#c1e114

[vethbrenatto]

🔑🎶

[foldybikes]

grog flexes his new talking sword and immediately gets thrown into the shadow dimension. brutal.

[astudyinchocolate]

some c1e114 silly screenshots from what is obviously a very silly episode :)

[the-velvet-worm]

I’m about to start the last episode but I’m still sobbing over Scanlan using his 9th level spell to counterspell Vecna thereby losing his only chance to save Vax that was just so⎯

[beauty-grace-outer-space]

"Oh, Matt did not like that..."

(ominous silence from Matt)

"Matt?"

"... The cocked die argument was not resolved, you guys just rolled. We'll move forward, but cutthroat from here on out."

[chloes-yellow-cup]

Just because I'm at this scene now for my 3rd watch of C1... 

I didn't catch it the first time I watched it. I did see other people bring it up later and I while I saw it, I didn’t get it. 

But now, after watching these guys game together for 5 years now (came to it late).. it hits a lot harder.

The way Liam’s head pops up, zeroes in on Sam’s face and is caught is just... I love these guys.

Also including a link to the full episode at this point because Marisha’s concern hits hard too.

https://youtu.be/W-SMrG0QLc0?t=17681 

There’s a few more bits around 5:03 and 5:36.

[aquariusdeanw]

Scanlan’s counterspell at level 8 “that’s why I got closer motherfucker!”

His counterspell at level 9 sacrificing his wish for Vax.

His counterspell at level 3 with his natural 20.

Scanlan MVP of the fight.

[bitchfacebriarwood]

i am <2 mins into the vecna battle episode and already my heart has been shattered by scanlan fucking shorthalt

[critcatbar]

Ahhhh!! Zahra and Kash join the fight??? Fuck yeahhhhh!!

[pocketgalaxies]

me: vaxleth's relationship is so soft and sweet

vaxleth:

[lesbinewren]

scanlan tried to save a wish for vax hold on i

[vethbrenatto]

[twinklestarss]

Vaxleth + Kisses 💋

C1E33 | C1E54 | C1E76 | C1E81 | C1E106 | C1E112 | C1E114 |C1E115

[keefechambers]

Grog Strongjaw & Arkhan the Cruel in C1E114-115 & Jocks Machina

Vex: You seem to like him a lot. Are you sure you want to kill him and not just try and get -

[12pt-times-new-roman]

...there's something you've never seen before around [Ruidus]. There is a shape that encompasses it, clear as day, like a field of energy, like something that encapsulates it. Not unlike some of the magical forcefields and such you've learned to generate, and it has a texture, like a lattice weave, an extremely powerful gathering of different magical threads that crate this textured weave that seals it off entirely... it looks more like like a cage. It's strong, distinct, something you've never seen before, unlike anything you've ever seen...

This is super fucking similar to every single description we've ever gotten of the Divine Gate. Here are all of them:

C2E141: You feel yourself rushing as strange, lattice-like imagery begins to come into view, the Divine Gate that separates the world of Exandria from the divinity that created it. C1E115.10: From behind you, you see the lattice, the Divine Gate, pass again, and the golden net vanishes in the distance behind you as you're yanked backwards. C1E115.09: Suddenly, you're thrust through this speeding lattice of glowing, yellow-orange energy -- an interpretation of the Divine Gate, or perhaps your mind trying to interpret what was actually the physical Divine Gate. C1E114: You watch as the lattice of the Divine Gate begins to spread out around [Vecna's] body. C1E106: The Divine Gate works both ways... it's essentially a large gate that prevents gods from returning to the Prime Material Plane. C1E104: "Understand, in order for us to directly interfere, to seal a god like we did once long ago, we would have to tear down the Divine Gate, and that would release an entirely new armageddon upon your world." C1E103: There before you, you see the glimmering, almost burning lattice of the Divine Gate streaking towards you at an immense speed... you brace for impact and pass through again, that warmth almost coming to a similar state of burning, but then leaving you behind. C1E101: You got some of [the Briarwoods' research] and a lot of it dealt with ley energies. There are certain lines that stretch across, invisible lines that stretch across Exandria, where the magical powers that hold together the planes and protect it through the Divine Gate and other elements-- (Matt gets cut off here) C1E94: You see that single bead of light ahead that grows larger and larger, and that light becomes omnipresent almost, a familiar grid of divine fire and light. The Divine Gate, ancient and placed by the gods to seal both them, the Betrayer Gods, and any entities away... the lattice of the Divine Gate shifts and darkens behind you. C1E91: A glow begins as you rocket towards an unexpected and incredible sight: an endless and permeable tapestry, a tangled lattice of burning, divine fire, writhing and glowing as you shoot towards it with incredible speed... you impact and pass through it harmlessly, the heat fading. You glance over your shoulder and see it's gone. You just passed through the Divine Gate.

So, yeah. There's that. Ruidus appeared during the Founding, sure, but that warding could've been placed long after that, maybe during the Calamity. Paired with the fact that the Gau Drashari were directly responsible for the creation and maintenance of the Tree of Names, which itself was very similar and likely a precursor to the Divine Gate? If the Gray Assassins aren't just keeping knowledge from spreading but are also hoarding and actively seeking it for their own means, then it stands to reason that the Ashari might have had some records, stories, or other histories about it, given that they are direct descendants of the people who constructed an arcane ward around an entire planet. That could give us their motive for attacking Zephrah — and if Will was one of the people guarding that information, maybe that's why he was killed.

[hextechery]

I AM ON C1E114 OF CRITICAL ROLE THIS IS NO JOKE