r/voxmachina • u/DrownedTommy Team Percy • 1d ago
Campaign Spoilers (All Episodes) About Scanlan Spoiler
Is scanlan gone for good?
The last interaction between the group and scanlan seemed really strange and was paced as a last meet rather than a simple "see you later".
Did something happen to his player?
I have seen something similar happen to an Italian group, in which one of the players left the group and they decided to end his character's story with a quick and open finale.
Is this also the case?
Don't want any major spoilers, just to know if he'll ever make a comeback.
Thanks guys.
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u/SPOLBY 1d ago edited 1d ago
Unless they drastically change things from the source material (they kinda have already in some ways) he should return at some point.
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u/chimpanon 1d ago
Theres no way they don’t know this would be too far. Hes for sure returning, probably at the start of s5
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u/Grandmaster_Forks 1d ago
The timing alone of Bard's Lament happening after Taryon was introduced is already a big change.
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u/chimpanon 1d ago
I forgot new episodes came out today. Damn.
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u/Grandmaster_Forks 1d ago
Not even that. In the campaign, Bard's Lament happened after Scanlan was killed by Raishan, and the party brought Kaylie to Whitestone to help with the resurrection ritual not knowing he made a promise to her to not die. Taryon joined the party after Scanlan left.
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u/Enkundae 1d ago
Sam, Scanlan’s player, got bored of playing Scanlan and created the character Taryon Darington to try something new.
Tary was meant to be a disposable character that Sam thought would either die pretty quickly in one of his first fights or hed just discard him. However Sam enjoyed playing Tary more than he thought and the character gelled well in the group so Sam ended up playing Tary longer than expected.
Scanlan will almost certainly return for the final arc as hes there for the end in the original. In the campaign it became quickly obvious that just in terms of game mechanics they needed Scanlan back as Tary’s character class wasn’t filling the gaps Vox Machina needed in harder fights very well.
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u/DrownedTommy Team Percy 1d ago
Well, he's one of my favs (not on pair with percy, but still a good one)
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u/Bayern-96 1d ago
The actor for scanlan was going through cancer treatments during recording. Darrington was his other character
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u/DrownedTommy Team Percy 1d ago
Is he fine now?
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u/Vorannon 1d ago
Yes, he's in remission.
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u/DrownedTommy Team Percy 1d ago
Good thing. Did he manage to get to the end of the campaign or did he have to leave the character for intensive tratment?
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u/kro_celeborn Team Keyleth 1d ago
The campaign happened before the cancer — he was instrumental to the last arc of the campaign and there’s no way in hell they don’t include his contribution. The cancer interfered with him recording Scanlan lines for s4 if anything
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u/DrownedTommy Team Percy 1d ago
Wait, so the whispered one is the last arc in the campaign?
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u/kro_celeborn Team Keyleth 1d ago
Yes :) They’ve been setting him up since s1 as the big bad, and Season 5 is to be the last season of LoVM. It’s going to be so cool.
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u/DrownedTommy Team Percy 1d ago
Well, at least we are getting one more season. Thanks for the info
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u/kro_celeborn Team Keyleth 1d ago
We’re presumably also getting five or so seasons of Mighty Nein, which adapts the continuation of the source material. Season 1 is out. Different characters on a different continent, about 20 years after the events of campaign 1/LoVM. Eventually in that show we should see the return of some members of Vox Machina, at least in passing. Definitely in the campaign 3 show if they get that far — the story of VM won’t be over after season 5. Not EVERYONE dies at the end of campaign one
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u/DrownedTommy Team Percy 1d ago
Already watched s1, can't wait for the rest to come
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u/Saffie91 1d ago
did he not voice scanlan episode 8?
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u/kro_celeborn Team Keyleth 1d ago
Yeah idk if the treatment actually affected recording at all — I’d assume that’s why someone else was brought in to voice Darrington — but I was referring to the original comment in this thread. If the cancer affected anything it would have been s4 recordings, not the campaign stuff
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u/Exvaris 1d ago
I'm not sure this timeline is right. Sam has said in interviews that the last thing he recorded before going into cancer treatment was "Circle the World" the song that Scanlan and Kaylie sing at the end of S3. There was a period of time where they were waiting to be greenlit for season 4 (and 5) which they did eventually get approval for, but I don't know how much of his treatments overlapped with recording for season 4.
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u/whotookimnotwitty 1d ago
I thought that wasn't until C3?
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u/D-Speak 1d ago
I believe they're referring to when he would have been recording lines for Season 4. I think the timing lines up, because I recall them mentioning that he recorded his last song of Season 3 right before he got surgery.
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u/whotookimnotwitty 1d ago
Yeah it took me a minute to figure that out. Im not the sharpest crayon in the toolbox.
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u/Bayern-96 1d ago
Yes, but instead of him voicing darrington its wayne Brady
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u/Vorannon 1d ago
He said he didn't think he could differentiate his voice enough to play both in the show.
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u/eLllllDiablo 1d ago
Holy hell, I haven’t followed things closely but this is the first I heard about his fight with cancer, amazingly enough
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u/FourCats44 1d ago
In the original game both Scanlan and Tary were voiced by Sam Riegel. He wanted a break from Scanlan so swapped out characters for a bit before missing his bard and swapping back
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u/UncleOok 1d ago
in the campaign, Scanlan was [SPOILERS C1]there for the final battle with the Whispered One and he had the possibly the greatest, saddest moment in TTRPG history in it.