#The Shattered Teeth

[ziocorvid]

love those lil pyromaniac lizardfrog faeries

[mommymilkersmac-n-cheese]

Even the fucking tree is telling them Ludinus needs to be put down

[blightstaff-beetles]

The entire island chain of the Shattered Teeth being infused with primordial chaotic energy from Avalir detonating and diffusing Ka'mort and Rau'shan being so fucking whack that the islands supposedly can move around is the coolest shit i have ever heard

[a-forest-in-her-bones]

I want to have tea with Turtle Grandma Jirana the Shore Shrew in her giant toad house SO BAD.

also, Matt described the interior of Toriz to be “almost disturbing if it weren’t so quaint.” And like… that’s the Ligament Manor but reversed. Almost quaint if it wasn’t so disturbing. Anyway, love all the delightfully weird grannies we’re getting this campaign.

[inky-quilled-dragon]

So I'm on the Wiki, as you do, and when i was looking at who might be living in the shattered teeth i found something. Interesting.

Worshipping dreams and nightmares... two things which are heavily connected to Ruidus, the Reiliora, and thus Predathos. Hm.

(Also apparently there might be dinosaurs.)

[the-larashark]

🚨🚨🚨 SHATTERED TEETH ALERT🚨🚨🚨

CR'S RED NOSE DAY ONE SHOT IS SET IN THE SHATTERED TEETH

LET'S GOOOO

[exandriacityshowdown]

Round 3 Poll 12

Molaesmyr, Wildemount: Molaesmyr was an elven city destroyed during a disaster in 585PD. It is located in the corrupted woodlands of the Savalirwood, formerly known as Veluthil Forest. When Bells Hells were separated during the Apogee Solstice of 843, “Team Wildemount" visited the ruins to investigate the history of Ludinus Da'leth. 

Avalir: Avalir was a pre-Calamity flying city made out of the top half of the mountain Ygora. The Ring of Brass (ExU Calamity's PC party) lived and worked here, and by a certain definition it could be said that the Calamity began here, with the destruction of the Tree of Names beneath the surface. 

image is official art by clara daly/eldritchblep

[blackmosscupcakes]

AHHHHHHH HE'S ROPING IN CALAMITY AHHHHHHHHH

[seagiri]

sorry artstyle changed again

+ extra thanks to cabinet my head is spinning

[occidentalavian]

Full map of Exandria, 2024 update!

Map images and Wonderdraft file download [HERE]

Hi everyone! It's been about 4 years since my last map. In that time more of Exandria has revealed itself to us, and while it is still not a complete picture, we now have enough that I felt it was time to make an update.

The biggest change from my previous map is that I am no longer using the Elven Tower Cartography assets. This is because previously I installed them incorrectly, in a way that meant that people who downloaded the map file were unable to see the assets unless they installed it in the same weird way that I did. Rather than fixing this, I instead opted to use the default Wonderdraft assets, that way it can be viewed out of the box without having to download something else first!

As before, Tal'Dorei and Wildemount are the most accurate to official maps, and we also have an official map of at least one arrangement of the Shattered Teeth, which is re-created here. We have a portion of Marquet via the Oderan Wilds and Hellcatch Valley maps, but the rest, including all of Issylra is still mostly made up, based loosely on a very old and tiny map briefly shown on screen by Sam in episode 103 of Campaign 1! Naturally when any new maps come out, this map will (eventually) be updated to reflect them.

There are some locations that are new to this map as well, such as the Demithore Valley in Issylra from Campaign 3 and all the towns visited in The Re-Slayer's Take up to episode 10, these being Himblewood, Josgren's Hollow, Shoresight Isle, and the Hug Hive. Ta'Dorei has a few new towns, Mooren and Heldenfaire, which were mentioned in Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn, as well as a few unnamed village clusters, the Foramere and Vues'dal villages. For these and the Mornset Countryside I included some non-canonical paths connecting them to the main roadways. Also included in Mornset is Roch Mar, the village that Vox Moronica visited all the way back in Episode 12 of Campaign 1, before Critical Role even did separate numbering for one-shots and thus included this unrelated episode in the campaign. This town isn't officially confirmed to actually exist in Exandria, so consider it my headcanon and a paper town. Moving on to Wildemount, Vo Village got upgraded to proper town status, and I've also included Yardel from The Nine Eyes of Lucien, Ghostwall from The Tales of Exandria: The Bright Queen, and Galgarad from the Dark Star adventure on DnDBeyond!

I want to give a special thanks to Don Farland for his original fan map of Exandria, created all the way before the release of Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, upon which I originally based my map of the Shattered Teeth. Incidentally, I believe that this depiction of those islands was the basis upon which the official map by Andy Law is based upon. I would also like to thank Niko Vanhala for his fan-made maps of Marquet and Issylra, upon which I have loosely based my maps of those continents. And of course thank you to Andy Law and Deven Rue for the official cartography of Exandria!

[lifemod17]

I don't think I've seen this here yet? (Or I just wasn't paying enough attention) BUT!!!!

DRUMSTICK TWIRL DURING 'Like That'!!!

Source: my dearly beloved G @darkliingg on Twitter

[smilelikeawolf]

Gau Drashari made the Tree of Names for Avalir

The Tree of Names wrote a spell of protection on Exandria to protect it from the realms

Evandrin volunteered for Laerryn’s experiments with leylines, becoming anchored to another plane

The Tree of Names prevented Evandrin from returning to Exandria

Laerryn cast Blight on the Tree of Names to protect her friends

Evandrin’s face appeared in the tree at the moment of its destruction

Not much information of the Tree of Names survived the Calamity

Evontra’vir is known as the Great Tree of Atrophy

Its roots reach between the realms of life and death

Evontra’vir --- Evandrin Alterra of Avalir?

[mommymilkersmac-n-cheese]

Toriz just screams Studio Ghibli and I’m loving it. I want to live inside this cozy toad so bad

[sparring-spirals]

"are we looking for a huge fucking tree" not if laerryn had anything to say about it

[beebfreeb]

Little things about Marcille make me so so so sick. Reading a book with the first character that's anything like you at all in even a somewhat respectable way and falling in love. She doesn't know anything about the food her mother grew up eating. She is subtly different from her peers and has never been sure where she fits in. AND despite those experiences she still falls victim to prejudiced thinking. She and Kabru should be besties who verbally fight like rabid dogs.

[essektheylyss]

Honestly, the implication with the Sendings that there is something wrong with the leylines and the weave of magic in Exandria is so funny to me. There is a non-zero chance, not even a low chance, that Ludinus is pissed because he got tossed to some random point in Exandria, and now he has to walk places. And maybe get on a ship. God forbid.*

But this also has a lot of other implications. The leylines tend to be associated with both intra- and interdimensional travel, as well as things like Scrying, Sending of course, and possibly other methods of divination.

It is also possible that, given what we know about dunamis, that dunamancy is also tied to the leylines or the weave in some way.

We know that divine magic is at least working—but we only know this to be true of divine magic granted by a god of the Pantheon.

So, with all of that in mind, a HIGHLY incomplete sample of things that may or may not be happening across Exandria while the Hells A-Team is traveling to Uthodurn:

Yussa is torn between gratitude for being free from the menace of Caleb Widogast teleporting into his house and Jester Lavorre sending him messages at all hours, and irritation that he can't get any of his work done because it all has to do with planar magic.

Any gratitude wears off when Fjord and Jester come banging on his door because Jester cannot send any messages nor contact Artagan, who is bound by the rules of the planes and by extension the leylines (since he can, unlike the gods, pass mostly freely from plane to plane).

Fjord's magic is completely fine because he is operating on sheer force of will and obeys no laws known to mortals, physics, or nature. Essek, who was holed up in the Lavorres' spare room for the week, is absolutely pissed because half of his magic is broken (and also he has no idea where his partner is).

Caleb and Beau take like seven hours to get the collar off before discovering that they are stuck somewhere in the Issylran tundra. (They would probably get fined by the Slayer's Take for the number of bounties they take out their rage on, if the Slayer's Take had ANY idea who the fuck they were.)

Caduceus is cheerfully gardening and has no idea this has happened. Melora decides not to bother him. Let him live in bliss, unlike the rest of Exandria.

Dorian has been having a meltdown into his Sending stone while Opal and Dariax run rampant and Cyrus looks very pretty but does absolutely nothing. It has no effect.

Keyleth is sitting in a daze somewhere next to a tree that will not open wondering if the last thirty-six hours were a fever dream.

The city of Syngorn saw the moon nonsense, panicked, tried to hop to the Feywild, then panicked harder. Fortunately, they could not contact anyone, and Allura Vysoren did not have to hear about it.

Ludinus has murdered several people. It has gotten him no closer to leaving whatever random part of the Tal'dorei countryside he is menacing.

Somewhere, there is a bird. That bird saw this beam, looked down into a very old, very precious orb, and said, "Not this fucking shit again."

All in all, very funny couple of days Exandria is happening. I'm sure things will not get any worse.

*I know he traveled by ship to the peace talks, okay, but that was for appearances. He didn't have shit to be doing at the time.