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Reach Deep

I initially thought Hal might have to get the fuck outta Dol Makjar after doing the play/giving a huge middle finger to the creed. However, after some thought, I realized a few things.

This is a huge fuck you to the creed, but critically I don’t think it’s going to read as such to anyone besides like, Yanessa and a few other higher ups. I highly doubt that she knows about the ritual, or she would be putting more effort into shutting it all down. She’s looking at it as a symbolic gesture that simply doesn’t matter that much in the long term. All her resources are going towards the meeting and by the time she finds out, whatever happens will be knowledge, and she’s going to be in damage control mode.

She knows that going after a very popular public figure for seemingly no reason is a terrible look that makes it obvious that they’re on the back foot. Much better to pretend everything went exactly as planned, get credit for being the patron of the play, and spin a story about how the play as-performed does represent the Creed in a less literal way.

I’m sure that the Creed knew that executing Thjazi would galvanize some revolutionary sentiment, but it seemed worth the risk to keep the Tachonis happy. Now that blew up in everyone’s face, and I highly doubt that they’re going to go for another even more transparently political and broadly unpopular execution like two weeks later.

[ID: A digital drawing of Teor Pridesire and Kattigan Vale from Critical Role. They're standing together holding beer cans, Kattigan with his chin resting on Teor's shoulder and a hand on Teor's waist. They're both looking off to the right with unimpressed expressions as Kattigan asks "Do you know what the fuck they're all talking about?" and Teor responds "No." End description.]

The Sundered Houses executed the producer-playwright's brother last week

That brother was the leader of a failed revolution against the power of the Sundered Houses

This play is about a failed uprising of the orcs against Azgra, possibly the last one that failed before they were finally successful

Hal finished writing this over a month ago, well before Thjazi was arrested and executed. Dol-Makjar KNEW what this play was about.

Executing Thjazi a week before his brother opened a play about the glory of a failed revolutionary...this is an own goal on the part of the Sundered Houses.

Azune Nayar asked a friend to subtly judge how many of the fired Revolutionary Guard and other hired guards around town would be willing to stand against the Sundered Houses.

Over 350 people somehow heard the call and responded "Yes."

Dol-Makjar is where Azgra ruled. After he fell, it became the seat of the uprising against the Shapers. It is an orcish city.

Shadia, daughter of Halandil Fang and Thaisha Lloy, rehearsed with Pariah Blades disguised with paint. When the blades met, the ringing reverberated in the blood of every orc present, filling them with pride and vitality.

Shadia also painted the backdrops of the set with the paint her uncle sent via Bolaire.

The paint exhibits a very minor enchantment, but that minor enchantment is hiding a much larger magical effect. One that might be triggered by the performance of a play.

A play that is taking place in The Hallowed Round, what was previously known as the Dithyramb of Azgra. Where Azgra demanded worship and worked great scopes of magic. And when Hal casts magic there, in the language of the orcs, it's mostly stagecraft. Mostly.

The way the venue is shaped, sound travels from the stage throughout the city.

A city of orcs

Who will hear the ringing of the Pariah Blades

As an undetermined magical effect is triggered

During a play about the last failed orcish revolt

Written and produced by Halandil Fang

One week after his brother Thjazi was killed

and at least 350 veterans of his rebellion have already heard the Cry

Finished the Thaisha x Vaelus piece!!!

The uncensored full piece is out on Patreon, so please do have a snoop if you’re interested in supporting my art! I also have a free tier where I share sketches on my other WIPs.

I based this piece on a statue picture I saw on Pinterest. It was only meant to be a quick pose study sketches but the lesbianism took over haha

I am doing an occtis piece also based on a statue, and I really want to draw Azune so baddddd. Still gotta work on my personal comics work though, so can't do too much.

I think this is the first time l've been able to start and finish a full page illustration without having to take a weeks or even months long break ahah. I miss uni, but it did admittedly get in the way of my making art just for the sake of it.

My art comms are open on VGEN, so please do check that out if you're interested!

Aramán is a world without half-elves.

Well, at least since the last 4,000 years or so.

Because the thing is, I don't think Aramán had mixed ancestry kids, at least in the open, during the Shapers' reign. It would have been a conflict of interest between the Shapers, trying to decide who gets to claim the kid who's half of one's people and half of another's people.

But with groups like the druids who were already in hiding, you get the potential for mixing out of the Shapers' sight. And/or a place to send mixed kids that happen otherwise if you can spirit them away in time.

However, neutered as they were, the elves could not participate in secret mixed children simply because they couldn't beget kids without Sylandri's blessing.

Which, this also makes Hero an interesting case in that she's probably the first mixed ancestry in her bloodlines in a long while. Half-orcs and the like are probably only just starting to happen in bigger numbers now that there's been some generations of mixed cohabitation since the Shapers' fall.