#felderwin

veth/jester is not a ship i personally think about a lot, but i do think it's interesting and if i stumbled on a fic for it on ao3, I'd absolutely read it. it's maybe not my exact cup of tea, but i respect the hell out of it. that's real best friend yuri right there

i like wick/thimble a lot. i do. it's like--they way they don't get along is specifically compelling to me because while thimble obviously did not like this guy at first, i think wick's genuineness took the wind out of those sails (somewhat) and left behind like. annoyance. irritation. and a begrudging, growing sense of liking him. obviously he's still a dipshit, but he desperately wants thimble to like him and he keeps fucking it up so bad and she is like watching this trainwreck happen in front of her and it feels like she's become a little reluctantly endeared by it and that's so compelling and just FUN to me.

Sera/Dagna

I adore seradagna so much it's crazy. But like the canon of them it's fucking crumbs im turning into a delicious buffet in my mind. The fact that is an elf who is very unelfy and feels like she doesnt fit in x dwarf who is not very dwarfy and has to make a place for herself in a world where she is the only one (like the only dwarf!! in any circle!!). The fact that sera is afraid of magic but is cool if is "magic in a bottle you can use" or cool weapons and they bond over trying to make improbably cool weapons!! like getting a gf who makes u cool shit is so good cause indeed sera has many moments of "we should invent this!!" she did the bee jar!! i know they will have fun together. Also prankster + inventor u know the pranks are gonna be legendary. They are very cute but indeed they had like so little actual canon content i am in sadness

2. Merrill/Isabela

Felderwin, Wildemount: Felderwin is a farming town in the south of the Dwendalian Empire. Veth Brenatto of the Mighty Nein grew up here. The Mighty Nein visited after hearing it had been attacked during the War of Ash and Light.

image from explorer's guide to wildemount

Hupperdook, Wildemount: Hupperdook is a majority-gnome city in the Dwendalian Empire, known for technology. It also has a famously vibrant nightlife. The Mighty Nein passed through while working for the Gentleman, and stopped to help the Tinkertop and Schuster families.

(Source: https://twitter.com/VoiceOfOBrien/status/1086161304547602432?s=09)

“As we continue to invoke the beacon with extremely focused energy of different spectrums and sources (divine and arcane), the effects unleashed are ever curious, and reach far beyond this laboratory. The dunamis field often sightlessly encompassed an entire portion of the town, with locals complaining of an ill, sluggish sensation akin to being dragged down. Others at different experiments rumored of witnessing people and livestock moving at a noticeably faster or slower rate within entire sections of the city in proximity to the laboratory (rumors we squashed by spreading a batch of molded fruit crop).

“Based on our own previous experiments and extracted techniques from captured Kryn operatives, the abilities of dunamis and dunamancy within Xhorhas appears to focus around the manipulation of gravity, entropy, and time itself. Yet, while the basis of what dunamancy origin glyphs we were able to acquire show it to exist outside of the established schools of magic, there are similarities to the origins of some magics within the 8 schools that resemble dunamis. This magic, by my theory, is deeply rooted in or related to the ancient history of some arcana we take for granted. If these beacons are just the surface, what eons-old rituals have they lurking beneath their baneful citadel in Ghor Dranas? To think such vile underscum might be capable of making time and fate itself their slave is a terrible though.

“While I took the Kryn’s societal disposition of despising destiny and fate as mere philosophy, I’m beginning to believe it goes deeper than that. Between the fragments of power we’ve only begun to unlock within these beacons, and the apabilities of the Kryn on the battlefield, I surmise the have been learning to bend and break the threads of destiny for hundreds of years. Be this truth, I can’t imagine the Raven Queen looks down upon them favorably either, though the thought brings a laugh to my lips

“...Extremely difficult to work with. Attempts to isolate a substance capable containing and sustaining the dunamantic energies within a casing has proven both time-consuming and costly, but I believe it is only the beginning stages. While I find this alchemist obnoxious in his simplicity, the Academy’s eye for talent proves itself again, for at the very least his instincts are solid, and his intellect too limited for disloyalty.

“In these past weeks, we have successfully distilled a single vial that shouldd enable a temporary influx of dunamis to even an untrained solider. Once I can remove the beacon itself from the process, I hope to have this alchemist produce a number of batches over the next twelve to sixteen months, refining the method with each step until we can certify its use in combat.

“Word has found me of Trend finding a few of his proteges have a knack for early dunamancy, and I am eager to look over their findings and perchance fold these skills into my own. Imagine [what] could be accomplished by the Assembly should we further learn to command these [forces] of existence. The dreams are already thrilling.

Thanks to @Nerdsketchbook for this art piece! See the original at https://twitter.com/Nerdsketchbook/status/1087116369395625985

After avoiding it for as long as they could, The Mighty Nein has made their way back into the Dwendalian Empire. Never ones to do things part way, the party set their destination for Felderwin, the site of the most recent (and furthest west) Xhorhasian attack. Felderwin is also the nearest town to where Nott grew up as a member of a roving goblin clan. Upon arriving, the Nein realized that their visit would be much more complicated than checking up on Nott’s old friend, Yeza.

There is a lot of information that we just don’t know yet about the entire situation, and probably won’t until at least episode 49. Speculation, naturally, has been rife this week. We’re going to lay out everything that we do know related to Nott’s history, the Cerberus Assembly, Xhorhas, and dunamis, and how it all factors into where we left our band of adventurers.