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* ''Critical Role: The Tales of Exandria'' (2021) - A four-issue comic series from Dark Horse focusing on on side characters and stories. It is written by Darcy Van Poelgeest (Little Bird) and illustrated by [=CoupleOfKooks=], with covers by Helen Mask and creative consultation from Matthew Mercer.
** ''The Bright Queen'': Released October 20, 2021.
---> Leylas Kryn, the Bright Queen of the Kryn Dynasty, has spent multiple lives in pursuit of assembling the Luxon. With her eternal lover Quana at her side, she will stop at nothing to use its otherworldly power to bring a Golden Age to the peoples under her rule. So, when what might be another piece of the Luxon appears nearby, Leylas sends Quana to collect it... with consequences that may threaten the entire Dynasty!
* ''The Legend of Vox Machina: Whitestone Chronicles'': An upcoming series of prequel graphic novels from Dark Horse set in the continuity of the cartoon. Written by Marieke Nijkamp with art by Tyler Walpole.
** ''Ripley'': To be released in 2024.
---> Tragedy strikes the renowned de Rolo family of Whitestone when they’re massacred by the vicious Briarwoods. Luckily for Dr. Anna Ripley, the bloodshed and regime change presents the perfect opportunity for her to further her own dark plans in service to Whitestone’s new ruling family. But just how much of her loyalty lies with the family, when compared to her work?
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* ''Critical Role: The Tales of Exandria'' (2021) - A four-issue comic series from Dark Horse focusing on on side characters and stories. It is written by Darcy Van Poelgeest (Little Bird) and illustrated by [=CoupleOfKooks=], with covers by Helen Mask and creative consultation from Matthew Mercer.
** ''The Bright Queen'': Released October 20, 2021.
---> Leylas Kryn, the Bright Queen of the Kryn Dynasty, has spent multiple lives in pursuit of assembling the Luxon. With her eternal lover Quana at her side, she will stop at nothing to use its otherworldly power to bring a Golden Age to the peoples under her rule. So, when what might be another piece of the Luxon appears nearby, Leylas sends Quana to collect it... with consequences that may threaten the entire Dynasty!
* ''The Legend of Vox Machina: Whitestone Chronicles'': An upcoming series of prequel graphic novels from Dark Horse set in the continuity of the cartoon. Written by Marieke Nijkamp with art by Tyler Walpole.
** ''Ripley'': To be released in 2024.
---> Tragedy strikes the renowned de Rolo family of Whitestone when they’re massacred by the vicious Briarwoods. Luckily for Dr. Anna Ripley, the bloodshed and regime change presents the perfect opportunity for her to further her own dark plans in service to Whitestone’s new ruling family. But just how much of her loyalty lies with the family, when compared to her work?
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!!Mighty Nein Origins
* AbusiveParents: Skyspear was not a kind mother. While teaching Yasha, she tells the girl to stand in a circle and threatens severe punishment if she exits it, then leaves Yasha for days without food before eventually giving her disgusting lizards to eat. Outside of her worst offense of murdering Zuala for marrying Yasha, she also slapped her adopted daughter on at least one occasion.
* AdaptationalExplanation:
** Caleb's comic expands upon the circumstances of the events leading into Caleb's 10-year long fugue state. The ''Origins'' comic makes it explicit that Bren snapped and attacked Astrid, upon which Eadwulf hit Bren with a huge rock, knocking him unconscious, and left him there on Trent's orders. It would have given Bren a traumatic brain injury and was the real cause of his fugue state in the Vergesson Sanatorium. The cleric who healed him healed his brain injury, freeing him of the damage as well as [[spoiler:the false memories implanted by Trent]], after which Caleb was up and running. The only allusion to this in the stream were burn scars on Astrid that she implied were from a mad Caleb.
** In the stream, Taliesin described the day Molly woke up buried as being a vague memory the tiefling doesn’t recall very well, and how he was resurrected is never explained. The comic expands on these events, revealing Molly clawed his way out of the ground one night and wandered through the woods until hearing singing, eventually encountering Toya at the circus. It also repeatedly emphasizes the moons while he comes to, implying they are somehow responsible for reviving him.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Being the only orc-blooded child in an OrphanageOfFear meant that Fjord was often picked on and ridiculed by his peers.
* BloodMagic: Molly can utilize his own blood to perform magic, such as creating ice. To conceal this rather disturbing ability, the circus gives him a set of scimitars so he can claim the swords are magic and draw attention away from himself.
* CharacterTic: Bren fidgets with a blue shell as he studies.
* ControlFreak: Skyspear, leader of the Dolorov tribe and Yasha's adoptive mother. Everyone in the tribe must live according to their gods-ordained role, but Skyspear is the one who dictates what the gods' wishes are. Anyone who sees fault in her decisions and appeals for her to change her mind [[spoiler:like Zuala does]] is a poison that needs to be violently removed.
* EarlyBirdCameo:
** Fjord, Jester's eventual fellow party member [[spoiler:and love interest]] shows up to the left of the last panel of Jester's comic.
** When Yasha enters an unnamed town, Molly is standing in front of a cart with his fellow circus troupers.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange:
** Yasha's hair begins darkening after Zuala's death and her rampage, eventually almost turning black aside from the ends following ordeal with Obann, both showing her status as a Fallen aasimar, and her state of grief and rage.
** Caleb has his hair in a buzz cut while training to be an obedient weapon for the Empire, but it becomes unkempt with a BeardOfSorrow during his time at the sanatorium, and he keeps it that way after getting free.
** Molly is fully bald when he first wakes up, reflecting his status as a near literal blank slate. Once he acclimates to living and develops a personality, he grows it out and wears it in a messy ponytail.
* GenerationXerox: Long-haired, young Bren is the spitting image of his mother Una.
* IcePerson: Molly first discovers his hemocraft abilities when ice starts sprouting from his blood after he cuts himself grabbing the sword of a bandit.
* IcyBlueEyes: There's a shot of Bren's blue eyes narrowed in steely determination as he prepares to burn some traitors to the Empire to death.
* IHaveManyNames: On the run from Ikithon, Bren Aldric Ermendrud went by various German-esque/Zemnian aliases until the day he met Nott the Brave and introduced himself to her as Caleb Widogast.
* ImportantHaircut: Doubling with TraumaticHaircut. As part of their Vollstrecker training, molding them into terrible assassins, Astrid, Eodwulf, and Bren get their hair cut short military-style. During his time in the Sanatorium, Bren's hair grew back long from neglect, and afterwards Caleb keeps the style possibly to reassert his identity.
* LateArrivalSpoiler:
** Summaries for [[spoiler:Nott and Caleb's]] books state their identities as [[spoiler:Veth Brenatto and Bren Aldric Ermendrud]] upfront.
** While not explicitly remarked upon, the comics do not make any attempt to hide [[spoiler:Molly's death]], as he is absent from the group in all scenes taking place in the present, with Caduceus accompanying them instead.
** [[spoiler:Molly]]'s comic opens with him [[spoiler:raising from the dead]].
* MythologyGag:
** A statue of two half-elves is in the bath at the Ikithon estate, the male one with a snake and the female one with an arrow, resembling Vax with his snake belt Simon and Vex with her archery. The Blumendrei then have a sexual encounter in the bath. In campaign one, Vax (played by Liam O'Brien, sharing an actor with Bren/Caleb) enters a bath with Percy in it, unaware that Vex was already in the water, possibly enjoying some intimate time with Percy before her twin cut in for a serious talk with her partner.
** The Ermendruds have a little statue of Trinket the armored bear on a shelf. Liam's character Vax was the CoolUncle to his sister Vex's pet bear in campaign one.
* {{Polyamory}}: Caleb's comic canonizes the "Blumendrei" ship of Astrid/Eadwulf/Caleb, with the three of them having emotionally and sexually intimate scenes. According to Creator/LiamOBrien, however, [[https://twitter.com/VoiceOfOBrien/status/1398742362738753537 Caleb does not explicitly identify as polyamorous]], even though he was in a polyamorous relationship. Granted, the relationship was explicitly encouraged and fostered by Trent Ikithon, for the three traumatized children to be codependent in order to survive their horrific training and indoctrination, rather than any unadulterated attraction between the three.
* RaisedHandOfSurvival: Molly's comic begins with his hand reaching towards the moons as he claws himself out of his own grave.
* ReallyWasBornYesterday: Molly starts off his existence being BornAsAnAdult in a grave, knowing almost nothing and only replying with "empty" when Toya asks for his name. He gets savvier after some time passes, though.
* RivalryAsCourtship: Yasha and Zuala first got to know each other as rivals in the training grounds with Yasha consistently winning for a long while, but [[DefrostingIceQueen gradually softening]] toward Zuala.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:Upon the murder of Zuala, an enraged Yasha massacred the leadership of her tribe, including her adoptive mother the Skyspear.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Courtesy of Modify Memory from Trent Ikithon fooling them into believing their parents were traitors, Eodwulf strangled his parents to death, Astrid poisoned hers, and Bren set his family home on fire with his parents and family cat trapped inside.]]
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Astrid's surname is initially spelled as Beck in other material, but the comic spells it as Becke.
* TimmyInAWell: Frumpkin the cat meowing and pawing at the window alerts Leofric and Una that their home is on fire. Subverted because while Leofric initially has his back to the fire, Una was facing the door and would have seen things burst into flame.
* TogetherInDeath: After being unable to flee their house, [[spoiler:Leofric and Una hold each other, with their cat Frumpkin between them, as they burn to death.]]
* TranslationPunctuation: Zemnian is rendered as English between angle brackets.
!!Mighty Nein Origins
* AbusiveParents: Skyspear was not a kind mother. While teaching Yasha, she tells the girl to stand in a circle and threatens severe punishment if she exits it, then leaves Yasha for days without food before eventually giving her disgusting lizards to eat. Outside of her worst offense of murdering Zuala for marrying Yasha, she also slapped her adopted daughter on at least one occasion.
* AdaptationalExplanation:
** Caleb's comic expands upon the circumstances of the events leading into Caleb's 10-year long fugue state. The ''Origins'' comic makes it explicit that Bren snapped and attacked Astrid, upon which Eadwulf hit Bren with a huge rock, knocking him unconscious, and left him there on Trent's orders. It would have given Bren a traumatic brain injury and was the real cause of his fugue state in the Vergesson Sanatorium. The cleric who healed him healed his brain injury, freeing him of the damage as well as [[spoiler:the false memories implanted by Trent]], after which Caleb was up and running. The only allusion to this in the stream were burn scars on Astrid that she implied were from a mad Caleb.
** In the stream, Taliesin described the day Molly woke up buried as being a vague memory the tiefling doesn’t recall very well, and how he was resurrected is never explained. The comic expands on these events, revealing Molly clawed his way out of the ground one night and wandered through the woods until hearing singing, eventually encountering Toya at the circus. It also repeatedly emphasizes the moons while he comes to, implying they are somehow responsible for reviving him.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Being the only orc-blooded child in an OrphanageOfFear meant that Fjord was often picked on and ridiculed by his peers.
* BloodMagic: Molly can utilize his own blood to perform magic, such as creating ice. To conceal this rather disturbing ability, the circus gives him a set of scimitars so he can claim the swords are magic and draw attention away from himself.
* CharacterTic: Bren fidgets with a blue shell as he studies.
* ControlFreak: Skyspear, leader of the Dolorov tribe and Yasha's adoptive mother. Everyone in the tribe must live according to their gods-ordained role, but Skyspear is the one who dictates what the gods' wishes are. Anyone who sees fault in her decisions and appeals for her to change her mind [[spoiler:like Zuala does]] is a poison that needs to be violently removed.
* EarlyBirdCameo:
** Fjord, Jester's eventual fellow party member [[spoiler:and love interest]] shows up to the left of the last panel of Jester's comic.
** When Yasha enters an unnamed town, Molly is standing in front of a cart with his fellow circus troupers.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange:
** Yasha's hair begins darkening after Zuala's death and her rampage, eventually almost turning black aside from the ends following ordeal with Obann, both showing her status as a Fallen aasimar, and her state of grief and rage.
** Caleb has his hair in a buzz cut while training to be an obedient weapon for the Empire, but it becomes unkempt with a BeardOfSorrow during his time at the sanatorium, and he keeps it that way after getting free.
** Molly is fully bald when he first wakes up, reflecting his status as a near literal blank slate. Once he acclimates to living and develops a personality, he grows it out and wears it in a messy ponytail.
* GenerationXerox: Long-haired, young Bren is the spitting image of his mother Una.
* IcePerson: Molly first discovers his hemocraft abilities when ice starts sprouting from his blood after he cuts himself grabbing the sword of a bandit.
* IcyBlueEyes: There's a shot of Bren's blue eyes narrowed in steely determination as he prepares to burn some traitors to the Empire to death.
* IHaveManyNames: On the run from Ikithon, Bren Aldric Ermendrud went by various German-esque/Zemnian aliases until the day he met Nott the Brave and introduced himself to her as Caleb Widogast.
* ImportantHaircut: Doubling with TraumaticHaircut. As part of their Vollstrecker training, molding them into terrible assassins, Astrid, Eodwulf, and Bren get their hair cut short military-style. During his time in the Sanatorium, Bren's hair grew back long from neglect, and afterwards Caleb keeps the style possibly to reassert his identity.
* LateArrivalSpoiler:
** Summaries for [[spoiler:Nott and Caleb's]] books state their identities as [[spoiler:Veth Brenatto and Bren Aldric Ermendrud]] upfront.
** While not explicitly remarked upon, the comics do not make any attempt to hide [[spoiler:Molly's death]], as he is absent from the group in all scenes taking place in the present, with Caduceus accompanying them instead.
** [[spoiler:Molly]]'s comic opens with him [[spoiler:raising from the dead]].
* MythologyGag:
** A statue of two half-elves is in the bath at the Ikithon estate, the male one with a snake and the female one with an arrow, resembling Vax with his snake belt Simon and Vex with her archery. The Blumendrei then have a sexual encounter in the bath. In campaign one, Vax (played by Liam O'Brien, sharing an actor with Bren/Caleb) enters a bath with Percy in it, unaware that Vex was already in the water, possibly enjoying some intimate time with Percy before her twin cut in for a serious talk with her partner.
** The Ermendruds have a little statue of Trinket the armored bear on a shelf. Liam's character Vax was the CoolUncle to his sister Vex's pet bear in campaign one.
* {{Polyamory}}: Caleb's comic canonizes the "Blumendrei" ship of Astrid/Eadwulf/Caleb, with the three of them having emotionally and sexually intimate scenes. According to Creator/LiamOBrien, however, [[https://twitter.com/VoiceOfOBrien/status/1398742362738753537 Caleb does not explicitly identify as polyamorous]], even though he was in a polyamorous relationship. Granted, the relationship was explicitly encouraged and fostered by Trent Ikithon, for the three traumatized children to be codependent in order to survive their horrific training and indoctrination, rather than any unadulterated attraction between the three.
* RaisedHandOfSurvival: Molly's comic begins with his hand reaching towards the moons as he claws himself out of his own grave.
* ReallyWasBornYesterday: Molly starts off his existence being BornAsAnAdult in a grave, knowing almost nothing and only replying with "empty" when Toya asks for his name. He gets savvier after some time passes, though.
* RivalryAsCourtship: Yasha and Zuala first got to know each other as rivals in the training grounds with Yasha consistently winning for a long while, but [[DefrostingIceQueen gradually softening]] toward Zuala.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:Upon the murder of Zuala, an enraged Yasha massacred the leadership of her tribe, including her adoptive mother the Skyspear.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Courtesy of Modify Memory from Trent Ikithon fooling them into believing their parents were traitors, Eodwulf strangled his parents to death, Astrid poisoned hers, and Bren set his family home on fire with his parents and family cat trapped inside.]]
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Astrid's surname is initially spelled as Beck in other material, but the comic spells it as Becke.
* TimmyInAWell: Frumpkin the cat meowing and pawing at the window alerts Leofric and Una that their home is on fire. Subverted because while Leofric initially has his back to the fire, Una was facing the door and would have seen things burst into flame.
* TogetherInDeath: After being unable to flee their house, [[spoiler:Leofric and Una hold each other, with their cat Frumpkin between them, as they burn to death.]]
* TranslationPunctuation: Zemnian is rendered as English between angle brackets.
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!!Mighty Nein Origins
* AbusiveParents: Skyspear was not a kind mother. While teaching Yasha, she tells the girl to stand in a circle and threatens severe punishment if she exits it, then leaves Yasha for days without food before eventually giving her disgusting lizards to eat. Outside of her worst offense of murdering Zuala for marrying Yasha, she also slapped her adopted daughter on at least one occasion.
* AdaptationalExplanation:
** Caleb's comic expands upon the circumstances of the events leading into Caleb's 10-year long fugue state. The ''Origins'' comic makes it explicit that Bren snapped and attacked Astrid, upon which Eadwulf hit Bren with a huge rock, knocking him unconscious, and left him there on Trent's orders. It would have given Bren a traumatic brain injury and was the real cause of his fugue state in the Vergesson Sanatorium. The cleric who healed him healed his brain injury, freeing him of the damage as well as [[spoiler:the false memories implanted by Trent]], after which Caleb was up and running. The only allusion to this in the stream were burn scars on Astrid that she implied were from a mad Caleb.
** In the stream, Taliesin described the day Molly woke up buried as being a vague memory the tiefling doesn’t recall very well, and how he was resurrected is never explained. The comic expands on these events, revealing Molly clawed his way out of the ground one night and wandered through the woods until hearing singing, eventually encountering Toya at the circus. It also repeatedly emphasizes the moons while he comes to, implying they are somehow responsible for reviving him.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Being the only orc-blooded child in an OrphanageOfFear meant that Fjord was often picked on and ridiculed by his peers.
* BloodMagic: Molly can utilize his own blood to perform magic, such as creating ice. To conceal this rather disturbing ability, the circus gives him a set of scimitars so he can claim the swords are magic and draw attention away from himself.
* CharacterTic: Bren fidgets with a blue shell as he studies.
* ControlFreak: Skyspear, leader of the Dolorov tribe and Yasha's adoptive mother. Everyone in the tribe must live according to their gods-ordained role, but Skyspear is the one who dictates what the gods' wishes are. Anyone who sees fault in her decisions and appeals for her to change her mind [[spoiler:like Zuala does]] is a poison that needs to be violently removed.
* EarlyBirdCameo:
** Fjord, Jester's eventual fellow party member [[spoiler:and love interest]] shows up to the left of the last panel of Jester's comic.
** When Yasha enters an unnamed town, Molly is standing in front of a cart with his fellow circus troupers.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange:
** Yasha's hair begins darkening after Zuala's death and her rampage, eventually almost turning black aside from the ends following ordeal with Obann, both showing her status as a Fallen aasimar, and her state of grief and rage.
** Caleb has his hair in a buzz cut while training to be an obedient weapon for the Empire, but it becomes unkempt with a BeardOfSorrow during his time at the sanatorium, and he keeps it that way after getting free.
** Molly is fully bald when he first wakes up, reflecting his status as a near literal blank slate. Once he acclimates to living and develops a personality, he grows it out and wears it in a messy ponytail.
* GenerationXerox: Long-haired, young Bren is the spitting image of his mother Una.
* IcePerson: Molly first discovers his hemocraft abilities when ice starts sprouting from his blood after he cuts himself grabbing the sword of a bandit.
* IcyBlueEyes: There's a shot of Bren's blue eyes narrowed in steely determination as he prepares to burn some traitors to the Empire to death.
* IHaveManyNames: On the run from Ikithon, Bren Aldric Ermendrud went by various German-esque/Zemnian aliases until the day he met Nott the Brave and introduced himself to her as Caleb Widogast.
* ImportantHaircut: Doubling with TraumaticHaircut. As part of their Vollstrecker training, molding them into terrible assassins, Astrid, Eodwulf, and Bren get their hair cut short military-style. During his time in the Sanatorium, Bren's hair grew back long from neglect, and afterwards Caleb keeps the style possibly to reassert his identity.
* LateArrivalSpoiler:
** Summaries for [[spoiler:Nott and Caleb's]] books state their identities as [[spoiler:Veth Brenatto and Bren Aldric Ermendrud]] upfront.
** While not explicitly remarked upon, the comics do not make any attempt to hide [[spoiler:Molly's death]], as he is absent from the group in all scenes taking place in the present, with Caduceus accompanying them instead.
** [[spoiler:Molly]]'s comic opens with him [[spoiler:raising from the dead]].
* MythologyGag:
** A statue of two half-elves is in the bath at the Ikithon estate, the male one with a snake and the female one with an arrow, resembling Vax with his snake belt Simon and Vex with her archery. The Blumendrei then have a sexual encounter in the bath. In campaign one, Vax (played by Liam O'Brien, sharing an actor with Bren/Caleb) enters a bath with Percy in it, unaware that Vex was already in the water, possibly enjoying some intimate time with Percy before her twin cut in for a serious talk with her partner.
** The Ermendruds have a little statue of Trinket the armored bear on a shelf. Liam's character Vax was the CoolUncle to his sister Vex's pet bear in campaign one.
* {{Polyamory}}: Caleb's comic canonizes the "Blumendrei" ship of Astrid/Eadwulf/Caleb, with the three of them having emotionally and sexually intimate scenes. According to Creator/LiamOBrien, however, [[https://twitter.com/VoiceOfOBrien/status/1398742362738753537 Caleb does not explicitly identify as polyamorous]], even though he was in a polyamorous relationship. Granted, the relationship was explicitly encouraged and fostered by Trent Ikithon, for the three traumatized children to be codependent in order to survive their horrific training and indoctrination, rather than any unadulterated attraction between the three.
* RaisedHandOfSurvival: Molly's comic begins with his hand reaching towards the moons as he claws himself out of his own grave.
* ReallyWasBornYesterday: Molly starts off his existence being BornAsAnAdult in a grave, knowing almost nothing and only replying with "empty" when Toya asks for his name. He gets savvier after some time passes, though.
* RivalryAsCourtship: Yasha and Zuala first got to know each other as rivals in the training grounds with Yasha consistently winning for a long while, but [[DefrostingIceQueen gradually softening]] toward Zuala.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:Upon the murder of Zuala, an enraged Yasha massacred the leadership of her tribe, including her adoptive mother the Skyspear.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Courtesy of Modify Memory from Trent Ikithon fooling them into believing their parents were traitors, Eodwulf strangled his parents to death, Astrid poisoned hers, and Bren set his family home on fire with his parents and family cat trapped inside.]]
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Astrid's surname is initially spelled as Beck in other material, but the comic spells it as Becke.
* TimmyInAWell: Frumpkin the cat meowing and pawing at the window alerts Leofric and Una that their home is on fire. Subverted because while Leofric initially has his back to the fire, Una was facing the door and would have seen things burst into flame.
* TogetherInDeath: After being unable to flee their house, [[spoiler:Leofric and Una hold each other, with their cat Frumpkin between them, as they burn to death.]]
* TranslationPunctuation: Zemnian is rendered as English between angle brackets.
