#oderan wild you might say

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The Calloway Timeline

(Some allowances for memory-modified mind-fuckery, Feywild Time-Soup stuff and D&D Races and mechanics that I don't know, but the basics are essentially:)

Birdie and Ollie met 12 years ago.

They say they left Fearne 6 years ago.

Ollie says Fearne should be 14 years old.

Fearne is 112 years old.

Fearne says it's been 90 years since she last saw her parents.

Parents' perspective: Fearne should be 11 years old - maximum; if they had Fearne straight away. But probably a little younger than that. That's already 2 or more years unaccounted for on their end. (Assuming the six years' absence is accurate - assuming it would be really difficult to hide a progressing date from them when Birdie is constantly going into towns).

Fearne's perspective: she's maximum 5 years old when her parents leave her and believes it's been 90 years since she's seen them last. But says with full confidence that she's 112 years old.

95 is very different from 112.

Assuming she's spent at least a year in Exandria (haven't seen ExU Prime, my bad); she's got maybe 15 or so years unaccounted for. If they're not the product of time-souping into Exandria. How has nobody questioned that she missed her parents when she was a small child, spent 90 years without them, came to Exandria and yet keeps asserting she's 112?

#cr #critical role #cr3 #fearne calloway #birdie calloway #ollie calloway #the calloways #cr spoilers? #post c3e31 #this is mostly for me #i honestly think some of the cast did catch that #namely marisha #she looked absolutely perplexed by the timeline ollie put forward #the fact that fearne is meant to be 14 is fucking wild #oderan wild you might say #cr speculation #c3e31

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Wild speculation post because I guess this is who I am now, dad

Y’all is no one talking about what Chetney overheard?! We got SO MUCH detail! (Please please please feel free to add on to this)

The transcription:

Matt: You hear voices. One that, as you pick up the conversation says…

Voice 1 (possibly Vali Dertrana) : Our patron is pushing for legislation in the coming weeks, so whatever you plot must be quickened.

Voice 2: Your dullard mind fails to grasp the beautiful pattern I’ve already constructed across the city…

Voice 1 (possibly Vali Dertrana): Ira, I’m serious. Let us get this over with, that I might never deal with your cruel arrogance ever again!

Voice 2 (Ira): Then bring me some riffraff from the steps — people no one would miss — and maybe a Mahaan child just to spice things up… this next wave will-

Voice 1 (possibly Vali Dertrana): -I will most certainly not bring you a child, you freak! And only a short time longer. Finish your work and be gone from my life!

Voice 2 (Ira): Of coooourse. Once my work is done, I shall leave…*sinister chuckle*

What does this all mean? There are so many insinuations and dangling threads and clues, and now I spend the rest of my Monday night trying to piece it all together for the Tumblr critters bc it’s taken over my brain!

Setting info lampshaded in this convo to keep in mind (all taken from the wiki):

the Steps are located at the base of Jrusar, filled with outcasts and people who wish to be free of the city’s business structure

this conversation was overheard in the Moon tower, located in the Mirror Towers guild district which seems to have a strict entrance policy (business or gtfo)

the Mahaan Houses are the noble houses of the Oderan wilds. They oversee and manage the region. Nine individuals from the Mahaan housss are part of the anonymous Chandei Quorum. There seems to be mixed feelings toward these houses, with some vying for power and others trying to do good (according to Eshteross). The Hubatt Corsairs are bent on exposing the identities of the Chandei Quorum, and thus, target the Mahaan houses in many of their actions.

the Chandei Quorum is the mainly anonymous ruling body of Jrusar, and there are questions of collusion between them and the Ivory Syndicate, a criminal organization that began the trade in Ivory (a big fuckin no-no when there are Pachydan that exist ffs)

What we know (plus my wild speculation):

Vali and Ira have a secret meeting place (likely some sort of workshop, arcane or otherwise) in the Moon tower, in the Mirror Towers Guild District, which seems to be very gated, with entry allowed only for those in business. It also seems to be heavily controlled by the Treshi house, who make even Lord Eshteross edgy.

Vali and Ira are working for someone capable of pushing legislation - Aka a member of one of the ruling bodies, perhaps a member of the Chandei Quorum? The suggestion of taking a Mahaan child for whatever purposes, however, hints at a few things — the patron is *not* a member of the Quorum, or else they would likely not be ok with that request, being one of the Mahaan themselves, or they are a member and there is animosity between houses/members of the Quorum, or the patron is a member of the quorum but not a Mahaan themselves. What I’ve seen in the wiki doesn’t seem to confirm or deny whether the open lord is a Mahaan or not, which could be a point in the favour of the patron being the open lord, so to speak. However, their location and business connections with the guilds aligns them even more closely with house Treshi, and if my spidey senses are right, possibly with the Ivory Syndicate.

there’s something fucked up in the House of Treshi. One, they have their hands in more than one guild, which feels very monopoly robberbaron to me — the mason’s guild and the gold guild (which was robbed and which earned Cyrus the bounty on his head), and they’ve been present/in the vicinity near two altercations - the road crew near the Dreamscape’s modded Mimic, and the Gold Cartel theft. I’m going to go out on a limb and say they’re the family tied up with the Ivory Syndicate, and that the cartel theft was more than an inside job, it was a fucking insurance scam on behalf of the Treshi themselves, probably in conjunction with the syndicate, and Cyrus was supposed to be the fall guy for EVERYONE. Even Eshteross seems concerned and on edge with talk of them, giving the party warnings not to accuse them/get involved if they aren’t sure. These guys are BFDs - big fuckin deals (and alternately, but I think just as accurately, bad fuckin dudes).

Vali Dertrana had a coded ledger that said ‘Pay made, order, dreamset’ and ‘requested by Nightmare King. Bring Alive.’ We know Dertrana has been bringing Ira people for what I assume are experiments of an arcano-scientific nature, and that strange corruptions have been occurring for the past few weeks (Dugger). What if Ira is the Nightmare King? I know that’s the code name i’d give to the terrifying freak show that made jellymorphous DUGGER. Just sayin’. As for the pay made, it could be the automaton that was stolen from the Treshi gold cartel. Of it could be short for Payload made…the ‘order, dreamset’ I’ve not got any theories on, though it’s not out of wilds of possibility that the dreamset could be a reference to the dreamscape mimic…

the general contracting work that was supposed to have been done near the Dreamscape Theatre was apparently done by the Treshi house Mason’s Guild, which was plagued with the Spitting Mimic. There were odd orbs implanted in it’s body, one that Imogen managed to steal. This is another connection between the guilds and the odd one-off body horror encounters they’ve been dealing with, and a clue as to some sort of body modification/outside intent. The mimic was planted, and there must be reasons for it, and my guess is that they’re related to whatever nefarious doin’s a-transpirin’ in the house of Treshi, at the hands of Ira. It’s part of his ‘pattern’. I think the mimic wasn’t just eating bodies, but collecting them to be harvested from.

things are going to heat up in the next few weeks both on a political front, and in terms of whatever shadowy business is transpiring in the moon tower. I’m suspecting they’re going to hit big and in a big way, with all the suggestion that things have already been put into place. With talk of detonations, weird body horror happening, and issues in the core spire, I’m guessing that some sort of mass-transformation body-horror were-creature attack on the Chandei Quorum will happen following whatever ‘legislation’ is being pushed, for good or ill. I think all of the previous weird, body-horror encounters are related to this:

The IKEA furniture attack

Dugger and the Shade Creepers

The mimic wall at the Dreamscape Theatre

Gurge the Wildman (and possible were-creature) going missing/getting captured by Vali Dertrana, business commissioner of the Mirror Towers

Dire Wolf attacks (probably a Gurge red herring, but maybe connected to whatever is happening with Ira and the Moon Tower), burglaries, a detonation in the core spire, spirits haunting the Prakash Pyre

Dugger’s fucked-upness started 6 months ago, and was *not* connected to the Hubatt Corsairs, who didn’t know he was smuggling a Brumestone (whether this is relevant or not, I’m not sure yet…)

Neither here nor there, but I’m feeling a big flippin’ the bird energy to capitalism with the start of this campaign and just *chefs kiss* thank you Matt.

This has been downplayed, but I feel like it’s super relevant — Oshad “The Anger” Breshio was working for the Lumas twins who were killed a few weeks ago. The attack was similar to what happened to Keyleth is Zephrah — which we know from EXU has some stake or trade relationship to Residuum. The twins interests were in geology and scientific pursuits — two things we’ve seen at play recently — Brumestone and whatever strange arcano-science has so altered and corrupted Dugger. It seems odd that for those not engaged in anything ‘nefarious’ they should be killed…

gurge becomes a beast ‘when assaulted’ and the dire Wolf attacks seem to have been more than one - someone must have been assaulting gurge to cause him to go into such a state and lose control - someone who wanted him that way for their own purposes… maybe to confirm a hypothesis, or steal parts of his body and mass manufacture whatever werewolf parts of him are there, in order to create some sort of mass-mutagen bomb they can detonate on the populace and cause an attack on their political rivals in the Chandei Quorum, taking out their opposition. I can see how residuum could come into effect with that, or any sort of body mutagenic magics, but the Brumestone I’m at a loss for what purpose the smuggling of Brumestone is serving, because I don’t yet see how levitation could come into play based on these leads so far, though it could be less about the levitation, and more about the smuggling, which would once again point in the direction of the Ivory syndicate

I am making a lot of suppositions and proposing a lot of theories and tbh I just need to know what other people are making out of this insane break in the plot that we just got! What the FUCK is happening and how is it going down?! Who in the good goddamn is the Nightmare King? Why is the Guild District and House Treshi shadier than a beach umbrella?

#critical role #critrole #dnd #cr spoilers #cr campaign 3 #wild speculation #theories #suppositions and surmises #please guys I need someone to go wild over the new plot hooks and lore drops with!