Critical Role fans won with the continued success of the Vox Machina animated series, and now they’re about to win again with the upcoming Mighty Nein spinoff. At San Diego Comic-Con, the cast (and creators) of the whole enterprise unveiled a first proper look at the series and its new band of screwups.
Set decades after Vox Machina in the continent of Wildmount, our team here consists of graffiti artist Jester Lavorre (Laura Bailey), pirate Fjord (Travis Willingham), monk/detective Beau Lionett (Marisha Ray), smelly sorcerer Caleb Widogast, thief Nott, and carnies Mollymauk Tealeaf (Taliesen Jaffe) and Yasha Nydoorin (Ashley Johnson). Unlike the Vox crew, the Nein gang aren’t exactly all friends with each other at the outset, but they’ll have to put all that aside when a powerful arcane relic called the Beacon is stolen and it falls to them to save the world(s).
Like the mothership show, the Mighty Nein adaptation will shake things up so it’s not just a 1-to-1 recreation of the Actual Play series. The first season will occasionally shift perspective over to Essek Thelyss, an elf from the Kryn Dynasty who eventually becomes a key ally of the Nein in the campaign. But before that, he’ll be “not a very good person,” Willingham teased to Entertainment Weekly, and the new scenes that weren’t part of the initial campaign will show what he was getting up to for his people. He’s…a bit of a mess, which makes him a perfect fit for the Nein once they link up.
“A big thing that drew me to that show was just the trauma of all the characters,” showrunner Tasha Huo told EW. “The show reflects a more mature, more elevated storytelling. There’s more drama; there is more filmmaking involved. We really try to treat the show like a live-action show, which is tonally different than Vox Machina but still keeps within the same world.”
Which is it – The Mighty Nein or The Sensual Seven? Whatever it is, looks like it comes to exclusively to Prime Video on November 19th! pic.twitter.com/VxqX5rACOL
— The Legend of Vox Machina and The Mighty Nein (@LVMandM9onPrime) July 24, 2025
Expect Mighty Nein to hit Prime Video with 45-minute long episodes on November 19.
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