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How many hours of content has been announcements?
As of episode 2-69, according to our Running Times tables across both campaigns and all one-shots, there has been a total of 36:19:58 between the beginning of each episode and the start of the games themselves. This time includes the opening greetings, announcements, and opening credits.

Has there been any indication that Essek Thelyss levitates everywhere because he is missing a leg?
There has not yet been any indication or explanation.

How many days has Yasha spent with the Nein?
As of episode 2-69, Yasha has been with the Nein for 114 of 176 days.

How many times has Matt said he is sorry after one of Sam's sponsor intros?
In campaign 2, Matt has explicitly apologized seven times. Each instance listed after the break!

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Villains Gallery: The Chroma Conclave

Villains Gallery: The Chroma Conclave

Thanks to @blacksalander for the art piece!

We had an anonymous critter request a while back for us to create a list of villains and information about their intentions and deeds. There have been a lot of big bads over the course of 99 episodes, so many that we can't do them justice in one post. We're breaking them up by story arc, continuing with the dragons of the Chroma Conclave.

The Chroma Conclave

Thordak, The Cinder King

  • Ancient red dragon
  • Head of the Chroma Conclave
  • Originally from the Shifting Sands, was defeated by Devo’ssa after attacking Ank’harel and thought dead.
  • Washed up on the Opash’s island.
  • Was tortured and experimented on by Opash for years before overpowering the necromancer.
  • Found the knowledge of the rituals to become a dracolich, and set out for Tal’Dorei to gain more power and find arcane users powerful enough to perform the ritual.
  • Invaded Raishan’s territory, and made a deal to help her cure her Soul Curse in exchange for her allegiance
  • Invaded Tal’Dorei, razing the Verdant Expanse before being defeated by Kima of Vord, Allura Vysoren, Drake Thunderbrand, and their compatriots, and banished to the Fire Plane.
    • Destroyed Byroden, killing Vax’ildan and Vex’ahlia’s mother.
  • Spotted by VM on their trip to the Fire Plane during Keyleth’s AraMente
  • Grew larger and more insane during his 15 years in the Fire Plane before breaking out with Raishan’s help and destroying Pyrah.
    • Returned with a Heartstone implanted with an Ember Seed buried in his chest.
    • Raishan broke him out earlier than expected due to her concerns about his increasing insanity- Winter’s Crest rather than the summer solstice.
  • Razed the city of Emon and began turning the Cloudtop District into his lair, forcing the surviving citizens to serve him.
    • Was slowly turning the city into a volcano
    • Laid several elemental dragon eggs beneath the former castle, having reproduced asexually
  • Killed by Vax’ildan in a tunnel leading to his main lair.

Brimscythe, The Iron Storm

  • Young adult blue dragon
  • Served on the Council of Emon as a human with the name General Krieg Tristan.
  • Member of the Chroma Conclave.
  • Lair located somewhere in the Cliffkeep Mountains. Can be entered via a portal in the basement of his home in the Cloudtop District.
  • Killed by Vax’ildan after VM’s discovery of the portal to his lair.
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Who was it that killed each individual member of the conclave with what attack? (for fanart purposes)

  • Brimscythe: Vax’ildan, Unknown (presumably a dagger)
  • Umbrasyl: Grog, Bloodaxe
  • Vorugal: Vex’ahlia, Fenthras
  • Thordak: Vax’ildan, Whisper
  • Raishan: Kerrek, Dusk Warhammer

Did Vex drop Demons for her favorite enemy? I was rewatching the episode where Vex and Percy were in the library and Laura brought it up but then said never mind.

Nothing has been stated on the show about it, as far as we know.

I would like to know how many times Laura has used swear words OOC and IC on the show?

We have no problem with strong language, but we still want to keep the language (relatively) clean on the site. Also, we no longer take tracking requests that require a full-show rewatch. (Friendly reminder to also check out our Frequently Asked Questions page!)

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If Vax gets surprise with all those nice assassin bonuses, how much damage (on average), can we expect him to do?

For the sake of this, we’ll say that Vax attacked immediately in order to get a surprise attack, and didn’t have time to cast Hunter’s Mark.

  • 42 (Sneak Attack) + 4 Slashing + 8 Psychic + 8 + 16 Divine Smite  = 78 Average Crit Damage
  • 42 (Sneak Attack) + 4 Piercing + 8 Psychic + 8 + 10 (Sharpshooter) = 72 Average Crit Damage

What is the max damage Vax has done?

Vax’s most damaging single attack was in Episode 79 (2:12:09), dealing 102 damage against Thordak. For any damage related questions, check out either our All Rolls chart, Average/Total Damage Dealt chart, or Damage Taken chart over on our Running Stats page!

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Which oath does Lady Kima follow as a paladin?

Kima is now under the Oath of Vengeance, despite Matt’s tweet last July that she was an Oath of Devotion paladin. We’re not sure under what circumstances the switch happened, though.

Can Kima as a Halfling even wield the Holy Avenger Great Sword she was given?

Absolutely! Though the Rules as Written say that all Small creatures are at a disadvantage when wielding Heavy weapons, while still in the Underdark, Kima wielded a great sword with proficiency because, as a paladin, she is proficient with martial weapons. Further, have you seen Kima? She can scarf down chicken while doing one-handed pushups; one great sword isn’t going to give her problems.

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Raishan Fact-Check

Raishan Fact-Check

Welcome to Chroma Decision 2016! In the spirit of the political year, the Crit Role Stats team has found it fitting to analyze the statements presented by Raishan and put them under the microscope, to the best of our ability.

Regards to Politifact for the, uh, inspiration! Also, American critters, go register to vote, if you haven’t already; today’s the deadline for many of you!

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What We Know About Raishan: A Summary

What We Know About Raishan: A Summary

Thanks to @broken-cogfor the art!

The most cunning, treacherous, and arcanely gifted of the Conclave made her bold power play. As with our past twocompilations, we’ve gathered everything stated about Raishan in a document here. Summary below the cut (all facts, spoilers through episode 69), along with a brief summary of what we know about her capabilities from both the show and the Monster Manual.

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What We Know About Thordak: A Summary

Thanks to @_dovaquiin for the art!

Following Vox Machina’s meeting with the leader of Ank’Harel, there has been a lot of discussion amongst the Critters about what we know about The Cinder King. We compiled a list of all relevant quotations about him in a document you can access here. Below the cut, we summarize all we know about him. Spoilers up through episode 66; all facts, no speculation.

  • Thordak ruled in the Scalding Sands, an area that takes up nearly half of Marquet, for centuries. (Ep 40, 66)
  • He got greedy and attempted to attack Ank’Harel, the city that J’mon Sa Ord rules and protects, with his armies of lizardfolk and other serpentine followers. (Ep 40, 66)
    • Ank’Harel was around 100-150 years old by this point. (Ep 66)
  • J’mon and their forces defeated the armies and chased Thordak to the ocean where they mortally wounded him, saw him fall into the ocean, and presumed him dead. (Ep 40, 66)
  • Thordak survived, however, and in the intervening centuries ruled over the island of Viscal in the the south Lucidian Ocean, terrorizing the nearby beaches and passing ships. (Ep 40)
    • It has been about 400 years since Thordak was shot down. (Ep 41)
  • About 15 years ago, Thordak once again got greedy and began to raze the cities south of the Stormcrest Mountains and Verdant Expanse. (Ep 40)
    • This included Byroden, Vex and Vax’s home. (Ep 40, possibly confirmed again by Syldor in Ep 60 when he tells the twins to “avenge” her.)
  • After unsuccessfully battling Thordak, Allura called upon the Arcana Pansophical to help devise a trap with her and her adventuring party that included Kima, Drake Thunderbrand, Ghenn, Cyrrus, and Dohla. (Ep 40, 57)
  • This trap involved taking a Heart Stone from a primordial Fire Titan and made it into a Soul Anchor, that was supposed to anchor Thordak in the Elemental Plane of Fire. (Ep 40, 57)
  • With the Fire Ashari’s help, Allura’s group convinced Thordak that he would be powerful enough to contain a Heart Stone. (Ep 45, 47, 57)
  • Once he consumed it, the team was able to press him down and banish him to plane, they thought forever. (Ep 57)
    • While there, he got much larger and obsessed over his revenge. (Ep 40, 57)
  • About 4 years ago, a 15 year old woman named Raishan came to the Fire Ashari, seeking refuge. The Ashari took her in, taught her some of their magic, and treated her as one of their own. (Ep 47)
  • A year or a little more before the attack, Vox Machina found Brimscythe’s lair and heard the voice come from the jewels. They destroyed Brimscythe, who was a young/adult blue dragon. (Story of VM)
  • In the months before the Conclave’s attack, Raishan took to spending days at a time alone in the Cindergrove. (Ep 57)
  • During Winter’s Crest, Raishan tore open the rift between the Elemental Plane of Fire and the Prime Material Plane using very powerful magic. Old magic, even. (Ep 57)
    • Despite the use of Old Magic, the Conclave and its attack seem to be unrelated to Tiamat and her residence in Baator. (Ep 43)
  • Thordak, leading the Chroma Conclave, destroyed the city of Emon, and sent the remaining dragons eastward while he remained to lead over Emon, claiming mercy upon the surviving residents of the city and declaring their new purpose to be to serve him. (Ep 39, 40)
  • During the attack, Thordak, roughly twice the size of the other dragons, physically tossed Vorugal from Greyskull Keep in a show of dominance. (Ep 40)
    • White dragons, in particular, hate other dragons, and never forget a slight. (Ep 57)
  • According to Gilmore, the Heart Stone was still visible within Thordak’s chest during the destruction of Emon. (Ep 41, 57)
  • Since then, Thordak has made Emon into his new lair. The land is now volcanic, and he continues to dig and burrow. He’s enslaved sculptors to carve his likeness into the Cloudtop District walls, and he forces the residents to serve him and bring him gold. If they refuse, they die. (Ep 41, 57, 64)
  • Lizardfolk patrol the city as Thordak’s police and army. (Ep 42)
  • Every dusk, Thordak calls a gathering of the remaining population of Emon to worship him. Those that do not participate are eaten. He’s exceedingly vain, and Asum calls him “crazy.” (Ep 64)
  • According to Asum, Thordak has a set of gems similar to those they saw in Brimscythe and Vorugal’s lairs. (Ep 64)
    • Though it was stated in Episode 64 that they had seen similar jewels in Umbrasyl’s lair that were already destroyed, it was said in Episode 56 that they did not see them because it was not Umbrasyl’s original lair.
  • Thordak has an increasingly large network of spies. (Ep 64)
  • The day VM got back from the Feywild, something (we don’t know for sure exactly what this was- there are a couple of options or combination of options) made him angry enough to send the majority of his wyvern guard eastward. An army of wyverns appeared to buzz Whitestone with Vorugal later that same day; it is unknown if this was the same army, especially since the timing would be tight for a flight from Emon to Whitestone (6 hours). (Ep 64)

Speculation

Anonymous asked: Story threads that have been dropped/not hit on yet? For example: Kainan, Vax’s protégé?

Check out this post here for a number of the major ones.  Here are some others:

  • Did the entryway to the (possibly) Far Realm that Vox Machina caved in ever reopen?
  • Was Captain Damon single?
  • Why did it take Kima so long to go back to Vasselheim?
  • Why do Osysa and her mate have to stay apart? How did they meet?
  • How did Lyra’s parents die?
  • How did Zahra come to make her pact with The Great Old One?
  • Where is Keyleth’s mother?
  • Percy and Lillith didn’t come down to breakfast…
  • Where is Vouk (a.ka. the tongueless wonder) now?
  • How did Riskel, Sylas, Delilah, and Anders get involved with Vecna?
  • Where is Ripley and what is she up to?
  • What is the spinning orb of death?
  • What happened to Goran Vedmeyer?
  • Was the blue shard that VM traded to the Clasp to get to Daxio a piece of a threshold crest?
  • Who was the new owner of Krieg’s house?
  • There was an engraving on the bottom of the tea set that Vex took of L.M.-who is it?
  • How did the Chroma Conclave come to be and why?
  • What did Allura do with the skull?
  • Where is Kamaljiori now?
  • Is Craven Edge enjoying his vacation on another plane of existence?
  • Tales of Allura, Drake, and Kima’s days as adventurers.
  • Who is living in Greyskull Keep?
  • Who was Kerrek really?
  • Is Nala enjoying her book?
  • Did Garmelie really just want Tirelda’s hat for fun?
  • How are threshold crests made?
  • Who worshipped Orlan the ghost bear?
  • Where did the trees go that Vex saw drop out of the canopy? And how did they come back?
  • Why did Gilmore leave Marquet?
  • What is going on with the drug trade in Ank’Harel (and is fusaka part of it)?
  • The ruler of Ank’Harel, J’mon Sa Ord, has been there for way longer than should theoretically be possible- who or what are they?

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Lots of questions with already charted answers. Here’s where you can find them!

How much time has passed ICly (not RL) since the attack of the Chroma Conclave up until the start of the Feywild Arc?

It was 25 days from the time the Chroma Conclave attacked to the day Vox Machina first entered the Feywild. If you want to know more about in-game time passed, we have a page dedicated to that!

In the past episode they talked about “upgrading” some of the vestiges that they have already acquired (Grog with Titanstone Knuckles and Scanlan with Mythcarver). I don’t recall any mentions of the vestiges being able to upgrade? Is this a thing that was mentioned or something the players decided might be possible and just tried it out?

Our best guess is that they noticed that Vax’s Deathwalker’s Ward got an ‘upgrade’ once he took communion with the Raven Queen, and decided that maybe their vestiges had unlockable abilities as well.

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You guys were very interested in Percy this time!

In which episode did Percy discover that Cass was still alive?

Episode 30 (2:36:28)

Any idea why the party was talking about “attuning” to the Dragon Slayer Longsword? The reason I ask is that according to the DMG the Dragon Slayer Longsword is just a weapon that can be used. Is it just a mistake or something they decided to change?

Matt did state that Vax “reattuned to the Dragon Slaying Longsword” in episode 55 (1:45:19). The description for weapons of Dragon Slaying in the DMG (p166) does not indicate any attunement requirements despite being a magical weapon, so it’s possible that this restriction was added specifically for this game.

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