SDCC 2025: Critical Role Animated Series Updates

Critical Role and Prime Video have revealed new details for both The Legend Of Vox Machina and The Mighty Nein. 

Now, The Mighty Nein is set to drop on November 19th. The episodes will each be an hour long, so more of the story can be told within each episode. The show’s official description reads: 

“The Mighty Nein follows a group of fugitives and outcasts, bound by secrets and scars. But when a powerful arcane relic known as The Beacon falls into dangerous hands, they must learn to work together to save the realm and stop reality itself from unraveling.”

Half of the guest stars were revealed, and the names included are:

• Mark Strong (Kingsman)
• Alan Cumming (The Traitors, X-Men, Avengers: Doomsday)
• Tim McGraw (Singer-Songwriter, Yellowstone: 1883)
• Anika Noni Rose (The Princess And The Frog)
• Ming-Na Wen (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Mulan)
• Auli’i Cravalho (Moana, Moana 2)
• Rahul Kohli (The Fall of the House of Usher, iZombie, Midnight Mass)
• Robbie Daymond (Date Everything!, Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War, Jujutsu Kaisen) 
• Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

We also got a preview clip from the series, and it is a fantastic integration of our characters:

Alongside all of that, the official character art and descriptions dropped, and you can see all of that below:

• Beau (Marisha Ray): Beau is a Cobalt Soul monk with attitude. Part MMA fighter, part kickass detective, she’s on a secret mission to root out corruption within her own organization and abroad.

• Caleb (Liam O’Brien): Caleb is a disheveled – some might say filthy – wizard with a penchant for fire magic. He’s on the run from his past that continues to haunt him.

• Fjord (Travis Willingham): Fjord is an orphan sailor. After his ship blew up in a deadly scheme, Fjord washed ashore without a scratch and with magic powers. But he’s still trying to figure out if the powers are a gift or a curse.

• Jester (Laura Bailey): Jester is a loveable chaotic prankster who was born and raised in an upscale brothel. After pranking a powerful politician with no sense of humor, she’s forced to go on the run with her best friend, an invisible god named the Traveler.

• Molly (Taliesin Jaffe): Molly is the flamboyant tarot reader for a traveling carnival. His endearing wit is a stark contrast to his mysterious ability to manipulate blood to his will.

• Nott (Sam Riegel): Nott the Brave is a foul-mouthed alcoholic goblin girl and a master of stealth and crossbow. She drinks to hide from her painful past, which she hopes her new friend, Caleb, can help her solve.

• Yasha (Ashley Johnson): Yasha is a barbarian woman from the wastes of Xhorhas in the Kryn Dynasty. Her roving mercenary work has earned her the harrowing moniker: “The Orphan Maker.”

• Essek (Matthew Mercer): Essek Thelyss is a Kryn elf and elite spy for the Dynasty. He will stop at nothing to protect the ones he loves.

We also got a new clip from Season 4 of The Legend Of Vox Machina. In the clip, the team is going through a plan to steal a scroll from the Cobalt Soul library: 

The other big announcement was that The Legend of Vox Machina is getting a fifth and final season. That will help wrap up that campaign’s story. It’s going to be an exciting next year for Critical Role fans.