EXU Calamity: What is a Villain?

[@Tricksterbelle]

I love that Calamity is such a tragedy in the Shakespearean sense about heroes in the Greek sense. These are not paragons of virtue we aspire to; these are powerful people who have done powerful things, and we see they WILL fall from those dizzying heights. We know the weakness that will push them over and we know it was an inevitable part of them. We see how their society was set up to fail. And the pathos comes from knowing that all their good intentions & conflicted natures & loving moments do not save them. You can be a powerful as possible and complicated as you want but tragedy still comes for you. And as an audience, we are asked to mourn with these powerful, complicated characters as their world ends

[@millefune]

RPGs aren’t a spectator sport for me, but I like your talk on villainy.

[@adorazagora]

I would love to hear your response to the finale. I also love how the villains in this story did not pursue evil, that you see the mix of good in their wrongs, that today I am sure all of them would be praised and justified by many even to the end. These moral questions are so important and such a struggle in our society.

[@shadowpsykie]

Your entire intro is wrong. The gods didn’t strike at the humans. Mankind reached too far

[@GarrettRobinson]

This is…completely wrong? Did you watch the show? Have you EVER watched Critical Role?

[@shadowpsykie]

@@GarrettRobinson yes I have. This story literally has Brennan say that the reason for the Calamity is that the humans in hubris reached too far, unleashing the betrayer gods. Saying “the gods struck out at mankind” is saying all the gods did so. But that’s not the case. It became the betrayer gods vs the prime deities and mankind. It’s not as clean and cut as your intro suggests.