Critical Role and hololive production premiere Shattered Legends on Friday, November 13 at 9 p.m. ET. It's a six episode tabletop series with Matthew Mercer running the game for Marisha Ray and four hololive VTubers. Here's what's confirmed before episode one.
What is Shattered Legends?
Critical Role describes it as a six-part hololive production x Critical Role Daggerheart mini-series set in Exandria's Shattered Teeth. COVER Corporation, the company behind hololive, announced the show on October 13 and called it the first collaboration between the two. The same announcement says the adventure is canon to Critical Role's world of Exandria.
The game on the table is Daggerheart, the fantasy tabletop roleplaying game Critical Role makes. The official hololive page says the full cast built the story together using it.
Who is in the cast?
Matthew Mercer is the Game Master. The players are Marisha Ray from Critical Role and hololive's Nerissa Ravencroft, Mori Calliope, Shiori Novella and Gigi Murin.
Polygon has the characters. Ray plays a tidekin witch named Florence. Calliope plays an infernis bard named Kaz Oogod. Novella plays a fungrin druid named Marchen "March" Rosemyne. Murin plays a faerie seraph named Giryn. Ravencroft plays an elf rogue who goes by Sil.
Polygon also reports that the hololive talents will appear with new virtual avatars based on their characters, while Mercer and Ray appear on camera.
When and where to watch
The hololive page says new episodes land "every Friday 6PM PT/Saturday 11AM JST, premiering on November 13 PT/November 14 JST." That's 9 p.m. ET on Friday, November 13 in the US, and Saturday morning in Japan.
Critical Role lists two places to watch: Nerissa Ravencroft's YouTube channel and Beacon.tv, its own membership streaming platform. The October announcement also listed Critical Role's and hololive English's YouTube channels for the episodes. The current show pages only name Nerissa's channel and Beacon.
Japanese subtitles will be available for every episode on YouTube, according to the announcement.
Do you need Beacon to watch?
No. The October announcement says the campaign series "will be publicly available." Beacon is where the extras live.
The hololive page lists what a Beacon membership adds: the Critical Role Cooldown aftershow alongside each of the six episodes, a Session Zero between episodes one and two where the cast builds their characters, a live Fireside Chat in December and a Campaign Wrap-Up in January. It lists Beacon at $5.99 a month after a seven day free trial. Nerissa Ravencroft's YouTube membership gets behind the scenes content too.
Where the story is set
The setting is Ubradar, which the hololive page describes as "a large island adrift amongst many others within a mist-shrouded sea." Its capital is a gothic city called Yhuthos, and at the center of the island is a giant sinkhole called the Undermaw. The party starts out on a mission to investigate some odd construction.
Polygon places the Shattered Teeth southeast of Tal'dorei, the continent where Critical Role's first campaign, Vox Machina, takes place.
Merch, a tour and a song
Series sponsor Ultra PRO opens pre-orders for its first wave of Shattered Legends merch on November 14. Critical Role is also releasing a Shattered Legends Daggerheart dice set. The hololive page says that limited pre-order starts mid-series, ends January 1 and ships in summer 2027.
The announcement promises a promotional convention tour across North America, Europe and Asia. Polygon reports it starts with a panel at Anime Frontier in Fort Worth, Texas, on December 5, and that Nerissa Ravencroft is releasing an original song for the show that plays in each episode.
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