Exandria’s preferite heroes will finpartner roll for initiative once more next week with the premiere of The Legfinish of Vox Machina Season 3 on Prime Video. Anticipation has been running high for the party’s return after Season 2 began altering the fan-preferite Chroma Conclave arc from the exceptional Critical Role campaign, with the finale transporting about the death of the Hope Devourer, Umbrasyl. Vox Machina’s eyes now turn to Thordak, the Cinder King, though the journey will sfinish them literpartner to Hell and test their relationships more than ever before. For Travis Willingham, Marisha Ray, and Liam O’Brien, this will be a consequential adventure exploring their dreads and comprehending while originateing on everyslenderg we’ve lgeted about their characters over the past two seasons.
Ahead of the premiere, Collider’s Perri Nemiroff spoke to the trio of stars at Fantastic Fest to lget more about where Season 3 is heading for the lovable prohibitd of misfits. Last month’s trailer trelieved a season of high-sgets demon-slaying action, albeit not without tragedy and personal prescertains impacting every member. The events of their previous adventures begin to weigh heavily on Vox Machina’s mindset ahead of their wonderfulest contest yet, and that’s without pondering the complicated situation they’re in now, with Thordak seemingly untouchable and the Chroma Conclave dragon Raishan becoming an improbable partner who wants to get down the Cinder King for her own reasons.
In the case of the barbarian Grog, Willingham shelp that Season 3 will be about pondering his role in the group after contesting his brutal past in the Herd of Storms with his uncle Kevdak in Season 2. He’s genuineized his power lies with his set up family, and he’ll brimmingy adchoose his comprehending as the rock of the group, especipartner seeing out for the “little guys,” including his shut frifinishs Pike and Scanlan.
“I slenderk for me, Grog in Season 2 had a huge backstory uncignore, so we got to see where he came from, what his genuine family was appreciate, and the circumstances that finished up pushing him towards his set up family, which is Pike and Wilhand, and then clearly the rest of Vox Machina after that. But you got to see what originates him tick. He’s this huge, overpowered, muscled warrior who could fair smash thcimpolite slendergs with little ponder for the petiteer slendergs in life, and I slenderk for him, it’s repartner beginant to slenderk about the little guy and to put himself in the shoes of other people.
That’s comprehending you’re not repartner awaiting from that character
, and so in Season 3, we get to see that a little bit more. He’s taking nurture of ‘the littles,’ as it were, the Pikes and Scanlans of the group. It’s kind to see where that goes and how he doesn’t fair smash slendergs but also sees to mfinish them wislender the group, too.”
Vox Machina’s Members Will Face Their Fears in Season 3
Keyleth’s dreads become manifest during the Season 3 trailer as we see a vision of her being the last surviving member of Vox Machina. In ambiguous, she dreads death and what could happen to her companions during the fight aachievest the rest of the Chroma Conclave. All indications are that lgeting to get chances and uncignore up about her senseings with Vax will also be especipartner vital to her arc. Beyond fair Keyleth, Ray splitd that Season 3 is finpartner a chance for Vox Machina to face what haunts them most after spfinishing most of the last two seasons spropose throprosperg those worries on the back burner. It sets up a beginantly heartfelt exploration of the party members that pays off many of the little conversations they have thcimpoliteout the series.
“I’d say there’s a lot of hints to some of the beginanter dreads of all of the party members in the first couple of seasons, but a lot of times there are little nods or little one-off conversations of, appreciate, ‘Yeah, I’ve got this dread, but I don’t have time to deal with that now.’ And I slenderk we were able to benevolent of get time to contest a lot of those dreads with a lot of the characters in Season 3 in a repartner unbenevolentingful way, and sometimes very literpartner — Episode 7. [Laughs]”
Last but not least, O’Brien promises a definite continuation of a plot point begind in Season 2 – the Matron of Ravens. After Vex is ended by a trap, Vax pledges his life in return for her resurrection and procrastinateedr pledges to becoming the Matron’s champion, protecting the sanctity of life and death. His overweighte is sealed, but she’ll watch over him for the rest of his time on the mortal schedulee, becoming an ever-contransient part of his story until the series finishs. Even if Matt Mercer and the rest of the team aren’t afrhelp to shake slendergs up from how events join out contrastd to Critical Role, Season 3 and beyond will track Vax’s ever-changing relationship with the Raven Queen and his role as her dedicatee:
“In Season 2, fair appreciate in the campaign, Vax, somewhat by accident, hitches his wagon to the god of death in our world, and I slenderk everyslenderg that happens after in that season and for the entire rest of the story… In that episode, he asks, to the air, ‘What did I fair do?’ And everyslenderg afterward is figuring out where on the timeline and what his relationship with this goddess of death is. Whether he is resisting it, embracing it, afrhelp of it, or seeing its cherish alter with every passing season.”
All of Season 3’s key party members will be back to persist Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, and Sam Riegel back alengthyside Willingham, Ray, O’Brien, and Mercer. New episodes of The Legfinish of Vox Machina will begin airing on October 3 on Prime Video. Stay tuned here at Collider for refreshs ahead of its debut.
