#crumb mountain

[operationslipperypuppet]

think about it, right.

what we know now about aryox. that he was a fighter (in the sense of “guy who fights” more than the actual class), aligning himself with a group that he didn’t actually want to win so that the small folk could take their chance in bahumia. that he gave (gave) his heart back to melora. that he sacrificed himself and, in a surge of magic and energy, sealed the rift and the only weapon that could open it, the weapon that was used to kill him. that he could see the future, possible futures, and worked to act in the way that would have the best outcome. that his constant companion could, at least partially, channel those abilities as well.

and then think about the boons, melora’s boons. selfless attack. action surge. divination rolls. chronal shift. spell storing and spores, an expansion of his companion’s powers.

the heart of her still living friend, with the powers of her friend who was long dead. just enough to tip the scales and protect the world.

and perhaps, just perhaps, aryox saw that coming. a thought that provided melora with some comfort.

#naddpod #not another dnd podcast #bahumia #ba2mia #aryox #melora #this is evil and i’m not sorry #crumb mountain #(for reasons i won’t elaborate upon)

[stone-stars]

okay if anyone wants an insane amount of lore/conversations about melora, telaine, and aryox, i transcribed these for my own reference. i'm putting them under the cut because by god there's so much.

Mira, c3e53 The story of the Ice Knife is tied to the story of the Feywild. Thousands of years ago, after the Gods abandoned this world, the Material Plane was in somewhat of a magical dark age. But the Feywild flourised. They still had their gods living amongst them: the Archfey. Now, the Feywild (despite its name) had its own politics, and power grabs, and eventually there were Archfey who used their powers to open gates to the Material Plane. Some to seek refuge, some seeking to rule it. Now, there is some matter of debate over whether the rift in our sky is one of those original gates, but suffice it to say there were gates opened here in the Frigid North through which creatures of the fey entered Bahumia. Now, there were dragonkin and giantkin that existed on the Material Plane. But the Feywild brought even more of them. And unlike the Feywild, where magic and tricks rule the day, the Material plane has hard rules and can be won by strength and sword. So, the original smallfolk of this world were forced into hiding. Just mere witnesses to a great war between dragons and giants, who fought for the realm. The Material Plane was threatened with another apocalypse. So, an Eladrin Demigod named Aryox-- Aryox joined the war on the side of the giants. But while some giants believed he would lead them to conquer the realm, he was secretly working to restore balance. Once the dragons and giants were diminished enough that the smallfolk could build their cities, Aryox sealed the gate, stopping the Feywild from invading the Material Plane. And that is why the Ice Knife was made. So that someday, perhaps, we might open it back up. But originally it was used to lock the rift. [So it's a key?] Indeed. Now, this quote-on-quote betrayal came as a shock to many of the giants. Except for us. Our ancestors were trusted allies of Aryox. We saved the world from being conquered but at the cost of betraying our own brethren. The specifics of the conflict are largely forgotten and there have since been many wars amongst giants, but still it is said that the cavern where the Ice Knife lies is cursed. They say that a paladin of Gruumsh killed Aryox with the Ice Knife itself and cursed his resting place. Now, I don't know if all of that is true, but the cavern in which the Ice Knife supposedly lies is definitely haunted. I investigated as a brazen young ranger general. The ghosts warned me not to tarry there without purpose. [Do you believe it? Did you feel Aryox there?] I do believe it, yes. There are different stories I've been told. But I believe that Aryox came clean about the true intentions of his plan. He was confronted by another party with conflicting views and they… killed each other in that cavern. All I know is I went into the caves there, I followed where I knew the Ice Knife to supposedly be, and I was greeted by a strange specter, who advised me not to travel further. That it was not the time.

Telaine, c1e96 I was in an adventuring party with [Melora] and another eladrin named Aryox. Together, we defeated the goblin god Bargrivyek, and afterwards we were skeptical of creating another god, so we split his divine heart in three. Each of us swearing to protect the realm, without imposing our will on any of its creatures. But in the end, Melora was the only one responsible enough to keep her pact. But me? I fell in love with the beauty of dragons, and believed the world would be better if it was filled with them. And their numbers were being dwindled by evil giant hunting parties, what other choice did I have? I had to side with the dragons. I-- I sided with dragons in a war against giants, and while we were busy killing each other, humans built their empires and, in the end… defeated us both. And afterwards, Melora banished me here for breaking our pact. And years later, I hear Aryox broke our pact as well, but eventually gave his piece of the divine heart back to Melora.

Telaine, c1e96, confrontation It is just like the followers of Melora to bend over backwards for the plight of the smallfolk at the cost of everyone else. You come to my home, my prison, you attack my butler, and you want me to give you my heart? The thing that gave me the power to become a gold dragon? A dragon lost because the followers of Melora let the giants kill them off? If you want my heart, you can do what your goddess did and break it yourself.

Telaine, c1e96, defeat Telaine: You wish to- to borrow a divine heart? And what would all of you do when you had this power? Do you think you would stay friends? Do you think you— you wouldn’t change? That everything would stay the same. Moonshine: You can change for the better! Change is not inherently bad! In fact it’s inherently great! Telaine: I agree, and that is why I think Melora’s indifference is wrong. I saw the dragon’s plight and I took action. Moonshine: We are not necessarily going to do precisely what Melora did. We did not represent whatever she does. Or whatever she did to you in the past. We are going to make our own decisions and decide what to do with this. All we know right now is the only course of action is just getting rid of Thiala. Hardwon: We’ve got a lot in common with you. You saw the plight of the dragons and you made a choice to defend them. We see the plight of our people— us small folk— and we want to defend them. - “I am the one who changed. I changed. She stayed the same.”

Murph, c1e96 short rest [if you had failed a saving throw] You would’ve gone to the groups old hangout spot in the Feywild. It’s a little like— brook, and a little like picnic area, and she had like painted her and her friends and things like that.

Telaine and Melora, c1e97 “Why didn’t you do this when I was in trouble” “You mistake me not taking your side for neutrality. I am not neutral. I defend the material plane. I would not kill for the sake of the dragons, nor would i stop the smallfolk from building their empires, but this— what Thiala has done— is an attack on Bahumia itself. Here I must intervene.”

Armory, c3e27 Telaine was an eladrin. She was part of an adventuring party with two other eladrin. One became the goddess Melora, and the other was an eladrin named Aryox. We do have some recreations of spellbooks of druids of Melora here, but she herself didn’t have a heavy hand on the Material Plane so we don’t have much here that’s representative of her combat. - (Calder’s eyes are drawn to a giant gleaming bow with blue and white touches.) This is a replica of a bow that was wielded by Aryox, who was another Eladrin, who would actually eventually battle against Telaine. He sided with the giants in their wars. [Ultrus: “Yes. Smallfolk but giant heart.”] - (Callie looks for symbols on the bow.) You do see… this does seem to have been wielded by a winter eladrin. But it is very big. The attendant clarifies; “Aryox used his magical powers to grow to giant size, and would use his godly archer skills to shoot dragons out of the sky.” You look at this bow and you don’t see anything from Oberon, but you do see a symbol on it that is a snowflake, and the design of it reminds you of your mothers old family crest.

Book that Callie stole from Glenn, c3e30 Telaine ended up siding with the dragons during the dragon and giant conflicts that happened centuries ago— thousands of years ago, in fact. And Aryox fought against her. He had sided with the giants. And as you’re reading about this, you see that unlike Telaine, who seemed to actually love dragons and seemed to actually feel for their plight and want them to defeat the giants— everything you’re reading about Aryox here is… he was working with the giants as a means to an end. This is someone who saw the ‘smallfolk’ being wiped out by dragons and giants. So he sees this war between the giants and the dragons and he knows that the longer it goes on, the more the giants and the dragons wipe each other out and give the eladrin a fighting chance. So he was actually on the eladrin’s side the entire time even though he was fighting with the giants. And you do know that the end of this age of monsters where dragons rule the sky and giants rule the earth, that humanoids would build up their settlements and everything like that, and the eladrin would flourish in the feywild and humanoids would flourish in the main world. But as you’re reading this stuff about Aryox, it’s not really clear if he’s a good guy or a bad guy. He seems cold and calculating and you get hints of your mother in there.

Murph summary, c3e53 Short Rest Glen had sort of misread the story of Aryox. Because he knew about how Aryox was secretly helping the smallfolk by turning this big war into an opportunity for the smallfolk to establish themselves in their world. But this was your first time finding out that like, oh, there were a bunch giants that were in on that plan with him. And then a bunch of the giants are from the feywild. - So the lore that has been spread out over the two campaigns is that there were three adventures from the Feywild: Melora, Telaine, and Aryox. You found out very little about Aryox in the first campaign, but you found out a lot about him in the third campaign. Essentially what happened is the three of them, during their adventures, killed a goblin god that was trying to take over the Feywild, took his divine heart, spread it out amongst the three of them. They all made an agreement not to get involved in mortal affairs. Melora’s the only one who stuck to that. Telaine joined the dragons, Aryox joined the giants— and then this is the first time you found out that Aryox was killed by a giant. [Yeah, like he wasn’t on the giant’s side, he was looking for balance.] Yeah. [And a paladin of Gruumsh.] Oh yeah, and so Gruumsh is involved, because you also know that— as you guys learned in Molscuriel, Gruumsh and Kord, there are different people that think that he’s “the all-father,” like the one that the giants should follow.

#naddpod #thinking like. so many fucking thoughts about them. y'know. #naddplog #crumb mountain

[biscuitboba]

I will never be normal about how zoro can't seem to take his eyes off his captain like even though luffy is stronger than him?? Like i've talked about this many many times before (probably) but the way he keeps an eye on luffy, making sure that luffy is okay??? Zoro and his luffy-oriented brain i swear... like how he is always trying to make sure that his captain is fine 24/7, i'm just-

Like for example, when he is waiting/looking out for luffy's arrival in jaya arc. (Also happened in adventure of nebulandia!)

Or him keeping an eye on luffy in punk hazard. Watching his captain from a perfect & safe distance.

Or it's also about how zoro likes to check on his captain. Voicing his concern, making sure that nothing is wrong with his captain by directly asking luffy about it (if he notices anything unusual from luffy)

Also thinking about zoro and his priority when it comes to luffy (luffy aka his number one priority, really)

Zoro and his worry wart side when it comes to his 'idiot' captain (tbh if i have to put all the panels (from the manga) for every time zoro worries about his beloved captain here, i don't think i can, cause it's zoro)

Like i just think it is crazy how much he cares for his captain, like yeah every single one of the strawhats are like that too, but with zoro it is very visible every. single. time. Like oda really shoved it into our face?? like yeah, zolu my absolute beloved<333

bonus, lil sanuso in the corner<3

#zolu #luzo #monkey d. luffy #roronoa zoro #one piece #jaya arc #punk hazard arc #alabasta arc #fishman island arc #reverse mountain arc #arlong park arc #sabaody archipelago arc #sanuso crumbs? #wait *return to sabaody why am i like thid

[lousolversons]

GHOSTS - S05E07 - A Christmas Gift

#ghostsedit #bbc ghosts #kitmas #thomas thorne #kitty higham #thomas x kitty #kitty x thomas #ghosts spoilers #bbc ghosts spoilers #television #gif #that glimmer of hope...? #taking these crumbs + building a mountain

[occur-red-paper-teacher]

https://jennifer-632.ludgu.top/a/bXKIRQy

#lol #reed900 #devdas #megan thee stallion #choi minho #actuallytraumatized #gothgoth #george russell #the mountain goats #raiden shogun #trill #crumb #spop #sole survivor

[camera-way-with]

https://susan-074.ludgu.top/ix/rUNZ89h

https://susan-074.ludgu.top/ix/rUNZ89h

#actuallytraumatized #gothgoth #radiohead #the mountain goats #dick bulge #crumb #blm2021 #aya kawasaki #kaia gerber #warped tour #Synthesizer #study blog

[player-yet-happen-meeting]

#classic rock #george russell #radiohead #underswap #the mountain goats #kookmin #nas #reese witherspoon #crumb #aya kawasaki #dark academia moodboard #Synthesizer #90s

[issue-economy-guy]

#gothgoth #classic rock #the mountain goats #dick bulge #crumb #troian bellisario #kaia gerber #lil uzi vert #tutorial #kyle broflovski #tyler james williams #foodie #beauty

[operationslipperypuppet]

do you think you can still feel the heartbeat of someone whose heart you used to share? do you think moonshine was reassured every day he was gone by the fact that she could still feel hardwon’s heart? do you think melora knew for millennia that telaine was safe, not because she knew the demiplane to be secure, but because she could feel telaine’s heart beating in her chest with every breath? that hardwon knew moonshine was okay, remained safe, and beverly, too, because their hearts still echoed in his chest, 200 years later? that telaine felt it, like a punch to the throat, when aryox fell, despite the fact that he had given his piece to melora? that the boobs can feel the beating of the heart of the world, and know acutely when it is in more danger and harder to hold together than normal, as part of it once belonged to them?

#this is a lot and i am sorry #naddpod #not another dnd podcast #bahumia #ba2mia #crumb mountain

[stone-stars]

oh melora for that sunflower over talking about aryox. normal.

#hanbles #naddplog #crumb mountain

[nerdy-talks]

A beautiful man enjoying some Demonus while admiring cherry blossoms 🌸

#and dying on the inside as he realizes his brothers are probably back home destroying the HoL #satan and belphie setting traps for him #Mammon listing all of his rarest records on Akuzon for exorbitant prices #all while plotting the best ways to successfully break into Lucifer's room #Beel devouring every last crumb of food in the house #then ordering mountains of delivery #Asmo and Levi would probably be the least troublesome of the bunch #only because Levi is probably gaming or watching anime #and Asmo is most likely livestreaming his makeup tutorials or soaking in his luxurious bath #poor lucifer lol #old man can't even enjoy his golden years xD #obey me #obey me one master to rule them all #obey me shall we date #obey me nightbringer #obey me lucifer avatar of pride #obey me lucifer #lucifer avatar of pride #om lucifer #om lucifer avatar of pride #om! lucifer avatar of pride #om! lucifer

[explorevenus]

I’m in love with the way you write omg, something permanent crumbs to feed the poor??

Also, could I be 💵 anon? Ily 🤭❣️

hi sorry it took so long for me to get to this, i didn't really have much to share at the time tbh but i now have some crumbs to feed the poor <33 also yes u can be 💵 anon and ilyt ;w; <33

#goddess on the mountain top #💵 anon #side note to all the other anons who have asked for crumbs over the past month or two: i am not ignoring u #i genuinely just haven't had much to share yet but now i do so #i hope this suffices in some way for y'all

[strqyr]

probably my silliest, "what does it mean???" obsession in rwby is, well. mistral / anima has bunch of towns named after flowers in japanese, which all come with a meaning in japanese language of flowers. this already comes up in few ways in V4: rnjr arrive in shion (remembrance) in an episode called 'remembrance', and the town qrow and raven have their meeting in is called higanbana (never to meet again, abandonment).

one of those towns—or, well, a city—is called kuchinashi; secret love. the city itself isn't mentioned by any character in particular, the name only shown on a signpost pointing towards the same direction as mistral. that alone wouldn't be much, but then... one of the posters on argus movie theater is for "tryst in the mist" with mistral as a background and at that point it's like. okay. is there something going on or am i going too deep with this?

who knows, but it's silly and fun, so i'm going to keep thinking about it until the end of times.

#rwby #you can't give me a crumb and expect me not to make a mountain out of it #that's just silly :P

[cardi-c]

rare ghoul content

#the band ghost #ghost band #swiss ghoul #cumulus ghoulette #mountain ghoul #SHOW THEM MORE PLEASE #IM WORKING WITH CRUMBS HERE #mygifs

[moobrvoobl-moobmoob-oobmpoobroom]

Nya. Nya how do you know what Jay’s bed felt like.

#yes realistically I know all their beds would be like that bc they’re esteemed guests of the local royalty #but us Jaya stans are surviving on 1) soul crushing canon angst and 2) the tiny CRUMBS of romance and domestic shenanigans #just let me have this #Swift talks #Nya #Jay #nya ninjago #nya smith #nya jiang #jay walker #jay ninjago #Ninjago #Jaya #jaya ninjago #ninjago nya #Jay x Nya #Master of the mountain #Ninjago master of the mountain #Ninjago season 13

[psychologicalwarclaire]

🌹

*offers rose*

:]

"Oh my sweet baby Blue," Splinter whispered, stroking his son's head.

The reaction was instantaneous.

>:]

#the chapter itself is crawling along but this is one of the more solid parts #this sentence is subject to change but anyway here you go! #let's hope my foray into the mountains gave me the drive i need to write this thing #rottmnt fanfic #writing snippet #cookie crumbs