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I love how Percy's comment about how to be a noble is immediately backed up by the twins' dad. Percy goes full 'officious, stuffy, self-important noble twat' in his introduction, and the dad's like ah yes, a fellow noble, accepted.
For the record. That was absolutely a real title Percy gave her. The last "Grandmaster of the Grey Hunt" was the Half-giant that got his ass kicked by Scanlan.
@@boiledcrap The title comes with a small plot of land, and the responsibility to lead the yearly Great Hunt. Also, we've already seen Whitestone earlier as they're rebuilding it.
For clarification the character at the end and the eyes in the sky in the intro are two very different characters. But both are pretty important in events to come.
That comment about Vecna reminded me, he's already been mentioned in the show, they just had to change his name (like many of the other names of deities and such due to copywrite). Vecna is the Whispered One similar to how they changed The Raven Queen to The Matron of Ravens or Sarenrae to Everlight. The Pantheon in Taldore is a bit of a mash-up of D&D and Pathfinder figures, mixed together and then given new histories by Matt.
He'll be Vecna in the one too, and it's going to make me moderately irritated that people are going to say it's like Stranger Things. For what it's worth, the name Vecna is an anagram of Vance, as in Jack Vance, whose stories inspired a lot of the original dnd stuff. I think Wizards has been pretty loose with the copyrighting on that name, so they might get to use it in this context.
@@SeanBoyce-gp I'm pretty sure that CR could get the use of the Vecna name from WotC - *except* it's very, very possible that Stranger Things has a licensing contract for the name that's exclusive until they're done with it. So whether they ever get to use it depends.
@@TheMasterStratagem In the campaign, they knew the Briarwoods were trying to summon Vecna (by name) during the arc itself. In the show they just omitted that name in favor of the non-copyright-infringing epithet.
Syldor had a tryst with a human woman, the twins were the result. She raised them until Syldor showed up to take them to Syngorn. After the twins left Syngorn, they returned to find the village destroyed... there's a glimpse of it in the title scene. The 'high' elves of Syngorn have a... poor opinion of hybrids; the fact that the twins are of his blood was the only reason Syldor removed them before the village was destroyed. I wish someone had mentioned to him that Vax is *wearing* a fleeting rumour. In the stream (which was not only live but with an audience), Syldor did amend the name; I'm hoping there's going to be a bigger payoff later on. Keyleth turned into her fire elemental form, then used the tree stride spell to burn them both from the inside out. Pretty sure *that* didn't happen in the stream, heh. The arrowhead didn't melt Saundor, that's just how a corrupted archfey dies... speaking of, looks like the satyr was actually an archfey all along. You'll see him again. And then again, and again...
I know it's been a while now since you guys made this reaction but i couldn't really help but chuckle when you mentioned Vecna. I assume you were mentioning the Stranger Things' one, but there's a character in DnD, who is also called Vecna. And one of his titles is The Whispered One
Yes lol. I was Referring to stranger things. But i knew Stranger Things based it on Vecna from Dnd lol. I just never played DnD. So reference the one closest to my heart
Reactors keep (understandably) comparing the corrupt arch fey to Vecna from Strangers Things. It's kind if funny to fans of Critical Role since the guardian of the bow predated Stranger Things season 4 by years, and the Vecna of Stranger Things is nothing like the Vecna of D&D at all.
Family Reunions - Wolhand Trickfoot is Pike's great-great Grandfather & he is voiced by Henry Winkler aka Fonzie & also voices Ambush Bug (Batman the Brave & the Bold), Asterix (Asterix & the Big Fight), Willard (Sit Down Shut Up), & many more - Devana Vessar is Vex & Vax's step-mother voiced by Toki Olagundoye who also voiced Nanafue (Steven Universe), Mrs.Beakley (Ducktales - 2017), Cat Grant (some DC animated movies), Cleo (Carmen Sandiego - 2019), & many more - Saundor is voiced by Sendhil Ramamurthy who also played Suresh (Heroes) & many more - Velora Vessar is Vex & Vax's half younger sister & she is voiced by Jayla Lavender Nicholas
Stranger Things' Vecna is a lot different from (and way weaker than) DnD Vecna, who features in Vox Machina is The Whispered One for copyright reasons.
@@TheMasterStratagem Technically sure, but I can't imagine anyone going "that was his name? Wow!" I mean, without the contextual history from D&D, it's just a name. And the way Stranger Things (ab)used it, they might want to avoid it entirely now just to prevent audience confusion.
the sad thing is that Saunder really does have a tragic backstory, but here they don't cover it, basically, he was betrayed by his one true love, and she wasn't just his true love in his head. and it left him bitter and turned him into that tree Vecna
Vex was able to walk on top of the tar because she was under Saundor's influence and he granted her free passage to finish the corruption. Since the others wanted to stop it Saundor willed the swamp to impede them.
Since it show fun fact the race of pike live 500 yrs that why his great great Also fun fact i wont spoiler but that being in the end is voice by matt himself and this chracter is very important that all
They really did lean into making Saundor visually reminiscent of Stranger Things Vecna, which is funny because the ACTUAL D&D VECNA is already in the show going by the alias of "The Whispered One"
@@rekkwaffle7668 It's in no way a spoiler, the Whispered One was revealed to be Vecna during the Briarwood arc in the campaign and the Briarwood arc is long over. The show is never going to use the name Vecna because Wizards of The Coast and Hasbro currently own that name.
I just can’t stand how the father seems to blame the twins for things that are his fault. “Diluted”-“half blood”- you slept with a human woman, that’s on you. “Lack of understanding elven culture”- you let them be raised solely by their mother until you decided to randomly show up in their lives, them not knowing about elven culture is your fault. I despise this man 😡
So, they didn't give his name but in the campaign "Garmelie" changed in front of the party before sending them home and introduced himself as Artagon, an archfey like Saundor was before he turned into a goopy incel.
@@Ziaotic What? His name is in the credits, and he looks a bit like the other fey they fought/Saundor. Or just a powerful fey in general. (Archfey is the tiniest of tiny spoilers.) And pointing out what happened in the campaign is just that, explaining the differences.
@@johnyshadow yeah but they're obviously going back the Feywild and then they'll get introduced. no need to say his name because they don't watch credits for names
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I love how Percy's comment about how to be a noble is immediately backed up by the twins' dad. Percy goes full 'officious, stuffy, self-important noble twat' in his introduction, and the dad's like ah yes, a fellow noble, accepted.
Lmao. Truuuue
If there's one thing Percy knows, it's how to say "fuck off" in noble. 🤣
For the record. That was absolutely a real title Percy gave her. The last "Grandmaster of the Grey Hunt" was the Half-giant that got his ass kicked by Scanlan.
So nice of him to gift her a burnt down house. It's the thought that counts...
@@boiledcrap The title comes with a small plot of land, and the responsibility to lead the yearly Great Hunt.
Also, we've already seen Whitestone earlier as they're rebuilding it.
if memory serves right Matt had just finished designing the Emblem for the Grey Hunt based on 12 grandmasters, then Tailsain threw this at him
I love the little sprinkle of the real form of "Garmelie"! 😉
It was a pretty massive plot point a couple episodes ago that it’s possible to resurrect the recently dead in this world.
For clarification the character at the end and the eyes in the sky in the intro are two very different characters. But both are pretty important in events to come.
They've got quite the path to travel before that means anything. They'll need food; may I suggest cupcakes?
I love "Garmelie's" eyes in his real form
That comment about Vecna reminded me, he's already been mentioned in the show, they just had to change his name (like many of the other names of deities and such due to copywrite). Vecna is the Whispered One similar to how they changed The Raven Queen to The Matron of Ravens or Sarenrae to Everlight. The Pantheon in Taldore is a bit of a mash-up of D&D and Pathfinder figures, mixed together and then given new histories by Matt.
He'll be Vecna in the one too, and it's going to make me moderately irritated that people are going to say it's like Stranger Things.
For what it's worth, the name Vecna is an anagram of Vance, as in Jack Vance, whose stories inspired a lot of the original dnd stuff. I think Wizards has been pretty loose with the copyrighting on that name, so they might get to use it in this context.
Why spoil it? Dont do this.
@@SeanBoyce-gp
I'm pretty sure that CR could get the use of the Vecna name from WotC - *except* it's very, very possible that Stranger Things has a licensing contract for the name that's exclusive until they're done with it. So whether they ever get to use it depends.
@@TheMasterStratagem it's not a spoiler, they're never gonna call him Vecna in the show so there's no upcoming reveal.
@@TheMasterStratagem In the campaign, they knew the Briarwoods were trying to summon Vecna (by name) during the arc itself. In the show they just omitted that name in favor of the non-copyright-infringing epithet.
Percy is really closing in
Syldor had a tryst with a human woman, the twins were the result. She raised them until Syldor showed up to take them to Syngorn. After the twins left Syngorn, they returned to find the village destroyed... there's a glimpse of it in the title scene. The 'high' elves of Syngorn have a... poor opinion of hybrids; the fact that the twins are of his blood was the only reason Syldor removed them before the village was destroyed. I wish someone had mentioned to him that Vax is *wearing* a fleeting rumour. In the stream (which was not only live but with an audience), Syldor did amend the name; I'm hoping there's going to be a bigger payoff later on.
Keyleth turned into her fire elemental form, then used the tree stride spell to burn them both from the inside out. Pretty sure *that* didn't happen in the stream, heh. The arrowhead didn't melt Saundor, that's just how a corrupted archfey dies... speaking of, looks like the satyr was actually an archfey all along. You'll see him again. And then again, and again...
Keyleth burning the trees from the inside out did happen in the stream! It was very cool!
@@RhiannonNeale yeah Matt was like "Hold on, that can't be ok," but after checking the rules as written, there's nothing to say it can't happen
Them: Call him Vecna
Me: Oh sweet summer childs
I know it's been a while now since you guys made this reaction but i couldn't really help but chuckle when you mentioned Vecna. I assume you were mentioning the Stranger Things' one, but there's a character in DnD, who is also called Vecna.
And one of his titles is The Whispered One
Yes lol. I was Referring to stranger things. But i knew Stranger Things based it on Vecna from Dnd lol. I just never played DnD. So reference the one closest to my heart
You think the scan man's a freak now, just you wait 😂
Reactors keep (understandably) comparing the corrupt arch fey to Vecna from Strangers Things. It's kind if funny to fans of Critical Role since the guardian of the bow predated Stranger Things season 4 by years, and the Vecna of Stranger Things is nothing like the Vecna of D&D at all.
Lol. Yup. Just saw stranger things first. Ha
Family Reunions
- Wolhand Trickfoot is Pike's great-great Grandfather & he is voiced by Henry Winkler aka Fonzie & also voices Ambush Bug (Batman the Brave & the Bold), Asterix (Asterix & the Big Fight), Willard (Sit Down Shut Up), & many more
- Devana Vessar is Vex & Vax's step-mother voiced by Toki Olagundoye who also voiced Nanafue (Steven Universe), Mrs.Beakley (Ducktales - 2017), Cat Grant (some DC animated movies), Cleo (Carmen Sandiego - 2019), & many more
- Saundor is voiced by Sendhil Ramamurthy who also played Suresh (Heroes) & many more
- Velora Vessar is Vex & Vax's half younger sister & she is voiced by Jayla Lavender Nicholas
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He was Ambush Bug? Cool. That's why he sounded familiar then.
Stranger Things' Vecna is a lot different from (and way weaker than) DnD Vecna, who features in Vox Machina is The Whispered One for copyright reasons.
This is a spoiler. Dont do this.
@@TheMasterStratagem How? He was in Season 1.
@@theBSDude44 You spoiled the PAST !
@@TheMasterStratagem
Technically sure, but I can't imagine anyone going "that was his name? Wow!" I mean, without the contextual history from D&D, it's just a name. And the way Stranger Things (ab)used it, they might want to avoid it entirely now just to prevent audience confusion.
@@theBSDude44 because who haven't seen crit role wouldn't know that.
the sad thing is that Saunder really does have a tragic backstory, but here they don't cover it, basically, he was betrayed by his one true love, and she wasn't just his true love in his head. and it left him bitter and turned him into that tree Vecna
Vex was able to walk on top of the tar because she was under Saundor's influence and he granted her free passage to finish the corruption. Since the others wanted to stop it Saundor willed the swamp to impede them.
Yes, definitely! Vex's father should go to her (at some point).
Really enjoyed your reactions and commentary, especially around that subject.
Thank you kindly
Since it show fun fact the race of pike live 500 yrs that why his great great
Also fun fact i wont spoiler but that being in the end is voice by matt himself and this chracter is very important that all
They really did lean into making Saundor visually reminiscent of Stranger Things Vecna, which is funny because the ACTUAL D&D VECNA is already in the show going by the alias of "The Whispered One"
Let's cool it with the spoiler comments
@@rekkwaffle7668 It's in no way a spoiler, the Whispered One was revealed to be Vecna during the Briarwood arc in the campaign and the Briarwood arc is long over. The show is never going to use the name Vecna because Wizards of The Coast and Hasbro currently own that name.
@@fraidnaught9067 yes it is. Delete
@@rekkwaffle7668 It's no more spoiler to say Vecna than it is to namedrop the Everlight as Sarenrae.
@@ShadowyFox_86 it literally is. You're a tool
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i do question
why didn't they say they want to pass through. why play the father card if they don't wanna see him?
9 is missing. It goes from 8 to 10
I just can’t stand how the father seems to blame the twins for things that are his fault.
“Diluted”-“half blood”- you slept with a human woman, that’s on you.
“Lack of understanding elven culture”- you let them be raised solely by their mother until you decided to randomly show up in their lives, them not knowing about elven culture is your fault.
I despise this man 😡
What does fuck you mean? Was so funny
Pop-pop Wilhand is the best :) Syldor is the worst. And Kevdak... you'd need to make up a new word to describe just how awful that dude is.
So, they didn't give his name but in the campaign "Garmelie" changed in front of the party before sending them home and introduced himself as Artagon, an archfey like Saundor was before he turned into a goopy incel.
bro delete this, this is a unnecessary and useless spoiler. comments like these is why they don't read comments
@@Ziaotic What? His name is in the credits, and he looks a bit like the other fey they fought/Saundor. Or just a powerful fey in general. (Archfey is the tiniest of tiny spoilers.)
And pointing out what happened in the campaign is just that, explaining the differences.
@@johnyshadow
yeah but they're obviously going back the Feywild and then they'll get introduced. no need to say his name because they don't watch credits for names