Calamity Episode 3 | Exandria Unlimited Critical Role | Reaction & Review

[@BigDemolition]

As a parent, Travis' choice in the game, to immediately realize the stakes and leave to get his children, broke me. That was done so well and him finding the stones of recall "key'd to the mom".... beautiful. Here's hoping the final episode we get confirmation they are safe.

[@Stefan-xt5sk]

This actually happens in the next episode: As a son, the narration that Cerrit used his trained mind on solving the case of who his children were broke me. I spent a night crying on the sofa because I didn't want to settle back into the same old comfort of my bed. Afterwards I started making efforts to do more with my parents, scared of having a similar situation some time in the future. (noticing how much you missed when it's already too late)

[@camiart_casual]

I love your reactions so much! Just a small misunderstanding that Aabria later clarified: she was never gonna force the city to go anywhere, that's not her job or her decision anyway. She was just taking this once in a century opportunity to build a road, and they could later decide when and if to use it. That's why she called it a gift. (It still doesn't excuse what she did to the tree out of desperation, hubris, and grief, but there's also no reason to add more sins to her plate 😅)

[@BryanWasHere89]

Aabria is so talented! Laerryn is such a good anti-villain. I love how everyone (including Lou himself) thought Nydus was gonna be the one to start things. Then again, D20 fans know what happened last time Lou played a pirate-y character.

[@optimistprime3192]

*distant sounds of Chungledown Bim*

[@carlycchapman]

"There are a lot of stories in Exandria of mortals who stumbled their way into the Feywild and fell in love with an enchanting fairy that they met there. But there's one story of a fairy who stumbled into this world and fell in love." When I tell you I fucking LOST IT at that moment? I'm not even joking.

[@wyattfrye8262]

7:17 if you cast a spell first, bonus action or otherwise, the only other thing you can is use is a cantrip in terms of magical abilities. Unless, you multi class into fighter and use your action surge to cast 2 spells. Or you have a racial bonus that allows you to misty step like Elderon elves. Or your subclass allows it, tho I’m unaware which subclasses allow it. Or your dm is being nice.

[@elbruces]

Since we're being precise, Eladrin don't have a racial ability that allows them to cast Misty Step, they have a Fey Step ability which does the exact same thing but doesn't count as a spell at all. I only mention this because some races do get racial abilities to "cast" a particular spell, which would still be subject to those rules. Drow using Faerie Fire once they're 3rd level, for example; they get it for being Drow, but they're still casting a spell.

[@Desdemona-XI]

To my knowledge no subclasses allow it. Its a fixxed rule of 5e. Even sorcerer quickened spells are subject to this rule. However in critical role campaign 1 this was allowed by Matt up to level 2 spells instead of cantrips as the characters were ported from pathfinder which doesnt have the same limitations. But the rule was enforced properly in campaigns 2 and beyond. If you're allowed to do that in game your DM is being *extremely* generous. As that opens up some very brutal combos for casters, especially sorcerers and heavily tilts game balance right off the chart

[@commander515]

Such a crazy awesome episode...I love Marisha Ray and I will watch her play a cocky wizard any day. That being said, the moment when it dawns on her face (and Aabria's) about what the Gau'drashari will become in a thousand years (four tribes protecting the elemental rifts) gave me chills. So perfect.

[@elbruces]

Pretty awesome that Marisha would be the one to discover that the remnants of the Gau'drashari would someday only be known as the Ashari. I kinda saw that coming, but it's lovely to have it confirmed.

[@commander515]

@@elbruces Totally. Quite poetic, really.

[@mikelv1]

The rerelease of next Thursday’s stream on Twitch was pushed back an hour and a half. That means that we’ve got maybe a 6+ hour episode to wrap up this whole disaster.

[@virgil.alonso]

holy crap

[@masonguthrie1257]

So when will it start?

[@mikelv1]

@@masonguthrie1257 I think the same time, which is why the conclusion of a 6+ hour episode can be reached.

[@sophiel5559]

Luis was doing one of the last cr takeovers and coincided with last game day , signed off saying at the end they were playing till very late so I expect such a big episode :)

[@blazerheata6479]

@@sophiel5559 episode 3 and one of Luis' answers to a question was really telling...

[@AtomikaBlerd]

Laerryn is that perfect storm of unbridled genius, hubris, and guilt-born grief. It shaped her into this single focused, driven, brilliant architect arcane. But, you can see how it forced Quay away and how she shunted herself from others that ground her. Kudos to Aabria for this character. And kudos to Sam for really driving home how much he cared for her and played the patsy to her decisions out of love.

[@wyattfrye8262]

Nah she’s just a psychopath. She used her friend as a experiment and when that friend killed themselves after the experiment. She said “ohh no what a shame…… anyway time for the rest of this city to suffer the same fate”. That’s some cartoon villain level stuff if I’ve ever seen it. Even my insane wizard kobold wouldn’t do this if his friend gets killed

[@AtomikaBlerd]

@@wyattfrye8262 I think once Cerrit nails down how selfish she was, you see her back down from the ambitions. Even in the fight, once Quay showed her his face of fear, not at the tree but of her… she hesitated and stopped. She has the empathy and she does value her friends. It’s just on a razor thin scale with her ambition. She’s like the old Patton Oswald joke, “Science all about coulda; never about shoulda.” But, still psychopathy aside, you have to give Aabria credit for being the one to play such a hubristic character.

[@wyattfrye8262]

@@AtomikaBlerd oh yeah she backed down alright. Cuz that’s how Blight works… look if she had a different background then the one we see, then this wouldn’t be an issue. However, she got her friend killed from her experiment and she still wanted to go through with it. That’s a villain with no nuance.

[@gravetouched]

@@wyattfrye8262 he's not dead though. he's trapped. which is part of why she wanted to destroy the tree. she's working with incomplete information. she doesn't know that zerxus has made a deal with the devil, and she doesn't know what the tree is for. she only knows that it sucks up the city's energy for no apparent reason and interferes with her travel plans. when she found out evandrin is trapped there it made her want to destroy it even more to free him. but she still stopped and allowed herself to be grappled until it impaled quay and patia.

[@elbruces]

​@Wyatt Frye I don't think you know what the word "psychopath" means. Yeah, her friend died (?) from it, but he was a willing volunteer, a soldier who understood every risk factor they were possibly aware of. We send astronauts into space, and many of them have actually died. And then we do it again. So is NASA a flat-out villain, no nuance involved? From everything she knew, it should have worked. So this next time she sent a "toy" through instead of a person. In NASA terms, she moved from human to drone launches. That's not a villain. I'm guessing that it makes you feel morally superior to assign absolute black/white blame to characters in stories and to say so on the internet, but I'm here to tell you that you're not demonstrating that you're a better person here. You're not morally good for being unable to see that she's very different from a cartoon villain. Nobody will think you are a good person for saying that she is. So don't.

[@jonny-lancs1944]

Saw this in another vids comment section and it broke me so i'm here to spread the pain... I have no idea how next episode is going to go, but I can picture this little shrapnel of heartbreak being the epilogue of ExU Calamity Brennan: "In the silent devastation of the cities, sundered by the beginning of a new age - a Calamity - one city is not so silent. A quiet 'beep, beep, beep' can be heard underneath the rubble. In the hand of a corpse, a stone alights..." Kir: "Talon to Wingspan, Talon to Wingspan do you copy? Egghead and I made it to Cleareye... she... she wants to know if you're okay." Kir: "Talon to Wingspan, do you read?" Kir: "...Dad?"

[@elbruces]

Beats the other way around.

[@Justin-rb3tf]

😭

[@sweebos]

😬

[@jeroen92]

The reason Sam can't cast misty step there is because when you want to cast a bonus action spell you can't have used a leveled spell as your action. This is true for any class, not just bards.

[@SarahWheeleeTravels]

Question- if he casted a cantrip could he then bonus action misty step?

[@eliasapollo4131]

@@SarahWheeleeTravels I'm pretty sure yes, one cantrip and one levelled spell in one turn are perfectly fine, you just can't cast two levelled spells

[@EyebrowsGaming]

Is the spell action use tied to the spell being levelled or tied to expending a spellslot?

[@eliasapollo4131]

@@EyebrowsGaming they go hand in hand, only levelled spells use spell slots. But you can cast any spell during your action, including a cantrip. And only in that case can you cast a levelled spell for your BA

[@jeroen92]

@@SarahWheeleeTravels yes, the rule is that when you want to cast a spell as a bonus action, you can't cast any other leveled spells (spells that require a spell slot) on your turn.

[@andersoncg]

This episode was pure chaos and sorrow. The amount of lore that was delivered in this one was off the charts! Things are starting to get crazy. So much stuff can happen! Amazing reaction as aways!

[@dominicschneider3377]

Not all tables fallow this rule so it’s common for people not to know but there is a rule that states that you can’t cast 2 leveled spells in a single turn even if it’s a bonus action when they played vox machina they didn’t use this rule but they have been using it since mighty nein and on

[@ticozayas6430]

Was coming to say this as well, I'll add at most when you can bonus action leveled spell and then an action cantrip. in campaign one they played a varient rule that they could cast two leveled spells as long as one of them was a bonus action and one of them being a second level spell or lower

[@TaiLysana]

They did use this rule in Campaign 1, they homebrewed a feat to be able to do it, and even then you have to be 11th level and it maxes out at a 3rd level spell for your second spell.

[@teeseeuu]

The rule is that you can't cast another levelled spell if you used a bonus action to cast a spell that turn. You can cast as many levelled spells as you have actions or reactions to do so (action surge) provided you didn't cast one with a bonus action. Chapter 10 PHB: Bonus Action A spell cast with a bonus action is especially swift. You must use a bonus action on your turn to cast the spell, provided that you haven’t already taken a bonus action this turn. You can’t cast another spell during the same turn, except for a cantrip with a casting time of 1 action.

[@craigstarbird6915]

@@TaiLysana the homebrew feat was an after the fact addition for their original Taldorei sourcebook but none of the characters on the show ever took the feat. Matt added the rule because Pathfinder let’s PCs cast with all their actions so Matt didn’t want his players to feel weaker switching to 5e but then had to implement a limit when Tiberius went a little bonkers with high level quicken spells.

[@elbruces]

I agree, I wish they'd post close-ups of the mini's. This is another thing that Dimension20 has always been really good at, that CR needs to start doing. Here's hoping the cross-pollination of ideas (in addition to people) boosts both channels. I kinda feel like Brennan didn't expect someone to pull a Calamity-releasing move in episode 3, he was probably hoping they'd do that next episode. Which means he'll have to come up with even more crazy for the 4th episode. I can't imagine anyone hating on any of the players involved, every one of them is firing on all cylinders here... 1) I love that since Brennan highlighted Cerrit's dad-ness, as soon as things got too hot, Travis bugged out to beeline straight for protecting his children. Fuck splitting the party, he's got a more important mission now. Also that kinda feels like what Travis would do in that situation, not just his character, which is all the awww. 2) Sam is inserting these beautiful little RP touches here and there, which are bittersweet in and of themselves, but even more so knowing how it'll all end up. Also his usual little comic asides, but less so. Overall, Loquacious pulls at the heartstrings more than he tickles the funny-bone. Which is a first from what I've seen of Sam's characters (including all the one-shots). 3) Laerryn is trying to make her project happen with all the passion she can muster, which she's narratively built up and earned. I feel like Aabria is doing the only allowable example of "that's what my character would do." 4) Marisha is all in. Sure her character is a seeker of knowledge, but Patia will risk (maybe kill) herself and anyone else just to make Brennan drop more lore and exposition. Okay, that's the only other allowable example of "it's what my character would do." In fact, I wish I could have seen even more of those two wizard ladies tackling things together before all the shit hit all the fans, because they're such team goals. 5) 90% of the time, Lou is all about the good times, but when he drops the hammer into serious RP, he drops it *hard.* And he did it no less than twice in this episode, which has never happened before. Also, it was funny watching Nydus realize he'd started a PvP fight that he didn't have the heart to finish. 6) Luis is just lovely as always. No notes. Zerxus wears his heart on his sleeve, the world be damned (literally). It was also a lot of fun this episode watching him show off what a level-14 paladin can do, dropping 100+ damage turns on bitches. I really do hope we get to see Luis in more live-stream D&D shows after this.

[@SkyMcSparkle]

In my Saturday game that’s where I’ve been learning dnd the past year and we don’t do that at our table :) had no idea that was a GM call! Thanks for letting me know!

[@cristib2007]

The cast did an AMAZING job of fleshing out the characters. I honestly can't see why people would 'attack' a cast member on their performance, but I guess that's only because I'm new here. As for the entire story and how it was shaped...Brennan did such an amazing job of helming this entire story because honestly... this truly feels like the age of Arcanum apocalypse.

[@johncmousley]

this is my favourite cr mini-series, if they live I really want to see these characters again

[@HazardForge]

As someone who's played a Wizard to Level 20, I understand Laerryn's ambition.

[@wyattfrye8262]

Even after your friend kill’s themselves from your experiment you would continue on the same path to have the city suffer the same fate?

[@HazardForge]

@@wyattfrye8262 then it would be like, "I can't let my friend's sacrifice be in vain, I know it will work or something made it not work?" It's a sad fate for such hubris.

[@elbruces]

I'M MAX LEVEL, SO THERE'S NOTHING LEFT TO DO BUT RE-WRITE THE ENTIRE GAME WORLD NOW. Kind of why Mordenkainen makes a cameo in almost half of the adventure books.

[@Zombiewithabowtie]

"I want to bend reality to my will..."

[@eliasapollo4131]

@@wyattfrye8262 She didn't want to force Avalir to planar travel without their consent lmao, she just wanted to create the road so it'd be a possibility. And from everything she knew, the toy "successfully" travelling interplanar proved that it was possible now that she had the bow piece and everything else. She's *not* a good person obviously but that's what makes her a fun character, her scholarly ambition and arrogant confidence in her own skill and intelligence give her a complete blindspot for what's wise to do. These characters aren't supposed to be good guys, they're very flawed people (some more than others) who's fatal flaws (hubris for laerryn, a classic) make them do stupid messed up things. This is a tragedy, after all. Messing up gloriously is the whole point.

[@blotcho84]

"It had EVERYTHING" What a stellar episode! Great reaction as always! Everyone got a great moment.

[@Jon_FM]

This has been absolutely the most difficult series to tear your eyes away from. I went into last thursday saying I would just watch to the break and go to bed... 5 hours later... Welp this is going to be a rough one tomorrow.

[@lucasbrito3562]

"Kir listen to me..." That hits real deep

[@arvianworkshop7118]

THIS EPISODE HAVE EVERYTHING

[@kalebjernigan]

This episode was so fun live! I felt at home wearing my new critical role pride shirt while watching! I stayed up until 3 am watching cuz I was so hooked!

[@means_well]

I want the future EXU shows to focus on all the floating cities and what happens during the Calamity war. Imagine the same 6 players causing the apocalypse dozens of times. They'd be so funny and "in it" after a few times

[@peterireland4344]

This is a classic Shakespeare 4-acter. Act 4 is sheer madness and sorrow.

[@Daxthemonk]

High lvl dnd wizard combat is rocket tag so having dex for initiative is never a bad idea!

[@PaulGuy]

Hey, you do the same thing with crits that I do! I suggested it to my players because I've always thought that rolling double dice is really disappointing when you roll two 1's. I also let them use health potions as a bonus action, but they have to roll for the points healed, or they can use a full action and it does max healing. This has saved the rogue at least twice.

[@officedeldro4509]

this episode was pure chaos

[@skateshark]

This reaction video is fantastic! I love your authenticity!

[@ahunterohio]

This episode has literally everything. It was sooo good. I wish this was an animated series or maybe at least give it another series where they get to play as the heros who use the vestiges to end the calamity. My God this mini series is amazing.

[@TheFamilyLedger]

When he brought up the stones of recall, something occurred to me. It would be so cruel, and not at all out of character for Brennan in this, the story of calamity, to have the stones be planted there by the bad guys and to have them actually send the user somewhere bad, like hell for example.

[@SkyMcSparkle]

Eheheheh devious

[@djcowell91]

Running replies: 1. All my wizards are Dexy. Usually because I misspelled my goal... :-) 2. I implemented that max+single damage for the Wildemount game I'm running. I didn't think it through well because I have an assassin rogue. Every fight starts with an NPC exploding. 3. Yeah, without a special Exandria feat, if you cast a spell with a bonus action, then the only other spell you can cast is a cantrip. (exceptions apply) 4. You're feeling stressed during the first fight? Just wait! :-) 5. Even just the cut up bits of the end had me in tears again. Damn.

[@sweebos]

Thanks for the review ✌️💙 I love that wall in the background ✊

[@demonsxx]

In the rules as written if you use a bonus action to cast a spell you can only use your action to cast a cantrip. Critical role and other DMs may use house rules where you can do it, other DMs like Brennan follow the original rule, it's just preference of the DM.

[@reinpogo4601]

For 7:30, on page 202 of the PHB it states that "a spell cast with a bonus action is especially swift. You must use a bonus action on your turn to cast the spell, provided that you haven't already taken a bonus action this turn. You can't cast another spell during the same turn, except for a cantrip with a casting time of 1 action." Meaning that you in any given turn, no matter if it is a bonus action or an action, can only cast one spell using a spell slot.

[@kibert135]

Laeryn is not a psycho. She may have big ambitions and overlooks a lot due to those ambitions but she didn't force Evandrin to do anything. And she wants to create the OPTION for the city to travel to other planes. Also the apocolypse was way on its way without her.

[@Jon_FM]

She was arrogant, she thought they should be on the level of the gods in being able to travel wherever they may to explore and understand the world. I always think of the line in Jurassic Park that fits this so well. "Your [wizards] were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should." For me that defines this series. That doesn't necessarily make them crazy or bad but it also shows that pure search for knowledge at all costs has a price. Which is why I love Aabria remaining loyal to her character's motivations regardless of the consequences because that is what this character would do in the moment. She played it totally correct.

[@kibert135]

@@Jon_FM Totally agree with everything you say. I think for me it is how many people are willing to just look at her bad traits and paint her as some kind of evil. And even though SkyMcSparkle was the one who called Laeryn phsyco, she also talked about her demensions after the reaction. So I am not saying that she is hating on her without reason. So this is me seeing a lack of nuance in the fandom while talking about her and this comment section gave me the chance to talk about it. But by no means in Laeryn a perfect person without flaws. She has many flaws. But she is not the only one.

[@Jon_FM]

​@@kibert135 yeah I was agreeing with you. Though I would suggest that a lot of people do bad things for what they see as the right reason. It is why the Druids are afraid to tell the Wizards, Sam's points that the world betrayed the world is not wrong. Had they at least been somewhat honest with one another Laeryn does not do her dangerous scheme in the first place and Evanderin is still "alive". I mean it is the Age of Arcanum there are many people who fit the "Are we the baddies" meme.

[@mayaenglish5424]

Well not really, if she didn't destroy the tree it wouldn't have happened. Now WE know that the Calamity is inevitable because this is a prequel but that logic is based on Meta knowledge and doesn't track for in universe beings with rational minds and thoughts. This is the version of events that is now locked in, if she didn't do it, someone else would have, but only because the Calamity has to happen because this is a prequel. In this "Alternate" Universe of Exandria if you will, where the future isn't set in stone, her actions actually do matter, and she IS the problem and the Calamity could have been prevented if she had just stopped for a minute. Now Brennan just HAD to stab her ex husband because he's a button pusher lol, so I can't fully blame her at that specific moment, but I can blame her before that for not being rational and being extremely selfish and causing the Calamity. If she could have just waited for 5 seconds and let them investigate the tree then she wouldn't have caused the Calamity. If she hadn't destroyed the tree, then the Calamity still might not have succeeded. (Of course in this version of the story, then something ELSE would happen, someone else's buttons would get pushed and the Calamity would begin, but this being a prequel and therefore somewhat set in stone does not erase her responsibility for being the one to kick off the Calamity.)

[@natalyiatimoshenkova1273]

​@@mayaenglish5424 The point about Laeryn not "causing" the Calamity is important I think - the plan for taking out the Tree didn't *count* on her casting Blight on it. As it happens, hers was the straw that tipped things over the edge - but if she'd not done so, there were other plans afoot. What she *did* do was (at least potentially) squander a chance to either prevent/postpone the Calamity in this "version" of Exandria or - more likely - possibly save Avalir by using the Leywright to shift the city. I suppose it's *possible* that could still happen, but it seems unlikely. I wouldn't "blame" her for the Calamity, but I would "blame" her for being so blinded by pride and ambition that she didn't see the chance to save at least something from the coming disaster and instead just made things worse.

[@claian12]

So the Somnovum did with the Cognouza ward in Aeor what Laerryn wanted to do with Avalir, and succeeded. If it happens, will we end up with a fucked up Avalir in the Astral Sea in C3?

[@SkyMcSparkle]

I can see that being the case

[@Justin-rb3tf]

If I remember correctly Aeor stuff happened later on in the calamity. I wonder if Aabria’s aeormaton friend that tried to disintegrate Lou will download a bunch of data on the Leywrite and escape back to Aeor once Avalir falls. And that is the source of Aeor achieving the same thing Aabria wanted to accomplish, just decades later.

[@HenriqueErzinger]

You can only cast a second spell as a bonus action if it's a cantrip. Basically, you can only use slots once per turn. Sam couldn't use misty step because it's not a cantrip, and he had already cast dominate person as his action.

[@iceman10129]

Something about the last hourish of this gave me the feelings I have when I watch Little Nemo : Adventures in Slumberland. Jazama Pajama quick!!!

[@samjones3167]

Loving your reactions after I watch the episode. It feels wrong to watch this series for free 😂

[@HeMyNo]

Hey I noticed you seem a little confused about Sam not being allowed to cast Misty Step as a Bonus Action. So I just wanted to clarify why. In the Players Hand book, under Chapter 10 Spellcasting you will find Casting a Spell, Casting Time and Bonus Action. It states that: A spell cast with a bonus action is especially swift. You must use a bonus action on your turn to cast the spell, provided that you haven’t already taken a bonus action this turn. You can’t cast another spell during the same turn, except for a cantrip with a casting time of 1 action. So a rather obscure rule as it is not well documented elsewhere in the Players Handbook. And maybe your grope decide against the rule but I just wanted to clarify why couldn't Misty Step. It had noting to do with class It's just a spell casting rule. Hope it helped, Love the Video and have a great day :)

[@HeMyNo]

Also Just in case there is any confusion You can still cast 2 spell a turn, true the use of a Reaction or possible two Actions like the use of Second Wind from Fighter. It is only stated in Bonus Action that you cannot cast a spell during the same Turn, not Round. So if you had two possible Action you could use your second action to cast Misty Step as it is not a Bonus Action. a were Quirky rule indeed

[@Dreamklubdk]

Sky!! Stop beins so adorable!!! I lose my cool! No but honest I freaking love rewatch this with your comments! I have to check your dnd at some point since your reactions are always on point!!

[@What-lt3lj]

For the campaigns I DM, for crits I have them roll damage twice, then double the higher of the two.

[@means_well]

I run full damage die + rolled damage die for crits in the games I run. It's a great feeling, but balance becomes very very hard. I just recently came to the decision that my players can choose between the above or RAW. Mostly so I as a DM can stop one shotting my players with a lucky crit

[@TimdeVisser86]

7:20 Love your content! Would like to clear up that it's not allowed to cast two spells per turn, unless one of them is a cantrip. Even if one is a bonus action, two leveled spells is too many.

[@Vaerdun]

Do you have the entire lenght reaction to Calamity (and LoVM perhaps) where I can sub and relive this amazing story once more but via your superb energy by any chance?

[@SkyMcSparkle]

I think I’ve kept it I’ll look into what to do

[@jerseyhammer1951]

My understanding is you can't cast two leveled spells in the same round, so you can't cast for example healing word and cure wounds in the same round even though healing word is a bonus action spell. You can cast a leveled spell and a cantrip in the same same round.

[@AshEshyr]

literally nothing they could do to stop the calamity I am sure, if aabria didn't destoy the tree they stil would have caused the calamity because the tithe wasn't fulfilled and the pimordial would be released, if they stayed in the air to stop lycreasha hollow's plan then the primordial would still be released because the city didn't deposit mana city lands and isn't shorted its tithe then hollows plan does succeed and they are screwed there too, completely set up for failure in this tragedy so the fact that laerynn was the one who pushed the button doesn't really make a difference and just made her character more interesting.

[@AshEshyr]

oh also how can aabria NOT push it when brennan the shoulder devil that whole pvp encounter was going "hey laerynn! push the button! push it!"

[@craigstarbird6915]

@@AshEshyr even then he was also sitting as a devil on Zerxes and Patia’s shoulders that whole time too. Brennan set it up that no matter what really happened someone there would’ve had a reason to destroy the tree

[@AshEshyr]

@@craigstarbird6915 I know, even if noone in the party destroyed the tree it still probably would have been destroyed by someone else, just has more narrative significance if he can make it the players "fault"

[@elbruces]

@@AshEshyr Or Brennan would have had it happen through some other means. We knew going in that the Calamity was going to happen, one way or another. He just put the players in a room full of big red buttons and Aabria went first.

[@Desdemona-XI]

Its actually important to note that this isnt the entire calamity, its just one place at the beginning, while this is happening, betrayer gods are striking all over the world. The best potential result would be sparing avalir from the initial wave of destruction. But as the calamity raged on for two centuries, they doubtfully would've been able to save it for long. And the majority of the calamity would have happened without avalir at all, though the tree played a large role in shoring up the defenses. It also would have been prime target for every cultist in the world

[@mzcescapie]

I’m ngl every time you trash talked Laerryn i yelled back at you 😅

[@SkyMcSparkle]

All good!

[@thaesimir]

This freaking episode, oh my goddddds

[@3rddegreekachow702]

Holy smokes this lady is adorable lol

[@Vaillle]

Someone had to start the apocalypse, otherwise there would be no story. No redemption. Characters without flaws aren’t interesting. I loved the characters because they felt real for the era and location they were in. They were arrogant, selfish, liars and manipulators. They showed the viewer WHY the apocalypse was warranted during that time. They over reached and we’re blind to that fact, and so what followed made perfect sense. Calamity.

[@seannoble7665]

Not sure how you condensed this one into just 30 minutes.

[@SkyMcSparkle]

It was so hard