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==Guest Characters==
The Cast of Guest Characters in Season 1 and 2.

===Lyra===

Played by Felicia Day, founder of Geek & Sundry (the original channel/network of Critical Role). She's a human wizard that is trying to join the Slayer's Take (a group of monster hunters operating out of Vasselheim) because she's in love with one of it's members, Aldor, who does not return the feelings and perceive her as "stalky". She joined half of Vox-Machina when they were set on a task to join the Take and was a good mix of funny and quirky while also being useful to the party in and out of combat.

===Zahra Hydris===

Played by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Zahra is a Tiefling Warlock that joined half of Vox Machina and Lyra in their quest. She proved herself quite popular with the fandom, given Mary's great grasp of the character even though it was her first time role-playing, and the character would return in different episodes.

===Thorbir Falbek===

Played by Wil Wheaton of Star-Trek fame. Thorbir is a dwarf fighter that joined the other half of Vox Machina in their respective quest. Presenting himself as a battle-hardened badass, Wil's physics-defying bad luck with dice made the character a bit of a comic-relief as he failed on the simplest of tasks and could barely land any hits in combat.

It also drove Matt Mercer to the brink of insanity, to the point where he refuses to touch Will Wheaton. Thorbir's luck earned him the nickname of "The Nega-Percy". The episode after his appearance began with Taliesin Jaffe burning sage around the chair Wheaton had sat on.

===Kashaw Vesh===

Played by Will Friedle. Kashaw is a human cleric to the godess of death Vesh, who ritually married him and not so ritually raped him (the food was okay). Despite the grimdark backstory he is somehow not an edgelord (at least not as much as one would expect), possessing a caustic and sarcastic sense of humor and proved himself to be a reliable ally, even a caring individual. Like Zahra, Will would come back in future episodes to reprise the character, and Kashaw and Zahra would eventually start a relationship.

===Lillith Anioska Daturai===

Played by Kit Buss, the artist behind Vox Machina's official portraits. She was a Tiefling Wizard with a British accent that helped Vox Machina in the fight against the Briarwoods in Emon. In the following night she departs without saying goodbye to the party, later she would send them a letter, revealing she was Zahra's cousin, and a gift, as well as a separate letter to Percy.

===Garthok===

Played by Jason Charles Miller, who composed the many opening themes Critical Role had through the years. Garthok is a half-orc rogue that helped Vox Machina meet with The Clasp (the in-universe thieves guild) after a dragon attack in Emon, later he "turned against" the party (they were circumstantial allies at best) siding with The Clasp as negotiations went sour.

===Gern Blanston===

Played by Chris Hardwick, a Blue Dragonborn Necromancer and candle-maker (who could create candles which magical effects). When Vox Machina met him he had four undead thralls, Carol, Coral, Fatty Arbuckle, and Stimpy. The character (and Chris Hardwick's portrayal) are divisive on the fandom with some considering the episode with Gern one of the funniest in the fist campaign while others attribute it to spotlight-stealing antics, with Chris in many moments making out of character jokes. Gern was also the original owner of Vex'ahlia's flying broom.

===Shale===

Played by no other than [[Chris Perkins]]. Shale was a Goliath with a missing eye and arm. A bit of an oddball of the Herd of Storms (the same tribe Grog belonged to) she was a continuous source of amusement during the episode, shining as a type of grandmother figure to Grog. 

===Kerrek===

Played by Patrick Rothfuss, the second slowest fantasy writer alive. A human paladin who had retired and become a blacksmith (basically a reverse [[Valten]]). Kerrek was a compassionate and caring man, who easily clicked with the party, offering help and wisdom to them when required, specially to Keyleth. After his original appearence Kerrek would return in audio-form as Patrick had recorded a letter written to Keyleth, and in the flesh in the four episodes that concluded the Chroma Conclave Arc, Kerrek himself getting the killing blow at Raishan, the last surviving dragon of the alliance.

===Tova===

Played by Nate Stevenson, a dwarf/werebear bloodhunter, who despite all the red-flags, is not an edgy fuck. Vox Machina met Tova on the Nine Hells, when on a mission to slay a Rakshasa in it's own realm (long story short they had already killed him twice in the material plane wanted to make sure he wouldn't come back). Tova helped the party along the way, when they finally had succeeded in their mission and were ready to plane-shift Tova decided to stay behind and rescue her friends who were still imprisoned by a Fiend with whom one of them had made a contract (read the fine-print when playing Warlock kids). Tova would later come back in one-shots featuring Trinket and other woodland critters

===Lionel "Chod" Gayheart===

Played by Jon Heder aka Napoleon Dinamite, Lionel is a half-orc Bardbarian who is heavily implied to have been a duck transformed into a humanoid by Scanlan Shorthalt using True Polymorph (his Barbarian totem was the homebrewed totem of the Duck). As you can see, Chod was 110% lulz, and was Scanlan's bodyguard while he ran a counterfeit furniture criminal empire under the alias of the Meat Man, a name he acquired when buying Fusaka (a type of spice he thought was a drug, and ended up paying 40 times the actual value). In summary, don’t let your Bard go on solo-quests.

===Ethrid "Sprigg" Brokenbranch===

Played by Darin De Paul aka Reinhardt, Sprigg is a Gnome Rogue who originated in a [[Awesome|campaign Darin played with Matt Mercer's mom 37 years prior to the episode he appears]] (in-character Sprigg has been in retirement for 37 years). Widely considered to be the best guest-character thanks to Darin's commitment to role-playing Sprigg's eccentricity and quick-wit, he also helped Vox-Machina to reach the realm of Ioun, who taught them how to defeat Vecna, where she cures his madness from years of isolation.

===Arkhan the Cruel===

No not that [[Arkhan the Black|Arkhan]]! Played by Joe Manganiello, a Red Dragonborn Oathbreaker/Barbarian, Arkhan might be the skubbiest guest character on Critical Role (and considering how much skub surrounds this show, that's saying something). Arkhan appeared on the tail-end of the Vox Machina campaign, as a level 17 character with extremely over-powered homebrewed items (that Joe himself created, as he was an imported character from his home game) and who's only trait was "badass". He gets to participate on the end of the final battle of the campaign against Vecna, and in what can only be described as the ultimate spotlight-hogging moment, steals the hand of Vecna after The Undying King had been defeated. The skub was intensified as Arkhan and the "hand-heist" were made canon in the Forgotten Realms with the release of Descent into Avernus where Arkhan wielding the hand has a base in the Nine Hells where he tries to free Tiamat.