#Ka'Mort

[deramin2]

Sitcom where it's the Luxon, Ka'Mort, and Rau'shan sharing a townhouse in an aasimar and are arguing over renovating the place to their own tastes. The Luxon took the mind and the rage, Ka'Mort took the body and made an earth genasi, and Rau'shan took the right arm and the cracks. Maybe a mockumentary like What We do In The Shadows. Slowly find out they've formed a casual polycule. They roast the Exandrian Pantheon regularly.

#critical role #critical role spoilers #critical role fanfiction #critical role campaign 3 #Bell's Hells #Ashton Greymoore #the Luxon #Ka'Mort #Rau'shan

[masterqwertster]

Crack idea:

What if, when the Shard of Ka'Mort fully wakes up, she wants to talk to the Spark of Rau'shan. After some convincing (and headaches for Ashton) Bells Hells allows this.

At which point, Ka'Mort just goes off on Rau'shan.

How dare you try to torch my heir! They were bringing us together! And when he fucking survived you, you peaced out and took some of his strength with you. Don't say you were trying to give me space! I thought we were partners. But I guess it's just me and the ancient cosmic entity in my heir's head. At least it has never tried to kill my cute little heir. Or rejected them. Or stolen their vitality. You better give that stolen vitality back, you flaming bitch.

All cumulating in:

#yes. that's a riff on “get in the robot Shinji” #I thought it was funny #MQ blathers #cr spoilers #cr shitpost #ka'mort #rau'shan #ashton greymoore

[schniekattack-podcast]

Wer blufft am besten von Bell's Hells? Und warum Vertrauen so schwierig ist – das und die Titanenverwandlungen besprechen wir in unserer Weihnachtsfolge vom Schniekattack-Podcast!

#critical role #schniekattack #campaign3 #dungeons and dragons #table top rpg #dnd 5e #podcast #callowmoore #titanen #ka'mort #rau'shan #doppelganger #Spotify

[letsnotandsaywewantedto]

anyone else think that ashton (r)ejected their original shard and kept the new one? I couldn't tell if chetney's grim psychometry disproved that, but it certainly seemed like matt was being vague on purpose.

#Rau'shan and Ka'Mort #ashton greymoore #cr3 spoilers #critical role spoilers #c3e78

[beedreamscape]

I wrote my eulogies in fire On my own skin May the smokes of my flesh be hymns of forgiveness Forgive me Forgive me Let me burn

About F.C.G. & Ashton & Fearne

Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena | Molly Burton, (???) | Buzzcut Season by Lorde | Dive by Ed Sheeran | Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night | Gasoline by Halsey | Margaret Atwood, Selected Poetry 1965-1995

#this is a ashton telling them sorry and but kinda not??? #it's not 'sorry i put you through this' it's 'sorry. i HAD to burn' #it started with lorde's song. everyone say thank you lorde #ashton greymoore #fresh cut grass #fcg #fearne calloway #parallels #poetry #quotes #lyrics #bells hells #rau'shan and ka'mort #aesthetics #fire #the colors are a mess but do you see the vision???? #critical role #cr stuff

[hand-of-devotion]

So obsessed with the fact that Evontra'vir was like "No matter what happens, the bestowment of Rau'shan's shard will awaken that which lays dormant within you. Whether you want it or not, there is no changing this inevitability so you must simply be prepared."

And then when the party brought it up, Allura was basically like. "There is. No reason for a magic-sucking harness to. Do all that."

#magic ancient druid trees vague ominous prophecies versus powerful wizards logical understanding of how shit it SUPPOSED to work #critical role #critical role spoilers #in both of their defenses. i HIGHLY doubt it will be the fault of the harness specifically. that it does. All That. #more to do with the fact that Ka'morts shard will detect Her former partner and go all '!!!!!!!!' about it #and then the dunamancy is. also there. i guess? its unclear if and why that'll also be popping off bc of this

[gorgynei]

i like how travis is ready to write notes down as if. you know. the titan's names werent an extremely important part of exu calamity

#rau'shan and ka'mort cmon now #cr spoilers #lb

[kerosene-in-a-blender]

Evontra'vir: Putting the shards of both Ka'mort and Rau'shan in the same vessel would sunder it

Allura Vysoren: It's highly possible that putting both primordial shards into a single vessel would rend it into a thousand pieces

Ashton: Instructions unclear, I have absorbed the shard of Rau'shan

#critical role #critical role spoilers #cr spoilers #ashton greymoore #cr3

[staticrevelations]

personally i think it will be very funny if we end up with Imogen who can go Moon Power Mode or Exalted Mode, Chetney who can go Wolf Mode, FCG who can go Murder Bot Mode, Laudna who can go Dread Mode and maybe even Soul Sucking Necromancer Woman Mode, Ka'Mort-powered Ashton who can go Earth Titan Mode, Rau'shan-powered Fearne who can go Fire Titan Mode, and Orym

#cr spoilers #critical role #bells hells #i just think it'd be wildly fitting for everyone to have a turbo superdrive and then there's orym who's a guy #this is one of the reasons i'd love to see fearne get fire titan power #cr3 #campaign 3 #orym of the air ashari #he's just a little guy

[essektheylyss]

I do presume Ka'mort is whatever "woke" in this process, but it would be so funny if it's actually the Luxon, historical enemy of the Primordials, being like, "Motherfucker what in the absolute shit are you doing?"

#critical role #cr spoilers #luxon blogging #I am living for this regardless lmfao I LOVE this #anyway I had to say it lbr lmao

[utilitycaster]

Ok I'm probably going to regret reinventing 17th century European religious philosophy here but:

Ludinus's issue with the gods as stated to Imogen and Fearne (and I will state right now that we know he was lying or deliberately misleading at points in that conversation so I don't exactly take him at his word, but let's assume he does mean this) is that they did not prevent the Calamity. I have the following questions.

Does he have any loyalty/feelings about the Titans given that they would have killed all the people in the era of the Schism, ie, the gods averted that Calamity? My guess is no, which means that whole avenue of discussing the Titans was something of a dead end.

How should Calamity have been averted? The Prime Deities during the Age of Arcanum largely let people do what they wanted, which is what led to one of those mortals releasing the Betrayer Gods. Should the gods have struck down Vespin Chloras before he actually did anything, Minority Report style? Can the gods even predict based on the actions of a single individual or small group, because my guess is they can't, particularly since within the current stream of gameplay they absolutely cannot [ie, the reason the Changebringer can't tell FCG to stay or run is because Matt Mercer is the Changebringer and he doesn't know how people will roll; you do need to consider the medium here]. But if they could: so you think they should strike down mortals on the basis of thoughtcrimes? Or control them? In that case, why is Aeor a problem? There's a lot you can argue is justified once you permit the gods to override free will and kill people over mere potential for catastrophe.

On that note, Laerryn both was an unwitting architect of the Calamity (shorted on energy and then killed the Tree of Names, which served as a core planar defense system) but also averted the worst of it. Did the lives she saved by preventing the rise of Rau'shan and Ka'Mort outweigh the lives she took by destroying the Tree of Names? How should the gods have reacted?

Should, perhaps, the gods have all sealed themselves away earlier - perhaps post-Schism? If so, then the issue isn't the Divine Gate, now is it? Should the gods intervene or not intervene? Should they remove themselves or no? It feels like the issue isn't that they distanced themselves so that they can do less in the world, particularly if you wish to kill them, but that you really want to fucking kill them and they made that somewhat more difficult.

How do we know the gods (for example) didn't save Laudna? She was hanged and she's still alive; Morri would probably count this as saving her and I don't see the same desire to wipe out all Archfey. [real talk I find most discussion of Laudna specifically to be...incomprehensibly ignorant in its refusal to acknowledge that everything about it is player agency related, whether it's the story that the cast played out for Vox Machina or the decisions Marisha specifically made in creating the character, ie, do you think Matt should have said "well you can't play a Hollow One because that would mean the gods didn't save you" not to mention the fact that again, we are playing this within a game system where the existence Deus Ex Machina would in fact fucking suck ass; but even setting aside those reasons why this argument is stupid, it's still stupid. It's like a layer cake of stupid.] Again: do you want more intervention or less? Killing them guarantees less.

I'm assuming the problem with the Calamity is the vast loss of life, in which case, what's the math on how many people have been killed by the Vanguard or Imperium in the pursuit of unleashing Predathos? How many more will die?

If the release of Predathos doesn't result in the immediate demise of all the gods, and the Divine Gate is down, why isn't this a recipe for Calamity 2? What was the motivation for killing the gods again?

Should we kill mortal diviners who do not do all within their power to stop terrible things that may come to pass? If the issue is that some people have power without working for it, why haven't we killed all the sorcerers?

Should we be listening to a single word from someone who consumes random fey to live longer, and that's just the start of the CVS receipt of atrocities?

Is there a point where one's deeply held beliefs due to one's own personal trauma become invalidated due to one's actions as a result of that trauma? If so, why is the limit for Orym "is okay with killing people who are trying, directly, to kill you (which, frankly, isn't even a trauma response, that's just called not wanting to die, which I highly recommend as a personal philosophy), and gets upset when people defend those knowingly collaborating with his family's murderers" and the limit for Vanguard generals "family abandonment/just. buckets of murder of innocents./child soldier recruitment in multiple different contexts/eating fey as biohacking/destroying an entire city and the surrounding forest for hundreds of years (ongoing)/imperialism in multiple different contexts/I was going to make a gallows humor joke about how while neither exist in-world they've violated the Geneva Convention AND the IRB for testing on human subjects multiple times over but actually those both are in fact written in a lot of the same blood/probably some others that I'm forgetting"

#i feel ultimately a lot of this fandom debate boils down to yes this is obviously fiction #but like within the fiction can you sketch out the implications of your argument or is it just a lot of abstract ideals that can't coexist #I don't actually expect answers to these; obviously the point is if you think there is an easy one there isn't #anyway i'm like if an enlightenment era polymath were a religiously observant agnostic who used the phrase fucking suck ass #cr spoilers #cr tag

[densitywell]

Liliana was planned to be the "vessel" for Predathos, a role she accepted partly out of fear that Luda would try to use Imogen if she refused. Fearne was intentionally had to be a fey ruidisborn, for reasons that aren't yet clear. Ashton was, according to Evontra'vir, fated to take the shard of Ka'Mort and awaken it. FCG was specifically designed to be a killer robot. Laudna was born with some sort of power, chosen by the Briarwoods to double Vex, and then chosen by Delilah again to carry her soul. it so perfectly fits their "party of NPCs" nature. they were chosen, but not because they're destined for greatness; because they're expected to be a useful tool for someone or something else.

#cr #cr spoilers #bells hells #cr3 #crposting #allura saying ashton could be their greatest weapon. and such

[masterqwertster]

Also appreciating that Ashton got the name for their likely Titan bloodline.

I have some suspicions now that Evontra'vir may have given Efterin the truth of where he needed to go to get his Titan power fragment, rather than a guardianship of such an artifact relinquished.

Anyways, knowing Ka'mort is his likely fragment donor, Ashton can at least try to ask a clear question about her for a truth from Evontra'vir.

It's definitely going to be interesting to see what truths Ashton decides they want to ask for from the brutally honest tree.

#MQ blathers #critical role #cr spoilers #cr speculation #c3e71 #ashton greymoore #evontra'vir #efterin #ka'mort empress of earth

[encyclopediacr]

Tonight's Apogee Solstice is the anniversary of Laerryn Coramar-Seelie using her Astral Leywright to banish Rau'shan and Ka'Mort, two primordials sealed beneath Toramunda, from Exandria and scatter them throughout the planes. This prevented them from joining the Betrayer Gods in the war that would become known as The Calamity, overturning a prophecy that foresaw the defeat of the Prime Deities and eternal torment for all peoples of Exandria.

In tragically related news, it is also the anniversary of the annihilation of Domunas.

#Happy Women's History Month? #Critical Role #ExU Calamity #Critical Role wiki

[gyooza]

bells hells: what if we set fearne and ashton up like rau'shan and ka'mort and play emperor and empress

allura: oh, that won't be necessary

bells hells: yes, but have you considered we ship them very very hard

#critical role liveblog #critical role spoilers #critical role #cr spoilers #callowmoore #ted.txt

[rowanyx]

There is something so deep about Laerryn's choice in the finale, and Brennan's phrasing of the decision to be made.

To clarify, this scene (copied and pasted from the CR wiki transcripts):

BRENNAN: On a 16, you must make a tough decision. Do you want to further limit the release of energy and make the release of energy safer for the physical environs of Avalir and Cathmoíra, or do you want to ensure that Rau'shan and Ka'Mort will be permanently banished from Exandria?

TRAVIS: Impossible.

AABRIA: Laerryn's little joke to herself was always that the Heart of Avalir was the thing she inherited, but it was too small. She made it bigger, she improved it. She improved the Etheric Net and built this and that she was the Heart of Avalir, and she gave everything to this city. But I know what people are fighting to protect and I remember what Quay said about going down with the ship. So we will ensure it. This will work. Avalir be damned.

or this timestamp of the episode (in case the link doesn't work for the timestamp, the first comment's list has it labelled Laerryn's Tough Decision):

As we were first introduced to her, Laerryn Coramar-Seelie is the Architect Arcane. As Aabria herself even put, her whole life, all her work, is about taking the city and making it better. Building more. Expansion is the name of the game. So when Brennan specifies that the limiting of energy output will save the physical environs rather than the people, that holds weight.

Just, in a mechanics aspect, there is the fact she is an Abjurer. The whole point of her magic is exactly this choice. To stop things from being destroyed. Her wards that take the damage so that she or others will not. She is not built to bring destruction, leave the fight to others. She will be there to soften the blows that come her allies' ways. She is the one one deciding this, and it feels right, because she's spent her studies dedicated to figuring out how she will prevent the destruction that comes her way.

But that isn't all.

Because any other hero, any other party member, every other soul faced with this question could so easily think that it is a useless decision. A city can be rebuilt, but only if the Betrayer Gods are stopped before they kill all the people that can do so.

But Laerryn, who has dedicated her years to this, the position of Architect Arcane, knows this city and her structures far more intimately. She has been there, step by step, as she forged them. Designed them. Watched over their construction. It is by her hand it was built.

Asking her, specifically, is asking her to choose between everything she's done, or let it all burn. Asking her to make this decision is asking her to decide her legacy. Will she live on as the maker of the land that survived such devastation, but not the people, or will she go down as the one who helped stop the Calamity?

Her choice boiled down to this: Limiting the energy, their work, the libraries and churches, the colleges, grand towers and hallowed halls, stone and mortar, it all can go on unshattered. Or, stopping the Betrayers, the people may continue on.

Was her work more important than the lives she was surrounded by?

Aabria mentions Laerryn was given the Heart of Avalir, jokes how she improved it. But the Heart of Avalir, while magical, is only an engine. It was made, and can be again. So in this moment, I think Laerryn maybe realizes that the true heart of a city comes from the people. Always thinking, thoughts speed by her, whether or not she ever had time to really process the revelations before her demise.

Evandrin is already gone due her hubris. Who else would she lose? Would it have felt like home, without Loqautious there by her side? Would it truly feel like her city, without Patia keeping up with her? What would she cause, without Nydas to hold her back? What is Avalir, without her Brass Ring?

Her assistant, probably still waiting for her, in their offices, and the choice of which will see tomorrow?

How many will feel the heat of Rau'shan's flames as they die? How many will fall to Ka'Mort's earth?

None, she decides. Her friends and neighbors, the kinsmen of her home, will not feel these pains.

I think it is also a moment that beautifully showcases her accepting her death. She will not be here to heal her city. She's going down with the ship. Maybe her blueprints will be found and used, and Avalir will be as it once was. Maybe they won't, and they'll construct it all anew. But she won't see it, so it is their turn to take what was given and build on.

Of course, Rau'shan and Ka'Mort were not the only assets of the Calamity, and damage and destruction was still wrought across Exandria. But there are enough hands to clear the ruins and make their own stories. And that is because of the greatest Architect of them all.

She gave them a chance indeed.

#exu calamity #exu laerryn #laerryn coramar seelie #architect arcane #aabria iyengar #these thoughts refused to leave my head so long they owe rent #but they couldn't pay up so now i'm kicking them out #aka posting it so other people can deal with it #lowkey teared up the entire time i was writing this #which is better than when i'm trying to sleep and it shows up as a late night thought #and then i go to sleep fucking sobbing #because it's so beautiful #this is the shit #that i love #i don't even know like anything else about exandria #i watched calamity for #aabria my beloved #and brennan lee mulligan #was surprised when i saw lou wilson was part of it #Youtube