No dragons, warlords, or doors are going to stop Vox Machina.
Prior to season 2 premiering in January 2023, season 3 had already been announced. Naturally, as the Chroma Conclave is still rampant and sowing chaos across Exandria, someone, anyone with a brave enough heart, will need to stop them before the world and its order crumble to ruins.
But with the revelation that The Mighty Nein series, based on Critical Role’s second Dungeons & Dragons campaign, is also in the works, fans were uncertain for a time as to when we would be seeing both season 3 of The Legend of Vox Machina and season 1 of The Mighty Nein, and which one would come first.
Here’s what we know about the upcoming season of the Prime Video show.
Cast, characters, and where we left off
It goes without saying, but you can expect the usual suspects to make a return. The voice actors who partook in the actual campaign as PCs will return to give life to each member of Vox Machina:
- Laura Bailey as Vex’ahlia “Vex” Vessar
- Liam O’Brien as Vax’ildan “Vax” Vessar
- Taliesin Jaffe as Percival “Percy” Fredrickstein Von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III
- Marisha Ray as Keyleth “Kiki” of the Air Ashari
- Travis Willingham as Grog Strongjaw
- Sam Riegel as Scanlan Shorthalt
- Ashley Johnson as Pike Trickfoot
And of course, Matthew Mercer, the Dungeon Master of the live-streamed campaign, plays some of the characters he did back when it aired — like the villainous Sylas Briarwood or Trinket, Vex’s bear — while others are filled in by other fellow voice actors.
Other recurring characters and the respective voice actors that we might expect to return include:
- Indira Varma as Lady Allura Vysoren
- Stephanie Beatriz as Lady Kima of Vord
- Sunil Malhotra as Shaun Gilmore
- Kelly Hu as Dr. Anna Ripley
- Esmé Creed-Miles as Cassandra de Rolo
- Lance Reddick as Thordak
- Cree Summer as Raishan
- Aisling Franciosi as Kaylie
- Mary Elizabeth McGlynn as Zahra
- Will Friedle as Kashaw
At the end of season 2, Vox Machina’s victory dinner in Whitestone to celebrate Umbrasyl’s defeat is crashed by an intruder disguised as Keeper Yennen: Raishan, the Diseased Deceiver. The green dragon tells the group, after drugging everyone else at the table, that they are trying to take down Thordak from the inside, and requests — more like demands — the party’s help in achieving that. Seemingly their goals align on that front, but who’s to say what Raishan’s aim truly is? In the meantime, Thordak has in his possession a large clutch of dragon eggs ominously waiting to hatch.
When can fans expect Vox Machina‘s return?
On June 7, it was announced that The Legend of Vox Machina season 3 will arrive on Prime Video on Oct. 3, 2024. In addition, Critical Role released on its YouTube channel the brand-new opening sequence for the upcoming season. It makes sense that, after everything that has happened over the past two seasons, the title sequence would be revamped to reflect where the story is now headed.
While season 1 had its trailer released in January, season 2 got it in December. So far, fans still haven’t seen a trailer for the third season but, judging by this pattern and considering that the series is returning in October, it should come out in August or the beginning of September.
A fan on Reddit made their speculations in regards to the remainder of the Vox Machina series as well as the start of The Mighty Nein:
“I wonder if theyll alternate the series as long as LoVM still runs, so 2024 LoVM S3, 2025 M9 S1, 2026 LoVM S4 so on and so forth.
I kind of feel like if they are going to do M9 after LoVM that they announced it a bit early. Wouldve been better to announce it the year before the final season of LoVM comes out imo. Announcing too far out will cause some people to fall off.”
Indeed, announcing The Mighty Nein adaptation so soon, if it is only coming after Vox Machina season 3, might tone down the hype, but it is doubtful Critical Role would allow that to happen, as it is very in tune with these kinds of entrepreneurial moves. Either way, Vox Machina will be returning first, but avid Critical Role fans can still hope to see the not-nine misfits of campaign 2 animated not too far off into the future.
Published: Jul 17, 2024 09:01 am