THEIR CROSSING THE STREAMS

*side eyes Orym “Bait and Switch” of the Air Ashari*

I love a character raised to be a weapon as much as the next guy. But what really gets me is a character raised to be a shield. Who can’t fathom being needed—or even being wanted— beyond keeping others safe. Who believe they are alive only to insure someone doesn’t die. no matter the cost. Characters who self-sacrifice not because they think they deserve it, but because no one else does deserve it, and it’s their job to protect.

Characters who’ve been told that’s why your important. Your worth something because this other person/ thing is important, and you are here solely to keep them safe.

Bonus points if it’s not a legitimate job they’ve been given. Maybe at one point it was, but now that they are free from it, they haven’t given up that mentality. No one is forcing or asking them to do this, but they need to. They need to in order to be deserving.

I don’t claim to be good at art but I made this and I’m proud.

Plz Listen

IF YOU HAVENT HEARD OF THE BAND, THE AMAZING DEVIL TREAT YOURSELF!!!!

also, if you’ve read All Of Us Villains or All Of Our Demise, the male part of TAD’s song, Farewell Wanderlust, is literally SO Alistair-coded. Literally the line “I’m the child you had just enough time to conceive”

IM LIKE- COME ON PEOPLE!

I love that Veth is the Exandrian equivalent to Arthur Auguefort

Damn, is this what West Coast Critters feel like every Thursday night? It's not like, 3 AM. It's normal bedtime, not "Oh god i have to get up in HOW many hours?!" bedtime. This is incredible

... any maybe not for much longer?!

imagine this-- Liam and Matt are the only people on the main cast that haven't been DM-ed for a Calamity-era story by Brennan. What if we don't do another calamity series, but an arcanum series. What if we see the beginning of the Ring of Brass? The beginning of the political corruption with fewer members. Maybe Loquacious is off doing a press tour for some big drama in Vassalheim or Nydas is conducting a deal in Wildemount. Somehow there are two less members at the table and Matt and Liam come in. Liam could be Evandrin (because why not?) and Matt could play a younger version of Loras of the Weaver's Mask (maybe?) or someone in the higher rungs of the city so we can see that side of the corruption and how it started. We could even see the attempt to plane shift that "killed" Evandrin at the end of it. I just remember during the Calamity Wrap-Up Marisha said something about being at high level and not being able to play the "pick yourself up by your boot straps" archetype for Patia, but maybe we can see that era of her becoming the Keeper of Scrolls, or more of Zerxus's weird oracle powers that HE CAME TO AVALIR TO LEARN MORE ABOUT (that detail was dropped so nonchalantly and it keeps me up at night). Maybe we could see Laerryn and Quay's wedding, or their actual divorce! Who knows. This is just some silly idea I had.

JESTER SIGHTING JESTER JESTER JESTER PRAISE ARTAGAN ITS JESTER

I present my Campaign 3 Bingo Card!!! Feel free to use during your watches or add your own squares. for anyone wondering, this was all done on Canva.

I know the font may be hard to read so from left to right-

ROW 1

Possibility Rage: Rainbow sprinkles

Nat 20: HELL YEAH

Old NPC spotted: I'm looking at you Shaun Gilmore

Travis rolls a 100: #RipChetney

Delilah Spotting: Creepy lady do dead things

ROW 2

Titan Fearne: Burn baby burn

Chetney transforms: *howl*

Scars grow: LIGHTINING TITTIES

HDYWTDT: Herdy derty derty

Grim Psychometry: I can't think of anything funny

ROW 3

FCG goes berserk: Murbot

Summon a Reiloran: I want to meet nice aliens

Crying is a FREE action: Free space

Titan Ashton: That's some hard rock *bites lip*

Mister throws shit: Don't open your mouth

ROW 4

Treshi Scry Ball: Please check it regularly

Nana Morri: Please more creepy grandma. Please Mercer.

Whispers: spspspspspspsps

Nat 1: HELL NO

Bad Teleport: Who let Laura roll???

ROW 5

Keyleth Appearance: Sweet baby

Pate is Horny: Um... run?

Chetney carving: When will the horse work?

Changebringer called: Please tell FCG that Exandria is a sphere

Predates vision/dream: give in Imogen. become Wanda Maximoff.

Will be thinking about this all day

vax, his hair & his armor in black like a raven. ludinus, his hair & skin as white as the snow of eiselcross. vax, guardian of fate, ludinus, destroyer of it. vax the grim reaper. ludinus the white horse, the horseman. vax, gone too soon. ludinus, alive too long. vax & ludinus, eternally in the purgatory of immortality and undeath. vax & ludinus, both invisible to the matron. vax & ludinus, death & winter. death, winter, and the matron of ravens connecting them.

heretical as it feels to say, they are in some way brothers. kin.

ethedok & vordo in some ways meet again. certainly made in their image.

even as one sheds the others divine blood to end divinity, not knowing he'd choose mortal family over divinity like the other would, too.