D&D 5E Witchlight Promo Video: Ellywick Tumblestrum

WotC posted this short video on its social media accounts today, featuring a character called Ellywick Tumblestrum, who is a bard from the Magic: the Gathering D&D set, Adventures in the Forgotten Realms.

“Join Ellywick Tumblestrum from @Wizards_Magic's Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, bard of the multiverse, guest of the Summer Queen & bearer of Morningmist, as she casts Legend Lore to uncover the next Dungeons & Dragons story!”

Join Ellywick Tumblestrum from Magic: The Gathering's Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, bard of the multiverse, guest of the Summer Queen & bearer of Morningmist, as she casts Legend Lore to uncover the next Dungeons & Dragons story! #WeekOfLegendL

Join Ellywick Tumblestrum from Magic: The Gathering's Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, bard of the multiverse, guest of the Summer Queen & bearer of...

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[Urriak Uruk]

I thought the July book was the dragon one

Could be. Could be a Critical Role book. Could be a new boxed set. Could be coming in December, July, October, who knows. But it 'aint that accesory kit.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Is it bad that at the end of the clip I want a hard-bitten, grizzled, bandit, with a face like a lumpy potato, to slip a cold iron wire garrote around her neck and choke the life out of her until he swollen purple tongue distends from her mouth and she topples forward, snapping the lute.

The bandit turns to the camera and says “I don’t believe in faeries.” Then walks away.

Am I the only person would prefer that as a conclusion to the clip?

Dude, that's a real person acting? Disturbing to read this, and reported.

 

[TheSword]

Dude, that's a real person acting? Disturbing to read this, and reported.

Sorry I was referring to a dark yet tongue in cheek (or at least out of cheek) end to a saccharine scene. Didn’t mean to offend.

let’s be very clear I was referring to the character though... not the actress. At no point did a refer to a real person.

I don’t believe actresses should suffer that end. Just fictional characters that give me diabetes just listening to them.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Sorry I was referring to a dark yet tongue in cheek end to a saccharine scene. Didn’t mean to offend.

let’s be very clear I was referring to the character though... not the actress. At no point did a refer to a real person.

I don’t believe actresses should suffer that end. Just fictional characters that give me diabetes just by listening to them.

Understood, but you should probably keep such thoughts in your head and not on a public forum. If I was an actor and I read a comment that vivid in reaction to my acting, I would be afraid for my safety and block you.

 

[TheSword]

Understood, but you should probably keep such thoughts in your head and not on a public forum. If I was an actor and I read a comment that vivid in reaction to my acting, I would be afraid for my safety and block you.

There’s certainly no intention for anyone to feel afraid. perhaps I should have made that clearer in the original post. I don’t think the description would be out of place in Carnival Row, Pratchett, or any number of Grimm Tales.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Anyways moving on, it occurs to me that the Witchlight Carnival might itself be a traveling Domain like the Ravenloft Carnival, that can leave its respective plane for a time. That would explain how it acts as an entrance to the other Domains of Delight.

If say the Ravenloft carnival decides to leave the Shadowfell for say just outside of Waterdeep, then local visiting the Carnival could buy a mist talisman thinking it looks pretty, go back through the mists to return to Faerunian soil, only for the Talisman to lead them to the more horrifying Domains still in the Shadowfell.

The Witchlight Carnival could work the same way with its own mist talismans, but instead you end up in a Domain of Delight in the Feywild when you try to leave the Carnival through the mists. These mists might not imprison you beyond offering temptations and confusion, but your still stuck in the regular feywild when you leave.

Just a hypothesis. I assume the Eberron Death Train works the same way as the Carnival in ignoring locked borders.

 

[teitan]

Why do people keep expecting a Critical Role book and why do people assume we have a July release? It would have been announced already I’d think with it being June and the usual 2 month lead time.

 

[Parmandur]

Why do people keep expecting a Critical Role book and why do people assume we have a July release? It would have been announced already I’d think with it being June and the usual 2 month lead time.

The July book is old speculation, based on the indications there are five books Rhinehart. Seema unlikely now, though the tea leaves still suggest there are five books en route.

The Critical Role speculation has to do with events at the end of rheir recent campaign, cagey hints about their next Campaign, and how Ceitical Role is announcing what's next for them at 9 AM Thursday...at the same moment WotC is dropping another announcement. Seems odd if it is just a coincidence, but stranger things have happened.

 

[teitan]

The July book is old speculation, based on the indications there are five books Rhinehart. Seema unlikely now, though the tea leaves still suggest there are five books en route.

The Critical Role speculation has to do with events at the end of rheir recent campaign, cagey hints about their next Campaign, and how Ceitical Role is announcing what's next for them at 9 AM Thursday...at the same moment WotC is dropping another announcement. Seems odd if it is just a coincidence, but stranger things have happened.

As always, thanks for the context

 

[Eubani]

Dude, that's a real person acting? Disturbing to read this, and reported.

Assume I added in Stephen Fry's comment to the offended.