Clash at Daxio

is the twenty-first episode of the fifth chapter of Critical Role. Vox Machina returns from the Elemental Plane of Fire, only to discover Fort Daxio under siege. With no word from Allura, they rush into battle to save as many of their allies as they can.

Previously on Critical Role
"The group of intrepid adventurers known as Vox Machina have been making their way through their quest to take down the Chroma Conclave, a group of chromatic dragons who have been terrorizing the countryside of Tal'Dorei under the rule of Thordak the Cinder King—a great, powerful, and seemingly elementally-charged ancient red dragon—who sits in the center of Emon.

"After gathering the rest of the artifacts [the party] had been seeking, called the Vestiges of the Divergence—the last one being found in the City of Brass upon the Fire Elemental Plane—[they] traveled back to Fort Daxio, a northern fort north of Emon, where [they] were planning a trap of some kind for Thordak.

"Upon arriving with two charges of [theirs]—two previously enslaved celestial-blooded boys that [they] found in the City of Brass—[they] all traveled across the planes with the help of Keyleth, back to Fort Daxio, to find the landscape scarred with recent flame and apparently a battle raging at the outer gate."

Featured Characters
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Vox Machina

 * Keyleth
 * Percival de Rolo
 * Scanlan Shorthalt
 * Grog Strongjaw
 * Pike Trickfoot
 * Trinket
 * Vax'ildan
 * Vex'ahlia

New

 * Unnamed ember roc
 * Unnamed female fire giant general

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Appeared

 * Cassandra de Rolo
 * Asum Emring
 * Brom Goldhand
 * Ellie Gorifonne
 * Hunin
 * Lady Kima of Vord
 * Kyor
 * Raishan
 * Allura Vysoren
 * Gatekeeper Xanthus

Mentioned Only
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 * Shaun Gilmore
 * Zahra Hydris
 * Spireling Shenn
 * Thordak
 * Kashaw Vesh