Warning: This article contains spoilers for Season 3 of The Legend of Vox Machina.
In Season 3, Episode 4 of The Legend of Vox Machinathe demon Zerxus Ilerez suggested to his servant Yenk that Pike Trickfoot's blood was special, and one theory may explain why. Some extent of this power was later demonstrated when she healed her team members and freed them from Anna Ripley's hallucinogenic toxin, not with the power of her faith in Everlight, but with her own blood. This is a big change from the original campaign that will clearly have consequences for The Legend of Vox Machina season 4.
In the original campaign, Pike had some character development and involved a crisis of faith. However, due to Pike player Ashley Johnson's professional commitments, she didn't get as much screen time as the rest of Vox Machina. With The Legend of Vox Machina now able to use Ashley's acting talents to full effect, giving Pike a more engaging personal arc. With this increased focus comes the mystery of what this power is and where it comes from – and the answer can be found elsewhere in the Critical Role canon.
Pike may be a descendant of Everlight
There is an in-game explanation for this
In Critical Role's third campaign, a three-part flashback titled "Downfall" shows a glimpse of the gods of Exandria at the dawn of creation, followed by the Primordial Deities' efforts to destroy the god-slaying weapon at the heart of the flying world. city of Aeor near the end of the Calamity. Specifically, player characters are mortal avatars of these godsincluding Trist, a woman who is an incarnation of Everlight.
Trist was a mortal human, but also an avatar of Everlight, and joined the other mortal avatars of the gods during the Calamity to stop the construction of a god-killing weapon by the city of Aeor. Uniquely among the avatars, Trist has lived a full life before and started a family, having two children with her firbolg husband, Amaris. Trist died during the destruction of Aeor, his divine essence returned to Everlight, but his children survived, and Perhaps your lineage survived the centuries between the Calamity and the events of The Legend of Vox Machina.
Although Trist was human and her husband was a firbolg, the vagaries of magic and genetics in any Dungeons and DragonsAn inspired setting means that a lineage could very well propagate over time and eventually be found among gnomes like Pike. We have no direct family history for Pike other than his grandfather Wilhelm, who we see in the first season of The Legend of Vox Machina, so she could very well trace her heritage back to Trist.
What this could mean for Pike in Legend Of Vox Machina Season 4
Pike is more powerful than she realizes
Pike's relationship with Everlight in The Legend of Vox Machina It's been difficult for the first three seasons. His faith was challenged more than once, and his attempts to get answers from his deity were met mostly with harsh rebukes and even the temporary loss of his clerical powers. However, since she is nominally the deity of redemption, compassion, and healing, There must be a reason Everlight is so strict with Pikelike the need to pressure Pike into being worthy of his fate.
Mortals with divine heritage are generally seen as what Dungeons and Dragons are represented as aasimar, like Ashley's character Yasha Nydoorin from Critical Role Campaign 2. While aasimar are considered mechanically distinct from gnomes when it comes to character creation rules, there's nothing to say Pike couldn't have a similar spark of divinity within himself. This could also explain Zerxus' desire to tempt Pike into Asmodeus's service, as the corruption of such divine power would be a mighty prize for the Father of Lies.
With the 4th season of The Legend of Vox Machina on the horizon, there's plenty of time to theorize about what new twists the story will bring. Hopefully, Pike will find a balance between believing in herself and her faith in Everlight - and her faith in her friends in The Legend of Vox Machina.