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We get to see a lot of this very directly during the ritual beneath Keziah’s hut but moments like these are all throughout the campaign.

When Farryn is asking the others/Jericho whether they think she did the right thing, Jericho has zero hesitation in saying she did. Even after the reveal of how wrong it went. He of all of them understands the desperate willingness to do anything for love.

Though they stand on opposite sides of faith, it is Lethica and Marius who most understand the other’s devotion and the importance that their respective gods hold to them (even if Lethica’s is performative in a sense).

Yorgrim assures Jericho that he isn’t at pure fault for what happened to him. Of course Yorgrim would understand the pain and guilt of finding out you’d been used for evil by someone you thought you could trust.

Briggsy, though generally less eloquent or gentle than the others, does his best to give Marius some sense of solidarity about his current state. Briggsy knows what it feels like to lose your self to a trick, to lose what made you feel alive and real and worth a damn. How they got here were a set of vastly different circumstances, but in the end they’re the same: they’re both monsters, creatures of the night, left alive for way too long for a single mistake they made.

It’s just,,, the crew does such an incredible job showing the progression of the closeness between these folks and how their stories and troubles intertwine. They all share so much more in common than their ransom note appearance as a group would suggest. Plucked from places around Avantris so distant from each other, none had ever been to (or even heard of) the homelands of the others.

But here they are, fighting together and growing closer and forming, as self stated by a few of them, a sort of family. They’re as mismatched as could be yet overcame that through the similarities in the things they’ve endured. In the comfort they’ve offered each other. Every “you’re not the only one” and “we’re all in this together” symbolises that.