Legend of Vox Machina S2 - Table to Screen - Raishan

[@tristanmilner9511]

"And that's where we're gonna leave tonight's episode!" The real villain of Critical Role.

[@superphantom100]

The DM is both God, and the Villain.

[@thunderflare59]

Never underestmate the evils of doors.

[@MrWongWey]

Can’t believe he had the gall to do the exact same thing in the show.

[@tristanmilner9511]

@@MrWongWey He's like an 80's cartoon villain. Just keeps doing it.

[@jakisz]

Well, now it's, "And that's where we'll end season 2."

[@gajustempus]

the cliffhangers of Matt really are on another level...

[@centurionquincy3899]

His cliffhangers in the campaign were SO GOOD, that the tv show used it as a cliffhanger for season 2

[@Feasco]

if you think the cliffhangers are something you should see the cliffjumpers

[@crimsonshadowx6]

@@centurionquincy3899 is season 2 over or is it on break?

[@centurionquincy3899]

@@crimsonshadowx6 Pretty sure it’s over, and they will pick up in season 3.

[@pierluigidipietro8097]

Critical Role had delivederd DOZENS of such high tension cliffhangers

[@myTERAexperience]

I LOVE how Matt left clues for them. The sigil to Whitestone... 🤯 he's literally so good.

[@austinchoy7677]

Could you please explain what the clue was?

[@myTERAexperience]

@@austinchoy7677 to get to different towns using a magic teleportation spell you need to construct a sigil that connects them, thus town a, b, c, d, etc. can each teleport to one another as long as they have a magic sigil constructed allowing it. There was never a sigil in Whitestone, yet the dragon in her human form claimed to use a sigil in Whitestone. If any of the people playing realized it they would have gotten suspicious.

[@Velgar_Grim]

@@myTERAexperience It's sort of double-edged clue, 'cose even though the players have been "aware" of the lack of sigil for months at best, at least one or two characters themselves should probably have been painfully aware of the travel-restrictions. It's not like "well, I was in a pub in London Trafalgar Square when I saw it" and you'd have to have quiet good knowledge of said area to know whether there was or was not a pub there (heck, I've once visited said square and can't still say without checking. A sigil would be quite a thing of importance, and unique to boot, so it'd be closer to saying something like "I landed on the Liverpool airport", if it so happened that Liverpool suddenly didn't sport one. Sure, outsiders who've just heard of Liverpool could automatically assume there was one, but even they'd be more like "oh, they have one?", but anyone who's spend extended time there would know that it wouldn't have one. And Percival was not only from there, but had rather vested interested in it after liberating it. And either he was not present when the clue was dropped or he really dropped the ball on the whole "checking your homestead" thing...

[@garethmason7920]

So is the real Yennon dead then from series one or has it been the dragon the whole time ?

[@myTERAexperience]

@@garethmason7920 in the anime u can tell when the swap changed. The green eyed kid in Whitestone.

[@thunderflare59]

"Is season 3 out yet" is the new "is it Thursday"

[@hollowspawn9675]

Confirmed October 3rd this year!

[@CatatonicFear]

Rip Lance Reddick

[@Dragon_Lair]

He may have finished recording for season 3 because animation takes so long.

[@TheDark_Strider]

@@Dragon_LairThat is a fair point. Although, it Reddick never did any voice lines for Thordak on Season 3, there are good VA’s that can fill in those shoes like Kieth David.

[@hollowspawn9675]

Kevin Micheal Richardson would also be a good one. I actually thought it was his voice when at first when Thordak spoke

[@dawidpotega882]

unforunate but the timing is also great for replacing the VA. Thordak getting insane is good time for voice change, personally i would prefer Matt doing insane Thordak, but i can see why outside of a tabletop game shows wanna avoid similar voices. As talented as Matt is it's just "MattCharming, MattInsane, MattGilmore" and so on, they are very different but at the fcore it's still Matt's voice and this show is meant to please more than just tabletop fans of VM

[@tysondennis1016]

RIP to our cinder king.

[@CinnamonQuills]

It's awesome that they got Cree Summer to voice a pivotal role!

[@DubhMornie]

her voice is PER.FECT for Raishan

[@Mezmero]

She rules in everything!

[@aduiel]

That was Cree Summer?!? 😮🤩

[@volteer1332]

​@aduiel same voice as Cynder. I say it every time, but, if I had a nickel for every time Cree played an evil dragoness that turns against the big evil dragon she was serving, and that escaped his imprisonment plane thanks to that dragoness... I would have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

[@thefiresworddragon927]

@@volteer1332 SAME! I swear to god, she can't get away from evil dragons!

[@Sysyphony]

2:35 catatonic Travis is so rare but so earned when Matt pulls sh*t like this ❤️❤️❤️

[@zydecomoon2742]

Photographic depiction of "mY BROTHER IN CHRIST WHAT?"

[@ni777ful]

Mans had to fuckin reboot

[@tysondennis1016]

traviswillingham.exe has stopped working

[@AdamEspersona]

Keyleth and Raishan. The Voice of the Tempest and the Diseased Deceiver. A deadly rivalry that would persist throughout the Conclave arc. And it’s only fitting that Season 2 was bookended with a face-to-face meeting in 2x01 and 2x12.

[@tomkvideo]

"YOU COME IN TO OUR HOUSE?!"

[@repulser93]

It’s a shame that Lance Reddick himself won’t herald in that new age of the Chroma Conclave. RIP

[@TPBurrow]

YEah I know very sad:(

[@harkaway9006]

Maybe he finished recording?

[@andhispalmugman6314]

3:21 And that’s where we’ll end this one. Anarchy ensues

[@lonewolfx5]

This actually threw me off a bit because I was expecting it to happen later on. Still so awesome to see it animated even if it’s a bit different.

[@gwynbleidd3871]

I can't believe Raishan is voiced by the same actress who voiced mistress Luminara Unduli in CW.

[@liaminator4950]

She has much more significant roles but that definitely one of them

[@theundeadthrasher]

Oh that's fucking dope

[@RogueHippie13]

She’s also Susie Carmichael from Rugrats and Numbah 5 from KND

[@quizzlybear]

Cree Summers is a well acclaimed voice actress. You'll find she has voice a lot of your childhood lol.

[@digifreak90]

I didn't know Cree Summers was Luminara. I just mainly recognize her voice as Medusa from Kid Icarus Uprising.

[@TheShuffles55]

Now I need to see PHD Rage Professor Grog and keyleth moment.

[@DubhMornie]

I hope we will see hyperventilating Percy next season. his exchanges with Raishan were so good!

[@nataliepeters8459]

Yesss I'm so glad I'm not the only one that remembers that 😂 one of my favorite Percy and Raishan moments

[@blasalvice]

I've been wishing to see this format! Thank you for making those! :)

[@TPBurrow]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@ICommentCuzILike]

I do wonder what happened to keeper yennen in the animated series; in the show assum was alive and well in emon helping keep refugees safe, but keeper yennen just seems to have straight-up disappeared...

[@jonathankoch717]

Easiest explanation is that Raishan knocked Yennen out just like the four here, and just assumed her role in White Stone for the time being . Doubt she'd kill Yennen if she's asking the group for a team up. But who knows.

[@Aramakie98]

@@jonathankoch717 My thoughts, too. The greatest way to ensure Vox's joly cooperation would be just that...

[@Just_an_Ace_on_the_Moon]

Learns that Cree Summer voices one of the dragons: Perfection! (Also voiced the dragon named Cinder in video game The Legend of Spyro)

[@kindredhunter1887]

Travis hopping on his chair is very much what my brain does while watching most of the streams

[@SPACEHARICE]

Funny enough grog was also poisoned But his con even on a low roll would save

[@undeathghost5627]

idk why everyone thinks this is poison. Its definitely a sleep spell. If it was poison, the group would have also passed out. Shes the *magic* dragon.

[@garagesale139]

I love the coincidence that Marisha(who plays Keyleth) realizes that the Keeper is Raishan at 1:15, and in the animated series it's Keyleth who says Raishan first!

[@persiusfaalii4901]

The way I would’ve jumped over the table demanding to know what happens next

[@jebron319]

Cree Summers did such a great job. her voice is perfect for this role

[@perennialcoma]

I love this format, hope to see much more. Subscribed!

[@TPBurrow]

Awesome, thank you!

[@feremarthewizpotato5732]

That cliff hanger at the end of season 2 My brain: “Thordak’s a mommy🥺”

[@I.Lostalim]

It's like some magic shenanigans version of Jurassic Park 😆

[@nataliepeters8459]

I love that Liam is miming reaching for his daggers the whole time 😂

[@NullRageGaming]

This is one of the few scenes where I actually preferred the live version. The aggressive dagger throw from Vax and Raishan essentially poisoning or enchanting the Whitestone council to sleep breeds much more animosity to the relationship between the party and the dragon. I remember watching this play out in the campaign and thinking "Raishan almost seems reasonable, maybe this can work". Hopefully the coming episodes of the series will focus back in on that "unsteady trust", that VM and Raishan had in the liveplay. (Spoilers below) That "maybe we CAN trust the dragon" aspect makes future scenes so much more delicious! I mean its just one NPC after another for VM. First Cassandra's betrayal in the briarwood arc, then Seeker Assum turns out to be Raishan, later a certain backwards handed impersonator ;). By the time they finish this arc VM nor the cast of CR are ever able to trust any of Matt's NPCs and it's fricken beautiful!

[@georgehancock652]

This is something that I've battled with for a bit, but part of the difference between the show Raishan and the game Raishan is that the show contextualises a lot of her actions clearly. We watch Raishan rain death down on thousands of people and directly kill the Sovereign (implied in the game). She is undeniably evil or the very least so distant from anything resembling what the humanoids of Exandria would consider moral. With the party being weaker in the show, it makes sense for Raishan to give a more visual show of power. I prefer some of the in-game lines and the slower pacing of the scene, but hoping that her backstory reveals next season should make up for it. I hope she remains subtle about how capable she is; part of what made Raishan's ploy work is that she faked being weak and didn't have the same level of vanity to anger too much over being called so. I get that she needs to block the dagger magically to go, "Hey, audience! this the mage dragon!". Fingers uber crossed for Larkin shenanigans.

[@kjj26k]

​@@georgehancock652 Come to think of it, that mage Ardora (fish-person) in the Sunken Tomb was kinda a reminder to the audience that the most dangerous person in a group is caster.

[@kjj26k]

And of course, let us not forget the og betrayer, Clarota!

[@nataliepeters8459]

That not so subtle threat to whitestone gives me chills every time 🥰🐉

[@finchbird2419]

Remember that little girl? Ya. That was Raishan

[@Gala-yp8nx]

Ashley always has the best reaction face. Lol

[@wrainCipher]

I need season 3 of the show NOW and I need to NOT GET DRAGGED INTO THINGS

[@TPBurrow]

We love you very much ♥

[@CasualApostate]

These are really good please continue making them

[@Keith-zo6fq]

She's far more diplomatic in the table read. But way more intimidating on the show.

[@Matt-jp6if]

Raishan’s VA sounds just like Ventress’ VA n it drives my head mental

[@nikkimabanlongeval601]

At the end: Commander Zavala, what are you talking about? What conclave?

[@shawnholbrook7278]

aaaaa! thanks, it was great to see the comparison!

[@davidhfranz]

In the original, Raishan impersonated Assum after "he" asked to speak to them in private, away from Gilmore, Cassandra, Kima, and Allura. They didn't find out about Raishan until well after the fact.

[@sodasaintcommentaries4054]

I have to think that it was really clever of how they did that with Raishan in the animated version; the idea is very similar to what she did in the stream, she’s only now including the others in on the blackmail.

[@davidhfranz]

@@sodasaintcommentaries4054 I'm not saying it didn't work. It's a much easier transition between Gina Torres' voice and Cree Summer's voice than an alternative, for example. IIRC, they spend at least two episodes informing the others while trying to hide it from Raishan.

[@sodasaintcommentaries4054]

@@davidhfranz Wasn't disagreeing with you. Sorry if it seemed that way! :)

[@I.Lostalim]

​@@davidhfranz and just adding to that, in the stream Vox Machina had a working relationship with Assum - somewhat with the Briarwoods, even if Vax forgot to check in 😆 and then again afterwards. In TLoVM we haven't really seen Assum more than appearing in some distance shots... So Yennan makes a better character for the rug pull on a new audience.

[@torav8343]

Does anyone know if theres a table vs show comparrision for getting rid of craven edge?

[@a-pileof-owls8744]

that part was changed completely, so it would be pretty pointless, I think

[@torav8343]

even so i think it would be interesting

[@Celedam]

@@torav8343 No, not really. It's *completely* different.

[@TheGodOfWarhammer]

3:22 literally everyone watching season 2

[@supersayiangoku4]

Literally!!!

[@Mark-nh7ng]

Gods I can't wait for season 3 anymore.

[@TPBurrow]

Yeah me too, still no news as to even when its going to be released.

[@Frreak0zoid]

@@TPBurrow October 3rd!!! Yay!

[@franciscoalexandrequeirozcleme]

I like so much Thordak's voice. I don't know who dub it. R.IP 😢

[@tysondennis1016]

Cynder fell back on old habits hard.

[@henryohenry1504]

Wait I think I need someone to explain this to me. Who is seeker Assume? And did they change it for the show to keeper Yennin? And if that is the case who is ASSUME??? I don't remember!!!

[@TPBurrow]

lol it was actually a running gag in C1, that he was Assumed to be seeker Assume. But I digress, Seeker Assum was part of the Taldorei council, the sneaky guy who did all the espionage. They swopped him for Keeper Yennin, I presume to cut down on character overload.

[@Robcobes]

You can see him standing with the council at Uriel's abdication. The halfling man.

[@devinspencer1678]

@@Robcobes I think he was also announced at the dinner with the Briarwoods

[@henryohenry1504]

@@TPBurrow ok. Honestly C1 was a little blurry for me. *SPOILERS:* I didn't even remember Yennin and I only remember that Raishan had transformed into a guy named Larkin and Liam was confused about it.

[@tonyelliott5045]

c'mon Titmouse! get those next seasons out already!

[@youngkyeurlings]

I heard Lilian Voss's voice! ❤

[@papajawn]

So im currently listening to might nein right now from the beginning. I have not listened to Vox Machina though. If I were to pick up from Vox Ep 69 and onward, would I miss anything important not covered in the show? Im sure Ill miss some things but I dont know how much

[@Irishxlily]

They did change the order of some things, for example they went to the Fey realm after they took down Umbrasyl, and they did some important things before Raishan came to them. I'd say start at episode 64 instead (they just left the Fey realm). Only recent thing they might not cover is a group of assassins come after Vax, some relationships may be a bit farther along than they are in the show, and that Ripley wasn't partnered up with Umbrasyl. Edit* they also didn't adapt like the first 26 ish episodes of the live show, plus the pre stream stuff other than the Brymsyth (blue dragon) stuff. Its honestly fine not watching them. Basically it covers their adventure in Kraighammer, and them going to Vasselheim and meeting the Slayers take (they were already on better footing with them by the time they came back to learn about the Vestiges). The brairwood arc starts basically after that. I will say you might want to watch the pre stream summary video. Its not necessary, but its nice to have some context.

[@user-jt1js5mr3f]

As someone who personally loved the format of C1 over C2, I have to recommend just watching all of campaign 1. I know a lot of people skipped it because the early episodes aren't as polished, but it's so good. With the show as a foundation you technically could jump in later, but you would have missed out on so much good.

[@undeathghost5627]

@@user-jt1js5mr3f Hard agree my fellow critter. Its rough with some of the early audio issues and Tiberius... but the whole show is so good. Even the Kraghammer arc despite its flaws has so many awesome moments packed in.

[@user-jt1js5mr3f]

@@undeathghost5627 I also didn’t find the tech issues to be too bad. Only a couple of moments were really rough and they usually ironed them out before too long. If anyone is put off by the lower production quality, well…they’re definitely not D&D fans 😂

[@undeathghost5627]

@@user-jt1js5mr3f truuuue.

[@Gamesreaper69]

What episode is this from campaign 1?

[@discoinferno103]

Ep 69 (not a joke)

[@Gamesreaper69]

@@discoinferno103 cheers mate

[@kjj26k]

Oh wow. C1 E69 was much cooler than C2 E69. But both were huge WTF moments!

[@kyleikezoe3831]

how will our heroes defeat thordak and his army in season 3

[@amarisnelms7790]

cool also season 3 can you give us any hints like we need to know if Raushan is an ally! will we get more cute moments with Scallan and pike? and vex and Percy also grog oh and um I forget the last part just those two i guess or was three? 😅 well see you in season 3 oh Ashley is my fav voice actor ever pike's the best 😋😊 and vex .

[@myTERAexperience]

You do not want spoilers! This was played out in the campaign and could be ruined for you. Wait for season 3, it's worth it!!!

[@shika15]

What episode of the campaign was that? I want to watch it a bit since the season just ended

[@TPBurrow]

C1 ep 69 here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j33Gg5ujbbqDbsk

[@furionmax7824]

So wait is this the season two finale?

[@supersayiangoku4]

Yup a giant cliffhanger damn you Matt Mercer!!

[@iusen64pad]

PLEASE make a video with every scene of Raishan, their is plenty of things hinting to her being someone shady, She could have killed them in Dragon Form during the Attack in Ep 1 but held back and smiled. And telling them wrong information on the tree so they would fall out of the sky + more

[@feeltheflumph]

She was also disguised as a child refugee when they first fled to Whitesrone

[@singles636]

@@feeltheflumph really?

[@devinspencer1678]

@@singles636 Yep! The last one with bright green eyes, that Grog called a "tough little tyke"

[@brunokingz]

She's a fucking dragon, of course she's shady

[@marauderdz]

They clarified in the watch party that Raishan's version is missing Yennen's birthmark, which we do see when she is describing the tree to Keyleth. Meaning she was replaced sometime after that episode.

[@OmniscientlyMe]

The moment Matt lives for: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZ6ciJuqiNukiLs

[@Liecham]

What was the reasoning to switch the person She was pretending to be?

[@TPBurrow]

No idea, maybe because Yennen was in S1?

[@Celedam]

Keeper Yennen was well established in Season 1 of the animated series, so the reveal actually meant something. The original character, Seeker Assum, was not established in the animated series. He was just briefly shown in a couple of scenes in Season 1 (the dinner in Episode 3, the abdication in Episode 12) and never said a word. He was little more than an easter egg for fans of the original campaign.

[@Blikblok]

What stream was this

[@TPBurrow]

C1 Ep 80 Raishan here : kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5vGYqOYhLuIjpI

[@איתןויזל]

Which episode this?

[@VegetaLF7]

C1E69 for the live action stuff, S2E12 for the animated stuff.

[@purplepotato2612]

Although the season has been excellent. In this case. Campaign >>>>> Show

[@guitarheroww7]

What episode is this in Campaign1?

[@VegetaLF7]

Right there in the description