age at which the twins were taken to syngorn: approximately 8 years old.
age at which the twins left syngorn and set off on their own: approximately 13-14 years old.
age at which the twins apparently graduated A S S A S S I N S C H O O L, which is a school for assassins, according to the comic: somewhere between the two above ages, somehow, meaning that vex’ahlia and vax’ildan graduated from MURDER COLLEGE just in time for elf bar/bat miztvah.
Man, can’t you just feel the disappointment in Syldor when they meet again that his half-breed kids never achieved great things with their ASSASSIN SCHOOL education? And which self-respecting diplomat DOESN’T send his kids off to murder school? It’s just good sense. If you can’t do your job right, you can always have your kids murder the other person.
Also, I wonder if there is a diplomat school Vex could have applied to with her ASSASSIN SCHOOL diploma. I mean, she had excellent grades in everything except for maths. ASSSASSIN MATHS. Vax was very good at assassin maths. Which apparently teach you about 20-sided shapes and bodies, because who wouldn’t need to know that at ASSASSIN SCHOOL.
Do you think Vex was archery valedictorian?
Someone answered my post arguing that Vex was just bluffing to get rid of Keyleth. Which would have been an eerily specific kind of bluff. I mean, I hope it was, but this wouldn’t be the first time the comics just don’t make sense, especially where Vex is concerned, now, would it?
Like. Let’s be real. Colville is very open about not having watched a lot of CR and about having favorites. He very clearly hasn’t watched the Syngorn episodes because reading the first issue with Vex’s attitude about nobility in the context of episodes 59/60 is just… Almost as funny as ASSASSIN SCHOOL. No wonder the other elves looked down on them, I bet they all went to NOBLE SCHOOL or something and they had way prettier uniforms.
Overdressed & Underappreciated 