“[…]A lot of it speaks of patterns of arcana across cultures, across time, across dates and you can see Exandrian calendar fragments. You can see notes on repetition and the shiftings of magic. You can see fonts of arcana and power that overlap with celestial events. There's a lot of noting where things continue to recur over long and short periods of time. […] With that, as you're doing this, you glance around and you can see there are other parts of this chamber where more of these notes are still somewhat present, haven't been taken entirely. So you begin to cut some of this away. You notice that in elements of these notes, it calls out historical specialists, people to reach out to in the world that might know this.”-Matt
extremely enamored with the image of ludinus in aeor trying to figure out where the fuck all of the ancient technology he was relying on disappeared to, followed by a smash cut to essek in a cozy demiplane, wrapped in a handmade sweater and casually labeling all the artifacts from his third aeorian honeymoon with caleb
Genuinely it is so funny that Ludinus could have retained Ira's services (and avoided his revenge) if he'd just paid his contractor and not stolen his designs. Ira is a chaotic fey who was originally helping and had no issue with the purpose of the work freeing Predathos, he literally just wanted credit and payment. Ira is on the force of the Resistance purely out of vicious pettiness.
“There's also part of a small, not even a journal, but a series of of heavy, treated vellum pages that are bound together and these are heavily notes on pages of what looks like they were torn from a religious tome or a book and there are circles around certain sections and notes talking about temple propaganda, talking about inconsistencies and elements of religious rites that are contradictory.”-Matt
I think it’s really funny how clear Ludinus and the Vanguard’s bullshit becomes on Ruidius. The whole “our goal is to free mortals from the oppressive system of the gods” was already less than flimsy on Exandria, but then you get to Ruidius, where they seemingly have a pretty incredible amount of control, and wouldn’t you know it they’re happily enforcing a brand now oppressive power structure up there too. Not only that, but while the relationship Predathos has to the mortals who live under it is somewhat different from the one Exandrian mortals have to the Exandrian gods, it seems just as if not more controlling and oppressive. Predathos isn’t out here running a decentralized anarcho communist commune on the moon that bodes at all well for how it would run Exandria if it ate all the gods and was the only cosmically powerful entity left in charge. Ludinus and his gang are not looking for a way to pull Exandria out from under the oppressive boot of the gods, they just want to become the biggest boot.
A powerful elven mage who distrusted the religion of his home, railed against the religious leaders, locking himself away in his towers while he grew more powerful and obsessed with researching relics, eschewing friends and thought odd and isolated.