With the escapades of Vox Machina concluded, it is finally time to find out the answers to questions both viewers and the adventurers themselves have wondered about for months—and years. Matthew Mercer, Travis Willingham, Laura Bailey, Marisha Ray, Taliesin Jaffe, Liam O’Brien, and Sam Riegel, joined by Ashley Johnson over video chat, talked at length about their characters, their motivations and pasts, and their own personal feelings about a campaign that has touched the lives of thousands of people. This is the first chapter of Critical Role.