#and specifically how ludinus consistently seems to be trying to create enhancements for soldiers between the plants and residuum and dunami

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early ludinus lore

context dates:

544 PD - The Marrow War, a conflict between Dwendalian and Julous forces, begins 16 months later... 545/546 PD - The Marrow War concludes as the Dwendalian Empire overtakes the Julous Dominion less than 25 years later...

~570 PD at the latest - The Eve of Crimson Midnight occurs in Rexxentrum and the Cerberus Assembly is created

a fight between (unspecified) noble-housed/established mages with noble mages of the Julous Dominion

resulted in a lot of collateral damage and innocent casualties

the remaining mages involved in the conflict formed the Cerberus Assembly, subservient to the Crown in exchange for absolution

Ludinus is stated to be an original/founding member of the Cerberus Assembly both in his character blurb in EGtW and on-stream

585 PD - Molaesmyr is consumed by a corruption that results in the Savalirwood

caused by the replication of a failed/incomplete Aeorian experiment intended to create plant life capable of serving as an arcane power source/enhancer

Ludinus's character blurb in EGtW states he fled Molaesmyr to what would become Bysaes Tyl, and then "left his culture behind" to "achieve greatness" and pursue arcane interests in the Dwendalian Empire

(also of note: in 836 PD, Ludinus's annex, Zana Deelio, was helming an excavation into A2, the location of the corrupted arboretum)

dates and durations are pulled directly from EGtW and can also be found on the miraheze wiki

#ludinus da'leth #critical role #cr spoilers #critical role spoilers #nothing here is spoilers but #idk what to do with this- like it's not contradictory necessarily but something's not sitting right with me xD #i'm also staring at that crimson midnight #i understand there's only a limited number of colors and there's plenty of red herrings #so i have no conclusions to draw in the post #only dates to provide #this doesn't even get into how the aeor experiments were trying to create sustainable residuum before residuum was supposedly a thing #and specifically how ludinus consistently seems to be trying to create enhancements for soldiers between the plants and residuum and dunami #idk what's going on #chanse chatters