Don't know if you've noticed this, but if you see the same long-haired guy in every other episode who has the same voice and gets his ass kicked in some way...that's Matt Mercer, the DM of the original D&D game; he also voices Sylas and some other villains. In the original D&D game, he did the voices for EVERYONE who wasn't one of the main players/cast....from shopkeepers to stableboys to Sylas and Delilah and everyone in between. They're Wraiths -- spectral undead, incoporeal in darkness, vulnerable in light; they suck the life force right out of you, as indicated by the black goo. Fortunately, Vox Machina are all a little tougher than the guards, so they don't die immediately from their touch. Trinket didn't go with because the animators hate dealing with 4-legged animals -- they're difficult to animate. They waited for the Amazon Prime money to kick in to do more with him -- we see more of him in Season 2. There's a reason why Pike has her own side quest. The player/actor, Ashley Johnson, was in the TV show "Blindspot" and had to miss the original game for months at a time because she was filming the show in New York. Ashley's character in "Blindspot" played D&D; there was a scene where someone called her an Elf and she defiantly said back, "I'm a gnome cleric!"
Don't know if you've noticed this, but if you see the same long-haired guy in every other episode who has the same voice and gets his ass kicked in some way...that's Matt Mercer, the DM of the original D&D game; he also voices Sylas and some other villains. In the original D&D game, he did the voices for EVERYONE who wasn't one of the main players/cast....from shopkeepers to stableboys to Sylas and Delilah and everyone in between.
They're Wraiths -- spectral undead, incoporeal in darkness, vulnerable in light; they suck the life force right out of you, as indicated by the black goo. Fortunately, Vox Machina are all a little tougher than the guards, so they don't die immediately from their touch.
Trinket didn't go with because the animators hate dealing with 4-legged animals -- they're difficult to animate. They waited for the Amazon Prime money to kick in to do more with him -- we see more of him in Season 2.
There's a reason why Pike has her own side quest. The player/actor, Ashley Johnson, was in the TV show "Blindspot" and had to miss the original game for months at a time because she was filming the show in New York. Ashley's character in "Blindspot" played D&D; there was a scene where someone called her an Elf and she defiantly said back, "I'm a gnome cleric!"