#exu rewatch

[ravendruid]

The look shared between Liam and Ashley when Aabria describes the interior of Gilmore's Glorious Goods,

I saw that look, and it made my heart just, 'mmm,' a little bit.

#critical role #exandria unlimited #exu rewatch #exu e3 #the crown keepers #I'm so normal about this :') #And matt nodding and smiling too #she did such an amazing job

[dontgofarfromme]

"And not for the first time, and not for the last, question why I'm here. And wonder, again if it would've been better if I'd stayed. Wonder what it is I'm waiting for exactly." [EXU Ep 7 27:50]

This specific phrasing is so interesting--Orym's been gone from home for so long, but the fact that he's apparently continually questioning his choice to leave and the statement that he feels he's "waiting for" something make me wonder what specifically drove him to leave in the first place. I think i always assumed it was mostly grief and the difficulty being in a place Will had been so integral to with him now gone, potentially combined with a tiny sliver of revenge quest depending on if the idea of looking for the assassins had crossed his mind at all before he was given further info just prior to cr3, but primarily with the intent of him getting away, not with the intent of him looking for something. But these questions he's asking make it seem more like he left with a goal, searching for something. It's more like the words of someone who's experienced a loss of purpose or identity and has gone out onto the world to try to rediscover those things, which makes me wonder if the triggering factor was also related to his role as a guard. In Zephyra he and the other guards were almost entirely ineffective at combatting the assassins, and while Keyleth herself was ok the attack resulted in many of the guard dying, with the enemy escaping. I wonder if it's more of a "journey to find yourself again after something traumatic" than a "leaving the site of your traumatic experience because you can't face the memories;" with Orym grieving Will and trying to learn how to exist without him, and also to reckon with and reassess his identity as a protector which is so so integral to who he is.

#critical role #idk if this makes sense but this statement just made me go OH #this is a very different flavor of 'i left home for 5 years' than i realized #i do also think this version fits better with what we know of his character #aabria has a bit of narration in the next few min that i think also supports this frame of mind for orym #hes /looking/ for something #cr exu #exu rewatch

[liimonadas]

the keeper of scrolls

#patia por'co #exu calamity #i need to rewatch calamity ive been feeling unwell about these characters again #maybe ill do it this summer... well see #fanart #art

[chaosgenasi]

We came to a young world. We came to a world of raw, elemental wonder. Of chaos and exultant passion. Of energy vaster, and more potent than anything we beheld in the cosmos... It doesn’t seem like it’s random or chaos. It just seemed like potential.

#critical role #criticalroleedit #critteredit #aabria iyengar #brennan lee mulligan #matthew mercer #cr exu #cr calamity #cr2 #cr3 #basil.gif #long post #it's about magic it's about potential it's about life it's about stories it's about exandria being a beacon it's about let's do it again #i mean it's also my thoughts on how the luxon maybe made leylines when they impacted/scattered #+ how cool that is when u examine the magic of exandria especially when u consider. luxon = leylines = ether = dunamancy = magic #(some quotes that Almost made it in were matt saying that all magic basically falls under dunamancy + the description of ether) #not to mention the tharizdun connections of a being of elemental chaos & what that could mean for the relationship between the luxon + them #and ruidus and exandria. i also have so many ashton thoughts re: elements + divine + being a fucking beacon but that's for another set lmao #also aabria's!!! dark motes of potential!! what's that about!! i gotta rewatch exu sdfjkh this was just everything off the top of my head #also real spiral shit here but the first person to officially find a beacon post calamity being named leylas. COINCIDENCE. most likely yes #also thinking about draconic being one of the like. languages of magic esp when you think about Elements. but i'm gonna stop now

[kiiwiidrawer]

The Ring of Brass.

I have finished the rewatching of the series and its still top tier storytelling. One of my favourite short (ish) stories. 

#critical role #EXU Calamity #ring of brass #Cerrit #cerrit agrupnin #laerryn coramar seelie #loquatius seelie #nydas okiro #patia por'co #zerxus ilerez #Im still newish to tumblr so dont know how to tag people or if theyre even on tumblr #critical role fanart #criticalrole art #I didnt realise until rewatching the Q&A that Cerrit was based on the Philippine Eagle and had already based him off a Harpy Eagle

[multifandom-damnation]

Underrated trait?? When the players describe something they want to do or what their characters are thinking or feeling or ask for a specific moment to occur (dice gods permitting) and Aabria thinks for a moment and just softling, lovingly, fondly says "...yeah" and then goes on to produce the most magnificent description known to mankind.

#critical role #exandria unlimited #candela obscura #aabria iyengar #rewatching exu and finishing this ce episode and i love it so much when she does this #i wish i was composed enough in my own games so i can do that too

[elissastillstands]

We will ensure it. This will work. Avalir be damned. // from “Fire and Ruin”

Further fantasies of an animated Exandria Unlimited in the style of Legend of Vox Machina, this time with me trying some shots of Laerryn Coramar-Seelie. I had a lot of fun with these!

#critteredit #critical role #exandria unlimited #exu calamity #exu #laerryn coramar seelie #exu laerryn #cr laerryn #aabria iyengar #i'm in isolation right now and i haven't been able to focus on anything #so i have been rewatching calamity on repeat. thank you calamity for giving me company.

[justalittlebluetiefling]

You think that my quarrel is with them?

#critical role #exu calamity #exu calamity rewatch #exu clips #god brennan as asmodeus is SOMETHING ELSE #a transcendent performance really #i just want to rewatch this series for the rest of my life #i don't need anything else just exu calamity #idk how to tag this but like beware headphone users #tw volume

[frontseatpocket]

exu calamity: a summary

#critical role #exu calamity #rewatching the best bits

[fantasyverses]

I finally caught up with Critical Role!!!

I caught up with Critical Role...

I have to *checks notes* WAIT for the next session to come out?!

#critical role #vox machina #mighty nein #bells hells #what the FUCK am I gonna watch now #... #i'll just rewatch calamity #cuz i'm a massochist #exu calamity #matt mercer #marisha ray #sam riegel #travis willingham #laura bailey #taliesin jaffe #ashley johnson #liam o'brien

[ravendruid]

10/10 Dorian cosplay.

#critical role #exandria unlimited #exu rewatch #exu e8 #matthew mercer

[dontgofarfromme]

Before they know its the Spider Queen's crown, Aabria saying it makes Dorian feel skittering in his stomach and nausea and Robbie going "it feels like tiny spiders in my stomach" welp!!! Guess what!!!

#critical role #cr exu #exu rewatch

[septembermonologues]

someone needs to drill "you are good at more than swords" in to oryms brain until he can't forget it

#and by someone. i do mean dorian. #because i think atp he is the one person who could get it to stick #this is my LAST exu post pinky promise #my rewatch is done #k watches exu prime #exu prime: what comes next #critical role #orym of the air ashari

[pocketgalaxies]

watching sam say that watching a dnd liveplay show is not only watching a story play out but also watching a story in the moments it is being written. thinking about that part in calamity when brennan asked marisha what happened to patia's parents and she didn't know and they figured it out together mid-episode and it became such a meaningful moment for that character. thinking thinking thinking. hhhhhhhhhhhhh i love this show

#i need need need to rewatch calamity eventually #text #nova shh #critical role #cr extras #between the sheets #sam riegel #exu #exu: calamity #patia por'co #marisha ray #brennan lee mulligan #marisha ray supremacy

[heytherecentaurs]

Luis Carazo absolutely fucking crushes it in EXU: Calamity as Zerxus —

"They used you. They did. And I'm sorry for that. I can help you. You say you know me? When the time comes and you step from this void into our world, don't you forget me. Don't you forget the kindness that we're capable of, because we are your children too. We are made of the same stuff, that what you originally created. We come from the same thing. And if you remember the stories as well as you seem to, then you know that at some point you turned your pain on us. They used you and then you used us to get back at them. I have a son that's not of my blood, but that is my son. I met Evandrin when he was just an infant and I held that boy in my arms and I fell in love with him and I am his father, but he is not of my blood. And in that same way we are your children. Please remember that. Don't take your pain out on us. Spare us and I will help you. I will help you confront those who did this to you."

His monologue from the end of Episode 2 is phenomenal. The emotional complexity, how he mixes in his anger and spite towards the gods, his pain and grief of loss and how all that transitions to thoughts of his son. Zerxus is so intense throughout all of Calamity but goddamn does he ramp that up here so that everything he says and feels is at maximum intensity—hatred, anger, fear, love, and sympathy. And in a lot of ways it mirrors the intensity of Laerryn, the other person who was closest to Evandrin in the Ring of Brass.

#exu calamity #zerxus ilerez #luis carazo #critical role #just been rewatching calamity and wow #it's so good #hey there centaurs

[justalittlebluetiefling]

Me whenever anything gets a little bit stressful

#exu calamity #exu calamity rewatch #i've never felt so seen #travis willingham