"Will, looking beautiful, training on the hills of [Zephrah], with cherry blossom petals falling everywhere".
Damn, Liam, you know how to make a poor artist scramble for her pencil. =D
And what if I cried? Huh? We finally get official art of Will and I can’t stop looking at him! And DERRIG! MY MAN! LOOK AT HIM!!!!! Watching over them as they practice the zeph'aeratam together I CRY
Can we just talk about how perfect it was for Bells Hells to go to Zephrah before heading off to the excavation site? Right at the peak of inter-party tensions, with Ashton and Laudna understandably mixed on saving the Gods for their own merits, FCG pulling hard in the opposite direction, and Imogen dealing with the pull of Predathos' power, Orym took them back to where it all started. A place where squabbles for or against divinity don't matter, where the fight is entirely about keeping Ludinus from doing any more harm. It gave a reminder of what they had already lost. A childhood with a mother. A life with a husband. A world without all the fear and pain created by a single self-aggrandizing zealot. The war has yet to be won, and there are many twists and turns the road may yet take. But returning to Zephrah may have secured the first and most important battle.
Nicodranas, Wildemount: Nicodranas is a bustling port city on the Menagerie Coast. It is the hometown of The Mighty Nein's Jester Lavorre, and the party visited multiple times. C2 NPC Yussa Erennis lives here.
image is official art by adragonswinging, from explorer's guide to wildemount
Zephrah, Tal'Dorei: Zephrah is the home of the Air Ashari. It is situated in western Tal’Dorei. It is the hometown of Keyleth of Vox Machina, and Orym of Bells Hells. Both parties have spent time there during their adventures.
image from tal'dorei campaign setting reborn / link
Rosohna, Wildemount: Rosohna is the capital of the Kryn Dynasty in Xhorhas. Due in part to the sunlight sensitivity of its majority-drow population, the city’s mages maintain a blanket of eternal night in the sky above the city. This magical effect is seen as a hallmark of the Kryn Dynasty, especially as it is also cast at contentious points along the Dwendalian border to reduce the disadvantage to drow soldiers fighting during the day. Rosohna is built on the ruins of the calamity-era city Ghor Dranas, the capital of the betrayer gods’ alliance during this conflict. Sometimes Rosohna is still erroneously called Ghor Dranas, especially by political opponents of the Dynasty. Rosohna is the centre of the Dynasty’s secret religion worshiping the Luxon.
Zephrah-bound [all images by (c) Kent Davis {check store}, whose images have been used by Darrington Press including for the Tal'dorei Campaign Guide (2021)]
And Keyleth pointing all her rage in one particular direction. Full committal.
And I need to know where this toxin is coming from. Cause it’s definitely from Ruidus, but like…what is making it?
Honestly thought that side quest was gonna wrap up in an episode.
Do think… that the Issylra gang fucked up more than they realized now more than ever.
Hoping Orym doesn’t end up losing his sister but I do wonder what else they might stumble across in the Grey Valley…causes there was a lot bad there before the Ruidus shenanigans.
And uh just wanted to let y’all know, if that fight had swung in a different way, Fearne would have been a full blown goner.
Putting money that a Zephrah kid is gonna he born with some weird powers in the future.
Well end of the Vassal and the Veil next week, not sure if I’ll be in attendance or not, but see you all on the Third for when we’re back in action.