Legend of Vox Machina: Every Character's Powers & Backstory Explained

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Here's your beginner's guide to the main mercenaries leading the way in Amazon's animated The Legend of Vox Machina TV show. Between 2015 and 2017, a band of voice actors under the name Critical Role streamed their weekly Dungeons & Dragons sessions, gathering a huge online following. Thanks to a wildly-successful Kickstarter, Critical Role's first campaign now forms the basis of an animated fantasy series streaming on Amazon Prime Video, in which the almost-heroic mercenaries of Vox Machina fight monsters and get kicked out of bars up and down the land of Tal'Dorei.

For longtime followers of Critical Role, the seven colorful Vox Machina warriors will feel like a second family. For others, the animated TV show represents their maiden trip to Exandria. The titular team has already been working together for some time when The Legend of Vox Machina begins, and though the series provides snapshots of individual backstories (as well as Scanlan's epic introduction song, of course), The Legend of Vox Machina essentially jumps straight into the action, skipping over the group's origins.

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As Prime Video opens the Vox Machina tome and brings the wonderful world of Critical Role to a broader audience, here's everything you need to know about The Legend of Vox Machina's seven main characters, including backstories, powers, and motivations.

As twin siblings, Vex'ahlia and Vax'ildan share a common origin story in Critical Role's mythology. Born to a human mother and an elven ambassador father, Vex and Vax (Vex is the female if, like Scanlan, you can't tell which is which) lived a humble life in the world of men, before the twins' father summoned them to the elf