10:57 am

I can't remember if I ever actually posted about this, but...

Ever since Matt first described the Judicators and their masks, I immediately thought of the descriptions in Calamity about how the betrayer gods basically used up, corrupted, and disfigured their clerics as basically just belief-power batteries. I have to watch [Calamity] again for the actual description but I remember it being gnarly.

I just... have a gut feeling that's basically what the Judicators are. The weapon of the betrayer gods turned against them. That despicable method used in the name of good. Carefully guarded and limited, but not hidden or eradicated because it's too useful. Too powerful to just let die out.

I feel like... If anyone ever successfully removed one's mask... these respective followers of "good" and "evil" would be indistinguishable.

After seeing this post, I looked back at how the DMs talks about Judicators vs. the K'nauth (the Betrayer power-batteries) and.. you're 100% correct. They're exactly the same thing.

Brennan describes the K'nauth as people "so devoted to [a god] that it's not even worth magically dominating them or charming them anymore. They just let [the god] into their soul." (calamity e2)

Matt described Judicators (only on a nat 20 from Fearne, so this is pretty guarded information) as people who "volunteer themselves, giving everything to the cause, their individuality, their lives, to become a weapon for the Prime Deities." (c3e43)

Judicators and K'nauth both have physical deformities and share in the motif of destroying their faces. It's.. they're the same. The lines between Prime and Betrayer Gods just continue to get blurrier and blurrier..

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