Caduceus talks to Trent "Empathise." | Critical Role | Campaign 2, Ep141 

Power Word: Empathize

Well deserved, but terrifying.

I'm scared of Caduceus and I'm on his side.

@@RedtheEdge Cad is the prime example of 'beware the nice ones' because they ARE the most dangerous

“Beware the anger of a gentle man”

There's an earlier bit where Caduceus, eyes pitch black, intimidates Eadwulf into putting out the fires that were destroying his family home/temple. "Before you go! The Matron has special places for people who burn temples! So, why don't you put your back into this!?"

Beware the wrath of a gentle man.

@@tycol322 like one of my favorite quotes from Kerrek (aka Patrick Rothfuss 😊).

'Night will fall and drown the sun When a good man goes to war Friendship dies and true love lies 'Night will fall and the dark will rise When a good man goes to war Demon's run but count the cost the Battel's won but the child is lost.

Eragon hadn't broken through, he couldn't, even when Murtagh broke some of the more main wards that Galbatorix had around him. The beauty of the spell, or at least the spell Eragon intended to cast in the first place, is that it wasn't something to kill with. None of the wards that Galbatorix put about himself could do anything about it and then the power of the Eldunari that Eragon drew upon amplified it into a spell that it became.

It had it's ups and downs, but that was hands down one of my favourite ways of dealing with a villain ever.

I was thinking the EXACT same thing when I first saw this scene. Honestly there’s such a poetic justice to a punishment like that, even though i can understand why some think it’s a narratively flawed way to deal with a villain, I thought for the book it was a fitting ending. Kinda like the new option from the ending of AtlA that Aang found. And here it really hammers in just how rotten to the core Trent is, which makes his end all the more satisfying.

It did worked in the end. But, Trent didn't hav the ability to empathize. So it didnt work anyways.

@@dopiley I actually love that it turned out like that. Not that we needed more evidence, but it shows just how irredeemably evil he truly was. A complete lack of not just empathy, but even the capacity for empathy on any level.

​@@cryofpaine I'd say, to lack ability for an empathy on such level... he probably had some sort of mental disorder, likely from birth or young age. Without proper recognition and treatment such condition would've only helped and speed up Trent's descent toward being the person he became.

@@darakkuunobelu7584 possibly. But as with any skill, it's possible to lose it if you don't work to cultivate it. I'm hesitant to call things like that a mental illness, since there is still so much stigma against actual mental illnesses.

That or he could be auto baning as I call it. Rolling the d20 and instead of rolling for bane just assuming max rolls for it and subtracting it. When I'm trying to be nice and let players have a bit of extra leeway I'll do that with their debuff on me. "Oh that's a d4 reduction to int? Okay" and just auto assume 4 to

If they beat it by 4 or more it doesn't matter what they roll on bane

but also if we see trent again one day that would be so dope 😂

to be fair, with the glue veth used it would take a wish spell to remove his collar and unstick his hands to do anything but think.

He could have a clone stashed somewhere so killing him might bring him back very soon.

If he had died, I'm sure a clone would have come out.

He can't empathize, but he can be pissed at his defeat, miss his old position and power, wonder how he might have won the fight, feel shame at his name being dragged through the mud, feel hatred towards the Mighty Nein for defeating him, feel lonely alone in his hole, feel terrified at the thought that he might never be able to use his hands again, feel betrayed by Astrid, Eadwulf and the Assembly for not freeing him, and eventually go mad with all these negative emotions swirling around in his head.

Trent's stats might automatically negate whatever the bane d4 would add, so he's just rolling the d20 with advantage.