#Brennan did such a good job dm’ing this series

[lenacopperleaf]

Look, like halfway through I mentioned in the tags of a post that there was so much love and devotion that these characters had . That it mattered but it wasn’t going to be enough.

And it wasn’t. Not fully. The city was still destroyed, the calamity still started, and Domunas still became the shattered teeth.

But it ended up mattering so much more than I thought it would. More people stayed loyal to the ring of brass than betrayed it. The ring of brass stayed loyal to each other and that saved so many people from the cities and kept the ring of gold from only taking care of themselves. And it mattered. In those three rounds, that love and loyalty and devotion mattered. It mattered in how they protected Laerryn and how they fought for one another and how they died for one another. It’s what got Cerrit back to his family when all he thought he’d get was a look out the window.

It mattered. The story mattered. The love and care and loyalty mattered. Yes there was a lot of hubris and selfishness at times. Yes there were moments where the very being of these characters put them on a collision path straight towards the biggest brightest red “calamity start” button but they were able to shift it *just* enough to give Exandria a chance to fight again another day. And they were able to do that because of how much they stuck together and their friendship and their love for the people of a city that was full of dreamers. Dreamers and their new dreams that would grow from the rubble of defeated primordials and a seemingly permanent ash cloud. Dreamers who would wield newly created Vestiges of Divergence and fight alongside *gods*.

In two centuries these dreamers would be left in a ruin of a world where gods were now locked behind a divine gate, magic had changed forever, and records of the past two centuries would no longer exist. Only Vasselheim would truly be left standing and the druids of the Gau Drashari wouldn’t even fully remember their history. But there would still be hope and loyalty and dreamers. Because the ring of brass started fighting back while they had precious few hours and because others continued that fight when they no longer could, Exandria was able to continue and all was not lost.

#critical role #exu calamity #critical role spoilers #exu spoilers #laerryn coramar seelie #loquacious seelie #zerxus ilerez #nydas okiro #patia por'co #cerrit agrupnin #ring of brass #I have so many thoughts and feelings and I had to get them out #they did so good #they tried so hard #Brennan did such a good job dm’ing this series #aaaaaaaa how am I supposed to sleep now? #or be normal? like I didn’t just spend 6 hours getting my heart ripped to shreds by a dnd game