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One of the most popular changes regarding this latest season of Critical Role's Prime Video adaptation, The Legend of Vox Machina, was the casting of Wayne Brady as Taryon Darrington, a character originally portrayed at the D&D table by OG Roler Sam Riegel. But even though the character was a huge hit on both the original webseries and its adaptation, there was a time when even the cast themselves weren't so sure about his presence. 

At least, that's how Marisha Ray tells it.

That's what we learned during a live taping of Collider Ladies Night, hosted by Perri Nemiroff and featuring Ray, Laura Bailey, and Ashley Johnson. During the discussion, self-proclaimed Taryon fan Nemoriff asked the assembled cast to give some thoughts on the character played by Wayne Brady in The Legend of Vox Machina season 4, and Ray used the opportunity to shed some light on the character's origin. 

"When Sam sunset Scanlan for a little bit," The Mighty Nein voice actor said, "And he came back with Taryon, we were all like, 'Who the fuck is this guy? Fuck this guy.'

"No one likes new people. I could go the rest of my life without  meeting a single... I don't want to meet anybody else. I'm good. to me why I should love you. Yeah. I don't want to meet anybody else. I'm good."

The Legend of Vox Machina is streaming on Prime Video now. 

With two animated series on Prime Video, Campaign 4 in full swing, and so much more Exandrian lore to come, Critical Role is showing no signs of slowing down. That's why the adventuring party at Popverse are here to bring you everything we can from those nerdy-ass voice actors & Bo., including:

• Critical Role release schedule
• Critical Role's Campaign 4 characters ranked
• How to watch Critical Role in order
• Ways for you to relive the Critical Role panel from ECCC '26
• Taliesin Jaffe on playing Mollymauk Tealeaf for Campaign 2 vs. playing him for Prime Video
• Matt Mercer's homebrew warrior class (created originally for Vin Diesel)

...and much, much more. Roll initiative, player. Magic awaits.