They are there to solve the mystery of the “cursed” swamp (Vax believes in the curse, Vex is very skeptical). Their home is Stilben, on the coast of Tal’Dorel.Īs they track the couple, we get a glimpse into the relationship of Vex and Vax, as well as their reasons for being there, mainly through their squabbling. Vax, not happy being out in the open after that incident (and I don’t blame him!), revealed that the 2 people with the woman were her parents he wants to talk to them, Vex wants to track them back to their home, first. I thought that that tree pictured above ate the baby instead, that’s where Vex and Vax were hiding, watching the whole incident take place. Before she can get a word in edge-wise, the baby is yanked from her arms (while her husband – I think – restrains her) and thrown in the swamp, where a pair of hands emerge from the murky waters and grab it and pull it under! What a “start” to the story! An old woman is standing over her shoulder, yelling that her baby is most certainly not fine – “it’s cursed, just like all the others”. We meet Vex (a Ranger) and Vax (a Rogue) for the first time in a desolate swamp before we actually see them, we look in on a woman, nursing a sick, almost drugged-looking baby. This issue focuses on 2 of the members: the Half-Elven twins, Vex’alia (“Vex”) and her brother, Vax’ildan (“Vax”).
Those words begin the 6-issue story of how Vox Machina met and formed, before becoming the world-saving force of Critical Role’s First Season. Here is a copy of my post about Issue #1, with links to reviews for Issues #2 – #6.
#Vox machina origins physical copy series#
This time, I actually did a thing: I bought a comic book for myself! Actually, a digital, comic book series! The series is “Vox Machina: Origins”, a six-book series that’s based on the “Geek & Sundry” D&D podcast, Critical Role. “Vox Machina” is the adventuring group from the podcast but in the comic series, they have not met and formed the group.
A lot of my posts come from my lack of comic reading or knowledge: one of the founders of the blog would give me a book or 2 (or series) to read for the first time and I’d write a review on it. For the last 8 months, I’ve written a few posts on the comic book site, “Comicdom Wrecks”.