#exandrian lore

The thing is, I can already tell that there are going to be people who use what's happening in C3 as ammunition for an anti-pantheon interpretation. But I desperately want to grab those people and shake them telling them that "it's not the fault of the fucking gods."

Do you genuinely believe that the Wildmother, or the Everlight, or the Platinum Dragon are the type to tell religious leaders to go out and kill/silence/oppress anyone who disagrees with Vasselheim? Because based on what we know (based on previous appearances and that these gods are canonically good/neutral aligned) they would be against it!

But, of course, the gods can never win in this debate. Because if they don't do anything - they are apathetic or hubristic and deserve to be taken down a few notches for not caring about their creations. But if they do step in and do something - they are interfering with or restricting free will and deserve to be taken down a few notches for being too controlling.

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(as I'm typing this out I'm still in the middle of watching the episode so this is just a train of thought mental rant)

I love a good philosophical debate as much as the next guy, but there's something about the pro-god vs anti-god debates in the current campaign (and all the other campaigns too tbh) that hits different.

in our world, gods/god is more of a blind faith or theory but in exandria the pantheon is real. they exist. it's not up for debate that they are there and they have power and influence. some of them are good. most of them are bad. their followers are capable of good, and bad.

and that's true for the real world as well. as someone with a lot of religious trauma, i am always going to be on the side of caution when it comes to anybody exerting religious power over others, BUT -- especially for orym -- hearing someone who hasn't seen what ludinus has done and is willing to do to destroy the gods basically imply that he's just lost his way irritates me. in a good way.

it's never gonna be a "im right, you're wrong," clear cut answer, but like orym has said before, as noble as we can pretend ludinus' goals are, he has killed innocents, destroyed countless lives that were not involved in his beef with the gods. his ambition and cruelty and callousness is driven by his hatred of the gods, and that's just as bad as the pantheon preying on followers and non-believers alike.

Aasimar usually have human parents but are born aasimar thanks to being touched or blessed by an angel of the gods or the gods themselves

Eradicating the gods kinda sounds like it would lead to no continuation or at least a decline in the already rare aasimars. And who’s to say that once Predathos is done eating the gods and their celestial agents that it won’t turn around and start eating the much smaller pieces of divinity?

Who’s to say Da’leth - who we know doesn’t really have a “That’s too far” cap - won’t hunt aasimar down either. He has no qualms about killing holy/faithful people

If you don’t like the Bells Hells campaign…don’t watch it

This is not at all to be gatekeepy. If you’re going to watch this campaign strictly for the other campaign characters and then bitch about the bells hells or the storyline involving the past campaign characters, either don’t watch it or don’t bitch online.

If your dragging yourself through this campaign and you still hate it by episode 51, just give yourself a break my man. No one is making you watch it, you are free to go, enjoy what you enjoy and leave what you don’t in peace. Cause other people like it and you’re not the only one on the internet. I’ve said it before I’ll say it again, I am not a fan of the Mighty Nein campaign. Personally the characters aren’t my favs. But hey I’m not bitching about the new series, I’m not complaining about the inclusion of a couple characters into the Bells Hells narrative. Matt made an incredible intertwined world with characters that have connections across the world and the cast made incredible PC’s that have similar connections. Of course they’re going to connect, especially with a world ending situation like the current Apogee Solstice. I’m very excited for everyone excited for the animated series. I’m so proud of the cast for achieving this and I’m excited when they get to see their beloved characters again. This is still an actual play series with real people influenced by what’s happening, im so happy for them that they now have eight years of stories packed into this vast fictional world. It would be unrealistic if they didn’t create interconnected characters and if the characters somehow had similar interests. Just take a step back and look at what is happening, why it’s happening and how it affects others before you start complaining.