Edited image of Liam O'Brien during Candela Obscura Critical Role interview
Summary Critical Role's horror anthology series Candela Obscura closed out the story of The Crimson Mirror with a terrifying end as the circle was broken with some of the members meeting a tragic end. Liam O'Brien served as Game Master, weaving this horrifying tale or mystery and horror with Aimee Carrero, Alexander Ward, Imari Williams, and Taliesin Jaffe starring as their own circle of Candela Obscura investigators.
Liam O'Brien: I've been very happy with how it's been received and I had a devilishly good time at the table with them. From the outset in the back of my head, I didn't tell them this, I told them that they were very much in danger and the possibility of them dying was real, but I intended to take them all out. Despite my best efforts some of them made it out and I will put that up to their unnaturally good luck with rolling... a good negotiator.
That's really just the thrill of playing this game or any game around a table together. If you let yourself be open to it sometimes, and we talked in one of our earlier conversations, with a one-shot there's not a lot of room for extreme improvisation. Certainly, how you handle the moments thrown at you, that is always different.
You get to the end of a campaign or an end of one of these chapters of Candela and one of the most exciting and rewarding parts of it is creating a story, telling a story, being happy with it, but having discovered it with the people at the table with you. I really love my time with those four players.
There was a lot of that. I think my overall concept and what I wanted them to feel narratively in that third chapter is I wanted the bottom drop. That moment before the break would give them. I wanted them to feel like they had gone down further than anyone had ever been before in Old Faire and then have the rug yank and then have them drop twice that far.
O'Brien explained how he wanted to find ways to surprise his players, especially Jaffe and Ward, who had been playing for years. He discussed the balance between leading the players into the story he wanted to tell, especially the final battle, and giving them the agency to guide the story in the direction they find most enticing.
I wanted to explore their legacies and the world of Old Faire. I treat the world of Candela very much as a character. I wanted to make sure that I gave them time with their personal lives and the ending, and that sort of encounter allowed me to pull in further threads of their inner life because they were dealing with an entity, but they were also coping with themselves in that moment. So I knew it would be ripe for them to grapple with their histories and role play in that way.
Some game runners will be like, I'm the one crafting the narrative, but for me, it's all gravy, it's all good. Everything Taliesin brought to the table only made it richer. I did not know that letter existed until the day of that game. So I had it as a possibility. I think I love that Leo survived more than if he passed away because I like players and people who run games.
Another story beat in the three games was in the second game. Grimoria had a vision of Atiya's on a hill thousands of years ago and breaking some sort of artifact on her knee and the Grimoria's vision going white. A lot of the connective tissue between that woman who lived so long ago and Emperor Kalanis and this creature, a lot of that was amorphous or did not exist.
So I didn't really have any preconceived notions about an optimal scenario. I was going in thinking, I don't care. This is a hard place. These characters can all die. And that'll just be, and we haven't had that happen on Candela yet. I thought maybe this is the time, and I'm perfectly willing to go there.
A lot of it was accidental in the best way possible, but her desire as a character to shepherd souls and what we sort of invented on the way to the ending, I thought was really, really lovely. I'm, in hindsight, glad that Grimoria made it. Liam O'Brien: I can see advantages to both of those, positives to both of those. I would love to check in with Grimoria later. She would be starting a little dinged up already. I don't know. I think it would be fun to maybe revisit her many years later and see where she is at that point. But I also have ideas for places I'd like to go on and off the map and different kinds of stories to tell. So I'd honestly be down for either or both.
O'Brien explained how he believes the sacrifice of Fresh Cut Grass will impact the Bells Hells moving forward. While they have been struggling with questions about the Gods and whether they are good for the people of Exandria this death will bring a more personal cost to the battle.
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