It hits a lot like Evan Kelmp asking what he should say to the other wizard's parents. Not a threat. Not a psych out. Just an honest and factual statement/question.
Arthur Aguefort, deeply protective of his students at the cost of himself. Also madder than a fuckin hatter in a room full of mercury. 10/10 best professor
The fact that this was retcon to be just illusion magic doesn't make it any less unhinged. Great animation on Arthur's eyes. they look positively deranged
I don't remember it being retconned. I remember that he accomplished absolutely nothing because he used so much magic that he collapsed and started shitting blood before he got anywhere the capital and then he was in deep trouble for moving the sun and had to figure out how to put it back.@@evertime123
@evertime123 it's not a true retcon like a lot of the stuff in the seven was aka changing the facts of the story outside of it, but later on in s2 of fantasy high aguefort bends time so canonincally this didn't happen in the universe but the bad kids still have the knowledge of this
Something worth noting. Arthur Aguefort is well known to be both extremely powerful and completely crazy. The idea that any group, no matter how powerful, would choose "the way of pain" is amazing. I loved every second of it
To be fair, it makes a lot of sense for it to be High Elves. It also makes sense because it was a literal entire government. Like, it would be like America picking a fight and being like "What's he gonna do, come burn down the White House?", not expecting him to get surprisingly close.
I love Arthur Augefort because he’s so up front about everything he’s all about. His agenda is written on his sleeve and he’s dotted the i’s with hearts, and I love him for it. “Augeforts of the earth” is my favorite he built all of them he made all of these babies
I do love the implication here that, in the world of Fantasy High, the Sun isnt a massive star out in space, but is actually just a large ball of fire in the sky
No, when it comes up later that is the case, it just makes it even more baffling. He doesn't quite know what he did to move it, and now he has to figure out how to put it back because it's causing problems.
I recall him not knowing entirely how he did it. Basically, I think it's an actual star, but for a brief moment, with all his immense magical power, he bent space-time and reality itself to grab and the star and wield the essence of its almighty power.
some of it is surely ego because the school does carry his name, but my favorite thing about aguefort is that he genuinely cares about the kids he's teaching to be adventurers
Ya know I completely thought this sequence was going to be some fucked up dream sequence fantasy and that Adaine was still stuck in the depths of Aelwyn's mind somehow (especially since the episode was called The Dangerous Mind of Aelwyn Abernant) but then the scene just kept going and I had to accept this was happening for real
@@DeathnoteBB Oh I meant from the detect thoughts when Aelwyn was in the spa, I guess Adaine wasn't stuck there but I figured Aelwyn could have trapped her there and this was gonna be the big reveal Still don't know if that makes sense but that's what was in my head
I once had a minotaur sorceress who was the owner of a wandering magic shop in a campaign. There is absolutely nothing more fun than having a stupid powerful npc mage who is too chaotic for practical magic and too hyperfocused on being cool to solve anyone's problems. Wonderfully done art, you really made our headmaster shine!
You know the best part about this. He didn't actually solve the player's problems, and did not take away from their experience adventuring. He did stop them wasting precious game time worrying about reinforcements by both apparently resolving that and also by putting a time limit on their plan. However, Adaine is still in a cell, the players still need to come rescue her, the encounter goes on as planned. And then, not shown in this video, a cut scene that makes it clear the Aguefort card can only be played once in this adventure. This is how you use an immensely powerful ally of the party. Not to steal the player's adventure, but to solve a problem that might be keeping them from adventure.
Aguefort grabbing the sun (a complete perspective mindfuck) and channeling it through his body in glowing white-with-energy veins as he spits fire across the sky is one of the clearest and sickest visuals I've ever heard described, and it's not close to number two on those lists. Excellent capturing of it.
This was so amazing, like it had it all. One of our faves beeing "saved", The crazy ness of it all, the bad guys going like "oh we fcked up", and that all of this was just a small side thing that was going on in the background for the rest of the season. Love it!
I love that Aurther Aguefort is clearly what if we took Dumbledore, gave him as much cosmic world-bending powers as we can, and then, made him a crackhead
3:34 The little laugh from someone as the description of "He's growing as fast as he's falling." Is visualized in her head. Also I laughed so hard at the idea of a coupla Hugh Elves being so arrogant as to ignore Augefort's warning
Its moments like this were you just have to admite that you as a gamemaster will never reach even a glimse of this perfection. It makes me happy and sad at the same time
“Brennan had a really bad fever recently” - given when it was filmed, did Brennan have covid before it was ruled a global pandemic? If so then this is the ONLY good thing that Covid has wrought: this Aguefort sequence
Appears, binds reality to his will, grabs the sun, destroys mountains, shits blood, doesn't rescue any students, actually makes things worse because now he can't afford to pay for hirelings, leaves.
I love that he could do this the whole time but chose to kill the guidance counselor and himself in the first episode for seemingly no reason if he was this powerful
The idea was that it kept the reinforcements off the bad kids and allowed them to reasonably pull off their plan. Later it turns out Arthur couldnt handle holding the sun or being that big so he likely didnt have a huge impact on fallinel, but was certainly a problem for the time the bad kids needed a distraction.
Anyone else like “Aquefort could have done this THE WHOLE TIME?!” ‘This’ being rescue Adaine’s sister from torture. Like I know she wasn’t an Aquefort student so didn’t have the protection but the headmaster could have done ANYTHING. Adaine had to get herself imprisoned before he was like “Oh now I care” I’m very emotional about these two siblings okay?!
Aguefort himself points out later in the season that, being a Time Wizard means he has very little 'attachment' to things, due to constant leaping through time. Probably why he has a specialized auto-response to someone invoking the Aguefort name in defense of a student. Plus, it requires there to ba one of his own students in danger, and given that Aelwyn wasn't an AA student, Aguefort didn't particularly care. Also, I may be remembering incorrectly, but didn't Aguefort jut recently broker peace between Solace and Fallinel?
Help, how have I never imagined the crystal prison that size?? I always imagined she got shrunken down into a crystal ball the size of a dinner plate ?? That makes way more sense lmao
Dude I love this! I've been hoping to find a animatic of this scene! I do wonder however if this was Brennan making some kind of Deus ex Machina because he put the Intrepid Heroes in an impossible situation.
I think that aguefort could easily have actually fully collapsed solace, but he is just too much of a chaotic dumbass to not do 15 experimental spells and almost kill himself
Arthur Aguefort, the most accurate representation of a Chaotic Good Level 20 Wizard.
I wouldn’t say “good”. He sent an innocent guidance counselor to Orc heaven
@@DeathnoteBBit was for the protection of the school, and larger, the nation of Solace
Tethering on Neutral, but definitely breaching the scope of Chaotic!
@@Auditore31 Ehh debatable
@@DeathnoteBB he did it to save a dead child. That is like the DEFINITION of chaotic good.
This is hands down the funniest arthur Augefort arc. *wincing* "I fucked up. Youre not supposed to get that big. You cant grab the sun."
"The magic messed up my guts. I shit out an ocean of blood.."
"Yeah, he f*cked up. He f*cked up. You're not supposed to get that big."
He was so excited that someone pressed the button that he got a little carried away
“You can’t just one shot a government”
I mean, you _can..._ but you _really shouldn't._
You think you remember all this, and then the line "You have chosen the way of pain" hits and you laugh until you choke
The same with the incredibly casual, "Alright, let's do this." Especially when you know what happens after.
It hits a lot like Evan Kelmp asking what he should say to the other wizard's parents. Not a threat. Not a psych out. Just an honest and factual statement/question.
Reminds me of his Tony the Tiger portrayal. Lol
Arthur Aguefort, deeply protective of his students at the cost of himself. Also madder than a fuckin hatter in a room full of mercury. 10/10 best professor
@tigerwolfdemon love that line, dude "madder than a fuckin hatter in a room full of mercury" has literally altered my brain chemistry
@@monkeyfacex3tbf that is what being in a room full of mercury does to you
@@jayd2279 bah dum tss
The fact that this was retcon to be just illusion magic doesn't make it any less unhinged. Great animation on Arthur's eyes. they look positively deranged
When was it retconned? Was it in the 7? That's the only thing I haven't watched (I think)
I don't remember it being retconned. I remember that he accomplished absolutely nothing because he used so much magic that he collapsed and started shitting blood before he got anywhere the capital and then he was in deep trouble for moving the sun and had to figure out how to put it back.@@evertime123
_Chronomancy_
He did it the first time, but he then he went back in time and made it into illusion magic.
@evertime123 it's not a true retcon like a lot of the stuff in the seven was aka changing the facts of the story outside of it, but later on in s2 of fantasy high aguefort bends time so canonincally this didn't happen in the universe but the bad kids still have the knowledge of this
Something worth noting. Arthur Aguefort is well known to be both extremely powerful and completely crazy. The idea that any group, no matter how powerful, would choose "the way of pain" is amazing. I loved every second of it
To be fair, it makes a lot of sense for it to be High Elves. It also makes sense because it was a literal entire government. Like, it would be like America picking a fight and being like "What's he gonna do, come burn down the White House?", not expecting him to get surprisingly close.
Friendly reminder that all this accomplished nothing. he got about 200 ft away from the capital, started shitting blood everywhere, and collapsed
And it didn’t help anyone escape
Which was an incredibly disappointing plot-development that massively undercut its own buildup, yes.
This is D&D! Saving the party through deus ex machina is kind of lame, a good DM will give them the means to save themselves instead.
@@cr820 It would also be very dumb to have a pocket NPC on the party's side who can solo an entire nation. Kinda kills the tension.
@@cr820It was a good subversion of the deus ex machina trope. A DM controlled character that could immediately fix everything is a bad idea.
Behold, what a REAL level 20 wizard would do with their truly irresponsible amount of power
I love Arthur Augefort because he’s so up front about everything he’s all about. His agenda is written on his sleeve and he’s dotted the i’s with hearts, and I love him for it.
“Augeforts of the earth” is my favorite he built all of them he made all of these babies
He for sure went back in time and created like a species of terracotta agueforts to be created wherever he needs them to be at any given moment.
@@OliviaSNavaNope. He just bones a lot. So much, he even made love to the earth.
I mean, he banged a Phoenix, dude.
I do love the implication here that, in the world of Fantasy High, the Sun isnt a massive star out in space, but is actually just a large ball of fire in the sky
Or it is a star in the sky and he magics it to fit in his hand
Life is a Perception of Your Own Reality.
No, when it comes up later that is the case, it just makes it even more baffling. He doesn't quite know what he did to move it, and now he has to figure out how to put it back because it's causing problems.
I recall him not knowing entirely how he did it. Basically, I think it's an actual star, but for a brief moment, with all his immense magical power, he bent space-time and reality itself to grab and the star and wield the essence of its almighty power.
I thought the sun would be a giant buzzfeed-esque YES?
The crawling through the rift part will never NOT be hilarious to me. Arthur really said, "They fucked around; time for them to find out!" 😂
Dumbledore could never
“Aguefort said calmly”
Least of which because he fully groomed multiple generations of fascists to make himself look like the lesser of two evils
Dumbledore would leave Adaine in the bubble until she would be grateful enough to die for him
He failed utterly at helping... I mean epically, but he was still more helpful here than Dumbledore was across 7 books.
He might not be great at it but bless him he tries; good on him.
some of it is surely ego because the school does carry his name, but my favorite thing about aguefort is that he genuinely cares about the kids he's teaching to be adventurers
Just to be clear, Arthur Aguefort didn't preemptively attack. He offered a choice, and some cheeky tool decided to fuck around.
Ya know I completely thought this sequence was going to be some fucked up dream sequence fantasy and that Adaine was still stuck in the depths of Aelwyn's mind somehow (especially since the episode was called The Dangerous Mind of Aelwyn Abernant) but then the scene just kept going and I had to accept this was happening for real
Still? When did she get stuck there? I remember it just as being about her mind as a person, not being IN her mind
@@DeathnoteBB Oh I meant from the detect thoughts when Aelwyn was in the spa, I guess Adaine wasn't stuck there but I figured Aelwyn could have trapped her there and this was gonna be the big reveal
Still don't know if that makes sense but that's what was in my head
Love how he shows up, does something super powerful, it barely does anything, and then leaves. He is truly the most based wizard of all time.
I once had a minotaur sorceress who was the owner of a wandering magic shop in a campaign. There is absolutely nothing more fun than having a stupid powerful npc mage who is too chaotic for practical magic and too hyperfocused on being cool to solve anyone's problems.
Wonderfully done art, you really made our headmaster shine!
100 meter tall titan that stole the very sun itself! On this day, the Elves received a grim reminder...
Honestly, I was waiting for the depiction of the Sun being dragged across the sky
tahanks for animating arthur A as the absolute chaos gremlin that he is
This is what Gandalf would’ve been if he continued being a god
You know the best part about this. He didn't actually solve the player's problems, and did not take away from their experience adventuring. He did stop them wasting precious game time worrying about reinforcements by both apparently resolving that and also by putting a time limit on their plan. However, Adaine is still in a cell, the players still need to come rescue her, the encounter goes on as planned. And then, not shown in this video, a cut scene that makes it clear the Aguefort card can only be played once in this adventure.
This is how you use an immensely powerful ally of the party. Not to steal the player's adventure, but to solve a problem that might be keeping them from adventure.
this is such a great moment to animate and you did it SO well. The way Augufort climbs over his desk and through the rift was just amazing.
Aguefort grabbing the sun (a complete perspective mindfuck) and channeling it through his body in glowing white-with-energy veins as he spits fire across the sky is one of the clearest and sickest visuals I've ever heard described, and it's not close to number two on those lists. Excellent capturing of it.
The recorded msg makes Aguefort look high here.
Which would sound on par for him knowing his stance on recreational drugs and having a good time
Arthur Aguedort is the kind of man to create a nation rending spell, just for it to be a distraction😂
This was so amazing, like it had it all. One of our faves beeing "saved", The crazy ness of it all, the bad guys going like "oh we fcked up", and that all of this was just a small side thing that was going on in the background for the rest of the season. Love it!
I love that Aurther Aguefort is clearly what if we took Dumbledore, gave him as much cosmic world-bending powers as we can, and then, made him a crackhead
3:34 The little laugh from someone as the description of "He's growing as fast as he's falling." Is visualized in her head.
Also I laughed so hard at the idea of a coupla Hugh Elves being so arrogant as to ignore Augefort's warning
Its moments like this were you just have to admite that you as a gamemaster will never reach even a glimse of this perfection. It makes me happy and sad at the same time
"very well, you have chosen the way of pain. Goodbye." *Poof*
4:20 Can confirm, this is what fever dreams feel like. Dreampt that I was Gear5 fighting the WickedWitch.
“Brennan had a really bad fever recently” - given when it was filmed, did Brennan have covid before it was ruled a global pandemic? If so then this is the ONLY good thing that Covid has wrought: this Aguefort sequence
I will miss Aguefort during junior year!
Appears, binds reality to his will, grabs the sun, destroys mountains, shits blood, doesn't rescue any students, actually makes things worse because now he can't afford to pay for hirelings, leaves.
I really like Siobhan's little "Yeah!" at 1:31.
Not only did Arthur never make good on that promise, but Arthur’s attack didn’t phase her in the slightest. Which sucks.
I love that this is a total Deus Ex Machina except he does absolutely nothing to help them except briefly distract a few people.
Hes an insane bastard. But he loves his students
I love that he could do this the whole time but chose to kill the guidance counselor and himself in the first episode for seemingly no reason if he was this powerful
Ohhh, I love the way you portrayed the growing while falling line - I never realized that's how it looked!
The audio was cut together really well! It genuinely sounds like it happened all at once
The moment Brennan says he raises his hand behind the Sun I'm all in. That is a mage at the peak of magic.
this was my favorite bit of sophomore year and im so glad to see it animated
Adaine's face at "Adaine's in her bubble" had me cackling
i never want to see arthur aguefort drawn any way other than these goofy ass circles. its so CHARMING and SILLY and PERFECT
Oh man
This scene and the afternath of it with Kristen
I couldn't breathe the first time from laughing so hard
Thank you for reminding me of this scene! This was so funny!!
god this scene was so good i'll never get over it. you did a great job with it too
My favorite part of this is Ally reminding everyone that Brennan just came out of being sick with a high fever prior to improving this
I love the detail of how absolutely bug-eyed-in-the-best-way Arthur is by nature, but the secomd he gets serious, the bug-eyes get fully shadowed out
This was the best and funniest dues ex machina ever 😂
This entire season had so many chaotic moments. I absolutely loved it 😂
Arthur is *my* headmaster.
Holy shit this is an AMAZING animatic this came on my recommended so probs gonna blow up in a sec
I love too the bit that comes after it when she's questioned about it by her father and Addaine just goes 'oh yes I knew this would happen'.
This is a 10th lvl illusion spell if ive ever seen one
Aguefort's allignment is Chaotic Chaotic
Did we ever find out what the hell that even accomplished?
Like... Did they actually go to war? Or was he just bored?
The idea was that it kept the reinforcements off the bad kids and allowed them to reasonably pull off their plan. Later it turns out Arthur couldnt handle holding the sun or being that big so he likely didnt have a huge impact on fallinel, but was certainly a problem for the time the bad kids needed a distraction.
Haven't gotten to this part yet, but holy shit this animation is amazing
I'm glad someone did this scene. I wanted to make my own animatic for it, but this is great!
Excellent work! this is truly the essence of arthur aguefort
Arthur Aguefort, maintains his crazy adventuring spirit, even in his old age
I KNEW deep down that someone had made an animatic of this scene. Epic.
Wow that was fucking incredible!! I especially enjoyed his jump out the window.
Arthur aeugfort is smarter than Karsus. Proof, he choose the god of the sun to embody, not magic and fuck Everything up as a consequence.
I’ve watched this probably 20 times, it brings me so much joy 😭
Anyone else like “Aquefort could have done this THE WHOLE TIME?!” ‘This’ being rescue Adaine’s sister from torture. Like I know she wasn’t an Aquefort student so didn’t have the protection but the headmaster could have done ANYTHING. Adaine had to get herself imprisoned before he was like “Oh now I care”
I’m very emotional about these two siblings okay?!
Aguefort himself points out later in the season that, being a Time Wizard means he has very little 'attachment' to things, due to constant leaping through time. Probably why he has a specialized auto-response to someone invoking the Aguefort name in defense of a student. Plus, it requires there to ba one of his own students in danger, and given that Aelwyn wasn't an AA student, Aguefort didn't particularly care. Also, I may be remembering incorrectly, but didn't Aguefort jut recently broker peace between Solace and Fallinel?
@@Wootmanwashere Yeah I said I know she wasn’t an Aquefort student but she is a sister of one and part of an ambassador’s family
Arthur Aguefort is the first chaotic chaotic dnd character
I do love that this did nothing to actually help 😂
This was amazing!!
Most sane wizard
Perfect fever dream haha
amazing animatic. great job!
Today your nation fall! Legend
Help, how have I never imagined the crystal prison that size?? I always imagined she got shrunken down into a crystal ball the size of a dinner plate ??
That makes way more sense lmao
I truly hope that in some future campaign, in a different universe, that Arthur Aguefort is someone's warlock patron.
YESSS ITS BEEN ANIMATED FULLY
I feel like Aguefort is if Makarov from Fairy Tail was on the opposite side of the alignment chart
Was Makarov Lawful Neutral?
Please, for the love of God, please bring more of the Bad Kids' adventures to life! 🤣🤣🤣
he did too much. He f*cked up. He...he f*cked up.
Let's get that post-sun grab phone call to Kristen next!
I GOT TOO BIG
I shit a river of blood.😂
I love Arthur
This is the reason the Elven nation needed an Oracle.
Arthur is the true god of the fantasy high world
God, this was amazing.
MAXIMUM AWESOME!!!!!! :D
in the captions: "egg farts"
Dude I love this! I've been hoping to find a animatic of this scene! I do wonder however if this was Brennan making some kind of Deus ex Machina because he put the Intrepid Heroes in an impossible situation.
Crazy how that was just illusion magic, and nothing else at all.
Amazing stuff
Absolutely in credible!!!
great work!
Arthur is a deranged god
he may not have been a good principal, but you cant say didnt at least somewhat care about his students xD
I think that aguefort could easily have actually fully collapsed solace, but he is just too much of a chaotic dumbass to not do 15 experimental spells and almost kill himself
Extremely excellent
I gotta say...how the hell does this man have 0 voice acting credits? I can only assume he must not want the work, because goddamn.
Hope everyone is doing good and staying safe ❤