Downfall - Finale | Critical Role - Bells Hells ep 101

[@seyeruoynepotsuj]

I have tried listening to the whole show like four or five times, but I've fallen asleep every time (late nights) so this highlight reel is CRITICAL for me! 💖

[@eraddication]

i fucking love The Emmisary so much you guys 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@patrickmiller7399]

Thank you, ive been looking for a full recap style show since marishararaygun stopped

[@andrewkocher428]

The music that plays during the transition to the epilogue, that soft but haunting music box theme, was completely perfect.

[@crystalpup9286]

God this trilogy was a masterpiece yet a lot emotionally. This story is going to stay with me for quite a while. Just these scenes makes my heart hurt all over again

[@vialikescats]

downfall was and is so beautiful! the story telling was so impactful

[@Havoc-kun]

You captured all of my own thoughts qnd feelings perfectly.

[@PotterFreak22]

That last two hours or so just absolutely ripped my heart to pieces then stomped on them. I can NEVER think of Apples the same way ever again! My sweet boy! This was A LOT to watch live, and A LOT to process after they ended. Took me a good long time to think about everything, how I felt about the gods (even more complicated now), how I felt about Ludinus, Cassida, Hayley and Topher, Purvan, everyone. This was an ABSOLUTE EXPERIENCE of a MASTERPIECE of D&D! I don’t think ANYTHING will EVER COME CLOSE to this beautiful story and wonderful characters.

[@alexanderball9080]

If calamity and downfall get animated my head may explode from excitement.

[@christaylor9929]

"Daddy's mad...." 🤣

[@Thinkingmakesitso.]

I loved how Laura played the Raven Queen and really want to know the backstory now!

[@agentapples2185]

Emissary was the Jesus of Exandria

[@dannybob42]

And a flying city falls, down. And I gotta say: Ludinus you're 0 for 3 man I don't think your plan worked too well I'm pretty sure you made it worse for you. It was a trolley problem, it was always a trolley problem that was escalated by archmages trying to preserve the God nuke that is the Factorum and the Betrayers who used the 'truce' to try and steal it for themselves - I wonder if the two who didn't show had a change of heart? Maybe for them winning was not more important than their family. And it is a tragedy for sure, a tragedy that weighed so hard on the Primes that they decided to lock themselves away so that their creations could survive. Kinda fitting that it was SILAHA - who was most vocal about preserving Aeor and considered allowing the Factorum to do its purpose - who was forced into the crossroads: save a sibling or save a city, they had an impossible choice and chose their family. And can we fault him for that? It was horrid that the innocents couldn't be saved, but either choice would've been horrible. It is a tragic irony that Cassida in her humility tried to save the innocents of Aeor and died horribly while Selena in her hubris doomed Aeor's people with her Wish and was spared, sadly their fate were due to the gods they were stood before at that moment. Brennan is too good as Asmodeus, I hate that guy so much, he didn't even have to kill her! She would've handed the scroll to him while he was disguised as Arcadia but noooo, he had to be the *absolute worst* - already willingly conspiring and trying to kill one of his siblings then sending demons to slaughter Trist's family and all refugees at Hawk's Hill - he just had to torture her so he could torture Trist and when his hubris fails him, he sulks and throws a tantrum. All of that just amplifies my worry for Fearne's soul, as well as making me wonder if Braius and Klask are really just fine with seeing all that? Like this is your guy? We need them lawyers though stat! The damage feats though were insane, and if this is just a fragment of what the gods can do why is Ludinus trying to let out something they all at the height of their power fear believing that it won't bother unleashing all that destruction on the rest of existence too? Baffling. Buuuuut if the Hells can get some of that Divine bolstering for the final fight it wouldn't go too amiss just putting it out there~ The completion of the character arcs was great though; Noshir how dare you use a childlike voice as the Emissary crosses the beyond, right in my emotions! Trist's slingshot moment was beautiful (the urge to hug Ashley Johnson has only increased after this episode she was going through it) and Emhira finally being accepted into the godly family was nice to see. Hope Slitch survived too, Emhira did willingly shed her form after all so he could still be intact. The dialogue throughout all three parts has been immense, and as much as I look forward to seeing the Hells again this could've easily gone another episode, what a trilogy it was.

[@starplatinumzawardo714]

Escalation? Without any archmages , gods have destroyed material plan and killed 2/3 of the Exandria population . You condemn Aeor, which tried to defend itself from the gods who destroyed every other flying city

[@dannybob42]

​@@starplatinumzawardo714 Avalir was destroyed by its own mages; Vespin, Hollow and Laerryn all led to its destruction and unleashed the Betrayer Gods back onto Exandria. The Primes only felled Aeor because Selena spread the info of how to build the Factorum to every wizard in the city, so yeah it's an escalation on the Archmage's part. Let's not pretend that Aeor wasn't tremendously fucked up pre-Calamity either; Care and Culling and rumors of nuking another flying city, and then to now with public hangings, restriction to aid and unethical experimentation - the Factorum was not made for self-defense, and mortals are not exempt for their part in the Calamity, they also killed, blighted and scarred the land and its people.

[@Billejeangirl30]

I feel bad that I forgot who Amaris is. Who's husband are they again?

[@CritRoleClips]

He’s a firbolg and is Trist’s/The Everlight’s husband :)

[@Billejeangirl30]

@@CritRoleClips That's what I thought but I wasn't sure. I'm trying to figure out...was the betrayer god pretending to be the husband the entire time or just at that moment. I'm confused about that.

[@IronUlysses]

@@Billejeangirl30 It's a natural trait of the lord of hells we also saw in EXU. He appears as whoever you see as the most beautiful person you know. Since they were losing mortal form, that's how what Trist saw. It's basically just his actual face

[@postbunnie]

1:01:57 Real eyes recognize real lies.