The Legend of Vox Machina wrapped its third season on Prime Video again in October 2024, delivering emotional moments to the top in addition to the minor miracle of fixing my thoughts about how a TV present kills off characters. The present, tailored from the tabletop sport initially performed by Crucial Position’s founders, was renewed for a fourth season final yr, but it surely wasn’t till San Diego Comedian-Con 2025 that some large particulars and a primary look have been launched.
And whereas Crucial Position’s The Mighty Nein would be the solely certainly one of their two reveals to reach earlier than the top of the 2025 TV schedule, followers of Vox Machina’s (mis)adventures now have some specifics to sit up for. Plus, despite the fact that the primary look is transient and missing context to clarify what on Exandria is occurring, there are some small particulars that I’m positively into. Learn on for what we find out about the way forward for TLOVM in addition to what I’m predicting based mostly on the primary look.
Legend Of Vox Machina Renewed For Season 4
Crucial Position’s SDCC panel confirmed not solely that Season 4 will arrive in 2026, however The Legend of Vox Machina has been renewed for a fifth and last season. Contemplating that the collection is impressed by a accomplished Dungeons & Dragons marketing campaign, I’d say that it’s excellent news that the crew was given a finale to work in direction of.
There have been no particulars about when in 2026 the following new episode will probably be launched, so I’m certain I’m not the one fan hoping that Season 4 will probably be nearer to January 1, 2026 than December 31, 2026. The Mighty Nein arrives in November 2025 as Crucial Position’s second animated collection that will probably be obtainable with a Prime Video subscription.
So, with what I’m taking as excellent news with the 2026 launch window and fifth season, let’s get into the footage we’ve thus far!
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First Look At Vox Machina Going Full Ocean’s 11
As someone who has not watched the Vox Machina tabletop marketing campaign and bought most of her details about the story from the superb Vox Machina – Tales Untold e book of quick tales, I don’t have any insider particulars about what seems to be a heist involving one thing referred to as “The Cobalt Soul.”
Even with out context, we are able to inform at the very least one factor that I wouldn’t qualify as a minor element: a brand new character hanging out with Vox Machina and the long-suffering Gilmore. I did perform a little little bit of largely digging on the marketing campaign after Percy names the brand new character as “Taryon” within the clip, so – mild spoiler alert – the character is a human artificer who joins Vox Machina along with his assemble Doty, voiced by Sam Riegel as a alternative for Scanlan.
If Taryon sticks round for some time earlier than Scanlan returns, then I’d say his inclusion within the first take a look at Season 4 is an enormous deal? So, on that notice, let’s shift over to some smaller particulars which can be fairly enjoyable to dig into and speculate about.
Percy Appears Absolutely Recovered From His Demise
Percy was nonetheless freshly resurrected on the finish of The Legend of Vox Machina Season 3, to the purpose that he was largely counting on Vex, Trinket, and a cane to stroll. There was some query by the ultimate moments of the finale if utilizing the cane can be everlasting for Percy. I can’t spot a cane in any of the entrance or again photographs of Percy within the clip, which I’m going to take as an indication that he absolutely recovered from his demise identical to Vex did.
In fact, it’s attainable that he nonetheless makes use of the cane, however between these photographs within the clip and the “Cobalt Soul Affair” card on the very finish, I feel we should always take from the primary look that he’s now not utilizing it.
New Outfits For Keyleth And Vex
Characters don’t get new outfits day by day on animated TV reveals, however Vex and Keyleth apparently bought to clean up their wardrobes for Season 4. It seems to be like Keyleth has a brand new inexperienced and gold cape in addition to a blue and inexperienced high, which makes me marvel if she accomplished one other trial off-screen between Seasons 3 and 4 after she and Vax branched off from the remainder of the group.
As for Vex, she seems to have new armor and fur, which took me unexpectedly at first till I remembered two issues: 1) she went again to Whitestone with Percy with no indication that she’d be leaving, and a couple of) Percy took curiosity in dragon scales after Vox Machina killed the ice dragon Vorugal.
I’d questioned on the time why the episode bothered with him noticing these white dragon scales if nothing was going to be completed with them; maybe I’ll have my reply in Season 4. Plus, taking a look at her silhouette in that title card on the finish of the primary look (at across the 1:57 mark), it seems to be like she both added a cape or probably sporting a costume.
Gilmore Seemingly Has A New Store
It seems to be like Gilmore has been in a position to arrange a brand new store, even when the products aren’t fairly as superb as his pre-dragon store in Emon. So far as I can inform, there’s no apparent clue as to the place this store is positioned, however my cash can be on Whitestone if I used to be a betting lady. Different choices embrace Emon if the time soar was lengthy sufficient for the town to be rebuilt sufficient for him to get a storefront, or Marquet after their journey there in Season 3.
Contemplating the mess they made in Marquet and the hellscape that was Emon on the finish of Season 3, nevertheless, Whitestone looks as if the obvious alternative. That metropolis had admittedly additionally been not too long ago burned, however to not destruction like Emon.
Is The Cobalt Soul A Primary Arc For Percy?
Percy appears to be the one one of many crew smitten by this Cobalt Soul plan, and even that may be as a result of it provides him an excuse to plan an Ocean’s Eleven-esque hype relatively than as a result of it’s really a good suggestion within the grand scheme of issues. He’s essentially the most outstanding character within the first look, and that “The Legend of Vox Machina: The Cobalt Soul Affair” card on the finish has him centrally positioned.
That would simply be as a result of he was nerding out within the first look and that’s how he imagines the crew wanting of their heist, however I can’t assist however marvel if this arc will probably be Percy-centric. He did have already got an enormous arc in Season 3 with Whitestone and Ripley, though he was technically already lifeless for the again half of the Ripley saga.
My Takeaways From The First Look
Nicely, I could have made a mountain out of some very small moleholes, however I do have some takeaways from the short clip. The primary is that I feel we’re in for a fairly sizable time soar, if I’m proper about Percy being absolutely recovered, Gilmore having a brand new store, and/or Keyleth having accomplished one other trial. Plus, Prime Video’s description for Season 4 positively means that there weren’t all simply hanging out in Whitestone when the Cobalt Soul and Whispered One state of affairs come up:
Season 4 finds our heroes scattered throughout the globe on separate journeys, however when a cataclysmic risk befalls Exandria – they need to reunite to face a foe darker than they may think about.
Relying on when this heist storyline takes place in Season 4, the following batch of episodes won’t convey Scanlan again any time quickly. The Season 3 finale didn’t strike me as the top of his story in TLOVM, however with a Season 5 renewal, maybe he gained’t be round for a lot of Season 4.
For now, you’ll be able to all the time revisit the primary three seasons of The Legend of Vox Machina streaming on Prime Video and sit up for Crucial Position’s The Mighty Nein becoming a member of the streamer on November 19. It’s not clear from the footage of both present’s upcoming season if they are going to overlap in any respect, so it stays to be seen if there are any nods to Vox Machina within the Mighty Nein’s collection. You can additionally all the time learn the Tusk Love romance novel, which is a enjoyable enterprise set in Crucial Position’s world.