The Legend of Vox Machina Renewed for Fourth Season

Amazon Studios has picked up the Critical Role animated series The Legend of Vox Machina for a fourth season. Amazon formally announced the pickup today, confirming that the show would continue past the current season. A fourth and fifth season of The Legend of Vox Machina was already in pre-production based on SAG-AFTRA contract database info, but this is the first public confirmation that future seasons are in the works. The announcement comes ahead of the release of the final episodes of Season 3, which release this evening in the US.

“We are beyond thrilled – and grateful – to continue the epic and wild adventures of Vex, Vax, Keyleth, Percy, Pike, Grog and everyone’s favorite character – Scanlan,” said executive producer Sam Riegel. “With each season, this show levels up, and we already have big plans to level up both our heroes and villains in Season Four.”

Amazon Studios is also developing a series based on The Mighty Nein, which is expected to be released in 2025.

 

[Chaltab]

Right, and Liam offered Vax's life in exchange for hwrs...and didn't like that Mercer didn't let him follow through on that exchange.

Right, but he did? Vax didn't die immediately but his life was given to the Raven Queen.

 

[Micah Sweet]

For better or worse they are making significant changes to the story of the Mighty Nein. As long as they don’t change the theme song from the campaign, I’m still in.

What kinds of changes?

 

[Parmandur]

Right, but he did? Vax didn't die immediately but his life was given to the Raven Queen.

Right,but Liam kind of was excited for that to be the end of his arc for Vax right then and there. He felt that he was robbed of a cool and mea ingful end, which tied into Mercer working to give that to him...again...later.

 

[Clint_L]

Right,but Liam kind of was excited for that to be the end of his arc for Vax right then and there. He felt that he was robbed of a cool and mea ingful end, which tied into Mercer working to give that to him...again...later.

,,,and then taking it back, again, later still. A choice I really dislike.

So far there has only been one permanent character death in Critical Role that I can think of, and it's the one from Season 3. The one from Season 2 is debatable.

 

[jayoungr]

So far there has only been one permanent character death in Critical Role that I can think of, and it's the one from Season 3. The one from Season 2 is debatable.

The one from season 2 involves resurrection of the body but not the character as previously known, from what I understand. Which is the big reason my friend was still upset even after the campaign ended.

Spoiler

First the body was taken over by a different entity altogether, and then later the original character was resurrected but without his memories, so he's not functionally the same character anymore.

 

[overgeeked]

The one from season 2 involves resurrection of the body but not the character as previously known, from what I understand. Which is the big reason my friend was still upset even after the campaign ended.

Spoiler

First the body was taken over by a different entity altogether, and then later the original character was resurrected but without his memories, so he's not functionally the same character anymore.

That's not quite right.

The different personalities each time he's resurrected was part of Taliesin's plan all along. They talked about this in the end of campaign 2 wrap up show.

It gets a little choppy because the original personality (Lucien) was in touch with extraplanar stuff. The character died and was resurrected with a new personality (Molly), which is the character Taliesin played during the first part of the campaign. The character died early in the campaign and since the group didn't have access to resurrection magic, they left him behind. In a weird twist, the PCs ran into one of the original personality's old friends, told her the character had died, and suddenly the old friend had better things to do and left...to go resurrect her dead friend.

Once resurrected, there was another different personality (also called Lucien) but was coached by the old friend. They got in touch with that extraplanar stuff. The resurrected character ended up being corrupted by that extraplanar stuff and become one of the 17 big bads of the campaign. Once they killed the resurrected PC / big bag...the character was resurrected yet again with an entirely new personality...again (this time called Kingsley).

 

[jayoungr]

That's not quite right.

That may affect the "whether it counts as a death or not" question, but it does mean you've functionally got a new character each time.

 

[Reynard]

That's not quite right.

The different personalities each time he's resurrected was part of Taliesin's plan all along. They talked about this in the end of campaign 2 wrap up show.

It gets a little choppy because the original personality (Lucien) was in touch with extraplanar stuff. The character died and was resurrected with a new personality (Molly), which is the character Taliesin played during the first part of the campaign. The character died early in the campaign and since the group didn't have access to resurrection magic, they left him behind. In a weird twist, the PCs ran into one of the original personality's old friends, told her the character had died, and suddenly the old friend had better things to do and left...to go resurrect her dead friend.

Once resurrected, there was another different personality (also called Lucien) but was coached by the old friend. They got in touch with that extraplanar stuff. The resurrected character ended up being corrupted by that extraplanar stuff and become one of the 17 big bads of the campaign. Once they killed the resurrected PC / big bag...the character was resurrected yet again with an entirely new personality...again (this time called Kingsley).

Tailesin's choices in that fight make a lot more sense in this context.

 

[Parmandur]

The one from season 2 involves resurrection of the body but not the character as previously known, from what I understand. Which is the big reason my friend was still upset even after the campaign ended.

Spoiler

First the body was taken over by a different entity altogether, and then later the original character was resurrected but without his memories, so he's not functionally the same character anymore.

It's much weirder than that: the player characwe knew in-game was actually the interloper personality, the charretuened to his previous personality after coming back again. Jaffe gave Mercer a big blank check by giving a character concept of a guy whose first memory was clawing out of a grave, and trying to move on not knowing who or what he had been. After the PC was gone, Mercer decided he would still luse the backstory he developed off of that blank check.

 

[jayoungr]

It's much weirder than that: the player characwe knew in-game was actually the interloper personality, the charretuened to his previous personality after coming back again.

No wonder my friend was so upset, then. Not only was her favorite character permanently gone, but the game told her he never actually existed in the first place. Ouch.