arkhamarchitecture:

I still disagree with Matt on the choice of Scanlan as Ioun’s champion and that’s still fine – it’s not going to ruin my enjoyment of the arc and I’m interested to see where Percy and Keyleth are going with their “Meh, gods. Who needs em?” subplot.

But you know what I’m really grateful to Matt for that he explained last night on Talks Machina?

Ioun’s decision not to go with Percy had nothing to do with the guns. She understood keeping that a secret. She sympathized with that. According to Matt, that was a secret she was fine with (which, thankfully, removes any need to write that “hypocrite” essay because it turns out she’s not).

Basically what I’m saying is that everyone who sent me messages saying “You’re a moron, Ioun would never like Percy because he hoards the knowledge of guns for himself instead of spreading further knowledge of this deadly weapon,” can eat a godly dick.

Yeah, that makes it easier to stomach – and even sillier, because once the guns are out of the equation, Percy is no more or less secretive with his personal affairs than Scanlan was, and claiming that Scanlan spent his life spreading anything except exaggerated accounts of his own greatness kind of prove that this was more about what Matt thought a bard is SUPPOSED to be rather than what Scanlan actually is.

(Also I kind of wrote that hypocrite essay before this episode, so, uh, wheee?)

And people did send me messages, too… Wow, didn’t expect this to be the subject that touches so many nerves.