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* TeleFrag: During [[spoiler:the devils' attack on Avalir]], a large group of people tries to escape via teleportation dais. The operator yells that they're crowding the platform and some people need to step off, but one of the terrified passengers casts Command on him to force him activate the dais. Everyone on it is immediately bisected.

** Opal's new familiar Ted 2 is [[WebVideo/LucasTheSpider a venomous spider that sounds like a small boy.]]

* ConspiracyThriller: ''Calamity'' plays out like this, with the plot kicked off by Cerrit investigating the mysterious disappearance of Vespin Chloras. As the story continues, it reveals a ''second'' conspiracy [[spoiler:involving all of the other members of the Ring of Brass, who have been secretly plotting to create and activate a machine that can change the leylines of Exandria to allow Avalir to travel between planes, and stealing a vast quality of Avalir's ether energy as the final step; and their cover-up of the pseudo-death of Evandrin, the first mortal test subject]].

* ConspiracyThriller: ''Calamity'' plays out like this, with the plot kicked off by Cerrit investigating the mysterious disappearance of Vespin Chloras. As the story continues, it reveals a ''second'' conspiracy [[spoiler:involving all of the other members of the Ring of Brass, who have been secretly plotting to create and activate a machine that can change the leylines of Exandria to allow Avalir to travel between planes; and their cover-up of the pseudo-death of Evandrin, the first mortal test subject]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Kir calling Maya "Egghead" isn't just a bird-based pun, it also implies she's TheSmartOne. [[spoiler:Hopefully smart enough to handle the knowledge left behind by Patia.]]

* BookEnds: Cerrit's first skill check of the campaign is a 31. Brennan notes that 30 is the highest DC threshold that the rules cover, denoting a "nearly impossible" task. Cerrit's final skill check for the campaign is for a DC 30 task - [[spoiler:escaping Avalir ''as it is consumed'' by the Calamity - and he rolls a 31]].

* CassandraTruth: [[spoiler: The Oracles, though decreed to have been mad and spouting false prophecies, were revealed, in episodes 3 & 5, to be entirely correct & completely sane. The Octothurge was declaring the prophecy that the city was to be destroyed impossible out of pure hubris.]]

'''Nydas:''' We don't have time! ''Shut the FUCK UP!''
* ChekhovsGun: In episode 3, Laerryn siphons some magic from the enemy to fill a vial with ether, which she later palms off to Loquatious. In episode 4, [[spoiler:Loquatious and Patia are briefly dead, and Zerxus uses up his one ress on Loquatious... but the ether vial is used to bring back Patia as well.]]

* ContinuityCameo: [[spoiler:Champion of the Raven Queen Purvan Suul, who appeared only as a corpse in "The Sunken Tomb" in Campaign 1, and his wolf companion Galdric, who went on to become a guardian of Whitestone,]] appear at the party in Episode 1 to impart a warning to Loquacious and Zerxus.

* EnhanceButton: Somehow it's possible to do this with magical holograms, as Loquatious digs up a recording by his star reporter, and then blows up the background to reveal [[spoiler:Vespin Chloras talking to Laecrytia Hollow and Loras.]]

* FalseUtopia: Avalir is initially presented as a utopia where the cutting edge of magic has ensured a comfortable life for all, filled with commonplace wonders that would be unthinkable in the modern age of Exandria. It soon becomes evident there is a deep vein of corruption and hubris running through it, including whispers of an upcoming war with Aeor, and [[spoiler:even (most of) the Ring of Brass engaged in a conspiracy to steal half of the city's energy to power Laerryn's Astral Leywright machine. When Avalir is about to be destroyed by the Calamity, the ruling archmages move to sacrifice the citizenry to preserve the city and save their own lives and riches]].

** In episode 3, [[spoiler:Cerrit gives up on the Ring of Brass and leaves, while Patia is delving into whatever the Tree of Names can offer her,]] so the real trigger of the Calamity is the four remaining players, [[spoiler:Loquatious and Laerryn vs Nydas and Zerxus in all out civil war.]]

** Laerryn, in her final spell, has one last choice to [[spoiler:preserve Avalir at the risk of unleashing the Primordials]].

* LogicalWeakness: Brennan points out that a completely invisible assailant would essentially be blind if light passed through his retinas, meaning that one could theoretically watch for the lights behind their pupils to spot an invisible man. [[spoiler:And in Cerrit's case, ''kill him first.'']]
* MayflyDecemberRomance: Loquatious and Laerryn had the archetypical example of this, which unfortunately fell through at first. In a DramaticIrony moment, Laerryn as an elf believed herself to be the longer-lived one, but it's revealed later that Loquatious is a Seelie Court level fey, meaning she might have it backwards.

** Happens again at the top of episode 2, when Cerrit gets a sending just after stashing the body of the man he killed. He gets a sending from his son, telling him that his sister (Cerrit's daughter) has snuck out of the house with some liquor that she snuck from the house. The talk is filled with over-the-top spy-speak, and Brennan gives the boy a hilariously nerdy voice. Cerrit mostly plays along, but breaks character for a moment to sincerely tell his son that he loves him. The chat was amused and touched, but also horrified because the kid will very likely die within a day or so.

* TheNudifier: While the backblast from [[spoiler:destroying the Tree of Names]] was not meant to have this effect, it only disintegrates magical items... and Loquatious was wearing an entirely magical suit.

* Pride: The FatalFlaw of most of the main cast, as well as of the Age of Arcanum as a whole. Nearly everyone is extremely confident in their arcane prowess, and the recent ascension of the Matron of Ravens has led many powerful mages [[spoiler: including Laerryn and Patia]] to consider themselves above the gods. This naturally leads to disaster.

** The Campaign 1 cast members still giggle at the name [[spoiler:"Purvan", after the entire Vox Machina cast made fun of his unintentionally EuphemisticName back when the character was first introduced.]] Sam, as Loquacious, even advises that the NPC change it.

** Loquatious makes use of magical crystals to store information, bringing to mind [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} the Fortress of Solitude.]]

** Purvan Suul explains that [[spoiler: none of the Prime deities felt an attempted attack upon their seat (to ascend, you have to target an existing god of the domain you want and replace them). Which means Chloris was trying to take a ''Betrayer'' god's seat.]]

** Stated by Asmodeus [[spoiler https:as Avalir is about to set down for the Replenishment and the Primordials are about to be unleashed on the world, showing us that the continent of Domunas is what will later be known as the archipelago of The Shattered Teeth.]]

-->'''Brennan''': I have a question for you. We have heard Patia speak often of her grandfather... and we have ''never'' heard her speak of her parents. A silence deep and profound. So I want to ask you. Do you think your memories of them are in that orb, or were they taken away? And if they were taken away, do you think they were taken away by you yourself, or by your grandfather when he was alive?
** Stated by Asmodeus [[spoilerhttps:as Avalir is about to set down for the Replenishment and the Primordials are about to be unleashed on the world, showing us that the continent of Domunas is what will later be known as the archipelago of The Shattered Teeth.]]

* {{Unperson}}: Whatever Patia's parents did to disappoint her grandfather, he thought it was bad enough to merit ''removing them from their daughter's memories''. Considering that she's an archivist who obsessively records everything, he presumably didn't stop there.

** Stated by Asmodeus [[spoiler:as Avalir is about to set down for the Replenishment and the Primordials are about to be unleashed on the world, showing us that the continent of Domunas is what will later be known as the archipelago of The Shattered Teeth.]]

* CassandraTruth: [[spoiler: The Oracles, though decreed to have been mad and spouting false prophecies, were revealed, in episodes 3 & 5, to be entirely correct & completely sane. The Omnithurge was declaring the prophecy that the city was to be destroyed impossible out of pure hubris.]]

* CassandraTruth: [[The Oracles, though decreed to have been mad and spouting false prophecies, were revealed, in episodes 3 & 5, to be entirely correct & completely sane. The Omnithurge was declaring the prophecy that the city was to be destroyed impossible out of pure hubris.]]

* CassandraTruth: [[The Oracles, though decreed to have been spouting false prophecies, were entirely correct. The Omnithurge was declaring the prophecy that the city was to be destroyed impossible out of pure hubris.]]