#loquatius seelie

Why does Loquatius just feel like a combination of Scanlan and Taryon

QUAY!

POV: ur pretty ex husband is being too pretty :/

I want loquaerryn fan fiction.

They own my soul now.

*throws up some Laerynn/Loquatius ?? content that I threw on twitter*

(no beta we fall like Avalir)/also untitled

Laerynn knew when she took Quay’s hand beneath the arc of Issylran violets twined with gold that their time would together be finite. When they separated, she told herself that it was merely hastening the inevitable.

She stands here now surrounded by death and destruction with Loquatius’ arms wrapped around her, the scent of their blood mingling with ashes of Avalir. Her life’s work torn asunder. And yet, selfishly, she can’t regret anything. Instead of having to exist in a world without him, she can die in his arms.

captainofthetidesbreath:

Cerrit, expert lip reader: The Tree of Names…

Loquatius, giving Bardic Inspiration: I’m pretty sure— I’m no expert. I think he said “Tree of Gnomes” actually.

Cerrit, a nerd who paid attention in all his required history classes: *instantly annoyed enough to nat 20 for a total of 31 with Inspiration on the History check just to tell Loquatius he’s wrong*

Loquatius Seelie ✨✨✨✨

coramar-seelie:

I went to rewatch the IG story takeovers because hindsight can always be incredibly fun, and anyway I continue to be stupid for the Seelies.

When asked about his favorite PC, Sam says Loquatius has the strongest connection with Laerryn over anyone else at the table. When asked about how many NPCs she’ll be flirting with, Aabria says that she won’t be flirting with a single one.

It’s Quay’s “I love you” colliding with Laerryn’s “I won’t love another”. They loved each other but they didn’t know how to love each other or how to let the other know. And they’re both self-important arrogant mages in the twilight of the Age of Arcanum so they were never going to compromise on that front.

Their marriage imploded because they had such contrasting ways of showing their love that they convinced the other they didn’t love them enough, or at all.

“Free advice. Change your first name” -Loquatius Seelie

Loquatius WOULD be the drama

The Characters of Calamity

“I BEGIN SUMMONING A FIREBOLT”

…as one does with their ex

SAMUEL A BARD AGAIN

resistingtheborg:

PI had a thought about some of the details in Exandria Unlimited: Calamity recently. When I came upon it, I wanted to post it, and a few other thoughts asked if they could join in. So here you go!

As far as I know, Sam Riegel’s character in the current Bell’s Hells campaign, Fresh Cut Grass, is an Aeormaton. These are stated in-universe to have been constructed in the Pre-Calamity city of Aeor. And when I remembered that, I also remembered a detail about F.C.G. that saw a tiny bit of controversy after it started coming into play.

F.C.G. is a cleric, but he claims that all of his cleric abilities are built in. There aren’t any deities involved.

What brought this to mind? Well, in EXU: Calamity, we are introduced to a contemporary of Aeor: the flying city of Avalir. And in Avalir, the divine is treated with… well, if not an air of contempt, not much respect.

The first character we encounter is Zerxus Ilerez, the first knight of Avalir. Zerxus is a somewhat unorthodox paladin, in that he lacks what is mockingly referred to as an “intermediary,” instead drawing power from the people of Avalir themselves (as per the wiki. I can’t remember where this was stated in-episode). When a champion of the Raven Queen, the future legend Purvan Suul, appears, he is regarded as quaint, and people aren’t exactly impressed. Another player character, Patia Por’co, establishes her dim view of the divine within minutes of appearing onscreen.

Functionally, F.C.G. and Zerxus feel very similar, in that they are both classes commonly associated with the divine, produced in a culture and era without respect for the divine.

After this, we come around to the player characters. These people refer to themselves as the “Circle of Brass,” the people who don’t straight up run the city, but the “movers and shakers” who keep Avalir running. In the leadup to the first episode airing, Zerxus and police detective Cerrit Agrupnin were described as the “moral” members of the group. Indeed, the “greyest” action that Cerrit takes is to try and suppress investigation into something big and scary while he investigates on his own. Zerxus, for all that his relationship with his family is strained, comes across as a pretty stand-up guy.

Then we come around to the other characters.

Media magnate Loquatius Seelie turns on the charm whenever he’s on camera, but off of it he’s a bit of a political manipulator, choosing which officials to back and push towards glory–he even notes that he hopes one of them remembers “who put them” in their position. Beyond that, he’s kind of a jerk, and ditches his plus-one at a party in a situation that she has no idea how to deal with. He even makes fun of Purvan’s name!

(As an aside, I really want to see Bolo from Aeor and Aria the assistant hang out at some point)

The other really obvious bad egg is Nydas Okiro, a powerful merchant who, from the very first, is seen to be not a great person. When he needs to fill out an order for wands that he can’t yet, he draws from the school supplies that he maintains for a magic school. When people want payment for services rendered, he puts it off as long as he can. And ultimately, he’s even selling off excess aether (which appears to be illegal, though I’m not completely sure of the implications).

Remember Patia, from before? She’s in on it. When someone comes digging who it turns out shouldn’t know, she’s furious and goes looking for whoever leaked.

Even Laerryn Coramar-Seelie, Architect Arcane, is doing something behind the scenes. She’s excited for the upcoming Apogee due to what it means for a secret project of hers, and she desperately wants to get her hands on the celestial gold bow that’s a part of Cerrit’s investigation.

Zerxus is probably the only one of these people, who’s completely above-board, and even that’s in question considering how closely he works with them.

I saw someone referring to these guys as something along the lines of… “the villains of another campaign,” and it’s a very apt description.

Finally, I also saw a post talking about how everyone in the Circle of Brass is very knowledgeable about their genres, and they’re about to run into something that they straight up aren’t ready for. In particular, Cerrit is a hard-boiled noir detective, who’s going into a thriller. Except that I remember a movie my dad was watching a long time back, about a police investigation that turns up a more demonic culprit than they were expecting. Cerrit’s investigation involves a particularly dangerous wizard by the name of Vespin Chloris, who has gone missing lately… and who appears to threaten Cerrit from beyond a mirror at the tail-end of the episode.

Sounds like the setup for a horror story, if you ask me.

That’s not including Zerxus’s nightmare from the beginning of the episode–one that presents betrayer god Asmodeus (usually portrayed as a villain in Exandria) getting the snot kicked out of him by a surprisingly sinister Pelor. He’s been having these dreams for a while now, and in this latest one he sides with Asmodeus against the cruel and haughty Pelor. It seems that good and evil may be a little more complicated here than previously imagined…

… except.

We don’t know where the dreams are coming from. And we don’t know if they’re on the level.

And if it’s a portent of things to come? Who says that Zerxus will still be a hero when they do?

It’s really interesting stuff.