Elysium

is the fifth episode of the eighth chapter of Critical Role.

Previously on Critical Role
"Vox Machina had confronted the Whispered One, the Undying King, Vecna, in the Shadowfell. The battle did not go in their favor: the death and very faint recovery of Vex, and the disintegration of Vax during this confrontation.

"Realizing that it was not going in their favor, they Plane Shifted to the Feywild where they began to come up with some sort of plot or plan to try to bring their friend Vax back without a body. During this time, Vax had a conversation with his patron, the Raven Queen, and was given an offer where he could return along with powers that would aid in this coming final confrontation. However, the deal came with some drawbacks.

"Upon his friends awakening next morning in the Feywild, they found Vax returned to them, whole, seemingly alive, returned, though missing his equipment. His equipment was returned, and there was a brief period of figuring out what possibly delivered their friend back to this space. It was decided that, based on his experience with his patron, that the powers beyond the Divine Gate, the Prime Gods that lay claim to the divine beyond the Prime Material Plane will probably be the next best bet in gaining some sort of power and information about how to better prepare for the coming struggle with Vecna, the Whispered One.

"Vox Machina then made their way to Vasselheim, where Pike went to her temple of Sarenrae which she had helped raise and reconstruct, and had a vision from her patron deity asking her to come visit her at the Island of Renewal, and was granted through this vision an object that would link via Keyleth's Plane Shift spell a way to traverse past the Divine Gate directly to her location on the plane of Elysium.

"Also, Grog and Scanlan had a little excursion in the city of Vasselheim and a minor altercation with the guards which led to a larger altercation with the guards which led to a much larger altercation with the guards which led to them barely escaping and deciding it's time to go.

"Vox Machina then clasped hands and, using the Plane Shift spell, found themselves stepping down on the crunching sand-like shores of the Island of Renewal. There looking past the clusters of stone and trees that mark the perimeter of this interesting, beautiful, strange distant landscape, they can see beyond the treeline and hills the crystalline structure that seems to mark the center of the island."

Vox Machina

 * Taryon Darrington (absent)
 * Doty 2.0 (absent)
 * Keyleth
 * Percival de Rolo
 * Scanlan Shorthalt
 * Grog Strongjaw
 * Pike Trickfoot
 * Trinket
 * Vax'ildan
 * Vex'ahlia

New

 * Pelor

Returning

 * Sarenrae

Mentioned

 * Hunin
 * Ioun
 * Kord
 * Kyor
 * Raven Queen
 * Tharizdun
 * Vecna