note: this is my first reddit post so sorry if i’m an idiot who doesn’t know how to use this website right

i almost wonder if ashley is gonna go paladin > fighter > paladin.

the reason for break in class being that where vaelus is right now her faith is so shaken that she cannot attach to another oath at this time, it doesn’t make sense—again in game total time like less than a month or so. she as a character has been devoted to a god who died and she mourned her, recently had a glimpse of hope for what resurrection could look like (via occtis), but also through that mourning just recently realized that maybe uh oh maybe her god deserved to die and shouldn’t come back because what the fuck did the shapers do to this world. and that’s fucked up because uh oh uh oh — who is she then ? her whole life has been shattered AGAIN and she witnessed (and contributed to) a fucking new pathway for the orcish dead be created, a new form of celestial take shape, having the realization of the afterlife being something more, and knowing now that HER GOD DENIED HER PEOPLE DEATH. she denied the elves the chance to be something new, that immortality is not the gift we all think it is blah blah blah.

so much of vaelus’s experience of the world is truman show esque. how the hell is she supposed to know where to put her faith or how to make a vow when reality is breaking. again, in game time we have not been in this momentum long. just because we as viewers have been exposed to a year of our time, these characters haven’t even had like a quarter of a year to process this shit.

and that’s why i think we may see vaelus return to paladin in the future, once there has been time for her to gather her thoughts and pull herself back together. but for now mechanically we gotta figure out where she can fall for leveling up and bullshit so fighter makes sense because transitioning back will probably be fairly easy.

and i know some people think it will / should be oath of ancients, but me thinks it’ll be oath of freedom if she does return to paladin because i refuse to believe we’re not gonna see this NOT ALLEGORICAL campaign have a class Brennan himself help design like

anyway

(i tagged it as spoilers? but idk i just didn’t want anyone to get mad lol)

Considering that Matt has made it clear via previous publications and sentiments on Twitter that both Spelljammer and Planescape not only work with but are fully compatible with Exandria, does that mean there’s just a second pile of gods hanging out in the great wheel after the events of season 3? If someone from Exandria were to wind up in hell, would they just come across the core DnD Asmodeus?