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While this isn't news to anyone who works in this space, it is useful to have this water-is-wet research to affirm that Indigenous knowledge and land management are extremely effective at storing carbon and protecting biodiversity.

I want to draw special attention to this part of the article:

I get a fair number of asks and comments on my posts expressing sentiments like "human beings are a plague on this Earth", "humans ruin everything, we deserve to be wiped out", "humanity is inherently selfish, evil, and irredeemable".

I don't think the folks saying these things have bad intentions, I know their words come from a place of very understandable pain, fear, and anger. But to act as though humanity's impact on nature is inherently damaging and extractive is to erase thousands of years of Indigenous stewardship of nature. These ecosystems are thriving because there are humans living there.

My submission to the One-Page TTRPG Jam is live!

A dungeon crawler that takes you down the belly of a leviathan to retrieve the gold it consumed!

what the fuck

that thing is eldritch

acquired a dark mode version just to see what it’d look like. oh my god. this map is gorgeous

What we know is we have found a cache of complaint tablets about him selling low quality copper as high quality, in a site that was probably his own residence. We know multiple people complained he was a cheat. It's entirely possible they were right. It's also entirely possible that he kept these complaint letters as records of people he would no longer do business with, because they had made accusations and threats in order to bully him into giving them free copper. That is an equally valid interpretation of the evidence.

Fjord was a leader at sea, a captain.

Jester was a leader on an island, a friend.

Caleb was a leader during a dinner, a survivor.

Nott was a leader keeping her family together, a believer.

Yasha was a leader in Xorhas, an orphan maker.

Molly was a leader in Hupperdook, a free spirit.

Caduceus was a leader in the mountains and oasis, a guide.

Beau was a leader exposing the lies of her home, an expositor.

I wish you a wonderful new year, filled with good fortune and creativity!

You could easily say the Veth reveal is one of the key turning points of c2. It sends the Nein off to Xhorhas, which changes their trajectory forever. It pivots a campaign that has been mostly focused on individual wants and needs, shifting towards a focus on family, collective growth, and honest reckoning about who the Nein are and who they used to be. It brings in Veth’s family and raises the stakes abruptly in two different ways: 1) the Nein now know that the beacon is extremely dangerous for them to be lugging around, and 2) for the first time, an NPC that is loved by one of them is in danger.

Finally, you have the delicious conflict between Veth and Caleb when she takes her anger out on him while he’s already freaking out about seeing Vess and Ludinus and the Trent mention in the notes they found, while probably still shaken up by the Nein mentioning Trent earlier in the episode when they talk about forging papers. This, of course, ultimately results in the Bren reveal as well.