14 “Mighty Nein” Season 1 Behind-The-Scenes Facts Straight From The “Critical Role” Cast

Taliesin, we get to see a lot of Molly in Season 1, and you’re able to really begin to lay out storylines that didn’t happen until much later in Campaign 2, like Vess DeRogna. How was it getting to add pieces of his story to the very beginning this time?

Taliesin: It was really so nice to be able to start planting things from the get-go. It was really, really exciting. I mean, there is deep lore hidden in some of that, in very, very quiet ways. And it is very exciting for the people who know that we can literally start from day one, and, like, the inevitability of that awful, awful, awful thing is just hiding in the background. It’s rough in the campaigns when you think you have plenty of time to put stuff into a story, and then suddenly you’re like, Oh, I should have gotten to that way quicker.

Travis: Vess DeRogna, who is this incredibly powerful archmage, another member of the Cerberus Assembly, in addition to Trent Ikithon, who’s just wretched, by the way, like, holy crap. And he’s not even really trying. But you know that Vess has to be able to hold a candle to him, and T’Nia Miller just absolutely shines. Just a voice to die for and to hear her early explorations of going after the book, after Aeor, going for things that didn’t even reveal themselves to us until several years down the line in the campaign, it’s just such great fruit on the tree. So we’ve just enjoyed planting those things and setting up these powerful characters that, like an inevitable pinball machine, our characters are going to crash into at some point. That’s just some of the best stuff. 

Taliesin: She’s terrifying.

Laura: And all of the interactions between her and Trent. Their convos are JUICY!