Even her need for Caleb to have stronger magic, is revealed to be to transform her back

Hi I'm Nott a goblin

@Aidan Hall I mean even people who've done it for years haven't woven one as well as this, this is a real passion for them which is wonderful to see

she also used the halfling language to speak in private

Just a small correction, Sam has said during Talks Machina that the fear of water wasn't planned from the start. At first, it was just supposed to be comic relief and for fun, but he later talked with Matt and decided to add it to Notts backstory later.

She probably means it in both cases.

@@oceanwayve7789 I know! I just want to hug them and give them cocoa.

I forget which episode, but she says that she views Caleb as her son

@@WiseSageBum Just watched the beginning of C2 (I'm actually nowhere near these episodes, but I already know everything that happens up until the recent episode, just don't know how they're worded exactly, so I'm watching these clips. I'm actually on episode 20, dreading 26 since it's coming up.) and the episode where Nott talks to some people about her and Caleb's relationship is Episode 13.

Yeah in an early episode she tells the party that caleb is her boy not the otherway round when they are shit talking him

I keep underestimating this man's skills.

comedians can be the most serious actors, capable of terrifying you or reducing you to tears with how seriously they can turn from being the comic relief to someone so damaged and broken. sam never ceases to amaze me

He didn't buy that emmy

@@kikphlip1080 You DO realize that Sam won the Emmy, not for Acting, but for Directing, right?

Loving parent who became an estranged adventurer vs an estranged adventurer who became a parent.

Other than their hatred for Goblins, Scanman HATES GOBLINS FOR KILLING HIS MOTHER IN FRONT OF HIM

@@siyarg.4900 I mean, Nott hates Goblins for killing her too...

@@modow6502 exactly, thats their one similarity other than being small

in a way all the characters are polar opposites in some form

The best part is, Sam didn't have the reason Veth died when he created the character. It was only after Nott's phobia of water was established that Sam decided she drowned.

At least he apologized for it later. They didn’t just ignore it.

*emmy award winning* (not ment to be hateful, just added as a joke)

Mitchell C. I

At first nerdy me said hey he has gallifreyan on his head then I saw it again and said lol nah that’s the Fibonacci spiral

THE GOLDEN RATIO!!! Thank you, Gyro...

@@scottbruckner4653 That's all I can say, right now.

Well. He IS a Pyramid...

Someone Else Arigato... Taliesin.

Beau is such a closet nerd, it's hilarious when it peeks through the gruff exterior.

When Beau said that, she immediately lost a ton of respect from me. I saw it as a “Hold up, we can use those wax seals to imitate people’s writing” in the middle of a crucial backstory reveal. A tad bit ignorant, I think.

I love Marisha for that sentence though... Even if it was thoughtless in the moment, Beau is selfish to a T, and always trying to think of ways to gather more crucial intel to possibly use to protect her end goal with. But I do like that Beau has been trying to work onthat part of her. Earlier on she would not have told Nott it was a cool hobby afterwards. She would have just let it drop, but she definitely made that last comment to console Nott in her own way. She also would not have given Fjord such a judgemental side eye when Nott mentioned being drowned because she would not have cared. But she cares now, and that makes her better in my mind.

Beau is a hypocritical piece of shit and I love her for it. Marisha plays her very well.

It was very Sokka of her. I was having strong "this is some quality rope" flashbacks

Not to mention, Nott the Brave is an anogram for Veth's full name... Only Emmy winning Sam fucking Riegel would have made up such a tragic but well thought out backstory.

@@ashleycook300 HOLY HELL!?!?!? I DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE IT WAS AN ANAGRAM!?!?

@@Jonic_P Yup! 💖

Welp, turns out....

@@Alaric11 I was waiting to find a comment like this, joke's on us xD

I think it might be because he has more experience than the others. He did improv and broadway before voice acting so he has that little edge over everyone.

@@alienapple010x5 he's brilliant, but he's not the only child actor in the crew. He has a different approach than the others, but they all mix so well

When is Taliesin not, though.

I was thinking the same thing so I thought wish would be what Caleb uses

I agree with the half-elf bard. I always assumed Caleb would grab that wish spell that Vax never got to recieve, and could use it to save Nott, possibly alter time itself. Use it to bring down the Empire. Whatever his end goal is, I am sure he can save 1 wish for Nott, the same way Scanlan tried to save his wish for Vax.

Wish is really their only option.

@@ashleycook300 Oh god, the thought of Caleb giving Nott the wish Scalan wasn't able to save for Vax >.

Ashley Cook perhaps he will have to make the choice, save Nott or save himself. Either alter time to turn Nott back into her halfling form or stop himself from killing his parents. Personally I think Caleb would choose Nott, his character has come out a lot more than the cowering wizard we were introduced to and he already sees her as a mother figure, and the rest of the nein his very dysfunctional family.

Could have been a curse - mechanics for curses are usually up to GM’s prerogative. Even staying within the PHB mechanics, I could see “If this creature dies before this spell ends, they will be reincarnated as their worst nightmare” being a legit use of Bestow Curse.

@@tugboatyan That sounds genuinely horrifying, fictional curse or not. Imagine fighting for your life so that you don't get cursed, but then you die and know that you're going to be reincarnated as something horrid.

so awkward. so funny lol

I MAY HAVE SHED A FEW TEARS MAKING THIS

Oh my god yall I love nott and I love Sam and I'm crying and lord I'm not a touchy person but if I could I would hug them both

"I protect HIM." Sam signed that for me last year. And I was only up to the mid 30s. By this point if I'd gotten to here I would have flipped out even more meeting him.

Whats great is Sam used Veth as a cover name 30+ episodes before this. And only Matt knew what he was doing.

I mean, Beau's backstory has always seemed less to be outright lies and more half truths. I have a feeling the big part she is leaving out is that her family is a lot more important/powerful than she lets on.

I don't think a single one of them has lied about their backstories. Not to each other anyway.

I mean... Jester fo sho has some skellies

I don't think that Beau has been dishonest, she just hasn't opened up completely about her parents influence. Plus, I am sure they must've thrown her out when they found out she was a lesbian to top everything else off, hence why she is so guarded about it. (It hurts to talk, so she would rather not say anything) But Jester and Duece definitely have stuff, though I think Duece just doesn't realize it, and Jester maybe a pawn for the travler so she may not realize it either. Fjord is being relatively honest. He got thrown overboard during an attack on the boat, woke up with the sword, and can't remember shit else about the event. Nott put ALL of her shit on that table, and Yasha put a huge chunk on the table. (Though there are some questions about her that still linger.) And "Caleb," put most of it on the table for Nott and Beau now.

@@ashleycook300 Deuce is probably under the pretense of "I don't see how my backstory is important given all of the horrible stuff everyone else has gone through, and nobody's asked so I won't bother saying". As you say it could be incredibly important but he just doesn't view it as such in comparison to his friends' stories.

God if I've gotten up to this ep when I met Sam.....

Jigramunt it’s on SoundCloud, Elven Dirge - I Lament: soundcloud.com/user-556488396/elven-dirge-i-lament-credit Matt has used this before for resurrections or deaths, and has been using it more and more for general sad or heartbreaking moments. Whenever I listen to this by itself I always picture Vax’s departure

I think it was a reincarnate spell slightly modified to reincarnte in a goblin, thats why she was killed. Also, that would make Caleb (transmutation wizard) more special to Nott. She says that he was almost powerfull enough, which could mean a lower lvl spell.

Reincarnation allows the GM to pick the race as well. But it is a 5th level Druid spell but even learning it (which a wizard can't) doesn't reverse it. Other than Matt making up a way the only way to reverse it would probably be the Wish spell.

Could be a curse of some sot that Matt allowed as part of a backstory that was powerful enough to be hard to reverse. Could be fiend deal for the goblin wife to take revenge on and switching their bodies and taking the goblin's soul as payment and transferring Nott in to the body she's in right now.

@@blackbeard00 Oh, I was thinking in something like Nott willing to die again to be with her family (more drama t.t). But yeah the druid thing comes into play.

@@blackbeard00 Come campaign end will Liam be desperately trying to save a Wish for Sam? Is it wrong that I hope so?

Same! I was kind of disappointed with the reveal. Obviously Sam is a tremendously amazing performer and roleplayer and Veth's story is compelling as all heck, but I also thought it was cool to have one of the more traditionally "monstrous" races in the party and having this be a story about internalized hatred and how to slowly unlearn that. Oh well, we can just go ahead and steal that idea for our own characters! xD

I mean their are plenty of good goblin NPCs in the story later on when they go to xhourous

We will always have Zorth