#cr4x17

when we first saw Vaelus's character art, a lot of people – myself included – speculated that she might be a drow due to her purple skin. after being introduced to the character, I personally hypothesized that maybe the death of Sylandri turned her from a wood/high elf into a drow. but now with the description of Hannan being bright blue and Maywyn being apple red I think elves in the world of Aramán are just fun colors Like That™

Gang we gotta get Dr. Talter and Dame Seremai to kiss by the end of this arc

Occtis Tachonis is Mirabel Madrigal if Abuela Alma was like actually evil

if we're correct in the assuming that the Stone of Nightsong is the "new source of calcidion", then what was the previous bit of calcidion used for the experiment with Tertia? the Stone of Nightsong is an ancient elven artifact made from celestial bone that lay deep in the heart of the elven hinterland and had to be stolen by one of Aramán's most premier thieves. what other bit of material so divine did Tachonis have access to and how? we know that Tansul left the psychopomp work usually given to celestials to House Tachonis, the Halovars have Aetheon in their basement, and most other celestials were dealt with soon after the Shaper's War. would the calcidion have come from one of their god's celestials or another's? actually, come to think of it, why use elven celestial material for an experiment having to do with Tansul's instruction and holy place? is it out of desperation and lack of material, or is it a deliberate manipulation of the process?

Brennan "Philosophy Major" Mulligan was really having fun playing Dr. Talter this week

so glad Matt picked the Daredevil subclass instead of Echo Knight like so many people expected/wanted. the idea of the spirit of a man whose corpse Julien desecrated being called to help him made me feel so icky

how does Speak with Dead work with a real, tangible cycle of reincarnation work? like this dude died within the past two weeks, but if you cast it on someone who believed in the Old Path, died decades ago, and has long since been reincarnated, what happens? does it just fail? probably. is their spirit in their new body pulled to you and compelled to answer? unlikely, but delicious

MURRAY INVENTED MESSAGE?