#xhorhas siblings

[talasterism]

welcome to the very first installement of Winnow Weekly!!

today we meet the (once) noble Den Daev’yana, (Seed of Rebirth version), and Winnow's blood family. EXCEPT! since nine months the Den is considered missing, excepting two people - Zyn, whom Winnow likes the least in the family (he's the most pathetic meow meow but in a deragatory way), and Winnow, who had been in Dwendalian Empire in the time of the Disappearing. AND!! in the first session, upon Winnow returning to Xhorhas, we attend a ball and hear the announcement from the Bright Queen that Den Daev'yana is now officially dissolved since no progress has been made in finding them :') winnow did Not take the news well & now is even more determined to find them. exceeept he is wanted in Rosohna, where the family was last seen, for the murder his mother framed on him. (the family is messy to say the least).

everyones introductions and winnow's love language (nickanmes) below

Eala Daev’yana, she/they, drow (blue), 279 (Misuthar 11th 557 PD)

sweet mother go puhpuhpuh. OG Daev’yana. her favourite snack is toffee and their favourite artform is sculpture. has a very businesswomany clothing style and long hair (with a marriage bead) she keeps mostly free or does a sleek tight braid for Business ™ times. had a very strong tea-fortune-telling phase where she bothered everyone with not throwing away their teas. murderer (accidental? we simply dont know)

Luathi Daev’yana. she/her, drow (lilac), 301 (Cuersaar 20th, 535 PD)

mean toxic mom go brr. winnow always tried to impress her more than Eala & rogued mostly for her. only drinks black iced coffee. very goal-driven. loves to read in her armchair. if she had discord or a mobile phone it would always be on do not disturb. 

Zyn Daev’yana, he/him, drow (lilac), younger sibling early 220s

Sareil Daev’yana, he/him, drow, 98 (738 PD), oldest sibling / adopted into Den

Luathi’s younger brother. He must spend a good fortune on hair bleach and an hour a fortnight to buzz it short again (blasphemy in the family who cares about hair traditions above any others, if you ask Winnow). writes embarassing poetry (in canon it's just taylor swift lyrics). Regularly shows up for family board game nights, and yet almost never wins (because he’s a loser, one could argue).

Sareil is a classic gay romantic whose first love is academia, and probably always will be. He likes to read poetry while looking out of the window in his favourite spot in the tower - especially on rainy days-, and drinking mugs of tea gone cold and magically reheated over three to five open books while hectically noting down questions to his own theories. Winnow and he have a softly quiet friendship, the kind where you talk to each other more through book annotations than with face-to-face words and make the other cup of tea when you make yourself one. Winnow's nickname for him is 2D PhD (cause his previous last name also started w D and he’s a nerd) or Reirei. 

Orlas Daev’yana, she/they, drow, 77 (Thunsheer 1st, 759 PD), older sibling  

FAVOURITE NPC!!! As far as being the firsborn and the oldest child of a noble Den (for a while, at least) goes, Orlas dealt with the expectations placed upon her quite graciously. They were an A student in all aspects and institutions, an excellent notetaker and moderator of meetings between Den Thelyss and Den Daev’yana, and even brought Winnow back home (more on that another time). Coincidentally, they are also the one who told him the truth, and losing a couple of points in their mothers’ eyes along with a promise braid.  Not that it mattered - only those who knew her before Winnow entering their life could see that she had changed since he moved in. Something about them was opening slowly, like a kitten’s eye for the first time, something like happiness and relief.

If Winnow would ever write his own book, he most certainly would start with a small collection of short stories, dedicating each one to Orlas. He calls her l'Orla and cydan (undercommon affectionate term for big sister), or page Orlas in mock fancy tone And an accent, turning it more into Pajeeeh Orleeeh when he teases them. Gender-wise is a sister but not a daughter. 

Garle’as Daev’yana, they/them, drow, 51 (785PD), older sibling

Somehow, from the very first day, Winnow never really liked Garle’as, and neither did they like him back. For the entirety of Winnow’s life in the Den, the relationship between the two was tensely taut, fuelled by mutual jealousy of each other - the new attention Winnow was getting versus the comfortable history Garle’as shared with everyone, the disinclination to share inside jokes, the coldness of shoulders turned to each other in sharp contrast of the warmth offered by the others. With finally more than enough people in his life to love, Winnow was not worried about their mutual annoyance with each other - if anything it’s kind of fun to have a relaxed nemesis, and no efforts were made from either to warm their relationship (except of course, staying civil during dinners and family trips. That mostly involved the mothers strategically placing the children out of each other’s sight and hoping for the best after they learned that chastising Garle’as publicly wasn’t doing any wonders, and it worked surprisingly well). At no point did Winnow think about giving them a nickname, not even a shitty one. 

Ta’nuil Daev’yana, he/they, drow, 17 (819 PD),  younger sibling

Ta’nuil - like most members of the family - has ADHD, except it’s multiplied by being a kid. In the Den, he is famous for changing hobbies every two to six business weeks (well, at least at the ripe age of being 7). Whenever Winnow’s ADHD alligned with Ta’n’s, he accompanied him in adventures of learning new crafts: through vicariously changing hobbies, Winnow has learned about himself that he likes to work with paper - like  scrapbooking, paper sculting, and origami. Winnow’s nickname for them is spindle (cause he likes to spin) and Nui.

Elossu Daev’yana, she/her, drow, 8 (828 PD), youngest sibling

Winnow left when she was only 2, and before her appearance in his life thought himself to hate all babies - until she was the first exception. As a baby she was quite fussy and looking for undivided attention. Winnow liked to read to her. Winnow’s nickname for her is peacheeks (for her soft pinkish cheeks). 

I even came up with Undercommon writing to transcribe everyone's names, but more on that later,,,

[flashhwing]

(random fandom salt voice) the reason we call caleb and beau 'empire sibs' is because they behave and treat each other like siblings, not simply because they are both from the same place. if it were purely geographical, veth would be included in the dynamic as well, but she is not

with this in mind. why do people call yasha and essek 'xhorhas sibs'. show me where essek and yasha treat each other like siblings. i'll wait.

[captainsspnanon]

C2E71 - Family Gathering - rewatch

Ah no, now Laura and Travis are remote! I remember them saying after that the connection wasn’t great, and Travis specifically talking about how it was hard for him to handle it remote, especially with the ADD (I’m pretty sure they said that, at least) (if I recall, it was the reason he gave for not connecting Caduceus’s story to Fjord’s last name)

Okay, is it just me, or are Dairon and Essek’s accents basically identical? Like, I’ve thought this from the start, even from my original watch through. It’s just hard because I don’t really have any good side by sides to compare it to, and also theoretically they should have very DIFFERENT accents because Empire and Xhorhas. I wonder if this is why I always kept forgetting Essek’s accent and thinking he had a different one (even with this watch through, I expect him to sound different somehow).

I mean, all respect to Matt for having a jillion different voices he can do, but because of that, when he ends up duplicating a prominent character’s voice, it gets very weird. I know this has happened before, but I honestly can’t remember who with. Just that he did a voice and it was very ‘but what that’s [x] other NPC’s voice!’

oh beau!!! My heart breaks a little bit at this scene, with Beau immediately being confrontational with Dairon, misunderstanding confusion as aggression. “but don’t – are you gonna get mad at me? Are you gonna get mad at me?” just the defensiveness falling into the insecurity, for me this very small bit right here is a FANTASTIC depiction of Beau. She’s aggressive to authority, but not because of the assumed ‘automatic disrespect to power discrepancy’, but due to her fear that no matter what she does, it’s not good enough. No matter how well she does, someone that she looks up to will deride her for it, or express displeasure in her doing it. Here it is so clearly seen how her father has impacted her. She just wants to do things RIGHT and have people SEE that she does. SEE how hard she tries. SEE that she cares, and honestly? PRAISE her for doing what she’s done. True, non-condescending praise. And not from someone like Jester who will praise her no matter what, not from someone like Fjord who will offer praise but also ask for help, but from someone who is on a demarcated level ABOVE her, who there is no doubt is higher ranking, who does not need a give and take on equal level. The difference between a sibling saying you did well, a classmate saying you did well, and a teacher saying you did well.

Dairon will eventually be on a level where she believes that she and Beau are equals, but I suspect that Beau will always consider her to be a form of authority, just a very positive authority who you almost want to remain in that position, so that any praise has that different feel than praise from a peer.

Huh, first watch through I completely missed Jester frantically waiving Beau off, trying not to have her tell Dairon about returning the beacon. That’s weird! Why would she be opposed?? She’s typically the MOST open of the Nein!

It is SOOO rewarding to watch this bit knowing about Essek being the traitor. They’re discussing giving away the beacons to start a war, to get lots of money, to get favors. None of those end up being true! He just wanted more knowledge that he wasn’t able to get on his own. I know there’s a lot of fanbase drama around Essek being a ‘war criminal’ and such, but what I put in his favor is that 1) EVERYONE says that the war was going to eventually happen and was getting closer and closer to a boiling point, and 2) he did this without the intention of causing harm. (I shouldn’t have to say this, but I’m going to anyway IT IS DIFFERENT BECAUSE HE IS A FICTIONAL CHARACTER. NO ONE ACTUALLY DIED, THERE WAS NO ACTUAL WAR. As such, I can think of things from a character perspective, a narrative perspective, and gain a very VERY different viewpoint. If this was the real world, Essek was a real person, actually did these things for real, real people died, it should be damn OBVIOUS that the viewpoint would be different and there would be no ‘narrative’ or ‘character’ consideration.)

(also, I’ve read a few fantastic meta posts about how Essek was in the exact right position to be groomed by the Empire into becoming the traitor, which, while I adore them and will sometimes treat them as headcanon, I don’t consider to be actual canon. Just as Bren made the decision to kill his parents, Essek made the decision to hand over the beacons. In my opinion, Essek’s decision was actually more under his own control and more selfish than Bren. And this is why, as much as I enjoy a variety of Shadowgast fanfic, ones which turn Essek into pure woobie really don’t sit well with me. This is a man who caused harm, who did something selfishly and recognized that it likely WOULD cause harm, and as far as I can tell, did not begin to regret his actions until the Nein started to break down walls he had put up. As much as I will read fics that come up with reasons why Adeen Tasithar was evil and deserved what he got, as far as we know in canon, Adeen was kinda a jerk, and that was all. And Essek, as far as we see, has no regret for condemning him to imprisonment, likely torture, likely death.) (wow I jumped ahead there, oops) (I have Essek Opinions, and can get irritated at fan portrayal of him that flattens him out to ‘poor little meow meow’ and ‘the girl in the relationship’. Seriously, I think a lot of fan fic authors needs to learn that in a queer relationship, one of the people involved does not need to be the feminine one, the girly one, the one who hits all the ‘stay at home waiting for her man, decked out in jewelry’ tropes. I have a LOT of trouble with feminized Essek art because of this, ESPECIALLY because all official Essek art depicts him as very masculine, to the point where people scream that he looks ugly and out of character) (okay I’ll stop ranting now I promise) (at least about this topic)

A lot of wonderful conversation between Beau and Dairon, and I’m getting distracting by Laura and Travis getting distracted XD

I wonder if Matt was nudging towards them giving Essek’s name as a contact to Dairon, with the thought of Dairon eventually being the one to expose him, at least to the group. Again, one of the things that I wonder how far ahead he plans things, and how much he tries subtle nudging during play. Was he trying to get this step? Or was it just that Dairon needed help and it ended up coming to this during the RP?

*snerk* I don’t think I’ve ever seen Matt so snarky that he has the NPC call out the cast for not paying attention during a scene. I love that Sam catches it first and goes ‘i’m distracting your wife’ and Matt’s just like yuuuuup.

*grimaces* I hate when I notice my own personal biases, especially when they’re stupid. I am NOT a fan of Taliesin rolling a die in his hand and directly asking Matt “how high do I have to roll to tell that someone was in the house”, because it doesn’t give an opportunity for Matt to really say no. Now he HAS to allow for Tal to make the check, even if it’s something where he didn’t want Tal to at all. BUT! BUT! I also know that this is me being more sensitive to Taliesin when he does things like this, as I’m 95% sure that Liam has done something similar in C3 and I wasn’t bothered by it. Maybe not as directly, but he’s 100% rolled dice in his hands sort of non-verbally asking to be permitted a perception check – I guess I’m more okay with it because a lot of times Matt DOESN’T ask for one, and Liam just puts the dice down without making a big deal about it, whereas this is straight up “let me do the thing”. Now I know that Matt technically could have made it an impossible DC, or set it at like 28+ or something. It’s just something that rubs me the wrong way.

(I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. I definitely do adore Taliesin and all the PCs he’s created minus Molly/Kingsley, but he’s also the player that I tend to have the most issues with. I think our styles of play are just clashing. It’s very very rare that he does something WRONG, but it’s not super uncommon that he does something that I don’t like.)

….and immediately after THAT – Jester rolls at nat 20 to see Dairon, but Caduceus is the one saying that he saw her “wow all the way up there”. NO TALIESIN. LAURA GOT THE SUCCESS, NOT YOU. *huffs* And then calling her down. Matt specifically had confirmed that Caduceus didn’t find her. THIS is something that Taliesin does occasionally that I do feel is WRONG and not just a thing I don’t like. We didn’t like it when Orion would take away spotlight from another player, well I don’t like it when Taliesin does it either.

(also in fairness this is definitely a clashing play style that I KNOW I have issues with. In my campaign, my druid had turned into a water bug so that she could skim across a bog, the DM gave me a bunch of information, and then a player whose PC was all the way back across the entire bog started talking and RPing and using the information. Which meant that without my decision, my PC had returned to the group AND dropped her wildshape to share the information. Meaning that any other shit I wanted to do? Couldn’t. Because the other player had a cool thing she wanted to do with the info, so she did it, without considering that her PC wouldn’t have known the info. Tal wanted to do his funny RP without him considering that Caduceus was confirmed by Matt to not have seen Dairon, but because Jester did, even though Jester didn’t TELL, Caduceus got to do his funny bit, overriding any RP decisions that Laura may have wanted to make.)

Oh joy, I get to be a negative nancy, because we immediately then go into SAM and one of my peeves with HIM. Nott clarifying that Dairon would possibly be a maid? Completely in character. Knowing that Jester had people tend the house and asking about it? Still in character. Dismissively saying that sure you can learn a servants name? NOT in character, just 100% a Sam joke. He even confirms it when Marisha cracks ‘your Scanlan is showing’ and he corrects ‘my Sam Riegel is showing’. Look, it’s a very funny joke, especially with the context of Dairon ready to pulverize for the joke, but it makes no sense at all for Nott to say it. It’s no wonder that it’s harder for me to get a good sense of Sam’s characters, when he In Character makes jokes that are clearly Out Of Character, but now his PC has made the joke and is being reacted to as such, even when it makes no sense for his PC to act that way.

There’s an aspect of Caleb that the campaign never really went in depth on, which is touched on here. Caleb is very certain that he’s still being hunted for, if not already found. The team are indicating that with the war going on, looking for one guy isn’t really that big of a deal, bad use of resources. Caleb is very disbelieving and in fact flinches during the conversation. We know from later that Trent wanted Caleb to take over for his own position. With all the vollstrecker, I really wonder how high up in the chain Caleb was, to know that he would very actively be hunted, to have Trent personally try to groom him for the position. Especially because Caleb/Liam have downplayed Caleb’s abilities, see Liam mentioning how he was only maybe level 2 before he broke, and that he never ‘graduated’, didn’t complete his learnings. Is it just the PC center, like how the players will always be the center? Or is there more that we never really had a chance to learn?

...document last saved 8/16. ...in fairness to me, I had a really rough end of August?

Wait is this the first instance of them teleporting to Yussa’s and just completely failing to let him know ahead of time??? XDDDD I love running gags that start AND continue just by sheer accident.

Did I only watch a few minutes and then leave for nearly a month? Yes again.

I’m so used to the meme-ing of Yussa being a complete reckless dumbass that it’s almost jarring to actually watch again and see him all intellectual and collected. Granted, he hasn’t trapped himself yet (the first time), so we’ll get there.

Ugh I can’t WAIT for more happy fun ball time! Not for a while yet though, I don’t think. Do they only go in shortly before Ashley returns? I know they have to go kill the heart, meet Allura, find out that the Angel of Irons is actually Tharizdun…. Either way, a good chunk off. Maybe it happens in the 80s.

LOL Sam and Marisha’s grimaces of ‘this fucking guy’ when Yussa is claiming that the dragon they killed could be considered a rare powerful endangered being by some, all while he’s just claiming the treasure as his.

Good on Tal for recognizing that they’re all still clothed in Kryn attire! 100% something that I forgot the first time I watched and also now. It’s the tricky part of dnd being imagination based, there are things that would be super obvious to PCs (what they are wearing) that players won’t think about at all.

Poor Travis, you can really tell how much he’s struggling with the virtual connection. I’m not surprised, it’s hell for adhd. I can’t tell you how glad I was that I was not in school when covid hit, there is absolutely no way I would have been able to keep my education up virtually. I had to take a single virtual course in college and it was HELL. Thank god we were only graded on the tests.

It’s really hard for me to say who my favorite NPC in all of C2 is, especially ‘cause I’m a huge fan of Shadowgast, but honestly I think it’s Yeza. Just the way Matt portrays him, the VOICE, the mannerisms! Every time I hear him speak it’s an instant emotional surge of ‘PROTECT THIS MAN AT ALL COSTS’. I know there’s a lot that can be discussed about his and Veth’s relationship dynamics and whether or not it’s healthy, but I do love this little guy so much. To use internet-speak, the BEST cinnamon roll, too good too pure for this world!

If they do C4, I wonder if Liam will make a PC with low wisdom/perception. Vax, Caleb, and Orym all have good perception skills. For all that Caduceus is the ‘perceptive’ one of the bunch, I think he and Caleb actually have tied perception (+10 with 19 passive), whereas Vax actually beats it due to high level privilege (+14 with 20 passive at level 20, but +10 with 19 passive at level 10/11, which I think is where the Nein is at?). (Vex was at 30 passive by level 20 thanks to Observant.) I’m presuming that it’s due to Liam’s enjoyment of the perception skill what with Vax doing his rogue-y investigating all the time and Caleb always looking through Frumpkin for an edge. It’s be a bit fun to see him do a PC with wisdom as a dump stat. (then again, considering I want to see him play a cleric…. *looks at all the dnd classes* Honestly, it’s hard to try and predict anything for a potential C4 for ANYONE because of what they’ve played. He probably wouldn’t do paladin because of the C1 multiclass, I don’t know if he’d go for sorcerer or artificer after playing wizard, he has mentioned before his lack of desire to play bard, even with Matt’s special college of tragedy. Hmmm. I can see him doing ranger or monk – though once again those are high wisdom. Same with cleric or druid. I struggle seeing him play barbarian [plus I really really want to see Laura play a barb], maybe a warlock? Then again, warlock with wisdom as the dump stat is just Fjord XD)

(just came up with a hypothetical C4 that I think would be fun for me to watch. Ashley – monk. Laura – barbarian. Liam – cleric. Marisha – paladin. Travis – wizard. Taliesin – druid. Sam – sorcerer. Sam and Taliesin were the hardest for me to think of classes for, especially because Taliesin has had flavor dips [warlock and artificer for C1, even though not the mechanics]. I could also see Sam as warlock)

Sometimes when Liam is emoting, it’s very hard for me to tell if it’s him or Caleb. Him watching the reunion of Luc with Veth and Yeza could honestly be either, because Liam gets very Feels with family and kid stuff (I remember him being uncomfortable when Matt was describing Nila’s son being imprisoned), but it ALSO is 100% in character for it to be Caleb feeling emotional because one- family whole and reunited for his best friend, two – that he can never have again for himself, and three – which may lead to Veth leaving.

WHAT IS THIS. YEZA is convincing Veth to show Luc her crossbow. VETH is telling Luc it’s too dangerous he can’t play with it he can’t touch it. How how the turns tabled.

(fun fact, never watched the office! I think I’ve seen one or two episodes ever? I can’t handle cringe humor, it just makes me uncomfortable)

LOL it didn’t take too long for that to switch

Matt’s faces as Luc are too precious.

Is there anything more Beau than Marion saying that the relationship was like ‘friendship’ and Beau says that she was going to say ‘unhealthy’. Beau is a very very good friend at this point, but she definitely still has a hard time comprehending it, especially when reciprocal to her.

First of all, lovely Caleb and Nott conversation about staying and going, but more importantly, LAURA’S FACES. She is soooo ticked that Sam is even considering have a PC leave mid-campaign again!

Oh man, I checked the transcript to see how quiet Travis was this episode, because he’s CLEARLY out of it. 60 sentences, most of them four words or less.

OMG WAIT WAIT WAIT IS THIS CALIANNA’S PACKAGE!!!!! DOES CALEB GET THE WAND FOR THE TOWER NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

(backtracking slightly, I’m a little disappointed that Matt took the lead in the conversation between Marion and Jester. Laura very much initiated the idea for the talk, and I wonder if she was able to share what she wanted to. It was clear from the start that it was a very introspective and sad Jester, but then Matt pretty quickly led the conversation away from that. Granted I’m sure the main part was informing Marion of Astrid, but I really wonder what else Jester could have said)

...Marisha looks pretty cute with the bow on actually. ….is Fjord’s stuff actually potpourri?? LOL NOPE HOMEOPATHIC FUR ALLERGY TREATMENT.

I don’t think when I watched the first time that I actually realized that Mark was a DM. I think it was mentioned, but not really processed. However, looking at these items and hearing Caleb read the letter, it’s VERY clear that it was gifted by a very talented DM. Also Caleb’s letter gave me all the feels.

I honestly really like the fact that Veth is kind of a bad parent? Like, she deliberately spoils Luc and tries to get Yeza to spoil him constantly too. But at the same time, she’s a good parent. Makes him try bites of his food, wants to ensure his care. But I appreciate how Sam is always willing to lean HARD into the flaws of his PCs. I also like that Matt/Yeza had to be the one to tell Veth to go with the Nein. Granted, I can’t imagine a circumstance where Matt would tell a PC to leave the party, but still XD.

(...I JUST realized I’ve been typing for YEARS with the zoom set at 80%. omg the text is so much bigger now!)

I want to know how long Liam was planning to use the teleportation circle as a method to talk to and reassure Luc. It is so beautifully done, and once again I have a little difficulty telling who’s emoting, because it 100% could have been Veth and 100% could have been Sam. I’m actually slightly leaning more towards it actually being Sam, as I think that there’s a level of emoting around the eyes that he tends NOT to do in play (this moment here, the level 9 counterspell).

I wonder if Laura and Travis are in a different time zone. He is OUT of it. Well, I suppose humor is more contagious in person, I know I’m more likely to laugh in a room of people then just hearing those people talk online.

I like that Essek’s first teleportation actually starts with a mishap. I tend to forget about it, but it humanizes him a bit in these ‘early’ episodes.

UTHODERN!!!!

[the-fandom-at-the-moment-blog]

I'd like to request more on the speedrunning AU pls

Gladly!

I should have clarified before but only Caleb and Essek (and to some extent Fjord) are speedrunners

The rest are other type of youtubers/streamers!

Fjord wasnt even a gamer when he accidentally joined a speedrunning community of obscure categories. The people of the community dont cheat, but they use debatable tricks. He started playing normally after meeting Caduceus

Caleb was in a very toxic speed running community where he and his peers were forced to be constantly competing. He ended up leaving and going dark for years but he started a small channel of his own where he worked on speedrunning alone. Not having the techniques of the community was hard, but developing his own and joining foreign speedrunning communities helped him find a style of his own that helped him maintain a status. He also has an account where he uploads pictures and videos of cats and Frumpkin. He also has cat ear headphones

Essek was a very famous speedrunner on the community of Xhorhas. What other people dont know its that he cheated in two of his top runs, which is holding the community back since they are trying to copy his techniques. He eventually leaves and only appears on the channels of the other Nein.

Jester plays a variety of content, but shes known for having a pastel cute persona while playing games like Doom or Dark Souls. Streamers usually have rules of not receiving food as gifts, so instead of pastries her dans send her plushies and craft that resemble cupcakes and bear claws and other sweet things.

Veth was a youtuber known for her science videos with her husband, until one day she just stopped appearing on the channel. Couple of months later a new channel appeared where she did tinkerings of all kinds, each one wilder than the last one, with caleb appearing to help her in some of the videos. Finally she reunited with Yeza and they started doing videos together again, leaving her other channel for crazy and dangerous stuff she and Caleb come up with

Yasha does streams of her just walking through nature. She only speaks when she finds an interesting flower and wants to tell her followers about it. Sometimes she brings her harp along and plays it

Beau started as an educational fitness channel but it made her so mad that she straight up started uploading conspiracy theories and videos of her and yasha (safely) fighting. She has a whole tag on her social media of her just annoying the fuck out of caleb

Caduceus:every day he does a stream of him taking care of his garden. Once or twice a week one or more of his siblings are around and it turns into a talk show. He also records with Jester videos of them playing stuff like Slimer Ranchers or Terraria. He doesnt like minecraft. Whoever who suggests it gets booed by the chat. No one knows what happen or if its a joke but he finds it amusing

Molly/King is one of those content creators that dissappear for months, drops a masterpiece snd then dissapears again. He will do anything from music to philosophical rants to cooking to ocultism. No one knows what his deal is except that he can be seen in every channel of the Nein. Some people think he is one problematic creator that dissapeared pnce and never returned

The chaos crew also has a channel. Their best summary is "do not try. Not even outside. Why would you want to"

They all end up having a channel together where they play games and hang out. None of them knows who created the channel

Theres two videos of Jester slapping Caleb. The first time someone found it Caleb just tagged Jester so she could relive the moment

They sometime collaborate with other channels and its the most out of context and chaotic episode those channels have

Oh also magic is still pretty much a thing

Caleb ends up creating a channel to educate people about magic basics.

[romeoandjulietyouwish]

For the Empire Siblings Neighbor AU, do you think you can go any more in depth on the fight where Beau dies? Does Trent kill her then peace out, he's done what he wanted to? Does Artagan step in somehow? Had Yeza already been taken, so he was out there looking into that and then he sees the Nein and just has to take the chance to ambush them? Is it an instant revivify or a race against time to get to her before the minute is up? Jester bringing her back would be really fun in a BeauJes way.

Oh yes yes yes I have ideas

I think that Yeza is still taken but they get there just a day or so after the attack so they know he's close by and it's possible to catch up with him before he gets to Xhorhas (they don't because I still want them to meet Essek, but they could lol). Trent is there and when he spots them, especially Beau and Caleb he makes his move. His target is Beau, almost doing no damage to the others. So when he kills Beau, he nopes the fuck out of there because now Caleb is fucking pissed and Trent trained him, he knows how dangerous he is.

And because I Live for the Drama, it's a race against time because gods fucking know they have no diamonds between them and I KNOW Jester wouldn't have divine intervention yet, But shush, she uses it to get a diamond and revive Beau.

Beau doesn't even really know what happened and why everyone is freaking out and crying and why Jester won't let go of her hand and why Caleb is shaking.

[exandriababes]

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Finlas Beltune!

Mini by One More Multiverse.

Finlas is a Chronurgy Mage who goes by Finn most of the time. With ties deeply rooted in the Luxon, the drow found it specially hard when he left Rumblecusp and entered right into Rexxentrum. He didn't know the war ended, so, for a long time, he thought he was traveling alongside enemies and was to be ended soon. The Chaos Clover showed themselves to be just as lost and they departed on this journey to go back to Xhorhas and also find his siblings. In the island, he had a big connection with Kairy Poverst, who become his sister and found family. Going out into the world again, both of them decided that they would remain as siblings, because the blood didn't make the family - but love certainly did.

Fun facts about him: Finn has chronic pain and is one of the disabled characters from this party, but that doesn't make him less capable - he was not hit once (and he's a mage!). Also, Finn is a chaotic bisexual who might like people with good intentions.

[smartbrained]

ESSEK DISPELLING MAGIC ON YASHA, I LOVE MY XHORHAS SIBLINGS! 😭❤️

[definitely-not-a-wasp]

Concept: Essek, during heroes feast, slowly but surely scooting the tray of spiced crickets towards him because there aren’t any readily-available insects in Eiselcrosse and they go really well with soup.

Yasha and Essek, every subsequent tower-night, compare and swap favorite recipes, to the rest of the Mighty Nein’s increased confusion.

[spottedenchants]

Summary:

Essek’s smile is so full of life and light and potential, his hand so close to Caleb’s.

How is Caleb to resist?

AKA five times Caleb kisses Essek and one time Essek kisses him back.

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Ch 1: Eins | auf den Kopf - A misunderstanding is set right.

Ch 2: Zwei | auf die Stirn - Recollected sorrows rest upon those who got out, who survived.

Ch 3: Drei | auf die Wange - Some words are shared and one falls for the other.

Ch 4: Vier | auf die Hand - Cats are let out of the bag and left to nap.

Ch 5: Fünf + 1 | auf die Lippen - Wynandir sibling pairs chat and then? And then. And then!

[dissonantwhisper]

*snaps fingers in front of esseks face* there’s other people in party stop trying to look cool in front of your crush

[ayzenigma]

"Yasha, be free of this influence!" is gonna live in my head rent free 🥺

[ariadne-mouse]

Yasha: *beheads an undead frost giant in less than 12 seconds* *cracks an opal with a flex of her biceps* *supports Essek in getting Caleb to leave the Aeorian library*

Essek, rifling through his spellbook: I am going to support cast for this barbarian so hard--

[paintedwarpony]

MANIFEST LIST

Someone wearing tie dye

Mention of Ronin, Sprigg, Omar or Henry

Cast screaming

Cast gigglefit

Matt DM Long Suffering Sigh

Some mention of getting vaccinated and being at the same table soon

M9 Free Floating in the Astral Sea: Planning and Healing

Caduceus enjoying the giant purple wings

Essek looking for Caleb

M9 assuming Caleb changed himself into Sheepleb

Matt taking ominous notes

Fan Fave: Essek snuggles Sheepleb

Matt going feral describing the Cognouza Ward

Edlritch Horror Shopping

Actually finding semi-sane NPCs to talk to

Travis screaming or panicking

Couples PDA

Caleb tries to protect Essek at some point

More telepathy

Classic Matthew Mercer Fake Out

Some discussion about the Lucien ticks = Molly

More of Sprinkle!Artagan

Divine Intervention Success

Revivify or Resurrection

More Wild Magic

Mentions of Campaign 1

Mentions of Campaign 3

Jester meddling in Shadowgast

Revealed Cree was in charge the whole time

Will the real Mollymauk Tealeaf please stand up

WILD CARD PICKS

Verin is mentioned

Allura's Staff Accidentally Destroyed

Yussa Rescue 2: Electric Boogaloo

[thatshadowgastwhore]

my personal guesses for most likely c2 npcs to show up in c3

in no particular order:  dairon i feel like if there are other branches of the cobalt soul in marquet, then then she could kinda pull an allura and show up, or maybe just be doing some spying like she had been doing in xhoras during c2 essek because i feel like he’s the most iconic c2 npc (maybe i’m biased) and him having gone somewhere to research, especially outside of wildmount, because yah know, war criminal in xhorhas, drow in the empire, sun in nicodranas.....it’s a possibility astrid and/or eadwulf don’t feel super strongly about either of them, just that they both have a lot of autonomy and might be traveling for personal or work reasons orly and/or marius if they do run into them, i would imagine that it would have to be specified that fjord nor jester were around, maybe something like, ‘the captain is out visiting with their friends’ and the m9 are all at the blooming grove or some shit. otherwise, it could be more subtle, and someone mentions that there was a tortle in port or something. 

a clay sibling my best guess is on calliope, she seemed the most adventurous, but i also don’t really have a reason for why she would be in marquet, she just seemed like someone fun to show up

[catgirlthecrazy]

The new lore drop about the origins of Den Dwendalos has got me thinking again about the other canonical instance of Dynasty souls being reborn in the Empire that we know about: the missing children of Nogvurot. Specifically, what that would look like on an individual level. In short: somewhere between horror and tragedy.

The vast majority of Empire citizens have never even heard of consecution. When they give birth, “my child might actually be the reborn soul of someone else” is not even remotely on their radar as a possibility. All those parents knew is that one day, their kids started getting weird dreams. Maybe started talking about remembering impossible things. And then... they disappear. The parents go to the Crownsguard, and are told their children were likely abducted by Kryn agents, of all things. Nothing can be done. They likely never see their children again.

Essek implies that the reborn children all left voluntarily, but I wonder if any of them ever felt conflicted about it? Unless every last one of them were born to dysfunctional broken families, at least some of those kids would have spent 13-14 years being raised and loved by Empire parents. They’d have siblings. Extended family. Friends. Going back to their old lives in Xhorhas means walking away from that completely. Do they ever wish they could stop to explain? “I’m not being kidnapped, I left of my own free will. I am safe, and happy. I love you, but I need to return to others who love me and miss me.”

Of course, an explanation wouldn’t comfort those parents much. They’ve been taught to hate and fear the Dynasty their whole lives, and now they’re being told their child is one of them? Even if they could accept that, that child is still leaving. Unless relations between the Empire and Dynasty get a whole lot better in the next few decades, parent and child will probably never see each other again. That’s heartbreaking.

Even in the Dynasty, where anamnesis is understood and expected and doesn’t require families to be torn apart to resolve, it’s still got to be complicated. Anyone who knowingly gives birth in beacon range has to accept that their child might not be entirely their child. They might already have a set of parents (possibly several) who take precedence over you. Sometimes, this could be beneficial: giving birth to someone of higher social standing than you could be a real boon, and giving birth to someone like the Bright Queen would be like winning the lottery. Other times, it would be more difficult: imagine giving birth to someone you hated in a past life, or a member of a rival Den.

Incidentally, this is why I no longer subscribe to the popular headcanon that Essek and Verin were disappointments to their parents for being new souls. If anything, I actually thinks it’s more likely that Deirta Thelyss took steps to ensure her children were new souls by traveling outside beacon range to give birth. When you’re that high-status, having children who aren’t new souls wouldn’t necessarily be the most desirable thing. Consecuted souls from Den Thelyss would find their way home no matter what family they were born into, and raising children who belong to another Den entirely may not be the best use of the Umavi’s time. Bringing new blood into the Den, on the other hand? A new generation you raise and shape yourself? I think that’s what Essek and Verin were supposed to be.

[my-spiritualweapon-is-a-lollipop]

Give me some Essek and Yasha being happy little homebodies!

Yasha getting into embroidery and using all of her focus and physical control to make pretty little flowers and sitting in amicable silence with Essek who is trying knitting to keep his hands fresh and dexterous for spellwork (and also making a warm orange and purple scarf at the moment). Just sitting together for hours and working away on their projects

Yasha and Essek swapping recipes that the empire siblings eat with a smile despite the many bugs and creepy crawlies going into them.

Essek coming over to chat with Yasha about being a new parent after the kids have gone to bed and leaving behind just piles of goodies and books for the kids.

Essek and Yasha goth shopping days.

Essek and Yasha midnight picnics in xhorhas because they miss THAT specific view of the stars.

Yasha deciding Essek needs to work out in case he needs to defend himself when magic isn't an option and kicking his ass into some semblance of fitness while Essek in turn teaches Yasha about history and other book learning she never got from her tribe.

Essek and Yasha man