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Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

Every scene had something to bring and help with the fight at the end.

Per the Cooldown, there was a room with the stream/river that killed Veth and turned her into the goblin....

...I'm 99% sure the object they were suppose to come out of it was Nott the Brave, his goblin companion. Veth was supposed to allow herself be turned back into Nott to collect the thing they needed.

assumes Essek and Caleb are now living with the Brenattos full-time

Caleb: *solo parenting a 2 week old halfling baby, getting 0 sleep and letting no one help him*

Veth: *living in a 24-hour dream spa that Caleb won't let her leave because he feels guilty about forcing her to give birth early, sipping a martini and getting a massage by imaginary hunky men.*

Essek and Yeza: *doing the dishes*

Yeza: "So, do you guys think you'll ever move out?"

Essek: "Yes, when Caleb stops feeling guilty."

Yeza: "Ah. So never, then."

Essek: "Yes, I think this is probably our new normal. I'm so sorry."

Yeza: "It's alright. There are worse things. How do you feel about a beef stew for dinner?"

Veth is a character of s 141 episodes show, each episode at least 4 hours long. During the show she goes through several arcs, exploring themes of racism, gender presentation, body dysphoria, motherhood and more. But AT LARGE fandom STILL TO THIS DAY insist to base her whole characterisation on one misinterpreted scene in EPISODE 13! That scene only occurred because the group of adventures which she travelled with constantly infantilised her and was putting "parent and child" label on her relationship with her best friend - label that was REFUSED by both of them SEVERAL TIMES. So, in episode 13 group confronts Veth, insisting that she's naive child and Caleb is manipulating her. So she turned that statement around and said that if theirs relationship are of child and parent, then SHE IS THE PARENT. She's literally demanded respect from her teammates! But fandom turned it from being about her into being about her bestie and TO THIS DAY insisting that it was her saying that he(10 years older than her!) IS HER SON! Not only they ignore everything that came after episode 13(which includes her being EXPLICITLY IN LOVE with said best friend and that being part of her arc about choosing between duty and her desires),but even that moment get stolen from her to be about her male friend!!

The universes for each one, if anyone cares:

First: mermaid au

Second and third: just normal riptide

Fourth and fifth: mermaid au again

Sixth: part of a leviathan gilly au which features plentiful fnc

Seventh: spiderverse au, i have some sketches of all of the crews spidersonas and such so there may be more of that

Eight: normal riptide but they’re gayer

But one wanders into the personal tents of Iris and her young son, Wicander, and her even younger infant son, Lioran. (They were under disguise bc they worried a fancy carriage would put a bigger target on their backs, and set off with only a handful of attendant luxes and knights)

So the merc is sneaking into a tent, thinking this must be where the goods are kept. Unfortunately, Iris catches sight of him. The merc fails a perception check, doesnt notice her children in the tent with her, and reactively goes for aggressive stealth (leave no witnesses).

Iris is slain in front of Wicander. The merc barely has time to register her blood on his hands when Wicander levels up and sprouts wings. The merc is burned by Wicander's light

Now there's two bodies in front of Wic. In a fugue state, he grabs the wailing Lioran and flees from the Creed caravan, his mind a whirling mess

That night, the Halovar scions vanish. The next morning, the Falconer's surrender. Everything still plays out the same except Yanessa is more vocal about demanding Thjazi's blood. It doesnt matter bc Thjazi escapes before any verdict is made

Yanessa re-orients her plans to get Godard with a new wife and children, maybe Ebecca once shes of age to pop out babies. She also moves up the timeline on Aspirants, bringing them into the world earlier than canon

But Wicander is eventually found by a wandering woodsman, who left the war years ago, who stumbled upon an exhausted (near catatonic) Wic with his infant brother still in his arms

By then, there's hardly any sign of their noble lineage, bc its all caked in dirt and splotches of blood. When Wic regains his wits, he has the good sense to tell Kattigan nothing and Kattigan lets the his silence pass by without comment, letting Wic and Lioran tag along as he searches for the murderer of his family

Years pass

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