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Just because you're a player character in Critical Role's Campaign 4 doesn't mean you're guaranteed to survive it. I mean, just look at what happened to poor Occtis Tachonis, Alexander Ward's now-deceased human wizard. Sure, ol' Occtis is still a part of the actual play campaign, but that doesn't mean he's any less dead, and if you're one of Ward's castmates, you'd understandably be worried about the same thing happening to you.

Unless you're Sam Riegel, of course. Because then, you pretty much accept that same fate. 

Riegel brought up the possible demise of his character, human sorcerer Wicander Halovar, during the most recent episode of CR's fan Q&A livestream, Fireside Chat. At one point in the discussion, a Critter wrote in to ask about a previous, unused plan for Riegel's Campaign 4 character, which he developed along with costar Liam O'Brien. O'Brien, who joined Riegel for this particular episode of Fireside Chat, remembers the idea well.

"We called it a dwarflock," he said.

(That's a portmanteau of "dwarf" and "warlock." Just clarifying in case you, like me, got looks where you needed brains.)

"I might still do a dwarflock," Riegel responded, "Maybe even in this campaign if Wicander... when Wicander dies. Because he certainly will."

I know, I know, he seems pretty darn sure of that fact, doesn't he? And while Critical Role's most infamous ad-reader doesn't go into why he feels so certain his half of Campaign 4's most lovable duo won't make it to the last episode on this side of the moral plane, he was happy to recount why he didn't end up using his dwarflock for the first version of his character.

"I liked what Liam pitched," Riegel continued, "But when we were starting to talk about the different factions, I had a thing I wanted to do with this religion and stuff. Then it seemed like what Brennan [Lee Mulligan, GM] was pitching about dwarves in this world didn't really fit what I was doing, what I wanted to do character-wise."

Well Sam, you might get the chance to do what you wanted anyway. But by the way you're talking about it, it's a bummer that Wicander himself won't live to see why.

Critical Role Campaign 4 is streaming now on the group's Beacon, YouTube, and Twitch channels. 

With two animated series on Prime Video, Campaign 4 in full swing, and so much more Exandrian lore to come, Critical Role is showing no signs of slowing down. That's why the adventuring party at Popverse are here to bring you everything we can from those nerdy-ass voice actors & Bo., including:

• Critical Role release schedule
• Critical Role's Campaign 4 characters ranked
• How to watch Critical Role in order
• Ways for you to relive the Critical Role panel from ECCC '26
• Taliesin Jaffe on playing Mollymauk Tealeaf for Campaign 2 vs. playing him for Prime Video
• Matt Mercer's homebrew warrior class (created originally for Vin Diesel)

...and much, much more. Roll initiative, player. Magic awaits.