The Sun Tree - Vox Machina ORIGIN Moments

[@LittleHobbit13]

Reading chat log going wild about "omg it's Percy's family!" and all I can think is "oh, it's Percy's family alright...."

[@thetalesofdaneandco]

The thing that makes this stand out to me is that the Briarwoods were well made enough characters that this felt like something they would do and it also felt like something that would happen in real life, particularly for the time period being evoked.

[@tarot3078]

@Lux Umbra Vlad might had better justifications for what he did than most historical figure. But I would not call him good.

[@Rembanspellsong]

@@tarot3078 at one point in time he was hailed as a defender of Christianity from the Turks and was considered a hero. But his brutality drowned out the adulation and now he is remembered as a butcher.

[@DaDunge]

Shit like this is more reinaissance than medieval.

[@stevenweller9413]

This was such a gods damned powerful scene.

[@natashasurvivallady8021]

I laughed so hard when the cast was saying, "A tree full of dead us?!?!? That's fucked up!!" And Matt just gives a tiny grin and a slowwww shrug. XD

[@TrackMaster844]

Only thing missing was the Curb your Enthusiasm theme XD

[@hawkthorn33]

Loving chat going ape shit as Marisha puts it all together. Also holds true to the reactors I am making my rounds watching. But the show with the creaking rope over the end credits is *chef kiss*

[@cryofpaine]

The amount of detail in the series is unbelievable. The way they reference back to the campaign while still keeping it uniquely its own thing, I don't think I've ever seen an adaptation done anywhere near this good.

[@randomcracka3]

I loved that he just described everything and letting everyone come to the realizatio on their own instead of just telling them the made people look like them and hanged them from the sun tree

[@NadavNevo883]

Vax: "You hung people from the Sun Tree?" Briarwood guard being interrogated: "Yeah as a warning" Vax: "Where I saw that child?" Liam: I slit his throat. Episode 31, Gunpowder Plot part 1, 2:11:07 on the youtubes

[@Mediados]

This pure look of terror on Lauras face when she realizes they even got Trinket up there.

[@zippomage]

yeah, that scene had a profound affect on Laura, you could see her entire bodylanguage change

[@roybenari9472]

Matt has such attention to detail. In the campaign he describes Vox Machina as the Briarwoods met them. Pike was not present at the dinner party in Emon, so the Briarwoods didn't know her and did not have someone hang in her place. On the other hand, Tiberius was at the dinner party, so the Briarwoods hung a person and colored it red to resemble the dragonborn sorcerer. Of course, they adapted the show to portray the appropriate figures the Briarwoods met during the dinner party, including Pike instead of Tiberius.

[@mettrop]

Love the resemblance of Keyleth cover her mouth in the show just like how Marisha covered her mouth in the original campaign.

[@testfire3000]

Aaaa, that is great, I didn't catch that.

[@Schattenschwert]

This will always be one of my favourite moments, frankly, in any story-tellig medium. It was so impactful, you knew things would be different from here on out...

[@Rembanspellsong]

you can tell that this scene really affected Taliesin, when he gets emotional his tremors come out and his hand was starting to shake. Can't blame him though, this would be a fairly disturbing scene for most people.

[@drmirabilis]

I found it especially sad that the child dressed as Pike was featured at the start of the episode thinking that she’s being invited to something special and fun with her family by the Briarwoods…. Gods…

[@benvoliothefirst]

@@drmirabilis ::heart explodes::

[@csgamer89]

@@drmirabilis And now we know who that child is in Campaign 3 to boot...

[@jeepersmcgee3466]

@@csgamer89 Laudna is the one they made to be Vex

[@nekoali2]

That was some really dark shit Matt put together, and I love it. It demonstrates just how terrible and evil the Briarwoods are.

[@x808drifter]

Wait till you delve into Raishan and hopefully more with Ripley. "Fix him!" anyone?

[@tylragor1653]

@@x808drifter Why? Why did you do that?

[@Hebes24]

At 1:18 you can see the moment when it dawns on Marisha and it's amazing.

[@HiQueenJenn]

I remember watching that live and having the exact same reaction as some of them. In shock both by the scene.. but also that Matt came up with something so dark.

[@ChesireWaltz]

These origin moments videos PERFECT thank you so much pinpointing where all these moments come from!

[@taylorwalker7417]

The fact that they put her front and center, just so we could could connect the dots months later 👏🏾Bra👏🏾Frickin👏🏾Vo👏🏾 *That's how you do it* ☝🏾 If you know, you know.

[@0pine0]

Thanks for this! I was really curious how the scene from the animation came about on the game itself 😭 jesus that was so dark. Somehow it was even more dark with Matt just describing the scene 😭

[@acm4bass]

I agree, most of the live stream games impactful moments were better, but showing these people alive before , having won something, was good too.

[@joeciavarini9508]

" A tree full of fucked up us?? That is some fucked up shit, thats mean! " As Mercer just shrugs his shoulders, not taking any responsibility for this twisted scene. His answer is always, "thats what the monsters would do!" which is such a great DM answer to sick and demented things they do to horrify a party. I love it. Matt Mercer is one of the GREATEST DMs of all time. I am almost twice his age, have DMed for longer, and I still learn stuff from him to add to my campaigns. Thanks for this video

[@Nargon46]

The slow realization is so delightfully sickening

[@theanyktos]

I've seen this moment so many times now, but I keep coming back to it. Such a campaign defining moment.

[@starastarship2730]

When I watched that episode I thought those people were like to get eaten or their blood drawn but that moment caught me so off guard!

[@tiagoassis3249]

When Delilah gave the Seranrae holy symbol to the child it dawned on me what would happen, and I felt disgusted and sick to my core :(

[@starastarship2730]

@@tiagoassis3249 yeah. But at the same time it was like I wouldn't say great moment in the way of it was a good thing but a great moment about how impactful it actually was.

[@shanaur]

Thanks for this videos dude! So cool to see as I never watched CR1

[@ctonnation394]

it's nice to be reminded that the plan is never followed from beginning to end

[@juliagoodwin9510]

You wanna know what makes it worse? One of those victims is Laudna.

[@roboticd]

SPOILERS.... Holy crap, if you look, the "Vex" is wearing clothing that matches Laudna.

[@andrewjohnson3511]

But one of them is still bleeding despite supposedly being dead even though this happened hours/days ago. And it isn’t Vex.

[@yeshevishman]

@@andrewjohnson3511 yes...it's supposed to be laudna because we learned in C3 that laudna was the girl who they used as the Vex lookalike.

[@roybenari9472]

1:18 is the exact moment Keyleth figures it out.

[@_bearlyaverage]

3:22 There's Laudna!

[@Simone-bc2fo]

I hadn't noticed they gave Keyleth Marisha's hands-on-face gesture when surprised or scared. This show really was made with love and care.

[@whitestoneandy797]

Spoiler: Can't believe Laudna is up there

[@NerdyNoise]

Oh hi laudna

[@Evil0tto]

Oh hai Mark

[@cryofpaine]

SPOILER FOR Campaign 3: . . . . . . . "A tree full of dead us. That sounds like a great idea for a character!"

[@viserlion5384]

Oh Boy. I feel sick to my bones and very in awe about this scene everytime I watch it. It's weird. They are all doing really great stuff here. And I mean the original ones AND the series. :D But there's one thing I noticed only now: the side shot of the poor souls hanging from the sun tree show Percys, Keyleths and Vexs lookalike. The next shot is mirrored and shows exactly these 3 in the same order. I really like easter eggs and detailed work. This one just came to me (even after more than one watch of all seasons) and I am not so sure wether I like it or not xD)

[@Gristoufle2]

This moment is so dark. The "it's us" of Kayleth has been kept!

[@MjurfnirZwischendurch]

Anyone else here after Laudnas reveal?

[@Asbjorn268]

Woulda been cool if they arranged the real characters to be standing under their hanging counterparts

[@AllOtakuProductions]

Love the look on Marisha and Sam's faces when they were the first ones to figure it out! 😨

[@i-eat-moss]

campaign 3 cameo woohoo

[@otakukaku]

Thanks to S3:E17, we now know that the 'Vex' is actually Laudna!

[@brennag7962]

If you write SPOILER before your comment, I'm sure some people would appreciate it! I've been at times fully caught up on the campaigns and at times behind, and I know for me moments like C3E17 (or heaps of C2) are much more impactful when I don't know they're about to happen. But yeah, a chilling moment for sure

[@FrostiTruth]

The fact that they hung 2 kids is what really gets me.

[@hephaetuwheatfield6211]

Amazing.

[@nickbopp4819]

hello Laudna!

[@x808drifter]

The sad part is Kiki not talking to the Sun Tree.

[@bobina05]

The level of evil it takes to do something like that. Makes me want to cry and then get angry.

[@Aerostorm56]

I just imagine they're like, "Matt WTF its just a game bro..."

[@Helm_hammer]

Yeha it kinda do look like her

[@AndrewJW]

The only thing I wish, is that they didn't show the people they were going to put in the tree on TLOVM until after the tree scene, but I suppose if you're telling the story for the first time you don't know what's coming, but most people watching the show know what's coming.

[@arcticwulf5796]

It's a different story telling medium. And its common practice to tell a story by giving the perspective of the antagonist and build up to moments to build tension and build character and have story beat payoffs. It's like the same reason they showed Lady Briarwood raising the shadow/invisible stalkers etc. People watching the show knew something was coming. The characters or players never saw it happen or hear about it happening. Otherwise it would have gone like oh shit we are under attack and then story wise have the characters reconstruct what happened "oh the Briarwood must have sent them" afterwards or it would have been left hanging. I'd rather have the antagonists built up with their point of view in the shows format instead of the characters looking for lore dumps in historic records or sending spies like in the campaign.

[@brennag7962]

There might be a lot of people watching who don't know C1 though. I started part way into C2 and watched most C2 episodes twice (and also TM) but didn't get into C1, and I'm watching with two friends who just like DnD/animated shows. So from our point of view it was horrifying to meet the little girl, assume she was "just" getting eaten or some such, and then see what happened.

[@kodywilson4275]

they wouldnt be able to survive a brennan campaign.

[@freedomcat]

SPOILER if you aren't familiar with campaign 3: the one made to look like Vex is Laudna.

[@sabrinacaska6735]

Next time please put some space the word Spoiler and the actuall Spoiler

[@freedomcat]

@@sabrinacaska6735 I tried before but the space disappeared.

[@freedomcat]

@@sabrinacaska6735 fixed it!