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And I'm William. This is the podcast where

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we talk about everything tabletop role-playing games. Today

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we are talking about Auril, the Frostmator. Hey

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Brian. Will, hello. Hello.

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Hello. Hi. Hi.

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What's up? I'm

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glad you were about to do a Dungeon Cast. You

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have, man. It's a weird energy to start with. What

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are we gonna do today, Will? Well, you know, it's,

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it's been rather hot here on the Dungeon

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Cast, if you ask me. Planes and primordials

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are fire. Most of

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the methods are very uncomfortable and hot.

2:04

The battlefields of Acheron seem like they

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were pretty sweaty places as well. So

2:08

I thought it'd be nice to cool things

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down and air out the show a bit

2:13

with the Queen of air-conditioning herself. We could

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just open the door to the studio and

2:17

let the cold Southern California winter air in,

2:19

which is to say t-shirt weather. I am

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wearing a tank top. But

2:25

you're right, it's cooler than normal. I

2:28

hope everybody's staying warm out there in other parts of the

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country that are fucked. Yeah. 15

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degrees in Dallas. Ooh, that's brutal.

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It gets worse the further you go. Yeah, I

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know. I know how it is and I do

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enjoy California weather. Except for during

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the summer in which it's a nightmare. It is

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pretty fucking hot. But

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we're not hot today. We're staying chill

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here at Dungeon Cast. Chill. Or real.

2:50

The goddess of winter and cold. Now

2:53

she is not a prince of elemental

2:55

evil, but she is both elemental-ish and

2:57

quite evil. So I think

2:59

she fits the year of the elemental pretty well. Regardless,

3:02

it's back to Faerun on this deities

3:04

and demigods episode of the Dungeon Cast.

3:06

Nice. O'Ril is the neutral evil, lesser

3:09

goddess of winter and cold in the

3:11

Faerunian pantheon. Although now I would actually

3:13

quantify her as more of a quasi-diety,

3:16

kind of like ball. That being said,

3:18

she's still categorized officially as a lesser

3:20

deity. But I'll kind of leave it

3:23

up to you to decide. Okay. She

3:26

is known by many names.

3:28

Lady Frostkiss, the Frostmaiden, Stormbringer,

3:30

the Frostsprite Queen, and the

3:32

Sovereign of Summer's End. She

3:35

is called Sakuruk by her few

3:37

worshipers among the Ellutuians

3:40

in the Great Glacier.

3:44

Wow. Ellut-illu-elutians.

3:47

Ellutians? Ellutions? Ellusions.

3:51

The, Frostsprite Queen is additionally seen as

3:53

being synonymous with the Queen of Air

3:55

and Darkness by some communities of fae,

3:58

such as those of the Shiverpine. Horace

4:00

in the Deep Wilde. Now this is a

4:02

point of some contention that Surprise has fourth

4:04

Edition or through who Are For He implied

4:07

that or real are in the Queen of

4:09

Air and Darkness were in fact the same

4:11

meaning in the world. Have Forgotten Realms? who

4:13

can? But with the Second Thundering and the

4:16

transition to Fyvie it became less clear if

4:18

this was true anymore. And according to Add

4:20

Greenwood on twitter, Or. X formerly

4:22

known as Twitter after the Thundering Ah the

4:24

Queen of Air Darkness with seem to be

4:27

only impersonating or role in order to retain

4:29

followers on tour Real. I bring this up

4:31

because I think having the two entities be

4:33

related in some ways a cool idea although

4:36

I totally understand why. Was he walked back

4:38

Every said in my current homebrew Dini can

4:40

be more I'm a player. The Winter Cream

4:42

Queen I eat Queen of Air Darkness is

4:44

a major plot point in her name was

4:47

revealed to be or real from ours is

4:49

probably not a coincidence as we are playing

4:51

Fourth Edition. Fisher. that's though

4:53

they think everything swats he stands for

4:55

was his of the coast Sassy, walk

4:57

it back of the coast of they

5:00

do with if they do do that

5:02

for on the embodiment of winters cruelty

5:04

and all of it's the deadliest aspects,

5:06

Lady Prosecutor has a heart of ice

5:08

to match or lethal. he called beauty

5:10

eternally preserved beneath a sheet of rhyme.

5:12

Though this is but one of her

5:14

many forms or real has been known

5:16

to take five distinct forms are the

5:18

first, the furious figure of action known

5:20

as the Froth. Mean the most frequently

5:23

seen Avatar in Orbit South and

5:25

East Free Room the Froth Written

5:27

appears as allies. Attractive human woman

5:29

with blue skin and nobody made

5:31

from ice and snow or free

5:33

flowing hair long and why? this

5:35

form where the find the clifford

5:37

gown and a mantle and with

5:39

a mantle of Fra swirling around

5:41

her? Okay with that. Does.

5:43

Cute! Yeah, she's wilderness. Next is

5:45

a Urls form known as the

5:48

Ice Dawn and impassive operation of

5:50

I see Imperial Majesty gliding silently

5:52

through the air the I Don't

5:54

Weird and A Money or Know

5:56

Any crown and hooked spurred armor

5:59

of opaque. Light Blue Ice is

6:01

I who cool. Ah five He presents

6:03

are real with three new avatars. Firstly

6:05

there is the cold crone who appears

6:08

have a seven foot or two point

6:10

one meter tall hunched why pedal creature

6:12

with a snowy owls head taught by

6:15

a pair of curled rams horns. Narrative

6:17

and this form she has club and

6:19

hooves arms extend ending in a in

6:22

black talent and grace white wolf for

6:24

covering her from the neck down. Her

6:26

second new form is known as if

6:28

he brittle made in. A ten

6:31

foot. Or three meter tall figure

6:33

a fearsome feminine aspect with the think

6:35

look have missed surrounding her and eyes

6:37

burn with a cold blue light made

6:40

entirely of ice and frost. Her body

6:42

crackles while she moves with Ac bleeds

6:44

growing from perform at odd angles and

6:46

breaking off after growing to on we

6:49

ever touched like liquid C O Two

6:51

I have not are like nitrogen or

6:53

whatever the fuck it that's it does

6:55

burn or imagine a word. yeah oral

6:58

third form is Cold Winters whoop or

7:00

the Queen of frozen. Tears by her

7:02

most devoted. it is a three foot

7:05

that's point nine, one meters in diameter

7:07

diamond of ice with facets and a

7:09

Spanish sharp point at the bottom. Hovering

7:12

in the air, the diamond contains Oros

7:14

divine spark, a radio and tenth cold

7:16

in every direction her voice seems to

7:19

emanate from. It's hard. To.

7:22

So arrogant, mean, supremely cold, unfeeling,

7:24

and apathetic or real is incapable

7:26

of true feelings of love, honor,

7:28

or other noble emotions. She feels

7:30

no mercy or compassion, and in

7:32

fact is sadistic in that she

7:35

takes great pleasure and torturing her

7:37

enemies and harassing her foes. she

7:40

wraps though she deems as offenders in blizzards

7:42

and drive them and seen with visions of

7:44

warm from the comforts of home oh mainly

7:47

seeking to kill them with the sheer bitter

7:49

cold there like forced to hang out and

7:51

they're like ah like if they had like

7:53

a merchant current they're like in there like

7:56

drinking from like the mead like to stay

7:58

alive now you ever heard of getting

8:00

trapped this isn't funny but like I get trapped

8:02

in blizzards in their car and they like drink

8:04

they had like a six-pack that they were like

8:06

toting around in their car like drink

8:08

it to survive well

8:10

I would imagine it would be detrimental to their survival

8:13

because it makes you feel warmer but it actually drops

8:15

your body temperature when you drink alcohol I think it's

8:17

like a long game thing where

8:19

they're like in their car and they I've been

8:21

in there for too long and they need to

8:23

eat yeah it's nutrient yeah okay in that case

8:26

yeah that sucks yeah terrible I've heard of that

8:28

that's what that's what your merchant ventures are doing

8:30

that I made it 30 days another but six

8:32

cans of beer apologies adventurer the

8:34

oral that's or else frowned upon you

8:38

in addition to this oh

8:40

wait despite feeling no love

8:42

the Frostmaiden is fascinated with and

8:44

adorns her ice with all forms

8:46

of beauty from natural wonders to

8:48

art objects to the artists themselves

8:50

the Frostmaiden freezes them in magical

8:53

ice preserving them from the ravages of time

8:55

and hoarding them away for her viewing pleasure

8:57

alone her ultimate goal is to

8:59

cover the realms and all other lands beneath her

9:02

ice and snow in

9:04

addition to this the ice goddess is notably

9:06

capricious fickle and unpredictable as a winter storm

9:08

at one moment calm and quiet as a

9:11

night and the next a raging fury of

9:13

sleet and ice fucking

9:15

crazy yeah I mean she's

9:18

a weather goddess you know and

9:20

the weather's fucking crazy yeah deities

9:23

highly reflect in the

9:25

most intense ways the thing which you know they

9:27

are domain of if you wait your oral is

9:29

asleep and you woke her up and so she

9:31

avalanche your ass as you were too loud I

9:35

just got avalanche no I'm stuck

9:38

in the snow pocket better drink this beer as

9:42

one might imagine or ill the merciless

9:44

goddess of cold and winter is worshiped

9:46

mostly in regions that are affected by

9:48

deep winters folk attempt

9:50

to appease or ill with offerings and

9:52

prayers for mercy her priests warn others

9:54

to prepare for winter and to stock

9:56

extra provisions in order to have some

9:59

despair as offering to the goddess. Few

10:02

favor Auril except for those who make their

10:04

livelihood from winter or those who truly love

10:06

the season. Her rare priests

10:08

tend to be folk who would before

10:10

their status likely be outcasts from their

10:13

communities. They practice celibacy and

10:15

remain aloof from others when not

10:17

serving in their official capacity. Okay,

10:19

so if you were going to

10:21

provide like an

10:23

offering to a random god on a mission,

10:25

on travel, this is a good one, right?

10:28

Yeah, if you're in wintery lands, yeah. Yeah, if

10:30

you're gonna like, I need to trek this tundra,

10:32

like better make an offering to the goddess. Yeah,

10:35

I know a lot of the sailors of

10:37

Faerun specifically will make offerings to both

10:39

saloon and oh gosh, what's

10:41

her name? I was

10:44

gonna say Zeboym, that's a dragon lance

10:46

deity. There's an

10:48

evil water goddess that they, she's

10:50

gonna come up in this episode too, she's one of the

10:53

fury gods which Auril is one of the fury gods as

10:55

well. Oh, spoilers. It's super alluding my

10:57

mind right now and but it's in the

10:59

notes. Yeah, we'll get there. We'll get there.

11:02

Luskin, pretty much the

11:04

most northern major city in Faerun has

11:06

a temple dedicated to Auril, the

11:09

white spired winter palace. The structure

11:11

is a ruthless array of pillars

11:13

and arches carved of white stone.

11:15

The rituals of Auril's worship often

11:17

seem cruel to outsiders. In Luskin,

11:19

visitors gather at the temple to watch

11:22

the frequent wet parades, a ritual in

11:24

which supplicants don garments packed with ice.

11:26

They then journey between six white pillars known

11:29

as the kisses of Auril which are dispersed

11:31

throughout the city. The worshippers move from

11:33

pillar to pillar chanting prayers to the goddess.

11:35

Upon reaching a pillar, a supplicant must climb

11:37

it and then kiss the lady touching lips

11:40

to a rusty iron plate at the top.

11:43

In Winter, these events resemble frantic foot races

11:45

with the added risk of frostbite and injuries

11:47

caused by falling from the slippery pillars. I

11:49

Was gonna say you can get really hurt

11:51

doing this. Oh Yeah, the parade renters are

11:53

cheered on by patrons who come out by

11:56

from nearby taverns to place bets on the

11:58

stamina of the participants. Finish

12:00

the race are thought to have helped make

12:02

winter easier and they rarely have to pay

12:04

for food or ale all winter long. Ah,

12:08

Okay, I guess who

12:10

like watching some fools go out

12:13

and like this is the exploitation

12:15

of poor people? My think oh

12:17

I mean big. Remember.

12:20

That the gods real in this. I

12:22

know like just about the out as

12:24

oral. It's like this is what they

12:26

want. I'm either or would laugh really

12:28

fucking hard of this and because she's

12:31

crazy growing years you might be like

12:33

yeah I'll go easy on. yeah I'd

12:35

really are dumb hard the guy broke

12:37

his leg fucking goober. are I see

12:39

the evil and light storm? Yeah a

12:41

superstitious are built with people are desperate

12:44

to survivor bullshit. I guess I'll save

12:46

my watermelon hail for another town and

12:48

month as peace. Me via. Their being

12:50

said, like someone who does this because

12:52

a superstition is real. they really are

12:54

kind of like a here, especially with

12:56

they feel like it works out and

12:58

are like fuck yeah Bob fucking did

13:00

this year node Bob doesn't pay for

13:03

sit. Above receive the city. You

13:05

were to have to remove this man's toes

13:07

and not charged medical bills. Fix that. Yeah.

13:10

With. The church

13:12

of Oral is a loosely organized in

13:14

a formal clergy dedicated to or ill

13:16

if he were to for women are

13:18

cleared silver real are mostly women and

13:21

are known as hill Bringer. oh hell

13:23

yeah cool me the absolutely most the

13:25

rather independent and wander the colder parts

13:27

of to Real on their own spreading

13:30

word and dogma of the goddess or

13:32

rules. Cleared were white a ice white

13:34

robes with blue trim and wide silver

13:36

colored built with a ceremonial act singing

13:39

from from. It. Upon

13:41

their heads they were a circuit of silver.

13:43

I thought the smoke meth it would be

13:45

a chill bringer. Two. Minutes Vivo.

13:47

I mean it is but it's not as

13:49

a lower Tc. Yeah well casey the Silver

13:52

years they they will leave a box with

13:54

the Smoke Method on your doorstep. For

13:56

the search of a real seeks

13:59

to make. All folk fear their

14:01

deity and her clergy through the fury

14:03

of winter weather. The also generate personal

14:05

wealth and influence by for performing tasks

14:07

the others cannot in the worst weather

14:10

and I magically protecting those who pay

14:12

or obey from the worst winter conditions.

14:14

Clergy members make an offering, have some

14:16

of the wealthy acquire by scattering it

14:18

in the falling snow of a storm

14:20

and throwing it through the cracks or

14:23

frozen river or place or crevice. The

14:25

basically. The clearest in

14:27

their goddess Bring the bad weather And then they

14:29

were the people by doing the things in their

14:31

bad weather only they can do can they're the

14:33

only with immune to that? That yeah that the

14:36

start of every meeting. Their like remember team. if

14:38

they prayer obey them they're okay. Awful

14:41

have been. Cleared

14:43

of a real work to establish

14:45

themselves as powerful as Oh yeah,

14:47

they worked to savage themselves as

14:49

powerful figures within tribes Or the

14:52

use this power to form a

14:54

colts and channel a tribes worship

14:56

away from. The traditional deities and towards

14:58

or real okay drivers taught to channel

15:00

their fury towards those not of the

15:02

tried as a way to be spared

15:04

the harshness of winter or to divide

15:07

and conquer or this inevitably leads to

15:09

the subverted tribe into a lie for

15:11

pillaging and reading. Sacrifices

15:14

to the froth mean are common, especially in

15:16

the north of people hooked to appease the

15:18

winter goddess in that avoid crippling a cold

15:20

winters. Travelers forced to travel in the winter

15:23

toss coins usually gold or silver coins into

15:25

a cold stream or the snow before embarking

15:27

into the cold. At the first sign of

15:29

winter, it is common for farmers to throw

15:32

some of their harvest into the North wind.

15:34

They can you imagine like looking into the

15:36

river and seen like a gold piece of

15:38

renown again and knowing doesn't don't fucking touch

15:40

it. Lord not are not knowing All and

15:43

then like. I don't think the gods are. Like.

15:45

okay with just your regular ignorant people

15:47

they like fuck up ignorant people anyway

15:50

right or real definitely what yeah like

15:52

just depends on the dprk like a

15:54

bomb and that vomit would find obama

15:56

be like home and i we see

15:58

my mister powell some Yeah, he

16:00

doesn't know okay old bro. Yeah, take

16:02

it. It's all good Now

16:04

maybe I'll maybe I'll throw the breeze against

16:07

his path today as a

16:09

punishment punishment, right? The

16:12

more fanatical members of her cult engage

16:14

in human sacrifice Human sacrifice

16:16

to the Frostmaiden are often left tied up

16:18

to perish from exposure to the cold or

16:20

drowned in ice cold ponds That's

16:23

a bummer. It's yes. She's evil. Those are bad

16:25

ways to die. They are Oral

16:27

uses frost giants and winter wolves to

16:30

deliver commands to her cults while frost wind

16:33

varargos which are kind of like winter

16:36

snow nymph ladies and

16:40

And hags are the handmaidens

16:42

of the frostmaiden. Okay Clerics

16:46

and other worshipers of the Frostmaiden make their

16:48

prayers during the coldest part of the day

16:50

or at midnight Prayers

16:52

are made while kneeling in deep snow or

16:54

in a cold stream for as long as

16:57

possible sometimes even an entire evening during

17:00

the winter months Individuals who approach

17:02

clerics for a blessing or

17:04

mercy from a real are expected to first

17:06

undergo a lengthy prayer called a cold Cleansing

17:08

this prayer involves the individual holding a large

17:10

piece of ice in their hands Praying

17:13

until it melts the prayer has to be

17:15

done outside in the cold and ideally in

17:17

the evening So she makes you

17:19

suffer that's like you want something. All right suffer

17:21

I was gonna say like this sounds like getting

17:24

into ice baths Yeah in the winter

17:26

time, you know people people have their ice baths

17:28

sitting on their patio and they just go out

17:30

there and break The top layer so they can

17:32

get in that's crazy. This is Russian people man.

17:34

They like birth their babies in that shit Somebody

17:40

punched their way out of a frozen lake that

17:42

like froze Oh, they got in it right somehow

17:44

But the video starts them punching out of it

17:46

and the guy climbs out and they're like, this

17:48

is how Russians are born Holy

17:52

days include midwinter night It's

17:55

the most holy night of the year for the clergy

17:57

a festival of ice dancing the last all night Druids

18:00

are also known to pay respect to the Frostbaiton on

18:02

this date because we've got to remember druids venerate

18:05

her too You know, she's a nature goddess. Yeah

18:07

snow is of the world indeed. So the

18:11

coming storm in the last storm and

18:13

inform in an Informal but

18:15

enthusiastically celebrated ritual where the priests gather

18:17

and call howling ice storms down on

18:19

a region to mark the onset and

18:21

end of winter. Oh, wow So

18:24

we hear groundhog day situation there O'rills

18:29

blessed tide or O'rills day

18:31

is a holiday held annually in the city

18:34

of Waterdeep on the first day of New Frost

18:36

in The year it's not so much a holiday

18:38

as a way to seek to appease the Frostbaiton

18:40

in hopes of a mild winter It

18:42

do be getting cold there on the coast An

18:45

individual wishing to become part of the

18:47

clergy must undergo a ritual called the

18:49

embracing The ritual requires the

18:51

applicant in only boots and a thin

18:53

robe to spend the evening exposed to

18:55

a raging blizzard Holy symbols

18:57

of a real are painted all over the

18:59

applicant's body The applicant is forbidden to use

19:01

any sort of magic to protect themselves from

19:03

the cold Those who survive

19:05

until morning are deemed worthy by O'rill and accept

19:08

it into her church the whole night I was

19:10

gonna say I was like, okay It's probably fun

19:12

to just go out there for like an hour

19:14

and be like all night, bro Oh all night

19:16

and body paint Yeah, and the only way you're

19:18

surviving is literally of oral Macy survived because you

19:21

will die otherwise Oh, that's

19:23

a fucking crazy one but it is

19:25

crazy to think that every single clergy

19:27

member if you if They're you're dealing

19:29

with them in your game like they've

19:31

all done this so they're all like

19:33

crazy and sanctioned by oil

19:35

Yeah, that's yeah, but they're all like crazy

19:38

and hardcore enough to do that shit. Yeah,

19:40

they're scary Well, I mean if the culture

19:42

of it is like well if you if

19:44

you prayed good and offered right then you'll

19:46

be fine No, except for except for

19:49

that's not true though. Like you can do all that in

19:51

a role could just be like, I don't care Uh,

19:53

yeah, that's true. Well, O'rill needs people

19:56

to do a ship. So she's probably

19:58

gonna want to pass crazy enough

20:00

people get through yeah okay they still have

20:02

to suffer like mightily to get through oh

20:05

yeah not and not I can't imagine everybody's

20:07

getting through no definitely not no are rails

20:09

like that they've got a warm heart fuck

20:11

them yeah basically I need cold-hearted bastards and

20:14

they know she wants to truly devoted a

20:17

clerics of the Frostmaiden are bestowed with cold

20:19

immunity powerful clerics have the

20:21

innate ability to duplicate the effects of the

20:23

ice storm spell and summon ice para elementals

20:25

Wow the church possesses

20:28

a magic artifact called the codicile

20:30

of white this is a magical book

20:32

containing basic rights ritual services in major

20:34

ceremonies of a real space the book

20:36

also has several pages devoted to the

20:38

goddess's favorite arcane magic is created as

20:40

a tool for a really in Wizards

20:42

and sorcerers to gain better understanding of

20:45

the faith wizards who are

20:47

loyal or worship the Frostmaiden are called cold

20:49

cloaks they serve or ill by

20:51

providing magical assistance to the clergy I like

20:53

a lot of the naming stuff they're doing

20:56

in this a lot of it sometimes I'll

20:58

poke fun at that type of stuff this has all been pretty

21:00

cool yeah it's all been good good naming no

21:02

ass or eater insight here no

21:05

no ball spawn no ball spawns ass

21:07

or eaters oh

21:12

no no no uh

21:14

no shut rings shut

21:17

rings over here let's

21:19

take a short okay

21:23

show being that's the story of how I

21:26

slew the shardal and dragon and sway the

21:28

heart of the ice goddess herself to lift

21:30

her curse upon the land Wow that was

21:32

that was a thrilling tale it sounds like

21:35

you had to cast a lot of spells

21:37

oh yes pull that off so many spells

21:39

Wow so many love to see one one

21:41

day you will yeah I'm sure

21:44

I'm sure you know you know you could cast

21:46

one right now and we could go back to

21:48

sleep and yeah I'd rather not honestly yeah you

21:50

know something could happen and we might need you

21:52

know I'm sorry while you were talking

21:54

I don't even think you noticed you were so lost in your

21:57

story and I was listening to the whole thing but there was

21:59

a full kitchen that appeared in the

22:01

lounge space. Oh wow. And I made breakfast

22:03

burritos. Amazing! You're a bacon

22:05

man if I'm right. I am a bacon

22:07

man. Bacon breakfast burrito food. Thank

22:10

you. You're welcome. I actually I'm more

22:12

of a ham. Ham

22:15

man myself. Ham is just bacon that isn't

22:17

cooked all the way. Well that's

22:19

a fine. It's a different, you know what don't

22:21

worry about it. You're right. So what?

22:24

So Garashk what are

22:26

we doing now, Bear? I don't know

22:28

those beds that generated here were super

22:30

comfy. Everything we need is just right

22:32

there. Yes but we can't rest on

22:34

our laurels. We must, we

22:37

must find your fourth and find the rest

22:39

of the shard. I'm not exhausted anymore. I

22:41

feel good and I think I'm ready to

22:43

go. Maybe the space and

22:46

our shards of fragments

22:49

of shards of sensual support. We've got

22:51

three now. Yes we do. They're all

22:54

sort of fusing together and breaking apart

22:56

as it seems they need to. But

22:58

maybe they can help us find like

23:00

you know the shards before. Yes

23:03

indeed. I do remember the

23:05

elemental chaos lightning skiffer

23:09

told us of a gift of our eye that

23:11

had a shard. That's right. That's what we were,

23:13

I thought that's the one we were tracking. Yes.

23:15

Then the whole acaron. Yeah then we acaron and

23:17

we found another one. So perhaps the

23:20

shards are so bound together. Perhaps we

23:22

should will these three to find this

23:25

gift of our eye. Oh there was a wash

23:27

basin and some um some oxy clean that generated

23:29

here. I did get that blood out of your

23:31

coat. Thank you. There was a lot of blood

23:33

on your coat. I killed a lot of people.

23:35

You killed so many people. Ben

23:38

listen to me. I'm sorry I'm listening. I need

23:40

you to paint. Okay.

23:43

I love to paint. Good. You know that. Yeah

23:46

I do. Get the

23:48

painting. What should I paint? Whatever you want.

23:50

I'm gonna paint the lounge. And I shall

23:52

take these three shards. Hold

23:54

them forthwith and

23:56

will them to take us to the place where we

23:59

need to go. It's

24:01

like who holds another? saw

24:03

someone coming off roger not

24:05

much more phone so. I

24:09

wonder what was up with that. The

24:11

duties is really didn't like the gives

24:13

rise you're reading. Oh Gail going to

24:16

move I got confuse because losing all

24:18

kinds of stuff on Nemesis isn't arts.

24:20

these incinerated over here next to my

24:22

canvas and there's all kinds of of

24:25

mediums and and and munitions and of

24:27

art supplies is not a pleasant M

24:29

C before. like what is this Zenith?

24:31

it's and some sort of strange hardwood,

24:34

somewhat flimsy casing and muscles hundred and

24:36

break the subtle cat pumps and is.

24:38

Something weeks and look at this

24:40

is multitude of Buddhism them either.

24:43

the I can't read whatever this

24:45

languages on the side of them.

24:47

Where do I look like an

24:49

artist who you are know you

24:51

are the artists suffering I ought

24:53

so that we can get this

24:55

going. Okay okay okay I go.

24:57

I'm drawing a drug. The lounge.

25:00

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25:03

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25:05

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25:07

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cursed ice Giant

28:23

jar how many? You

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guess how many? Whoever

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if there's a tie you got to tell

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good You know if it

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does come to a tie it'll be kind of hard for us

28:41

to parse that out like Categorizing which

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ones are truly red you know what I

28:45

mean hey, we'll do our best It

28:49

probably won't be there is mortal. Yeah, it's

28:51

all I would say we are we're so

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team of Gorgon help You

29:03

ready to get back to it yeah, I'm ready to get

29:05

back to all right back to a real a real use

29:08

she used to have a divine realm called Winters Hall

29:10

and Pandesmos the topmost

29:12

layer of pandemonium in the great wheel

29:15

cosmology what? I

29:17

didn't know pandemonium worked like that pandesmos

29:22

Whether that hall still exists or not

29:24

is unknown to me But

29:26

what is known to me is that she definitely

29:28

does not live there anywhere Okay The second sundering

29:30

did a number on quite a few of the

29:32

deities of the forgotten realms and the real is

29:35

definitely among this number Before we

29:37

get into her current domain. I must issue

29:39

a warning We are now crossing

29:41

into spoilers for the adventure module Icewind

29:44

Dale rhyme of the frostmaiden Ye

29:47

who wish not to hear such things should leave now You

29:50

have been warned even warned. It's these are cold

29:53

ass spoilers holes. I don't care about you That

29:55

that's the one with don't care about you mentioned

29:58

the owl with the horn yeah, and that That's

30:00

the all art for that book and I

30:02

was wondering if we were already in spoilers

30:04

for it. Not really We now now we

30:07

are about to be get ready for the

30:09

spoilers motherfucker So let us begin with

30:11

a quick recap of what the second thundering was. I know

30:13

we've talked about it a couple times But

30:16

as 5e was coming into production what see

30:18

wanted to put the 4e Pandora back

30:20

in its box and so To

30:22

do so they invoked the power of their writers to

30:25

create and write an event called the second thundering Which

30:27

would put mostly everything in the world of Forgotten Realms

30:29

back to where it was pre fourth edition

30:31

D&D It's like a crisis on infinite

30:33

earths kind of yes scenario Yes, not

30:36

everything made it back to whence it

30:38

came or did so completely unscathed But

30:40

the status quo was indeed again quite

30:42

quo in the eyes of 4e haters

30:44

walk it back of the coast In

30:47

lore in the lore though. What

30:49

happened was they got fucking sundered

30:52

again I can't believe we're being

30:54

sundered a second time Your

30:58

head down when ao the

31:00

over God everything dad my everything that destroyed

31:02

the tablets of faith at the conclusion of

31:04

the times Of troubles he instigated

31:06

the era of upheaval the

31:09

tablets defined the laws of realm space and

31:11

kept it relatively stable Without

31:13

them chaos ensued in the worlds

31:15

of a bearer toril Separated many

31:17

thousands of years ago slowly started

31:19

to overlap Also, the spell

31:22

plague happened and coincidentally drastically sped up

31:24

this process shout out to the spell

31:26

plague Basically ao made it.

31:28

Oh not my everything dad She

31:32

fucking he fucking scrapped up his fablets

31:34

of Tate There's

31:36

actually just the fablets of Tate are just Andrew Tate

31:38

telling you how to get more testosterone your diet and

31:40

like the most fantasy I don't want his name on

31:42

this show. How dare you probably cut it out, please?

31:46

Second sundering started with aos decision

31:48

to recreate the tablets of fate.

31:50

He realized I made a mistake

31:52

now We need these tabs, bro. Sorry and to

31:54

separate the worlds of a bear and toril once

31:56

more the deities were unsure of what this Would

31:58

do to them and their power And

32:00

made efforts using their most powerful servants

32:02

to prepare for the event Dad's

32:05

up to no good. He's all hands on deck.

32:07

It's gonna be big I thought

32:09

AO knows like all the stuff and

32:12

he's so he meant to do this

32:14

I mean, I don't know to me it

32:17

reads like a fuckup, but I don't know. Yeah

32:20

Long story short. He like crushed him and like

32:22

blew him out like Over

32:24

his head. Yeah Say hello

32:27

to fourth edition. That was cool.

32:29

Ah, oops. Oh yeah fourth edition

32:31

sucks. Damn Oh

32:33

shit, what have I done? Hey, Will wakes

32:35

up from a dead sleep. No, it doesn't

32:40

Just another dream goddamn it AO Long

32:43

story short over a 10-year period

32:45

the spell plague was fixed the

32:47

map of Faerun reverted to its old geography New

32:50

gods died or were ungodded old dead

32:52

gods were revived and regodded the world

32:54

axis Cosmology reverted back to the great

32:56

wheel cosmology and all gods were essentially

32:58

given a choice to either keep their

33:00

godly status but not be able to

33:02

interfere in the world directly say for

33:04

invoking aos wrath or Lose

33:07

a great deal of their divinity and power

33:09

but still be able to remain and affect

33:11

the world directly Shout

33:13

out to the spell plague again. That's a long

33:15

sentence most deities. What that was that one sentence

33:17

I can write a whole paragraph That

33:21

was on one breath, I think some of these

33:23

comments should probably be you're probably right Yeah, I

33:26

don't have an I don't have an editor for

33:28

this show. No, I think like it works the

33:30

way you read Yeah, no, it's fine I I

33:32

pulled the curtain back and so can you on

33:34

patreon you can look at the notes so true

33:37

most deities Chose the first

33:39

option Which was

33:41

we want to still be gods and

33:44

we swear we won't touch it again. Dad.

33:46

Sorry Sorry

33:49

dad, yeah, right you better be

33:51

fucking sorry don't move me

33:53

destroy the table to feed again six

33:55

addition sorry But

34:00

Some, for one reason or another, ended up on

34:02

the wrong side of the AO wall. Or

34:04

Ryl is one of these gods. And as

34:07

such, she has lost a great deal of

34:09

her original power. Her power level is still

34:11

listed as lesser deity on the Forgotten Realms

34:13

wiki, but I would argue that it should

34:15

probably be reduced to quasi-deity status, much like

34:17

Baal. But I will

34:20

let you decide. Yeah, Diggy, let us know

34:22

what you think. Yeah,

34:24

I poked and bugged Diggy for a couple things on

34:27

this, but I didn't ask him that question, and I

34:29

do want to know what he thinks. Or

34:31

Ryl the Frostmaiden, the divine embodiment of

34:34

winter's fury, has withdrawn to a far

34:36

cold corner of the world known as

34:38

Icewind Dale to live among mortals. Now

34:41

when I say Icewind Dale is really far

34:43

north, I want you to remember that we

34:46

just spoke about the city of Luskin, the

34:49

northernmost major city in February. If

34:51

Luskin is Vancouver, Canada, then Icewind

34:53

Dale is Fairbanks, Alaska. It

34:55

is very far up there. It's extra far. It's

34:57

super far up there, yeah. You got to spend

34:59

an extra seven days on a boat, on a

35:01

cruise ship. Something like that,

35:03

yeah. Now unfortunately for the denizens of Icewind

35:06

Dale, Oril has not merely moved in

35:08

next door. She has decided to

35:10

make her residency everyone else's problem, and it's

35:12

cast a terrible spell over Icewind Dale to

35:14

the detriment of most living things. I do

35:16

need to add here, I was talking to

35:18

Diggy about this, and he's of the opinion

35:20

that this is no longer occurring.

35:24

And we're going to get kind of into spoilers

35:27

on the rhyme of the Frostmaiden, because

35:29

that adventure can end in a

35:31

few ways. The

35:33

thing is we don't have anything at

35:35

all on Oril after the adventure. So

35:37

all we know is where she's at during

35:40

the adventure, and then of course more than

35:42

a couple of the

35:44

endings basically end with Oril still here doing her

35:47

shit. Yeah, if you guys want to know more

35:49

about Forgotten Realms-centric deities and gods and stuff, it's

35:51

Deedies of the Realms, right? It's Diggy's podcast? Uh,

35:53

religion in the realms. Religion in the realms. You

35:56

guys should go check out religion in the realms.

35:58

We'll link it in the description of this video.

36:00

episode too. Yeah. Thanks Diggy for your help and

36:02

he really is a good a good expert on

36:05

this stuff. You can check out, you

36:07

can talk to him in the discord

36:09

too. Yeah. Like our admin mod guy.

36:11

Yeah. So anyways, she's cast

36:14

a terrible spell over Icewind Dale to the

36:16

detriment of most living things. Each

36:18

night before midnight, Auril takes to the sky

36:20

on the back of a white rock. You

36:22

remember what rock is? Yeah, super mega big

36:24

eagle. Yeah, super mega big eagle. This one's

36:27

white. Yeah, this one's white and weaves her

36:29

spell which manifests as a shimmering curtain of

36:31

light, a beautiful aurora that illuminates the night

36:33

sky and fades before dawn. This

36:35

powerful magic prevents the next day's sun from

36:37

rising above the horizon, turning

36:40

midday into twilight and trapping Icewind Dale

36:42

in winter's dark embrace with

36:45

no sunlight or warmth to melt the snow and ice. Each

36:48

casting of the spell leaves the frost maiden

36:51

weakened with just enough divine power left

36:54

to barricade the mountain pass with blizzards and

36:56

churn the sea of moving ice with blistering

36:58

winds. Beautiful. So she's keeping everyone out. Okay.

37:02

So with her Wonderwall? Mm-hmm. Such

37:04

measures discourage travelers from approaching or leaving Icewind

37:06

Dale, further isolating the region. Icewind Dale has

37:08

thus been trapped in a different reality from

37:11

the rest of the world. For though the

37:13

sun never rises over the dale, it continues

37:15

to rise everywhere else. Interesting.

37:17

The people of Icewind Dale have to

37:20

come to call this state the Everlasting Rhyme.

37:22

No one understands why the frost maiden has

37:24

imposed her will in this way or why

37:26

the other gods refused to challenge her this

37:28

prolonged winter. So we're still,

37:30

I mean at this point I guess we're kind of

37:32

10 years into 5e, but I feel

37:34

like canonically we're still pretty early into the

37:37

gods aren't allowed to do shit. Oh

37:39

yeah. So Baldur's

37:41

Gate 3. Mild, mild, mild

37:44

spoilers for that, but like people pose

37:46

the question why don't the gods do

37:48

anything? And you kind of get spoiler

37:50

elminsters in the game and he's like,

37:52

well they kind of can't. And

37:55

yeah. That's a bummer. Yeah. So back

37:57

to this. This prolonged winter which is going

37:59

to gone on for more than two years threatens

38:01

to doom not just the flickering lights of

38:04

civilization known as ten towns but also the indigenous

38:06

flora and fauna that need sunlight in the change

38:08

of seasons to survive. Our El does not

38:10

give a shit. No, she does. Fuck that flora

38:12

and fauna. Yeah. Now

38:14

is she still here in Icewind Dale after the

38:16

adventure is over? I suppose that depends on how

38:19

your individual game went. As for the canonical ending,

38:21

it is unclear and this is essentially the most

38:23

up-to-date information that I have or any of us

38:25

have at the time of

38:27

us recording this. So I am

38:29

going to treat it as if she's still living in Icewind Dale

38:31

and still fucking everything up. Yeah. She's

38:35

about right. Yeah. And

38:37

also, again, spoilers for Frostmaiden, Rem

38:39

and Frostmaiden, is you can kill her but

38:43

in the DM notes it says if she dies, she

38:45

will come back and she will start doing this again. So

38:47

it's like she, to me, it reads

38:49

as if she's still up there. The same old

38:51

stuff. So no matter what happened, you are going

38:54

to have Arl doing weird shit there. Maybe

38:56

she ended the part where

38:58

everything is region locked. Yeah.

39:01

But she will still be up there probably. Yeah.

39:04

In her own little frozen bubble or whatever. Yeah.

39:07

Until we are told otherwise. Yeah. Orel

39:09

the Frostmaiden has retreated to a floating island of

39:11

ice and snow and

39:13

on it the fortress of Grimskow.

39:15

Grimskale. You've

39:20

been hanging out with me for too long. Grimskale.

39:23

Grimskale. Grimskale.

39:26

The tricky two, the libid six. Good.

39:30

Please get that. Oh no. I'm going to

39:32

keep it. I'm sorry. So

39:37

fortress of Grimskale built by

39:39

Frost Giants now serves

39:41

as her abode. Her presence makes

39:43

the island the most frigid place in the

39:45

far north. The cold is unbearable for many

39:48

visitors whose corpses become part of the island's

39:50

frozen decor. On

39:52

the island, Titanic icebergs bob and a churn

39:54

of black sea of unknown depth crashing

39:56

into one another with destructive results

39:58

using sheer force of will the frostmaiden

40:01

can anchor the island or cause it to slowly

40:03

drift about. For that reason, the

40:05

island doesn't appear on maps of the Sea of

40:07

Moving Ice because no one knows where it is

40:09

when. That's why they're all

40:11

crashing into each other because they're Titanic icebergs. The

40:16

island itself is named the Island of Solstice

40:18

and it is shaped like a snowflake with

40:20

six jagged arms of protrude out into the

40:23

sea. It

40:25

is a windswept place made primarily of

40:27

snow and ice. Grimscow

40:30

was constructed for a frost giant

40:32

queen named Vasa Vicken

40:34

and is filled with the remnants of her reign

40:37

including her corpse. It is

40:39

located dead center on

40:41

the Isle of Solstice set between gardens of

40:43

ice sculptures formed by the frostmaiden's ice magic.

40:46

The fortress resembles an imposing skull adorned with

40:49

a horned crown. The entirety of its structure

40:51

is formed of carved ice that emanates a

40:53

mist of icy air standing 600 feet. That's

40:57

180 meters tall from the

40:59

base peak. A Grimscow

41:01

has three levels along with a rooftop

41:03

that has well fortified battlements. O'Rill's

41:06

rock companion Iscra nests

41:09

atop the roof of Grimscow as

41:11

a number of ice mephits sit

41:13

along the walls like gargoyles and

41:15

a particularly intelligent giant walrus named

41:17

Akuma dwells within its dungeon. Oh

41:19

that's fucking cool. A giant

41:21

ice walrus. This is all a lot of

41:23

the sounds familiar. You've already told me that

41:25

you put mephits or I played in the

41:28

game where you put gargoyle ice mephits in.

41:30

I played in another one of your games

41:32

where I named something vague walrus. Yeah there's

41:34

a vague walrus monster that came out of

41:36

an ice lake. O'Rill

41:41

doesn't really have any friends only

41:43

enemies. In

41:46

earlier centuries O'Rill was a member of

41:48

the deities of fury along with Malar,

41:50

Umber Lee, that's the one I couldn't

41:52

think of earlier, and Talos and used

41:54

their combined destructive powers to inspire much

41:57

reverent fear and tribute. Her

41:59

relationship with Talos was said to be

42:01

a close and cordial one, but this was

42:03

no obstacle from his attempt to usurp her

42:05

following, and she preferred not to rely on

42:07

him due to his habit of responding

42:10

but then directing all the glory to himself. Meanwhile

42:13

she and Malar mutually hated each other. Umberly

42:16

was the only one she could cooperate with,

42:19

to some degree of confidence, but eventually the

42:21

wrathful sea goddess came to despise her enduring

42:23

cold, and the motionless sheets of ice her

42:25

roiling seas were turned into, forming an alliance

42:27

with the other gods of fury against her.

42:30

So she got kicked out of the band. Right. Yeah.

42:33

Like basically it's like her, like okay. She

42:35

was only invited because she was dating Talos. Talos

42:38

was a dick. They broke up. Her Malar

42:40

Ari didn't like each other, and then Umberly was like, you know

42:43

what, I don't like you either, so you gotta go. Yeah.

42:47

That tracks. So following- I think I've seen

42:49

that. Oh yeah? Yeah.

42:52

Following the spell flake, Orel gained significant

42:54

power by siphoning the face of

42:57

Ulu-Tiu, Eredre Fienia,

42:59

and Grump slash Talos into her own.

43:01

In addition to her classic portfolio of

43:03

cold and winter, the frostbating claimed dominion

43:06

over wind and storms bringing her into

43:08

direct conflict with the ancient primordial power

43:10

Akkadi. Shout out to the spell flake.

43:13

I got three on this app. You did. I mean

43:16

it's a Faerun episode that's super tight this second

43:18

thundering, so it's gonna be a great year. Oh

43:20

really? Shout out to Dima Gorgon and the spell flake.

43:23

We'll have to do an episode on the spell

43:25

flake. Yeah, an episode. Whatever the next- What do

43:27

you know about the spell flake? What do you

43:29

know about the spell flake? It was bad for

43:31

Mistra. It was super bad. Which

43:34

most things that happened to Mistra are very bad.

43:36

Yeah. Or Mistral. Or

43:38

Mistral. And the magic did bad. The

43:40

magic did bad. We'll have to- We've talked

43:42

about the spell flake quite a bit, but it just

43:44

keeps fucking coming up. We have, but we haven't. Like-

43:47

Right, exactly. Just like Dima Gorgon. This is a very

43:49

reminiscent of our first 100 episodes. Alright. We just don't

43:51

have a book with the spell flake on it. You

43:53

know what I mean? We're sitting in the

43:55

background of the video. We'll do an episode on the spell flake. We'll

43:58

be episode what? 400

44:00

spell plague okay, I'll try

44:02

hell. Yeah, I'll do it okay. No Our

44:06

real is shantaya our mortal enemies Don't

44:09

know if you remember who shantaya is she

44:12

a gla saloon and shars

44:15

They're on purpose daughter Huh

44:18

versus their accidental daughter which was a mistral

44:20

she is the earth. She's the spirit of

44:22

the earth, okay? And

44:24

she don't like a real girls makes her

44:26

cold. She don't like it. Yeah Constantly battling

44:28

each other that's why the other gods don't do anything

44:30

they can't do anything about it But they also wouldn't

44:33

because it called over there Sunae

44:35

opposes oral as she blames her for the destruction

44:37

of much that is beautiful Uskar

44:40

despises a real because the elk tribe

44:42

abandoned him for her face. Okay. I

44:45

mean I wouldn't like her either. Oh my followers regard

44:48

anymore At one stage

44:51

a real was in a relationship with Thrim

44:53

god of the frost Giants During

44:55

that time she became the mother of an

44:57

imperian daughter named nokara She's

44:59

a wanderer She'd just

45:01

be around Rl. Yes,

45:04

absolutely kind of Rome Roman. She's

45:06

like the wind Sound

45:08

these these fayroonian streets Indeed,

45:11

but not actually in the street. She likes in the

45:13

wild So

45:16

any anything you want any questions

45:18

about or real any any additives

45:20

comments concerns Cool

45:23

piece to play with cool cool to

45:25

have around. Yeah, very cool And

45:29

I don't know I'm mostly just

45:31

excited for our snowflake upset now All

45:34

right. Well with that being Phyllis get ready for a long

45:36

rest. Okay Everybody

45:47

want one of the long rest the part of the

45:49

episode where we kick back and get cold as hell

45:52

With the coldest motherfuckers in the game. It's

45:54

me and will that's what they say about

45:56

the dungeon They call this motherfuckers in the

45:58

game. Yep. They call him Jillium. Jillium

46:01

in... I don't got one for

46:03

Brian, I'm sorry. Just Brian. Jillium

46:05

in Brian. No,

46:10

Brime. Like Rime. They

46:13

call him Brycey. But there we

46:15

go! Jillium Brycey, I hate it.

46:17

It's terrible. It's the worst. Oh

46:20

man, that would be a cool shirt.

46:23

Anyway, I'm just gonna say that a bunch and like maybe

46:25

one of them will make it to the thing. Maybe.

46:29

Okay, so these

46:32

slippies, I have blocks of ice that

46:34

I've melted my feet into. I'm

46:38

gonna lose them. I'm gonna lose all these toes. Well, you

46:40

know, that's what Ora would want. That's what Ora would want.

46:43

But if I make it through the night with

46:45

these slippies on, they'll be impervious to getting cold

46:47

ever again. That's true. And I can make ice

46:49

methods come out of my pinky

46:51

toenail. It's really gross. Poof,

46:54

poof. The tiniest ice methods. They'll stab you,

46:56

stab you. They'll look like the crust on

46:58

the side of the market freezers

47:00

that I used to eat. I hate where this

47:02

is going. Remember

47:04

that YouTube comment where somebody was like, I used to do that,

47:06

bro. They also used to eat

47:09

the ice from the Ring of Winter thing.

47:11

I do, I do. I was a weird

47:13

kid. Okay, well, they

47:15

had those long ones that were like the

47:18

size of an entire aisle that would

47:20

just run down the middle of what frozen section

47:22

or whatever. It's just exposed. The whole thing's got

47:25

a delicious looking ice crust. I've

47:30

never looked at me like, oh, that's

47:32

definitely a feeling I get. You

47:34

know, when you're seven, it's that things look

47:36

different. Yeah, you look different when you're seven.

47:39

Yeah. Like look at the waffle container over

47:41

here. It's got a lot of ice

47:43

crystals. So a quick

47:45

update on my dragon turtle, Sally. A

47:48

boy named Sally, we're just leaning into

47:51

that. He is surviving

47:53

the, the, we do have like freezing temperatures at

47:56

night and they just burrow below the frost line.

47:58

I did put like a, I installed some. heating

48:00

out there. We had some power out

48:02

there again, put the heater up, building

48:04

a new enclosure. So there hasn't

48:07

been a lot of Sally updates. They're not very active

48:09

right now. They come out and absorb that

48:11

precious sunlight. I looked out there, I went

48:13

to go get Waters, and I looked

48:16

outside the studio for Sally and did not

48:18

see Sally yet.

48:21

But next time I get a good photo

48:23

op, I'll put it up there. You can

48:25

follow me on Sound Good, Inc. on Instagram,

48:27

or I guess threads, because everybody got an

48:29

auto account for threads that has an Instagram.

48:33

I was thinking about live tweeting my

48:35

at-home games. I

48:37

think that would be a fun thing for

48:39

content on threads. So what, just grab a

48:41

shot? Hey, we're about to play? We're about

48:43

to play as

48:45

my cleric just became invisible and

48:47

let a guy die. That's

48:49

something that happened once. Well, I can't wait to play, because

48:52

it sounds like a fun game. I'll just throw some

48:55

snippets of stuff into the, as

48:57

we play. That might be

48:59

a fun thing I might do. I'll take a group

49:01

photo of us at the table. I got to start

49:03

getting back to that. I used to do that when

49:05

we play. I'd be like, okay, everybody group photo. I

49:07

should start doing that again every time I play D&D.

49:09

I have a slideshow of groups.

49:12

It sounds good. Absolutely. But yeah, you

49:14

can expect that from me on there.

49:16

Not much. We

49:19

have other social media though that is like

49:21

more show centric. It is very true. The

49:23

dungeon guests can be followed on Instagram, threads,

49:26

mastodon. We have a discord. All

49:28

links are in the description. I'm

49:30

trying to be more active on the various social

49:33

medias. I'm probably the most active on discord, but

49:35

the discord is more about the community than it

49:37

is about us. So I highly recommend you guys

49:39

go there if you want to be part

49:41

of a really cool D&D community that loves

49:44

D&D and is super friendly. Yeah,

49:46

absolutely. I agree with all of that. You want

49:49

to read some YouTube comments? Yeah, let's do it.

49:54

Will did the tragedy of Zario the Fallen. That's got

49:56

a ton of comments, but they're all the same. Do

49:58

more of these. This was awesome. Right. When

50:00

you do look at comments make sure to shut

50:02

off the ones that you haven't

50:05

responded to. Oh, I always do. Okay Yeah,

50:07

cuz they miss all the fun comments that

50:09

we left. Yes Let's

50:11

see, how about the elemental chow should we read

50:14

comments? Yeah, let's do it or

50:16

nine most ridiculous items of magic

50:18

items D&D whichever you want. Okay, let's do

50:20

the chow Let's

50:22

see comments on the chow Let's

50:26

see here. Yep. Let's click. I

50:29

haven't responded I'm reading these like

50:31

when you do YouTube content you

50:33

get access to this app YouTube

50:36

studio app we can like view all our

50:38

staff and stuff in there I'm sure if

50:40

you guys follow other youtubers, they like screenshot

50:42

analytics from there sometimes Let's

50:45

see. We got crow with teeth 7693

50:48

says I'd love an episode about traps hazards

50:50

and puzzles. It's one of those things That's

50:52

hard to really learn as a new DM.

50:54

I agree which is why I suggested it.

50:56

So we're gonna just heart and Thumb

50:59

all these as I read them Matt

51:01

Castleberry 15th. Oh and we

51:03

will do that episode I think right? Yeah. Yeah, it'll

51:06

come up this year at some point

51:08

We will fit it in think

51:11

Matt Castleberry 1542

51:13

says think them think them gotta think them all

51:15

gotta think them all patreons I think I

51:17

still really want to do that song where

51:19

we Pokemon rap style. Yeah, I am super

51:22

into it our

51:24

Kia luna 404

51:27

I swear I read that wrong 404 3 says it's

51:29

the year of the elemental party face

51:31

emote. Yeah, it is Preston

51:33

G Garner 8 796 says are

51:35

you gonna talk about the positive

51:37

plane and the negative plane eventually

51:40

eventually? um

51:42

Little crow whitey says I love

51:44

for II and I'm glad somebody else has

51:46

noticed and talked about how much for II

51:49

Actually did for D&D mythology and cosmology

51:52

not saying it was a non-existent before

51:54

because it most certainly was present But

51:56

it was cobbled together over years of

51:58

core books splat books Magazines

52:00

side books, etc.

52:03

For he tried to bring an altogether in

52:05

the core books and fleshed out different aspects

52:07

that hadn't ever been fleshed out before, though

52:10

it has also left some stuff outs like

52:12

The Fall I'm A Chart. Even. Though

52:14

Fyvie and one day in the are both trying to

52:16

do away with it. As a

52:19

concrete axis and more of a background

52:21

tertiary aspect of the game I've been

52:23

a strong proponent of for a since

52:25

shortly after it released at when my

52:27

rogue pulled an enemy moves that was

52:29

hi this lox ah swear say I

52:31

you are you a cool enemy move

52:33

for ease the addition for you one

52:35

hundred percent all cool animals and my

52:37

lover. That era has only strengthened over

52:39

the years I especially loved for he

52:41

did for spirits and animism. Ah,

52:44

Indian the and that's one of the things

52:46

I saw that strongly inspired me to world

52:48

build myself. So yeah, I. Want to lose

52:50

a. Nice. Long comment but

52:53

nice one. Good good stuff. Little

52:55

Coetzee a one two three The

52:57

Big Dogs says so I dm

52:59

the game where a while back

53:01

with the evil earth elemental Augur

53:03

mop or Ogre mop ogre mouth.

53:05

It was a fun game. Hell.

53:07

Yeah, hell yeah hell yeah. Onyx D.

53:09

Dixon says there's a Spencer's next to

53:12

a hard topic at my nearby more

53:14

with our god would have what we're

53:16

even talking about episode were like the

53:19

shadow falmouth a while. oh yeah that

53:21

yeah can see matters is so morally

53:23

ambiguous and everything that they have in

53:26

their store or yeah yeah, by like

53:28

at one point you could buy like

53:30

fucking Confederate flag stuff but plugs like

53:33

lava lamps like Bob Marley posters? yeah

53:35

was just like whatever. Yeah, I. Don't

53:37

have fences and you know you can

53:40

find the hot topic Grey Black F

53:42

read I read lots of enemies of

53:44

the enemy. Like animist of these lionesses.

53:47

Ah, andy

53:49

english for three or three said oh

53:51

the got doc brown as their profile

53:53

bunch of ethical a genie appear to

53:55

for his monster manual to wow merits

53:57

and dow eventually shut up in dungeon

53:59

magazine apparently they saw having one genie

54:01

type for each of the four elements

54:03

was redundant and just kept the ones

54:05

most commonly fought and the ones most

54:07

commonly friendly to the party. Yeah it

54:09

was one of four East blenders for

54:11

sure just E-free exist and

54:13

we're not really gonna talk about the other ones. Yeah

54:15

my wife's gonna come in

54:17

here and get her purse while I read these YouTube comments so

54:20

don't mind the background noise. Wes

54:24

WTF2562 says fish suits are a

54:26

spell jammer magic item they let

54:29

your players ride the lightning. That's

54:31

cool. Fish shoots. Sir

54:35

Nunos lives once again they're back.

54:37

I absolutely love this episode talking about

54:39

the little-known aspects about how our favorite

54:41

make favorite make

54:43

believe universe is made it really fleshes

54:46

out how any campaigns can be expanded

54:48

on great upload my brothers your D&D

54:50

gung fu is adequate

54:52

and on its way to becoming legendary

54:54

my grasshoppers smiley face emoji oh

54:57

and a new D&D magic

54:59

consumable Baird's cream

55:01

of wild stew is

55:04

a warm cup of chaos soup it's

55:06

always warm and always changing tastes roll

55:08

for random effects good luck yeah

55:13

daddy AF

55:16

945 the introduction of the

55:18

elemental chow was the best thing

55:20

ever planes devoted to the individual

55:22

elements was so dumb blended planes

55:24

make pacing faster and eliminated the

55:26

garbage physics problems like infinite oceans

55:28

or earth that were a slog

55:31

and I like having them both I just

55:33

don't like how because

55:35

5e brought the interplanes back they really

55:37

kind of turned them element of chaos

55:40

into something super boring I like

55:42

I'm like why can't I just have my cake you need to do

55:44

I like the interplanes and the quasi elemental planes

55:46

but I also want my elemental cast to be

55:48

fucking awesome like it isn't for you it was

55:50

a controversial comment there were three replies on it

55:52

and I'm not gonna read them because it's a

55:54

little bit of back-and-forth but you know there it

55:57

is and you you kind of stepped in for

55:59

them anyway Wally Puff, what up

56:01

Wally Puff? I feel like the

56:03

reason 5e has so little info on the elemental

56:05

chowce is because it's kind of unnecessary if there's

56:07

limbo in the abyss and elemental planes in 5e.

56:09

I almost think it could have stayed in 4e,

56:11

but it's cool. Yeah,

56:13

I mean it could have but at the same

56:15

time I don't know. I feel like the elemental cast

56:18

does have kind of its own little vibe compared to

56:20

limbo I would say limbo is the closest thing to

56:22

it though. Yeah, I think it's just like what

56:24

style of game Do you want to run? We've

56:26

got it all. We're gonna include this because we have

56:28

it. Yeah Austin with With

56:32

am with Austin with him or 109 I've

56:35

got a campaign in progress about half done In

56:38

which the slot have used the material plane

56:40

in the group of gullible druids to channel

56:42

the energy of the elder the elder Elementals

56:45

and rip open a gate to limbo and

56:47

eventually consume all the inner planes and finally

56:49

the material plane into limbo The end of

56:51

goal of course being the destruction of a

56:53

Canis allowing chaos to rule the planes themselves

56:56

The slot throw in behind the

56:58

demons and end the blood war

57:01

to get a sufficient force to sweep through

57:03

the upper planes The raw

57:05

elemental chaos will tear even the demon

57:07

lords to pieces and all that's left

57:09

to warp the cosmos To

57:11

their will are the slotty That's

57:13

got some comments on it too Edward

57:15

a ponte 942 says Animatics

57:19

of the short rest adventures would be

57:21

amazing. Oh, yeah. They make happen would

57:23

be mavin people, huh? It's

57:25

a make them happen people somebody out there

57:27

an animator If you

57:29

do animation There's a

57:31

chance we might need one for YouTube in

57:34

the near future So hit us

57:36

up Let's see Lorenzo

57:40

4637 heck. Yeah

57:42

year of the elemental I'm here

57:44

for it cool And I'm excited

57:46

for to ray 3 for 22 a longtime commenter

57:48

not only this show but super quest saga who

57:51

I'm very grateful for Says here

57:53

for the chow Hell

57:55

yeah, me too Ray 3 per me

57:57

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58:00

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58:02

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58:22

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58:24

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58:27

just get everything they want. Everything's a

58:29

little too perfect. Their smiles are a

58:31

little too straight for using such as

58:34

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58:36

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58:38

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58:40

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58:43

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58:52

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58:54

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58:56

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58:58

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