I've seen posts from new critters assume that the Briarwoods were fairly normal nobles before Delilah turned to the Whispered One to save Sylas and while that would give a deliciously tragic undertone to their villainy I DO need everyone to know that Delilah was part of an elite wizard oligarchy that had a long standing tradition of doing fucked up unethical experiments on children And those same wizards still exiled the Briarwoods for being Too Evil
Petition to add more disabled magical creatures in fantasy
Like picture a mermaid. When they have to be on land their tail turns to legs, but because their body is used to lower gravity their joints tire easily and are chronically in pain.
Also depending on how deep in the ocean they live, it’s likely they have circulation problems because their body is used to the water pressure holding everything where it needs to be and now their blood is always fucking pooling in their legs and they have to wear compression socks everywhere.
Wheelchair user mermaids. Partially/fully blind mermaids because who needs to see when there’s no light at the bottom of the ocean?
Mermaids with sensory issues who have to wear headphones all the time because sound is so much louder up here on land and they are constantly overstimulated. And also the sun is simply Too Bright™.
Mermaids who have POTS because in the water postural changes make no difference and their bodies don’t know how to stabilize with so much gravity.
I’m really fixated on the mermaids rn but PLEASE feel more than welcome to add more!!!! I wanna hear about disabled dragons
— You're my tether, Laudna. Sometimes I feel like I'm about to float away, but as long as you're there...
— You quite literally pulled me from darkness and death. That tether goes beyond this realm and this life.
does anybody else wonder if everoa is a spy? or maybe not even actually everoa. like. maybe she’s a plant. maybe she’s a sleeper for the weavemind. nobody in this party insight checks her or seems at all suspicious of her or anything. ever.
hang the fuck on. if liliana was already gone before getting sucked in with ludinus and meeting otohan — what the actual fuck was going on in imogen’s childhood flashback? what did she see that scared her? what did she see!!!!!
loving the sentiment behind “oh it won’t eat us - it doesn’t care! divines are the only noms it wants!” but like. it can’t get to them right now. the only buffet is the cleric charcuterie and the paladin pinot. a whole fuckton of people will absolutely get eaten. (especially when reducing their followers makes them less powerful)
and what about people who’ve been healed or rezzed by divine magic? could it sense that? could it eat them? apathy doesn’t mean you won’t eat when you’re fucking hungry, it just means you don’t care what it is you’re chewing
I fuck deeply with Laudna's "what makes you think apathy is better than disdain?" It's a beautiful line to back up Orym's arguments
We don't think too hard about the ants we're stepping on when we have our own problems to worry about. What makes Liliana think that Predathos won't step on Exandria to get to its prey?
Liliana saying “Nothing is more important to me” and Imogen’s instant pushback, versus Laudna’s “I love you” and Imogen’s face crumbling with emotion and exhaustion because she KNOWS that’s true, because she sees and feels and trusts it every single day.