#healer's academy

[wardenofthesixtyninth]

Absolutely adore how Marcille's entire spellbook seems to consist of only the most unhinged spells in existence. Like it seems like her entire magical arsenal is comprised of only the barest minimum of healing spells that she was probably required to learn in school, and then Fireball, Police Flash Grenade, Crime Against Nature, Spam Fireball, Unholy Resurrection, More Fireball, and 9th Level Go Fuck Yourself.

#dungeon meshi #marcille donato #this is why farcille is the ultimate healer x dps caster couple #they don't even teach offensive magic at the magic academy #i love her

[theenchantedecho]

Meet Mary Macdonald: The Potioneer Who Survived It All

Written by: Eliza Moonflower

According to sources within the British wizarding community, Mary Macdonald is a 21-year-old potioneer who has faced unimaginable hardships and tragedies in her life. Born and raised in the mundane Muggle world, Mary discovered her magical abilities at the age of 11 when she received her letter to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She excelled in her studies, particularly in potions and charms, and after graduating from Hogwarts, decided to pursue a career as a healer. She enrolled in the Healer's Academy and dedicated herself to learning as much as she could about the art of healing, eventually graduating with top marks and a job offer from St. Mungo's Hospital.

However, Mary's career as a healer was cut short by the tragic events of the Battle of Birmingham in 1981. According to eyewitness accounts, Mary, who was off duty at the time, was called in to assist in the aftermath of the battle and witnessed firsthand the horror of the attack. "It was chaos," recalls fellow healer, John Doe. "Mary was brave, she went straight into the fray to help the wounded." It is rumored that Mary was even captured by Death Eaters and subjected to torture, but somehow managed to escape and flee to safety. Though Mary has never spoken publicly about the details of her experience, it is clear that the physical and emotional scars of the attack have stayed with her for the rest of her life.

In the wake of the attack, Mary struggled to come to terms with what had happened to her. She retreated into herself, becoming increasingly reserved and distrusting of others. It was a difficult time, but she eventually found solace in her work as a potioneer at the Apothecary. Her skills in potion-making, developed during her time at Hogwarts and at the Healer's Academy, proved to be a valuable asset to the Apothecary, and she quickly rose through the ranks to become a respected potioneer within the wizarding community.

Despite her initial reservations about leaving her career as a healer behind, Mary has found a new sense of purpose in her work at the Apothecary. According to those who know her, she is passionate about using her skills and knowledge to help others and is dedicated to creating high-quality potions that can benefit those in need. It is even rumored that she is working on a special potion that can help survivors of dark magic attacks like herself.

One of Mary's former classmates at the Healer's Academy, James Thompson, spoke about her dedication to her work as a potioneer. "I remember when we were studying together at the Academy, Mary was always the first one to volunteer to help out in the potions lab," James said. "She had a real passion for it, and it showed in the quality of her work. I'm not surprised to hear that she's made a name for herself as a potioneer at the Apothecary. She's definitely one of the best I've ever seen."

In addition to her work at the Apothecary, Mary is also known for her activism within the wizarding community. She is a strong advocate for the rights of Muggleborns and other marginalized groups, and has been involved in various campaigns and protests to promote equality and justice. Mary's activism extends beyond the wizarding community as well - she is also known to frequent Muggle protests and demonstrations, using her magical abilities to help those in need and fight against injustice.

According to her colleague at the Apothecary, Alice Smith, Mary has always been a fierce advocate for justice and equality. "I've known Mary for years, and she's always been the kind of person who stands up for what she believes in," Alice said. "She's not afraid to speak her mind and fight for what's right, no matter what the cost. That's what makes her such a respected and admired figure within the wizarding community."

However, rumors have circulated about Mary's involvement in some less savory activities. Some say she has connections to the underground wizarding black market, where she uses her potion-making skills to create illegal substances. Others claim that she is secretly a member of the infamous Death Eaters, using her activism as a cover for her true allegiances. Remember - dear readers - that she was the supposed girlfriend of that Peter Pettigrew. The Peter who, you know, blew up all those folks for his Lord You-Know-Who.

Despite the rumors and speculation about her involvement in questionable activities, it's clear that Mary Macdonald is a complex and multifaceted individual. Whether she's fighting for justice as an activist or creating life-saving potions as a potioneer, Mary is a force to be reckoned with and a person who truly cares about making a difference in the world. So, the next time you're in need of a potion or just want to support a worthy cause, consider visiting Mary at the Apothecary or lending your voice to one of her campaigns. You won't be disappointed.

 @vclatiles

#Eliza Moonflower #ch:Mary McDonald #s:Battle of Birmingham #Healer's Academy #ch:James Thompson #ch:John Doe #Apothecary #ch:Peter Pettigrew

[soup-scope]

hey y’all i’m pretty sure imp!Kody is dead 💀💀

i saw some people say he was alive and i rewatched the imperium (all the bits with kody/freelancer/gavin) to see if he really did die or not

yeah he’s dead. that’s the reason gavin didn’t kill lasko after he suffocated freelancer because he was still haunted by kody’s death

👍👍

#i relistened to gavin take freelancer away from the academy :))) #so that’s a win #their entire relationship makes me so sad yall #also while rewatching i completely forgot if asher died at the end or not #and he doesn’t #but he’s like. still at the place where brachium was and he’s mega injured #what i hc what happens next #is that babe followed him there (because they have zero self preservation) and they end up dragging his ass to freelancer and gavin’s lil #house in the woods. freelancer heals him because they wanna be a healer and took a lot of classes on it #and boom everyone’s alive and happy 👍👍 #well. meh #redacted asmr #redacted audio #asmr boyfriend #boyfriend asmr #redactedverse #redacted imperium #redacted imperium gavin #redacted vindemiator #redacted imperium lasko #redacted imperium kody #redacted kody

[doridraws]

avengers academy but make it fantasy au!!!!

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#avengers academy #avengers academy comic #marvel #humberto lopez #brandon sharpe #ken mack #maddy berry #jenny takeda #jeanne foucault #ssassin jeanne reptile-druid berto rogue brandon sweet barkeep/fighter ken healer maddy witch jenny #i would die for all of them #dori draws #art q

[haru-naechi]

First Rant: Plain-Old Isekai Animes

Me wishing for a genuine isekai anime that has their own culture, unique landscape and other things that don't feel like typical fantasy — fuck it I wanna even see an isekai where mc just goes to another modern world (that is still different from our modern world) with some weird shit going on. I want the setting to be memorable, not like the ones rn where I can practically feel like the environment can blend in with each other.

I don't want no basic monsters: no demon lord, or like "evil" orcs, goblins — I wanna see those things that can borderline be a legit nightmare. I wanna see a villain/s be actually threatening and not just some hurdle to overcome and move on from as fast as one chapter.

I want the mc to be unique (if not a diff gender at least notable personality like with Rimuru from TTIGRAAS). I want to see a fantasy where the problem is already set from the start for the mc, not just "I got transported to another world and now I have to solve their problem / I will just do random mundane shit and live like this no problems whatsoever."

I wanna see that despair of leaving behind a world where the mc is actually happy and satisfied with, I wanna see them make a tough decision if they are faced with the decision to leave.

I don't want to see another harem with a boring ass mc too (and boring ass girls as well). I may not be a fan of harem but I know when to appreciate a goodly developed one. Like, where my good harems at??? The girls don't even look appealing anymore- they just exist to follow and fall in love (undeservedly) with the mc.

Have good titles plsssss. I know that there is some sort of algorithm going on at the searches which is why long ass titles are so popular but come on, most of them are so shit.

In general a lot of isekais just don't really feel genuine anymore and are just there to ride the hype that came with the genre. Don't get me wrong, I understand that completely. BUT it doesn't mean that that is a reason to create boring uninspired stories that makes me feel like I have wasted my time.

p.s i am not saying that every tag i put is trash or the ones i am talking about, they're honestly just random isekai that first pops up on google if u search isekai

#isekai #anime #that time i got reincarnated as a slime #the rising of the shield hero #mushoku tensei #wise man's grandchild #isekai chear magician #redo of a healer #in another world with my smartphone #summoned to another world for a second time #no game no life #high school prodigies have it easy in another world #i got a cheat skill in another world and became unrivaled in the real world too #the misfit of demon king academy #sword art online #the aristocrat's otherworldly adventure #golbin slayer #the hidden dungeon only i can enter #uncle from another world #black summoner #my one hit kill sister #harem in the labyrinth of another world #bofuri #re:zero #seirei gensouki #trash anime #rant #anime rant

[grrrlsoverdramas]

grrrlsoverdramas’ GTKM: CREME de la CREME - KDrama masterpieces not featured due to a lack of decent file to gif: 38 Task Force

#what I learned from making this edit is that I am 100% JTBC's bitch #kdramaedit #kdramanetwork #GTKM 2022 #coffee prince #melo suits me #age of youth #run on #a day found by chance #just between lovers #healer #nice guy #school nurse academy #can we get married #these are like... dramas I will defend to death AND recommend to anyone #tbh I probably would have taken extraordinary you out but since I couldnt find squad 38 to gif it made the list #mygifs

[naturalhealingtcm]

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[chiinferno]

Jessica is one of the Trialed at the Trial by Fire Academy. She's smart and tough and excels at healing magic, acting in the role of a healer for her team.

#chiinferno #art #trial #fire #trial by fire academy #academy #chiin ferno #hero #ax #axe #african #african stabbing axe #flute #lapide arc #Jessica #Jessica Schrager #healer

[writing-prompt-s]

While studying at the magic academy to become a healer, you - and only you - realize, that the spells meant to cure various terrible diseases are in fact exorcisms for demonic possession. You confront the leaders of the academy in private, and they confess a horrifying truth to you...

#writers #writers on tumblr #writing prompts #writeblr #writing inspiration

[flawseer]

Jade Mountain Academy students

#Bonus - Faculty chapter

And here, as has been requested, we have the ones in charge of the operation. And so I am left pondering that, over the course of this project, I have drawn essentially all of the arc 1 and arc 2 protagonists... with the exception of Glory. That's pretty weird.

Anyway, here goes:

Sunny

Teaches subject(s) - Art, Cultural Exchange

Additional responsibilities- Founder, chief administrator, student admission, teacher-student relations, Silver winglet guardian

Tribe - Sandwing (partial Nightwing heritage)

Color - Sunrise gold

Relatives - Stonemover (father)

Physical characteristics - bright golden color; green eyes; no venom barb; small stature with slim to average build

Tsunami

Teaches subject(s) - Exercise

Additional responsibilities- "Head of School", security chief, Jade winglet guardian

Tribe - Seawing

Color - Cobalt blue

Relatives - Prince Turtle (brother), Princess Anemone (sister)

Physical characteristics - bent horns; royal wing markings; small burn scar on right side of neck, small cut in wing membrane; large build, long and burly

Clay

Teaches subject(s) - Anatomy

Additional responsibilities- Chief healer, student counselor, Copper winglet guardian

Tribe - Mudwing

Color - Bronze

Relatives - Umber (brother), Sora (sister), Marsh (brother)

Physical characteristics - curly horns; diminished mobility in right hindleg, walks with a limp; very large stature, muscular, heavy, broad

Starflight

Teaches subject(s) - Science, Literacy

Additional responsibilities- Chief librarian, chief accountant, Quartz winglet guardian

Tribe - Nightwing

Color - Midnight blue gray

Relatives - none on site

Physical characteristics - severe burn scarring across face, neck, and chest; blind in both eyes; average size and build

Fatespeaker

Teaches subject(s) - Science, Literacy (assisting)

Additional responsibilities- Assistant librarian, assistant student counselor, inventory

Tribe - Nightwing

Color - Dark violet black

Relatives - none on site

Physical characteristics - curved horns; small silver scales near eyes and along body; smallish stature, slim, slightly underweight

Webs

Teaches subject(s) - History

Additional responsibilities- Assistant healer, assistant accountant, Gold winglet guardian

Tribe - Seawing

Color - Teal green and blue

Relatives - none on site

Physical characteristics - blotty, luminous markings across body, luminous birthmark on left front talon; small puncture scar on tail; medium to large size, gaunt frame

Stonemover

Tribe - Nightwing

Relatives - Sunny (daughter)

Additional notes - Stonemover is neither a member of the Jade Mountain Academy faculty, nor a student, but remains on site as a consultant on various animus-related matters (and also because he is stuck to the floor).

#wings of fire #dragon #wof #digital art #wof art #flawseer art #wof sunny #wof tsunami #wof clay #wof starflight #wof fatespeaker #wof webs #wof stonemover #jade mountain academy

[galedekarios]

Hey there! You're one of the best Gale-ish devnotes\datamines sources that I know of, so I might as well ask. I remember that at some point Gale mentions taking part in Blackstaff Academy balls (or something like that). Is it mentioned elswhere, and do we have any details on his involvement in such activities? Need that for science\personal lore, and I'd appreciate any info (including EA), if you have time. Thanks!

thank you for your message and i'm sorry for the belated response!

i took my time to comb through everything and sadly, the banter with wyll is the only instance i could find of gale mentioning a ball at blackstaff academy:

gale & the annual blackstaff's ball

gale: i knew you were a graceful man, wyll, but i hear you're quite the dancer too. gale: i've been known to trip the light fantastic myself. mine was a popular hand at the annual blackstaff's ball. wyll: i'd have love to have witnessed it, gale. i wager you are as elegant on the dance floor as you are on the battlefield.

the only other banters i could find that are only loosely related. some give us glimpses into his life at the academy, others into his life in waterdeep.

here's another story about gale & being a young student at blackstaff academy, which triggers in the wizard tower in the underdark:

gale & the death slaad

gale: ah. quite. a misadventure from my days as an apprentice at blackstaff academy. gale: i was but a child, only a few months into my studies, but already i knew i was destined for greatness. no one believed me, of course, so i decided to prove it. to cast a spell with the blackstaff itself. gale: from one perspective, i succeeded. i opened a portal. however, instead of pointing it at the first year dormitory, i found myself pulled into limbo, facing a very irritated death slaad. gale: fortunately, the blackstaff himself came to the rescue, hauling me back from the brink, and straight into several months of writing lines. or rather, finessing my autograph. gale: now, much as i enjoy reminiscing about such tomfoolery, i believe we've more pressing matters at hand. is there anything else?

this dialogue path from the epilogue has him speaking a bit more about those days as well:

gale & his days as a wayward apprentice

gale: teaching at blackstaff academy has proven such an unexpected pleasure. sometimes i find it hard to tear myself away. gale: just one of the myriad unexpected ways life has delighted me in recent months. gale: even my own city feels new to me, now that i share it with you. player: probably because i make you put down your quill once in a while and enjoy it. gale: that you do. i've not had so much fun in waterdeep since my own days as a wayward blackstaff apprentice. gale: you've certainly made quite the impression on my friends down at the yawning portal. the last i heard, they were thinking of naming a drink after you.

while he seems to have enjoyed a much richer social life in waterdeep before his time of isolation, it's mentioned in another epilogue banter (devnotes) that he didn't seek out any of the more dangerous parts of the city.

there are also other banters about gale's life in waterdeep before the game:

gale & the temple of beauty in waterdeep

gale: i must tell you, shadowheart, the bathing waters here leave much to be desired. gale: the ablutions offered at the temple of beauty in waterdeep are far superior. and they have the most excellent soaps. shadowheart: hmm. i was wondering why you always smelled like a wealthy dowager.

gale & spending time in the hospice of st. laupsenn

wyll: this was a hospital? feels more like a prison. gale: a common enough interpretation. sickness has a nasty habit of making you feel trapped, if only within the confines of your body. gale: i once spent weeks convalescing in the hospice of st. laupsenn after a nasty bout of ruddy pox. for all their kindness, leaving that place behind felt like freedom to me. wyll: i’ve always relied on the kindness of the healers and menders of the coast. better a cleric’s healing touch than a chirurgeon’s scalpel.

gale & florist

lae'zel: these flowers are quite vivid - not to mention, pungent. not to my liking. gale: are there no flowers in tu'narath? lae'zel: in the city of death, the mlar cultivate the fruiting bodies that sprout from the corpses of the slain. gale: i'd rather get them from my florist in waterdeep, if it's all the same to you.

i'm also including this banter between wyll and gale here because it speaks (even if somewhat joking) about his upbringing as a whole by morena:

wyll: i admire your courage, gale. gale: thank you. any particular reason? wyll: between the orb and the bug, you've got more than your fair share of unwelcome passengers. gale: what can i say? mother always taught me to be a gracious host.

we also know that he has had multiple tutors:

lae'zel: you strike me cleverer than most istiki, gale. multiple tutors, i should guess. gale: many a wise man and woman indeed. waterdeep is the home of myriad scholars. wyll: ah, the city of splendours. spent a whole fleetswake there with my father. what a delight.

hiring tutors appears to be relatively common in waterdeep:

so while this sadly wasn't what you were looking for, i hope this is helpful to some degree! 🖤

#gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #ch: gale dekarios #vg: baldur's gate 3 #series: baldur's gate #meta: mybg3 #text: asks

[aloeverified]

boruto rewrite where the show actually still focuses on the original characters from naruto, but we're seeing them face their struggles that come with being adults in the society they live in and after going through what they did. their children are also in the show and we're given their perspective on the events compared to their parents'.

the overall plot revolves around naruto trying to change the shinobi system. he knows first hand how terrible the repercussions are when children are forced to be soldiers, and now that he's the hokage, he finally has the power to change it.

the only problem is, not everyone agrees with him. many believe by changing the age that shinobi begin their training, they won't be as strong later on and the village will become weaker over the years. not only that, but some people just don't understand why naruto feels this way. they were shinobi all their life and they turned out just fine — why fix what isn't broken?

it causes conflict within the cast and allows us to delve into each character more, showing why they feel the way they do and how their experiences have built up to the person they are.

besides that, other characters get their own storylines as well that connect with the theme of recovering from trauma.

gaara realizes that he's only ever lived for his village — as a soldier, a weapon, the kazekage. he works himself to the bone for his village while ignoring his basic needs, still having not realized he's a human just like everyone else. when he gets shinki, he realizes what it's like to prioritize something; what it's like to nurture and love.

sakura works at a hospital for young shinobi, doubling as both a healer and a therapist of sorts. she listens to the children tell their stories and gives them a shoulder to try on. she saw what being alone did to her teammates and she doesn't want any other child to go through what they did.

during her time at the hospital, she slowly begins to see pieces of herself within her patients. her trauma, which she's always pushed away and ignored, starts to come out. she's forced to face these memories she's always tried to bury deep. she struggles with understanding it as well as feeling validated compared to what naruto and sasuke had to go through.

she also struggles with her marriage to sasuke as she starts to unpack all the terrible things he's done to her. she's knows why he did them and she can justify his actions as much as she wants, but it doesn't change the fact he traumatized and tried to kill her at one point.

hinata's would focus on the hyuga. she's an outsider to them without any power. when she was stripped of her title and allowed to marry naruto, she thought it was a dream come true. she was so confident that hanabi would change the clan, that the branch system would be destroyed and neji wouldn't have died in vain.

only, without hinata, hanabi began to crack under the pressure of the elders and her father until she became just like them. the seal system is still in place, the branch families are still treated as servants.

it's a lot about generational trauma. how no matter how much hinata tried to change things for hanabi, she was always destined to fall into the same path as her father. only by recognizing this and making the changes her family refused to do in the past, are they able to change things.

i think there could also be something about how once, a long time ago, hiashi had wanted to change the hyūga. he wanted to dispel the main/side branch family system so his brother could be free. but overtime, he became complacent — very similar to hanabi.

as for the kids, i would show the differences between them based on how their parents feel about them being raised as soldiers.

for example, shikatema would have no problem with the shinobi system (at first) and their child would be entered into the academy and ready to become a ninja.

boruto, however, was raised by parents who want to change the system and hate the senseless violence, therefore he was not enrolled. this causes him to have some resentments for his parents as he's in the minority of children who aren't attending the ninja academy. he's viewed as a weak and soft-hearted by his companions and he hates it. maybe he goes against his parents and attends the academy in secret somehow.

there's a lot you can do with each character, honestly. i won't go further into it unless asked, but here's my main thoughts. i have a lot of idea with how to conclude the arcs as well, but i'm not sure how people would feel about it.

gaara stepping down as kazekage and leaving suna, sakura divorcing sasuke as she realized she never truly loved him romantically, hinata becoming the hyūga head/disbanding the hyūga, etc. many ideas.

#boruto #naruto #naruto uzumaki #hinata hyuga #sakura haruno #gaara no sabaku #boruto uzumaki #shinki #boruto rewrite #naruto au #boruto au #uhhh #naruhina #sasusaku #ig?? #aloeverants #percy spoilers

[krikunjayvoice]

The Hatake family

I returned in 2019. When my friend and I were thinking about "what if?" and these babies appeared.

The Hatake family. Kakashi, Rin (who became jinchuuriki) and their babies. Nuigurumi youngest daughter, who just entered the academy. The twins Tadashi and Yoshi, who create chaos, are about to graduate from the academy. And the eldest Sakumo Hatake, already a genie with the gift of a healer.

#my drawings #my art #naruto art #kakashi hatake #rin nohara #kakarin #kakashi/rin #kakashi rin and kids #hatake family #naruto shippuuden #Rin is alive

[utilitycaster]

The narrative of D&D

Fantasy High Junior Year has made its exploration of the tropes, mechanics, and structures of D&D readily apparent, perhaps even more so than the earlier two seasons. This is unsurprising for a show in which the characters are, in-universe, extremely aware of their mechanics and indeed in a high school intended to develop them. And yet, while Brennan Lee Mulligan pokes at these structures, the story still rests squarely within them.

This is not accidental; in longer form narratives (and Fantasy High as an overall story certainly is one, though each individual season exists in a strange no-man's land of campaign length) there is a distinctive pattern to the D&D narrative, one that is outright stated in the player's handbook. D&D is a progressive advancement game; characters grow in power and in sociopolitical import as they level up. They begin, even at level 1, as exceptional people (no commoner stats for them) and are destined by the fact that they are in a D&D game for greatness. There are things D&D supports well; travel, social interaction, one-time skill use, and combat. There are things it does poorly, notably downtime and stories that are not built along the lines of heroic fantasy.

I think this is a value neutral statement, in that I think that trying to avoid playing D&D while playing D&D is a futile exercise; your character will become more powerful while playing it and the only way to avoid gaining this power is to play a different game. I also think that while D&D has the potential to comment on our world from a new perspective, as most speculative fiction does, and is certainly not without flaws, that conversation is one for a later date. The structure exists; like it or not, it exists. There are other games to play that support other stories.

Fantasy High is direct in its engagement: characters are aware of their classes. They learn about the conventions thereof in their high school coursework, and must justify their multiclassing, both with their current level of power in their base class as well as with what they have done (both narrative and mechanical justifications). The antagonists of Junior Year are the Rat Grinders, explicitly commenting on Experience vs. Milestone leveling; several characters provide an eye into such D&D player tropes as min-maxxing and focusing on RP vs only on the game and mechanical elements. The Seven, set in the same world, operates on a similar premise; the party risks being broken up because half are still in high school and they would not survive a split of that level. Adventurers at the Aguefort Academy must adventure, and both the humor and deconstruction come from the juxtaposition of the conventions of D&D with the typical life of a high school student. The characters do level up; they do become more recognizable; they do have to save the world, repeatedly.

A somewhat subtler deconstruction comes in the form of NADDPod's first campaign, or as it was introduced, The Campaign after the Campaign. As envisioned by Brian Murphy (a player in Fantasy High; it is perhaps relevant that the two shows both began production around the same time), the world in which it is set is grappling with the aftermath of the "campaign" of the three legendary heroes Alanis, Thiala, and Ulfgar, who had slain Asmodeus, among other feats. While this ended a war, it set off several crucial events. Most centrally to the story of NADDPod, Thiala, disillusioned with her role as the healer, broke her worship of Pelor and used the heart of Asmodeus to ascend to godhood; she would eventually become the final antagonist of the campaign. However, the death of Asmodeus also set off a power vacuum in Hell. NADDPod's third campaign is set two centuries after the first, and the new legendary heroes (the Band of Boobs of the first campaign) have been dealing with the aftermath of an extraplanar war of the gods; Mothership, the main antagonist, arose in Thiala's wake. This is all typical actions leading to consequences, but the idea that the butterfly that flapped its wings was the resentment of someone having to play the cleric is notable (and is directly contrasted by Emily Axford's Bahumia characters, who openly embrace healing and support casting, breaking Thiala's cycle while cleaning up her mess.) But NADDPod too is heroic fantasy, even with the science fantasy elements present in the second season, and even slots nicely into the PHB tiers.

Critical Role does not, per se, strive to deconstruct in the same way (though Matt Mercer does provide some direct retorts to Forgotten Realms lore, particularly that of drow). But like NADDPod, the consequences of past campaigns influence subsequent ones. Campaign 1 is very easily recognizable as a classic "gain influence and power" story, and while Campaign 2's heroes the Mighty Nein retain a refreshingly low profile throughout the story, it does still progress in a typical way, though in a rather more self-directed manner.

Campaign 3 is interesting, in that it initially deviates from some of the more classic tropes of early D&D, but ultimately succumbs (to its benefit, in my opinion) to the inertia of the heroic fantasy arc. Bells Hells do not work their way up from level 1 or 2 taking on odd jobs; they begin the campaign by joining up with a benevolent patron, and several party members have pre-existing powerful connections. They receive the use of a skyship by episode 22 and level 6 (something even Vox Machina considered having to steal at level 13) and inherit it not long after. And yet: despite this, and a pivotal set piece of the apogee solstice in which a comparatively low level party plays a part among many factions, following a brief split the campaign begins to run on more familiar tracks. For all the early privileges the team enjoyed and the theological debates they engaged in, they ultimately find themselves in a position identical to that of the archetypal Vox Machina: facing an evil wizard who, after a rushed solstice ritual mid-campaign, only partially unsealed a long-imprisoned ancient deity of manipulation and destruction and now wishes to finish the job. One must assume Delilah Briarwood is appreciating the parallels from within Laudna's psyche.

Worlds Beyond Number is a player on the scene to watch out for, especially because Mulligan has shown himself to enjoy playing with these tropes and his players are all immensely knowledgeable and experienced players (and in Aabria Iyengar's case, DMs) themselves. Rather like Bells Hells, two of its three characters are coming in already in storied positions, despite being level 2, and it will be interesting to see if it bucks the trend. I don't think it needs to. I think there's plenty of variety to be had within this subgenre, and I think a quiet pushing at the boundaries is frequently more effective than full-scale subverstion. But should that be the plan, it will take a lot of work; even with immense awareness of the path D&D sets forth it seems DMs - and players - tend to stay on it.

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I should be working on my next chapter for "Hot Ice, Strange Snow."

(I've just started on Chapter 12)

Instead, I'm just sitting around imagining headcanons for Zutara in the LOK-era.

Katara isn't just "greatest healer in the world." She is Master Katara of the Southern Water Tribe, former ambassador to the Fire Nation, founder of the Southern Water Tribe's Waterbending Academy (and frequently visits the academy to give advanced lessons in combat, practical, and healing waterbending), subject of numerous statues around the world to commemorate her contributions to ending the war and aiding in the post-war restoration (she even has a statue alongside Sokka's at the SWT cultural center in Republic City, because WHY WOULDN'T SHE?!), patroness of countless charitable and cultural organizations, and retired Fire Lady.

Zuko still has all his achievements from canon, plus he continues to endorse several groups dedicated to promoting world peace. He is a celebrated philanthropist, often volunteering his assistance to orphanages and shelters. Even in his retirement, he and Katara still travel regularly to look for opportunities to help people. Zuko also visits Ba Sing Se specifically to stop by the Jasmine Dragon. When Iroh passed away, he left the tea shop to Zuko and Katara's youngest son, who was obsessed with tea since he first tasted it (as the kid was way far down the succession line, he saw no point in living like a prince when he could run a tea shop, instead).

Zuko and Katara also enjoy spending time with their grandchildren. As someone who likes kids, I prefer to imagine they had a lot of children and, as a result, a lot of grandkids. They are extremely doting grandparents and try to be as involved as possible. They both enjoy sharing different parts of their respective cultures with their family.

Their children and grandchildren grew up learning about and appreciating their mixed heritage. While they are all Fire Nation royalty, they all know and practice Water Tribe traditions alongside Fire Nation ones.

When the Northern Water Tribe invades the South, of course Zuko and Katara step in. After all, the SWT doesn't answer to the North (seriously, wtf LOK?) and this is an unlawful occupation. Zuko and Katara also rally their kids and grandkids, who all turn up along with Sokka's kids and grandkids to stop the invasion. When the Southerners see firebenders in their land, they regard it as a cause for celebration rather than fear.

Kind of a cosmic role-reversal. Instead of people from the South defending the North from the Fire Nation (like in Book 1), it's the Fire Nation helping defend the South against the North.

Of course Katara is right in the midst of the action alongside Zuko and the rest of the family. After all, it's not like Katara would just sit silently in the background doing nothing while her homeland is invaded (*glares at LOK again*).

Also, Katara never outlaws bloodbending. She ensures heavy regulations are put on learning it, but she does teach it to some select students whom she has vetted to ensure they are mentally and emotionally sound, have a good grasp of ethics, and are trustworthy enough to study the art.

Anyway, that's enough for now. Just wanted to get these ramblings out of my brain before I go to bed.

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