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Considering it was never mentioned if Essek was in disguise at all during the wedding, I think it would be funny that after being clearly spotted with the Nein in Vasselheim, the Nein convinced Essek to employ the “the fuck are you gonna do about it?” method of protection. Like growing a tree in the Xhorhaus, or Fjord openly walking around Rexxentrum with the Wildmother symbol after beating Obann and the Chained Oblivion

Okay but knowing that Deirta having typhros was always an intrinsic part of Essek's motivation makes the epilogue really funny on a meta level. Liam's talking about how Caleb wouldn't want Essek to be saddled with taking care of him as he aged and would just let him off the hook and I'm just imagining Matt internally like, "Yeah, sure, we can pretend that that wouldn't involve an extensive argument based on information that was never relevant enough to come up. This finale is long enough. We don't need to get into that. :)"

going insane thinking abt caleb widogast spending 5 years of his post-vergesson life going over his time travel plan every night, wondering if all he had heard as a child burning his parents home was the illusion of their screams, whether the bodies in their graves were theirs, holding onto a small sliver of hope that the guilt and shame and grief he carried with him would someday be relieved in a town square in tal'dorei, only to give that hope up at the last minute after realizing that the consequences of such power could outweigh the cost of the lives of those he loved most and knowing in that moment that it was all real, it was all final, and there was no mirage of a hopeful future to hide in anymore. i am feeling so incredibly normal and okay about this right now.