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If Ludinus is part of the society of prime, he could view what the gods did as a total betrayal
Just like how they have Matt all over the Vox Machina animated series, I hope they do the same with BLeeM
So many layers of complexity just piled on top of each other this episode, but I think the 'philosophical debate' between SALAHA and Emhira in the bar was my favorite. Also the moment where Laura as Emhira goes full Raven Queen...that was epic. I feel like nobody in the CR cast does low-key sinister and dark quite like Laura Bailey.
I think Ludinus could have been a wizard prodigy and may have been a part of the Society of Prime. I am also wondering if we will see how the preservation bubbles came to be. They might be for those who had faith in the gods?
Can you Imagine if Hollis (The Boy the Everlight cured and made a commoner with 70 hit points) is actually Ludinus, who saw how his mother was betrayed by the very Gods when AEOR was destroyed?
Back again with rookie critter questions (and thanks yet again for helping guide me through stuff). On that very last bit…I don’t understand. Were they saying that the did the show before they did the intro? 🤷♂️
Prediction: someone uses the T-Dock (spoilers C2: time machine, ish). We don't know their fate after that moment
I started playing DnD in 1982 and back then you never talked about the game DnD unless you have already dropped many, many hints about liking dragons, elves, dwarves, goblins, orcs or other supernatual. You played in a close net group of only 3 or 4 people that took the time to understand each other. At that time it was mostly a hack & slash, dungeon crawl. We just had the basic rules, character sheets, graph paper and the dice you bought each individually. Role playing was far, few, and in-between, but it did happen in a smaller amount of groups that were very hard to find. We mostly stuck with each other and never talked about it to anyone else unless you dropped countless hints and felt safe enough to open that bridge to someone new. In the 2000's it begin to open up and became a ttrpg, the fear of it was mostly gone. Now I can wear a shirt with a blue dragon print on it and people will say, " I love that shirt ", which will lead to an open conversation about the DnD game and I have recruited players from it. I have even passed down my love for DnD to my children. Watching the amount of DnD and ttrpg's content is just amazing to me. LoL... such a difference and loving it..!
It’s great that it’s so much more accessible and mainstream now! 💖
I like the theory that ludinas, probably come from the angle they cured me just to watch the city destruction
Watching Trist and Ayden in the hospital, and thinking about the compassion they clearly have for some of the mortals of Aeor, and the tension between that compassion and Emhira and Asha's recognition of "what needs to be done" made me wonder -- those time bubbles that preserved clusters and groups of people within Aeor? I wonder if those are a compromise made among the gods, something they did to protect some of Aeor's more innocent populace. Maybe even (and this is based on a few comments here) something to do with whatever the Emissary is carrying within them.
Now Aeor is considered the last Sky City, but I think the lore has shifted, and during campaign 2 the lore still was that Zemniaz fell later than Aeor. The lore is not constant, and some details change as they build it. So Halas' background is old lore.
4X could also double in meaning as having 4 times as many arms as a humanoid.
I wonder if something happens like the gods’ human avatars figure out a way to destroy the god killer weapon without destroying the city only to have the gods destroy Aeor anyway. Perhaps that’s what Ludinus wants Bells Hells to see.
Your name plus discord does not add anything on google. Link is broken ...
Discord link for rhe watch party???
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Ayden isn't Peylor, but his son. Asmodeus, when he saw Emissary, said that only four came. In the second episode, we hear him pray to his father and receive a vision from the Dawnfather in return.
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The Emissary is the former god of death, the Matron of Ravens' predecessor. That's why he's an ice elemental, because the Matron also holds the domain of Winter, so presumably she got that from him. And the Emissary was staring at the blank portrait of the previous god of death, which had been wiped blank by the Matron wiping all knowledge of the previous god of death when she ascended. Then Ehmira's raven Dearest started pecking the portrait, as if to begin carving the Matron's image upon it. The Emissary looked at Ehmira and said "Hail to the new." Apparently the immortal nature of gods plus his domain being death made the Matron unable to completely destroy him. He doesn't seem to quite remember who or what he was. And it's like a degree of his higher thinking has been stripped from him. It's as if his identity has been stripped away, leaving him closer to a drone than a person. Arathis must have taken whatever was left of him into her service, which is when he became what in Downfall is known as the Emissary. I do wonder if his acceptance of the Matron now being what he was is Arathis' influence, and if his former identity would be wrathful.
No shout out for halas = creator of happy fun ball halas? Or are they spelled differently
They were spelled and pronounced differently so I chalk it up to coincidence but I could be wrong!
@@Luboffin makes sense. Could have been a happenstance that brennan picked that name. I cant imagine matt picking the name halas to be used in the show without everyone bat chesting over the happy fun ball
I think a big part of them being mortal avatars is that their personalities have been in part influenced by the mortal lives they've lived. That way they can play more their interpretation of the character without contradicting what the character's actually like. Because you're being generous with Aydan. He's absolutely nothing like the Dawnfather we know. And it's a shame that arguably the most villainous of the Prime deities (and therefore possibly the most interesting) is being portrayed as Jesus. But... on the other hand Asha as Melora is quite different as well. But it makes sense. The Wildmother from the get go understood they were going there to destroy Aeor. No compromise. And she's manifested as a wolf, demonstrating that this avatar is deliberately channeling a much more aggressive side of the Wildmother than she normally displays. She's TRYING to be different because it's what she must be to get this task done. So none of the cast's unique portrayals are lore breaking. I just wish Aydan was more interesting.
It kind of feels like the gods are using the beacon powers of reincarnating a soul in their avatars. Like these are not their first avatars and the remarks between Ayden and Arcadia that when they were young things were fuzzy but they gained their knowledge and memories as they grew sounded a lot like the luxon. That being said it would mean the gods and the luxon are not that separate (I love the theory someone put in the comments that the beacons are just fragments of the ship they came to exandria on).
It kind of feels like the gods are using the beacon powers of reincarnating a soul in their avatars. Like these are not their first avatars and the remarks between Ayden and Arcadia that when they were young things were fuzzy but they gained their knowledge and memories as they grew sounded a lot like the luxon. That being said it would mean the gods and the luxon are not that separate (I love the theory someone put in the comments that the beacons are just fragments of the ship they came to exandria on).
I was completely stunned by Ashley’s performance in this episode. Her reaction when The Emissary says “Little lies are okay” is just heartbreaking. She never goes big in this character, but everything she does is understated and perfect.
Theory: the boy Trist saves is Ludanis
Wouldn't an offshoot of a god who wants to do/be better/different in their view not just be reflecting an opinion/thought of the god that created them though? That feeling is already in the actual god, but they choose not to choose it essentially. But in this other form, maybe it's safer for this piece of their self to explore it a little more, knowing that they are still bound to whatever ultimate choice the god would make. Changing due to their experiences seems more like what the angels were doing, rather than the avatars or whatever the PCs are in this. Interesting food for thought either way!
Awesome recap!
Maybe the Luxon is the fragments of Tengar.
I love the artwork as well and I want it for all the gods
Yeah, my working theory about the Luxon/the Beacons was that they were fragments of the endless possibility of Tengar that the gods accidentally brought with them when they escaped. Or that the Beacons were the pieces of the gods that got left behind when they entered the “real” and had to let go of all the possible versions of themselves that they could have been. It being fragments of the ship is basically that but better haha. It just seems way too perfect that Tengar was a place of endless possibility, and that the gods were all represented as light beings in their home realm. How can it _not_ be connected to the Luxon? I feel like there’s a very good chance we’re not going to find out if that’s true in this miniseries though. Or maybe not ever.
I just NEED FCG to show up in the memory (played by Sam) as an assassin
i wonder if halas, the boy that the everlight saved saved, is indeed halas lutagran from campaign 2 who created the super happy fun ball, aka the hierloom sphere. he was a powerful wizard who dissapeared during the calamity. probably not him, but would be cool if it was
I truly dont understand the dislike for the EXU mini series'. Calamity is my favourite thing critical role has ever done, not that I don't love everything else.
At least XXXX might be a better beer for Sam to try than Fosters that he mentioned on the fireside chat 😂
I know that there are some people who don't like it when they missed a context due to their lack of lore knowledge. But, as someone who can spend hours in wikis after(and while) watching an episode, I've been loving Downfall
XXXX is likely an ozzy booze reference. It's definitely referenced in Warhammer Fantasy as Bugman's XXXXXX.
I feel like Ayden is the Dawnfather's son or offspring made from "the light of his image"
My random theory is that The Emissary is the reason why people are trapped within the blue bubbles in the ruins. Which maybe makes sense in a way. The Lawbearer doesn't want to intervene too heavily and most likely wants her family to succeed so they don't die, but she wouldn't find it fair that everyone in Aeor has to die as a result. So she sends The Emissary in her stead to help her siblings accomplish their task but also with a fail-safe to protect a lot of people in the city who were just trying to seek refuge from the destruction that the gods themselves created on Exandria. I would fucking LOVE this explanation and hope it ends up being true lol
Has anyone commented that the sick kid might be Halas Lutagran, creator of the Happy Fun Ball?
Thought about that as well, but he is only listed to have aged just over 50 years according to the wiki. Yet the ball itself is such an advanced contraption that it makes me wonder if it was Aeorian tech
Hallis is the name of the kid, not Halas. He is also not the right age, Halas likely would've already been in the sphere at this point, being that he was around during the Age of Arcanum, not 100 years after the start of Calamity.
@@blackbox8697 good to know! Were you able to gather that from the wiki? Is there a guide to the chambers of the ball?
@TheGrove603 No, I'm just going off what I remember from watching C2, I'm sure it says something similar on the wiki though.
My theory about Ayden is that he is actually the son of the Dawn Father's mortal form, and was told to lie about who he is to the other gods for some reason.
It would make sense, because he very much has a Jesus Christ vibe to him, so that could have been an inspiration for Nick to explore.
Just remembered in Mighty Nein, Matt saying it looks like someone punched Aeor out of the sky. A giant god bomb makes sense
Nick's character is only 15 years old while the others are much older. We don't know how long it takes to awaken the "God within" the avatar. He could still be viewing himself as someone separate. Also he might be playing like Christianity Trinity doctrine. He's both the father and son
Hellas will become the archmage that will create the halls of Hellas, the orb that the Mighty Nein adventure into
How sentient are celestials because they went straight to treason instead of like oh truce. I'm going down to exandria and learning how to cook.
They were made for 1 purpose. They only know one thing
@@annawest2869 then how could they perform a treason if fight war is all they are. Figure they would go. Truce? Rawr continues fighting.
It depends on the celestial. But A Planetar is *extremely* intelligent. Lowest mental stat being a 19.
S.I.L.A.H.A's bar reminds me of the droid bars in Star Wars.