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Welcome back to the wrap-up campaign.

I get it now.

It's hard.

It is tough.

And the age of reclamation.

We're going to begin tonight at the end.

We're going to cover the most recent arc first and slowly work our way backwards through campaign three.

And here in this magical tome, it's a tablet.

I have some questions for you all, written by the amazing Danny Carr.

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I'm sorry, Robbie.

No, no, please.

And if you're in the Discord chat right now, feel free to drop cue and we may be able to answer it on the air.

Is that really possible?

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So we can see technology.

And so,

let's begin.

Welcome, everyone.

We have a very first question, and it's not for all of you, it's for one specific person.

My favorite of you.

Just kidding.

It's for Sam.

Wow.

Wow.

I'm just kidding.

That's how I'm really going to win you guys over in this interview process.

I got it.

Our first question is, how would FCG have felt about the prospect of the gods taking on someone's name is in the thing on top of the question?

So I can't read it.

It's okay.

Mortal forms.

Technology, they're mortal forms and leaving Xandria without divinity for a time.

Wow.

Well, spoilers, FCG is dead.

Hey, God.

Yeah.

So wouldn't feel anything.

But hypothetically,

I think FCG would ultimately feel like that's

the the best way to get out of the the pickle that we that we were in which is sort of how I Sam Regal also think about it

I I I liked seeing the gods up on their perch and I'm gonna miss them up there

but

I also don't want to see them being chased around the galaxy

so what what you're just laughing at

it's okay

let's get this out of the way

even Travis shaved his beard.

Come out, chap we know.

We know

everywhere.

I came in the critical world this way.

Come out!

It's also because of mocap!

I hate it.

So does my song.

Explain himself.

I shaved it down to just a mustache,

which was fun.

I was like a cop for a day.

And then he was like, I hate it, Daddy.

So I had to shave it for mocap.

And every time I come in, he goes, oh.

Throw it out because I can take some of it.

Oh, we can throw rope back.

Nobody wants this, okay?

You look great.

You look great.

It's very circa 2014.

You are.

Yeah.

That's the thing.

It's for bringing it back around, right?

He looks like you're full circle.

It's a full circle situation, which is why it's happening again.

That's right, thank you.

I'm all for the mustache coming back.

The mustache was great.

I liked the mustache.

Yeah, it was really funny.

I liked it a lot.

It was just the mustache.

Yeah, just the mustache.

I did it.

I'm Team Flavor Saver.

Yeah.

It's a little reactive.

I've got no sugar ray on this.

No, no, no, no.

Not everybody can be robbing, okay?

It looks like a cologne commercial on this.

I feel like we're over real.

I feel like we're definitely shaking.

I know.

I don't know.

Okay, I'm just saying.

I'm telling you, I don't think we've finished a single question.

We're answering questions.

This thing is full of them.

I'm super disappointed that FCG didn't get get to ever really find out the deal with the gods and the changebringer.

And maybe this would be good news because now FCG could find the changebringer and have a lot of different questions answered.

So ultimately, good news.

And also,

good luck rushing Sigma new.

Super Kai.

Oh, my goodness.

All right, our next question is for Matt.

Everyone loves loot.

Are there any other relics of the Red Solstice Solstice besides Seedling?

Does the Ring of Remembrance count?

Oh yeah, the Ring of Remembrance.

Well the Ring of Remembrance

Yeah, yeah.

The Ring of Remembrance was actually technically crafted

during

No, no, no, no, no.

That was some.

Sorry.

I'm trying to get

it.

I'm kicking through my elements there.

Yeah, I get it.

No.

That was hilarious.

No, that was crafted.

So that would be one of

the solstice.

Yeah, there are plenty of artifacts that were crafted in the area.

Like I said, each era has its own artifacts that are distributed or crafted and then given that delineation for that time period.

The vestiges were definitely the most prominent because they were required to be on a certain level of power, both from a divine scale and from competing Arcana in the wake of the Age of Arcana.

And so yeah, there are others, and maybe we'll get to explore those down the road.

Yes.

That was the most thorough and nerdy yes I've ever heard in my life.

It was perfect.

Oh, bro.

The night's still young.

Next question is for Travis.

I look like a handsome squidward.

You know the meme?

I know.

It's a meme?

Guys,

you don't know handsome squid words?

I don't know handsome squid words.

Give us a weird image in the chat right now.

We have them turned on.

Oh, you do?

Well, otherwise, we're not going to be able to see any questions.

Otherwise, it will just be Green Matt jerking off the whole time.

Sorry, Robin.

I'm doing your own party,

I am!

Whenever I'm not here!

Thank you so much for joining us, everybody.

This is going great.

It's going great.

This is going great.

Like about to go wrong.

The next question is for Travis.

There it is.

Yes, it's perfect.

It is you.

I love it.

Travis, why why did you decide to shave your beard i was kidding uh

did chetney plan to deliver ashton to the bright queen as she requested yeah

that is a very uh i i think he definitely would have considered it uh only well for two reasons one because it would have been entertaining as shit to watch

and because i think ashton could handle themselves very very well even in the cream in the clutches of the queen dynasty uh and i just would want to have seen what would have happened

that would that I would have felt was less capable then maybe not but

poor them

if you get ashton on your hands

do you know where the gods are now

like do you Do you know where they are?

Are you in your in your big old brain

ordinance?

We need time.

Are they all the same age?

Do they all get instantly reborn as children, as babies, like at the same moment?

These are all great questions that maybe we'll get a chance to explore down the road.

Now, I have some inclinations on a handful of them, but also

for the moment, I'm kind of leaving it a mystery until the opportunity arises to develop

opportunities to explore that.

I've been with Xandrian content forever.

Absolutely not.

But no, I,

yeah, part of this too is an invitation for those who are playing Xandria and want to explore a campaign post,

you know, the solstice and the whole chaos of Perdathos and the catathiosis of the Pantheon to where now there can be storylines that we can explore and you can explore that involve this new epic and

the hunt for where these gods might be coming to consciousness and awareness in the generation to come.

It's so fun and teasery.

I love it.

Talison,

Ashton seemed rather different after he came back to life after having become a living beacon.

Are they different?

Yes, for a number of reasons.

One, you can only have, I think, so many brain transplants before you start to question the nature of your sense of self.

And they're on brain number three now.

That's heady, to pun intended.

That and also

they kind of fulfilled their greatest wish in life, which was to be

irritatingly heroic in a way that was just inconvenient and obnoxious.

So there's kind of a lot of now what?

And getting a sense of something that will actually bring some sense of pleasure.

And yeah, it was really, I think I'm going to go travel and find myself.

So yeah, yeah, they're very different for a number of reasons.

I think that Ashton and Kingsley should spend some time together.

Both characters have had their snow globe shaken for all her.

I don't know who would be a bad influence on who.

Sure, yes.

Kingsley.

Kingsley.

That's fair.

Very bad influence.

Ashley, what does Fern think of Ira's warning that the Unseale court is searching because of Zathuda's death?

Is she worried or unconcerned that they might be looking for her?

Oh.

Wait, why?

Why?

I I didn't think about that.

Yeah, I.

Don't worry, neither did you.

I was like, I feel like

I know that's always kind of been going on a little bit in the background, but I don't.

I feel like she's not really that concerned about it.

I really do.

I feel

it, just feels more firm to just be like, well, we'll figure that out.

We'll cross that bridge when we get there.

Yeah, that's fine.

Miss Caroline, you have a whole kingdom looking for you.

Cool.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

I think she's kind of unbothered by it.

It's like that meme, that unbothered, moisturized

in your lane.

In your lane, you know, where it's just like the

capybara that's just like in water hanging out.

I'm going to see if I can find it.

There's a whole lot of

jungle hunters.

There are tens of millions of memes.

You're good.

Yeah, then it would all make sense.

I have to believe that Madame Maury is paying attention to that for fern.

I do too.

I do too.

I feel like Nana Mori's gotta

beat on that.

Matt, what will happen to the all mines burn seed on Ruid?

That's gonna happen.

You can tell all that.

That's a thing that you can reveal.

I'll reveal elements.

I will say, with the destruction of the Weave Mind and the slow reincorporation of Ruidian culture and kind of

into Xandria, that alleviates one massive dangerous power structure on Ruidis,

but one unknown entity now forever changed from two coming together as one

now begins to weave its way further into the rock and stone of Ruidis.

So the all mines burn and the

My Seat fungal network of Ruidis

independently are no more.

Something new has come through that union.

And maybe we'll have an opportunity to explore that in the future.

I thought it was going to be an answer to a lot of things here, but intentionally there are threads that kind of, you know, weren't part of the final dovetail of the main campaign arc that,

you know, were things maybe we get a chance to do down the road.

I have a question going off of that.

Were we supposed to do that like way sooner than when we did?

That was originally my assumption.

And

in doing so, it would have altered aspects of the final confrontation and the kind of the return to ruined us.

It was always in our mind to do it, but every time I was gonna, something else happened and I was like, I'm not gonna stop the scene just so I can say, I'm planting a seed.

So you did it so much better.

No, I mean, yeah, we both did.

Yeah, we were both like, now, now, now.

Yeah, and then it just kept like, and then we were off of the moon, and then we were back on the moon.

Matt, do anything happen?

Matt or Danny, remind me how many weeks this story was or months.

It's not that much, right?

Three and a half months.

Yeah.

That's really crazy.

I don't even know if we got to four.

I have the timeline somewhere.

I'm not going to search for it right now.

But yeah, it's like four months, maybe.

Okay.

Sounds right.

DD.

Wow.

Wow.

Adventurers' lifestyle.

But it's going to be a little sad.

They feel like we rescued all these people from one hive mine to just like throw another one in there and be like, deal with that now.

Yeah.

Yeah, they've got experience, though.

So yeah, this should be fine.

Yeah.

Talisin,

Cadus has asked Bell's Hels to be kind when they made their decision regarding Pradathos.

What does he think of the path they ultimately chose?

I think he's pleased.

I think it is.

I won't speak for Percy, but at least I can speak for Ashton and Cadus.

They were both.

Yeah, Percy's answer is different, though.

Ashton and Cadus have the same feeling of like, this is the perfect outcome because...

It's kind to everybody.

It's kind to the gods.

It's kind to even

the villainous gods and the character.

And it's kind to everybody.

People who wanted the gods, people who wanted the gods gone.

Everyone gets a little bit of what they want.

And there's nothing more...

That's so rare in life that it feels like everyone got a gift.

Yeah,

that would be it.

Everyone got a gift.

There we are.

That's a good answer.

But finally, the kissy questions.

I've been waiting for.

This is for Marisha and Liam.

Is it enough for Keeleth and Vax to meet up every once in a while, or does that just make them miss each other even more?

Oh, well, you know, separation makes the heart go fonder

and all that over 30 years.

Well, I imagine, though, you would have like an extended reprieve, right?

Well, I don't know what it is, and I don't feel the urge to rush to like stamp what it is yet.

Like, one of the things I liked about the beautiful ending to campaign one was it was a very poetic, soft,

like final note, and then it left it up to our imagination and our audience's imagination to wonder what that was like for Keleth and moving forward from there.

And similar to Matt, you saying, like, well,

who knows what we'll explore in different ways in the future?

I don't know what we're going to do.

for all of Exandria or for these two, but

I mean, it's definitely an improvement than being dead.

But I don't want to, I would rather you guys and we, at least for right now,

leave that up to our imagination.

Yeah.

I think.

It definitely feels like

a very adult

relation, like it's a working relationship.

Like I'm very busy with my career.

You're very busy with your career.

Dead stuff.

And we're going to navigate that as we go.

Dead stuff.

What is your career now?

Taking care of the baby.

It's like finding the Dalai Lama every

several decades, probably, looking for the matron.

And

with Morrigan sort of upholding whatever the new version of

her, the matron's flock is.

And getting to know his nieces and nephews and eventually

their kids.

And

I don't know.

I don't want to try to predict or carve out what we might see

in some form someday.

Wait, I forget, do you have a long life like Keyleth now?

That

is that was part of the

hope and intent for this was he continues to be the champion, much like how

Pravan lived an extended life as part part of that station

until eventually he was slain in the calamity.

But yeah,

in an odd way, this allows them to

enjoy more time together in the theory than they would have otherwise.

I also like the idea that, you know, in the past, people said, well, Vax will show up and shuffle everyone off to...

to the afterlife.

I think that's still true, but he'll just be at the bedside beforehand and then off they go.

At the bedside.

Yeah.

Oh, fuck.

I'm sorry again.

Pull service.

You're going to show up like randomly at our beds at like 3 a.m.

going, it's time.

Oh, God.

Now I just.

How many times has Vax appeared to chetney?

I'm not going to fucking burn.

You're going to explode up out of your hot tub at just the right moment.

That's how I'd want to go.

Marisha and Matt, is Lodna truly free of Delilah now that she's trapped in her chest?

And was it ever possible for the two of them to be completely separate?

I never want to tell a player no if ingenuity allows them to outthink the logic.

In my mind, the magic that keeps Lodna alive, like present,

is tethered to Delilah's presence.

So they were more or less one, one couldn't continue to exist in Xandria without the other at this point.

However, it's an interesting question in the wake of your

decision at the end of campaign three

to shuffle off the

undead curse, if you will, to join Imogen and her natural life.

So, I mean,

I'd say before that, it would be very, very challenging to do so since they were so irrevocably tethered.

Now you're alive with a crystal with a necromancer still in your torture.

Yeah, she's definitely still there.

She's very contained.

She's my own little arc reactor.

As your hands were like touching each other and you got the color back in your skin.

You won!

Yeah.

Carpenter.

Yeah.

Laura, I have a question.

I'm going to toss something in real quick.

I'm going to just say that one of my favorite moments of the final game was you guys deciding to go find Lie Ab Tell.

That was nothing I planned.

I didn't even think of that ever.

And you just, and I broke into a panic, too, and was like, oh, Matt's going to take it out, right?

Nope.

Okay.

Okay, I'm the Alph Lady again.

And

I just seeing the two of you so...

heartbroken and and longing for something, my brain just started going like

through all the math of my character sheet.

I'm like, I'm on a level 20 character.

Can I do anything?

And it was just one of those like accidental magic things.

I'm really fond of that moment.

Yeah, that was great.

That was great.

Laura, I want to hear from you.

So you got a multi-parter question.

Oh, yeah.

This one goes deep.

You once said, I'm sure you remember, on Foursided Dive, that Imogen saw Liliana as her savior growing up, keeping her safe in her dreams.

How does Imogen feel now that the roles are...

we blacked that out too early?

Hang on.

Yeah.

There we go.

Now that the roles are reversed and she's quite literally her mother's savior, how is their relationship now?

Oh wow.

I think their relationship now is kind of starting from scratch.

She had an ideal, an idea of what her mother was when she was growing up.

Like

she was her savior.

She's the thing that's, you know, and

it's it's like anybody meeting their heroes, you know, and like seeing, oh, you're you're human.

Yeah, wait, didn't we?

We had this conversation once.

It was uh, there's a moment every child realizes that their parents are just people.

Yeah, do you feel like that occurred through the course of this?

Yes, 100%.

Um,

yeah, and I think she has to she has to get to know Liliana now for who she actually is and not

a concept in her mind.

From my mind, Liliana

post this main narrative really is

I see her akin to a person coming out of a cult.

You know, a person who is kind of brainwashed by

perspective and it's so deeply closed, close to a particular worldview that they

are kind of learning how to be themselves divorced from that being put upon them and kind kind of

probably a lot of guilt about time that she lost in doing what she thought was right.

And to your point, like, trying to reforge that relationship.

Yeah, and probably find out who she is, too.

A little bit, yeah.

Yeah, it's funny because, like,

with Jester,

it was like, I will definitely get them back together.

They're going to have the most fabulous, you know, fairy tale alive, my parents.

And

Imogen does not feel that way.

It's kind of like, you know, I would be shocked if

they find each other again.

Does your mom still, can she call you in your dreams?

Yeah, we can still, I can still dream talk to people.

But is it like, like, is it like when your mom calls and you're like, oh, hi.

Hi, yeah, no, I'm fine, fine.

I really gotta, I gotta go.

Is that how it's like when your mom calls?

No, I love my mom.

You're all

watching her.

I know, I love her.

That's a real problem, though, because in our world, you have to pick up the phone to answer mom.

Who knows what you're doing with Laudna when that call comes in?

Well, luckily, well, I'll be dreaming.

She can't just like, well, I guess she could pop in just like Jesse Poppin'.

Chat.

Who knows?

Chat, you have Travis convinced he is handsome squared word now.

Oh, my God.

Travis, you haven't had enough questions.

Did PopCon happen?

And if so, did Chetney go to it as special guest and headline keynote speaker?

Yes!

Of course he did.

100%.

Yes, if he survived long enough, he absolutely did.

It definitely happened.

And people flocked from near and far.

The Weave Stitcher, Weave Stitcher?

Fate Stitcher.

Is very powerful.

And so PopCon sold out of its VIP badges on its first day.

Where was the venue?

Overflow.

Where's the venue?

Oh, shit.

I mean, it's got to be on

Rumble Cusp has become the new convention

spot now.

Absolutely.

Since TravelerCon was such a success, it's like the Joco Cruise.

I've heard it's gotten a little too corporate lately.

Yeah, it's gotten too big.

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My friends, I'll take a look.

Following the

brisk jog of Pike Trigfoot, um.

I noticed that Ashton is not with us.

I'm gonna turn around and

I totally got confused.

I saw Pike turn around and wave at him.

Oh, yes, that is burn.

That's my mouth.

Kevin has a strange habit of talking to this tree.

He talks.

Well,

she talks to it.

What does she say?

She says it's nice.

Oh, I was thinking, I mean, the immediate notion would be.

Reverse alphabetical order.

The reverse notion would be.

Actually,

it was difficult because it was Ashton's idea.

So hold on, Ashton, you got to be able to do it.

Yeah, actually, no, it's no problem.

It's really nice not to be like the most fucked up in the group for a moment.

Alec is there.

Oh,

I guess I've been.

person

lady Keylis

Lady Laura

Personal

Waiting for hands and the beards to come up

Professor

Lady Laura

the rest of the game tonight

Like all the buildings look like bodies and and body parts.

What city was this?

We keep just

parts of his body?

Well, his

face.

You know what's uh interesting about her boss?

She can do a message and uh it's very precise.

Yeah, it wasn't the same as she was.

This is like right to the point.

It's great.

A little less.

Yeah.

What, like, that's hard or something?

I could do that too if I really wanted to.

I know.

I'm not aware.

Thank you.

It's a total waste if you don't use all your words.

I mean, what's the fucking point?

400 years and counting, I've seen many things, but none of them as pretty as you.

Well, I've gained so many suitors today.

Right?

All right.

Yes.

Are you single?

No.

Well, then, no.

It was so good seeing you guys.

I'm so glad we got to meet you before we all perish in a great red dew.

Jester, that is not what's going to happen.

No.

Nope.

That's not what's going to happen.

Is there any kind of time differential between in here and out there?

Like, are we going to come out a couple days later or anything?

Or

just one.

We are just

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Everything's going perfectly.

Welcome to the next section.

It is Downfall Question.

The first one is for Matt.

Okay.

If Ludinus had been successful in releasing the events

of Downfall to Xandries, how would that have been, how would that have affected things?

Thank you.

Thank you.

It's interesting.

Because

from the perspective of the Ruby Vanguard, specifically Ludinus, Ludinus'

loathing for the gods and the history that they in his mind have wrought destruction upon.

He's in that mindset of if other people could see this, they'll see my perspective.

Many would have, to a certain degree.

Many folks just would have been left kind of questioning.

Some folks probably wouldn't have believed it.

It would have led to a lot of chaos throughout the world,

but I don't think it would have been a a total flip of culture in the way that he had wanted.

You know, Ludinus is very caught up in his mind.

He's hyper-intelligent in a lot of technical ways,

but his emotionally driven hatred is one of the few blinding things about him,

as well as his sense of ego, which you guys were very good about knocking out from under him and pissing him off.

It was great.

So yeah, I think it definitely would have caused a lot of social rows and probably a lot of...

It would have shaken up a lot of the discussion about the history of that era, of the place of the gods in the world, and it would have caused a lasting rippling effect through a lot of Xandrian culture for a long time surrounding faith and mythology.

But I don't think it would have had the profound impact he would have hoped for.

That's kind of him being blind from his perspective a little bit.

How much time would you say after a decision like that is made by a player?

And this is just me making up a question.

Yeah.

I also know because it's what we're talking about in essence, a hypothetical.

How much time do you spend thinking about the way that player choices could affect this world that you and your cast have created.

Whenever I'm driving,

yeah, yeah, whenever you're in the middle of an existential crisis,

all the time.

Yeah, yeah, and whenever I have a quiet moment, like driving in the road, it's usually when I'm doing like a campaign, you know, thought process and trying to ponder on what player choices might happen and how it might affect the world so I can have some kind of rough background noise that I can pull from.

And then often it's nowhere near enough, and then you guys do crazy shit, and I have to make it up on the spot and follow the logic.

So, yeah, it's awesome.

Laura, having played The Matron in Downfall, how do you think she feels about Vex outrunning death so much?

And Matt, do you think Vex was also high on the list to be the Raven Queen's champion?

No, I want to know that one.

You first.

That's hard because I.

I feel like.

I feel like she doesn't really have a problem with it because, you know, like the twin is like hers, so it's kind of like payment.

The noises you were making.

I know.

Fully committed to this bit.

I just think

she never like turned on dead or anything.

It was all like fair play, you know?

That's how I look at it, that the matron was just doing facts of solid or

steering things slightly away.

Yeah.

As far as honestly,

in campaign one, when you first arrived at the Sunken Temple

with the intent of retrieving the Deathwalker's ward, I didn't have in mind who that would go to necessarily.

There were members of the party that was probably likely going to based on just skill set and abilities, but I had considered it, it could have gone to Percy, it could have gone to you.

You know, no one had really kind of built up a rapport with any of the divine forces in the world aside from Pike.

And Pike was very kind of, maybe, I won't say antithetical, but wasn't,

well,

partially wasn't even there for half the campaign because you're in New York.

But when you were there,

the Everlight and the Matron kind of fill very different roles.

So I didn't expect that to be there.

So yeah, I think Vex could very well have been

an interesting opportunity for that.

But also

a champion in a different sense.

Because in that point in time, there wasn't, you know, if you'd taken the armor upon yourself, it would have been like a chosen more than a champion.

Right.

You know, much like everyone else kind of became champions as the campaign went on, but it was more like you were given a boon and you represented some of their will and force in Xandria in this chaos with Vecna.

It was truly the fall of Vex and the deal that Vax made that sealed him as a true champion.

And a like, you are now tied to the fate of the matron.

And based on how it continued to go in the campaign, further and entirely bound your entire future fate to her.

Side note, you can binge all the seasons of Blind Spot right now.

Yeah.

I love you.

Let's keep the spotlight right on you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What do you think happened to Trist's children?

Who do you hope they became?

I just

hope they became good people.

I mean I

wasn't hoping that they would you know become I mean obviously they would but at the time I wasn't thinking that they would be demigods

but I hope they I hope they do good in the world

I think when we played it through and then we sort of got to the end

and

you know Triss deciding that she does have to go back with her original family and go with the gods and I was like why did I

why did I choose this as my backstory?

Because this is an awful choice that we have to make in this moment.

But yeah, I hope they do good.

I hope they're doing good in the world.

I think they are.

I'll say it was also a really strong example of one of the many ways that a celestial bloodline can be forged.

That can lead to like ASMR, you know, celestial ancestry variations, as well as just individuals with touches of celestial blood, like Pycas and Legend of Ox Machina.

So

Talison,

did you enjoy seeing Asha's wild mother still have influence in divergence?

Was your take on her still Caduceus's wild mother?

I

yeah, I mean, I will say that's that tends to be a bit broad because there is it's very it's very

bounty wild mother versus famine wild mother.

Nature's got modes and it was really nice to see that the that the cruel

nature desperately trying to like crack its way out of out of such a terrible environment and was like, oh, there's my little mice just rooting their way in, just getting a little seed in that crack and shattering that mountain.

Oh, here we go.

Yeah, I felt real good.

Yeah, that was a nice touch.

Yeah, that felt fun.

Tasha.

Hey, Matt.

I got a question for you.

Okay, what's your question?

Did you two, did you and Brennan work together on the original names of the gods?

And more.

And the other name of the original god of death?

Okay.

It's interesting.

The original discussion for Tengar was to have the gods' names not be

legible or recognizable by the audience.

It was meant to be like their titles and names were intentionally beyond the concept of like a mortal mind to understand.

And so as part of that ethereal space of Tengar, the names were more or less like whatever Brennan wanted to create because they were going to not matter in the final series.

Unfortunately, I think the subtitles kind of undercut that when the episode went up.

So in my head canon,

those are the best

approximations that a mortal mind can make, but they're actual true names of that era themselves are beyond language and really concept, much like how the matron's true human name has been cast from memory and understanding.

So that's how I consider it.

But that was a moment.

Remember when the entire audience thought that that first 10 minutes was going to be the entire run?

Yep.

Like, I can't do it.

And I was like, I swear, just give it an obsession.

Just wait.

It was an artistic choice on our standpoint that I still stand by.

Yeah.

I think it was really, but it wiped it up.

But I can see where it'd be hard if that was your assumption.

Was that the entire thing?

You're like, this is it.

We're now.

This is it.

It's just going to be weird orbs that are people's mouths.

I'm just talking ball of life.

What happened to Halice?

The sick little boy that Amira saved?

Oh, yeah, Halice, not Halas.

Not Halas.

No, Halas was of another loading city.

It's weird.

Over history, people got to have similar names.

No,

I envisioned that child.

Yeah, it's weird.

My next character is going to be named Jameson.

Please.

They are Legion.

They get together every year.

They have a big reunion.

No,

I think Halas is

likely became a figure recovering and kind of helping be a caretaker and protector of survivors through the calamity.

Probably, you know, being more focused on the communities and the ground, you know, especially going through that experience and the terrifying cusp of Aeor in those moments.

likely focused on

trying to protect the common folk that were more or less the the biggest casualties to the middle of that chaos.

So that was my

interpretation.

Okay.

Bullshit.

He's a loss.

Teleprompter is telling me to move on.

I'm going to ignore it.

Wait, I'm going to jump in.

Yeah.

I'm going to take a question from Beacon.

Whoa, no!

Fuck!

That's what it's for!

How can someone participate in that sort of Discord?

Well, it's really great.

You can actually,

you can subscribe to beacon.tv right now if you want to participate in the live Discord chat that's happening.

It's my only job.

Right now they're either all um

one job.

Yeah, you're missing out on memes about Travis or

people pumping us up.

See you here a moment.

Okay, this one, I've seen kind of a version of this a few times, but this is from that guy, Dylan.

It's for you, Sam.

Okay.

Breyus was brought into the campaign obviously very late.

Would you have want to make his character this campaign because you, or in another campaign, because you didn't have a chance to expand on him as much as you would have?

Like in another campaign?

Sorry.

Get it together.

It's not so much.

So what did you say?

Would you have preferred

this campaign?

I'm sorry.

it.

They did raise the.

Look, I'm trying to get through it.

Thank you, John, for that.

No,

I think

I certainly would have loved to do more Breyus.

I really like Breus as a character, but I don't feel like I missed out.

He got a nice little arc, which is all you can really hope for with a character.

And he got a big choice at the end, which is all you can really hope for for a character.

And he got to woo some people and do some evil and paint some paintings.

And yeah, I would love to see more of him in the future.

But I don't regret not having him around for more.

Yeah, I guess to

the very wordy question that I was trying to get through.

I will say this.

You made him as a response for this campaign.

I did.

Yes, yes.

We needed some God stuff.

We needed some healing.

We needed some evil.

um i will say this though and this is this is no sexy this is no slight against matt i feel like braus had more questions answered than fcg did

fcg was supposed to be a longer journey that got cut short i have so many questions about yeah and you would have had him answered in a or if you would have made it the whole point was to get him to a or there were so many answers for fcg and

i

answer

You should be apologizing to Holly at the storyline dead.

No responsibility.

We'll take my hand

there.

Oh, yeah, we'll get it there at some point.

Well, between Downfall and the Origins of Ruinous, Chetney totally being Aurum's biological father, campaign three

was full of Xandria-shaking revelations.

Let's take a look at some of the most memorable.

And as I walk, I look up at him and I say, Boy, I bet you think you're real scary.

You think Gurd

has a gift.

Do you get a load of me?

My shoulder pops out.

My back cracks.

You're trying to atone me

and I didn't do anything wrong.

And he stabs you through the heart.

No!

Oh my god.

As I live and breathe.

Wait, you know.

No,

you know each other?

No, couldn't be.

Wait.

Wait, are you a gnome?

Yes.

Deanna.

Wait, what was it saying?

I wrote a heart and it says, former lover.

Yes, yes, yes.

Where there once was a golden, impish, sweet little boy.

I'm going to drop that shit.

What the fuck?

Oh, my God.

I saw you.

You killed my friends at Marquette.

You were there.

I'm jumping full speed.

I need everyone to rule initiative now.

What?

Yes, Lamar!

Oh my god!

I didn't want this to happen!

I guess I'll just buzz saw him.

We're Bell's Hills.

And don't you forget it.

And I'm gonna keep walking out.

Are we?

This might be too forward, but do you

remember much about the end?

My parents thought that

getting an invitation to

the palace, to the castle, to meet the Lord and Lady Briarwood

was a great boon.

We were promised a wonderful feast and

an amazing party, and

we were told we were going to be serving a greater purpose for Whitestone.

That was it.

They dragged me away, separated me from my parents.

I was brutally beaten, and then

it's a little fuzzy after that, but next thing I remember was

waking up being hung from a tree.

It was the sun tree, actually.

It was quite a spectacle.

Yeah, I gathered.

As Kila flies kind of frozen, eyes wide, Odahan goes for like a heart strike, and there is a dark flash in the air.

And you see where Odahan's blade was.

Instead, you see a cloak of feathers.

What?

Black raven feathers.

Wait, let the bingo.

Is Bags on there?

You see a masked figure with the fire.

Shut the fuck up, bad!

Shut it up!

No,

fucking play!

You cannot rescue!

Where is it?

She's now standing over and protecting her body.

Daggers in each hand.

Don't you even dare.

The door opens

inside a darkened what looks like a closet and a figure huddled defensively against the back wall.

If we could have

if we could please have Sam Regal come to the table.

Its head shakes and looks down at the rest of you.

What's happening right now?

No.

No, no way.

No fucking way.

I think I know what's happening.

We're back with the seven founders of Critical Role and Handsome Squidward.

Andy Robbie David.

Oh, yeah, whatever.

I have a question.

I have an answer.

Are you going to get any questions?

I've been skipping them all.

Robbie!

Robbie, you have no.

Wait, wait, I've seen a bunch in, once again, in our Discord about when you realized you had feelings for aurim

that has been spammed a few times who's running the show well

game recognizes game motherfuckers all right we'll ask the deep lore after that uh when when it's when it's liam o'brien across the table from you minute one

that's true but to be fair i was eyeing you all

was was there anyone else that or that uh that Dorian had eyes for?

Because you hinted about it.

Did Brance have a shot

in the first four stage?

Very quickly.

Who was it?

Who was it?

Everybody.

I know that's a cop-out answer, but I was like,

I'm going to get one of you, but absolutely.

But you can't run from your true love.

I wonder if Dorian saw the porn they shot.

That's why.

Okay, I'll give you a real answer because I've ducked it for however many years.

And I really did eye you all because you're all

whatever.

Well, actually, number one.

There was a moment early in the season when I was princess carrying Laudna

up to like look at the top of a roof.

And I had this thought.

I was like, hmm.

Is this the moment?

Yeah, I thought about it for a second.

And then I abandoned it from my sweet little woman.

From my sweet little wife.

I thought about it.

Wow.

I'm not going to blush.

Sorry.

You thought your dead girl was going to be unromanceable.

You cool.

I think you got the better end of that deal.

It was true.

You can date any.

Yes.

You can date us anything.

It is true.

Coming up in June.

Back to the real.

Back to the real question.

I'm going to Fireman Kill.

Oh, baby.

Him a big loaf of water.

Yeah, him a big loaf of mine.

Matt, yes.

What would have happened if Imogen had given in to Pradathos earlier on or on Ruidis?

If you had given in, it would have led to direct Pradathos communion.

There would have been visions of Pradathos' past visions of other entities, the two original gods devoured, and it would have unlocked additional powers for

any future combat that you wanted to do, but Imogen, each use would have brought you closer to more or less

leaving with your mother.

So

it would have...

It would have been an opportunity for Imogen to eventually get to a point where she leaves the group and you would have had to make a new character.

You're saying that would have transformed her into an NPC?

Yeah, technically.

Like, I assume that every time, if I'd have

failed one of the wisdom checks, right, and like

delved into Perdathos, then each time that I tried to block it again, it would have been harder and harder.

Oh, yeah, the DC would have gotten higher and higher each time.

Yeah.

The idea being that, and it wouldn't have been like an immediate thing, it would have been like the first time would have been a really intense communion, and that draw would have been a really intense communion, you guys.

But it would have been with each one, one, the draw would have been stronger, the promise of power would have been larger, and each use of the power and each opportunity for you to reconnect would have been a much more intense thing.

I could have nine-eyed this shit.

No, it's totally.

I told you.

Wait, really?

Oh, yeah.

I wanted her to do that.

Chat was for evolution.

So, one of the chat just said, Is it just me, or does Matt look more tired than normal?

Yeah, they're on taking it a day.

We played for 10 years and all of us.

And to answer your question, absolutely.

You thought any campaign three have slowed my life down.

Absolutely.

I was being very sarcastic when I said the chat is pumping us up earlier.

That is not what they were doing.

Keeping us humble.

Keeping us humble.

Speaking of slowly dying on camera, Sam, hey,

how do you feel about FCG's end?

Not the way it means.

No,

I want it to be the way you just mean it.

Robbie, you can't breathe.

Robbie!

Robbie, that was really insensitive.

You're gonna be fine.

You really insensitively.

Stay 15 feet back.

So you mean when I was undergoing radiation?

Yes!

I love it.

Yeah, no worries.

We'll edit this out.

No one listen to this.

Listen, the truth is we're all slowly dying.

No one makes it out alive.

It's truth.

It's truth.

How do you

feel about FCG's end?

I got a full-on question.

Okay.

How do you feel about FCG's end?

Yes.

Were you hoping for a way to save them?

Or are you happy

and wanting them to sacrifice themselves?

And would FCG even want to be revived?

So many questions.

Yeah.

First of all, very pleased with my end.

It meant something.

It made a difference.

It was, I thought, a pretty nice moment.

I am pissed as a character that I didn't get the answers that I wanted, and I hope that right now, after I'm done talking, Matt answers them for me.

I don't think that FCG would want to be

resurrected.

No,

they did their thing and they're done.

That's it.

I think that's it.

Death's okay.

And

you had kind of chatted to us or me or whatever about, I had this vague memory of you being like, I don't want to be brought back, right?

Yeah.

Like that was how you felt after it happened.

For sure, for sure.

Also, I mean, makes it a little bit more meaningful, but also, you know, I told that story, it had an end.

There's no reason to dig it back up again.

Yeah.

I also love the idea that like after searching for the possibility of having a soul and the question of FCG's own like person

got the realest answer which which is an afterlife and and a purpose beyond that you know under the under the the the path of the changebringer but is the changebringer cool or not you were giving me all these mixed signals

changebringer changes from moment to moment no no changebringer is awesome but but change she tries

she she was being wishy-washy intentionally sometimes why

because it's one thing to be told the path to walk it's another to walk the path and then find your way how you're supposed to.

Fuck it!

Fucking A!

And then, Dick, tell me

this!

Tell me this: What would I have learned if I went to see Devexian?

Well, that is a great segue.

You don't even have the questions.

What do you think would have happened if FCG had visited Aeor and had he met up with Devexian?

Devexion, one, would have had the capability of upgrading elements of FCG.

You're missing this.

With other

people,

they were like, well,

they were like, was it

like nose and tongue and

upgraded?

Sorry, upgraded like with a tongue and legs or upgraded like laser beams.

They would have made those little flats.

Devexian does not have a tongue.

Damn it.

Don't allow

gathering other parts?

Next question.

What does he do if he finds other Aormatons?

Like,

not all Aormatons

that were found were repairable.

And so Devexian sometimes cobbles them together, sometimes builds new ones from what can be located.

And it's Devexian more or less is trying to restart the Aormaton people

with

not locked into the memories of the past in the hopes that they can forge a new future without the weight of Aeor behind them.

So, Devexian is more or less trying to be a soft messiah for the Aeorian people from the background.

You get a little bit of that in Reslayer's Take, actually.

There's a fun little interaction in that series with Devexian specifically.

But

with that, Devexian may have given FCG a little more context to what Aeor meant and what their purpose was and the challenges they had in Aeorn

society.

As a robot, yeah, and would have said to go to AOR to find the true answers because only there you would have and in AOR you would have had more memories come up of like what you were built for,

the care and the culling was specifically Aormatons designed as like

aid helpers and supportive like care workers.

And you were a part of a group of this sort of group designed to be given as gifts to diplomatic allies to Aeyor that were more or less sleeper cells that would be signaled to then turn on their

gifters.

Yeah.

I love it.

And so it would have been a lot of dark history where you were, but a lot of also philosophical ideas of like you were not bound by a history you owed you no control over.

Your destiny is yours to carry forward.

A lot of fun.

Good messages.

Is there a place in Aeor,

very deep, where there's a whole bank of fresh-cut grass models and you're all networked?

Wow.

And you set off the memory like Luda.

Well,

maybe we could turn you on somewhere else.

You can always turn me on somewhere else.

The chat is out for the guys, by the way, because I saw a comment that said, Laura, your makeup looks so lovely tonight.

And then I saw a follow-up that said, Liam looks like he's being tortured.

I haven't changed in 10 years.

I don't know what the guys did, but we're fucking

high-value targets.

Not to

give a little peek behind the curtain.

We're all wearing makeup right now.

So we just look extra shitty.

It shines through the makeup.

Sam, I really want to stay focused on you.

Okay, cool.

Well, did you intentionally play Aminotaur just to break the trend of many years of playing small characters?

or were you specifically trying to create a thirst trap for your previous character?

That one.

I knew it.

It's the buzz.

It's the joke.

It's all for the joke.

It's all for the bit.

It's all for the bit.

I've played larger characters before.

Taryan Darrington is a normal size.

Also, a second

follow-up character.

That's true.

That's true.

It's just, I start campaigns as smalls.

That's the only thing.

It's just going to keep happening.

Speaking of big hunky guys, Travis,

do you know what happened to Chutney's family?

Do I don't?

I don't.

Young man, please.

This is

no alcohol.

Not alcohol.

By the way, it says Talison isn't catching any hate at all, which I think we just have to recognize.

You're just too fine.

Yeah.

Chutney has no idea.

I know where you all are.

Chetney has no idea where his family is.

No,

they all fled

during the first, what was the Red Dragon's name?

Not before Thor Deck.

It was

before

Irvon the Rhime Lord?

Wow.

Yep.

Bro, that is my job.

So it's like

we're talking about Poles of Wittebach,

the area outside of where Craghammer is.

Okay, gotcha.

Yeah.

Yeah, Irvon the Rimelord.

That was during the Ice Lost Years.

Yeah.

Not a dragon, actually.

Oh, really?

Large Elemental Lord.

Oh,

I wrote that wrong.

Wait, there was a question that said, What was the deal with Shithead?

The bird.

That's a great question.

That is an amazing question.

I totally forgot about Shithead.

What was the backstory with that?

The backstory was:

Fresh Cut Grass, when I designed the character, was going to have a pet bird with him named Shithead.

But then

I realized how hard and how stupid it is to have an animal companion.

Wow!

So, but I had already had the drawing done.

I had already had the art made for Shithead.

And so I just, I told Matt right at the beginning of the campaign, I was like, hey man, I had this art done.

I don't know what to do with it.

His name is Shithead the Bird.

Just have it menace me at some point.

That was it.

And that was it.

And that was up to Matt to make it a sort of a harbinger of doom.

Well, because I remember

what's happening over the leaves.

What?

Don't worry about it.

It's I'm roasting you now.

Our handsomest host here.

Cheers for the savagery in the chat.

I'm going to immediately throw away from the compliments.

From tankard to a flask, then a gas can, and eventually an infernal Stanley cup, which is just a normal Stanley cup.

No one knows how to cause a ruckus with a cup, quite like Sam Regal.

We're still talking about me.

We are, it's all you.

It's all you.

And here is two and a half minutes of proof.

My name is Sir Bertrand Bell.

It's a pleasure to meet all of you.

You're a knight.

Are you a noble?

Not a noble.

A knight is generous.

I mean, we knew that already.

You know, things happen when you come and go from there.

You know, years have gone by, and it only feels like a couple minutes for you.

Oh, my God.

It's a it's pressed like a dark leather.

It looks almost like a heavy, almost oni brow with these horns that curve up.

Oh, wow.

Got my mask right.

What?

What?

It's my human skin mask.

First, I'm going to cast Yasifi.

Oh, no.

By God.

First, I'm going to cast Yasifi.

Oh, my.

I'm already tired of that.

Oh, my God.

26.

Oh, my fucking God.

Oh, my.

Oh no!

There are a number of folks rushing around in similar kind of robes that are um

i just finished baking a bunch cake.

I can give you guys a bunch cake.

You've been baking butts now.

Oh no.

I've got oh shit, it fell.

Go ahead and eat it, Emily.

Show it to the dice of the table.

Emily from this side of the table.

Hello.

It's bad here.

I'm gonna do it

with my special rolling device.

It's also a dice device.

Seeing all of this action, I have to take a sip from my Stanley cup.

Oh.

Oh!

What?

Ew!

Frozen!

Dice!

That's amazing.

Yeah!

You did good.

I think

instead of the flask, I think you now need the fan and just need to

put her back.

That was the softest entry.

You let me get away with that?

Oh, thanks, team.

It's time for questions.

Oh, better.

Yeah.

Race to the moon.

All of these start with you.

But why?

It's just the way it is.

Okay, let's go.

You're my world.

I do like this question quite a bit.

Was Maury's deal with Aurum always meant to be a fake out, or did you plan to follow up on it, but they got the plans changed during the game as it progressed?

Do I look that tired?

No.

I'm kidding.

I'm kidding.

No.

I really like your haircut, Matt.

Oh, thank you.

And I wanted to have like an end of C3 and divergence kind of connotation, you know, cleansing to back in the the day when we first started, you know, kind of like a...

Fresh and shoreline.

Now it is a lot of fresh and short.

Back to the question at hand.

No,

it was funny because

thinking from the mindset of

Morgan during that time, of the Fate Stitcher,

in those moments, like her beloved, you know, adopted granddaughter, essentially,

and her compatriots were going to be leaving for a dangerous mission that'll have impact on the realms beyond, including the Fae realm and the space where she has interest over fate.

And, you know, Auram comes to her saying, I request a boon to keep us and your sweet fern safe.

In which in her mind, she's like, of course, I'll give you a boon.

It's like, and in return, I offer my fealty to you unending.

And she's like.

Great.

I'll take it.

He's like, however,

you must promise that we all come back alive.

And she's like, I can't promise that.

You're going to the moon.

You're going so far beyond my ability to control that.

But sure, I was going to give it to you anyway.

So like in the moment, it was like, sure, if you want to make the deal, because if y'all come back alive, I get someone bound to me at practically no work from her standpoint, but she's not going to tell you that.

She's going to let him believe that and, you know, worry about it.

Because like in my head, I was like, I was like, she's willing to make a wheel and deal here if he wants to bring it.

And the more it kind of began to form, she's

this ask is a little beyond my ability on where you're going, but I'm not going to correct anything.

And the off chance that everything goes perfectly and I get a free servant out of this, I'm going to let it ride.

And so when it finally came down to that moment of conflict, it was like,

yeah, now you're good.

Your friend died, so technically our contract's broken.

Sorry.

I bet that one of our players would die, so thank you for eating shit.

I will always eat shit for you.

What are you doing after that?

A quick follow-up.

Did Nana make the sea poppers or did they exist before Chetney's deal?

Yes.

You don't have to really act.

No, he does.

Did it reconfigure Caleb's upbringing?

Or did little Bren always,

had he always fallen in love with those toys on his scarce trips to the Rex and Trump?

So

the best that I could convey this to all of you.

The real man who should be here.

Whatever you say, we'll be candid.

These crafted eggs and such fine woodwork has always existed in Xandria.

But it's very easy to adjust

elements of memory tethered to such things as to who is responsible.

You didn't even make the wood eggs when you have one up your butt?

Or maybe he did.

You don't know.

Oh.

Chet.

Even Chet thinks he made the wood eggs.

Tell me this.

Is Chetney Scalen's father?

Yes.

Is that true?

Yeah.

And or his dad.

That's not true.

I believe both of these.

Yeah, I expect.

They're not the only ones.

Of course.

All right, this one is for Matt and Talis.

Things have been said, and I'm so confused.

I'm a fashion.

Someone's yelling at me to grow my fucking beard back.

Y'all need to calm.

I'm a human being.

They're deeply.

They just want you to grow.

You can donate it to Travis.

That's true.

Yeah.

Beard donor.

So wait, is he a fraud?

No.

I'm I'm not confirming anything.

I'm just saying in the logistics of it, he's made all kinds of stuff in history.

Does he know if he made the eggs or not?

I made the eggs.

Yes, of course.

I made all these toys.

You remember?

They suddenly got much, much better, I think.

And much more expensive.

Am I right?

To help clarify from my standpoint here, there are some elements of history that are fun for me to answer and confirm, and there are some that are fun to raise more questions about it.

I made a series of eggs along along with a litany of other toys after the Nana Mori stuff.

The toys got much more intricate, like much more complicated than they did.

Yeah.

Previously were.

But the originals are still fucking highly sought after.

But wait.

So the eggs you, all of the eggs you made after

he had made them before.

He had made them before.

Okay.

I only made two after the news.

Did Chetney carve the interrogation chair from campaign two?

Yes, yes.

That was in campaign.

No wonder it had so much weight to it.

It was extremely ominous.

Just check under the light.

Beautiful.

So

that was the reason to give Nana a tiki bar.

I'm pretty sure that was just from discussing a little bit with you with what your home was about.

Yeah.

We just discussed it.

It had to have tiki.

You were just like a little bit of a teacher.

It had to have tiki.

It feels a fun thing to give a hag in the middle of the day.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Wanted it to have a

fun house.

Who doesn't want a tiki bar?

You guys have a lovely tiki bar.

You do have a tiki.

Like inspired by home life.

I mean, you instantly know the vibe when you walk in and you see a tiki bar.

That's true.

You're like, all right, we're down.

They have a tiki bar.

You really do.

You really do.

You know you're going to have a good time.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

They're just good.

But you know you're going to have a good drink.

I'm not for sure, but

it's going to be sweet.

That's all we we know.

It's going to be sweet.

It's fine.

It's going to be drink.

Yeah.

Actually, does Fern have any worries about Tevin Klask and the Lord of the Hells?

What they have in store for their future?

Not at all.

No.

Does that care?

No, I really think...

Yeah,

I don't.

I think she just...

Every Fern answer is.

It's like, well,

down for the fucking ring.

I mean, I think if there was worry there, she wouldn't have done it.

Yeah.

You know, and it's just kind of like, well, let's just see what happens.

Yeah.

She's having a rubber on her finger recording to a super game.

I mean,

you know, we'll see how that maybe one day pans out.

Oh, I very much have

interest in a future fern-centric Bell's Hells game.

Really?

That's where a lot of these might come into.

Moving on, moving on.

Too much to then take a sidetrack in the middle of our finale, but definitely something to explore in

a post-katathiosis era.

I did have moments during the game where I was like, maybe we should go talk to Asmodeus

and try to

buddy up.

I don't know.

I was like, there were so many possibilities of using that sort of relationship, but I don't think she...

I don't think she has a care in the world about it.

Okay.

I really don't.

I have a pitch.

I have a pitch for a future future one-shot.

Great.

It's like fern,

but like

Love Island or like the ultimatum or something.

Where is Bachelorette?

Yes, yes.

She's a ghost or that she's the bachelorette.

She's the bachelorette.

She's a bachelorette.

And you have Ashen, you have Chetney, you have

Breyus, you have Tevin, you have the ghost pirate that you snuggled.

Yeah!

And you have all these people that you like.

dates with and go on dates with, but it's like redo-it-reality shows.

We could do it like Marvel's Secret War, where we're just all stuck there and we can't leave under threat of death.

Like it is just under penalty of death.

We have to be there and compete.

We live together in the nine house.

How hot would it get?

Those kind of questions.

I want to know.

You live in the nine house.

What would we do for a first date?

Perfect.

Dead pirate.

Which would be the first bone you would show me?

Okay, dead pirate got a girlfriend.

Oh, well.

Yeah, but I saw the tiki bar on his boat, so.

Yeah.

Oh, God.

I wish I had a funny question to ask, but they're all just so serious.

And it's for you.

Me?

It is for you.

Serious?

Yes.

Not too serious.

Okay.

How did wearing the circlet change Imogen's perspective on the people around her?

Does she keep wearing it in her downtime?

Oh.

Gosh, the circlet changed everything for Imogen.

I mean,

she

hated being around people before the circlet.

And then it was just like, oh,

you guys can be.

You're my friends.

It's the best.

Yeah, so I don't.

I there were a couple times in the in the end of the campaign that I ended up taking the circlet off because

I had more powerful items that I needed to use

But no, and I I did keep it in mind like anytime that I was on attune to the circlet I would I was like aware of the fact that it was like kind of back

But I feel like as her power grew her control of that element also grew so it wasn't as dominating

past a certain point.

Yeah.

Yeah, like taught you how to like

guide you to the steps to like deal with it in a way.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's cool.

Yeah.

I really like that.

Yeah, because I remember early on we would like

try and find the booth in the far back corner and stuff.

Which was really cool.

Yeah.

I remember the first time we got out of the city and I was like out in nature and I could step away and it was like, oh my god.

Yeah.

It was a really dynamic.

I was just like having this conversation a couple days ago about like that was a weird choice to make at the beginning of a campaign to choose a character that was like tortured to be around people because it was really hard to

show her character at the beginning.

Yeah, that's interesting.

So, yeah.

I don't know, that's a real fun complication.

It was a fun complication.

I think also relatable, probably, for a lot of people.

Yeah, a very different swing from Justin.

Yes.

I have to answer a question for you.

Yeah, Robbie.

There are none on my page.

It's not assuming that.

Robbie, I saw one in the Discord.

Uh-oh.

What is your mother's name?

You're gonna ask me a lore question?

My mom's name is mom.

No, what is that?

But she's the best mom in the world.

I do have it.

You just

know.

Dad's name was...

They were all wind puns, I'm afraid.

There's a Zephyr in there for sure, which I think was Pops.

And Matt's trying to desperately save Aaron's story.

What is it?

Nepheli.

That's awesome.

He got it the the same second I did.

Hey, guys.

See, you need a team to figure out your own lore.

The two wyven winds and the up-and-coming son Bronte.

I'm going to drop it in chat so that they have the spelling.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, yeah, it's one of those things where Cyrus was always the linchpin for moving forward.

But as far as mom and dad go, it was more about the concept of them than, like, I didn't have her name running through my head at all times.

Yeah.

But yeah, you if you want to pop it in the chat yeah i'm glad we got to have those moments at the end of the campaign it was hard it was heartbreaking when he went back to find the silken squall outside of vassalheim and like walking in and have her

having heard that you had chosen a different name than the one they gave you and trying to like yeah lean into that it was like it was oh and i didn't clock it until we got to rp a little bit which was great i just thought that you were calling me that and then i'm like oh no this is a conscious choice by matt in this RP moment, and I missed it, which is interesting for anyone who's chosen to go by any name in the world.

You go back home to mom and dad, and all of a sudden, you potentially become who you used to be.

So, I thought that was a really fun way for that to unfold.

And thanks for letting me have that moment because I kind of just took it, which is a scary thing to do in any game.

That's the best part of these games.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I love it.

I have a Dorian question as well.

Uh-oh.

I thought it was fascinating to see how losing Dorian's brother threw your whole story on its head upside down.

Sure.

What was it like, like

having to reconfigure when that happened, like that week or those two weeks, as you were like, I'm this.

No, and I'm this.

What was that like?

Yeah,

well, thankfully, I've created a character that compartmentalized really well.

So that was the aspect of like, well, how do you play the story?

But fold yourself into a story that's already been unfolding without like, oh, I want to shine the spotlight on me.

I want to talk about my tragic backstory.

But also do service to what happened within the game.

So I think there was a real craftsmanship in getting Dorian back into the story where everyone was on the same page.

And that unfolded between Abria and Matt.

So I feel like, you know, we were meeting at a time when they had just suffered a great loss and I had suffered a great loss.

And we could all just feel that together without sitting around the campfire going, let's talk about our dead friends.

So it did make me feel like after being away from the table for so long, that at least the wavelengths was the same with the rest of the crew.

And then,

I always felt a little bit unresolved because there was so much to do in the last 30 episodes or so.

But having that moment with mom and the guilt of being the catalyst of losing a family member through that scene, being able to give Dorian closure on that and let go of some of that guilt and breathe in the love of his family

was that.

That wrapped it up for me in a way that felt okay to where I felt like Dorian could move on.

So, yeah, it's really, yeah, it's a different thing.

Can you also, can you tell Chad to relax and tell them that you'll be coming back as many times as we ask you for forever and ever?

I'm still waiting for the contracts to come back from the lawyers.

You know, we have

some truly incredible battle maps in campaign three.

We're not letting him go.

Yeah, he's not going anywhere.

One of us, motherfuckers.

And with all those sexy new beauty shots, and our amazing crew has been getting,

we would be remiss if we didn't pay tribute to some of the standout maps of campaign three.

Who doesn't like a good map?

Take a look.

Map Mercer.

Welcome back, everyone.

Here's the deal.

I'm about to say a bunch of names, and everyone's name who I say are incredibly talented.

This is a shout out to our amazing crew behind our miniatures.

Tyler Walpole, Ian Iron Tom.

Cross in front, go behind.

Nice.

Max Miler Burp, Jesse Jerdek, Daniel

Airly.

Airly.

Daniel Airly,

Peyton Keogh Laceball, Ron Ogden, and Angela Bassett.

Yes, that Angela Bassett.

No.

No, not that, Angela Bassett.

This one goes by DM underscore Ophelia on IG, but seriously, though, could you imagine?

Sorry, I do.

I don't know what I was thinking.

I thought my mic pipe was.

I just touched your butt.

If I said your name incorrectly, I

still love you very, very much.

Team, we got a whole new set of questions about a whole new art.

Are you mentally prepared?

Yes, sure.

I know, I sure am.

I'm going to start at the bottom.

Just kidding, it's back to you, Matt.

Okay, good.

Okay, this is interesting.

What were the personal dynamics among Ludinus and his generals, like Odahan, Liliana, and Zethuda?

How do they vibe together?

I mean, originally they vibed well.

They were all brought under Ludinus, who had a very prominent figure historically and

between multiple different cultures and communities of power in Xandria, and especially in the wake of the Apex War IV

Odahan, in which case, you know, if you are a legendary soldier, it's tough in times of peace, especially when you're a soldier that

loves the violence like she did.

And so she was eager to be part of this for the promise of another opportunity to rise to prominence and,

you know,

lean into the cruelty.

She's not a good person.

As if you didn't know that.

Zathuda, Liana, they were all brought together under the auspice of Ludinus' plot.

And when they were all brought there, they already were kind of, within a trusted space, shown enough to see how much work he had put into this and saw it kind of like more or less a surefire thing.

And the more they began to extend these like last-minute plans that he required them to help with, the more they began to butt heads further and further.

And so they got together okay at the beginning, but even with the short time that they all, that Lunis began to kind of relax his grip on his plot and let other people handle things he needed them to do, the more they began to

clash, the more they began to dislike each other, and he began to kind of sow these seeds of discontent through the

friends.

Just buddies.

Just buddies.

Just like best friends.

Just chill, bros.

Cool.

You know?

I wouldn't consider them friends, but they were definitely compatriots in arms.

I can't make my knuckles make a sound when I slam them together.

Like, how hard did you hit your knuckles together to make them?

Not hard.

It's like a slap.

Oh, you just did it.

So slap, not crack.

No, no, no, no.

You should definitely keep trying and tell me.

I didn't know it was a hand to knuckle.

I thought it was

Nooks.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You guys ever played Nooks?

Do you ever do it?

Are you talking about six Nooks Blitter?

Are you talking about quarters?

Smoke you knuckles.

Of course.

Have you ever done quarters?

That should be the thing I looked out to try and avoid when I was leaving the arcade.

Do you want to play Pencil Break?

Oh, jeez.

Ow.

I sucked at that game.

Back to the generals really quick.

We've all done a ton of panels and answered questions from the audiences.

And one of the toughest ones to answer is, what's your favorite?

So I'm not going to ask you that.

I'm going to ask you, who was your favorite of the three generals to play?

Wow.

Good question.

Oh, man.

I know.

Pick between them.

I like them all for different reasons.

That's the thing.

Answer it while doing just dance, Lady Gaga is a plus.

That's a throwback.

No, I'm okay.

Oh, man.

We could do Eberka Debra now because it's like a full circle.

And I get to sit while you're getting it.

And you can sit, yes.

God, so good.

No,

man.

I mean,

Odohan was so generally terrifying because of how cruel she was.

Of the generals, she was definitely the most fun to scare the players.

So, if I had to say, I'd say her.

Zathuda, for what time you got to see, was more manipulative and conniving, definitely playing multiple angles, especially manipulation of Fern and the hope that he had for his daughter as

his, more or less his chip in the game to get one over the other generals.

Liliana was just a tragic figure, and based on how things went, could have ended up much more tragically.

I'm kind of happy that it didn't because it allowed for a softer narrative for you at the end.

But yeah, Odoham probably was the most dangerous of them all.

But Zathuda, as a flesh tapestry,

so much fun though, right?

Honestly, what a terrifying end for him.

I kind of love it.

Yeah, and I love how you like,

you were acting it out because I feel like I just saw it.

Yeah.

And then I was just thinking of the scenes in Brazil.

You know, with the pulled skin.

Oh my god, yeah.

Did you throw that out in the moment?

Yeah.

Because that's what NaNo Mori is doing.

Oh, that's right.

You did throw it out in the moment because you were always talking about the loom, and then it just happened, and you were like, all right, well, I guess I'll just go with it right now.

Yeah, like, like,

I knew there was a place in the tree called the loom, but I wasn't particular about what it did.

I didn't think it would ever go there.

Like, that was a just-in-the-moment thing, Matthew.

There's a lot of that.

Your brain is.

From you guys, too, though.

Yeah, but you guys.

I think VM out there also does that shit all the time.

You know what I mean?

You know, I don't know.

Odahan's the one that's going to haunt me long after all this.

I, you know, I know that the episode where we faced off in front of the Malays key and the whole bringing down Vax

blew my mind.

But before that, even, Odahan seemed so terrifying to me with her duplicates on the field and standing over.

She's just really, really scary every time.

I feel like she could have TPK'd usually.

Every time.

And just those circumstances.

I feel like it has to be said to any enemy that can like

move across a map, like anyone who can who can clear a big distance is terrifying.

Yeah.

That was the scariest fight.

Yeah.

Laden and Auram.

I was like, this feels awful.

Yeah.

That was like the hardest fight.

Like she, you wouldn't have beaten her if she would have gotten hurt and fled, but she wasn't interested in killing you all.

She was interested in trying to get her to exalt.

It was very much that kind of like,

if I can get her to exalt, she might be useful to me.

Trying to be useful useful to

everything and at the very least confuse her mother, who I don't like.

So there was a lot of idea of just like trying to manipulate you, trying to get you to exalt to see if you were capable of that and being useful to her and the overall plot.

So it was fun to kind of explore that.

But that final battle was meant to be.

Here's the thing.

I've been running these games for you guys for 10 years now.

And there are many dangerous fights that I build up that you, that I thought I had planned well for, and you guys just kind of tactically do well and roll well, and you just kind of steamroll it.

And I'm like, well, okay, that was a little anticlimactic.

Cool.

I was not going to let that happen with her.

Good.

No, it did not happen.

We felt it.

Horrified.

Well, you felt it, but when I wasn't at the table, I felt the ripples of what was going on via the internet.

And I,

that, that, that evening when you were in that fight, my phone just started going off because I have my notifs on, and I was like, what's going on?

Oh, they're in trouble.

Because people were like screaming.

They were like, come help them, everyone die.

So, when your fantasy world reaches its tendrils into the real world and interrupts my dinner, that's when you go back.

So, that's an interesting thing that

just a little like behind the scenes thing that we've had to be mindful of because I remember when FCG died and Christian Navarro texted me that night, and he was like, so excited to watch the game tonight.

And I was like,

Can anyone tell him?

Did we tell him?

I need to tell him.

And I was like,

I just want to give you a heads up.

Like,

something bad is going to happen and people are going to be adding you.

And so just be in the know.

And he was like, oh, God.

What?

So, yeah, sometimes if it's bad, we have to give people a heads up.

There are a lot of great questions here,

but we don't have that much time, but I do want to give Talison a chance to get lost in the weeds for just a second.

Because this question is so good, that's got to be my goal.

I'm going to go to my way through any weeds.

uh um ashton's nature yeah uh was a huge enigma in this campaign uh dunimis uh explains ashton's unique abilities but what race was ashton born and how was he transformed into an earth genus

well as for i mean honestly

they don't really have a lot of memory about what when i mean they they kind of

i always assumed they were basically human human uh some sort of humanoid uh

and the

it was going through the the portal that really the like the elemental portal that kind of kicked that off and

we never really got into it because

uh uh I don't think did I don't think Ashton ever smoked the pipe.

That is not a euphemism.

Just the tree did just well like I don't think you ever got the got the

your proudest moment.

Yeah, I don't think I ever did that inhale I didn't inhale

But

should I save that for possibly in-game or should I just let that one...

Let that sit with you, sir.

Yeah,

the

slow change

into

their rock form happened when they were younger and when they were

in the home

under the state's care.

And it was...

like everything, kind of traumatizing.

A life of trauma.

Well, yeah.

Yeah.

uh so yeah that was the they were they were they were they were born soft and got hard later i wish to be a rock

yeah

i will say there was there was a there was a deep uh shit kicking that was involved so

uh sweet

i love how all i said was sweet and you immediately turned and looked at me liam uh this is for you my sweet little boyfriend.

Is there any information about Will's sisters?

Shut it, handsome Squidward.

Is there any information about Will's sisters that never came up in game that you'd like to share?

For example, does Aurum have a favorite triplet?

I don't know if I would say favorite, but I think he has the closest connection to Lita, who took over for Derek

as master of arms for Zephyr,

because because he trained with her.

So Will and Lita and Aurum were together for years training under Derek and

preparing themselves for life of service in Zephyr.

So he definitely spent the most time with her than the other sisters.

I think that's probably the answer to that.

And I also, I know that as the campaign made its way,

I did talk to Matt about my hopes for Lita taking over for Derek and

how I saw her and the things that I hoped for her for

her place in Zephyr.

You know, even as the story, and I don't know what's happening next, I don't, but I really like her as a character and I like her taking over for her father and I like her being a part of Zephyr.

Here's a completely organic segue.

Everyone's got weird habits, am I right?

So do you.

For example,

uh-oh, if my weird habit would be

think of something on the player.

That's amazing.

Oh, I love it.

I know that's a pleasure

to say

things out of your belly button and either.

Oh man, I'm sure I got one somewhere.

Yeah, I know, I'm weird.

But some cast members have habits so regular that you could practically set your watch by them.

Roll the clip!

Oh fuck!

It looks like it was a heavy hit, and it's looking pretty hurt already in one strike.

Half undead blood, and release the chill touch.

The two skeleton claws

takes forever.

Matt!

We can divide and conquer, right?

We're gonna run out of time.

Yeah, we gotta go.

I'll move up towards Ashton.

30 feet.

30

stance.

But whereas once it emanated around you like a cage, now it's just the faintest little tickle on the inside.

And as you begin to push inward towards the darkness,

the faint.

It was indeed confirmed to be sort of

an excretion that is utilized by hard

tunnels.

Oh my god, fucking hate you all so much.

Pause a breath as you roll up your hole, which right now is pretty.

Uh-huh.

Our hole is

pretty filled.

It's kind of

a capacity.

You were out and about trying to just

spread your legs a little bit, spread your wings.

I didn't even say it's very tiny.

It was

I dare say.

I was trying to say it.

I was trying to say it.

It can't be done.

Can't be done.

Stretch!

Stretch your legs!

Break your wings!

No!

They both collided.

Let's grab a mushroom and ride it over.

Okay, let's do it.

How big is the mushroom?

Can they all fit on the same boy?

There are multiple sections and steps.

We're going to steer the head of the mushroom.

Trend the bush before the mushroom gets over there.

I know.

Um.

Cocked again.

Cocked occurred again.

Oh, with a damage.

Cocked.

Let's cut.

Cocked.

Cocked.

Got fucking dice.

Ashley, I know.

That's cocked again.

I know.

That die so much.

Ashley.

Okay, okay.

Don't forget.

Jesus.

Jeez.

That's cocked.

Oh, that's six dice rolls to get the ball.

I know it's so hard.

That's cocked.

That was almost a national 22.

Okay.

But look how good they're almost.

That was.

It's like our mom is exploring.

Cat.

How does it do that?

Look at this.

What is that?

That's a 10.

No, bro.

It's a what?

What is that?

I don't know what that is.

That's a 10.

No, that's a 10.

No?

Or is it an 8?

Or is it a 3?

Or is it a 6?

That's a lowercase A.

Oh, that's an 8.

No, that's that's a ten?

That's a three?

What the hell?

Guys, several very worst numbers.

The worst!

How can you think of three different numbers?

One of them has two gigs!

This dice has no numbers on it.

Starting the carnival.

Zero gravity rage.

Interesting.

So let's fucking rage.

Let's see what the hell tools I'm playing with.

interesting

oh that's fun uh so what what do i have built right now oh okay

i'm going to rage already

now we're having fun start the disco come on

that'll do

come on give me something fun uh i can make that work

good going to rage and see what the fuck happens here we go uh oh okay i'm gonna do it the old-fashioned way

not look

look at it.

It's good.

It's good.

It's high.

Plus eight.

16 plus.

Plus eight.

Never look if you wanna win.

Never fucking look when you want to win.

You fucking.

Don't act like that.

Don't act.

You don't fucking.

God damn.

Oh, are we back?

We're so back.

It's time for the serious portion of the show.

Oh!

The solstice approaches.

shows.

The questions get hard hitting.

Talison, what happened during Ashton's pasta adventure?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Fish, fish, pasta.

I had no idea what happened.

Because I wasn't there.

Well, I mean, we got into a little bit of it, but basically ended up

accidentally stumbling into what was an underworld

like

robbery that was going on.

Kind of got picked up into it.

Couldn't get out.

Ended up going to what was basically an Italian restaurant where there was like mobsters downstairs having a show, like a showdown.

Picked a side, hoped it was the right one.

There was a mad chase, including helping rob the place,

pissing off people that may come back.

I don't know.

He doesn't really know who they were.

He was just going with it because otherwise, you know, you have to do something.

And eventually made off with what they thought was loot, but instead was just a lot of

pasta and sauce and bakery.

And figured, you know, could be worse.

And now we got to get out of town real fast before they figure out that I was part of that.

These are the answers to the hard questions you want to know.

Here's a romp.

Here's one for Matt.

Yours was great.

But here's one for Matt.

What were the range of possibilities when the Malius key was first activated?

Was it possible for Perdathos to have been released early in the campaign if the party hadn't managed to damage any of the power supplies or destroyed the key in the Fae Realm?

There was a possibility if they had failed to destroy the key and did not do any damage to it, it would have begun the process of unleashing Perdathos rapidly.

There would have been a chance to still like

race to the core, you know, like how the campaign ended in a way, but the key would have carved a majority of the path to the actual core of the moon where Perdathos was sealed

at the hallowed cage.

And so they would have had a chance to then try and erase

Ludenus and the troop if they followed suit.

Or like way lower level.

Correct.

Which would have meant there would have been an opportun then there would have been a forced scenario where the gods would have likely fled or

fled some realm or beyond to try and figure out how to survive this before Protathos actually arrived and I was going to figure out at that point if Protathos as an entity which may have still been within Ludinus as the vessel would have begun the hunt for the gods and where they would have been beyond or also into their realm and it would have been kind of a chase at that point towards Ludinus as the vessel.

I didn't go too deep into like what would have meant because I was, you know, I have loose ideas of the campaign and I don't want to write too much if it's drastically alterable by player interaction, but I had thoughts of what that could have meant.

There would have been, I probably would have seen which God stayed behind to take a stand and might not have survived the encounter with Perdathos.

It would have been chaos.

And a part of me did kind of want it to happen, but also

I don't want to force a narrative and I want you guys to get the opportunity to do some cool things and prevent it.

And it ended up making a really interesting story anyway.

But yeah, those were kind of my loose thoughts around what could have happened.

Nice.

All right.

How many times did your brain swivel in your skull when Laura rolled a natural 20 at the end?

Bro,

I swear to fucking God, guys, it's not scripted.

Like, it's so frustrating when that shit happens.

Because then it's like,

I don't know what to tell you.

It was perfect.

But, like, also, like, I don't know.

I was kind of looking forward to a pantheon missing a few gods here and there, you know?

Sorry about that.

To kind of punch some holes into it, you know?

I was just ready to roll to go with what happened.

And when you rolled that, I was like,

okay.

All right.

I mean, it's still getting weird, but yeah, it would have been interesting to be like, and oh, Matron's gone now.

Yeah.

That'd been weird.

Would you have rolled for which ones left?

Yeah, I was going to randomly roll for which ones had

decided to go.

Could you imagine?

What would have happened if the Raven Queen went bye-bye?

What would have happened if Vex?

Vax would have taken over.

Huh?

Vex would have been.

Vex or Vax?

Vax.

Vex.

And

that would have blown the Keylif-Vax reunion.

Yeah, if the Raven Queen went bye-bye.

But Vax would have been the Raven matron, and then

she would let Vax go because he's worked hard enough.

Sure.

Next question.

Sorry, Percy.

My next question is for chat.

Chats.

Are you enjoying the compilations and videos?

The post team works so hard.

They're so cool.

I want to see.

If you are loving the vids,

I want to see those comments fly and I'm going to fly through these next two questions so we can get to some more.

This is for everybody.

Do you regret crashing your airship?

No.

Oh, no.

Isn't that what you do with an airship?

Kind of.

A little bit.

Oh, a little bit.

Do it as a shit.

Yeah, it didn't.

Yeah.

I regret we didn't get another one.

I regret that we didn't just go and get another one.

It was a cool move.

Yeah, it was a cool move.

It was a cool move.

Yep.

I think I, yeah,

maybe, I don't know, when he like held up his hand and it just shattered into a bunch of pieces.

Yeah, and then a bunch of other people just died.

And it's gonna see a movie, powerful wizard,

isn't it gonna be like, uh-oh, a boat's coming at me.

Guess I'm done.

Like,

Wall of Force.

You know, that was what it was.

But it still took out a bunch of the Vanguard that were surrounding the Malius Keys.

So, like, it had a benefit.

It was cool.

It was a cool move.

But I couldn't in right conscience be like, no, lewdness is getting murked by a boat.

Merked.

Wrecked!

Wrecked!

Wrecked!

Shipwrecked!

That's like one of the strongest things we could do.

Oh, no, it wasn't a bad idea at all.

It was a great idea.

And like I said, it still had benefits to it, but like, yeah, just how it works out.

That's great.

Robbie

YouTube thinks that you look like Domingo from Saturday Night Live.

I'm not familiar with the reference, but that's good.

Somebody was asking what Bertrand Bell's fighter subclass was.

Oh, he was a duelist and I think a champion?

I think.

I don't know.

Oh, that's cool.

He was only level five in the end, the old bastard.

Level five?

He leveled down.

Oh, boy.

It is a simple question that Matt has asked all of us.

How do you like my new vest?

And

the answer is always, that's a new one.

I wouldn't have been so mean to you.

But there's another question that

I'm not ripping on you, I promise.

But there's another question that Matt likes to ask us, and the answer is always incredible and somewhat violent.

So let's take a look at some of the top, how do you want to do this?

This is

from campaign three.

How do you want to do this?

How do you want to do this?

How do you want to do this?

How do you want to do this?

Maybe the audience should say it.

How do I wanna do this?

Hey, Vidges.

Should we take this one out?

To each of us as it blasts from our hands, it like shoots out and like,

and like, so it braids.

Yeah, so it braids.

Braiding is braiding a feeling.

In your head, you hear, um, I've been swallowed.

That makes me very angry.

So I am going to just like

the top of it.

Laser hands through.

Laser-handed.

Sure.

As a free action, can I yell, give her bangs!

I will swing away with

my weapon and strike several times.

As I'm doing so,

the black icker that's flying off the weapon is making sort of a splatter.

And you see that the splatter is forming a pattern, pattern, and it's the symbol of Asmodeus.

Oh my god, it hates

very fun.

For like, I don't know, she just

gives into the darkness.

A beautiful circle of life

surrounds the two of them.

You watch the troubled life of Bordor Dogson

reduced to ash and memory.

I'm gonna

lightning bolt the tree trunk and I'm gonna aim it right at the center of the trunk so I can split it straight down the middle and make the two halves crash down.

The bolt impacts.

You watch as it hits the wood.

You hear Delitha screech.

No!

Shh!

Into white.

I'm gonna make eye contact with Perdathos.

You're mine.

As the dustler begins to settle,

and the broken, shattered glass head of Perdathos

itself is crumbled and motionless.

I'm gonna ask you an interesting question.

How do you want to do this?

I do have 56 hit points.

Oh, I was looking at the wrong one.

Time.

For sand and shadow.

The intros are going to keep getting worse.

Okay, that was.

A romance novel.

These are the names of the arcs.

I named all the arcs.

I wasn't sure if I was.

I like romance novels.

I did, and I definitely made it sound like a romance novel.

You're welcome, Laura Bailey.

Sand and shadow sounds like it would chafe.

Matt!

Yep.

What happened to Yusufiad after they failed their mission for the Unseale?

Oh, Dusk, yeah.

So in my mind,

being...

Dusk,

they

essentially,

as

an upper-ranked assassin for the Unsealie court, more or less

volunteered for the specific mission in the hope of

an honorable return

and failed in their mission and failed not out of an attempt to try, but out of genuinely dropping the auspice of killing their target, which is

unforgivable given the context of their work in the Unsealee.

And so likely they were unable to return for the time being and are probably laying low either to find a way to clear their name or find a way to convince the Unseale to allow them to

restore the honor of their name or

perhaps start a new life on Xandria and spend the rest of their existence, much like their target, ducking the Unsealie's interest in sight.

So that's my interpretation, but I mean you'd have to ask Erica.

Hey, what was that?

What was that Gnarl Rock shard?

What was it doing to Imogen and what would have happened if she had kept it?

The Gnarl Rock, yes.

It is

a point of very strong corruptive magic in Maffei.

And

if Imogen kept it for a longer period of time, she would have seen

more or less changes.

Put it this way, Imogen's Parathos was pretty terrifying.

Imogen slowly over time through the campaign looking more and more like Ira Wendigoth would have been a very interesting twist as well.

Those are so many opportunities to become the villain.

Yeah, but

it was like, well, it's like whoever got in the stone, like whoever got the gnarlock and held onto it, it would have just slowly changed them over time.

Ira?

Or like, and more that look.

Like a twisted face look.

Cool.

Speaking of Ira.

What did Ira do to the minds of the Callaways?

Like, did they ever try to escape?

What did Ira remove from their memory?

They tried to escape, but more or less

Ira's a

complicated character that I love him like Ira.

I love Ira

He was useful in ways and you had to line goals at times, but it's not a good person and so

yeah, exactly.

Esau

but no, Ira more or less just switched

their memory like when they try and flee would bring them back and then punch a hole into their mind of recollecting them trying to escape and placing memories of more positive interactions to replace them and so basically had constructed over time a false dynamic between them to where they were how they were when they first kind of interacted and so yeah it was it was not great

it was not great

such a scam actually

met

tag team if you want uh uh fern

fern's afterlife looked very concerning yes Why was her afterlife so different from Aurum's?

And what would have happened to her if FCG hadn't resurrected her?

Oh.

That actually, there was a little bit of that that took me by surprise.

Because when I saw that, I was like,

wait, am I a bad person?

Because clearly that wasn't a good place where she was going.

Which I

like

because I think it makes sense for

because then I can be with Tevin and then I can just like, you know, what, what, what,

I actually would like to know the answer to this.

In my mind, the

unsealing, the dark Fae tether within your bloodline,

specifically the intent of Zathuda's creation

of you and what your goal was with the Ruby Vanguard,

there is a deep thread of shadow that is just inherently in your essence

that we've seen you tap into here and there.

Yeah.

And kind of puts you in this weird place of many oaths.

So for that, that was

a glance at a pact for your spirit that was sealed without your knowledge.

Meaning upon birth you were promised.

Ooh.

That's a romance novel.

So yeah, so Fern's spiritual essence still sits under a contract she's unaware of.

Ooh.

She's not bothering me.

Fern was Rumpo Steelskin.

Yeah.

I mean, it makes sense.

There was.

Yeah.

I've wondered that.

That's really fun to know.

Like I said, I'm very interested in a possible Fern one-shot, because you, you, much like how Mr.

Burns is only alive because all the diseases are in him and they're all fighting to kill him at once and kind of cancel each other out, Fern Calloway exists because everyone at some point has some sort of contracted ownership over her or some vested interest and they're all kind of pushing at the same time and can't get to her.

It's kind of what it feels like now.

Well, I have to finish this deal.

I have to finish this deal.

We have to do this.

Yeah.

It's going to be in court forever when you finally go, which is going to be a lot of non-stop messages.

a lot of the last days of Judas Iscariot the play, but it's just for and soul.

Sam.

For everybody.

Robert.

Sam Regal.

Yes, Robert.

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Fever dreams.

Great segment.

But they went to some weird and never-before-seen places in campaign three.

Tickler.

Yes.

Welcome to tonight's episode of Critical Role, where a bunch of us nerdy-ass voice actors sit around and play Dungeons and Dragons.

Okay,

let me shift into first-person view.

Whoa!

Is that through shift?

This is so cool!

Unless I finish this commercial, I'm never gonna make it, and you'll never respect me.

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it's me, Ludo McGillicuddy.

Now I have a HUD, which is a heads-up display.

And I'm asking, it's asking me, do I want to read the next part of the copy or give that part to Marisha?

I choose Marisha.

Why?

I need.

Oh!

What?

That's a net.

The net.

Oh,

what?

What?

That's illegal.

Con pilot!

Wait, wait, wait, wait, can you at least release me from the ghostly curse that binds my soul and let me escape this eternal hell?

Uh, you know what?

Shaw, you're breaking up.

Shaw, it's a bad connection.

Shh, I gotta go by.

Wait, no, it's been dugging!

It's my dog.

Do nothing if it's really your

dad.

Your dad.

See?

It's me.

You really gotta hurry.

Oh,

I'm up.

I'm okay.

It's okay.

It's okay.

Hi, I'm Sam.

Did we meet before?

I feel like...

No?

Hi, Sam.

No?

Okay, we're on.

We're on camera.

We're We're on.

Destiny's call.

It's time.

It's time for Destiny's call.

Matt, we're always going to throw it to you to start.

I know, I know.

This is your world.

You've got to live in it.

What?

Why is your finger so thick?

It wasn't a finger.

It wasn't a finger.

Big fingers rolling ass.

A lot of amazing dream sequences in this entire thing.

Matt, why did Imogen see people in her dreams after their deaths?

For me, her burgeoning exultant status made her very psychically connected to figures that were either themselves exaltant

or had a recent kind of close connection.

So deaths that were close to her that she

either wasn't present to witness directly or

perhaps was kind of in that kind of in-between heavily infused psychic state, there was a vision of that spirit transference, their essence more or less passing beyond.

And it was a fun narrative device for me to, you know, frame some of these moments as they occurred in the game.

But that was mainly the inspiration behind it, was just showing that kind of burgeoning psychic resonance and the fact that there was a much stronger power within Imogen Beyond what she understood.

Yeah, like the thumbprint of their psychic soul before it

faded away.

Yeah.

What was the story behind the theft of Gianna Hexam's Golem?

Oh, that was a whole side quest that never happened.

I have like four pages.

No!

Four pages of a full jungle excursion.

That's how it goes, though.

That's how DD works.

Yeah, it was a whole side quest

that was going to lead you to this other group of smugglers that were working near Drew Sar and the returning legal.

It was going to be another way to get in with Gianna and to learn more about her dealings with

the Cerberus Assembly and kind of set up some of the elements that would come to play over in Bassarus and then it just never happened.

So that's what that was supposed to be.

It's all good.

We got there eventually.

I have super fond memories of early, early Campaign 3, just because it was just such a while.

But I really gravitated toward your character of Lord Esteros.

Oh, I guess.

I just thought that's a really great, really great character.

What can you tell us about their past as a mercenary?

And what was the nature of their relationship with Mistress Prudash?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So...

For Esther,

I envisioned somebody who made their name at a young age as a very

dependably dangerous soldier of fortune

and likely had been kind of fur hired at the highest bidder in times of the apex war, likely more on the side of Aishanador and probably had clashed previously with a younger

Odahan

during that conflict.

Wow, that's it.

And

so when it's in my head, well, I didn't really get a chance to express it as much because the story wasn't as quite open at that point in time, But when Odahan did end up assassinating Esteros early in the campaign, that was a blood feud.

Like they had fought before, and that was her more or less closing the loop with now exaltant capabilities that she didn't have previously.

There's much with this apex war

that

I kind of understand and a lot that I don't we didn't get to go into it as deeply as I wanted to in the campaign.

We kind kind of swerved and went in a different direction.

But the apex war more or less was a massive

geopolitical conflict between the Stratos throne and Eshenador, which are the two southernmost regions of Marquette.

And

during,

it was a

number of years of conflict between the two that eventually just led to a stalemate.

Both sides were expending so much resources and so much money and neither really was gaining any sort of benefit over time until they eventually just decided like after much influence from from uh on karel and drussar and many of the other powers around like the pentagram sands and they all kind of went to like guys you're no one's winning this and it's really kind of wrecking the region and wrecking both of you and so they eventually agreed to give them to a ceasefire and there was no victor over the war um and it's been kind of a period of recovery ever since and there's still like some tensions there but mostly they kind of keep to their own aside from like necessary trade.

But the warriors that were using that war as a way to rise to prominence, like Odahan,

were not happy that there wasn't a victory, that there wasn't a place for them to become a historical, you know, champion that won this cause.

And that was around, after some time of that, it made her a very easy target for Lutinus to bring under his banner.

But Esteros, through some of that conflict, was on the side of Eishanador

and kind of just,

it disillusioned him to war.

Like he spent his life fighting for others and others' causes for money and through the process of seeing both the terrible impact it has, but also the kind of lack of impact that it does.

It is not a way to, in his mind, to solve conflict on that scale.

And so

one of his great patrons and a friend they made over time,

Pradaj, more or less, like, she passed.

and left everything to him.

They had, I will say, an unresolved romance in my mind.

Like they, it was

for lack of a better term they they never actually got together but there was a deep affection and profound respect and well

over the pants stuff yeah yeah OTPH for sure yeah yeah

but yeah and and

I I I think a lot a lot of his kind of dealing with and coming to terms with that was a lot of like kind of their discussion and her kind of helping him through that and as they bonded over it and he didn't have much, especially as a soldier of the force, and that you know, his contract did not complete as a war was not won.

Sorry, I could wax product about this for a long time.

But yeah, that's kind of the general concept for Esteros, and instead him wanting to kind of take others under his wing and

see other people not fall on that path that he did.

A few people in Discord have said EXU Apex Wars,

which could be sick.

That could be sick.

Well, just listening to you talk about what?

Big old novel.

Yeah.

Or big old novel.

Listening to you talk about Estros' backstory,

I think, really affected the way that they were played because obviously, everyone in chat, there's a lot of shared love for that character.

So I think it's obviously so fleshed out in your mind that it came across on screen and people gravitated toward it.

So I'm glad you guys like to.

Speaking of fan favorites, Liam

is

pretty related to buddy,

Son,

nephew, cousin.

It says, please.

I'll leave that to you to decide.

I just assume it on the bottom.

No, make a choice.

Make a choice right now.

Yeah.

It's your guy.

Make a choice actor.

But buddy doesn't know, didn't know nothing about nothing.

Apparently, all ogres know each other, right?

Yeah.

But they have the same.

I didn't write the question.

I have

a semi-related question.

Was Pretty the Ogre like an on-the-fly creation or something that you had like waiting in that town?

No, I think Pretty was on the fly.

I'd fleshed out that particular

tavern, that inn, but I think Pretty was just an on-the-fly creation in that space.

I think I snuck into the subconscious noodles of your mind and grabbed

their cousins.

What if they're like second cousins?

Why not first cousins?

Because you want them to get together?

Is that why?

And that's illegal?

I mean,

we don't know what's going to happen with Xandria moving forward.

You did just call yourself a noodle grabber, basically, is what you said.

Hey, how about a question you can answer?

Aurum always has a green sash in his character design.

What is the meaning behind it?

That is a super simple, basic answer.

I just thought of it as a Zephyrin

design that he never wanted to let go of and reminded him of home.

Oh, nice.

I never said that out loud, but that's what it was.

I like simple answers.

Let's finish them all.

Matt, what happened to the Shade Mother?

Oh, I mean, she's still infesting Drusar just in different tunnels.

Flora, what kind of horse is Flora?

She's a horse.

Well, she looks like a horse.

You know all the breeds of horses.

Yeah, I know all the breeds of horse painter.

No.

Flora was like a.

I don't know the breeds of horses.

But I can tell you the color.

Just say quarter horse.

Just say quarter horse.

Look it up before the campaign.

Shut up, Molly.

She was role-playing.

Shut up.

You asked me, you said me up.

I looked it up at the time.

Shut up, Zachar.

Near your top five horses.

Listen.

What did it look like?

I looked it up back then, but I don't remember it now.

It's like a soft, light tan with a white mane.

I know that's a type of horse.

That answers the second half of the question.

What does it look like?

Very good.

Everyone, lightning round.

What area of Marquette was your favorite to explore?

Is there any location you wish you could return to in the future?

The one with the crazy car race.

Bassars.

Bassros.

That was cool.

Yeah, Bassarus.

That was awesome.

I like Drusar.

Every one of you.

You like Dressar?

Yeah, I can't see Dressar.

You know what I saw a long time ago that somebody suggested for our group name, and I saw it after we already named our group, and I really loved it.

It was the Silver Reach.

Because in Drusar, every single fucking ride we took was a Silver Each.

And the silver reach was such a good name.

And because we're all taking Centrum Silvers now.

I like the good joke.

Wow, that's a good joke.

Thank you.

Speaking of old people about to die, Chetney!

I want to give you, this isn't in the script.

Not in the script.

I want to give you, because Chad is begging for it, one last opportunity to kill your quick death.

Let's go.

Let's go.

Let's do it.

Let's do it.

Three pairs of D-100 pairings.

So you're going to roll three times?

Yeah, three times.

Three times.

It won't matter.

We've done this.

One for each camp.

We're going to do it anyway.

They want it.

64.

No, 46.

46, 46.

Come on.

Number two.

Come on, Die.

Come on.

All zeros.

37.

Oh, come on.

Come on, Ukatoa die.

This would be the one.

442.

42?

Yeah.

42.

Hey!

42!

It worked!

He lives another day.

Isn't that the meeting of

That is about it for the campaign three portion of this wrap-up.

When we come back from break, we'll be joined by Brennan Lee Mulligan.

And it's going to be a free-for-all for all Xandria-related questions.

Calamity, Divergence, Campaigns 1 through 3, that really cool and totally canon-guested battle royale we did that one time.

It's all up for discussion.

Oh, yeah.

You know the one.

But before that,

a loving send-off to Campaign 3 and all the amazing memories it made.

Having the privilege of being able to tell these stories with this group of people that I care so immensely about, it's hard to not think of it as the greatest honor of my life.

I'm very grateful.

Kilith smiles and nods at the rest of you.

Lady Fern Calloway,

Fay Scion of the Ancient Flame,

Laudna,

Veil Mistress of the Shadow Tree,

Ashton the Reforged, Hammer of Paradox,

Chedney Pakapi, High Hunter in Lupine Paragon,

Dorian Storm, Master Muse and Son of the Wind,

Imogen Temot, Exultant Hope of the Red Storm.

Aurum of the Arishari, Savior Blade of the Tempest, she says with a smile.

Playing this game specifically with the people that I love and care about and

have

made my found family over the past 10 years.

And

I can't get enough of this game.

Why do we tell stories?

To try to make sense of a world that can be terrifying and enormous.

In Xandria, I don't know that your story

will long be known.

I don't know who will remain to tell it.

But it did happen, and it did matter.

And though calamity is here, because of you,

it will not be here forever.

Our real lives for me, are really intertwined with the ones that we've lived in Xandria.

So there's no aspect of it that doesn't feel precious.

I'm gonna go to Lodna.

Sorry to push her hair to the side.

We'll find a way back for you because.

Oh, I don't like how this is making me feel.

Okay.

I'll go to Auram.

Can you please come back?

Because I'm getting a little scared.

The stress being so high

and it is so, it is so intense that for the first time,

I realize that I am made of metal and wires, but

I am alive.

I'm alive for the first time.

And I am alive not because I was made by D or Dancer or even the changebringer.

I'm alive because they made me alive.

And

it's the connections that I made with all of them.

And it's a feeling of joy.

And I'm happy to do this because

they saved my life and I'll save theirs.

It's

amazing and heartbreaking and wonderful and exciting and it's every emotion.

I don't even have the words for it.

And you immediately recognize the silhouettes of Lodna, Aurum, Ashton, and another.

Imogen of Laudana!

You guys, I skid her over.

You're alive, huh?

You're alive!

Where's Auram?

Aurum.

There's a rapid patter of feet along the wooden floor, and then Aurum flies through the air and latches around Fern's neck.

Well, I'm still a raccoon dog.

I lift her up.

I lift four.

You did it, good boy.

I like you, FCG.

I like you, Frida.

Oh, boy.

Faithful caregiver.

Shoot you.

Yes, so.

You're gonna lean in and kiss and you'll hear the clink.

Yes!

Actually, the amazing thing is, this thing is despite how uncomfortable it is.

I haven't been honest with you.

I have feelings for you.

I think

almost from the day I met you.

Well,

I feel like the worlds have kept us apart ever since I've been back, and I've just wanted the tiniest moment with you, and

I couldn't sleep either.

You are the reason I'm here.

You've always been the reason I'm here.

Yep, just another day where we're getting our makeup ready.

Just another

day.

Oh, hi.

You know,

I have to listen in to get my thoughts.

I've always share them with anything.

Just ask.

Can I kiss you?

I can't tell if it's all right or not anymore.

All right.

Alright, so I will.

I do.

I do.

I kiss her.

Describe it.

No!

Use your imagination!

I mean,

you were role-playing across from BAFTA award-winning Laura Bailey.

Like, it's always so surreal when you're doing this, and everyone is just so good at, like, giving and taking.

That's why we all cry all the time, because it's so damn real.

I'm just gonna

stand

behind her head and

press her forehead.

I'm not gonna tell you to come back.

I'm not gonna try to com compel you to come back because that choice, Lodna, is yours now.

No one gets to control you anymore.

All right?

Just know that I love you.

Oh man, it's so many feelings.

It's sort of the end of an era.

I think the last things I see are

Bertrand

and Dorian

and Frida.

And I just feel connected to everybody.

And

some connections are made with wires and some are made with blood and some are made with bone and some are made with wood.

But they all matter.

Even in this dark, dark cave,

they make every day a smile day.

And so I just sign off and go.

Why, hello there.

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We are continuously amazed at the artwork this community creates.

That's why each Thursday at 8 a.m.

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If you'd like to submit your art for consideration, visit critroll.com slash submit and thank you to all of the incredible artists who share their talents with us week after week

hello you beautiful people i'm talking to the audience not the cast uh i just want to wish you a happy 10-year anniversary 10 years that's insane um and yeah i think truly i know i speak for many people but the crit roll team what you guys have done what it is, the community you've built is life-changing.

The fact that you even got me to DM for the first time ever in my life is like

an achievement and an incredible confidence boost.

So, yeah, happy 10-year anniversary.

Hello, critters.

Erica Lindbeck here.

I just wanted to congratulate everyone on a wonderful 10 years of critical role.

I hope you guys do it for another 100.

It has been one of my greatest joys to sit down at the table as Morrigan and join the team.

I remember when I first came in for Chymel, I was so nervous and everyone made me feel right at home.

I don't know why I thought I had anything to worry about.

And by the end of that first little series, I was ready to play all night long.

But yeah, I love you guys.

I think you're incredible entertainers.

But more importantly, you are some of the most magical and kindest people I've ever met.

And it is an honor to breathe the same air as you.

So yeah, love you guys.

Hey, Hey, Critical Roll family, this is Luis Carrazzo, and I just wanted to say really quickly congratulations to everybody on their 10-year anniversary and wrapping up their third campaign.

It was a truly incredible experience to be able to play Xerxes and EXU Calamity.

And if I had to choose a favorite moment at the table, it would have to be...

Giving the Lord of Hells a SpongeBath.

Nothing quite like that, at least in my top three.

But honestly, my favorite thing about doing this was being able to share the table with such incredible storytellers and being able to be a part of this incredible, awesome community.

And I just want to say thank you, everybody.

Can't wait to see what comes next.

And I will see you all around.

Congratulations.

Much love.

Hey, critical role and critters out there.

Just wanted to say congratulations on 10 years.

Pretty epic.

Happy birthday.

Getting to join Downfall and play Aiden the Dawnchild.

My sweet, sweet Aiden was such a gift.

And I love y'all.

It was just a blast getting to try and bring a broken family back together.

And may the sun shine upon you all every day.

Love ya.

Ma.

What's up, critters?

It's Anjali Bumani.

Well, if there is one thing that I have learned from these several years of getting to hang out with all of you thanks to the dear, dear, dear humans over at Critical Role, it is that critters show up in the world for each other.

You guys are just utterly amazing.

Thank you so much for letting me be just a small part of this beautiful community that you've created.

You are living proof of what Fierai once said.

Not all family is blood.

Much family is chosen.

So here is to 10 years of Critical Roll and to many, many more years of love and light and creativity and not just the tiniest little bit of ridiculousness and of course to many more years of found family.

Now I gotta get back to some reading I was doing.

Excuse me.

10 years?

Oh, this is madness.

I don't know how you do a critical role, fam.

You are amazing, and I love each and every one of you.

Some of the best storytelling I have ever witnessed and that I've ever been a part of have been in critical role.

And I think a big reason for that is because anytime that magic happens at the table, it's

it doesn't matter how outlandish, how big the characters are, it's the actors bringing

their genuine self to the moment.

And so to all the critters out there, I hope you will take that to heart

and remember that celebrating your unique,

beautiful,

and genuine self will always be where the best adventures lie and where all the magic happens.

I love you, Critical Role.

And thank you.

Happy anniversary.

Welcome back

to the rap of Critical Rolls Campaign 3

and the Age of Reclamation.

What?

Nothing.

I just thought of it in the moment.

I planned nothing for the show.

Now that we've gone through campaign three, it's time to come up, to open up the discussion to a bit of Xandria overall.

And who better to add to that topic than the man

who gave Calamity a beginning, a middle, and an end, brutally balliging content.

Okay, we're gonna give you all the hype.

You're the second act opener.

This had better be good, baby.

And it will be.

Hello, I'm Brendan Lee Mulligan.

It's nice to be here.

Thanks for having having me

thanks for sitting in the lobby while we dicked around and made fun of travis it was great i had a lovely pesto sandwich and i got some emails done hi buddy

i'm not done i'm not done more pets

you know strangely enough you are not on the top of the call sheet for who I should ask a question to first, but I feel like it should be you.

Yeah, for sure.

Yeah.

You're here.

Yeah, it's got to be you.

Are you reading that tiny, tiny little font?

I am.

That's why it's a height.

You can spread it.

You can spread it.

Yeah, you can spread it.

Spread it, Robbie.

Spread it with your finger.

Try to make it more wider.

I can't spread your legs and stretch your wings, baby.

You have my attention.

Spread your legs.

Give the focus to Robbie Robbies.

Hey,

I don't want to take this moment from you.

You two are bonding on a deep level.

What's it like to play around in Matt's map building room?

What's it like in the

question?

That map building room is so fucking sick.

You have no idea.

Because not only is it lovingly tended to, beautifully painted, rendered,

okay, all of that, exquisitely organized.

May I, dare I say it, intuitively, intuitively organized.

So you end up having these wonderful like, oh, the dungeon tiles are where the dungeon tiles should be.

And here are the humanoids.

But it is very funny to look at them and be like, humanoids one, humanoids two.

And you're like, what gets you in humanoids two?

And are they jealous that they're not in humanoids one?

Are they sad?

Yeah.

These are the hard-hitting questions I've been looking for all night long.

Who are you calling a humanoid?

Yeah.

Next year, I'm going to end up in humanoids one.

I came back and tasted it someday.

Yeah.

keep trying, friend.

So you felt like you could get to work right away.

Like you felt like you were in the space and it was it was there for you to be taken.

There was a really funny thing actually building the Torms Hill battle set for Divergence where I was like, I got to work in there and it was like, it was like, okay, Torms Hill, we'll start.

And I was like, oh, you know, it's been so long since I've like built a map by hand.

Even when I was playing growing up, it was like, you know, Cabuchan Moncala beads and like a dry erase map.

And I'm like, I'm like, all right, we don't have to, we don't have to overthink it or go overboard.

It's a small little town.

It's like a little camp.

And I was like, but these trees are kind of nice.

Ooh, a well.

And then suddenly you're just like,

and then it's like 90 minutes.

You're like, a fully rendered town.

You understand?

You understand?

It is like a flow state.

You wouldn't, it's like matrix line code.

Like, oh my God, everything, the world at your fingertips.

It's intoxicating.

Yeah, it's lovely.

So, okay, in EXU divergence uh when did you get the idea to have some of the party members be gods uh specifically for matt to be the all-hammer

right away

right away um no it because it just felt like a um uh I love Matt with all my heart and Matt of Matt's many virtues.

Generosity of spirit is key among them, by which I mean you have to fucking overpower this guy to give him his flowers, and you have to

force the compliment.

And so I did it through trickery.

And it was really lovely.

But it was just, too, like the idea of knowing Matt's connection to dwarves and also the idea of divergence being this period of the gods leaving.

And specifically too, because we've had mortal gods in downfall and they've been, you know, that that idea of catathiosis and and you know embodying mortal form it just felt like a beautiful way to

have a story that was so much about mortals picking up the pieces that even the gods were like oh if we're gonna help we have to be people right that like that and that to me that was the moral of divergence was that it was about mortals saving their own world and even the gods that want to help go the best way for us to help is to be mortal.

I'm going to throw this and ask a question in my own brain.

When you're starting off the process of crafting a story, do you like to come at it from

a plot driven or are you looking to impart a thematic idea first?

What drops into your head first?

Because your work is full of obviously themes and ideas that you want to impart, just obviously from the question that you just answered.

So would you say you start with an idea or would you say you start with with character and story?

It's really funny to,

this is,

forgive a really like

a nerdy answer, but

it's like talking about space and time and they kind of can't coexist without each other.

So like plot and character or plot and character and theme, they don't, if you move any slider to zero, they all disappear, right?

So there's a sort of like,

but what's interesting is all of these were love letters to different parts of Xandrian lore, and it just depends on the series we're talking about.

So, with Calamity, the initial thing was the calamity, what we know in the lore is the Calamity was started by a guy named Vespin Chlorus.

And the very first fun creative challenge is

we know that we're going to have six players at the table.

How do you make all of them responsible for something that a guy named Vespen Chlorus did?

And how do you make all of them share the sin of the age of

Arcana, which is hubris?

And so you go, oh, that's the first step, is thinking about six people experiencing hubris and

how Vespin's error was compounded over a cascading disaster.

So that's how you started with calamity.

And then moving to downfall, it was just like, what's the, you know, in the destruction of that, what's the most painful part of that?

Yeah, I guess pain directs me.

I'm driven by pain.

I'll unpack that later.

But it was like, oh, well, the prime deities' experience of that have to be the most painful part.

So getting to a personal first-person experience of the prime deities destroying a mortal civilization and the

crisis of self caused by that.

And then for Divergence, it was like, time for the little guys.

And really wanting to show that like the thing that moves Xandria out of the calamity is actually not something as acute.

The start of calamity is the most acute, and the end of it is the most diffused.

The era ends and now every single person shares an equal slice of responsibility for building the world again.

Yeah.

Well, you touched on it a little bit, the connectivity, which is a good segue to this question.

How much of the trilogy of EXU, Calamity, Downfall, and Divergence was planned beforehand?

Like, did you know where you would continue, like,

where to connect next series to series?

Or was it more like a stepping stone that you discovered along the way?

Over the past several years, I've been falling down the hill of my own life at top speed.

None of this is planned.

Yeah, yeah.

Just like hands and my wallet, and my shoes are off.

Don't eat each chip, don't you chit, don't each chat, don't

you?

So to answer the question as honestly as possible, every single one of these miniseries I have approached with total focus on that and that alone.

So there was no sort of thought of what was to come after.

It all grew organically, which is like the intoxicating and mesmerizing part of this art form.

Well, yeah, because we knew we wanted to do something with you.

We had kind of already been toying around the idea of

thinking of wanting to do something in Calamity.

Abria, of course, had come in and done the first EXU arc.

And I remember being like, Man, I think Brennan would crush like a Calamity miniseries.

But if he wants to do something funny or something like Pirates, the Rumble Cusp, that's something cool too.

And then Brennan came in for a pitch meeting and he was like,

Look, I could do something funny like Pirates

or

I could, or I could do Calamity.

And I was like, thank God.

Yes, to be honest,

it was a lunch with Matt and Travis specifically, where

at Sizzler.

Oh, yeah.

They're all good things to eat bread,

eat fresh.

What do they say at Sizzler?

I don't know.

Not much.

Not that much.

We'll see you later.

Pizza Pizza.

It was because Matt had mentioned, like, hey,

as we like open the sandbox up and we want to play with our friends and have people come in and share stories,

it really was this moment.

I don't know if, Matt, you intended this, but it was like you were like, and we could do anything.

It's like, we could, you know, there's, there's Wild Mount, there's Marquette, and then we can even play with time.

You could even do the age of our cannon.

And I, that's how underlined it felt to me when you said it and I was like oh Matt likes that and of course it immediately made me

it immediately made me go like and then I went and reread the lore and looked at it and I think you guys already made the video that was the like schism through calamity explainer video at that point in time just beautifully made video go check it out and it was like I just looked at that and I was like oh man you could do a sick disaster movie yeah of these mages in their fucking towers and everything's fucked yeah

we did it That's a sick log line, too.

Everything's fucked.

Yeah, that's true.

I saw one question on there, someone asking about what happened to Patience Orb.

Oh, yeah, that's actually a question on here, too.

Oh, there we go.

So it must be a good question.

Look at that.

You should watch Divergence.

You should watch Divergence because it explains part of that.

But you're here for spoilers, so I'm gonna talk about it anyway.

Well, no,

because it was the end of Calamity with the entire sequence with Patience's Orb and the release of it that immediately, even just watching it happen when we were filming it it was like

what an interesting jumping off point for the cobalt soul yeah the idea of an entire

you know collection of minds through history that are about the collection and safety of dangerous knowledge

and disseminating and protecting that for an entire age and so the once that happened it was like well that is going to be the spark and but we just kind of kept that in the heads until until the opportunity came for that being a book or something else.

And instead, you got to actually work it into divergence,

which was awesome.

And, you know, like, again,

the fact that Marisha launched an orb filled with all knowledge through space and time to be caught by her

beforehand, but centuries later is so fucking sick.

It was just awesome.

It was so cool.

Yeah, in my mind, currently it exists

deeply sealed somewhere on Xandria in the deepest of vaults beneath the most carefully guarded monastery, the Cobalt Soul,

in a library subterranean vault that no one has probably stepped foot in for hundreds of years.

William, a stone statue of a swole dragonborn, like sitting in lotus position above it.

Yeah, definitely.

It's also an incense burner there.

Yeah.

Yay!

Oh, God.

Oh, God.

Liam,

how exactly did Brendan go about recruiting you for his sneaky divergence plans?

Oh, man.

Well, it was a great session zero and came with like two or three loose ideas, but my favorite one, the one that I was like, I could do any of these, whatever works with the chemistry of what we figure out here today, but I could.

I've been thinking about a dragonborn who is just sort of a lone wanderer on the road, like we're in Core McMcCarthy's The Road.

And

I remember saying gold Dragonborn out loud and in the middle of that meeting, Brendan's like, let's talk about that later.

So I just sort of accidentally walked in

ready to conspire before I even knew it.

I was just going to say that it was such a huge layout.

And again, because like the,

I don't know, there was a lot of confluence.

Like there was very little trap laying on my part.

The shapes all kind of took place.

And especially because I feel like the platinum Dragon and the Allhammer were not gods that we had necessarily seen the most of or had like dedicated PCs for, but also are dedicated to things that are very like,

what's the word I'm looking for?

That feel very heroic.

There are a lot of gods that have domain.

Like the Stormlord's domain is fucking enormous and of the natural world, but you have like honor, justice, craft, creation as being really things that are in the domain of what mortals do.

So it felt very fitting for those two to be like, no, we're zeroth level.

We're trying to make the world better.

We have this one last task, and then the gate is built.

I just wanted to make an old dwarf.

And baby, you made the oldest.

I want to know

what the early conversations were, because I knew that he inceptioned you toward that outcome, but what the early conversation, like, did you float a couple of ideas, or was always like, this is my chance to play the quintessential dwarf?

Or how did it go in the beginning?

I mean, it's hard to think back, but like,

I love dwarf PCs.

I love dwarves in general.

They've always been like one of my favorite races in the fantasy genre.

I love what they represent.

I love their sense of family and

craft and legacy through

building and art and construction.

And I just, no one barely plays plays dwarves in our games.

Like, you're the only person who's diptoes into it with the, with the Darrington Brigade.

And I was like, I'm just going to bring another dwarf.

I don't care.

I don't get to play a PC very often.

I'm doing the dwarf.

But I also just love the idea of playing a character that is at the very kind of end of their life, especially a very hard life, and having that opportunity in their final days to make a difference.

And I feel like they left the world better than they found it.

And I was truly like fully invested in the idea of the bookend of divergence, letting him kind of be the theme of the end of the age, is also the end of, you know, this poor, torn dwarf's existence and finally leaving something meaningful in the world and then just fading into stone and dust.

And you're like, yeah, about that.

Instead, I'm going to punch you in the soul for the rest of your life.

So, cool.

Thanks.

Gotcha.

In the C3 finale, though, we're talking about creating and crafting, the divine gate is destroyed.

by all the gods together.

Was the Allhammer wrong about the gods not being able to destroy it?

Or was he just saying, like, admit that only one god can destroy it, but all of them together can?

Or was it destroyed in some other, not exactly godly way?

And this could be for either of you, of course.

So, I mean,

if you want to go to the next one, I'll do this one.

I'll do this one.

I just don't know.

Well, in modern-day Axandria, the divining gate, after it was finally placed, and constructed, it could not be deconstructed unless there was

a complete agreement.

If there was, you know, all those that were responsible for its construction, and all gods to a certain degree all lent to the creation of the divine gate, the primes at least.

And it could not be dissolved unless all the primes were in agreement to it, to prevent an inner corruption from causing this terrible cataclysm.

So that was kind of the initial design.

But in those early development stages of actually building it, there's a whole bunch of weird, fun, kooky things that could come up, which I thought was a fun question since I got brought up in divergence.

Yeah, I took it very much as the allhammer thwarting an attempt for a single god to bypass the gate on their own, right?

But essentially it's like, this is how we get around, because, you know, especially beyond Xandria, the gods are like,

and I think we've talked about this before, like almost even more omnipotent as they get that one step past, you know, they're even more vast and cosmic.

So the idea of like, I've decided I'm done with this, ping, and the gate like flies open.

That there would be, yeah, that there's a big difference between unanimity and some god being sneaky and being like, oh, I left my keys.

I'm going back.

If you're talking about like crossing that threshold,

what would have happened if the kid crossed the threshold and was taken by the Lord of Lies?

Like,

would we know that Asmodeus ends up beyond the divine gate?

So if

his plan worked, how would you have dealt with that?

That's not my problem.

That's the PC's problem.

I don't have to.

I'm not here to have solutions in mind.

I'm here to throw sticks at bicycle wheels.

And I do that.

And I do that, and then they fix it.

I would say the kid would escape.

You know, the Lord of the Hells would be like, quickly away to my vast chambers that I might quickly speedrun puberty and then

take this world by storm.

And then they'd have to find the kid and exercise exercise him.

You know, I can imagine.

Crazy montage.

Crazy montage.

The divine gate, you know, they cannot cross the threshold back into Xandria, but there is precedent for gods being shunted through the divine gate and beyond.

That's how Vecna was sealed with the divine trammels at the end of campaign one.

So there could have been an arc in which Asmodeus was

locked on the other side, and there would have been probably a narrative in the future to explore in some way in which how they finally managed to exercise and punt him back beyond the gate and seal him once more.

So, you're giving your players tools and responsibilities and things that could hurt them or help them.

How did you decide what vestiges to hand to your players?

Were there any vestiges and divergence that we didn't see that you maybe would have liked to add?

Oh my god, well, I got to hand over some of my favorite ones.

Like, there are a bunch of amazing ones that some of which we haven't gotten to see on stream yet, which were, I believe, the Storm Girdle, which was so fun, Condemner.

Now, one of them I kind of lied a little bit about, which was that Infiltrator's Key

was not, it was sort of a souped up, modified Infiltrator's key that had

that

little soul ruby in the middle.

I literally, like, when that happened, I was like, oh, what an interesting take on

that key.

Well, because there's no, in the text of the Infiltrator's Key, it's like, made from the blood of 12 master thieves.

And I was like, that sounds like some devil shit to me.

And

the absence of of text, I was looking at the source book and I was like, just like you, Asmodeus, to not reference yourself in the text of your own magic item book.

You left it all out, haven't you?

Why would the cobalts all know that?

Why would you know that?

Yeah, but that's not.

It's one of those things where if I was there and someone was like, a vestige?

The blood of 12 Master Thieves.

And I'd be like, should I have this?

That sounds awful.

Just do as you're told.

Just do as you're told.

These answers are incredibly astute and so fun to listen to, but I think there's one that is

burning in everyone's mind.

What happened to Grubling?

Did he make it to Torms Hill and join the Roach gang?

Did Gubbling?

Yes, Gubbling did.

In my head, he did.

And I think that he went to go join the Roach gang, and then they explained what they did, and he went, that sounds frightening.

And then just became a farmer.

Good.

That's the happiest ending to just become a farmer.

Yeah, 100%.

Agriculture sounds good.

This was never presented as an option for me before.

I just want to spade.

Yeah, 100%.

For Matt and Liam, did experiencing EXU divergence make you really really think differently about certain characters who lived through it, like Ludinus?

Or did it sort of solidify in your mind the reasons why those characters are so hardened by the life they endured?

I mean, every human being, every mortal reacts to the stimulus around them in different ways, right?

I don't know.

I would love to get a Ludinus, a look at Ludinus's life

in those days to see what knocked him around.

Yeah.

In my mind,

Ludinus lost a lot,

you know, as

a young man kind of coming into the worst days of the calamity and probably raised in a very loving environment and then watching each person he cared about torn from him in horrible ways.

And often from his vantage point and with no reason to believe otherwise as a direct consequence of these conflicts.

And

then to watch them all just disappear.

To watch them all just go away.

And to feel abandoned, destroyed, and kind of left with this knowledge that what was the purpose?

What was the reason?

You know, he's someone that I can empathize with what he's been through and despise who he's let it turn him into.

Yeah, people have an opportunity to explore that in depth in some other way.

I don't know.

I love that we didn't see him in the game, too.

I love that we never saw him in the game.

It felt good that he was as inconsequential to us as humanly possible.

Did you almost follow the chair?

Yeah, no, I just almost broke it.

There's a difference.

I would have stayed in it, except the chair would have gone down.

There.

I'll add in that I like that Arrow's mortal life was an antithesis for lewdness because he dove after his brother, knowing he was going to lose his memory.

I think that the way I think of it is he aimed himself at two of his most faithful and even-keeled

followers which were Arrow's parents a priest and a paladin of the platinum dragon to get him raised right and get him in and to like reinforce who he already was as a deity and then I

the idea of having him travel across half the planet and lose so much was

you know, he's the god of justice.

So

his end result, his decision is

we really have to get out of here.

It's not just what we're doing to these people.

So the way to reinforce to like drive that into the bones of this mortal, doesn't remember he's a god, is to

make him lose horribly.

So he lost his father, fleeing, crossing the sea.

He got over here.

I imagined sort of a Roanoke situation where survivors got here.

Some of them went off to look.

They came back.

Those people were gone.

Some sort of a, they found a settlement, lived there for a little bit, disease, his mother died, he had sort of an adoptive father,

like an associate or a friend of his parents, and then that guy died, and then he kept traveling alone, he kind of got bitter.

Then he found a woman who made him find joy and love again and had that ripped away.

So like I wanted him to kind of get hit hard.

so that when he remembered who he was.

And this is me above the table as deputy DM.

When he remembered who he was, he could look look back at the life he'd had and be like, what we've done here is not right, and it's time to go.

My favorite thing about that, too, was that it would be so easy

to be like, oh, Arrow disproves something about lewdness.

I think that's maybe overly simplified

because Arrow had the soul of a god and lost faith.

So the clammy was pretty fucking bad.

You know, like, clamoring was pretty bad.

Someone who's literally got divinity in him.

Well, that was my favorite thing, too.

And Celia, who played Nia so beautifully.

Shout out to Celia.

So brilliant.

I just love that there was a dynamic that Celia was not aware of where she was going, like, I know the gods won't let us down.

And two gods were like, they might.

Whatever faith you have,

let me be clear.

It would be gross if I had that faith in myself, like, have some fucking humility, but also, like, I don't know, man, I'm tired.

I loved that.

What a great.

It was a perfect dynamic.

I loved it so much.

All right, we're going to open it up into general Xandria questions.

Wait,

what happened?

Yeah, kick them again.

Keep them again.

Robbie, I saw one from chat.

It was by a user name Vespen Clitoris.

Wow.

Oh,

great name.

Solid one.

Solid name.

They had asked, is the Nordverse

Alexandria?

No.

Oh.

And I think, yes.

No.

Yeah.

I think the Nordverse is in Alexa somewhere.

The greater positive.

Yeah, it's in a stable one.

Yeah, yeah.

Yes, and no.

It's what was left when Tengar was destroyed.

It's the Nordverse.

Oh, man.

I saw a question earlier that I have said.

Somebody mentioned that when the matron

did the ritual of catathiosis, someone asked why she knew about the beacon.

Does she understand the nature of the Luxon?

And I was like, the gods do not fully understand the nature of the luxan.

The luxan is still kind of a large mystery, though they have their suspicions and kind of a

more or less a subconscious

understanding or theorem of what its cosmic essence would be.

But the matron, more than any other god, is very familiar with the power of Dunamis and the beacons because they are are specifically one of the things that breaks the cycle of death that she looks over.

You know, the passage of the soul into the afterlife was the structure the gods created when they came to Xandria, and the consecution process of the Korean dynasty that the beacons can maintain essentially breaks that cycle and tears those spirits away from

the entire realm that she oversees.

And so she is very familiar with it.

In fact, even utilizing it in that final ritual

was a very conflicting point for her,

but was another one of those examples of doing what was best for the greater good of her and her brethren using something that up until that point she largely despised.

Yeah, that's interesting.

There's just this one city in Xandria that just keeps giving her the finger.

More or less.

Yeah.

So the gods are mortal.

Or about to be.

So what does that mean for beings like Galdric and Ukatoa now that they're gone?

Like, I know I messed it up, it's okay.

No, it's not.

Oh, no, that's not you.

Right?

Okay, really?

How do you?

Oh, man.

I'll learn my lore someday.

With the gods gone, can they rise to greater prominence?

When the cats are away, baby.

Like,

divinity is gone for a while, and in some cases, might be gone for extended periods.

So lesser idols and, you know, beings of great

interest and ambition,

There's a power vacuum.

There is a time for them to do their best to claim what space they can.

This new age is likely going to be a very tumultuous one.

There will be a rise of demagogues and cults of personality and many entities that have been lying in wait and in the shadows under the guy under the watchful eye of the primes.

And now that they're away, this is an opportunity for them to seize.

So

yeah, it's going to get real interesting in Xandria.

So a a power vacuum might be bad.

It'll be interesting.

Okay.

For the make-believe people, but for the people playing or watching.

Totally changed subject for just one second.

Have you ever thought about singing It's Hard to Be the Bard?

Have you ever heard that song?

I love that song.

Isn't it so good?

Yes, I remember it.

And I was just like, the whole time you were talking, envisioning you singing it.

I think you'd be so good at it.

What is this?

Thank you, Laura.

You've now imparted the internet's drive to force me to sing that at some point.

It's going to be great.

Has anybody already said it before?

No.

Oh.

But now it will follow me to every event and convention.

Luckily, you're an excellent singer.

I thought she was about to apologize, and she's like, terminating.

Oh, it's perfect.

Shitty chicks.

Quick, Laura, what was Imogen's grandmother's first name?

I'm kidding.

You said in the past that Imogen could have gone evil.

Obviously.

What events?

Like, like 12 different ways.

so so what events of those 12 different ways in particular do you think could have pushed over the edge oh like personally if like outside of just like exploring Pradathos's body

if Lodna had died if Ladna had died died yeah

I don't think Imogen would have stayed good and happy

if and if Ladna not only if Ladna would have died, died, but if Ladna would have, like,

given over to Delilah.

I would have broken bad with you.

I know.

We got close.

We did.

We got close to breaking bad.

Yeah.

And then when it came down to it, I was like, no, I know.

Yeah.

I chickened.

You did.

Yeah.

It felt like, oh, I think I said this.

Have you seen that fail video of the two girls like jumping off the cliff?

Yeah.

And one chickens out of the other the last minute, and it causes the other girl to kind of slip from each.

She falls down the cliff.

Yeah, I let you fall down the cliff.

Also, though, if you break bad, you're handing your character away and sometimes it's hard to let go.

I know, I know.

Honestly, that seemed kind of fun, but

I have a really silly question for people, if I can.

I was just realizing I've gotten to play with everyone here in one time in the past.

I got three people.

I got Travis, Sam, and Marisha in Calamity.

I got Ashley, Laura, and Talison in Downfall.

I got Matt and Liam in Divergence.

Which of your prime

core of the present Xandrian characters would have been the worst fit for your prequel?

Like, if you had some.

Like, if you had to swap out your prequel story character with one of your core Xandrian characters.

Bo would have been horrible.

Bo placed into the ring of brass.

She'd be like, I

hate this.

This is exactly.

She'd be like, I'm going to fucking bring this whole city down myself.

Vespen Who, fucking forward.

Lord of the Hells opens the tree up, like, hello.

Oh, it's burning already.

I think Chutney would have probably been a pretty decent eye of Avalir, but Grog would have been

just

prime run amok.

No wonder that city fell.

No, motherfucker.

Ring of brass gathers and the doors open and Rag walks in.

The rest of them just go, oh God.

That's alright.

I'm here.

I'm Ring of Brass Purdue.

This is the new.

This Nembo baby.

I think it's pretty obvious Jester would have been horrible.

For secret, for mission impossible god style.

Yeah,

no.

Horrendous.

Like,

she would have had too much power as a god, number one, like, to just wreak havoc.

But also, she would have, like, really tried to make Asmodeus come to the good side.

Like, she really would have thought she could have, like, helped.

Wow, Xerxes round 2.0.

Xerxes 2.0.

The Chester Ashton combo would have been great up there.

I feel like we would have really

gone great.

They need to hang out.

I know.

I'm really excited for any time we finally get to do that.

That looks breakable.

You want to hit that?

Yeah.

I wonder what that button does.

Oh my gosh.

I think that Bren Aldrich Ermondrud would have died of dysentery at age seven.

But that's probably what I helped Phydra start the Roach Gang.

Yeah.

He'd have been fine.

Totally, totally.

But you good.

I mean, if Tarian Darrington were

a broadcaster

in Earth Land, it might work for a while, but I think he would just be so so overwhelmed with all the attention that he would be like,

I think he would just love it.

He'd be like, I'll do whatever you want if you get me on TV more.

Screw these druids.

Let's do bad shit just like me on TV.

That's great.

And the 75th annual Harm Good Games begins.

Pompadour.

Ashley.

I'm going with Fern because I just feel like it could go either way.

Yeah, the chaos tracking is a good idea.

It could go either way.

I feel like

that would have been, yeah, following that track down where it's like, one of our companions has alerted the magistry that this is all happening.

Oh, no!

Like the idea of the degree of chaos that would have unfolded from that would have been.

I didn't realize I wasn't submissive.

I don't know.

I just like misunderstood.

Yeah.

Oh, Ashton, definitely.

Oh, Ashton.

Oh, for for sure.

Just, yeah, just a mess.

Especially if, if, yeah, for an ingestor, too.

I just, that trio would be all.

It would be awesome.

Oh, it would be a mess.

Ferngester and Ashton infiltrating Aeor surreptitiously.

That's great.

I kind of want to see it though.

We're here.

How about NPCs for you, Matt?

Or who would you, yeah, who would your

oh my goodness?

You have a broad palette.

Oh, R Taggen.

R Taggen entirely.

Just playing all sides.

Oh, he's so

como.

All right, let's get this.

Let's rebuild this

hill town here.

Oh, my God.

They're asking for the song now or a thing.

But hey, I am singing on April 4th

for Crime Karaoke at the Vermont Theater in L.A.

Get tickets, throw them on Instagram.

Me and Freddie Wong and the Carl Tanner.

I am now because they're asking about karaoke stuff.

Yeah, it's true.

We need to move tickets because it's fun.

Well, I think.

Oh, what are you saying?

Well, I have two questions from At Voice of O'Brien.

Okay.

The first is for Brennan.

One is, why the Lord of Hells?

What is it about the Lord of Hells that you love

so, so much?

Is it something inside of you?

Yeah.

Is it just rich, fertile territory to mine?

I don't know.

I really, there was a.

Because

the betrayers,

I was told that if I came and ran miniseries for critical role, I could take my own betrayer home.

Basically.

They have bags at the door.

But you,

well, I think, look, so I, I, I went to school, I went to SUNY Ulster, and I studied with an incredible professor there who's a philosophy professor.

I've been obsessed with ethics, the formal study of ethics for a long time.

It's pronounced ESSIC, actually.

It's a half our audience.

Ethics and ESSIC.

And there's something about, there's a line from Calamity where, you know, I've talked about there are, and especially too, because I feel like Matt...

I've talked with Matt about the chained oblivion and how special a position the chained oblivion holds and the evil of that being so alien and so monstrous.

And it's the evil of looking at outer space and feeling like there's something out there that doesn't, it just doesn't know know what I am I don't even register on its wavelength as something living and it's like that is a type of evil that is so frightening and I think the other side of that coin is the intimacy of something so human because trickery as a domain is not alien right it's deeply fucking human there's a line in calamity where it's like the Lord of the Hells hates you because he knows it's like he hates you because he knows you and he needs you to know that you deserve it like that idea of punishment

of like oh You're bad because I'm bad and you're here to punish me that is so frightening and I think it's a type of evil that is really Freaky but captivating to watch and to perform because it's person.

It's personal.

He doesn't hate you dispassionately.

He really sees you and fucking hates you.

Why are you pointing at me?

I'm giving you

I'm getting really uncomfortable.

That's the green chair.

Well, that's the thing with Brennan, because like you are one of like the kindest, most stand-up guy.

You are an arbiter for all that is good.

You like are a fighter for humanity and human rights.

And seeing the way you play the Lord of the Hells and some of the other bad guys, I'm like, oh, you, I thank God you wake up and you choose that.

that you choose to be good because it is

fucking terrifying.

You'd be real good at being bad.

You'd be so good at being bad.

Thanks, God.

The wood.

My voice of O'Brien's second question is for Matt, and that is, in campaign two,

there was moon stuff.

So when were you cooking lewdness in your mind for the

top of the pyramid in campaign three mid-campaign two prior to campaign two even starting

so uh

i wanted to eventually get to ruidis centric lore uh by the end of campaign one i decided if we got to a third campaign i want that to be kind of ruedus uh involved and in campaign two i began to consider what that how that lore would tie into a future event of xandria.

Like I already had the idea for Perdathos in my head and kind of where that fit into the history, but I didn't want to show the hand too early.

And so I began to drop little hints throughout campaign two, just little ones.

And

Ludinus, when I first created Ludinus,

I hadn't thought about it as a whole backstory.

And so the two weren't immediately tethered.

I just had these two disparate ideas.

And the more that the Cerberus Assembly came to reality in the early third of campaign two,

I thought Ludinus is exactly the person in a position of power, of longevity, and political influence to set up something on the scale that I would hope to unveil in campaign three.

And then I began to, through campaign two, develop in my head the history of lewdness and how that would tie into the Ruidian chaos and the apogee solstice in campaign three.

So that's kind of the timeline, best I can recall.

Yeah, okay.

Satisfied.

Travis.

You love werewolves.

shooting for the worst transition ever.

Why did you choose to have a mechanic of the D100 where you could randomly kill your character and take away your sweet, precious werewolf at any moment?

Why?

Why'd you do it?

Look, Cheddy was just supposed to be fun.

His old ass was supposed to die, but he wouldn't die in the fights.

And then I was like, okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

What do old people do?

They die in their sleep.

Aren't you old people now?

That's my favorite children's book.

He's got to be on the cusp of that thing.

I got to make a mechanic for this.

And I even told Matt, I was like, if I roll trip zeros, can I die in my sleep?

And he goes, if you want to.

I was like, can I have it grow so that with each level that I grow, the number gets larger and larger?

He goes, I think that's pushing a little bit.

I regret it now.

Because he's still alive.

Why would you want him to die so badly?

Because it's never happened in the game before.

Because you would have to wake up after succeeding or failing and being, as we do, all stuck in one budget room.

And somebody's laying next to the dead guy.

And that would be amazing.

And all the fractions.

All right.

Tomorrow we take on the Malleus Keith.

Chetney, you ready?

Yeah.

Yes.

Chetney.

Yes.

And he smells weird and shit's happening.

Yes.

yes, it would be sad stuff, but fuck, that would have been great.

And then I would bring something new in.

I sat next to Travis, and I just, I swear to you guys, he got close a lot.

You got close and just no cigar.

I edged a couple times.

You did.

You did.

Now, this is a transition I like.

Speaking of edging,

it's Chetney Aurum and or Scanlon's father.

Oh, Jetton.

Oh, we already did.

Yes.

Yes, absolutely.

We locked it in.

For sure.

For sure.

You agree to this?

I don't know my father, so it's out of my hands.

He doesn't really have a say in it.

There are franchises all over Xandria.

Franchises.

He was very busy.

He traveled a lot, and a lot of people liked his toys.

Wait, sorry, you just referred to children as franchises?

100%.

Yeah.

Region to region.

For sure.

100%.

He does this in real life, too.

That is the most chet-me thing.

I'm stuck on chat right now.

The branding is strong.

What do you think happened in America in the 1800s?

Were there any toys that you made that you didn't get to distribute?

Yeah.

Yeah,

there were two or three.

I started writing down after the Nanomori Pact a bunch of designs, things that would like unfurl or fold or crawl or unwind.

There was like a tumbling orum that he made.

There was, was,

what's the Russian egg that has smaller?

Thank you.

Yeah, one of those that was each of the characters, and inside was one of the eggs.

Yeah, yeah, small one.

Don't tell fern.

There was a whole bunch of stuff.

But

I was also trying to drop toys for Pradathos, and Matt's like, that's fucking cute.

Pick that shit up.

Trying to distract us from the moment.

Oh, I was looking at

Perliness.

Ashley, we all know you want to steal Chetney's eggs,

but you did steal a lot of stuff.

Is there anything you wish you would have stolen?

The beacon.

Yeah.

Try.

Easy peasy.

Wow.

It's just a shiny.

What a wild.

It's a shiny.

I mean, I want it.

What a wild mirror that would have been to Caleb handing over the beacon a campaign ago and you being like, yoink.

I'm taking that one.

It's so pretty.

I want it.

You do have the skein of fate now.

I do.

Do you think that Fern would ever consider playing with the strings of her friends?

Yes.

Yeah, absolutely.

Absolutely.

For good,

just like a little.

You know, nothing crazy.

Why not?

Just like, not like a big pluck, just maybe like a flick.

But I feel like...

With Fern, it'd be like, you'd flick it and then be like, that wasn't big enough.

I want to see something cooler.

Let me just see if, you know.

That would go back.

You know, just strum that badge up.

Yeah, yeah.

Why not?

I have a

fuck us all up.

At Marisha underscore Ray has a question.

Wow, yes.

Speaking of the beacon and the beacons,

where were they during the calamity?

During the Age of Fourth.

Good question.

They were uncovered.

Undiscovered.

They were still undiscovered.

Yeah.

Except for one?

And did you hear?

There was one, the first one was discovered towards the end of the calamity

By

the

Bright Queen.

Yeah.

She found it?

There was also the lore pointed.

No, no, there wasn't.

No, actually,

there would have been two.

So, no, so there was one that was uncovered in Aeor, you're right.

It was being experimented on.

Correct, I was thinking of the actual colours.

You and I were thinking of two different

lore points, yeah.

No, Aeor did uncover

a beacon and was in the process of studying it.

And there was the one that the Bright Queen uncovered and kind of began the Korean dynasty after they had gotten out from under the spider queen and then came to the surface and kind of started in the ruins of Jorhas and kind of built the city of Rosona.

So the Bright Queen has been around for as long as Ludinus has.

Correct.

She's about a thousand years old, yeah.

Whoa.

2001, a space odyssey.

Whoa.

But also, she's lived through many lives.

Yeah.

You know, and that has its challenges.

More about it in her Dark Horse comic.

Indeed, indeed.

Yes.

But yeah,

and the lore of the Luxon, which you actually get to see some cool representations of it in the Bright Queen comic,

is a precursor to any other life on Axandria.

It's early, early creation myth.

Maybe not myth.

But yeah, all the beacons, the fragments of the Luxon have been there from the very beginning and have just laid dormant, undiscovered, until then.

Sick.

Dang.

Was Aeyor trying to use the beacon that they had uncovered for the malleus?

They had just begun to research it.

It was one of those things where it's like, they got this strange thing here.

It seems to have some strange properties.

They were using it to, it's what y'all were finding whenever y'all were going through Aeor as the Mighty Nine.

They were using it to do the like long rest tubes.

It's why Ford

got his hair back.

And why y'all were able to have a long rest

for

this rod of uranium?

Yes, exactly.

And that's what they were, and they were studying time travel with it.

That's what Caleb disintegrated.

Not a beacon, but their research.

Yeah, it was more or less like they were like, there's something to this.

With enough study, we'll be able to.

What's that?

Clexen.

Are we allowed to know

where it came from?

Matt will never tell us.

No.

Okay, not going gonna tell us I'll never tell the story's not over y'all

it is

and

you're the only one who got fired everyone else is staying

and speaking of which

there are about a billion deep lore questions that we could spend the next several hours on but

the night grows long uh we gotta wrap this baby up is there anything

thoughts that you have in your mind things that you wanted to to say during the show?

You didn't get a chance to?

Closing thoughts from anyone and any.

I feel like we should just give a shout out to all of the guest players who played with us for this campaign.

So many.

Karsh, Bria, Erica, Amy, Amy,

Emily, Emily, Christian,

Christian.

Nashir.

I already said three.

You didn't see three.

We have Emily.

Nashir.

Oh my god.

Alex Ward.

Abu.

Abu Bakar, oh my gosh,

Nick Marini, Nick Marini, yeah, Lou Wilson,

Lynn Beck coming in, picking ass,

Anjali Bamani,

so many, so many incredible people.

I'm so grateful.

Fuck, you guys keep talking.

I'm gonna get emotional, keep going.

Louise, Louise has a loudy.

Yeah,

um, I think it is worth talking about,

you know,

look,

you guys do this at the end of every campaign where you're like, there's so much to wrap up.

There's still so many lingering plot threads.

And the answer is, yeah,

that's true.

Because

hopefully 10 years isn't the end of this.

We're just getting started.

Just getting started.

Are we going to do more Xandrian content?

We are going to do more Xandrian content.

In fact, do you want to know who is dungeon mastering the next bit of Xandrian content?

Who, Marisha?

It's you, Sam Regal.

Shit.

What a perfect time for a pitch.

Good Karsh.

Thanks, Guttkarsh.

We filmed next week.

So if you could come up with an idea and put it on my desk by end of day tomorrow, that's great.

Sure.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I might have to fire you for some.

I'm always happy to lend a hand.

But yes, there's obviously going to be so much more to do.

Obviously, I know

there's been a ton of people being like, it feels like there should be repercussions from Bell's Hell's actions.

Yeah.

No.

No.

It's been 20 minutes.

Yeah, it's been.

Yeah.

If I'm going to be honest, like,

we had a very long finale and there's so many things that I could have put in there and then decided we'll get to later.

Otherwise, it would have been so much longer.

And with the way this year began, I think also it was best to not touch on some of the more intense, darker moments as well.

Because I think after the fires and many other reasons in our political sphere, best to not touch on that.

Let's just keep it happy and end.

But indeed, there are many ramifications to the events at the end of C3 and Bell's Health, and maybe we'll get to touch on those in

future stories.

Future stories, future live shows.

We have Australia coming up.

Wink, wink, hint, hint.

Chicago.

Chicago.

Indianapolis.

What is that?

Wink, wink.

What are you hinting?

What are you trying to hint at?

I'm hinting at the live shows that everyone already knows about.

Hint, hint.

Hint, hint.

You're a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of tickets.

They're hard to sell out.

All right, last chance for romance.

Any more plugs?

Robbie, you did so good tonight.

Aw, thanks, baby.

That's amazing.

It's easy.

He already said his contracts are with the lawyers.

It's easy when the company's good.

Folks, it's been fun, but it's late and we are all talked out.

I have one more thing to say.

That's okay.

Just because we're at the end of campaign three after 10 years celebration here.

Yes.

I think I've got my emotions together a little bit here.

This is the wildest, stupidest stupidest journey

these past 10 years and 12 and a half for us since our home game.

And that family has expanded in so many wonderful ways with so many wonderful people.

The fact that we get to collaborate and build and tell stories in ways that mean so much to us,

that also means much to you folks as well.

Through all of its wonderful, messy,

chaotic swings here and there, dice rolls and motions.

This is the greatest thing in my life, and all of you are the greatest people in it.

And I'm just

very grateful.

And I'm excited for all the great things to come.

Still feels like it's

just getting started.

Well, guess what?

I'm going to say something too.

At the end of Divergence, when I was standing behind a curtain listening, trying to hear what was going on with everybody, I was so nervous, probably the most nervous I've been in years,

because I wanted to thank you

fully and properly for everything that you have done for everyone in this room for a decade.

You have kept us on the edge of our seats and kept us guessing and made us laugh and laughed at yourself and made us cry and just

the amount of like sleepless nights and effort that you put into

telling stories for this group.

It has not gone

unappreciated, far from it, quite the opposite.

And thank you for

setting me up for success to thank you so fully and properly.

We love you.

And thanks for 10 years, Matt.

As Brennan said, it was

the greatest love letter.

None of you are safe around me.

Stay on your bed.

I think that's the perfect segue.

Thanks so much for joining us tonight.

We got so much in store for you this year and beyond.

So stick around, follow us on our socials, and be on the lookout for our next state of the role.

I've been Robbie Damon.

Who knows what I'll be later?

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