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You know what I’m really looking forward to? The mellowing out of the people who would constantly fling shit at Marisha for existing at the table and occasionally taking up narrative space. I’m not saying you are or were one of them, but that is what happened week in and week out, which causes knee-jerk reactions from fans and that’s likely what happened to you. Because there are a whole metric fuck-ton of people who seem to only be around to complain about her existence, but mask it as “constructive criticism” on how… She plays her own D&D character. It’s ridiculous.

And I’m having trouble believing anyone can have spent any time in the fandom or on reddit at all and NOT realize that that’s what’s going on. So maybe you are one of the good guys who really only did want to debate story choices without having a personal vendetta. The trouble is that so many people are not, and there is no debating with them, at all. Just scroll through the youtube comments on any given video. And there is just no way to tell who is one of the good ones and who isn’t.

But assuming that you are someone just genuinely interested in debating story choices and all that… What happened to the ditzy druid trying to protect nature? Well, she was confronted with the world burning, and Raishan was the one entity responsible for killing the majority of the fire ashari. You know, the people whose involvement in the story you say you enjoyed.

Raishan was never anything but a genocidal egomaniac, and while teaming up with her to take down Thordak for the greater good might have been a smart choice, it wasn’t an ethically pure one, for the lack of a better word. And Keyleth has CONSISTENTLY been confrontational when it came to dealing with people who don’t conform to her understanding of morality. See Kima. Or how she vetoed the deal with the Clasp.

She got less cheerful during the campaign because a lot of traumatic shit kept happening to her – causing character development.

Also, the spell that conjured the pixie implies that you don’t summon a real pixie, you summon a woodland spirit that takes on the form of a pixie. A spirit that cannot die. And when the pixie loses its hitpoints, the woodland spirit returns, unharmed, to its plane of origin. So no pixies were harmed in the name of science, technically.