![]() In addition to Riegel’s Scanlan Shorthalt, other Vox Machina members get songs including Grog (Willingham) and Vex’ahlia (Laura Bailey). “With the Critter community, it’s been fun throwing them curveballs - so they’re like, ‘Man, here it comes,’ but it’s not quite what they’re expecting,” O’Brien said. While Season 2 is based on the hundreds of hours of D&D role-playing from the Vox Machina campaign, it in some cases deviates from the original material. “They are intelligent, they have personas… they deliver really, really good dialog.” Titmouse put together a “souped-up GG team” that “really upgraded the ability to show these dragons in a way that aren’t just hulking beasts,” Willingham said. In some scenes, the presence of the dragons required fewer characters in any given frame to reduce the processing crunch on the animators. Willingham, who also serves as Critical Role’s CEO, said the addition of the dragons in Season 2 presented a much heavier technical burden on their animation studio partner, Titmouse, compared with S1. Riegel said there’s “a lot more story to tell” for the Vox Machina crew: “We could go for five seasons - or more.” “Seasons 2 and 3 are setting up some of those endgame elements and start to reveal what the consequences of certain character choices will be within the story,” he said. The group is cagey on the Season 3 storyline, but Travis Willingham (who provides the voice of Vox Machina goliath Grog Strongjaw) said the forthcoming season will among other things conclude the Chroma Conclave storyline and individual character story arcs. Matt Mercer, who serves as CR’s dungeon master, put it this way: “I’m very proud of the fact we, as swords-and-sorcery, high-fantasy genre storytelling, can graciously grasp world-ending cataclysms and the true drama of friendship lost and the consequences of one’s terrible actions - and in the next scene, have dragon-butt stuff.”Īmazon last fall renewed “The Legend of Vox Machina” for a third season, for which the Critical Role team says production is well underway, with animatics and scripts completed. The dragon Umbrasyl (voiced by Matthew Mercer) in “The Legend of Vox Machina” Season 2 “The people want what they want, and we’re not going to stand in the way of that.” According to O’Brien, the scene has a couple of jump cuts, “but you get the meat of what you’re looking for.” “And through its intestinal tract,” Riegel added. ![]() In battling the Chroma Conclave, at one point gnome bard Scanlan Shorthalt (Sam Riegel) and Vax’ildan must enter one of the dragons through… its anus. The humor is again bountifully bawdy: There are more than a couple of butt jokes, for example. “We see this new family tested in the face of insurmountable odds… and what they do to hold each other up,” said Liam O’Brien (who plays half-elf thief Vax’ildan). Without revealing any spoilers, “The Legend of Vox Machina” Season 2 features some serious conflict within the squad. I feel like everything is just turned to 11.” “I feel like it’s sillier and it’s darker - and it’s bigger and badder. “This season almost feels in some ways closer to the game,” Johnson added. With the Chroma Conclave in play, however, you'd imagine Vecna is being eyed for season 3 or beyond, should The Legend of Vox Machina reach that milestone.The second season of “Vox Machina” let the group “get more into the nitty-gritty of the characters… Now we can get into their interpersonal relationships, their backstories,” said Ashley Johnson (who voices gnome cleric Pike Trickfoot). These details tease Vecna - the final villain of Critical Role's Vox Machina campaign - having a larger role in season 2. Potentially the most significant omen in The Legend of Vox Machina's season 1 finale is Delilah Briarwood's botched Whispered One summoning, and the Spinning Orb of Death left underneath Whitestone. Something about a dark blade with a penchant for drinking blood (and in Grog's hands, no less) feels a bit unsafe. ![]() Vex also hints that Anna Ripley, Percy's ex-torturer, will play a role in Vox Machina's season 2 adventures, after she escaped the group during season 1's climactic battle. We can probably assume Emon gets toasted, and Vox Machina will spend most of season 2 on dragon-slaying duties, as these scaly friends of Brimscythe (General Krieg's dragon transformation) wreak havoc. ![]() Most obviously, The Legend of Vox Machina season 1 ends with the cliffhanger arrival of four dragons known as the Chroma Conclave, triggering the next arc of Critical Role's campaign. Having that second season guarantee meant The Legend of Vox Machina could pack its season 1 finale with foreshadowing and setup.
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