Critical Role Returns to Its Roots With New Hololive Campaign

Announced in October, Shattered Legends is an upcoming miniseries featuring Critical Role and members of Hololive Production. Critical Role founders Matt Mercer and Marisha Ray will join Hololive’s Nerissa Ravencroft, Mori Calliope, Shiori Novella, and Gigi Murin for an adventure in Exandria, where the Critical Role story began with Campaign 1: Vox Machina.

Shattered Legends premieres Nov. 13 at 6 p.m. PT / 9 p.m. ET on Nerissa Ravencroft’s YouTube channel and Critical Role’s streaming platform, Beacon. The six-episode actual play show will use the rules for Daggerheart, the tabletop role-playing game designed by Critical Role’s publishing studio, Darrington Press.

Mercer will be the Game Master. Ray will play alongside the Hololive cast, helping them navigate the adventure in Exandria.

Shattered Legends story and cast

Shattered Legends is set in the Shattered Teeth archipelago, southeast of Tal’dorei. The continent is the setting for Critical Role’s first campaign, Vox Machina.

The adventurers will explore the island of Ubradar, particularly a mysterious place called the Undermaw. A news release describes it as “a massive sinkhole with an unknown darkness sealed below.” The setting has similarities to the anime Made in Abyss: time flows differently in the Shattered Teeth islands than in the outside world, as it does in the anime’s giant hole.

The players’ characters and classes have also been revealed:

• Marisha Ray plays tidekin witch Florence, “a moon witch of the sea who believes she guides the souls of lost sailors to the afterlife of the Sister Divas.”
• Nerissa Ravencroft plays elf rogue Siliul ‘Sil’ Faeli, “a noble turned rogue and skilled tracker seeking refuge on Ubradar.”
• Mori Calliope plays infernis bard Kaz Oogod, “the last of the Oogod clan, a young musician with a ‘world-changing instrument.’”
• Shiori Novella plays fungrin druid Marchen ‘March’ Rosemyne, “an orphan searching for the Huntsman she lives with, aided by her connection to nature and a network of mushrooms.”
• Gigi Murin plays faerie seraph Giryn, “a devoted follower of Mother Liopé on a mission to spread the Enclave’s teachings and witness the nature of life and death.”

The Hololive cast will appear with new virtual avatars based on their characters’ designs. Mercer and Ray will appear in person, though many fans have complained that the show missed an opportunity to give them virtual avatars.

A Shattered Legends promotional tour will visit conventions in North America, Europe, and Asia, starting with a panel at Anime Frontier in Fort Worth, Texas, on Dec. 5.

Source: Polygon