Eldermourne - Ep. 36: The Great Fairy Secret

Olwen te quiero

oh my GOD, extremely late to the party but the worldbuilding lore drop here is fucking incredible, i'm completely obsessed with the concept of a world fully abandoned by its gods and yet still suffering the effects of their actions. y'all's storytelling is so insanely good, it makes me itch to get back into writing. also unironically love olwen, he would be so annoying irl but he's SO fun as a character and i was super happy to see him make a reappearance.

Incredible beautiful lore and sweet moments in this. My 2 big takeaways are: 1. BABY YOURE A FIIIIIRREWOORK, MAADE BY A GUUUUUY NAMED ZIRK, MAKE EM GO OIN OIN OIN 2. Am OIN a beeto?

emily lamenting all season about wanting an opportunity to try all the wizard spells and how she has all the lv1-3 spells memorized just for murph to come in with a fresh stack of spells for her is actually the greatest love language of all, true love is in fact real, no notes roll credits thats a wrap everyone

The storytelling in this episode is so great. I had chills when Murph revealed the Reaper only made one attempt.

If the trickster had two daughters who was the father?

Murph: Terrible. Caldwell: Counterpoint, incredible. 😆💕

Zirk's "Firework" and Jake adding the Beeto noise had me CRYING 😂

Murph whining and crying and singing as Olwen is so funny

Interestingly enough, wine does preserve fairly well and we see examples of it mostly coming from Asian countries where temples will have clay sealed jugs of wine. I believe just last year a wine in few thousands of years ( I think like 9-10,000 years old) was found and still contained alcohol and was still liquid. I’m not entirely sure on safety to drink, but from what I understand it is semi safe to consume in small quantities. There has also been some examples in Egypt and the Mediterranean but these tend to be in much fewer supply and not near as old. All of this to say wine in and of itself is magical and can last if preserved correctly :)). Also not a somm but a huge history nerd so if any somms know more please @ me!!

This is a strange episode for me to realize what a truly lovely speaking voice Murph has lol, but I found myself absolutely taken with the way he delivered lore, so much so that even Olwen's vintage whine couldn't sour me. Bravo haha

am i the only one that feels that this is the equivalent of the Nannerfly Effect episode in Campaign 1?

God damn I love emily...

GOD this episode rocks

As someone called Isaac this episode makes me sad haha T.T

I would pay any amount to get to watch murphs face when playing olwen

Holy shit I'm in literal awe rn with these reaper reveals (reapveals)

I loved this episode! I love any time we are able to get more lore and see Eldermorne as a whole instead of a couple individual cities!

Sorta fun parallel I saw, Fia trying to use Green Flame Blade on those frozen in this episode reminded me a bit of Moonshine trying to use Produce flame to thaw Beverlin and Moonwon but being stoped by Cran in one of the Campaign 1 episodes early in the Fey Wild.

I know i heard somewhere it was murph and emms anniversary. Were the spells emm got part of her anniversary present?

also!! hearing a synchronized ‘we are we are’ was so :’)

this episode had tons of lore dumps and like one npc who could barely say anything except repeating a bit and yet the episode was so engaging and hilarious and frankly thrilling to listen to. what a masterclass

Emily’s analogy of painting vs. maths for Irena’s magic was genuinely really beautiful

just got to this episode after my vaccine and i laughed so hard it hurt my arm... murph's world building (and npcs!) continues to dazzle every time, and em, jake, and caldwell just play off each other so well! i loved when the two crews (ha!) finally met and kept chatting and forgetting their issac. loving this campaign so much, thanks for all your heart work~ also whenever jake and murph shout-out fall out boy (and my chemical romance!), the 15 year old girl-child in me (and to be honest, my 26-year old current form) bursts out in happiness and sings along.

Murph, you absolute genius. This story is beautiful and complicated and intricate and still unique! What in the hell? You created a compelling story while managing your players improv and keeping them moving forward. Em, Caldwell, and Jake are improvising fun and hilarious dialogue while creating dramatic and poignant scenes. This was an amazing episode.

Looks like Revivify is gonna exist in Eldormourne

Fucking happy sobs hearing them all sing together for the first time in campaign 2 🥺

Olwen feels like my younger sister whenever she would throw a tantrum. I can't tell you anything, but Oops, here's a book!!

"It was all Stump!!" Absolutely wrecked me thank you thank you

i am an olwen stan

When Shank disappears and Hank starts getting serious, and then Fia goes "actually I just came from someplace tricky like this" 😆 I completely lost it at the zombie hand!

Sooo, are we gonna get a Cutlery Crew One shot with a guest DM since we’ve got 4 totally sentient pieces of silverware?

Hey Murph, how did you get to be so good at this?

Jeeze guys. This goes down as one of the best episodes of all time.

10/10 episode 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Will there be a schedule posted for October/November?

I am obsessed about the way Murph does lore dumps and how he handles the lore in eldermourne. From episode one we are told this story is about the reaper and the trickster battling each other but now this!!! Oh I love secrets and not giving ur PC all the informations. Will probably relisten to the episode with my notebook open so i can make DM notes Because DAMN Murph. This was beautiful

1: Olwen might be my favorite NPC Murph has ever made. I desperately want to draw him 2: HOLY LORE DUMP. What a phenomenal episode! The world building is so fucking cool I was literally yelling to myself on my drive home as I listened about how fucking cool this episode is! 3: the reunion of the two groups was very good and I’m so glad we got to see it. This might be my favorite episode of the Campaign. Fucking phenomenal work, Murph 👏👏

In today's Discord Live React, when Fia got spells from Tomevar I asked "But Does This Book Have Sticks To Snakes?" because Sticks to Snakes is my *thing* in the NaddCord's TTRPG channels and when I tell you I freaked the fuck out when Fia got her library spells, it does not begin to cover the excitement I felt to hear that spell being described.

As someone with an absurd amount of love for into the spiderverse hearing hank say “it’s a leap of faith” hit hard

“I thought I was her math” actually made me tear up ;; What an awesome episode!!!! I was not expecting all the lore twists!!!

What a tease at the end! Knowing that the Lord Scythe confrontation has been recorded already is such a tease 😩

so glad to hear y'all back in the 2dio together, the energy is UNPARALLELED 🥳

Loved this! Any chance we can get a link to this 3.5 spell book reddit post that Murph mentioned? A quick google search didn't turn anything up, even with the guys name.

God the way I guffawed when Olwen started singing FOB, absolutely stellar episode

Oh my god - phenomenal episode! I think I have been in denial about how close we are to 50-ish episodes 😭

This show almost causes me to crash laughing on my commute each week but it’s totally worth it!

Shout out to Jake's joke for the Jews with the denominations of 18. Made me giggle waaaay harder than it should have lol

The energy and vibe in this episode is incredible! I love that you are all back recording together! Have not even listen past the first 25 min and had to post 😉

Fireworks is from Katty Perry know your white people Jack

Murph anticipating Emily stealing the wizard book and having custom new spells printed out is honestly peak romance.

Holy shit that lore drop

Holy shit this episode was dope! I really adore the Eldermourne setting and lore so much, I want this campaign to last lol. I wondered how Moxora recognised Irina's magic and I'm so hyped that this episode revealed that and the connection between the 2 of them. I'm so excited for what's next, and terrified in case Irina joins her sister!

I'm loving the big info/lore dumps, Eldermourne is such a cool & rich setting

This is instantly one of my favorite episodes ever! So funny from the get go. You can feel the in person energy

At 1:26:57 Olwin became my favorite character in the show 🤟🏽

Something so wonderful about the 2 parties finally reuniting during the episode where the in real life party finally reunites

The dichotomy of mathematics and artistry to describe magic?! That was fucken beautiful! This episode was so so delicious

I would love a link to that frank isaacs spell conversion on reddit. Would be super helpful

Have you considered making a campaign setting source book for Eldermourne? It’s really incredible I’m loving learning more about it.

I love the in person energy

As you shoot across the skoi skoi skoi 😆😆😆 god I love the beetos

The energy Murph gives off when the group trolls him just hits different when they are in person lol

5th

So damn stoked for consecrate/desecrate

Happy birthday to me and what a title drop too (≧▽≦).

Hell yeah! Thanks for your awesome work

Big love Murph :)