#dunamancy

[artofcarmen]

Its 7am on a monday and im just thinkin about neutral evil Essek Thelyss ♥

Definitely have some things I want to change, shorten the hair a bit, decide on jewelry, and gauntlets or no? Included a quick doodle of how his cloak/robes would lay over his clothes when closed. Still exploring, but the base ideas are there!

#artofcarmen #wip #sketch #critical role #essek thelyss #shadowhand #drow #Dungeons and Dragons #elf #dunamancy #magic #fantasy

[andreacecelia]

The Shadowhand

"The Bright Queen nods towards you and glances over towards one of the nearby male drow figures sitting to the right of the dais. Very handsome, head held high, looking down upon this with a curious glance. A similar mantle to what you noticed Lythir wearing, but much more elaborate. You can see the robes that he's wearing that pretty much entirely obscure the body. They just fall, they go entirely around the mantle and close in the front so it's this beautiful, draped, deep purple and black robe that completely obfuscates the body. "

#essek thelyss #critical role #shadowhand essek #cr2 #critical role art #critrole fanart #essek #m9 #the mighty nein #ttrpg art #ttrpg #digital #illustration #fan art #procreate #drow #dnd drow #dunamancy #kryn dynasty #xhorhas #exandria

[threadroseart]

I love all of the "Essek respectfully inspects Ashton's brain" takes. But I would like to offer an alternative.

"Morally dubious disaster wizards trying their best when presented with temptation."

#my art #fanart #critical role #critical role art #criticalrole #ashton greymoore #caleb widogast #essek thelyss #shadowgast #dunamancy #ashton's weird brain #he's trying so hard

[ariadne-mouse]

*takes out a map of Rexxentrum* Look,

#for legal reasons this is a JOKE #it's shitpost o'clock #critical role #essek thelyss #dunamancy #op

[towards-toramunda]

Do you ever think about dunamancy and start vibrating or

#critical role #ashton greymoore #cr3 #cr2 #essek thelyss #the luxon #dunamancy

[my-small-universe]

Gravity Fissure

#critical role art #critical role #cr2 #essek thelyss #the mighty nein #dunamancy #dnd #Essek <3 #But also I just really love dunamancy #Also guess who the amber ring is from 💜🧡

[kovah]

Pretty purple boi Essek

#essek #essek theyless #critical role #critter #drow #dnd #dungeons and dragons #prettyboi #dunamancy #matthew mercer #npc #critical role fanart

[its-your-mind]

ah yes. this is the true reason for Ashton’s dunamantic rainbow fate-altering sparkles - to give tal more chances to say “add a d4” at any and every opportunity.

#critical role #bells hells #c3e67 #critical role spoilers #critrole spoilers #cr spoilers #ashton greymoore #dunamancy

[topaz-mutiny]

It’s interesting that in recent episodes of CR there was a bit of insight into Ashton’s memory issues that he mentions repeatedly during the early episodes of the campaign. Where they’re iffy on showing the Hells people he knows because he can’t remember if their current relation is good or sour.

I think it’s due in part to their dreams - Ashton recently admitted that his dreams are not only fucked up, but are of alternate realities.

Of course he’d have memory issues. The poor fucker is having hyperrealistic dreams about themself and real people they know in alternate realities, and that can be so confusing even without a TBI.

Doubting your own memories and confusing them with dreams is absolutely terrifying.

#it's terrifying because I've been there sometimes #Ashton Greymoore #critical role #cr musings #dunamancy #Bells Hells

[definitionofacritter]

#cr spoilers #critical role #essek thelyss #dunamancy #ashton greymoore #WE ARE FERAL #oh no a hit post

[xenogaby]

What if Essek becomes Ashton’s mentor?

Like, teaches him Dunamancy and how to control it and stuff.

+(we get more Essek)

#critical role #essek thelyss #campaign 3 #ashton greymoore #Ashton #essek #C3 #Cr #dunamancy #he did it for Caleb #he can do it for Aston

[artofcarmen]

Shadowhand Essek Thelyss - The Hungering Void

Evil AU art of Essek if he had stayed neutral evil, met Bren when he was a full scourger, and instead of healing each other, fed into their darkness and conspired to remove the rest of the Assembly and Kryn elite from their way.

#artofcarmen #illustration #essek thelyss #shadowhand essek #cr2 #critical role #dnd #drow #elf #neutral evil #clip studio #shadow #void #dark star #dunamancy #graviturgy #wizard #dark #night #ruins #fantasy #my sweet murder son #its so fun to paint villains #yes hes literally pulling dark star from the shadows at his feet #ive thought about this piece too much #headcanon: drow eyes dont glow #they reflect light in a red tone #like bunnies #deadly deadly bunnies

[multifandom-damnation]

I really want to know how dunamis influences Ashton.

We understand the Titan portion (maybe, so far) but we know almost nothing about the little vial of pure dunamis that was poured into the gaping wound of their skull. We know that all of their rage abilities have to do with dunamis (Temporal Morass (Time), Violent Gateway (Space), Orbital Decay (Gravity), Probability Matrix (Potential)) and when Imogen and FCG went into their head, Imogen saw reflections of countless Ashton's that could have been.

But what is that going to mean? Is Essek going to show up and say "hey you! i wanna know more about that thing in your head, come with me if you wanna live" or is Caleb going to return and try and teach Ashton about what's going on or is the Becon itself going to speak to Ashton? We already got a lot of closure with the Titans but I'm so curious about the Luxon connection, especially after how important it was in campaign 2 and how many characters it mattered to, so it seems inevitable for such an important thing to be so secretly fundamental to a main character to be revealed in some way.

I don't know what I was saying. I just think that Ashton has so much going on that they don't understand and we don't know the real extent of and I love them a lot and I only want the best for them and if that means getting a "where do you find your strength?" scene with the Luxon then so be it

#critical role #bells hells #the mighty nein #ashton greymoore #the luxon #dunamis #dunamancy #i don't know how else to tag this but you guys know what i mean right?

[luolands]

Essek's Powers

EGtW: Essek is a prodigy who displays an unprecedented talent for the manipulation of dunamis energy

c2e57: You follow Essek and as you do, you feel like your pace is quickened. People pass by, other guards, but they blur past like you're unable to necessarily focus. Something is subtly influencing you to make it difficult to really trace the path you take to where you're going. ... Fjord: Do you not feel the same effects? Essek: No. Time is one of my specialties.

Essek, c2e57: Don't deal much in blacksmithing, not my specialty. [His hand rises out of the curtains that is his cloak and his hand passes. These trails of somewhat translucent, gray energy drift off his fingertips for a second and float there before dissipating.]

Essek, c2e57: While we do have periods of worship in which we give ourselves to the sunlight as part of our means of showing our faith, it does impede our day-to-day business. So as part of our craft, we've found a way to keep it at bay, for as long as we'd like.

EGtW: Twelve hours of daylight each day can become painful and physically detrimental to those beings adapted to subterranean life. To mitigate this problem, powerful dunamancers have woven arcane shields to temporarily block out the sun above Rosohna.

c2e61: The rain seems to fall, but you never see it scatter across the Shadowhand. It seems to drift around and he stays dry amongst the storm.

c2e61: Following below, it's hard to see because the cloak almost meets the ground, but looking below: his feet aren't touching the ground. He's just drifting.

Essek, c2e71: It seems you have made your preparations and are ready to leave? Beau: Yes, you may enter and cross into the threshold. Essek: Thank you. [He glides in. You watch the ball bearings actually separating out around his form. Like there is some invisible force that is pushing them outward, and just generating this strange force that keeps them at bay.]

Jester, c2e74: [I pull out a cupcake] It's fresh, I swear! Essek: [Extends his hand and the cupcake lifts out of your hand and drifts over. He sniffs it.] Thank you. [It vanishes beneath the cloak.]

c2e77: At which point, you watch as she begins to lift up off the ground from the chains and you see Essek, his hand out of his cloak, lifting her off the ground. ... You watch as her entire central torso crushes inward, the chains go taut and you hear the metal bend as some of the chains begin to pull and break in places before she is dropped to the ground limply.

c2e91: And he just drifts off, the gate opens on its own (creak, slam) and he heads up to the interior.

c2e91: Essek approaches, waves a hand, and the gate (creaks) opens and lets you guys in.

Essek, c2e91: Allow me to take care of this for you. [He waves his hand for a second and you watch as the chairs, the furniture (scraping) scoots from the edges into the center, forming a little seating area, table scoots in.]

Essek, c2e91: [He goes ahead and lifts a hand towards the hunk of clay] If I could have some help? [You lift it and it's half the weight it was before you grabbed it.]

EGtW, 2nd Lv. Graviturgy Wizard: Adjust Density. As an action, you can magically alter the weight of one object or creature you can see within 30 feet of you. The target's weight is halved or doubled for up to 1 minute or until your concentration ends.

c2e97: He moves his hand this way and one of the crates (scraping) scoots and he sits on it. Jester: Still cool, still fucking cool.

Essek, c2e97: My entire life, I've been propped up to be perhaps worthy of being one to break those boundaries.

Essek, c2e124: [And he rises and begins to head towards the door. The door opens on its own.]

Essek, c2e131: You are led to the familiar exterior of Essek's chambers. And, as you approach, the door (whooshing) opens on its own. ... As you all enter, the door closes behind you as he curls his hand towards him. And, with his other hand, he drifts out, a chair scooches forward and he drifts down into the chair, one leg crossed over the other.

Caleb, c2e131: Come on in. Jester: Wait, we're naked! Essek: [The doorway opens, stops. And slowly opens. (he sighs) The door opens the rest of its way on its own. ]

Essek, c2e132: Hold on to that, we have our means of drifting carefully. Or we could try to climb- well, you could try to climb. I'll be fine. Veth: Oh, yeah, you can drift. Essek: I can.

c2e132: Partway in your descent, you have this shadow drift by as Essek just drifts over the edge and just glides down past you, like an elevator, and just looks over at you each as he slowly descends towards the bottom.

c2e134: You see, as he starts putting his hands out in front like this, like he's soft throwing objects forward. You watch as rocks start coming out as he's just plucking them, as he pulls the gravity from them, aiding you as you guys go along.

c2e135: You see Essek puts his hand out and begins to concentrate, his eyes narrowing. As he does, you watch as the smooth, relatively untouched stone base of this glass tube device (stone cracking) begin to crack and crumble. You see it get pulled away and dragged under the ground behind, scattering. The glass breaking, and as opposed to shattering around you, being shunted off to the backside of the wall, scattering on the ground.

c2e135: As it all falls away, he turns his hand up, and as he does, it's like an invisible hand digging into clay and lifting through as it sifts past the fingers. You see the rock lift and then crumble, and then there in the center, you see this diamond-shaped gem, of faint dark purple coloration, that was now released. He lifts it and drifts it over into your hand.

c2e135: You guys all were all prepping and doing this space, as this was happening, Essek, you see him begin to cast something and then condense it into his hand. He hands you this small bead, Veth. This is like a marble. And just goes, "Follow my lead." ... A bolt of black lightning arcs out from it, across the way towards the creature. It's a level four Lightning Bolt.

EGtW, 14th Lv. Chronurgy Wizard: Arcane Abeyance. When you cast a spell using a spell slot of 4th level or lower, you can condense the spell's magic into a mote. The spell is frozen in time at the moment of casting and held within a gray bead for 1 hour.

c2e136: [He's wading through the water and he's like] Don't forget to return the favor! Sam: He can't float on the water? Liam: It's a three-inch spell. Matt: It doesn't quite work like that. It keeps him off of solid ground, but it doesn't put him over fluid surfaces. It's not a levitate type spell.

c2e138: He pulls out a piece of dark chalk and finds a section of the floor, and begins to draw different dunamantic symbols in this patterned array, making you progressively more and more uncomfortable as the designs begin to come together. Some of them are little more intricate for even your understanding, but you begin to pick up the basics of it, using this stone as a focus, not unlike how residuum is used as an amplifier device in a number of other laboratories.

c2e138: There's that brief moment where you see Essek, sweat beginning to form on his forehead as he's concentrating, and as you're focusing your spell energy towards this crystal, you see it begin to glow brighter and brighter and brighter, not unlike the way that the threshold crest was taking on that filament-like brightness, but this itself has a deep, deep purplish hue, and you see it begin to flicker, not unlike the symbol that you were seeing, which makes you extremely uncomfortable.  In a moment, you feel this urge to just rush in and stop it, but as you do, Essek twitches his arms around it and then draws his fingers in two different directions, and you see this small tear in reality, a break in reality, if you will. And with that, you can see, in a brief moment, in this sliver, hundreds of realities just brushing by at an endless speed. He begins to take and fold that tear around, like if the tear in space time became a thread, and wrap it around this stone, and as soon as it begins to close on it, (sizzling, shattering) it shatters... and we're going to go to break.

Essek, c2e140: I spent my entire life studying the intent to not let things like this happen to chance.

Essek, c2e141: I have spent my life in the pursuit of the ability to control one's future, and that path has led me to making many mistakes. And my shift begin to wander the possibility of fixing one's past, and since we found this, I've thought of it often.

EGtW, 14th Lv. Chronurgy Wizard: Convergent Future. You can peer through possible futures and magically pull one of them into events around you, ensuring a particular outcome.

#essek #essek thelyss #mighty nein #the mighty nein #critical role #crit role #c2 #campaign 2 #cr campaign 2 #kryn dynasty #egtw #dunamancy #chronurgy #graviturgy #dunamis #ref #writing reference

[anilua-art]

It’s been a while ~ I haven’t published anything for a long time because after a week most of my drawling looks terible to me 😅😅 or i beginning projects way too big and they start to bore me😝 On the occasion that I have the last 20 episodes of Mighty Nein to watch, I drew our favorite Hot Boy - Essek Thelyss <3

#essekthelyss #hotboi #hot boi essek #hotboy🔥 #criticalrolefanart #criticalrole #dunamancy #dunamis #dunamancywizard #drow #elves #elven #luxon #denthelyss #kryndynasty #shadowhand #fanart #digital art #digital painting #dungeonsanddragons #dnd #dnd5e #cr #mightynein #essek fanart #essek

[kurocyou]

Dunamancy flavored magic missile~ Had fun painting this art of my Strixhaven graviturgy wizard, a sweet aasimar named Talitha. We’re almost done with our first year shenanigans, so it’s time to pick up the Quandrix uniform! (Want to see the process of this art or get the psd? you can get it by becoming a patron! check my blog for the link)

#dnd #dndart #fantasy #magic #strixhaven #mage #aasimar #scourge aasimar #graviturgy #dunamancy #wizard #quandrix #Dungeons and Dragons #fantasy art #kuro art #illustration #also yes she's missing two fingers #backstory happenedf