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In this, the final chapter of the first book of our tale: It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life, for our wizard, our witch, and our wild one. Far above the mist-cloaked scree of the Shroud Mountains, the Meridian flies to a daring rescue, captained by a promising, but increasingly rebellious, young wizard. Back in Toma, the Witch of the World's Heart takes care of old business and new friends. The wild one runs. As fast as he can. Don't even try to catch him. That ship has sailed. 

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Brennan Lee Mulligan

Erika Ishii

Aabria Iyengar

Lou Wilson

Produced, designed, and scored by Taylor Moore  at Fortunate Horse with exquisite design and editing help from Jared Olson.

SPECIAL THANKS TO: Tazer Army, Shannon, and Amanda Freberg.

Album art by the great Corey Brickley

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Marcus Mercer

Yes!!! I’ve never been happier to be accidentally awake at 4:30am in my life 😂

The wizard Sober

I don’t think I’ve ever been more hyped for a piece of media. So excited! Thank you for sharing all your talent with us!

Brendan Randall

I'm constantly refreshing spotify. I need this ep

Ryan L.

YAY 🤩🎉🎉🎉

Al

The summary gave me chills. Let's go final arc!

Amber Cekander

3 minutes in and taylor??? the music????? fucking popping off already

Sven the Scribe

The beginning of the end of the beginning.

Jennifer Sieben

Oh partway in and now I see why we will be getting a map. Wooohoo!!!

Jack Jones

Can't wait to cracked into this one

Sara Sorrell

When do we get these soundtracks on Spotify? 😄

Haldon Lindstrom

This actually dropped just as I finished the last Fireside Chat, so I had 5 minutes of "oh, so sad, wonder when the next episode will drop" before it started downloading. You guys are perfect - shout out to the crew who support the lovelies being recorded!

Alexandra Ruggiero

I’m torn between listening now, or binge listening once all of the episodes are available.

Noah Kunin

I will pay any amount of human money to see the regional or world maps of Umora.

Leo

Why yes I did leave work early when I saw this

Theo Lee

He will fracking die.

Just_another_queer

Sometimes you just have to ignore the fact its 2:30am because there are more important things than sleeping

Kenzie

RASPER

Kenzie

I know we’ve said Steel sort of knows she’s in a story, but I also feel like Rasper clocked and knowingly disregarded Suvi’s Main Character Status

catalooo

Excited to listen! Love the snazzy new logo (although the vertical placement in the graphic is throwing me off, graphic designer brain 🫠)

OminousOwl

I swear yall spoil us with these short waits between content ! I am so ready!! I love my sticker pack btw!

Nick Gresock

Nief! Witch of the toiling hands!

Heliks

@~15:00 would you say the mountain goes all the way down to the sea? How can this be?

Cackle Cackle

GUHHHH I am so excited for this and somehow work still has to happen?! Can’t wait to listen fully.

corra valintine

Any one else worried for neif ?? The gift hasn't been sent??

Ro Lara

WAIT FINAL CHAPTER???

Michelle Spurgeon

The end gave me that one scene from Mulan vibes 😬 Poor Suvi, she always has the worst days compared to the light heartedness of the other people's days.

The Wizard Sparrow

AAAAAA….Roll Initiative!! great way to end this episode😳😉. But seriously it was everything I’ve been waiting for. I’m so in love with this podcast.❤️💕🤗

The Wizard Sparrow

Pff… though I could see Swarn sacrifice himself for Sky…so many what ifs🤔❤️

The Wizard Sparrow

That little 🐍 snake 🐍. I screamed at the top of my lungs. When Steele finds out…hell fire 🔥 will rain down…it’s not gonna be good.

Carrie Mook Bridgman

Still *just* starting and already suspicious of Yulia in a way some others were earlier. This is a teenaged apprentice. She may be the apprentice to the Apprentice Archmage, but Suvi's Archmage is Silence. He's maybe not in the thick of military command--and there are a lot of layers between Yulia and him. This "hot" war has sprung up within the last week. How the hell does Yulia know they're preparing to invade Gaothmai, or where the northern battle lines are on the map?

Jack Jones

I will forever love the hard cuts from the dead serious military tone of Suvi's life to the whimsy in Ame's life

Blake Draut

I might make a Pinterest board of all the cool wizard pirate naval airship imagery from the last few episodes. So awesome!

Jack Jones

we have have 24 hours to reach my love to save his life through dangerous enemy territory....MMMMmmm Yummy polish nom nom

Blades Dragonic

“We’re having different days.” is the single biggest understatement of this entire podcast 😂

CommodoreBlue

The doorknob is Ron Burgundy. I feel compelled to point out that this doorknob may literally be Ron Burgundy, from Anchorman.

Lauren

"that is just a fact and it doesn't have to make anyone sad" from one sad childhood kid to another thank you for my newest footnote

Lauren

Like Lou shaking his head at the clouds I shook mine at the description of Sworn's understanding of Suvi's youth that man is gonna die so hard

Carrie Mook Bridgman

Holy shit, Aabria. You're telling Steel you will *make* the archmagi prioritize Silver because you've got the box and you're going to his aid and they only get the box if *you* survive?!!? Cold. Clever. Insubordinate. Steel is about to get a shock.

Amaya

I thought she gave the box to Rasper at the end of Arc 3? She didn't hand it over immediately because Rasper was being insubordinate but gave it to him after they had effectively taken off and gotten out of Indri's reach

DatGeekUKnow

Can you upload a picture of the map handed to aabria during the episode?

Sea Moose

I now need to hear him say “GREAT ODIN’S RAVEN!” or “By the beard of Zeus”

lyonel lefaivre

Nief is giving real evan kemp energy with my life is sad

Emily C

ok realistically I feel for Maddie though - like she burned her spells and then was supposed to try and stop Rasper? everyone is so YOUNG and authority is like drilled into these kids

Emily C

from countless interviews I've heard i feel like some of Brennan is poking through there

Chappy Hall

Fr I was like oh boy, someone has character development written all over them 😭

Ro Lara

Im actually a little concerned that Steele is going to agree with the prioritization of the mission... she loves Suvi with all her might but we have seen how she lives and breathes citadel, her life is dedicated to the citadel and its workings... aaaaaahhhhh

robo

“ … Birds flying high You know how I feel Sun in the sky You know how I feel Breeze driftin' on by You know how I feel” 🦅🍃🪶

Noah FitzPatrick

Not finished with the ep yet but “she rules where the pine trees do not grow” without even being said outright is some of the hardest shit ever

Ro Lara

Lmao clearly someone didnt watch the previous post lol, for some reason the youtube links only open about half the time for me

AsterIsk-III

“let me know when the ships are coming” hot DAMN how it must feel to punch exactly in your weight clsss and hit!!

Moss V

THIS. IS. WILD.

TracieP

I’m being abused, but enjoying it.

Evelina Meiklejohn

I always love scenes of the Fox and Eursulon dicking around together. 😆❤️

Carrie Mook Bridgman

Hell fire is going to rain down all right, but on whom? Rasper for stealing Suvi's ship and abandoning her and her crew in a war zone--or Suvi for her stunt? "If you want the box, I guess you'll have to send backup to these soldiers you've written off, because that's where I'm going, and I've got the box." My money is on Both.

Carrie Mook Bridgman

She did. Rasper has it. On her ship. Which she is taking to support Silver. So the Citadel had better send backup to ensure that Suvi and the box make it home. Then Rasper dumped them all and is flying the ship (alone?) back to the Citadel to deliver the box. Suvi got the shock.

Carrie Mook Bridgman

Well, that's what we all thought til Rasper played her like a guitar.

AsterIsk-III

For some reason I feel like he went the underhanded route, didn’t wait to hear back before making his move

Rachel

Rasper can get fucked.

Krusty Bo Busty

The door knocker bit was funny all 4815 times it happened

Krusty Bo Busty

LOVE the absolutely WILD difference ame and eursolons tone vs suvi on her own

Beignet Gesserit

“That’s just a fact, and doesn’t need to make anyone sad”

bloops

When I finished the episode and looked at the title again, I truly was like "Girl.... you THINK???"

NickSavage Eursulon’s Brother in arms

It’s the fact that suvi survived the trickery of the coven of witches unscathed then not even a full 12hrs later is tricked by the empire and especially told if you need help Nepo baby call your mom other then that the ship will be back in 48hrs I’m so glad for that nat 20

Matthew Benedict

I could not be more excited for 2 more lines of dialogue from Dr. Yagi

Maaike Verburg

Narnia: The Lion(knocker), the Witch, and the Wardrobe ✨

NickSavage Eursulon’s Brother in arms

Can we talk about suvi’s last 60 hours the first 48 is witch con where death and trickery was around the corner every step of the way BUT successfully did a mission she didn’t know was a mission until the very end leaves witch con UNSCATHED (well not emotionally) gets on the her ship finally sleeps but not before putting rasper in his place and giving him the box so he can stfu🤦🏾‍♂️wakes up finds out the citadel is going on the offensive essentially tells them hey i got what you need and you want me alive so I’m going too Abassin so send help. lands in Fort Marlawn to get some supplies as soon as she’s about to make a plan rasper takes the ship and ALL the engineers from the fort leaves a note saying the ship will be back in 48hrs and if you need help before that call your mom you nepo baby then gets the bare minimum of people and leaves for Abassin and now rolls initiative

Melissa Shilale

‘your mother’, catch these fists fuckface

Adam Curtis

Suvi walks through the first act of Apocalypse Now and meanwhile Ame is just vibes using the Wand of the Covenant as a spurtle to make delicious soup.

Kivuli Kix

Imagine being a wizard that's just completed one of thr most important missions for the Citadel and then your told you have to go behind enemy lines in an exploration craft to save someone's fwb

Ray

I should have asked this much sooner, but does the WBN gang (or my fellow denizens of the Patreon community) have any specific Podcast app reccs for those of us living in the Android 'verse? No, I am not going to switch to Apple just to get Pocket Casts, so is there another cast app that comes with the WBN seal of approval? And equally important, are there any that have earned the bane of the team and therefore should be blacklisted? Thanks in advance!

Carrie Mook Bridgman

Which she realizes by watching Sworn and specifically deciding to learn from him.

Wren

Like, I love my girl Suvi, and I do hope she kills Rasper. But I get his move here especially when it's spelled out like that lmao

Tijay Arnie

I feel like Sworn is about to die

Bastian Mills

When Neef chose her “room” all I could say was, “ Oh sweetie noooo”

Chelsea Lynn

And Eursulon…works out lol

Amelia Tedesco

“We’re having different days” took me completely out. 😂

Amelia Tedesco

I LOST IT! I was yelling “DO NOT TALK ABOUT HER MOM”

Amelia Tedesco

I felt that on a deeply personal level too, seen my friend. “So yes that is bad shit that did happen, HOWEVER, it makes me feel itchy in my bones when people feel sorry for me so. It is not sad. Got it?” 💀

HoneySickle

Listening to this all morning and listening to Aabria find a way to hide Suvi and cry and THEN watching Misfits and Magic 2 and have LOU DO THE SAME? Yall are making it SO HARD for me to not spend my whole day sobbing

Natalia Zorrilla

ok but did anyone else get hit by Suvi’s “keep it on ice” to Maddie? felt like such a Steel parallel

Sil

"We need all the ammunition we can get" "Whhhyyyy..." I feel like this was a perfect parallel for the way the world looks at Second Amendment advocates 😂

Sil

Perfect military representation, right?

Mark van Dijken

ive been using Podcast Addict for years and it has always served me well

Sil

"Your ship vanishes into the mist and is gone" Deeply inspired by The Fox, may I just say "Ooooohh... he's dead."

Sil

Witch of Work and (?)

Sil

Feeling very "Murph about Kipperlily" about Indri when she goes whinging to Hakea 😂 What's Indri gonna do, move against her Coven sister when the covenant either stops her or breaks the agreement? 😂

NickSavage Eursulon’s Brother in arms

And from my 3 times listening Suvi’s timeline and ame’s and eursulon’s timeline are different as I’ve just went over suvi is 12hrs after witch con and ame and eursulon are 2 days after witch con so Aabria says “we’re having different days ” is very fun in the moment but also quite literal they are in fact having different days on different days. Bringing this back to Suvi one last time she is gonna have to fight with her 4-5 others with no escape plan for at least 24hrs (not to mention 24hrs back) IF Silver is alive and probably who has no back up to extract him in what we know is behind enemy lines if suvi isn’t at rock bottom after this idk what’ll drop her there

Maya B

I CAME HERE TO FIND SOMEONE ELSE. I need to stop watching/listening in the morning before work.

PharaohNoir

I want an animated version of the entire storyline so far yesterday. Please and thanks.

Cian

Look. Brennan. I know you know bird facts. I know you know about magicking away excretions. Don't come around here pretending like some enormous spirit bird that GETS HUNGRY doesn't also make GIANT POOPS. GM details mysteriously vanishing como guanos en el noche..

singorswim

Between Suvi's "gives herself exactly 1 min for a breakdown" and Eursulon's "conditioning so he doesn't have to Feel his Feelings" I am feeling VEEEERY seen

Cian

(PS. You guys are absolute joybringers, can't wait for next season 💖 love your work too Taylor, that trill of Captain Suvi waking up.. tiny, but so cute!)

Lux ❤︎

When the rock drops a deuce in the ocean, tsunamis; on land, earthquakes

Lux ❤︎

I love to imagine that Suvi’s twilight shadow cry cloak manifests in the shape of her mother’s cloak (from the children’s adventure)

Lux ❤︎

Very kelmpy sans angst

Lux ❤︎

And fits with the forest made of icicles seen at the start of arc 3!

Lux ❤︎

The witch of many labors!

Lux ❤︎

I want to love the new logo but the legibility issues and butthole “o” are making it really hard

Lux ❤︎

True buddy comedy energy

Lux ❤︎

Yes exactly, at the end of arc 3 I assumed that Suvi entrusted the box to Rasper to get back to the citadel with the intel separate from her rescue mission, but lol guess not

Luke 'Punquillity' Elias

I desperately need to know if this or episode 3 of misfits and Magic season 2 recorded first because Jammer just did Suvis move in this.

Dominic Corbin

I also use Pocket Cast and find it to be great on Android

Dominic Corbin

Oh Rasper has an excellent argument that he did what was entirely necessary, and should be commended. Officially the Sword of the The Citadel may do exactly that. Rasper stole Suvi's ship and left Steel's daughter in danger. Unofficially Rasper is now on Steel's shit list, and should seek to be AWAY from the Citadel. Likely he knows that though.

Dominic Corbin

I thought they said they're taking this campaign to level 20 unless the PCs die. Edit: oh I see, final chapter of book one. Missed it before, carry on

Al

I recommend watching the video they posted last week.

Nicculus

I use podcastguru

Langorian

Hey, does anyone know when the transcripts for the last few episodes (since August) will air? I am not a native speaker and the transcripts help me a lot to understand

Charlie

Lou Wilson's first line of the episode made me really laugh out loud. BLM: Lou's been shaking his head at me since we started. LW: We've been playing D&D together for a long time. And if my man is out here describing the clouds, you're fucked up bro. Turn around. TURN AROUND if my man is making you make arcana checks on the clouds...

K80

The Wizard Slut

In Brendan’s own words sworn is a VREY POTENT wizard. Can’t wait to see him in action…He can resupply at my point any day If ya know what I mean.

bloops

Fly away now... fly away~ (edit: girlypop, what happened here? I'm genuinely confused)

Mojo 🩵

The slight logo refresh is gorgeous . Absolutely fits the vibe of Umora and our little crew

Matt Thackray

Maaaan I hope Rasper doesn’t get the credit for the music box acquisition. That would literally make my blood boil.

TheodoreKnob

Just wanna say: Rasper was 100% in the right to commandeer The Meridian and make sure the music box made it back to the citadel safely. And Aabria was 200% in the right to put the music box in danger and sail after Silver. I love this show, and I can't wait to hear Suvi tear Rasper apart.

Conor Steinke

"He wants you to know what he's going to take from you" is a great line

Kael McDonald

That moment of quiet horror when you realize Brennan has basically introduced the Fantasy Appalachian Mountains as a setting

larkermouse

Can I just say, the faintly muted horns in the military fort reminded of the music that plays in The Good The Bad and The Ugly when the characters are in a very run down fort with tired soldiers, and that seems very fitting

Dr. Eggman

the Roc is still Dwane Johnson's head on a giant bird in my head, I can't make it stop