#bulbian church

[incorrectly-quoted-queers]

I love how in A Crown of Candy Brennan made all the Bulbian clergy untrustrworthy lil guys and the second he gets the chance in The Ravening War he plays Bulbian clergy, an untrustworthy lil guy

So the conclusion here is that church = lies?

I'm with it. Noted, Dad

#dimension 20 #bulbian church #brennan lee mulligan #bulb #a court of candy #acoc #the ravening war #trw #matt mercer #queer #because I interpret most dnd as queer alright #a crown of candy #jesus fucking christ you wrote a court of candy you *disaster*

[scalpho]

post-patricide grief counseling

(original post here)

#do not care if colin doesn't have his earring in the timeskip art. i'm drawing him with it regardless #the bulbian church can pry his swag from my cold dead hands #dimension 20 #d20 #the ravening war #bishop raphaniel charlock #colin provolone #scal art

[wyrmwright]

Chancellor Lapin Cadbury and Sir Theobald Gumbar, at it again 🍭 for @FanaticofBeads 🍬💙

#acoc #a crown of candy #lapin cadbury #chancellor lapin cadbury #theobald gumbar #sir theo gumbar #dimension 20 #d20 #the bulbian church saw lapins swag and said we have to kill this guy

[emptyjunior]

A Ceresian crown of candy OC for commission.

A delicious alligator bread paladin, fresh out the oven (based on Betawi marriage ceremony bread)

#pov you piss of the bulbian church and I guess get scorched by bulb mace #crown of candy #acoc #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #art #fanart #dnd

[redsandsshoes]

Anyway I think the ravening war is going to change me fundamentally, ha ha (dying on the floor)

#d20 #dimension 20 #the ravening war #trw #brennan lee mulligan #bishop raphaniel charlock #raphaniel charlock #the bulbian church #the bulb

[slayerchick303]

Same, Karna. Same.

I love Brennan, but Bishop Charnock is the worst.

#granted this may be my distrust of organized religion talking because of my upbringing #MOTHER CHURCH?! SERIOUSLY? #i wouldn't be surprised if karna ends up having to kill him #i do NOT trust him #screw the bulbian church #bishop raphaniel charlock #karna solara #dimension 20 the ravening war spoilers #dimension 20 the ravening war #dimension 20 #d20 the ravening war spoilers #d20 the ravening war #d20 spoilers #d20 #brennan lee mulligan #aabria iyengar #lou wilson #dropout tv #dropout #college humor #dimension 20 spoilers

[cerritagrupninn]

Brennan’s character is seriously not helping me get over my deep distrust of organized religion

#religious trauma #dimension 20 #d20 #the ravening war #trw #the bulbian church is deeply fucked up #the ramseian doctrine #spoilers #a crown of candy spoilers #a crown of candy

[supernaturalcharlie11]

Am I the only one who thinks that the bishop did not kill someone with that clove tea, but either helped some woman to get rid of an unwanted pregnancy or used it to cause a miscarriage to prevent the birth of an heir in one of the kingdoms?

Or perhaps to make sure no one knows who the father was since the child‘s looks are a dead giveaway in this realm? Perhaps the woman was even raped?

#maybe this is too dark #but it would be an awesome twist #would explain why this is his secret #The bulbian church sure wouldn‘t allow something like that #my imagination is just running wild now #dimension 20 #the ravening war #brennan lee mulligan #bishop raphaniel charlock #clove #clove tea #dark #dark story #dark story idea #d20 trw #matt mercer

[breathalyzerfail]

Shout out to the corn bishop in DM screen on the new Dimension 20 trailer…

Coz like, this is Calorum. That drumstick is a person or a limb. This historical corn bishop is depicted in religious-coded iconography as holding up a corpse.

(What’s this season gonna be about, Matthew Mercer??)

#dimension 20 #the ravening war #matt mercer #gonna be about manchego borgia and the excesses of the bulbian church

[aanarres]

feels like the fellowship of destiny's architects goals could have something to do with the ramsian doctrine

#the fact that they seem aligned with the bulbian church along with them talking about 'indulgence' gave me ramsian vibes #d20 #and the fact that matt said it was ppl from 'pretty much' all 6 kingdoms - not including candia? #trw

[castleintheskye]

Putting off ingesting any information about the new d20 season set in Calorum until it's complete, only because it may contradict the headcanon worldbuilding I've done since acoc.

#who wants to learn about the 50 year crusading period prior to Candia's conversion #Queen Emeraude won the final battle and had 20 years of relative peace #the only reason candia came under the bulbian church was to prevent further conflicts after it's allies and borders had been converted #skye's text #acoc

[atticfish]

I'm finally watching acoc and 'they wouldn't have survived without you... my third wish is for you to come home' AA AA !?? 😭😭🤬🤬😖😖😖😭🥲🤕🤕🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

#how am i supposed to be normal about this what the fuck #lapin giving his life to an illusion again and again and again and in his final moments realising the true nature of that illusion #and choosing right then to devote himself to his friends but never getting to see them live on and dying on the floor of a bulbian church #god !!!!!!; ........ #acoc spoilers

[angelofdumpsterfires]

No but y’all don’t get it

Brennan’s Calorum PC, Raphaniel Charlock intentionally poisoned the king with full knowledge that it would launch Calorum into all out war

Raphaniel in his mad zealotry was the one to pull the Ramsian Doctrine from obscurity, bringing it into the theological discussion within the church with his writings

after his death, the newly ascendant Archbishop Brassica, a subscriber to the Ramsian Doctrine due to Raphaniel’s writings would eventually mobilise the forces of the Bulbian Church and Vegetania to march on Candia for an attempted genocide

Brennan created Calorum and his silly radish man PC single-handedly lay as the root initiator behind not one, but two horrifically brutal wars which he had already written into existence as the dungeon master.

#the ravening war #dimension 20 #d20 the ravening war #d20 trw #bishop raphaniel charlock

[scalpho]

zac oyama walks into calorum and says i am going to make a guy who is so involved in some kind of religion. lapin, cumulous, and now biscuit gravy mrs doubtfire priest guy... and i'm pretty sure when zac made colin as greasy cheese man he didn't initially intend for him to end up as a knight of the bulbian church, but he still did, which is perhaps the funniest instance of it. zac just cannot escape religion in calorum

#and biscuit gravy priest guy is pretty much the only one ACTUALLY devout to the bulb #dimension 20 #d20 #the ravening war #a crown of candy #scal txt

[chungledown-bimothy]

I have so many Thoughts about the ACOC backup charaters, especially in relation to the player's primary one.

Zac: Lapin and Cumulous are both socially reticent guys just on the periphery of the family. They both serve a higher power that is not the Bulb. Lapin was tricked into it, while Cumulous was created for it. Lapin hides it, Cumulous basks in it. Different perspectives on Fuck The Bulbian Church.

Emily: Neither Jet nor Saccharina wanted to rule. Jet would have envied Saccharina's freedom even more than she did Annabelle's, and Jet had everything Saccharina wanted most. Essays could be written about these two, so I'm gonna leave it there and move on.

Lou: We know very little about his backup character, but we do know that his name is Murdo Brer, and he's a necromancer (wizard) who lives way out in the far reaches of Candia. His extreme interest in the dark side of magic turned him into an oozing, slimy, legless molasses man. The exact opposite of Amethar, the illiterate pillar of a rock candy barbarian/fighter whose life is the center of everything.

Ally: Liam is an outsider, he doesn't really belong there. But Caramelinda went out of her way to check in with him about his well-being and suggest a way out of the castle, if he wanted one. He's the only person she was nothing but warm and kind to. (of course. her husband and daughters certainly didn't help that) And then Ally's backup character is Sir Amanda Maillard. The s'mores paladin having an affair with the queen. She belongs in the castle even less, and, of course, her relationship with Caramelinda is very, very close. These two spots of warmth and kindness in Caramelinda's otherwise extremely stressful and challenging life.

Murph: Saying that Theo loved Lazuli and that he is who he is because of her is an understatement. All we know about his backup character is that it was a Bubblegum Monster construct created by Lazuli. That obvious parallel aside, there's something there in the chewiness of gummy bears and bubblegum. It's candy that takes a wile and some effort to finish. They've got staying power. We see that in Swirlwarden's ability and really everything about Theo, and I think it's safe to assume that a construct that looks like that is also not easy to take down.

And then there's Siobhan. Where this started, for me.

Her backup character was Bitternight Darknibs, a warlock made of sugarless chocolate. She said that, if she were to have played her, she would have been Rococoa, having come back from the dead as a revenant to get revenge on Calroy.

Rococoa's need to avenge her murdered family being so strong it brought her back from the dead vs Ruby feeling like part of her died when Jet did and revenge being the only thing keeping her going. Jet being the one connected to Rococoa. If Ruby had died, Amethar would have lost his daughter and gotten back his sister, kind of.

We don't know how aware of her past Bitternight is, maybe it's just, like, a thing we know and will devastate Amethar to learn later, or if there is a more immediate recognition/reunion sort of thing. But no matter what, it would have been absolutely devastating.

#dimension 20 #a crown of candy #lapin cadbury #cumulous rocks #liam wilhelmina #amanda maillard #theobald gumbar #amethar rocks #ruby rocks #rococoa rocks #jet rocks #saccharina frostwhip #thanks for the reminders y'all <3

[thevalleyisjolly]

There’s something really fascinating about the different ways in which the Hungry One is understood and conceptualized in Calorum.  In the Bulbosi Church, it’s characterized as an apocalyptic Satan-figure, the cause of suffering in the world and the thing that will one day come to devour everything just because that’s what it does.  Where things really get interesting is in the different sects within and around the Church.  Adherants of the Ramsian Doctrine, for example, believe that it is necessary for the Hungry One to devour the world so that the Bulb can triumph over it - and they believe that the Hungry One will not devour the world so long as it contains “junk food.”  In a similar manner, the Prophidian Heresy and the FDA believe that the Hungry One will not devour the world if it is full of waste -only the FDA consider waste to be general rot and decay rather than the Candians specifically, misanthropy vs xenophobia GO- and that this is therefore the key to preventing the destruction of the world. 

Within the FDA and the Prophidian Heresy, there’s also an intriguing link between body and soul that contradicts mainstream Bulb theology.  Whereas most of the Church believes in a rigid delineation between body and soul, that after death, the body returns to the ground and the soul (if it is not damned) goes to the Bulb, the FDA’s plan of filling the world with rot and decay so that the Hungry One will not devour it suggests, quite radically, that the body just as much if not more so than the soul is what the Hungry One devours.  Mainstream Bulbians believe the stomach of the Hungry One is Hell for damned souls who do not go to the Bulb - the FDA seems to believe that the state of the material is just as important to the Hungry One as the metaphysical and that large enough volumes of rotting decay (which could also be the moral decay that comes with actions in war, but in this case the FDA themselves have the most rotten souls of all) can keep this Devil-figure from consuming anything, regardless of the state of the soul.

On a different level, with Karna, we find the idea that the Hungry One is not just a powerful over-arching entity but rather something which people can relate to and personally interact with.  When Karna kills Sir Drunon and the woman, she takes part of their bodies and burns them “in offering” to the Hungry One.  As the audience, we know that Karna is mechanically a warlock of the Hungry One, with the specific subclass of The Great Old One.  Combined with the offering, the characterization of the Hungry One is as an active, powerful being who, to some degree, can engage with people personally.  Not necessarily in a reciprocal way -you can burn an offering as a sign of respect or acknowledgement without any expectation of receiving something in return- but people like Karna can and do engage with it on an individual and personal level.  Given the fact that when she kills, a new rotten spot appears on her body, it suggests that her relationship to the Hungry One does, in some part, go both ways, that there is something on the other side receiving her votives and responding to them.

Also fascinating to observe, when she kills Sir Drunon, she says “We are all eventual food in the maw of the Hungry One,” and immediately thereafter as she kills the woman he’s with, “I’m sorry, but we are all eventual waste.”  This presents another perspective on the relationship between the Hungry One and the concept of waste. In contrast to the FDA or the Ramsian Doctrine, which believe that the Hungry One won’t devour the world if it is full of waste or junk, Karna’s statements suggest that the process of dying inherently involves becoming waste - and that the Hungry One will still eat that waste nonetheless. 

Then there’s Cumulous and his specific monastic tradition (which is not actually one and the same as the Order of the Spinning Star because it’s stated that there are monks in the Order who draw power from the Bulb; overall, the Order seems to be more an organization of people dedicated to the same goal rather than a religious enclave of people with the same spiritual beliefs).  In ACOC, the first thing Cumulous ever says is, “The Hungry One must feed.”  It’s an interesting phrasing because there’s a very passive connotation - not “The Hungry One must consume” or “The Hungry One must eat,” but rather the use of the term “feed” suggests a little less agency and purpose.  It isn’t going out looking for something to eat, but rather it is feeding on whatever it is given.

Later, Cumulous explains to the party that he does not worship the Hungry One and that it is just a source of power to him.  He can tap into it, just like the Bulbosi miracle workers can tap into the Bulb, but it’s not something that has a real consciousness or its own will and he does not interact with it as if it does.  Combined with his monk subclass (Long Death), the characterization of the Hungry One is less a supernatural powerful figure but more a manifestation of inevitable death and entropy.  Very similarly to Karna’s perspective, it’s going to feed on everything eventually because everyone’s going to die one day.  It might be today, if you happen to be a cheese sailor trying to murder your lawful child duchess, but that’s neither here nor there.

And as Lapin realized in his last moments and as he later showed to Liam, this seems to be the closest understanding to the actual nature of the Hungry One which we have encountered so far in either campaign.  The Hungry One is just a cosmological ball (add that to the list of significant TTRPG orbs!) and while it certainly contains a lot of power, it doesn’t do anything with it other than eat what is delivered into its mouth.  The power and the destruction and the death associated with the Hungry One?  All of that has only been wielded or used by living people, for their own aims and agendas.

Anyways, all this to say that while I don’t think it likely to happen, my dream scenario is for a couple FDA members to flee the scene of whatever plan they had that some or all of the Scrumptious Scoundrels have managed to foil, and as they escape, they run straight into a group of Candian monks (aka what they were actually doing during the Ravening War).  The last thing they hear, after all their scheming to “save” the world, is “The Hungry One must feed.”  And it does.

#dimension 20 #the ravening war #dimension 20 spoilers #the ravening war spoilers #karna solara #cumulous rocks #a crown of candy #long post #can you tell i've been losing my mind over the hungry one lore and calorum cosmology for the past three years? #like the hungry one; i am being FED by all this juicy juicy lore we're getting from the ravening war