Evil or not that owl looks huggable.

@FreedomAndPeaceOnly

4 жыл бұрын

*_" My fluffy Killer can't be this cute. "_*

@havel4385

4 жыл бұрын

it doesn't matter if its evil or not, it just matters if it looks cute.

@TerrariaGolem

4 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, ominously glowing eyes.

@robertdicke7249

4 жыл бұрын

who? Sorry, it is a sacred joke that must be invoked.

@paulthomas2779

4 жыл бұрын

When you activate and complete the quest to tame owlbears and get one as a mount/partner for your journey "this is my buddy hoobert, he is very special to me and I love him as if he's my own child, if you dare hurt him, I'll make your life miserable" ~ a character that loves their owlbear

4E tried to get rid of Talos? Damn Thalmor...

@linnlock7958

3 жыл бұрын

Damn elves

@FreedomAndPeaceOnly

3 жыл бұрын

This damn golden Highelves... ... squirming around everywhere, spreading their Elven stench... ... *DISGUSTING !!* (lol)

@brotheralaric7177

3 жыл бұрын

Call the Dragonborn.

@buzzfiend

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah and what sucks more is Bethesda making Skyrim 4E 💀

That Auril symbol in 5e still has a diamond if you look closely, it’s just part of the actual snowflake rather than the background of the symbol

@FreedomAndPeaceOnly

4 жыл бұрын

My non-english native ears always hear _"Oral"_ ... especially during the parts with all the kissing. ^^

@brunoborello8309

4 жыл бұрын

@@FreedomAndPeaceOnly where you from?

@Donovarkhallum

3 жыл бұрын

For real I don't know how he didn't see that

On one hand, i dont want to watch this video so i can see everything with fresh eyes when it comes out. On the other hand, I'll probably be the one DMing it so I might as well learn.

@No-ms3hj

4 жыл бұрын

Same here man

@TrashGoblinBell

4 жыл бұрын

I feel this in my bones

@r.r815

4 жыл бұрын

I feel this in my very soul

@matthewlahr1516

4 жыл бұрын

Same, I make it a point to run most of the adventures at least once

@andollpony2227

3 жыл бұрын

That's kinda sad. Though good for you if you prefer DMing.

Talos? Talos?! TALOS! LET ME SHOOOOOW YOU THE POWER OF TALOS STORMCROWN!

@doctorfunk7959

4 жыл бұрын

Dis gave me a giggle

@mysticmagicsmurfdarklord6844

4 жыл бұрын

Different Talos

@fallenstarempire707

4 жыл бұрын

He knows that, he's making a joke.

@dorianrobinette9712

4 жыл бұрын

He WALKS AMONG THE STAAAAARS!

@DeathIsLethal

4 жыл бұрын

FOR I LOOOOOOOVE YOOOOUUUUUUUU!!!!!!

I love the dog barking subtitle.

this is a "cooler" enemy than the tarrasque

@md.abdullatif6277

4 жыл бұрын

Not bad sans

@lawaern3474

4 жыл бұрын

Very nICE.

@FreedomAndPeaceOnly

4 жыл бұрын

_" Lets find a Human to torment! "_ _" I want to agonize it with cold. "_ _" Oh come on, terror by drowning. "_ _" Why not both? Icecold water. "_ _" ♥ Ooooh this is why I love you!! ♥ "_ > _"hot"_ icy lesbian kissing noises

@md.abdullatif6277

4 жыл бұрын

@@FreedomAndPeaceOnly what the hell is wrong with you. This better not be a crappy Undertale fan fiction.

@lawaern3474

4 жыл бұрын

@@FreedomAndPeaceOnly Umm, Ok?

IMO you should emphasise more that Gods of Fury are evil, but not vile just as Bane, Shar or Cyric. Gods of Fury represent primal forces of nature that encoruages their priests to inspire terror by their raw power. But as much as they can be harmful and deadly, they protect and offer help. Average person in FR venerates them from a need of protection from, in this example, winter and frost. I really apreciate your job and find your videos absolutely great, but I feel that sometimes complexity, especialy of dieties, is not emphasised as intriguing as it can be

@thunderstorm9541

4 жыл бұрын

true, but the way they protect and offer help is very much similar to the mob offering protection and help, by causing a problem and then alleviatung it after strong arming weaker folk. not saying she's the cause of all of it, but she literally goes out of her way to make you miserable if you don't give her attention

@bigd7861

3 жыл бұрын

@@thunderstorm9541 Sounds like any Government I've ever heard of...

"Chosen by a God" My Mind: "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!" "SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!"

@Master_E444

4 жыл бұрын

Khorne Cultist: BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!!!! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!!! Auril Cultist: Winter for the Winter Goddess!!! Ice for the Ice Throne!!!

@lionmainlol9064

4 жыл бұрын

Chant for khorne brother

@mihai000000

4 жыл бұрын

khorne would bitch slap most of DnD gods without even getting off his throne

@InternationalAwesomeFoundation

4 жыл бұрын

This is ice. Think Kislev, Not Chaos. God, I sound like a bad 90's PSA.

@InternationalAwesomeFoundation

3 жыл бұрын

@@mihai000000 the only exceptions are overdieties and some dieties of immense power and authority like tyr, primus, their sort.

Auril and Umberlee were just really close "roommates" historians surmise.

@thehillz726

4 жыл бұрын

They're like those cousins in sailor moon

@ohwowitsthatguy9154

4 жыл бұрын

Oh my god they were roommates.

@mixstardust429

4 жыл бұрын

Sappho and her friend

@briannatench8105

3 жыл бұрын

Just good friends, just gals bein pals

@kidam8438

3 жыл бұрын

QoNaD and Auril are similarly just "good friends" who constantly share clothes and answer one another's phones.

I am Wan Shi Tong, he who knows ten thousand things

@eruilluvitar6269

4 жыл бұрын

Nice Avatar reference I finished re-watching it recently.

@TheHumanShitpost

4 жыл бұрын

Here's my knot in the shape of a giraffe, ima go read some books now

@Jane_8319

4 жыл бұрын

I appreciate the reference.

@fate4gg142

4 жыл бұрын

I am Gont ihs Naw, the man who forgot ten thousand things

@logo050400

4 жыл бұрын

@@eruilluvitar6269 same

Rhexx: "Clerics of Auril take vows of celibacy..." Bard Players: "Challenge Accepted!"

@probablythedm1669

4 жыл бұрын

Go paladin, Oath of Redemption. Then go Bard, for Expertise and self inspiration. Let thine love redeem the villainous as you Lay on Hands! :D

@obsidianthurisaz5106

4 жыл бұрын

*whistle* RAPE

This video (and even the impending release of IceWind Dale) came at an absolutely perfect time for me. I have an Aasimar paladin and consort of Auril in my out of the abyss game right now. I plan on taking them to IceWind Dale as a little part of the campaign for a mini adventure between their main quest. Thanks for another awesome video bro!

@Valasilphukiir

4 жыл бұрын

Your character interests me... do tell more.

"She can kill with spells." "She can kill with a kiss" "She can just kill" "If you happen to attack her in her realm.." Wait.. WHAT?

@pvic6959

4 жыл бұрын

"She can kill with a kiss" not the worst way to go is it :^)

@unbearablysmug2437

3 жыл бұрын

@Stygian Eons everyone is replying to the previous guy so I'm continuing it

@kkTeaz

3 жыл бұрын

@@unbearablysmug2437 ok

@kkTeaz

3 жыл бұрын

Yea

@kkTeaz

3 жыл бұрын

Seems legit

the diamond is still there its just the snowflake seems to be enlarged, breaking free of the diamond border.

@fistimusmaximus6576

4 жыл бұрын

perhaps that indicates that she has been usurped or she usurped the queen of air and darkness.

As someone who's close to participating in a Icewind Dale campaign with the most merciless DM ever who will not hesistate to commit TPK nor allow us to use DP for re-rolls, this came at the best time ever Thanks for the lore on the game beforehand QwQ

@justnoob8141

2 жыл бұрын

How many time did you reset your campaign?

@steffenjespersen247

Жыл бұрын

@@justnoob8141 Back in the day when we played D&D if a campaign suffered a TPK the campaign was over, the "evil" won. And we would start over somewhere else in the realms a new start and new adventures.

@justnoob8141

Жыл бұрын

@@steffenjespersen247 don’t forget the campaign over and the evil win the moment you complete your very first dungeon that’s 2 rooms long

@steffenjespersen247

Жыл бұрын

@@justnoob8141 I don't understand what you mean.

@justnoob8141

Жыл бұрын

@@steffenjespersen247 you don't play D&D to have fun, you play D&D because you want to have a power trip and the best way to do it is decalre that you win before it started

Never thought that the Tempest made much self, myself. The gods weirdly distributed in power, with thunder being more powerful than winter and the sea because when we're talking about people venerating and fearing something it would surely be the occasional few hours of mostly harmless light rather than the worst 1/4th of the year or the vast seas. It's not as if many people were freezing to death in their sleep back in the medieval period, or seeing their harvests fail due to the fickle nature of winter. Auril should be the strongest, not a middling god of the Tempest. Also Malar being part of the Tempest. Instead of, I don't know, some summer or fire god that enables people to make these four signify the worst of the four seasons and thus each have their own moment to shine. But instead the Forgotten Realms for all their god overload don't have a single evil god of summer or scorching heat. Not even in the deserts.

Rhexx: describes two goddesses as really good friends. Shippers who just found out these two exist: triggered.

@stephaniesilvan3526

3 жыл бұрын

Really really really really REALLY good "friends".

@brotheralaric7177

3 жыл бұрын

R34 artisti: "mhhh thats interesting."

@falkj.beinker6561

3 жыл бұрын

"and they were roommates" mog they were roommates !

Auril is probably my favorite deity of the Forgotten Realms next to the Red Knight. I'm really stoked to play Rime of the Frostmaiden. Now if only I didn't have to rely on homebrew stuff for ice-based classes and spells...

“Long wind whipped white hair” now say it 5 times fast

@therainbowlyon9980

4 жыл бұрын

@@qold5900 yes

@kkTeaz

3 жыл бұрын

@@therainbowlyon9980 nO

Has someone that has never played D&D (but is DYING to) I found it interesting that this Ice goddess could also have been this evil dark Fey goddess. Like maybe be there really IS only one Pantheon of Gods but they have taken multiple identities. I’d imagine this would be useful for a God, I mean in our world, there are many many forgotten gods. Gods Who’s worshipers have died out. If worship is what fuels a gods immortality and power. Being forgotten is akin to dying for them. (If they can not be out right killed) but having multiple identities would be a smart back up. So say one sect of worshipers are utterly whipped out and the name of that form is forgotten, tbey have another “skin” they can step into. Kinda like how the Greek god were transformed into the Roman for the most part

@Katspearl

2 жыл бұрын

I'm also thinking the same for my current campaign! I think her being Fey makes sense

@gholamdapantaloonsniffer8218

Жыл бұрын

That is actually the only way to fully kill a god in D&D. You can destroy their manifested body in battle for 3d100 years and then it grows back, but their presence is still there. Where as if you end up destroying any memory of them via a wish spell, they will never come back technically as there would be no one who remembers them and so they would not ever be powerful enough to regenerate and so perish forever

I always run the connection between Auril and the Queen of Air and Darkness as a maternal one. The Queen of Air and Darkness birthed/created Auril. When Auril is tied up in certain events, The Queen takes her mantle since she's more enigmatic, powerful, and needs to be "present" less often in order to maintain her power. I also run Auril as having daughters too, being the Frostwind Viragos from 3.5's Monster Manual V, who I reeeealllyyyy hope get a stat block/appear in this adventure. Seriously guys, if you don't know what they are, look them up. Perfect for an Auril/winter game.

@sandrols7

10 ай бұрын

She has 1 Daughter, as of 5e: Nalkara, an Empyrean whom she sired with Thrynn, god of the Frost Giants, who appears only in the module Waterdeep: Dungeons of the Mad Mage. I made her have a more central role to the plot of Icewind Dale, per suggestion of another youtuber, to explain a bit of Auril's unrelenting fury.

I have a player that has never failed to make a friend instead of fighting, even Tiamat

@bodaciouschad

4 жыл бұрын

Ah, Steven Gregsson, I presume? Do they sing and dance about, like a rotund bedazzled Shantae?

@splitairplane289

4 жыл бұрын

I have a respect that player

@CPTBeanMan

4 жыл бұрын

Please explain.

@xenomorph_starx3696

4 жыл бұрын

must be homebrew of some kind

@masc6287

4 жыл бұрын

@@CPTBeanMan Evolutional Blades is making a joke reference to Steven Universe

You know. My favourite character I made was basically in short terms a knight from the far north on a quest to reforge a very powerful sword of ice scattered throughout the land. It would be extremely fun and interesting if I used him in this kind of campaign XD

So, the white witch from narnia.

@SonicSparton

4 жыл бұрын

But worse.

@Carewolf

4 жыл бұрын

And original plan for Elsa in Frozen ;)

@kkTeaz

3 жыл бұрын

@@Carewolf hol up

I really like that plot twist about the fey goddess you hinted... Could be cool to actually make her impersonate Auril in the game...

@razzelmire2008

4 жыл бұрын

The designers confirmed that Auril is the Queen of Air and Darkness in the Feywild. She has two aspects in the Realms; one as the evil ice goddess and one as the Unseelie Queen

You say Umberlee and Auril are "really good friends". I think its more like secret lovers ;)

@placeholdername3818

4 жыл бұрын

Really good friends like Achilles and Patroclus

@dorianrobinette9712

4 жыл бұрын

I like this.

@keatonr776

4 жыл бұрын

Except for the secret part

@lysander3262

4 жыл бұрын

Oh my god, they were roommates....

I added auril to my campaign 2 months ago, and now she is appearing on an official campaign, i could'n be more lucky :D

Dude this is probably one of my favorite videos you have done, which is really saying something cause you make great stuff!

1: Auril is one of my favourite deities, probably ever since playing through Icewind Dale II. I often depict her as a less objectively evil deity (for one she's a deity of nature with winter being part of the natural order), and more of a fey and fickle deity, who adopts and protects her followers even if she mercilessly punishes those who don't show her respect. I also see her as the mother and adopter of parentless children (especially girls), which adds to her fey aspect as a sort of reversal of the changeling myth. This was inspired by Icewind Dale II where she was the mother figure for the three orphaned sisters who became her priests in the great ice temple, as well as in Neverwinter Nights 2 where one of the pre-made characters you could choose to play as was an orphaned half-orc ranger with the wild child background who believed she heard her mother's voice in the winter wind and had Auril as her chosen deity. Does Auril truly love these adopted children in spite of her cruelty (like grandfather Nurgle in Warhammer) and thus they return her love with devotion to her cause, or are they forever looking up to their new mother, seeking to gain her approval and fill that gap in their hearts in an insoluble case of unrequited love? Either way it makes for dramatic storytelling.

@Valasilphukiir

4 жыл бұрын

2: I once ran a long campaign set in ancient Netheril where the two PCs were peasant brothers from low Netheril who were taken under an archwizard's wing after warning him in time to save him from an assassination attempt (they spotted him in a secret meeting when trying to track down a lost sheep that the younger brother accidentally let out of their pen, and saw an assassin sneaking up on him in the shadow of old ruins). After many adventures and the PCs coming around level 20 or so their second campaign involved them going west to what would later be known as the northern Sword Coast to found Netherese colonies there. The villain of this second campaign was to be Safya Aurilsdotter, the first chosen of Auril. Her background was that there was once a small village living south of the World's Edge mountains, and after a hard year a soothsayer warned of a terrible winter to come, and that the only way to avoid it was to offer a sacrifice. Young Safya, just a child, was chosen as the sacrifice because she was born with sorcerous powers she couldn't fully control or understand, and the superstitious villagers didn't trust arcane magic. Taking inspiration from the real-life Incan Capacocha ritual, the villagers fed her drugs to ease her fear and her pain and her resistance, led her to a mountain summit in the Spine of the World mountains, and left her to freeze to death, the drugs preventing her from following them back down the mountain as she passed out on the verge of overdose. But something happened, rather than freezing to death in her sleep, she awoke after a time, shivering in the cold, the drugs having wiped from her memory all but her first name and her knowledge of language and speech. Several digits were lost to frostbite, but as a blizzard set in she found a cave where a snow leopard and her cubs laired, and was taken in by them. From them she learned to hunt and scraped by, barely surviving in the mountain's harshness, but growing stronger from each trial. Eventually she encountered some of the tribesfolk living in the mountains, joining with them and learning of human society, perhaps learning the name and faith of Auril. Upon reaching adulthood she was taken in by a treant druid of Auril with snow white bark and red leaves and sap (think of the Weirwood trees from A Song of Ice and Fire) whose animal companion was a flock of crows and ravens that nested in his branches and hollows, and who he sent out to spy on the world and relay information back to him. He took her in and formally trained her as a druid of Auril. This treant believed that humans had upset the natural order, with their cutting of trees, their overharvesting of animals, and their abuse of fire, and believed that only a long, harsh winter would wipe them out like so many termites and restore things to the way they should be.

@Valasilphukiir

4 жыл бұрын

3: Safya, now taking the last name Aurilsdotter, had many adventures of her own, uniting the humans, orcs, goblinoids, giants, and other residents of the mountains through conquest, destroying those who refused to worship Auril, and delving into the tombs and crypts of the Spine of the World, ancient, hidden edifices dating as far back as the creator races and robbing them of their dark secrets. Of course, one of her first conquests in Auril's name was to descend to the lowlands, where she wiped out the town that had birthed her and offered her up as sacrifice, never knowing who of the townsfolk were her birth parents, but she most likely killed them, taking those who agreed to follow Auril up to the mountains. For all these feats, or perhaps for the feat I'm about to relay, Auril herself put a portion of her divine essence within Safya's soul making her the Frostmaiden's first Chosen, and in many ways perhaps her last. As her greatest feat, using both sorcerous and druidic magic, Safya was able to capture and imprison a divine pheonix, perhaps using the artifact known as Thakorsil's Seat, and the Chosen drained its everburning lifeforce completely, in a magical ritual which would allow her to be reborn, much like the pheonix, the next winter after she was killed, birthed by a worshipper of Auril. Thus just as summer may banish the winter for a time only to see it return, the PCs could kill Safya only to have her reborn in a new body with all of the memories and abilites of the old one, to renew the work of Auril, and come adolescence to get revenge on the PCs. This cycle of death and rebirth, much like the avatar from The Last Airbender, would continue until the Netherese archwizard Aumvor the Undying cast Aumvor's Soulshatter on Safya, causing her soul and the shard of Auril's power within it to be broken into several pieces. Though each piece would itself be born anew, none of these children of Auril had any of Safya's memories, and only a hint of her power, none being Chosen. It is my headcannon that, guided by Auril herself, the mother of the three priestesses from Icewind Dale II used her magic to gather these shards, giving birth to three daughers who each had a share of Auril's soul, though she was killed before she was able to gather the rest and perform a ritual to bind their souls together and thus give birth to Safya, Auril's Chosen, once again. It is also my headcannon that the Chosen from the 5th edition adventure, Hedrun Arnsfirth, was born with one of these Chosen soul-fragments, hence becoming Auril's Chosen so easily and prior to even worshipping Auril.

@Valasilphukiir

4 жыл бұрын

4: I made a PC named Annaya Aurilsdotter for a campaign where each PC was from a different plane of existence and was banished to a black-hole-like plane where one could easily be sent but none could return from by any known magic. This plane was a desert world, and according to our DM we learned through the course of the campaign it was the first of all planes created by the original creator deity who created the multiverse and all its accompanying overdeities. Here the original deity sundered reality and chose to lose her power in grief after being forced to destroy her firstborn mortal creations, causing the planar distortions that prevented escape, and creating a world where divine spells didn't work and other magic functioned abnormally. Not my first character (that was an Ash Genasi ninja with a bladed chain akin to the Dark Prince from Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones), the PCs later allied with Annaya, a fallen priestess of Auril who unbeknownst to her carried a shard of the Chosen soul within her, and thus some of Auril's divine power even in this realm where divine Magic didn't work - I classed her as a Holy Monk / White Dragon Shaman (3.5 edition), thus she had the ability to turn undead, smite, and channel divine magic into a dragon-like breath of cold, a healing touch, or several divine auras, without actually casting any spells or being the forbidden cleric class. She was sent to that world after, in some fit of madness or mind-control by an unseen force (strongly suspected to be the original creator deity, who wanted her sent to the first of all worlds to fulfill some purpose) she tore out the throat of a fellow Aurilite priestess (unbeknownst to her another carrier of a shard of the Chosen Soul), and at the last second her sentence changed from execution to banishment to the plane of no return.

@Valasilphukiir

4 жыл бұрын

5: Annaya's was a tragic tale, found abandoned as a baby to freeze to death (or perhaps birthed my the will of Auril with no parents at all, as no footsteps led from the cradle of ice she was found crying in in the frozen wilderness) she was taken in by priests of Auril, looking up to the priestess she would later kill as her big sister and role model. She was traumatized after being tasked with forcing the conversion of a dwarf tomb raider and trespasser in their territory to Auril's worhip, by tying him nude to an X-shaped frame exposed to the elements until he either died of cold or converted (at which point he would be taken in from the cold and welcomed in their family) - being a dwarf he was too stubborn to convert, and also too hardy to die quickly, and so for days the surprisingly gentle and sensitive Annaya begged him to convert and join their family for his own sake, until in the end, driven mad by his ordeal, the dying dwarf agreed to forsake his own gods, but mind numbed as his life left his body he didn't have the clarity of thought to devote himself to Auril - he couldn't form the thoughts or the worlds, and he perished before Annaya could cut him down, leaving the young Annaya to doubt her faith as all the pain and suffering had been for nothing - no one was saved. This trauma was only exceeded when she came-to from apparent mind control, realizing the blood of her sister and role-model stained her teeth and coated her face, the throat of the one closest to her torn out by Annaya's jaws. When cast to the desert plane, the first of all worlds, she was sent from an icy paradise into burning perdition. Unaccustomed to the desert heat and unwelcome by the natives she was forced to flee into a waterless region of desert known as the Anvil of the Sun, where she nearly perished, until, her mount dead and herself unconscious and reliving her worst moments in a fever dream, she was saved by another exile, a knight from Greyhawk's world of Oerth. She was taken in by him and taught the teachings of the first creator god, who on this plane went by the name Death, and slowly began to heal from her wounds both physical and emotional. For a time she reconciled her two faiths, stating "There is no God but Death, and Auril is her daughter," but adventuring with the PCs she became the bearer of an artifact that could change one's alignment, and perhaps their very soul. She attempted to use it on an ancient vampire lord, but sensing her misgivings and crises of faith, the vampire turned the tool against her, overpowered her will, and changed her for what would become the rest of her life. Now known as Annaya the Apostate, the twisted woman now believed in nothing, and though her comrades managed to slay the vampire lord by forcing him into his own field of disintegration, Annaya soon found death at the tentacles of a colossal mummified kraken known as a crawling apocalypse, her Auril-given immunity to paralysis (dragon-shaman class ability) failing her as the undead abomination first paralyzed her as the party tried to escape, and then crushed her before they could return and save her (in actuality I had merely forgotten my character was immune to paralysis, only remembering after she died, but it was a fitting end, as her faith in Auril and in herself was gone, so too were the powers granted by that faith). But as the god known as Death revealed at the very end of the campaign, the plane of no return did have a method of escape: when one died on that plane their soul would eventually be reborn, either on that world or elsewhere, and perhaps could be guided back to their home plane by Death, and so the shard of Auril's power and of Safya's and later Annaya's soul, may one day be reborn on Toril, and perhaps one day Safya could become whole again, or Annaya's soul find peace.

I feel like the discrepancies between 4th and 5th editions can be explained easiest as an attempt to retcon as much of 4th edition away as possible.

I am VERY excited for this adventure. I play a lot of one-on-one with my wife in the Forgotten Realms. Wrapping up "Avernus Rising" (AL Campaign) and then going to run through "Legacy of the Crystal Shard" as a sort of thematic prequel to "Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden."

@zachariahmola6841

4 жыл бұрын

I wish I had a wife to "play one on one with" 😥

Auril... ugh gives me a flashback of Auril Temple from Icewind Dale 2 and her followers... well we didn't have to kill them off to get to Sherincal but still, they weren't nice folks to be around

Two things: 1) The next multiple episode topic I want covered are the Primordials. 2) It would be awesome to chat with you and other fans of your content on Discord! I love learning about D&D's lore!

Hey, Rhexx, take a look at Auril's symboy in 5e. The crystal actually forms the diamond itself.

Man, what a beautiful multi-layered deity.

Perfectly timed upload to fall asleep with d&d story's. I love it.

I just got through reading The Crystal Shard for the first time, so I am excited to see what’s coming up in this adventure.

The bulk of my DnD adventuring has taken place in Phandelver and so I've never even heard of the Frost Maiden or this Owl-esque creature before now, but I'll be damned if owls aren't my favorite animals and this thing looks TIGHT. Owls seriously make some of the best villains/guides/mentors/supporting roles in fantasy titles, I almost want to join forces with it

Ive always wanted an exploratory dive on the frosty wastes of Forgotten Realms

4th edition yeeted Talos harder than the Thalmor, OOF

Auril was my character's deity (Bardlock) in the homebrew campaign my DM created. This campaign has been going on for two years, and we're just about to wrap things up in the next couple months. Although in this campaign, there are subtle changes to her based on my own character's actions, I'm very excited to see how things end.

Bro...you may want to look into doing your own adventures or making your own D&D content. I mean you have a decent following.

Talos went to Atmora and became Tiber Septim, " Whose breathe is long winter!!" Red Legions for i love you!!"

This is such a cool freaking character and I'm prepping to run a 1 shot of an introductory battle with Auril's weakened 1st form avatar so I absolutely LOVE this lore! I can use some of these abilities that aren't mentioned in the DM Guide to tune up (or down) the combat scenarios for my party of 3. I look forward to traversing the Dale and luring this party into a (possible) eternal and icy torment as coldlight walkers!

been listening to a lot of these and they're so helpful for my DM antics

An ice axe isn't an axe made of ice. It is a mountains climbing tool, sort of like a pick.

Love Auril. Some great artwork in this video, shame you don't have the artist names down, would love to get a good look at the art outside of the video. Thanks for making a video about Auril.

All right this is very late. However, thanks for the ideas sir. I'll be incorporating some of it very soon as my players will be facing off with Auril a second time in the campaign. Each appearance means another form as well as any previously encountered. Spell reflection is an absolute must have! Keepup the amazing work.

Hall of the frostmaiden is soo beautiful. I wanna live there lol

I made Auril and the Queen of Air and Darkness one and the same of my Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign. Just to add some spice to the story. So hearing you throw out that theory makes me very happy lol.

The Ice Queen in Christian Andersons version is a Fairy queen that got transformed. Maybe this is an analogie

Think I posted this in the last video but just to cover my bases. Would love to see a video on the yuan-ti. We got info on the naga and they are neat and it touches on the yuan ti but there is still quite a bit of really cool stuff about them on their own.

A nice video, and fun with all the 2e/3e references, but I am surprised not a single mention of the Ring of Winter, and Artus Cimber. Maybe you just didn't want to spoil Tomb of Annihilation, or Storm Kings Thunder, but as an artifact of Auril, and possibly one of Her Chosen, I expected some reference. Oh well. Still fun, and thanks for the video.

Her clarics can't be flirted with. THE BARDS ENTER THE CHAT

@No-ms3hj

3 жыл бұрын

There's literally nothing that a bard would not try and fuck

@peebleshamster5189

3 жыл бұрын

*Lore bard rolls 40 on seduction check*

You make my week with these videos

KZreadr: "If you get there, you can't flirt with these clerics" Me: "*Can't*, huh?"

@Valasilphukiir

4 жыл бұрын

Challenge accepted!

@RubiRenegade

4 жыл бұрын

@person person With *sacred flames and call lightning*

well, i'm now officially even MORE hyped for the upcoming adventure

I think it would be really cool to do a video on the city of baldurs gate. The new Baldurs gate game is coming out and im sure making a video on it would bring you a ton of new viewers who would definitely be interested in subscribing to your channel. Obviously, that might be a video for next month of late this month, since it is supposed to release for early access in August.

Just getting into the very early stages of this campaign with my friends. Really enjoying my time so far.

This was super useful, thank you!

Can you do a video on golems? That would be cool! Love your channel bro!! Been subscribed for about 8 months now!! Never disappointed with anything you do dude!!! Keep up the good work!

Auril is my favorite D&D villain and have a Gods of Fury homework assignment side quest in my current Strixhaven campaign. According to RotFM, Auril and Umberlee had a falling out as Auril was turning more of the sea into motionless sheets of ice much to her dismay. I expanded upon this to be Auril’s motive for the Everlasting Rime as her best friend had turned on her with the help of Talos and Malar because Auril’s greed and lust to expand her winter past the North grew to where it blinded her and adds to the isolation aspect as she’s in Grimskalle plotting her revenge

I now want to play as a priest or priestess of Auril. That was an amazing video!

Mind blowing! You just explained the entire ASOIAF backstory and symbolism

Thank you! Always nice lore

I always love your videos on powerful entities like gods!

Summon your Ex-Wifes everyone to counter this Goddess! Let the Furies of Hell fight each other!

@hyperbannana9262

4 жыл бұрын

What is your profile picture from

@FreedomAndPeaceOnly

4 жыл бұрын

@@hyperbannana9262 That is 'Alleria Windrunner' from World of Warcraft, but I forgot the specific artist in this case.

@hyperbannana9262

4 жыл бұрын

@@FreedomAndPeaceOnly ah thank you thought i recognized her from somewhere

Why you gotta expose my waifu like this

@FreedomAndPeaceOnly

4 жыл бұрын

Auril: _" I-it's not as if I like you, b-baka!! HMPF !! "_

@reyntime8735

3 жыл бұрын

*encases you in ice to preserve your beauty*

Woo!! It’s Rhex time!!

man please do a video about True Polymorph i have been asking for it for a long time now !!! can we really create new life with it ? and from where comes the soul of the new creature ?

Quote "Kisses seem to be a recurring theme with oral" end quote Uhm... yea

“really good friends” they’re lesbians harold

@urquanoverlord2538

4 жыл бұрын

Someone really should write fanfic for this.

@kendrickrochelanzot2053

4 жыл бұрын

Not wrong, she only likes females as servants and being surrounded by female worshippers at that

@WaltRBuck

3 жыл бұрын

@@kendrickrochelanzot2053 Sounds like she's just very sexist.

@Wertsir

3 жыл бұрын

What are you talking about? That’s just Sappho and her good friends.

@kendrickrochelanzot2053

3 жыл бұрын

@@WaltRBuck kinda is, i belive only females have a place in the clergy

23:30 "Permanent, because... you die" LOL

I am an actual fan of you and this sponsor. Maybe one day I can enjoy quality Raid Shadowlegend lore videos from some youtube chanell. xD I'v been importing characters, improvisations and races and artefacts from that game to my rpg for a year now!

Thank you for the lore, got inspiration for my next character if I do play BotIM

awesome, as usual!

I can imagine a level 15+ wizard strong arming her by threatening to kill the entire population of the few cities that worship her. Set up an invisible glyph in a hidden location in or near each city. The condition for activating is someone attempting to remove it or the casting wizard failing to reset it before a 1 month time period. The spell the glyph activates would have to be some kind of contagious disease, maybe the creation of a feral ghoul. With that set up, a single wizard could threaten to destroy 99% of her worshipers if she doesn’t keep him both safe and happy.

There's a dog barking in the background around 13:14 ... And from the tone I can tell that he is in fact a good boy.

Another cool video, HA! How abot a video about Selûne and Char, and the duality and significance of those goddesses?

Hhhwind-hhhwhipped hhhwhite hair. That's the good stuff, right there.

Winter is comming... AND IT'S COLD ! - That hearthstone card, 20XX

18:14 The Queen of Air and Darkness looks a lot like Polgara the Sorceress, from The Belgaraid by David Eddings.

I love the art you use in these videos. I don’t know your process, or if this would be a lot of work for you after the fact, but would it be possible for you to share the image album you use somehow?

Please do a video explaining avatars. What are they, how they come to being, there uses etc.

I am extremely thankful for your videos. You're like the Faerunian Deity of Lore. Dee-Em, the Knowledgeable

Nicely done

That Auril symbol of "just" the snowflake still had a diamond pattern, it was just made by edges of the ice crystal. 20:55 So are all Korean girls priestesses of Auril?

4:03 when there isn't ice cream in the freezer

Cool video (pun intended) could you please do a what the monster manual does not tell you about owlbears?

That Owl Demon thing looks dope.

Does anyone else whos never played D&D watch these videos?

Are you gonna cover the Campaign location of Icewind Dale when it comes out in September?

If she kisses a cleric with cold resistance, does he die the same way?

@rageostrich9562

3 жыл бұрын

tenho quase certeza que sim

@rageostrich9562

3 жыл бұрын

tipo tu pode ter a resistencia a qualquer coisa, é um efeito de morte e nao existe resistencia pra isso, tipo aquela magia de nvl 9 que mata qualquer coisa

Your the best DND KZreadr out there

She like winter and ice would be more True Neutral. Cold doesn’t care. Neat about the colour blue. A significant colour up north in the snow it tells you how cold it is. If snow is blue it’s bloody cold! And her hair would be a fluctuating colour of red , blue and green. I work up north I kinda know this.

Hello sir, I was wondering if you could do a video on the Vistani Human gypsies in Curse of Strahd.

I was listening to this video, a character thought came to mind (with a bit of hopeful homebrew magic by a DM and players) the character idea was an aasimar warlock of the icemaiden and if the DM allows it they could have frozen feathers when they show their wings and to also only use cold magic such as Ray of frost or frost bite, but because of their cold nature they are susceptible to fire magic, I would love to see this idea come to life but as a suggestion the aasimar has to be a female to fit that prerequisite though I'm not too sure what warlock subclass would fit perfectly

@Kuwagumo

4 жыл бұрын

I think none, you'll have to build your own. But fiend is close, imo

@paulthomas2779

4 жыл бұрын

hexblade could work but you don't have as many cold spells ready to use though... chain could work and have the familiar as a snow owl or an arctic fox as options, but it really depends on the player

Gotta love these strong insinuations xD

If ublook at the 5th ed symbol for the frost maiden. Theirbis still a diamond in the background. The arms of the snowflakes form it. Its a little subtle hint