Warning: This article contains spoilers for season 3 of The Legend of Vox Machina.
The final episodes of season 3 on Amazon The Legend of Vox Machina have profound implications for the future of the program – not least because they introduce some hitherto unprecedented elements of Dungeons and Dragons tradition. Although a great villain has been defeated, the intrepid heroes have an even greater fight ahead of them as the story’s stakes continue to rise. But while this season ended with some major mysteries solved and unsolved, it also answered some minor questions that were on the audience’s mind.
Dungeons and Dragonswhich The Legend of Vox Machina is heavily inspired and features all kinds of fantastical people, some more humanoid than others. However, until the third season, all characters seen on screen were humanoids (humans, gnomes, dwarves, elves, goliaths, and so on), feyfolk like Garmelie, or dragonborn. This obviously raised the question of where the other species of the D&D Player’s Handbook could it be. Fortunately, season three finally gave us this key piece of character diversity.
Legend Of Vox Machina Season 3 Episode 10 Includes Beast Species
Outside of the brief flashback, we saw Vax fighting (and supposedly killing) a tiger-faced demon known as a rakshasa in season 1, The Legend of Vox Machina didn’t really deal with the various types of beastfolkwhich are a key element in most D&Dsettings. However, season 3 episode 10 finally introduced them. While investigating the city of Stilben in their search for Doctor Ripley, Vex and Vax are aided by a Tabaxi member of the Clasp thieves’ guild. Once they find Ripley, her pirate crew includes several beastfolk, including a raven-like kenku and an aarakocra.
The arrival of the beastfolk has profound implications for The Legend of Vox Machina. In addition to demonstrating a willingness to include all aspects of D&D tradition, also hints that the main cast could expand in season 4 and beyond. With the official introduction of the beastfolk, there’s every possibility that they could play a major role in the story, changing the series in the process.
Beast and animal species are a big part of D&D lore
Dungeons and Dragons has always included animal-inspired options for players and NPCs. The avian aarakocra appeared in the first edition of the gamespecifically in 1981 Demon Folio sourcebook, and has been an option for player characters since it appeared in the August 1987 issue of Dragon magazine. The feline tabaxi also appeared for the first time in 1981 Demon Folioalthough they did not become a playable species until the most recent edition, appearing in 2016 Volo’s Monster Guide. Both species have even made appearances in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
Kenku, which are also birds but smaller and usually look like crows, also first appeared in the Demon Folio. Much like tabaxi, they were not available as a player character option until Volo’s Monster Guide. Unfortunately, there was no kenku in Honor among thieves.
With The Legend of Vox MachinaWith the renewal of the fourth season already confirmed, it’s only a matter of time before we see what other Dungeons and Dragons minutiae that the Critical Role team has in store. In the meantime, there will be plenty of time to mourn Vax and Percy in The Legend of Vox Machina the perfect reunion from the end of season 3.
Based on the characters and stories from the first Dungeons and Dragons campaign of the Critical Role web series, The Legend of Vox Machina chronicles the adventures of a group of heroes for hire called Vox Machina as they attempt to protect the fictional continent of Tal’Dorei. of various threats to the security of its people. Set in a fantasy world of elves, gnomes, vampires and even dragons, the series stars the cast of Critical Role playing their characters from the original campaign, with DM Matthew Mercer starring in several small roles throughout the series.