Laerryn Leywright

BRENNAN: Give me another arcana check.
AABRIA (LAERRYN): Oof-a. A 2. That's bad.
LUIS: Damn.
AABRIA (LAERRYN): 12. I'm going to use Bardic Inspiration. 16.
BRENNAN: 16. [sputtering energy] This is your second to last round. The energy comes in. You have to decide in this moment whether you want to limit the energy output of the effect, or ensure that Rau'shan and Ka'Mort will be removed from Exandria.
MARISHA: Say that one more time.
BRENNAN: On a 16, you must make a tough decision. Do you want to further limit the release of energy and make the release of energy safer for the physical environs of Avalir and Cathmoíra, or do you want to ensure that Rau'shan and Ka'Mort will be permanently banished from Exandria?
TRAVIS: Impossible.
AABRIA (LAERRYN): Laerryn's little joke to herself was always that the Heart of Avalir was the thing she inherited, but it was too small. She made it bigger, she improved it. She improved the Etheric Net and built this, and that she was the Heart of Avalir, and she gave everything to this city. But I know what people are fighting to protect and I remember what Quay said about going down with the ship. So we will ensure it. This will work. Avalir be damned.
BRENNAN: Avalir be damned. No more mistakes. The names are locked into place. You inscribe the final syllables of the list of all the hundreds of the names that Patia learned. They're fixed into the crystal. This cannot miss.

Episode 4 - Fire and Ruin - 5:01:48

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AABRIA (LAERRYN): Okay, it was all for this, and it has to have been worth it. I try to finish. I just have to finish.
SAM: Come on.
BRENNAN: Give me-
AABRIA: Fuck that die. It's so bad!
SAM: What are you trying to roll?
AABRIA: They've been arcana checks the whole time, right?
BRENNAN: Yeah, and you can roll with advantage, but yes, absolutely.
AABRIA (LAERRYN): Cool. That's 28.
BRENNAN: Just with that last Healing Word, give me one more of Loquatius' Bardic Inspirations on top of it.
AABRIA (LAERRYN): Oh, okay. Plus another 4.
BRENNAN: 32?
AABRIA (LAERRYN): 32. I'm physically falling apart right now.
MARISHA: Hundred percent.
BRENNAN: Laerryn, almost falling, you see Loquatius, Patia, your best friend to your side. You see, lying beside each other Zerxus and Nydas. Standing in the center of the room, still fighting with every breath, is Cerrit. You reach, all of you feel [heavy impact, with aftershock] as the city settles, its energy restored from what you saved from the Tree of Names.
You touch your hands, this thing you made, this dream. Are you the woman who doomed the world or are you the woman who saved it? Are all of you the heroes that you strove to be, or the villains that from time to time you might've been afraid you were becoming? In a world with this much power, what can be said to be the difference? You reach.
Far away, the Eldritch Battery, with the names of the Emperor and Empress, alights [crackling] lime green energy, [whoosh] rushing through the city. As the city docks atop Cathmoíra, the sun threatening to rise above the horizon, the energy rushes into the ground, their names inscribed, to break the ancient wards, to release the Primordials. A Colossus of Fire, a Titan of Earth, to join the Betrayers and bring eternal torment to Exandria. That is what was foretold. If the Primordials joined, all would be lost.
Dying from his injuries, but smiling because he completed his last instructions, Calum Staffwright connected the broken battery back to the Etheric Net and put it online for you. It is nice, perhaps, to know that a woman of your singular genius was not completely alone.
The energy rushes into the earth, connected to the Leywright, and swirls, preparing to summon them back into Exandria. And instead, the Leywright crafts a path away from this world. You made your choice. Safety for Avalir and Cathmoíra, and the lands of Domunas, or certainty that Exandria in some form would survive the coming Calamity.
As the magic flows, the Taxmen suddenly stop, and you hear voice coming through them from the Lord of Hells. "What? What have you done?"
AABRIA (LAERRYN): "My best. Finally."
BRENNAN: Energy erupts, the ground shakes and the leyline [fwoom] angles up into the heavens. You hear the ground trembling. "No, no, no! Well. If Domunas is the smile of Exandria, then let's shatter her teeth!" You feel the ground begin to rumble underneath you. The Taxmen power down.

Episode 4 - Fire and Ruin - 5:32:27

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BRENNAN: The continent of Domunas will have been unfamiliar to most people prior to the beginning of our story, because in the modern age of Exandria, the chain of islands known as the Shattered Teeth is all that remains. The most it could be contained to to ensure that it would work was the land of Domunas. The earth opens, and fire and stone [explosion] shatters a continent.
The Calamity will last for centuries, and at the end of it, two thirds of those living beings of Exandria will be no more. Some large amount of that greater number died not only in the first year, but in the first moments of Calamity. As Rau'shan and Ka'Mort, believing that they will rejoin the Betrayer Gods, are instead unmade, disenchanted, bound to a surging leyline and fired, diffused through as many realms as the Leywright could send them through. Two great Titans are destroyed. Say what you will about the Age of Arcanum, but great workings were indeed possible.
Gone from Exandria, those Primordials do not join the Betrayers. And as they do not join the Betrayers, though it will see centuries of strife and ruin, one day, the people of Exandria will triumph and the Calamity will end. Many will be lost, divinity will be forever sequestered behind the Divine Gate, but at the end of it all, hope will return as many times as it needs to. The eruption of ash and fire, molten stone [fwooom] sends a cloud of ash and shadow that will cover Exandria for a hundred years, marking the beginning of this age of ruin.

Episode 4 - Fire and Ruin - 6:00:05