Though it is a rare occurrence more than one student is accepted, for the first time, three students will be accepted: Astrid Becke, Eadwulf Grieve, and Bren. Due to the 2021–2022 global supply chain crisis and unidentified circumstances with creative teams, all Critical Role titles were delayed multiple times.

Witness the events that transform Bren into the Mighty Nein’s Caleb Widogast, and how they inform the path he’ll take in the future. Yasha was given the name "Orphanmaker" and swore to follow the life path set by the Skyspear, upon penalty of death.

On January 24, 2023, Dark Horse and Critical Role announced two forthcoming library editions, each collecting four of the individual books into an oversized volume including new cover art and added sections. Despite this, she could not prevent the girls from falling in love and marrying in secret, against the Dolorav law that those who had been marked should wait for the Skyspear to assign them a partner with whom to start a family. With the help of the rest of the carnival, he pretends to be a duke and gets the Lawmaster to play along with what he admits is a mutual con.

Jester Lavorre had an unconventional upbringing,” Dark Horse said in a news release, “even for one born in cosmopolitan Nicodranas.Trent has them cut their hair short and puts them through a series of painful and tortuous experiments involving refined residuum, including drowning one another in dissolved bowls of it and embedding shards into each other's arms.