Ironically, it was Vax’s voice actor himself, Liam O’Brien, who warned in our interview with the cast before Season 3 premiered, they were going to “break (our hearts)”, which turned out to be the shocking death of a certain character.

While the events of the last episode ended on a seemingly positive note with the crew, even though most of the Vox Machina members have gone their separate ways, it is the final shots of episode 13 of the half-elf that indicate that his actions will have disastrous consequences. consequences in season 4.

We dove into the history of Critical Role and its community to find out what might have happened to Vax at the end of Vox Machina Season 3, and how it might affect him in Season 5.

We must warn again that we are about to give major spoilers of the later story of Critical Role’s first campaign on which the next season of The Legend of Vox Machina will be based. If you want to keep next season a total surprise, bookmark this article to come back later and click away.

What happens to Vax at the end of season 3 of The Legend Vox Machina?

Before Vax enters Orthax’s domain to free Percy’s soul and bring him back to life in the season 3 finale of The Legend of Vox Machina, the Raven Matron warns him that doing so would violate the transition from life to death, leading to much worse grief. as a cost.

This price for defying the Matron and meddling with destiny wasn’t immediately clear until Vax secretly revealed to us that his arm had been infected with rotten necrosis, potentially like what Scanlan suffered afterward. that his arm was bitten by a zombie in season 1. .

One would believe that because Vax defied the Matron by tangling with death, followed by Vax once again seeing visions of his own zombie self in a reflection as we first see his new corruption, his punishment on the part of his deity, one being a fate worse than death, as she warned, is that his life will be greatly shortened in exchange for that of Percy who he saved.

Keep in mind, however, that this necrosis appears to be much slower than Scanlan’s in Season 1, to the point where he is still able to hide it from the rest of the group under his sleeve for now. After the dwarven bard was bitten at Whitestone, Cassandra warned him that he would lose his arm within an hour, before Pike luckily arrived to heal him.

Vax’s necrosis, on the other hand, appears to be of a different type that spreads at a snail’s pace starting from his arm to the rest of his body, and Pike being able to heal him in the same way would almost be too much easy.

This would once again support the theory that this is a punishment from the Matron for disobeying him since the corruption begins with his left arm – the arm he used to join Percy’s hand in the kingdom of ‘Orthax and release him. A much more painful necrosis, in which your body slowly but surely rots in front of those you love, aka Keyleth, is much worse than a quick death since Vax seemingly can’t do anything about it.

Vax’s direction in the finale seems to be an original angle to the campaign, which we’ll cover next. Still, this new Season 4 route, if correct, paints a horrific picture of what could happen when we see him again or as his story develops in future episodes. Liam O’Brien also told us in advance that by the end of season 3, “he’ll be in a new place.”

The idea of ​​this new place where the rot continually spreads through his body, to the point where we could no longer hide it from Keyleth – who he has finally reunited with as they travel for his Aramente – paves the way to a very tragic event. sequence of conversations and events.

Unless the Vox Machina group comes together again to face the next big threat revealed at the end of Season 3, which ties into the original campaign route as to where Vax’s story could go .

What happens to Vax in a critical role?

The final scene of The Legend of Vox Machina Season 3 revealed the emergence of the Whispered One, also known as Vecna ​​in the original Critical Role D&D campaign, which also leads to potential problems for Vax given what happened to him in the next part of the saga. .

During one of Vox Machina’s first encounters with the story’s big bad in the Critical Role campaign, Vecna ​​kills Vax by completely disintegrating him. The rest of the group managed to escape but found themselves stuck wondering how to revive Vax without his body.

It turns out that Vax was able to come back to life by making a final deal with the Matron of Ravens: to rise again as a champion to defeat Vecna ​​(the Whispered), then return to stay with her in the afterlife forever once the task is completed, then he returns to the group as a revenant.

After the group finally defeats Vecna, the Raven Queen later comes to demand their agreement. A few tearful goodbyes follow and Vax accompanies the matron and completely passes from life to death, officially dying for good.

Where that leaves Vax in season 4

So, when it comes to Vax in The Legend of Vox Machina Season 4, his ending in Season 3 and what we know about the end of the campaign leaves us worried and a little sad in several ways. In one, his necrosis, which is unique to the series as far as we know, could take a different direction.

He might still end up in a horrible fate that sees him die an untimely death as a zombie elf-man, but this gives us some hope that this could somehow be resolved and all show ends on an alternate note where it might somehow lives.

In the other, although the series goes in different directions for some elements of the campaign, the series could end with her permanently dying after making a deal with the Matron to kill Vecna. After all, most of the deviations in the series haven’t been that major, and big story moments usually end up being hit in different ways.

In all likelihood, this new version of Vax’s story arc for this part of Vox Machina’s narrative is another way of condensing the many hours of campaign story development, to achieve the same goal.

When browsing the Vox Machina Reddits, a former post-season 2 thread pointed out that Vax’s visions of his zombie self could also be a foreshadowing of the Whispered One’s return, followed by his death as was the case in the Vecna ​​campaign.

The necrosis inflicted on him after defying the Matron of Ravens could well be the Amazon Prime show’s way of shortening events. Either way, it looks like we’ll eventually arrive at the same destination of Vax’s permanent death, but via a different route.

Nonetheless, the cast of Critical Role have full creative control over how the original ending of the Vox Machina story is adapted, and if there were to be an event they would change, they certainly know that altering the fate of Vax would make the fans happy and could do it. also offer a unique alternate reality to existing fans of the campaign.

In the meantime, we’ll just have to wait and see until the first look at The Legend of Vox Machina Season 4 is revealed, probably sometime after the Mighty Nein animated series spell.

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