How do you do, fellow kids? 😉

Noshir reading off the gods' bonuses

Hahaha so true! But as The Emissary, it was amazing, watching my Aunts and Uncles ascend. Like watching cartoons but in real life! Apples eyes were all big and huge and, "My Aunts and Uncles are the COOLEST!!!"

As soon as they announced six new PCs for Downfall I planned to do this with my first paintings of each 🌈 Its so satisfying to see them all side by side!

A stunning family lineup. Or, as The Emissary calls them: Fancy Uncle, Hugs Aunty, Tooth Mama, Birdy Aunty, Shiny Uncle, Apples. 🥰

Watching CR: Downfall as someone who is deeply religious is wild. Because I feel like a lot of the time in the TTRPG space there is a lot of praise for atheist or agnostic characters and perspectives and even religious characters often fall flat for me when it comes to what it actually means to follow a religion or faith. The gods are typically just cosmic vending machines for spells and boons rather than fully fleshed out entities.

However Downfall cuts through all of that from the perspective of the gods which is wild. The amount of care and consideration for what it means to believe something wholeheartedly. How people cling to faith during disaster and how trying to stomp it out often makes it stronger.

How encountering aspects of reality that don't match your faith can crush you, especially if it's something about the being you've been worshipping for your whole life.

I love it so much.

THIS! ALL OF THIS!

There is compassion in the way the disconnect between what followers want or expect from the Divine as believers and what the Divine actually plans and chooses to do for believers is described in this. I saw a lot of myself and my own relationship with my Faith in this and that is something I never expected in TTRPG spaces.

Emhira stepping in front of a sword for Ayden and making certain the fact that she has claimed the gods as her family and will defend them as such OH LORD THE DYNAMICS ARE DYNAMICING

also there's something poetic about how the literal Matron of Ravens, goddess of death, overseer of the path between life and afterlife, is defending the Dawnfather against his own creation, a being of life and light

obsessed with this reaction from Nick Marini

the moment when he realises what the Society of Primes are planning...

I would have been lost without you. Thank you for guiding me, and always protecting me.

I don’t think you ever needed me as a guardian, though it was my life’s honour to do so.

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Baby Emhira having a bright moment with her guardians Purvan and Galdric! I can’t stop thinking about Purvan helping to raise the Raven Queen as a baby. The mortal who became a goddess who became a mortal, and he’s there to watch her grow up. It makes me so emotional 🥲