#also i almost forgot to mention jfc but a lot of this is general info from egtw combined with bright queen comics

[essektheylyss]

I'm a bit confused by everyone's bewilderment on how Evon Hytroga would've known about the beacon—as much as many of his artifacts are fake, others are less so, and even though he is clearly making up and stretching the details, he does seem to have a grasp and understanding of history and cultures.

(Respect is an entirely different quality, and one he utterly lacks.)

The Dynasty has only recently opted to end their policy of isolationism, but they're very interested in evangelism*—they simply aren't evangelizing in the Empire and understandably had other priorities during the war, which clouded most of our understanding of their peacetime priorities.**

The Luxon religion isn't unknown outside of the Dynasty, and it's likely documented pretty normally in academic circles (especially in light of some of the weird, niche bullshit we now know academics are studying—a whole culture's long time religion does not qualify as small potatoes). Evon clearly does his homework, even if his preferred homework is sniffing around libraries long enough to make convincing forgeries, and not risking his neck in somewhere like Aeor recovering real lost relics.***

*Which you would KNOW if you'd read Tales of Exandria: Bright Queen, which I am only not mentioning on the main body of this post because the timeline on that is murky but an indeterminate amount of it does take place in 855 PD, more than a decade ahead of our current canon positioning.

**Also, as always, let's again remember that most of our knowledge in canon of those priorities is delivered by everyone's favorite fantasy agnostic Unreliable NPC.

***Like any sensible educated spellcaster would.

#critical role #cr spoilers #yes i am here solely to push tales of exandria: bright queen and also clown on wizards #cr meta #sorta? #also i almost forgot to mention jfc but a lot of this is general info from egtw combined with bright queen comics #i do not pull precise details for canon evidence from sourcebooks but i do pull cultural vibes #but like... the dynasty was in Aeor first for (and their primary vurmas base is organized around) evangelizing to worshippers of iirc torog