In the fantasy world of The Mighty Nein , an archmage working for a corrupt empire has stolen a sacred magical relic of untold power from a shadowy rival kingdom. War looms, and a group of misfit heroes with problems of their own — like the influence of an eldritch ocean leviathan, a would-be wizard assassin, and a chaos-loving god who is missing in action — might be the only thing that can save the realm.

In Critical Role , the wildly popular actual play Dungeons & Dragons series that first told this story, all it took was Dungeon Master Matthew Mercer ‘s narration, a couple of miniature models, and the power of imagination to bring this epic to life. For the animated Prime Video series , it isn’t quite as simple.

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