#thiala naddpod

[sir-se]

I hope that our few remaining friends Give up on trying to save us I hope we come up with a failsafe plot To piss of the dumb few that forgave us [the mountain goats, no children]

William-Adolphe Bouguereau's Dante and Virgil but it's Thiala and Alanis

#art #dnd #dungeons and dragons #dungeons and drawings #naddpod #naddpod art #not another dnd podcast #bahumia #thiala #alanis #alanis naddpod #thiala naddpod

[juha-art]

"The wheel of suffering continues-" "so does the wheel of joy."

#Naddpod #not another dnd podcast #hardwon surefoot #thiala naddpod #bahumia #moonshine cybin #beverly toegold #balnor the brave #IM GLAD YOU WERE HAPPY ONCE. godamn what a line #juha-art #comics #naddpod spoilers

[shadelyn]

The Chosen

Maybe it's the fact that it's late, maybe it's the fact that my brain is incapable of not imagining self-insert OCs that are villains, former villains, future villains or somehow related to villains BUT I've been thinking about the chosen quite a bit. Despite being the main enemy, they don't have a lot of visible depth (not out of any fault made by Murph, they're perfect for what they're meant to be), but I keep thinking about how they work, headcannoning stuff and holding onto little threads like...there weren't that many chosen at the start, right? It was like a small sect within Galaderon. They recruited people. But why would so many people join? I'm thinking about the word Chosen. About Thiala's appearance. And I'm extrapolating that...the chosen really thought they were the good guys. Some of them were self-righteous jerks looking for an excuse and validation, yes, but I can't help but wonder if some were just sheltered Galaderon kids who saw a shining angel and got told they were special, *chosen*, that they were joining the good guy army in a war against hell, that they were going to go on adventures and fight monsters and get magic powers and...be a dnd party. Or a group of cartoon protagonists. Or, more accurately, book protagonists they'd read about.

I also have a bit of a headcanon, not really a headcanon as much as an AU, that all the chosen that died bowing to Thiala were being stored in a nice, pretty afterlife until she would bring them back. Now, that afterlife is desert and ruin and there's no hope for escape. They're all handling it differently, of course.

Im no fanfic writer, I wanna write books + I'm on a warrior cats rp forum but like...now I almost wanna write this.

#naddpod #bahumia #thiala naddpod #not another dnd podcast #the chosen naddpod #dnd5e #brian murphy

[sideblogdotjpeg]

realised i literally just never posted my bahumia finale art for. some reason

#naddpod #beverly toegold v #thiala #bahumia #honestly want to finish that beverly drawing..... kinda slay tbh #also who else is on my fat chinese boy beverly agenda #posts by me dot com

[stone-stars]

actually it's. interesting to me the way clerics and paladins exist in naddpod. because divine magic isn't really ever about the divinity of it. it's about the devotion.

i'm going to loop back to beverly bc he's the most classic paladin naddpod has. but like. alright. you have erlin, who becomes a cleric not to serve pelor but to help people. he's so dedicated to bev, he wants to help the people he loves, and that's the way to do it. because he's not strong in the traditional sense, but he can be strong this way.

you have fia, who's a cleric because of her religious upbringing but mostly calls upon the trickster for her magic and if you really think about it the thing she is most devoted to isn't the trickster at all but irina. you have tarragon who becomes a cleric in repentance for her days as a soldier, but all of her cleric stuff manifests in dedication to her friends, to the bond they share.

and you have callie, who-- once she's freed from her tie to mothership-- has a paladin oath that is about her dedication to the wild and the serpents and her promise to help bring them home. her belief in and love and hope for them. and the idea that if she does she might redeem the memory of her mother.

and like. bev. who is very tied to pelor and the light. his oath morphs and changes with his worldview, and the way his powers manifest reflects what he cares about. in the end, when pelor is dead, he doesn't swear himself to another god. he swears himself to bahumia. the thing he's devoted to, the thing he's trying to protect.

it's like... divine casters aren't magical because some god chose them. it's because they chose to care. it's because they chose to look at something and say i am going to care about this so much that it becomes a source of strength.

#naddpod #it's very funny that i put erlin with a bunch of pcs here but like #a) sunny's influence #b) he is probably the most prominent cleric/paladin npc #except thiala but fuck her (lol) #anyway. thinking thoughts. #it's no wonder a lot of divine magic is healing #it's about love #hanbles #anyway it's 1 am i need. to go to sleep. my brain is broken

[bobellafofella]

i’ll go with you. bring her back, and i’ll go with you.

(they ate my brain)

#THIS SCENE WAS SO CRAZY I HAD TO DRAW IT #naddpod #naddpod spoilers #ba2mia #hardshine #bc theyre so real 😔 #ps thank u for all of the love on the thiala doodle i had no idea it would rocket off like that #😭 u all r so kind #pps i agonized over the half coloring in this it looks weird but i am also terrified of ruining it so. dont mention anything. #moonshine cybin #hardwon surefoot

[emiko-matsui]

the first trio who saved bahumia was called the legendary heroes and the second trio who saved bahumia was called the band of boobs

#naddpod #not another dnd podcast #bahumia #alanis naddpod #ulfgar trueax #thiala #moonshine cybin #hardwon surefoot #beverly toegold #brian murphy #emily axford #jake hurwitz #caldwell tanner

[queencaramilflinda]

Only the two crew could make Caldwells frooze your own adventure book more chaotic than it already is. I felt delirious after reading the document and then the state of utter madness I entered when i pressed play on the episode nearly astral projected me into another plane of existence. 10/10 would recommend

#like I said in other tags earlier. I watched frozen 2 set to the Thiala fight. I love frozen and NADDPod. if this bit is for anyone it’s me #cienna talks #NADDPod #8bbc

[kyeree]

BOY I SAY BOY WHAT WERE YA THINKING TRYING TO GOOF THE ALL SEEING GOD! NOW LOOK AT YER BOY! HEAD ALMOST CRACKED OPEN LIKE AN EGG AND- Give that there humour patch, boy - AND YER WALKERS SHATTERED LIKE THIALA'S PACT WITH PELOR

#im sorry this meme has cosumed my week #i had to #naddpod #not another dnd podcast #beverly toegold #thiala #pelor #naddpod c1

[whatkindofnameisella]

me when hardwon surefoot is himself getting lanced through in the forests of the feywild is his father getting stabbed to death on the floor of his home is a half elven warrior getting shot through with an arrow at sea is a human is a dwarf is an elf is a demigod is too short to weak too ugly not man enough, dying over and over again, the same scar always growing in over the same place on his chest

#RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAGAHGHGAHHRHRGH. GHRHHGAGH. RRAGHGHAGAGH. #can u tell i listened to the part of the thiala fight where hardwon envisions himself as his father last night #naddpod #hardwon surefoot #i think about hardwon's relationship with his body and i go crazy

[white-weasel]

The fact that Beverly’s love for Erlin is the thing that kills his god Pelor, the most important and consistent thing in his life thus far, is absolutely heart wrenching and tragic. Brian Murphy I am in your walls

#he’s just a kid!!! he saw that his oldest friend/boyfriend he’s just been reunited with is dead but he knows he can help #of COURSE he’s going to revivify him and that’s what Thiala was counting on just ahdkahdksjd #Murph is such a good dm and Caldwell makes Bev so endearing and this entire situation is just awful #(I have listened past this point but I’m still stuck on this moment. it’s all I’m going to think about for a while) #beverly toegold #erlin kindleaf #beverlin #naddpod #naddpod c1 #naddpod campaign 1 #naddpod c1 spoilers #(unsure if these need to be tagged but I figure I will for safety) #I scream about naddpod #white weasel talks

[quicklings]

okay well, i can’t stop thinking about Them now - thiala and alanis and ulfgar.

fractured and embittered and enemies at the end but pov you're a god with two divine hearts and yet you're so afraid of your two former companions beating you you have to trap them and keep them closest to your heart... alongside the boy you used to kill your god... alanis and ulfgar have passed on the torch, are just too scarred by a demonic disease and wish stones, and yet they're the ones thiala went for, the ones she still had by the end. they started out together. and thiala ended with them. and then they outgrew her.

#han how dare you do this to me actually #not another dnd podcast #naddpod #thiala #alanis #ulfgar #emspeak #(also yes ik the gem trapping is for gameplaying purposes but it's ALSO a heartbreaking narrative in this essay i will—)

[soup-child]

We haven't seen this much of a victory in battle since the crick in c1 and its making me feel some kind of way

#like yeah theres a looming threat (thiala or bealexandrite) but for now they arent pressing and the party gets to celebrate a true victory #and its just good dnd to make your party feel good and its great and interesting mechanics as well #like alot of the combat in naddpod is yes you win but... #and im not saying that as a bad thing if our heros won without consequence everytime you wouldnt have a show that can last #its just that compared to how the end of the last arc went we really needed a win that wasnt atleast you arent dead #and also connecting it back to the crick this is also how it felt at the end of galaderon #both galaderon and the living wood in c3 have an ending of atleast we're alive and have people around us who care but we lost people we care #about (calder to the helm and the green knights to the fey wild) and dont know when/if theyre coming back just that theyre also safe for now #naddpod #naddpod spoilers #ba2mia #ba2mia spoilers

[stone-stars]

god. thiala showing them visions of other groups falling apart as a smug “it never ends well” and instead the boobs going “there was joy there. thank you for showing it to us” is so good.

“the wheel of suffering continues.” “so does the wheel of joy.”

#naddpod #their world views are so different and i love it #god. thiala i want to study you under a microscope. #hanbles #naddplog

[acepalindrome]

I was thinking about a potential evil playthrough of BG3, and I don’t want to play Dark Urge for that. I want this person to have no excuse for their behavior! They’re just awful! There’s no demon in your head! You’re 100% responsible for your terrible decisions!

Also I want to play a cleric, probably light domain. I absolutely love the first campaign of NADDPOD, where the BBGE was a cleric of Pelor, with all this angelic imagery in her design, who fights for ‘the light.’ And she’s fucking awful! She is unquestionably the villain of this story! She doesn’t ‘maybe have a point,’ she’s a fascist! It’s all so good for my ex-catholic heart. I want to play an evil character like that. She’s all light and pretty angelic things and she’s EVIL.

#baldur’s gate 3 #i really need to catch up on naddpod campaign 3 #thiala is just such a good villain

[yoursonlucifer]

nearly every time murph comes up with a unique character name, i am shocked by the spelling

#the only one i can remember is thiala but there are others #this is in reference to finding out that allete is spelled like that #why?? #in my head its spelled ollette #but if anything it should be 1 l and 2 ts? what is this man on #naddpod #eldermourne #bahumia #oh! the one i couldnt remember was egwene! it should be spelled agwaine #if my name was egwene id be embarrassed but not if it was spelled correctly (agwaine) #thiala should be spelled theala (im right)