode 101, "Downfall Part Three"

[shorthaltsjester]

sorry not to always make everything about vex’ahlia de rolo (everything is always about her actually) but something that i have been gnawing on for the past 20 hours is nick’s beautiful narration of the dawnfather with a tear streaming off his face into the ocean and taking with it the part of ayden that hoped. and then centuries from that moment, another mortal spun up in his hubris threatens the balance and the protection of mortals that the dawnfather once cried over and a group of loving idiots walk into his realm looking for and to help and he looks upon a woman who once prayed to him under a tree to help protect the city of her beloved — to protect her city — and who jumped into a purifying flame uncertain if she was worthy of survival and when the people who love her argue for her worth, when she comes out the other side unharmed, he smiles and he says “there is hope.” what if i lost my mind. what if the symmetry of stories told by different people in different times with hundreds of interconnecting threads ruined my life actually.

[twinklestarss]

“I think this will all be over tonight. There's an opportunity here, I think. Decades of truce between us. Don't you think it would be a shame for that to go away? What do you think happens after Aeor, Ayden? I think we will find out. I think that the threat we now face is an opportunity. But you are the ones who must come to the table, not us.”-Milo/Ayden

Critical Role Campaign 3: Downfall Part 2

[floweroflaurelin]

I didn’t want Father to be right. I wanted to save them. Why must it always be like this?

—

Ayden shedding his mortal form—one of my favourite moments from the whole miniseries! ☀️Brennan as Asmodeus just hits every single time without fail what can I say

[marvelousbelladonna]

Divine faces revealed!

S. I. L. A. H. A. aka the Arch Heart

Trist aka the Everlight

Ayden aka the Dawn Father

Asha aka the Wildmother

Emhira aka THE RAVEN QUEEN!!!