Arthur Aquefort is easily the best character Brennan has ever made. Such a fantastic deconstruction of what a high level wizard would actually be like in practicality.
I love that Aguefort didn't fail because the elves pushed him back. He failed because his spell backfired on him meaning he COULD have "just kinda one-shot a government" if he perfected the spell.
Also if the force of magic itself didn’t start tearing him apart because it didn’t want that to keep happening which yeah, I guess dragging the sun is a bad idea but c’mon magic, live a little.
The real problem is that he started too far away from his target. If he got right next to it and THEN busted out the "Turn giant and grab the sun" maneuver he could have one-shot it and then bounced before the rebound caught up to him.
I love how this godlike display of magical power ends up being of absolutely no use to anyone. He just runs out of juice before he even gets close to the Elven capital and then has to figure out how to put the sun back.
+An Enemy Spy I assume maybe this is so it does not undermine the PC's achievements/agency? Maybe if the PCs had been in danger of failing more drastically Aguefort would've been there as a net to help them succeed. Or at least he'd blow up the sun and that'd be cool.
The best part is he never actually puts it back, he just goes back in time and stops himself and then *pretends* to have done all of it via illusions as a distraction.
I always thought of it as more of a huge distraction which meant the VAST majority of the elven army was busy with that meaning the PC's didn't have to fight the army and just fought the few people left in the castle.
Arthur Aguefort is a well known person in this world. He is extremely powerful and batshit crazy. The idea that ANYONE would choose "the way of pain" is so wild that they really deserve everything they got.
Fun Fact: If this scene had taken place during combat on a standard 1:60 grid, the Arthur Aguefort mini would have to be *_seven and a half goddamn feet tall!_*
arguefort is like brennan saying “oh the most powerful wizard in the world is chaotic neutral? let me show you how that would ACTUALLY pan out.” bc when a lot of people say “chaotic” they just mean “unpredictable,” but arthur aguefort is truly C H A O T I C as in causes chaos in his wake near constantly
@@DeathnoteBB true, but they’re still different. Let’s use throwing a ball as an example. More people are predictable, because they’re either right or left handed, and they’ll throw the ball with that hand 100% of the time. People who are ambidextrous are unpredictable because they can throw the ball with either hand. Chaotic people craft a fucking cannon and shoot the ball out of it. So yeah, Chaotic is unpredictable is kinda like how Great is good.
@@DaOriginalGrandPanda Speaking as a chaotic being, I’m not making a cannon. Ball’d probably get shredded. I’m gonna find a bunch of elastic bands and see how far I can fling the ball from my ad-hoc catapult before the bands snap.
"someone just selected the way of pain?" afterwards you can tell he's so eager to set a precedent for the way of pain, as if it's never been done before, that he just fuckin floors it.
@@seekyegwhore8382 Yeah, in a weird way, out of all of the Bad Kids, with the possible exception of Adaine, Kristen is probably the one whose power Aguefort respects the most.
@@lifotheparty6195 Right, but that's like when a parent says that they love all of their children equally, when in truth the parent sees one of the children as being more equal than the rest, if you know what I mean.
LOVE how ADAINE’s go-to guilt trip for trying to convince bad guys they are doing something wrong is always ‘I’m literally neurodivergent and a minor 😣
Arthur Aguefort is the perfect combo of a classic fantasy wizard, a murder hobo, and a realistic depiction of the effect that immortality and nigh unlimited power would have on the human psyche.
Sometimes you need to establish to the PCs that THIS is the character that you do not fuck with. You fuck with them and the campaign is over. Brennen does it in probably the coolest ways in the history of DnD
I love how magic itself literally had to say.... um.. nah.. yeah that's too much. That's too big, too much power. And tried to push him out of that state
Out of everything, the insane image of giant Aguefort tearing the sun across the sky made me laugh the hardest in this entire season. Yes, harder than Hilda Hilda
@@vuelle9816 I'm not sure if you understand the definition of "procrastinating." Commenting on youtube videos is still putzing. I'm in my summer semester right now and could be studying or something but I'm bantering over semantics with a stranger on the internet because it's less of a time investment for a pseudo-payoff of correcting someone about something inconsequential.
I am legitimately wondering if this was just something Brennan had planned if Adaine had actually name dropped the Academy in that way and Siobhan just came upon by sure mistake, or if he just improvised that on the spot.
@@-hayleymc_is_tired-5038 It's hard to say. While what you say is true, so is the opposite, you can sometimes see in his improvised interactions bits that he definitely workshopped before hand. The rant about chronomancy in s1ep17 was clearly scripted, but the circumstances that it happened definitely weren't. I think that everyone at the table has done a bunch of workshopping outside of the game and their improv skills let them weave in ideas naturally.
@@adamdymke8004 having an idea or outline of something is different than a script. I think most people think every word and and idea is completely planned out on a script and it’s a show and not made up as they go. Yes there is plans but Most of his ramblings are in the fly and he makes it seem like he wrote out everything he said before saying it. he has an idea not a script it’s a big difference
i can just imagine if he planned out all of aguefort's bullshit magic experiments with such simple triggers he would just be ITCHING for the pcs to stumble across them like this. like when he cloned ragh's mother and just straight-up forgot - stuff that aguefort himself would never think to mention unless specifically asked about it because this is just a normal day for him.
Aguefort used the Wish spell to be able to cast Wish an unlimited number of times without negative consequences. That's my headcanon and I'm sticking to it.
Don’t be silly. He wished for the knowledge and power he would have attained from an unlimited number of Wishes without negative consequences. An extra loophole within a loophole.
I imagine Aguefort would hire some really good charisma 20 lawyer who manages to get him off claiming someone else was going for it, and they both reached for the Sun.
@@happydonkey5333 he also sends those students to die several times, drops the sun God on their city, abandons them to deal with a dragon, and starts a war with a foreign country. I just like Dumbledore and hogwarts, I don't think anyone would actually want anything like that in their own life.
I was wondering the internal logic behind this when I first saw it. Ive been recently reading spelljammer stuff, about crystal spheres and all that, and I’ve come to the conclusion that Arthur is either grasping a portal to the plane of radiance, or the plane of elemental fire.
Aidan asks this same question about the sun rotating around the earth in this world in a later conversation, and Arthur actually says that is not the case, and that it works like our solar system, which is why it's so hard for him to put the sun back. He has no idea what or how he did that.
Aguefort is like Dumbledore if Dumbledore was petty about the mistreatment of his students, whom he actually cares for, and SQUARELY *Chaotic Neutral.*
I feel you, Aguefort. Hauntingly, even. Made a Witch in A.I Dungeon and when I tried to topple a whole country alone with just my ghost familiar and broken necromancy powers, the A.I daid I started to bleed a lot from my rectum as It was too much Power for me body (said I needed to train more to be able to survive such a feat) and passed out after making a scene and a speech. Quite embarassing. Now I think I know what was fed into the A.I that resulted in this
My favorite part about this whole thing is the Adaines dad even after this still thinks Solas is below their people. Arthur literally committagain.1 v all against their entire country and would have won if he was trying to destroy their country.
...well, I can't speak for any other GMs, but one of my PCs ascended to demi-godhood by staging a massive orgy between dwarves and dragons, so... like this up there, but...
Arthur. Scenario 1: Arthur and Evan get annoyed at each other. Evan tries to hold back his rage, Arthur kills Evan. Evan tries to return to his friends, but in the midst of a long battle against the beings of hell, he runs out of motivation without Lou, K, and Sam to cheer him up. Scenario 2: Arthur and Evan get annoyed at each other. Arthur, underestimating Evan, lets him go first. Evan kills Arthur in one attack, torturing Arthur. However, Arthur's already cracked, so he travels to meet Bill in hell, buys some snuff powder and snorts it, forgets about the pain, heals himself, gets revived by his paramour, tracks down Evan and kills him. Scenario 2.5: Evan blocks Arthur's attack upon his return from hell and kills Arthur again. Scenario 2 repeats infinitely. Scenario 2.75: Evan gets sick of Arthur's shit and seals him away. Arthur laughs and shits in the corner until enough shit has built up to overload the capacity of the seal and breaks out after many years, uses Chronomancy to return to the moment he got sealed, scenario 2 and its sub-scenarios repeat until Evan dies.
Lol I just realized he went away from the tower cause Adine said the high elves of fallenhal but not just her father and the counsel of the oracle or what ever they are called
I love how they were about to mock her for saying she's a student of the Aquefort Academy, and then suddenly Arthur messages them with a warning that he's fully willing to move heaven and earth over one student. Then, they call his bluff only to learn that it was no bluff and he is literally willing and able to move heaven and earth to get his student back.
Every other Divinity: Sol you just gonna let him grab the sun like that? Sol: He knocked me into a several month coma, he can do what he likes with the sun, I'm not going near that man and you shouldn't either if you value your immortality.
I would love to have given Augefort the help action just to give him advantage and see if he would be successful in one-shoting the Falanel government.
A Rules Lawyer is somebody, typically in TTRPGs, who tried to ensure the rules of a game/system are followed to an absolute T. Rules Lawyers are most often depicted as the antithesis of homebrewers.
Love the video, just a tiny bit of feedback I think the audio is messed up somehow, it's only playing from the left side in my headset. Tested with other videos and other audio sources with no issue.
Surprised Mystra, herself, didn't show up to put a stop to Aquefort's spells. Just stomp his nuts into the ground. Him evacuating a river of blood was probably due to her web just eviscerating his insides. ...oh, wait... this is 4e. She was technically dead at the time. Well, no wonder he was able to pull all of that off.
