Warning: This article contains spoilers for season 3 of The Legend of Vox Machina.While the season 3 finale of The Legend of Vox Machina ended on a perfect high note that brought the Vox Machina team together, the final scene showed that an even bigger threat than the Chroma Conclave is on the horizon. Perhaps more importantly, it’s a threat that’s been in the making since the season one finale, when Sylas (Matthew Mercer) and Delilah Briarwood (Grey Griffin) died trying to summon it. Although season three answered many burning questions left by The Legend of Vox Machina Season 2 also introduced new mysteries and emotional punches.
In Season 1, villains Sylas and Delilah take control of the town of Whitestone, home of Vox Machina member Percival “Percy” Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski from Rolo III (Taliesin Jaffe). The Briarwoods’ goals were never fully explored; they seemed surprised to find Percy alive after having left him dead years before and mostly interested in performing some kind of ritual atop an ancient ziggurat buried beneath the city – a ritual designed to free something called The Whispered One.
The Whispered was one of the biggest unanswered questions in the legend of Vox Machina
Delilah Briarwood manages to summon the whispered for a brief period in The Legend Of Vox Machina Season 1
1st season of The Legend of Vox Machina provides tantalizing glimpses into The Whispered One, but leaves the audience with more questions than answers. He is implied to be the source of at least some of Delilah’s potent magical abilities and Sylas’s vampirism. Delilah’s grimoire, stolen by Scanlan Shorthalt (Sam Riegel), only provides Vox Machina with cryptic information about this enigmatic being. The Briarwoods clearly made some sort of power pact with him and intended to bring him to the Material Plane in return.
All the violence surrounding the ritual seemed to have been in vain. In Season 1, Episode 11, Vox Machina kills Sylas and injures Delilah, and While the image of the Whispered One appears before Delilah for a few moments, the end result is the manifestation of a spinning orb of darkness that crackles with purple lightning and negates nearby magical effects. Investigation of the orb following Delilah’s death only results in the death of a holy man, who is torn apart and sucked into it, and any further work is halted with the arrival of the Chroma Conclave.
The Legend Of Vox Machina Season 3 Finally Revealed What Happened
The Whispered One has recruited a following since its appearance in season one
At the end of Season 3, an entire cult worshiping the Whispered One is shown, dressed in dark robes and chanting around a similar orb, surrounded by sand. A massive obelisk looms above them, and as the cultists’ bandaged eyes leak fresh blood, the orb begins to crackle with the same purple lightning as the one below Whitestone. A final flash of lightning shows a glimpse of the Whispered One’s skeletal face, two empty eye sockets and a third glowing a sickly purple in the middle of his forehead, before cutting to black.
So it looks like the Briarwoods’ ritual was to some extent successful and that means The Legend of Vox Machina Season 4 will soon reveal this legendary evil in all its glory.
Clearly, although the members of Vox Machina believe that Exandria is safe now that the Chroma Conclave has been eliminated, the Whispered One has managed to find more followers to influence, perhaps on the desert continent of Marquet. Therefore, it appears that the Briarwoods ritual was to some extent successful and this means that The Legend of Vox Machina Season 4 will soon reveal this legendary evil in all its glory.
Who is the Whispered One/Vecna in Dungeons & Dragons Lore
The Whispered One is one of the most notable D&D villains
In Dungeons and Dragons tradition, the Whispered One was once a deadly archmage with a lust for power. Centuries ago, he used necromancy to transform into a lich and traded his eyes and hands for even more arcane power. Eventually, he ascended to godhood and served as Vox Machina’s final enemy in the first Critical Role campaign, and is clearly primed to do so again in the show. The original broadcast gave the lich a complete story but with all the other differences between Critical Role’s Vox Machina campaign and Legend, anything could change.
When The Legend of Vox Machina returns for its fourth season, fans will see what happens when this dark god of secrets comes face to face with their favorite foul-mouthed heroes.
The Whispered One is also known as Vecnaand he first appeared in 1976 reference book Supernatural Magic as part of the Greyhawk campaign setting. Vecna has been a feared and popular villain ever since, ascending to godhood between the release of the second and third editions of Dungeons and Dragons. Although Critical Role’s original stream called him Vecna, The Legend of Vox Machina uses only the epithet The Whispered One, as the show is not a licensed product of Wizards of the Coast, which currently holds the archlich’s trademark.
The mighty heroes of Vox Machina have scattered to the far corners of Exandria, some to rest on their laurels and others to seek answers to deeply personal questions, but in due time they will inevitably be called back to face the threat of the Whispered. A. When The Legend of Vox Machina returns for its fourth season, fans will see what happens when this dark god of secrets comes face to face with their favorite foul-mouthed heroes.