About Loquatius. After last episode, we’re all definitely eager to see where he fits into everything, especially in relation to the apparent conspiracy around Evandrin’s death.
The thing that really strikes me about this is - Sam has said he doesn’t think Loquatius has any secrets. Brennan has made it clear that HE knows Loquatius has secrets, but even when shady things are happening, Sam appears to be unaware. He has to ask Brennan what Loquatius knows about the reporter whose file is missing. At one point, when being accused of things, Sam even says “I legitimately don’t know what’s happening,” and Brennan says something along the lines of “You did a whole bunch of things I made up and didn’t tell you!”
What if they’re not joking? What if Loquatius is, say, on Patia’s list of “friends with bad memory”?
One of the hardest-hitting parts of this campaign right off the bat is how well Brennan and the players have established just how much these characters have to lose.
Nydas has his business empire, he’s a role model for young sorcerers like himself, and he has high hopes for the future of his city. He also has family in Cathmoira who he hasn’t seen in seven years. Cerrit has two kids who he will never get to see grow up. And not only will Zerxus’s son never have a chance to grow into the image of his father, but Zerxus has so little time to heal their fraught relationship before the end. Loquatius and Laerryn seem to be on the cusp of making amends, of rediscovering their feelings for one another or at least reaching peace. Laerryn is one step away from the greatest scientific achievement of her career, and Patia has just had promotion dangled in front of her by some of the most powerful people in Avalir.
They all have such promising futures ahead of them. Ideals, closure, and personal breakthroughs they may never reach. And even if they do, how long do they have before it’s gone?
Ok I understand it’s a crack pairing at this point but the dynamic of Opal x Cyrus is just very amusing to me. Unhinged maybe-evil princess and her himbo prince. The potential
I’m gonna be annoying for a moment but I have to talk about how good of a choice Nessun Dorma was as a Laerryn song.
So in the opera that it’s from - Turandot - the main character is a traveling prince who is trying to win a princess’s hand in marriage. The princess has declared that she will only marry a man who can solve three riddles. Anyone who fails is executed. The prince succeeds, but the princess is furious, so the prince suggests a new challenge. If the princess can guess his name by the morning, she can execute him. If she fails, they will be married. The princess declares to her kingdom that no one will sleep (“Nessun Dorma”) until the prince’s name is found. Furthermore, if it isn’t found, she’ll execute everyone in the kingdom.
Nessun Dorma is the song sung by the prince after that declaration. He is essentially celebrating his victory, insisting that by the morning, he will have won. But there’s one (incredibly eerie) line of the song, sung by the chorus of townspeople: “Il nome suo nessun saprá, e noi dovrem, ahime, morir!” - “No one will know his name, and we must, alas, die.”
In other words, it is a song sung by a man bent on victory, with complete disregard for the lives of the ordinary people whose fates he has also sealed.
Obviously, Laerryn’s motives are a bit more complex and not as blatantly selfish, but I thought it was fitting.
If I had a nickel for every time Lou Wilson played a dnd character who inherited the power of an ancient guardian dragon, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.
