#exu calamity spoilers

[its-your-mind]

Laerryn Coramar FUCKING Seelie fucked up those Primordials SO GOOD that the land where they had been is moving and boiling and shifting over a MILLENNIUM LATER don’t you DARE look at me and tell me there has ever been a more powerful arcanist than the fucking Architect Arcane of the floating City of Avalir who near-single-handedly prevented the total annihilation of Exandria by modifying her INCREDIBLY COMPLEX AND ADVANCED AND POWERFUL MAGICAL DEVICE while her city FELL FROM THE SKY and the people she loved most in the world died defending her. The Shattered Teeth ARE STILL FUCKING MOVING. FUCK.

[quietsphere]

Brennan, about to make the players experience the longest second in the history of dnd:

[totallynotzzombiecat]

Patia Por'co, the Keeper of Scrolls, Archmage of the Librarium Incantatum

The embodiment of Perfection.

[captainceranna]

"And though you may be his by working of foul magic, I vow this: I bear your name. I bear it on this stone. And one day I will bring you home"

😭😭😭 Eternally crying for Zerxus

[djpaige]

I mean it was just SUCH. A PERSPECTIVE SHIFT!!! It was-- UGH.

Like, you're watching episode 1 of Calamity, and you open with "Fire." Just that reminder that THIS IS GOING TO BE A DARK STORY. You know this, this is what you're signing up for! These characters are awful! They're all lying about various stuff! They have these ambitions and secrets and lies that will lead them all to RUIN. And you're watching this story unfold, and it's so tense because you KNOW that the Calamity happens. It's already heartbreaking because it's not so much that you know they *can't* stop it, but because you know they *don't*! It's in the lore! It's in the timeline! The Calamity is a thing that happens! TWO THIRDS of the population dies!!! TWO THIRDS!!!

You spend three episodes wondering how the Ring of Brass will mess everything up so bad that the world gets as bad as it can possibly get. Two thirds of the population! Dead!

And then in that fourth episode, Brennan flips that shit on its head. Because he brings in a worse tragedy. One where EVERYONE dies. No one makes it out of Exandria. Complete and total annihilation. And then gently introduces the idea of... what if you could save some of them?

That last fight had characters with HP in the single digits, no spells left, and it was unwinnable if the goal was to win the fight. But the goal changed and became to just survive long enough. You know they can't all survive this. But you sure as shit can hope that they can last those crucial 18 seconds. Just enough to make the difference between losing everyone, and not losing everyone.

It became a story not of how they lost two thirds of the population, but about how they saved one third. And it was an absolute master class in how to use tragedy to tell a story of hope.

[adurna0-art]

“I didn’t do anything wrong”

[criticalsorcery]

Aabria wins rock paper scissors

[icy-moons]

frankly I'm surprised they even made it to the altar

[geezmarty]

"This is gonna be a 'to whom it may concern', I cast fireball!" Laerryn Coramar-Seelie I am in love with you ma'am

[makosgotmoxie]

Sam: *tells all administrators to go down with the ship*

Brennan, well known anti-capitalist:

[everythingisconfetti]

Laerryn being all "I broke the world for you" and then Loquatius being like "I choose to stay in this broken world with you" I'm crying

[theangelofthewaters]

Casual lore drop from Matt in the chat

[quietsphere]

"Oh the fragility, my Valentine"

[totallynotzzombiecat]

'There is no god that strides this world that I worship more, than I worship your heart'

Evandrin Alterra, a starbound First Knight of Avalir.

Calamity left my heart in ruin, so I made this portrait. I needed some therapeutic moments to heal myself..

[meetthefatess]

I have a lot of finale thoughts about Them

[grayintogreen]

Once again we learn that Aeor was not SPECIAL. Nothing they did was original. They're the more fucked up version of everything the higher ups of Avalir (and maybe even other floating cities) are doing, and everyone here clearly hates them. I love it. All of Aeor hated the Cognouza Ward and then we pull back and like the entire fucking living material plane is like "fuck Aeor."

so basically this is a WIZARD HUBRIS SPACE RACE. AND NO ONE WINS.