Lore You Should Know - Gods of Wildemount

[@freekashon2699]

Chris Perkins: "Tasha" Me and every other critter: *Facepalm*

[@shobruno]

I actually had to think it for a while. Then came the facepalm

[@tankhopper.]

Tasha - truly, one of the greatest characters of the Mighty Nein. *choir sounds*

[@MannyBrum]

I love that this happened on "Lore You Should Know".

[@nukerwolf7788]

@@tankhopper. oh that's where he got it

[@Humble_Goblin]

maybe it was a big brain hint at tasha's cauldron of everything?

[@GratuaCuun]

I think when Chris says the new one Rae is inspired by one of the characters I think he's meaning 1. Pike from the first campaign not Yasha and 2. Sarenrae aka The Everlight. But he can't say Sarenrae because that is a Pathfinder deity seeing as CR started in Pathfinder.

[@OctopusOwl]

This exactly. Just a bunch of Crossed wires in the moment.

[@Lngbrdninjamasta]

Thank you so much far answering this! I was wondering this and hadn't been able to buy locally yet so Rae was confusing

[@thedarkness125]

Of course, pikes character theme was atonement. Duh. Because he said the gods theme is atonement. Definatly nothing to do with yasha. Yall crit role folks are crazy people...yall just kinda choose to ignore what's actually said huh?

[@jpsob]

@@thedarkness125 yikes.

[@Sturmjaeger]

Exandria's gods practicing self-isolation before it was cool.

[@incitingariot9925]

I've been doing that since the early 2000s

[@Apollo9898LP]

Pike "Tasha" Trickfoot is my favorite character

[@goblinpopcorn1367]

"Rae" was a bring over from when they played pathfinder, she was Pikes deity. Yasha* follows Kord

[@brianmark2530]

Hey, I'm confused, I thought that Yasha followed the storm lord? Are these simply archetypes with interchangeable names/identities?

[@nicksilvestri4198]

he meant Pike, Rae, is serenrae or the everlight, tasha aka yasha worships (loosely) the stormlord, or Kord

[@JoeKeyes]

@@brianmark2530 What he listed are their actual names, The Stormlord, The Wildmother, etc., are just their descriptive names; a epithet, if you will.

[@brianmark2530]

@@JoeKeyes Thank you so much!

[@brianmark2530]

@@tgraposa3734 Thank you so much!

[@kindle9597]

20:40 He did the Uk'otoaaaah thing without realizing

[@JJJacey]

I love hearing Chris Perkins excitedly talking about Exandria, it feels strangely validating. I can really easily imagine him using the Luxon as a plot device to rebirth his T.O.R.C.H. party after he murders them all lol!

[@bluesy22]

One of my favorite parts of D&D character creation and lore in general.

[@youtubeseagull]

I don't think these people get it. Every one's talking about D&D, but for me this is about my addiction to Chris Perkins! Finally some reprieve!

[@sesimie]

Bidet to all the Critters and D&D folks!! Really happy this all is official D&D! Exandria (Tal'dorei) will always be where my first campaign was set in three years ago. But I grew up a Drizzt and Baldurs Gate Fan. Even Played The original Arcade game in the 80's as kid. Love to see it all merge!!

[@heatseekerx51]

Yeah, Ashley Johnson's great character "TASHA".

[@taylormanton3013]

🤦🏻‍♂️

[@JulianVJacobs]

honestly, we stan our queen Tasha

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

Wasn't she killed by Armus. ;)

[@b00m0ny0u]

I never even considered the Raven Queen when thinking about the Dynasty. Maybe a certain champion will show up to mess up the beacons...

[@Maztermox]

I like how you think.

[@80budokai]

Dungeons and Dragons, great video! Enjoy your Thursday! Chris Perkins, is a awesome!💯🙏👐

[@theouterlimits7788]

I said it before chris perkins need his own show on history channel just talking about dnd history.

[@adrog3434]

Perkins: "She is a god of death that, if not benign, is not evil" Kelemvor: Am i a joke to you ??? Love your work perkins :)

[@ANDELE3025]

Dont worry, she, like all others, will just be another tick on Jergals great list.

[@-austintacious-2400]

I love that Chris Perkins loves D&D so much that he knows his friend Matt Mercer’s world lore so well!

[@danjason3876]

It is cool to hear him talk about it, but he just helped produce the wildmount guide, so I would be surprised if he didn't have a good grasp on the lore.

[@geoffrose9647]

@4:51 Did... did he just say Ashley Johnson's character was "Tasha"?

[@shobruno]

And wasn't even talking about Yasha but Pyke

[@joelmills4304]

He crosswired a little there

[@cloudsteele1989]

This is great, but it is so weird to hear someone talking about this stuff who isn't Mercer.

[@Tselel]

Hello! I hail from the (relative) future with a possible explanation for the Tasha slip. I believe that at this time Chris would have been neck deep in material that was going into Tasha's Cauldron of Everything that would drop in Q4 2020. So while wrapping up this huge collaborative project for Wildemount, he was likely also thinking of another MASSIVE release coming upon the horizon. The common thread likely being "New things added to previously established, familiar canon with this new, very important sourcebook". My guess at the train of thought of this very busy man: Sarenrae ➡️ Pike ➡️ Ashley Johnson characters ➡️ Yasha ➡️ Tasha

[@yiklongtay6029]

This was a fun read thanks

[@mpschauster84]

Man, my brother; who has passed away, birthday is on 10/13 and his favorite D&D god was the Raven Queen. I know it is a coincidence that her holy day is that day but that was special for me just now

[@sohanrao8427]

Quazhoth sounds absolutely terrifying and amazing! Can't wait to use it >:)

[@joelmills4304]

He does but whenever I look at his moniker, the undermaw, I can only think of the end of the incredibles. "THE UNDERMINEEEERRR"

[@sisyphusstories]

Chris Perkins is the best

[@theunknownmax6571]

i actually found this video very interesting and hadn't seen it before.

[@blacksilketchings]

Sarenrae, (or the Everlight) not just Rae, is the goddess they brought over from Pathfinder (of redemption and patience) and it was for Ashley's character Pike . Yasha (not Tasha) is her campaign 2 character, unrelated to Sarenrae from Campaign 1.

[@Arkatox]

I believe Rae is intended to be short for Sarenrae, because Sarenrae is not owned by Wizards of the Coast.

[@Apollo9898LP]

Yeah but she is called Rae in this, because Sarenrae is not owned by WotC

[@platonicdescartes]

Can't wait for my book to arrive Tuesday.

[@cameronpearce5943]

The Luxon beacons work kinda like how non-Drow elves have past lives in The Realms, but also you'd wanna watch out for them jamming up the flow of souls from the Positive Energy plane

[@tyetnic]

Rae must be Dnd's version of Sarenrae.

[@tyetnic]

@@override367 well yeah. Paizo would have a fit.

[@Maztermox]

@@tyetnic Paizo = Pathfinder guy?

[@joelmills4304]

They were using pathfinder for a while before they started streaming.

[@skynight113]

So the everlight came from pathfinder right? That is where their game started before they streamed.

[@Arkatox]

Actually the very first one-shot used 4th edition, which might have inspired why Mercer utilized the Dawn War pantheon for his world. Ashley didn't join till their second or third game, when they were using Pathfinder, and that's how Sarenrae was added. Hope this didn't come off too "um, actually-y." I saw someone talking about the lore and meta history of the show and got excited.

[@GuardianofTwilight]

Do they ever explain if Bane, Vecna, Asmodeus, Kord, Pelor, etc are they SAME gods as the ones with the same name in Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk?

[@stephencarmickle]

I was just creating the pantheon for my campaign...maybe I can get some inspiration from this!

[@GDub137]

Did Perkins just call Ashley's character from campaign one Tasha? Lol

[@denvermiller5091]

In his defense, the names of the characters weren't part of the development of the book and he probably doesn't follow the show as closely lol

[@22ukiuki]

Also like he keeps a lot of information on his brain, he must know a lot, like A LOT of names because of all the writing he does for wtoc

[@totalignorance8415]

yasha is ashley johnson character not tasha. tasha got kill in season 1 ep 23 of star terk the next gen

[@TheAstonRapide]

4:54 You mean Pike?

[@dougpridgen9682]

I'm about to run my first 5e game and just read the chapter in the DMG about pantheons and gods, so this is a timely video. Although I'm using Ptolus combined with homebrew as my setting, the concepts are invaluable.

[@nukerwolf7788]

Ptolus?

[@parkerbrantley4356]

Perkins your awesome! But idk who Tasha was in Critical role. Sarenrea was made for Pike Trickfoot, a gnome cleric played by Ashley Johnson. Lol, probably just a slip up or confusing multiple things

[@ethankegley14]

yiggity Yasha :P Love to hear about this from Chris. Looking forward to TORCH Chris, sending love and good health for everyone

[@SamundraDarion]

I can HEAR MATT as he reads it.

[@SkCndy128]

Just as a clarification for anyone new who sees this and doesn't own the book yet Raei (The actual spelling) is a NG god of Atonement/Compassion that is under the light and life domain and they are represented with a humaniod figure and a feminine phoenix

[@SkCndy128]

David Campbell im talking about the wildemount book as in when Perkins refers to her as a deity in the setting of exandria. What i wrote is what’s in the book

[@Markcrazeer]

i`ll give you rae for the ever-light Perkins, but i don`t know where you got Tasha from? all i`ve ever heard is the gnome cleric pike trickfoot. and yasha the aasimaar barbarian follows kord the stormlord.

[@thecastleredfox978]

Got my book today! I love it so far, I should maybe watch CR someday

[@joelmills4304]

It's a mountain to climb but certainly a rewarding one. Especially if you want to DM a game in this world, as I ve only DM'd my friends session 0 so far but I already feel so connected to the world

[@ryanratchford2530]

I love critical role, so excited to get the Wildmount book. Do you have anymore CR discussion videos?

[@chrisoker]

can not wait for this book

[@sybariticcupboardrat3763]

The phrase 'vax is with who he should be' is HIGHLY debatable. Vax did NOT want that outcome that happened, he wanted to live the rest of his life with Keyleth. Liam also wanted Vax to get a happy ending, but he didn't want it to be cheap or outlandish or contrived. He accepted Vax's death because the realism of the story demanded it.

[@joeworker9742]

Torog would be perfect for a highlander Kurgan acolyte. Love it.

[@spartaneternal8423]

Hype. I am slightly worried this video might implicate potential spoilers for C2. I hope that’s most the cast though. Super hyped though.

[@havoclimb]

Did he say that Ray (Rae) was the god of Ashley's character Tasha? Is that the storm lord's true identity? Also what about Sarenrae? She was huge in C1.

[@TheAppalachianDragon]

Rae IS Sarenrae, he just mixed up Ashley's c1 and c2 characters. Sarenrae is a pathfinder diety, so matt had to rename her when working with Wizards of the Coast. The Stormlord is a pre-existing D&D Diety, Kord, who was featured a little in c1 while in Vasselheim.

[@munumun]

man I didnt notice I miss his voice. is he dm ing anything online nowadays?

[@JJJacey]

T.O.R.C.H is starting soon with him DMing Nathan Sharp, Anna Prosser, Mica Burton and another guy... I'm sorry I forget the 4th guy's name I'm terrible at names, there is a video all about it on the D&D main channel.

[@krim7]

1 year ago: Everyone discussing why Chris said Tasha instead of Yasha or Pike. 1 year later: Chris said Tasha because it rhymes with Yasha and he was working on a book called Tasha. Total slip of the tongue.

[@if-not-now]

Interesting connection

[@RudeGoat]

I did not know that Yasha's Diety was a new god. Interesting. C R stats are we aware of this?

[@Butterfly1025A]

He misspoke. Yasha’s deity is the Stormlord. He meant Pike’s deity from campaign 1.

[@TheAppalachianDragon]

He mixed up Yasha and Pike, Sarenrae is a god from another game (pathfinder) so matt had to rename her when working with Wizards of the Coast, so he just shortened it to Rae. Yasha worships kord, who is not a new diety.

[@mikeg8564]

Its widely believed he miss spoke. Rae is (now) Pikes god for legal reasons.

[@richarddufault]

For clarity, Ashley Johnson's character is Yasha, not Tasha.

[@flameknightdragon]

I think he was talking about Pike

[@jenweatherwax7113]

Chris Perkins ❤️❤️❤️

[@joelmills4304]

Perkins crosswired a bit here. He says tasha, referring to yasha, Ashley's campaign 2 character, who certainly does not worship rae. He was referring to pike. Also, she would be called sarenrae, but that name is copywrited by pathfinder

[@Liecham]

Exandria started as a pathfinder world wasn't it?

[@nukerwolf7788]

Homebrew exists in their own world not just one game so doesn't matter until it becomes published then companies and money gets involved.

[@kid14346]

Is wildmount part of the great wheel cosmology?

[@nukerwolf7788]

It's a setting so a different material plane then the forgotten realms but would be considered in the material plane. If you wanted to make it connected you could take it like how earth and Mars are different planets but is on the same plane of existence

[@Shaso-xv3tw]

When are we getting a guide to the 4e world

[@Ertenian]

As far as I know, Vecna failed to truly ascend - his final ascension was thwarted. He would be a demigod at best.

[@SpencerLee97]

He was technically a full on deity the moment he ascended, he just wasn't necessarily at his full power because he didn't have many worshipers. Which is why he was trying to make a big show of his attack on Vasselheim.

[@07dki]

No the ritual of seeding was successful he was a god he just was freshly ascended and so was less powerful than if he had been able to perform his 'miracle' to get more followers to empower him before he was sealed behind the divine gate

[@flameknightdragon]

@@SpencerLee97 he also did not have a full grasp of what he could do with his godly powers.

[@daldalron510]

Kelemvor, a non-evil deity of death. If you're going to ignore pieces of D&D history we're all doomed! :)

[@krim7]

Wee Jas was the official 3.x default goddess of death. But neither Kelemvor nor Wee jas were mysterious.

[@thedarkness125]

Was pike's character theme atonement? No? He probably didn't mean pike then. Is yasha's? Oh yeah? he probably meant yasha then.

[@hypersectomy]

tasha = yasha + trickfoot

[@StevoM08]

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD UP! Did Chris Perkins just drop CR spoilers? I'm pretty sure that Ray(SP?) bit is not what we know from the show. I thought Yasha's god was Kord, the Storm Lord.

[@TheAppalachianDragon]

No, he just mixed up Ashley's c1 and c2 characters. Pike worshipped Sarenrae, a diety that came with CR when they moved from pathfinder to D&D 5e for the stream, Matt had to shorten her name to Rae, as Sarenrae is copyrighted, and Wizards of the Coast does not have the rights to her.

[@dragonballtalk8527]

Please do a more magic the gathering campaign setting . Ask a.j pickett to help he's the main man

[@taxesranger7807]

"The Raven Queen is such an interesting God of Death" Kelemvor: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@Hdc3rd]

Yes. All forgotten realms gods are a joke

[@nukerwolf7788]

Oh ok just realized he is the god of death from a podcast I listen to to bad it doesn't do episodes anymore the story was very good

[@ravenimperatrix]

WTH? I thought Vecna was defeated from ascending?!?

[@SpencerLee97]

Vecna ascended, that's why he needed to be banished beyond the divine gate.

[@steelydan1]

Vecna was defeated at the end of campaign 1, but he managed to ascend before that, and was stopped before he could perform his first major "miracle," in his case the destruction of the holy city of Vasselheim.

[@ebonstone2980]

I was given a full list of Greyhawk deities to 'help' me design my own pantheon. I counted 69 gods(was too young for 'nice') and scrapped everything to may about a half dozen of God all Neutral aligned for all the World to worship(I really didn't want to deal with holy wars, so I mage 'The get-a-long-Gang' Gods. It fell on its face many times, and I improved hear and there, rewrote them to convert from 2e to 3e, ans again for 3.5 and PF. In all itterations they were meant to be a single pantheon for my World. I wasn't going to make pantheon for elves, dwarves and orcs that might only be tangentially used, and certainly not the Halfling and Gnome pantheons that NO ONE wanted to bother with. The PC's would follow within this one pantheon. Any outside the 'Circle Gods' sought to make their own machinations which would cross with even the most simple of task the Circle deities00and adventure could be born from it. I've renamed gods, broken the original pantheon and killed a few, and awaken several other, older deities. All of whom work in a tentative truce and mind their domains power. A few of these gods who elevated from mortals, many more are so very old and bidding their time until they could convert more mortals to their churchs. No one race is given any special treatment over the others. Sometimes they simply turn one away from seeking help that isn't there purview. An Elf or Warforged doesn't receive much help at the church of Morpheus when neither the elf nor warforged is capable of sleep. ---Done on 3 hours sleep. Forgive me.

[@KennethKeyn]

Um... who are Tasha and Rae? I know of Pike who follows Sarenrae and Yasha who follows the Storm Lord, but no Tasha or Rae.

[@TheAppalachianDragon]

Tasha was a flub on Perkins' side, but Rae is correct, Sarenrae is a pathfinder diety so they had to change her name

[@KennethKeyn]

@@TheAppalachianDragon Ah. Fair point.

[@ScrapperTBP]

Torag is an LG dwarven god in Pathfinder

[@krim7]

torAg is the dwarven god, torOg is the evil one :)

[@Gargboss]

No god of death who is not evil? I like the design of the Raven Queen and there surely were multiple reason to introduce her, but it's kind of sad how Kelemvor gets completly ignored as a neutral (beforehand even supportive) death god by now.

[@krim7]

Wee Jas too. But I think they wanted a more mysterious god of death.

[@bz7672]

I'm pretty sure I've seen this before

[@SpencerLee97]

It's weird hearing their real names and not their epithets

[@StarrL0rd89]

"the gods are genderless" isn't Lolth a goddess who puts a lot of value on being female.

[@Linkolnverse]

Quajath... sounds... Nine like, don't they?

[@ThePennySavers]

It was not Tasha....it was Pike from cp 1. If he was thinking of cp2 it's still not Tasha.... It's Yasha. Lol. Tasha's hideous laughter spell lol 😂

[@tygeron3145]

Raven Queen is different from the Critical Role Tal' Dorei and in Explorer's Guide to Wildemount

[@endfinum]

can.not.wait! ..... RELEASE THE KRAKEN!.... erm.. THE BOOK!!! RELEASE IT!

[@wolfbournethefirst5055]

Hearing literally anyone else explaining Exandria lore instead of Matt is so weird.

[@Wildwolface77]

Interesting...! :)

[@fallenangelrnewman]

Yasha not Tasha Chris 🙈

[@mikeg8564]

Actually Pike not Tasha

[@chriskeie1389]

Yasha*

[@ikeekieeki]

what! Vecna ascended?! what happened?!?!

[@ANDELE3025]

He ascended some 3 times to godhood (cults "finishing" the ritual he started, escape from ravenloft to nomm on a god and few divine items and last/least impressive of thye bunch 4es greyhawk campaign) and fell at least twice (first when a series of cults wanted to return him to true deific status which resulted in him getting stuck in ravenloft for a while, second time when attacking Sigil, but foiled by adventurers again). Much like how orcus spends more time trying to reclaim divinity than actually doing stuff when he achieves it.

[@JDNization]

Unless I'm missing something here, 'Rae' (I think you mean Sarenrae?) was created for Ashley Johnson's character Pike, not Tasha (which I think you mean Yasha, but that is campaign 2.)

[@TheAppalachianDragon]

You are correct. Sarenrae is a copyrighted Pathfinder Diety, who they kept when porting over to D&D 5e, so while working with Wizards of the Coast Matt has to shorten her name to Rae.

[@jasondevaughn6896]

Uk'otoa...... uk'otao

[@rayruckus4446]

I would have put Asmadeous as one of the prime Gods. Even though he is evil he is purely Lawful and,at least in my opinion would not join side with any beings that wished to spread Chaos.Whilst he longs to punish all mortality He is bound by the Pact Primeval.

[@xavierluciano874]

I’m not 100% but I thought it was Yasha not Tasha

[@raeriddle4785]

I am a deity!!!

[@mariaenevska8339]

Uk'otoaaaaa...

[@snarglblargn4986]

Ukotoaaaa

[@messiahmoose]

*ukotoa*

[@Jhakaro]

Guys guys, the man made a simple mistake, rela- DID HE JUST SAY TASHA!? Disliked, banned! Burning my books as we speak! How could they?

[@dominickfinch5693]

Uk’otoa

[@the_odinson5855]

Tasha? Lol

[@randaltron]

Chris made a mistake. Calm down, 🙄

[@_Junker]

Yeah it's not a big deal

[@nukerwolf7788]

Don't tell me what to do. I will send you straight to the sparrow king for that.