#look i just have a lot of feelings about people blaming laerryn

[math-is-magic]

The Calamity was always going to happen

And I don’t mean on the Meta level that Matt established this lore and we started EXU: Calamity with the event in its very title. I mean that the system for containing the Elder gods was a million moving parts wrapped in secrecy and forgotten. There were so, so many ways for that containment to go wrong and very few people who knew what and why and how to keep the containment intact. If it wasn’t Vespin and Lycretia and Laerryn and Zerxus it would have been somebody else who Asmodeus corrupted, someone else who who attacked the tree in malice or ignorance, some other reason that Avalir was attacked or couldn’t spare the power for the replenishment. If gods can be locked away, can be challenged and replaced, why wouldn’t there be people who started toeing those lines?

 It might not have been in a year or ten or a thousand, but as long as Asmodeus and the other Betrayer gods were struggling to be free, and no one knew to pay attention an actively counter them, then eventually something was going to slip.

#EXU calamity #critical role #cr spoilers #look i just have a lot of feelings about people blaming laerryn #she fucked up #they all did #but the system was set up without trust #without checks and balances #the gods have all eternity to wait #if the system is such that it only takes one mortal #or a handful of them #to fuck it up #well #statistically #it was gonna happen no matter what #it's entirely possible #that EXU calamity #is one of the BETTER timelines that was possible #once the system was set up as it was.