The Mighty Nein trailer: Critical Roles new show teases magic battles and tons of trauma
For its past three seasons, Critical Role's The Legend of Vox Machina has been a reliably great source of fun fantasy hijinks and epic animated battles. Now, Critical Role looks to strike TV gold again with their second series, The Mighty Nein.
Adapting their second live-streamed Dungeons and Dragons campaign, The Mighty Nein returns viewers to the world of Exandria, where they'll fall in love with a brand new party of adventurers.
The show's first trailer introduces the chaotic crew. There's "homeless wizard" Caleb Widogast (voiced by Liam O'Brien), "inebriated goblin" Nott the Brave (voiced by Sam Riegel), "shipwrecked sailor" Fjord (voiced by Travis Willingham), "cocky ringmaster" Mollymauk Tealeaf (voiced by Taliesin Jaffe), "temperamental monk" Beauregard Lionett (voiced by Marisha Ray), and "chaos incarnate" Jester Lavorre (voiced by Laura Bailey). In short, they're not the kind of adventurers you'd expect to save the world, but then again, neither was Vox Machina when they first started out!
The Mighty Nein's (and yes, there's only six of them, don't worry about it) first quest? To prevent war from breaking out after an arcane relic known as the Beacon falls into the wrong hands. Along the way, they'll have to face serious new foes and confront their own past traumas, which will lend the series a much darker tone than The Legend of Vox Machina. The Mighty Nein episodes will also be an hour long, as opposed to The Legend of Vox Machina's half-hour episodes.
Of the main Critical Role cast, The Mighty Nein also stars Ashley Johnson as barbarian Yasha Nydoorin and Matthew Mercer as wizard Essek Thelyss.
Also joining the voice cast are Auli'i Cravalho, Alan Cumming, Nathan Fillion, Jonathan Frakes, Anjelica Huston, Rahul Kohli, Lucy Liu, Tim McGraw, T'Nia Miller, Anika Noni Rose, Mark Strong, and Ming-Na Wen.
