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PUBLIC FIRESIDE CHAT: Chapter 4 and Book One Fireside Chat! (Patreon)

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2025-08-26 11:30:03
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[this fireside chat is on both the public feed AND here on the fireside]

The cast assembles to look back at the end AND the whole of Book One of The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One. Ends and wholes, that's what it's all about, baby! If, somehow, this does not slake your thirst for Book One talk, do not, I BEG OF YOU, do not worry. Coming soon to the Patreon: Music Chat, where we look back at the music and, gulp, music theory of Book One's incredible score! A whole episode about the "what ifs" of Book One (one of the best bits of bonus audio we've ever recorded, imho)! And so, so much more. It's deadass Bone Cone Autumn, fam. No cap.

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OhHeyJDK

Ugh yes I need these humans interacting in my life again this week. It’s mind boggling how much I look forward to any sort of update now.

Ankazar

Very excited to hear more about the music/sound design!

Jub64

We're getting a whole what-if episode? Autumn is saved!

Sanja Trinki

"They had to go" 🤣🤣🤣

Beomene

Anyone else who has been dreaming in Umora?

Donald Chambliss Jr.

Yesss the clue reference !! I hate her ...flames...Flames. ..on the side of my face lol

The Wizard Subjudice

I'ma say this up top, Erika; I don't believe FOR A GODDAMN SECOND that it isn't the Man in Black or some spirit in league with him, who Eioghorain made his "deal with some spirits" with. Brennan would do this to all of us #nastyman 😂

Lazarus0024

Suvi should get Galani on their team

Brandon Brewer

On behalf of my fellow Cajuns, we happily accept the Grinot into our nation. Although they may need to change the spelling to Grineaux if they really want to fit in.

Manifesting Good Posture

oh, and I was so hoping we'd get talkbacks nested within talkbacks. (Book 1 Talkback (Chapter 4 Talkback (episode 54 talkback)))

JustTaylor37

Can we please get jersey merch with a brighter tomorrow LLC?😂😂

The Wizard Stethoscope

Sat reading through this on my lunch break waiting until I can actually listen after work 😭

Amaya

This has firmly cemented Steel as #1 villain in all the media I've consumed because efficiency as a priority when being heinous is my true nightmare. It's easier to thwart evil when it's careless. Of course you don't need to get super worked up about random spirits if there's not gonna be spirits anymore soon enough

Anthony Merchant

"Door is a little squeaky... could turn this place into a giant robot."

Amaya

Reasonableness is so fun to play when you're being a big fat liar. I'm keeping so many secrets from fellow PCs without directly lying because they don't ask a bunch of follow ups because I'm so stable

mguin

3 artificers, one of whom can break down magic objects to see how their spells work. In a house full of artifacts. Umora's own Q department!

Ashe

I'd say there will be spirits...great spirits born into slavery, an INDUSTRIAL FACTORY OF ENSLAVED GREAT SPIRITS....which I think is way worse than no spirits. But I agree Steel is the great villain ever. Man these guys are genius, best piece of media of all time.

ScoutHooligan

It feels so good being vindicated in my screaming into the void since arc 1 about "why does steel care about ame so much?!"

Amaya

Oh yeah, the spirit machine would be churning like crazy. Especially with all the theoretical research about where the well spirit is before you build the well. The secret court was so horrifying because theoretical research by itself is a worthy pursuit for those who are curious but we know the Citadel will only use it to expand empire

Ashe

Also sorry about my all caps screaming, I'm just too excited. It's only meant to have been excitement. Figured I would clarify. Only love.

Sea Moose

@Brennan, all I could think about when you were talking about how the game has “changed” you was Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society. Gorgeous and thank you. “We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?”

Ashe

Man I am really wanting that Sworn redemption arc for book 2, such a tragic figure, my man Brennan breaking my heart when Sworn asks "Why didn't you ask me?" ...thinking of him in the shroud mountains talking to Ame; Brennan describing it with the two people with possibly the most differing world views...but he is just a tragic little guy that wants his family to remember his name, who never wanted any of this. Man this is the best piece of media ever, you are all beautiful genius's.

Amaya

We need merch for Eursulon's John Wick Era. I would like to pitch a mug or enamel pin that says. "I introduce myself sword first."

Amaya

I need someone good at art to make a tarot card for Suvi as the Magician

Amaya

You're all good!!! I am also so excited and have no one to talk to about it so I just scream into the void about how much I love this story

Leah Frey

I'm maybe a little disappointed about the Ame/Tefmet thing? I kinda thought she was ace (like me)

Sinker

Wait, so the use of the word "circumnavigate" implies that Lou is going *around* Panama. Is Lou just wading through Panamanian beaches? Is a boat involved? And why go *around* Panama? What does it accomplish? I need answers.

Elijah Peters

I mean, she is played by Erica, who is one-half of the Horner Corner. Though they never really confirmed that she isn't ace (as in asexual). It's just she has a romantic interest in Tefmet. All she mentioned was a date.

Leah Frey

Then again, an ace trying to date in an allosexual world is a great way to get your heart broken a bunch

Mckenzie Rachel

But hear me out, where those StudBudz at?

CommodoreBlue

Erika is making arguments for the Grannoh like she actually is the Witch of the World’s Heart. I love it. I love the rag tag group of allies that Ame insists will be useful while Suvi just rolls her eyes and looks for someone who can throw a fireball.

bluebluebutton

I think about that conversation ALL the time.

bluebluebutton

If I were to name a self-indulgent wish for Book Two, it would be to see the sequel to this exchange after all that's happened: ... **Ame:** Are you loyal to a person, or to the ideals, or to the people around you that uphold those ideals? **Sworn:** I don't think it matters as long as you just pick one. I think when you pick more than one thing to be loyal to, you can trick yourself into thinking that you're giving the world nuance, but what you're really doing is giving yourself a way out. **Ame:** So you just pick one, and you stay with it? No matter what? **Sworn:** I got my namecloak about four years after you're supposed to. I passed into the Citadel, was very talented, and squandered any possibility I had of meaningful contribution. I thought maybe I'd do this, maybe I'd enter this school, maybe I'd do that - and the only mentor I had that really meant anything to me died with me being a fly at the bottom of a bottle, and unworthy of the care and attention they had given to me. They never got to see me take my namecloak. You can waste a lot of time weighing things in the balance. My judgment has only ever thwarted me and led me astray. So I know that the best thing for me to do is to find someone who gets it right more often than me, and follow them. **Ame:** Nobody can be right all the time. And there's nothing wrong with having a curious mind. I'm glad you found purpose. But I think that, as for me, I hope to continue finding purpose. Many of them. Different ones. And just continue on that way. I'm not afraid to have picked wrong. **Sworn:** Well then, it's very good that you are you and I am me. **Ame:** Thank you for taking care of the Wizard Sky and for your loyalty to her. I do appreciate that. **Sworn:** Independence is a lovely thing for a small number. The world doesn't work unless most people get in line.

Joel Hicks

I need to catch up SO BAD! I got a new job which is great, but I haven't had time for this glorious podcast in too long

bluebluebutton

Yes! I remember being so thrown in Arc 1 when Suvi asks Steel what she did wrong, and Steel's answer was that Suvi let Ame "get away."

Andreshmandre

My hot take is the Great Bear is actually Tim Duncan. The team has a solid foundation but that draft pick will take them to the championship

Jamie Morgan

I feel like there was a missed opportunity ... Grannoh men can't jump.

Frankimer

Taylor when did you lose your cap?

Alyssa

There is nothing I love more and understand less than Aabria and Lou’s basketball and general sports analogies! 🏀

Javi

is yoren taking his talents to south beach???

Ashe

1 quadrillion percent... Man the depth of these characters are amazing.... Those last two lines from Sworn, omg so much character in just two lines!!!

Aiden Abett

Crimeboss and Waif side campaign would be a dope 3-parter. I'd be very interested to see what Brennan could do to the Wolf & Cub formula, especially considering the Wolf is a ruthless undead crime boss, and the cub is a nascent witch who's already been through the wicked stepmother and kindly mentor phases of her coming-of-age journey. Y'know what? Scratch the wolf n cub story, I want a Pinocchio style adventure story from Nief's perspective where she travels Umora meeting interesting characters and learning life lessons from them while performing her duties as a witch and trying to find her place in the world.

Muadwho

Add some Prime Shaq physicality/dominance and I'm with you

Gareth Patten

i’m stunned at the amount of ball knowledge on display from aabria during this episode, that’s a fantasy football sicko

Mac

[Mulligan] Sources: Man in Black is beside himself. Teleporting around Umora begging (thru texts) Eursulon’s family for address to Spirit of Freedom’s home

bluebluebutton

“The change I have felt is clarity” HITS. I love that the lesson Brennan learned from this story is the lesson each character learned in Arc 4. Eursulon is already on the path to freeing the Greneaux children when he names his breath and makes his paladin oath to freedom. In claiming his oath, Eursulon voices what has already been driving him: not a perfect outcome, but one in which the children are free. Meanwhile, in the depths of her torture at the hands of Keen, Ame is not asked by the foxiness of her own spirit to abandon who she is, but rather to embrace the parts of herself she believed she must bury in order to fulfill her role of kindly Witch of the World’s Heart. In that moment, Ame does not reject the tricksiness that her parents disowned her for, but instead bridges her own cunning and kindness in an instant of finally accepting the whole of who she has already been. And Suvi, confined to the Tower of the Glove, relearns what she already knew as a child: she loves and wants magic. Her upbringing by Steel introduced a conflation, where “magic” was twisted to be synonymous with “the Citadel” as that thing Suvi’s always pursued. Suvi levels up not when she transforms into someone new, but rather when she remembers and reclaims the truth that has been at the core of her longing since that first prelude. In each case, the change undergone is one of understanding something that's already been a fact of who the characters are. The change is clarity. Gods I've loved this story.

bluebluebutton

Also, I love Brennan diving into his real world inspirations for Steel's brand of villainy. "In real life, bad guys say reasonable things all the fucking time. it's almost like language is a game and you can cloak yourself in the veneer of reasonableness with very minimal effort if you're smart. It's one of the most frightening parts of being a human. It makes me wake up in a cold sweat all the time that the worst ideologies you've ever heard of can, with a trick of language, be made to sound like the obvious choice." That insidious veneer of reasonability chills me more than anything because of its capacity to sway and lull good faith listeners into an uncritical state. I hate that I've been swayed by that veneer before, and that there's no reason to think I won't be in the future if my critical lens isn't sufficiently honed.

Stephen Bannasch

I think magic may be starting to become enamored with Suvi -- which could be very helpful for someone possibly becoming a great magician.

Emily C

Steampunk Baba Yaga

Tommy Deibel

It's me. I'm the one that Steel tricked.

Wizard Susurrus

I submit the same question every time, and it never gets picked. I NEED justice for baby Ame in the Children’s Adventure: “Are there wooden horses?”

Stephanie Corcoran

Erika, Brennan is coming for you next book. Good lord.

Mac

i feel so dumb now for not seeing the signs tbh, thought it was just mean citadel bs and not that steel specifically was bad

g0dfath4

neif erasure, they’re apart of the squad booots

Morgana Evenstar

Ahoo ahoo, crackle crackle, we can't wait 'til Umora's backle.

Abacus

Just wanted to ask if there's any chance that the cast might go through and answer any/some unanswered questions in a text doc or something which were submitted seeing as we won't be coming back to this story/world for a bit. EDIT: I feel like we had so few questions actually answered so it would be incredible if we could get like a spreadsheet with the questions listed and then typed responses from the cast I would FIEND for that

Abacus

r/nba shitposting crossover with WBN with a Paddington profile picture checks like 50% of my boxes as a human being and wish I was friends with you IRL LMFAO

Abacus

I feel like he's closer to Hakeem but they're both top 10 all time

Abacus

I know it's insane, but it's spelled eioghorain

Emily C

First the MCU post credit scenes, now the MCU What If? Series, let's fucking gooooo

Cody Zimmer

Minute 40! Exactly! Thank you!

TPK_light

She's said before her parents signed her up for like every sport possible from the time she was a kid so yes, lots of personal sports knowledge 😂

Erik Hanson

Aabria, are you saying that White Grenot Can't Hop?

Hannah Radenkova Illustration

As far as the artificers go, as a craftsperson I can confirm that sitting still, especially after emotional upheaval, is DIFFICULT. I need the making zone to feel both calm and joy.

brokenallbroken

I am here for Gangster and Waif sidequests. And I think Eorghorain can fix Indri; she would definitely be the bad boy in that paring.

Beth Wernet

He says it like he’s walking but I like picturing him sailing up one coast, dragging the boat through the jungle and then going down the other coast. If he wasn’t circumnavigating he could use the canal, but the circum implies top and bottom, and going through the middle would be cheating

Cody Zimmer

Dude, I can't even imagine this quality of story telling plus level 20... I'm so amped for 2035 😆

worldsbeyondnumber

No. Given the number of questions this would literally be impossible. While talkbacks are fun, we must all ultimately find the courage to let the work speak for itself, and embrace, without fear, uncertainty.

Katrina Conrad

Damn, eursalon really entering his napalm era

Carrie Mook Bridgman

Steel RE Morrow: "You dumbass! We're working on this.... God damn. Parallel discoveries, only this guy's a moron." Well, that answers that question. Steel *didn't* know about the derrick. Her surprise and outrage were genuine--just not for the reasons we thought. And I'm guessing she would have loved to investigate and find out who in the Empire was supporting Morrow's work. The Citadel aren't the only ones doing this research. Tefmet's group captured the lenses on their way to Carrow, not to the Citadel. So Keen was our Imperial researcher. Didn't the attack on the Great Bullfrog include Keen's dispelling agent? I want to know how Keen and Steel were working together or competing or both.

Frankimer

Indeed, let the fall of bonus conus commence.

Abacus

Totally understandable, thank you for the response!

Lexie Jones

What about Who has the Juicest Dumper!?

Xanian Jamfalcon

Softpitch: If Book 1 is The Wizard, The Witch, and The Wild One - is Book 2 The Magician, The Matron, and The Monsterous One?

Kolbjorn

I want to say this because listening to the fireside chat about Steel, I feel a little bit more able to articulate it, and I think ot's genuinely an incredibly important life skill. I knew Steel did not have Suvi's best interests at heart almost immediately. I was really struggling to articulate where that was coming from to a good friend I follow this podcast with. But what I think it comes down to is the toolkit Steel was using. People who want to invest in you, help you to grow and develop the skills they hope will be useful to you and to projects you may be working on together--those people need you to be confident in your own abilities. They need tou to feel competent and effective wirhout their direct oversight. If you have a relationship with someone of any kind, and they shower you in affection and attention and whatever it is that you deeply emotionally need--that's in and of itself a flag. It's not necessarily a red flag. Very perceptive people are going to see what you need. Some of them will give it to you because they want you to have it. Some of them will give it to you because they know they can manipulate you with it. You just need to take the time to check. But if you walk away from interactions with that person consistently feeling bad about yourself, incompetent, and ultimately dependent on them--that's not a red flag that's your ticket out. You don't need to accept that they're doing that on purpose, although my experience is that they almost certainly are. You just need to accept that that mindset is bad for you, and therefore that relationship is bad for you. And if you decide to confront them about it, and they make you feel like a bad person for doing so--well. Sure there's reasons someone acting in good faith would do that. But I think it's important to look at what the consistent results of a persons behaviors are, and if they don't line up with their stated intent and they don't change that when confronted about it. You at some point need to accept that they are achieving what they set out to do.

Jayfeather

eioreign and heinrull in my dreams will be true

The Pompous Peasant

Yussssssssßsssss!!!! teh big un is here lolol;lolol;lololo! can't wait, CANT wait timo listen ans see teh lou is ther and IF so WILL he b there ir will he be in teh jungles of teh sweety nast hole with Brenan lololo;koll!!! dues any one know what sporte abria plays as shes def touching funny style on that nast if a man that deep talks and rubz

Meredith Janke

Long time listener first time commenter 😂 my biggest “what if” that I think about ALL THE TIME is what if Suvi hadn’t gone after Silver in the shroud mountains? Or had been prevented from doing so / the party didn’t join her and she had to bail? I know the battle of twelve brooks would have happened still, but there’s no knowing where our characters would have been and what their priorities would be when it happened. Maybe they would have gone to see Koliah (sp?) and then gotten on the train? Or followed Eursalon on various quests to free bound spirits? Maybe they would have tried to intervene before the Great Bullfrog could be silenced? I would love to hear peoples’ theories!

A.M. Healy

Eursulon's Dad swept.

Lexie Jones

Yes, but I still wanted to hear the full listing, and confirm that Morrows still in the top 3

Evelina Meiklejohn

I easily could have listened to you all talk about this book for another 2 hours. 💖

Maddie Moreland

If we want to make it a 3-member party I nominate Buckles to be the third member, especially as a means of exploring exactly how the children of the Graneaux are getting by without the Great Bullfrog. Maybe he can learn from Nif and Will other ways of communing with magic.

KamasiFitzgerald

Thank you, thank you, a billion times thank you ALL for this wonderful story. It will stay with me forever and I cannot WAIT to go to space with y’all. This somehow feels like a skeevy question, and I can’t tell if it actually is or if I’m just feeling financial shame, but I’m quite broke and was looking to stop my subscription until the new main campaign starts up - however, I’m waiting on the Umora lore dossier that Brennan teased at the end of arc 1. The players I DM for and I are *so* inspired by Umora and we want that crunchy lore! Is this still in the pipeline, and if so can you tell us anything about when it might arrive?

leotoffee

Aabria, as someone who listens to the Fireside chat shortly after watching ESPN First Take and Get Up, thanks for showing that sports/ttrpg nerdism lol. We're rare but we do exist.

The Sauce

Brennan would you ever consider DMing a one shot with the mothership RPG system as part of worlds beyond number, or perhaps Lou could DM it? I feel like those settings combined with the way you DM as well as the incredible music that could go along with it could turn out incredible. The system is also very easy to understand and use it would be a great start for first time DMs

Nathan Levine

Early Suvi absolutely was a racist, and THAT'S why her character development/de-indoctrination of empire was so impactful and triumphant. Imagine saying that immigrants deserve their irredeemable treatment by ICE because when they come here 'they get what they fucking get'. Repugnant. But Suvi's so fun because she breaks herself (mostly) of those such harmful (both to herself and others) ideologies. I LOVE this story so much and can't wait for more as long as you beautiful people tell stories. Excuse me while I re-watch every Steel scene with the twist in mind. Favorite Brennan villain, probably even more than Critical Role's Lord of the Hells, which is also sublime.

Carrie Mook Bridgman

I think Lou started the crazy spellings with Eursulon and Brennan ran with it. I put Beast Uncle into the Mickey Mouse song to remember how to spell him: E-I-O G-H-O R-A-I-(two notes)-N.

Aesthetic Pest

Eioreign will treat Heinrul right and show him he deserves better than Gramore

Aesthetic Pest

Acceptance is the first step 🥰💖

Carrie Mook Bridgman

My hackles were up, too, partly because Steel *never* gave direct, explicit answers about anything. And as someone said below, the blatant red flag in Port Talon of Steel telling Suvi, "You let her escape."

Cackle Cackle

OMG Erika I see you with the FLAMES! FLA-ames. On the side of my face!

Aaron Fu

In my reading of the test version of the witch class, Steel would not have gotten to make a save against the retributive curse. The towering flesh construct that almost crushed the party at the battle of twelve brooks didn’t get to make a save. Is the final version of the class different in this regard? Maybe I’m just misreading the text. Even though I expected and hoped Ame’s curse would land with no save from Steel, I thought comrade Mulligan’s narration of why it failed was excellent.

Cackle Cackle

Also — eew, Grimoire is an anti-vaxxer? Please tell me this isn’t canon. But I see Aabria’s point.

Kimberly Spirdione

Literally Steel's first scene in episode one makes my BLOOD BOIL I AM DIFFERENT NOW

Nye-Low

I feel vindicated about operation beat feet from the Citadel.

irisilmaril

it is in fact spelled Grenaux

Port Talon Weather Forecast Channel

You guys are great at recklessly making us obsessed about a world you build around rolling dice. What do you mean I have to wait for book 2 to know what happens to my favorite make believe world when you guys are ready for it? This is my life right now! God, I will not fall for your tricks again. Anyway, that Solari thing Aabria teased sounds interesting. I'm curious about it and looking forward to check it out.

Port Talon Weather Forecast Channel

On another note: It's crazy what you guys achieved with this story and podcast. This story, its characters and delivery are so amazing. Everyone of you can be proud of the work you have done. Bravo. Aabria, Lou and Erika, I love your PCs so much. I think I can partly relate to every character on some level, and the journeys they go through to find themselves in this world are just incredible. Sometimes the things they have done or said or thought were ugly, but that made them so true and believable. And sometimes you decided to take actions that were unexpected but perfect. Taylor, without you amazing work, this story would not have been as immersive as it is. When Eursulon met Sir Curran on the road and the music hits I was hooked in. I felt like a child meeting a knight and being inspired. I can't say how much else your work has elevated the story, because the immersion of every episode was spotless. Brennan, thank you for the world you shaped into being. Thank you for the Citadel, thank you for Toma, thank you for all the people and every nook and cranny of Umora you've shown. The things you made me feel in particular regarding Steel and the Citadel... ugh. Sweet honey coated empire apologism. I'm so exited to see what's beyond the horizon for WBN.

Aiden Abett

Lol, Ghost, Nif, and Buckles are the backup protagonists in case the main trio bites it

Viktor Engholm

100% same, we need a livestream goal or something 😤

The Sauce

Interesting thought while listening, to war with someone does not have to mean that you are alongside them so with that play of words would they still be able to reach unanimity while supporting their own causes?

rrrrumpunch

JOHN WICK EURSALON LETS GOOOOOO 😤😤😤

Witch of the Winding Rivers

A) absolutely incredible book 1, I’ve gotten so many friends into it *just* so I can have someone to talk to about it and B) ABSOLUTELY THE SUPPLY CHAIN IS KEY TO A WAR - an army marches on its stomach! And historically, we also find that any occupying force that does not have the people on its side will eventually lose to guerrilla tactics. It’s nice to have your big names, but even better is to have the common people who are able to pass among crowds, fuck up supply chains, pass messages, mine roads, etc. being fast, nimble, and adaptable is the realm of guerrilla warfare and truly the best place to be for this little band now. A war is won through supply and intelligence, and the clever use of both. Ok back to the episode!

Tara

"Those are just Cajuns" made me actually scream, as a cajun who loved to jump as a child. Petition that anytime a Grenaux villager is around they have to speak with a thick cajun accent and I will be judging you for authenticity, BRENNAN

Kimberly W

To Brennan's point, the phrase "going to war with" could reasonably be interpreted as "going to war in alliance with" OR "going to war against." Could be some interesting fine print in this metaphorical contract of the coven and the MIB

Lee Chirtel

If you keep citing Ursula k le Guin, I think we will have to meet a few more Dragons. As she said in her introduction from the fancy 2016 edition of The Complete Illustrated Earthsea: "If a dragon comes to you and says, "Arw sobriost!" ('Mount here' from The Farthest Shore) you don't ask questions. You do what it says."

yimyams

and the World's Heart becomes the World's Forge

John Dupree III

Brennan's comments at the end about each character's future makes it seem like Suvi gets to be in Kiki's Delivery Service now, while Ame and Eursulon are diving into Mononoke.

Catloaf

From episode 12: "One more thing. You want truth, I will give you all of it. I've met three Great Spirits while I've been walking the world. Two cruel, one caught. And it would be a lie if I didn't admit that I feel a little pride that the ones that would walk our world with such impunity feel, even for a moment, a mote of the dread I have felt in their presence. I don't think I hate them, but I'm closer than I thought I would be." Nothing about this is racist to me and her statement, "And maybe if you come here, you get what you FUCKING get," was equally applied to the wizards when Naram attacked them, [And Suvi has found her new paradigm, and it has been proven incredibly correct. Wild Ones will do what they will. Orima threatened our lives a day ago. And even in her most angry—like, in her great fury of the like, "maybe the wild ones get what they get," I think that flows in both directions, and it seems right, and fitting.] Horrible tone for the moment, yes. Needlessly cruel, maybe. Racist? I don't think this is bigoted towards spirits. If anything, her beef is with Great Spirits and how they get to fuck up the world with impunity. I think it's the world view of a sheltered person, who was trained as a soldier, and uses a ton black and white thinking combined with the personal responsibility mantra that so many conservatives use.

witch of wild novels

anyone thinking about the real life mouse the fox ate in the Citadel???

Devora

Beautifully said

RuviGaPo

Y E S !! ERIKA !! IM TRUSTING YOU W THIS !! ASK THAT LIBRARIAN OUTTTTTT !!!! PLEASEEE !!!!!!

DaphneDawn

“Panama can wait” is the most romantic three word short story ever written

Crits

brennans commentary on steel wording herself in a way that’s so reasonable is how i’ve felt about older liberals telling me we just need to meet the democrats where they’re at, we can’t expect them to turn on israel or whatever issue they’re justifying being centrists (at best) about bc you have to be patient with political moves. that does sound reasonable if you believe their eventual intent is to do the right thing, which, just like steel, it demonstrably isn’t. they’re only doing the right thing for them and theirs, which is making sure the empire stays in power. meanwhile we’re waiting for the people with more power than us to save us while we we witness unconscionable suffering

Alison Schaaf

I just listened to the Children's Adventure and listening to Steel tell Suvi what happened to her parents. Oh man, I wanted to punch her right in the mouth.

lassus

sadly i didnt get to fill out the questionnaire on time but i gotta know. Brennan. the lemon lady and the great bear. what are the chances

Carrie Mook Bridgman

"If you have caught the target in a lie...the target has disadvantage on its saving throw, the spell doesn't require concentration, and the effect is permanent unless it's removed by Remove Curse or Greater Restoration magic."

Carrie Mook Bridgman

What I don't understand was that they talked about Ame's curse being permanent and showing up as foxfire while the actual curse spell, Tongue-Tie, failed. Huh?

Muadwho

Shaq Diesel Big Fundamental The Dream Cut. Print.

The Wizard Seeker

Relistening to Book one, and in episode 3 Suvi says “I have to have a task. I’m better with a task.” The accidental foreshadowing made me so happy! 🕷️

Jsuits

"You're mad at somebody. You're distressed. Is that person between you, and your goal? Because of not that energy is wasted." And y'all... That hit me like a ton of bricks.

The Wizard Subjudice

Best reveal/nat 20 roll of the whole book? Ame having Indri's nasty b!tch / killing of her Coven-mates revealed way ahead of schedule. Always here for that secret/intrigue reveal

The Wizard Subjudice

Absolutely here for the comment, but mostly your handle. Spite, Scribble, Smirk or Sleight (or slight, as in insult) are on my personal shortlist

The Wizard Subjudice

... goddamn. But surely if shape changer, they wouldn't just let themselves just die...😶‍🌫️

Cortney Cline

Oh damn! About an hour in when Brennan is talking about big emotions toward things that don't actually hinder you getting what you want/where you want to be being wasted energy- YES!! THANK YOU!! I had no idea we had that in common!

Frosted-Gears | Hayden

The artificers are about to turn Ame's cottage fully into Howl's Moving Castle by the time she gets back home, complete with a modification to the doorknobs that lets her do the instant teleportation to multiple areas around the world.

The Witch of the Well-Struck Flint

I'm doing a full re-listen and have so many fireside questions but it's too late!! Suffice to say, I desperately want a one-shot of the liberation of the Cassov collection with Erika as Vandal, Lou as Cyril and Aabria as Enzo. Ink demon spirit heist!

Zephry Wright

Where is the support group for people who binged WWW in like a month and now have a hole inside their heart?

Rebecca Graham

Going back to re-listen to episode 1, with the context of the final episode and talkback...it's A LOT. It's heartbreaing at times

Wizard Sorcha

Same! I just started listening after the CR campaign 4 announcement (they mentioned WBN in a question to BLeeM during a fireside chat with Matt Mercer, and I had to look it up and listen!), and now there's this emptiness. 0.o

Rie

My understanding is that the foxfire was the retributive curse for Steel trying to kill Ame, Tongue Tie was just a normal intitiative action that failed bc of the dice rolls.

Kate Garrett

I am late to the party on joining the Patreon, but this fireside was so meaningful to me. Everyone’s reflections about how Umora has changed them resonated so deeply with me. Aabria’s comment about how doing storytelling like this forces you to confront the idea of what is praxis, what is activism. Brennan’s commentary about imaginative fiction and how important it is to political work hit me so hard as someone who works in narrative change and also tries to create the space for these kinds of stories and ideas in my own campaigns. As a tender-hearted leftist, I have never connected so intensely and emotionally to an actual play, and I absolutely think it is adding to the body of work alongside folks like Ursula K. LeGuin and Augustina Bazterrica and Disco Elysium and so many other storytellers. Stories are so real in their ability to change minds and hearts, even in fiction we can tell truths that ring almost truer than reality. Thank you so much for telling this story.

LochUnruly

I got to the party late, and only just finished Book 1. I'm usually chagrin to post on something that is almost a year old, but Damnit, you all did such an amazing job. The trust, the cohesion, and the beauty of this story, are astounding. I loved you all individually before this, but together you all told the greatest story I've ever witnessed. You really lifted the genre to new soaring heights, and I can't wait to hear what comes next.

Josh

i need a permanent door to the tree

Margarida Baptista

This, plus Aabria's take on "chosen ones" and "powerful family" tropes really hits - they are not heroes chosen by the powers that be, that have to be reluctantantly dragged along a hero's journey in order to grow and change and come into the power that was always there in their blood; they are good people, stumbling along and making difficult choices, learning from the world and from each other and growing into themselves. Suvi is not good because Soft and Stone were good, nor is she bad because Steel is bad - she has been formed and changed by all of the world around her.