#also for the record. in case ANYONE was liable to forget. 97 is truly an insane episode.

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I just remembered Ludinus telling Caleb outright that Trent "has his uses", and with regard to the Scourger program, which Trent himself designed and pitched, "desperate requirements might call for unsavory methods."

And given that we know now that Ludinus has been singlemindedly focused on the current goals of the Ruby Vanguard for a lot longer than the program would've been in existence, I'm just imagining a timeline in which Caleb and Beau had not gotten the program shuttered in 836 PD, and that entire force of highly-conditioned, high level arcane assassins was simply at Ludinus's disposal.

#critical role #ludinus da'leth #caleb widogast #also for the record. in case ANYONE was liable to forget. 97 is truly an insane episode. #I forgot that that SUPER TENSE conversation with ludinus flows IMMEDIATELY into jester cornering 'dezran' at the hors d'oeurves table #literally the tone switch is HILARIOUS