#Cr spoilers

[ladykeyleth]

See if I can send a message to Keyleth. We're back. We're at the surface of the Malleus Key. Just trying to find a way to get back to you.

#criticalroleedit #critteredit #critical role #keyleth of the air ashari #keyleth #marisha ray #cr spoilers #c3e92 1h15m35s on twitch #mgifs #it fills me with so much joy that it's been 40 years and she's still the same ole Kiki #I didn't gif it but Matt's delighted giggle at his own shenanigans was so <333 #the man GETS HER so damn well

[chaosgenasi]

It's hard for me to fathom why you think that whatever comes next isn't bad.

+bonus:

#critical role #criticalroleedit #critical role spoilers #cr spoilers #ashton greymoore #taliesin jaffe #liliana temult #orym #liam o'brien #basil.gif #cr3 #i am simply obsessed with this whole scene

[revvethasmythh]

you know, it really does make perfect sense in retrospect why ludinus was not only okay with trent's volstrucker program, but also admitted to finding it useful for his own means. when imogen asked liliana how ruidusborn are awakened (exalted, presumably, for the purpose of being a potential vessel for predathos), liliana responded, "through turmoil. and training."

that's....not very different at all from how trent created the volstrucker. the only real difference is that ludinus' exalted ruidusborn are for an even worse, potentially world-ending purpose

#anyway the best comparison to liliana is the other volstrucker #cr spoilers #critical role #bells hells #also caleb is going to flip his SHIT when he finally finds out all the details of what's going on

[drawsmaddy]

[ID: A digital illustration of Orym and Dorian Storm from Critical Role. Dorian has his arms around Orym's waist and Orym is gently holding Dorian's face. Dorian is smiling with his eyes closed as Orym looks up at him affectionately. End description.]

So excited for these two to be together again

#dorian storm #orym #orym of the air ashari #my art #dorym #critical role #critical role fanart #cr spoilers #critical role spoilers #bell's hells #bells hells

[twinklestarss]

“I love all of you. Just perhaps we should say it more.”-Laudna

Bells Hells talk about FCG after their death. Campaign 3 Episode 92: Broken Roads

#critical role #critteredit #criticalroleedit #cr spoilers #critical role spoilers #bells hells #fcg #imogen temult #ashton greymoore #laudna #orym of the air ashari #chetney pock o'pea #cr3 #c3 #cr campaign 3 #cr3ep92 #c3e92 #laura bailey #liam o'brien #marisha ray #taliesin jaffe #travis willingham #bell’s hells #cr laudna #cr fcg

[roguedemonwatcher]

Imogen is really just walking proof that the things Liliana did were not “necessary.” And I kind of think Liliana’s deference to her daughter in their last conversation is indicative that she is slowly realizing this. Being confronted with the essentially younger version of herself who also left home to seek out answers, who has pretty successfully avoided the pull of Perdathos (something Liliana told her to do, weird that), and who is proof that Ruidiusborn can successfully work with those on Exandria aligned with the gods and not be “persecuted,” like Ludinus told her, all really shines a light on how weak her justifications to herself have been. 

And that's the tragedy here! Liliana thinks she's made this huge sacrifice for her daughter and for people like her, but she's been taking the easier path this whole time. And now she is seeing that! Imogen is making the bigger sacrifice by fighting to keep Perdathos at bay, despite the pull and the welcoming feeling and it (possibly) being a literal part of her. So like, if we want to talk about why Imogen is a counter to a lot of great CR villains because she choses to do good, well, we need to acknowledge that Liliana is one those villains. And Orym and Ashton and the rest of BH have every right to dunk on her because they see someone just like her make better choices every day.

#critical role #cr3 #cr spoilers #between orym and liliana #one of them trusts imogen and treats her like a leader and actually put their future on the line for her #and surprise its not liliana

[hello-eeveev]

After the conversation with Liliana this last episode, it is so obvious that the 'the gods are bad! we're getting rid of them!' argument has absolutely nothing going for it. We now have confirmation that Predathos is doing EVERYTHING that people criticize the gods for doing. He directly communicates with his chosen and not others, he directs those people to do violence to achieve his ends, and he has the ability to possess the bodies of any and all of his chosen. He is already doing all this. What makes you think he will stop once he destroys all the other gods?

There is no freedom in their plans; just a sole tyrant and the delusion that he's one of the good ones.

#this just in: the god eater is also a god #cr spoilers #cr meta #critical role #I decided to take my tags from my last reblog and make them their own post so sorry if ur seeing it again #eve talks

[pocketgalaxies]

dorian saying "opal's getting a little dark" over the sending stone all those eps ago. "A LITTLE," DORIAN? "A LITTLE"?!?!?!?! SHE'S POSSESSED AND UNHINGING HER JAW TO SCREAM AT YOUR HIMBO FRIEND. SHE'S TERRIFYING MATTHEW MERCER!

#i'm so happy #before you say anything yes i know this is a fake memory. you get my point #aimee emotionally pummeled after this #4h29m c3e92 #sc #critical role #cr3 #cr lb #cr spoilers #opal cr #spider queen cr #aimee carrero #matthew mercer #dorian storm #r: opal x dorian

[burr-ell]

the "you should be wary, because only one side of this table is underestimating the other" -> "i wish for you in the future to find someone who will mourn you when you are gone" -> "do you think that'll break through, or do you think you'll be surprised?" pipeline <3

#critical role #cr spoilers #percy de rolo #caduceus clay #ashton greymoore #i like the idea of taliesin pcs only uniting under 'what about side by side with a hater' rules

[utilitycaster]

worth noting by the way that the Wildmother not interfering is not, in fact, the Prime Deities abandoning the party in their time of need. There is, as we learned from Teven Klask, a functional temporary truce between the Prime Deities and Betrayer Gods due to the threat Predathos represents to both of them. I would imagine that depriving another deity of their champion would absolutely violate that and put all the gods at risk; neither the Wildmother nor the Spider Queen want to do this.

#cr spoilers #critical role

[ladykeyleth]

— 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.

Bonus:

#criticalroleedit #critteredit #critical role #imodna #laudna #imogen temult #cr spoilers #C3E49 4h53m30s #C3E80 30m50s #C3E89 2h52m #C3E89 2h53m33s #C3E92 1h26m38s on twitch #C3E6 27m51s #C3E79 2h19m59s #mgifs #whew that is a lot of timestamps

[caeslxys]

I’ve mentioned this elsewhere but it feels relevant again in light of the most recent episode. Something that’s really fascinating to me about Orym’s grief in comparison to the rest of the hells’ grief is that his is the youngest/most fresh and because of that tends to be the most volatile when it is triggered (aside from FCG, who was two and obviously The Most volatile when triggered.)

As in: prior to the attack on Zephrah, Orym was leading a normal, happy, casual life! with family who loved him and still do! Grief was something that was inflicted upon him via Ludinus’ machinations, whereas with characters like Imogen or Ashton, grief has been the background tapestry of their entire lives. And I think that shows in how the rest of them are largely able to, if not see past completely (Imogen/Laudna/Chetney) then at least temper/direct their vitriol or grief (Ashton/Fearne/Chetney again) to where it is most effective. (There is a glaring reason, for example, that Imogen scolded Orym for the way he reacted to Liliana and not Ashton. Because Ashton’s anger was directed in a way that was ultimately protective of Imogen—most effective—and Orym’s was founded solely in his personal grief.)

He wants Imogen to have her mom and he wants Lilliana to be salvageable for Imogen because he loves Imogen. But his love for the people in his present actively and consistently tend to conflict with the love he has for the people in his past. They are in a constant battle and Orym—he cannot fathom losing either of them.

(Or, to that point, recognize that allowing empathy to take root in him for the enemy isn't losing one of them.)

It is deeply poignant, then, that Orym’s grief is symbolized by both a sword and shield. It is something he wields as a blade when he feels his philosophy being threatened by certain conversational threads (as he believes it is one of the only things he has left of Will and Derrig, and is therefore desperately clinging onto with both bloody hands even if it makes him, occasionally, a hypocrite), but also something he can use in defense of the people he presently loves—if that provocative, blade-grief side of him does not push them—or himself—away first.

(it won’t—he is as loved by the hells as he loves them. he just needs to—as laudna so beautifully said—say and hear it more often.)

#critical role #cr spoilers #bells hells #orym of the air ashari #cr meta #imogen temult #ashton greymoore #liliana temult #this is genuinely completely written in good faith as someone who loves orym #but is also about orym and so will inevitably end up being completely misconstrued and made into discourse. alas #I could talk about how Orym’s unwillingness to allow the hells to actually finish/come to a solid conclusion on Philosophy Talk #is directly connected to one of the largest criticisms of c3 (that they are constantly having these conversations) #all day. alas. engaging with orym’s flaws tends to make people upset #it is ESP prevelant when he walks off after exclaiming ‘they (vangaurd) are NOT right’ #which was not only never said but wasn’t even what they were talking about #he even admits as much to imogen like ten minutes later! that he is incapable of viewing it objectively #which is 100% justifiable and understandable but simultaneously does not make his grief alone the most important perspective in the world #also bc i fear ppl will play semantics on my tags yes the line ‘i hope she’s right’ was said but it was from ASHTON #who does not believe they are at all and wasn’t saying they actively WERE right. orym just heard something to latch onto and ran with it #ultimately there is a reason orym only admitted that he was struggling when he had stepped away to talk to dorian #who has not been around and thusly has not changed once n orym's eyes #and it isn't that the hells never check in or care. they do. they have several times over #it is dishonest to say they haven't #the actual reason is that all of this is something He Is Aware Of. he doesn't mention it bc he KNOWS it's hypocritical and selfish #he says as much! #EXHALES. @ MY OWN BRAIN CAN WE THINK ABT MOG AGAIN. FYRA RAI EVEN. FOR ME. #posting this literally at 8 in the morning so I can get my thoughts out of my brain but also attempt to immediately make this post invisibl

[revvethasmythh]

in regards to orym only admitting how badly he's struggling to dorian/always reaching for the sending stone instead of his current party members, I suspect it's because dorian's not with the team right now, and therefore he's not someone orym feels he needs to be strong for. orym has been told he's the moral center of his party numerous times (ashton has even admitted to him that this isn't fair! but it's still how he's perceived) in addition to being a keep-a-stiff-upper-lip-and-support-your-friends kind of guy. if he cracks, he's got to be afraid that's going to have a ripple effect on the stability of the group. so of course he's going to reach out to the one party member he doesn't feel he has to support, where it won't effect the larger dynamics of the group, who also happens to be someone who is removed from/untouched by the kind of trauma and heartbreak the party has been dealing with and feels more connected to a past that was kinder. dorian is the ideal candidate for orym to open up to emotionally, well beyond any shipping lenses

#not that i think him opening up to the group would actually have a bad group effect but I do believe that ORYM believes that #dorian is just the safest option and the one that connects him to a past that was better than the present #that's kind of it #cr spoilers #critical role #orym #bells hells

[ariadne-mouse]

"Predathos won't cause any collateral damage because it can only metabolize the proteins in gods" -the Ruby Vanguard, probably

#critical role #op #c3 #predathos #even if this was true predathos being “very angry” with the gods doesn't spell good things for stuff they like - for instance Exandria #cr spoilers #since mostly for the tag on the angry thing

[nanierose]

Addiny my whole two cents to whether Orym is wrong to keep bringing up his murdered loved ones, and my view is no he isn't. Like it doesn't fucking matter if the Vanguard has a point about the gods, that's never been the issue here. The issue is that they have enacted murder throughout Exandria, are supporting an oppressive regime on Ruidis, and have no regard whether releasing an entity that even the gods are afraid of will destroy Exandria. They are not the good guys. Your argument doesn't matter if your actions are so deeply awful. And a man who has been directly affected by this has every right to remind his friends of the actual consequences of this group's actions.

Yes many of the Vanguard have been hurt by religion, and you can empathise with that. You know who else has been hurt? Fucking Orym. Why is the Vanguard allowed to discuss their pain when justifying their arguments but Orym isn't? The reality is you can't have a nuanced conversation when you're arguing that the death cult might be right, because at that point you're basically excusing the countless deaths that have happened in front of a person who is a victim of the death cult. And that is just gross. Orym is a stronger person than me for all the times he's had to listen to it.

#critical role #cr spoilers #orym of the air ashari #cr discourse

[samcarter34]

Also, Liliana saying 'take Ludinus out of the equation, is freeing Predathos so terrible?' is obviously bad for the reasons listed in the show, but also...ma'am, you can't take him out of the equation. He's the one who wrote it on the board.

And on some level, she clearly realizes this, because she also tried to argue that Ludinus is just following Predathos' plan, except that also doesn't work, because that implies that Predathos is okay with what Ludinus has done.

#critical role #cr spoilers #also every since it was revealed that Predathos needs a vessel I've been fully on the Ludinus is going to absorb Predathos theory #Dude's been obessed with this for centuries AND is envious of the Ruidisborn?