8.4/10128 votes#1 - Arrival at Kraghammer
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/12/2015
Vox Machina arrives at the cavernous underground city of Kraghammer intent on rescuing a missing halfling paladin. They sample the culture of the city and find themselves coming face-to-face with the horrors coming from beneath the city...
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8.2/10108 votes#2 - Into the Greyspine Mines
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/19/2015
Vox Machina makes a deal with Nostoc Greyspine to put an end to the darkness now rising up from the bowels of the earth. The party gears up and makes their way into Kraghammer's mine, beginning a miles-long trek down into the veins of Khaloor.
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8.0/10103 votes#3 - Strange Bedfellows
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/26/2015
After saving Grog, the party comes across a duergar war camp controlled by a mind flayer. After a failed initial attack, Vex'ahlia and Keyleth find a powerful and unlikely ally.
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7.9/1094 votes#4 - Attack on the Duergar Warcamp
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/2/2015
Vox Machina forms a tentative alliance with an illithid outcast, named Clarota, deep inside the caverns under Kraghammer. The heroes devise a plan and fly themselves down to the center of the enemy's war camp to chance a risky assassination attempt on a creature that could easily break their wills with a glance.
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7.8/1092 votes#5 - The Trick about Falling
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/9/2015
Having successfully slain a dangerous illithid and its dwarven general, Vox Machina finds themselves surrounded by a small army of duergar. Barely escaping with their lives, they press forward, quickly realizing their path is growing more dangerous with every step into the darkness.
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8.0/1093 votes#6 - Breaching the Emberhold
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/16/2015
Vox Machina and Clarota continue to wind their way ever downward, eventually reaching the duergar fortress of Emberhold. With a little dash of gnomic derring-do, the group sneaks in through a secret entrance to begin searching for the captive Lady Kima of Vord.
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7.9/1089 votes#7 - The Throne Room
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/23/2015
With an uneasy agreement struck between Lady Kima of Vord and Clarota, Vox Machina quietly begins a search of Emberhold. Lady Kima means to strike a blow against their unseen enemy by cutting off the head of K'Varn's military forces, but the ensuing battle may come at a price...
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7.8/1085 votes#8 - Glass and Bone
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/30/2015
Vox Machina, broken and battered, struggles to survive after a catastrophic battle with the duergar king and queen. Relying on Vex'ahlia's knowledge of the Underdark and her skill at tracking prey, the weary adventurers press on into the depths only to come across a perilous sea of bone and glass...
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7.9/1082 votes#9 - Yug'Voril Uncovered
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/7/2015
Vox Machina battles the duergar queen, Ulara, before she can make a thrall of Grog. Keyleth and Lady Kima settle their differences, Vax'ildan encourages the druid that she is not alone, and the party makes their way to the illithid colony of Yug'Voril.
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7.9/1081 votes#10 - K'Varn Revealed
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/14/2015
After encountering a menagerie of trouble, Vox Machina looks into a cavern alcove and discovers the veil between planes that K'Varn stepped through to gain entrance to Yug'Voril. Making their way forward, Keyleth performs a Scrying ritual on the being himself, and discovers his true identity...
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8.1/1086 votes#11 - The Temple Showdown
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 5/21/2015
Vox Machina and their allies commence their assault on K'Varn's temple. Who will survive this grueling battle?
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7.7/1067 votes#12 - Dungeons & Dragons Campaign Tips
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 5/28/2015
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8.1/1080 votes#13 - Escape from the Underdark
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 6/4/2015
With K'Varn killed and the dread god Orcus's machinations put to an end, the party struggles with what to do next. Before a decision can be reached, several illithid glide into the chamber of the elder brain, and victory quickly yields to impending doom as Vox Machina struggles to escape the city alive...
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7.9/1081 votes#14 - Shopping and Shipping
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 6/11/2015
After allowing themselves a single night's rest back in the city of Emon, the members of Vox Machina set out for their meeting with Sovereign Uriel Tal'Dorei II and the Tal'Dorei Council. Once the Council learns of the Horn of Orcus, a course of action is eventually decided upon, and the party then heads out into the city to gear up for the mission at hand.
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7.9/1075 votes#15 - Skyward
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 6/25/2015
With the arrival of the envoys of Bahamut and the holy container in which to transport the evil Horn of Orcus, Vox Machina prepares to travel to the distant and ancient city of Vasselheim.
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8.0/1073 votes#16 - Enter Vasselheim
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 7/2/2015
As Vox Machina completes the journey across the Ozmit Sea, Lady Kima of Vord arrives and prepares the group for the culture shock awaiting them in Othanzia's capital city of Vasselheim.
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7.8/1081 votes#17 - Hubris
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 7/23/2015
Parting ways with one of their members, Vox Machina is now adrift in a strange and unfamiliar city. After Grog dukes it out in a fighting pit, Vox Machina rushes to help against an attacking beast outside the city, which ends up setting a chain of events in motion.
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7.8/1083 votes#18 - Trial of the Take (1)
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 7/30/2015
With Vox Machina now split, Scanlan, Percy, Vex'ahlia, and Grog find themselves teaming up with an unlikely duo assigned by Huntmaster Vanessa Cyndrial of the Slayer's Take guild. The task at hand: ridding the wilds around Vasselheim of a troublesome white dragon past the frost-harried north of the Vesper Timberland...
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8.0/1086 votes#19 - Trial of the Take (2)
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 8/6/2015
Scanlan, Percy, Vex'ahlia, and Grog continue their quest with Lyra and Zahra to hunt Rimefang, an adult white dragon who was pursued by previous bands of veteran adventurers from the Slayer's Take who never returned! Is this a suicide mission or a true test of will?
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7.8/1075 votes#20 - Trial of the Take (3)
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 8/13/2015
Like their companions before them, Keyleth, Vax'ildan, and Tiberius begin their contract for the Slayer's Take along with a driven and mysterious young cleric named Kashaw and a hardened dwarf by the name of Thorbir. The group's mission—to track down and kill an elusive rakshasa that has been preying on wealthy travelers within the city—leads to the Velvet Cabaret, an exotic establishment in the Duskmeadow District...
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7.9/1078 votes#21 - Trial of the Take (4)
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 8/20/2015
Keyleth, Vax'ildan, and Tiberius, joined by Kashaw and Thorbir from the Slayer's Take, make their way down into the tunnels beneath the Velvet Cabaret, pursuing their mercurial prey. The path is far from easy, but after surmounting a handful of harrowing obstacles, Thorbir leads the hunting party into the hidden lair of the elusive rakshasa...
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7.9/1072 votes#22 - Aramente to Pyrah
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 8/27/2015
With their trials behind them, the members of Vox Machina reunite within the walls of the Slayer's Take. Newly marked and happily reunited, the group decides to set out for Pyrah to find the Fire Ashari, escorting Keyleth on the next leg of her Aramenté.
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8.1/1077 votes#23 - The Rematch
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 9/10/2015
As Vox Machina prepares for the return to Emon, Grog demands a rematch against Kern to regain his honor. After some final errands, the party returns home to Greyskull Keep and a fan outside their home, but there's no time to rest with bad news on the horizon...
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7.8/1080 votes#24 - The Feast
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 9/17/2015
With the Briarwoods coming to Emon, Percy reveals the full tale of how they slaughtered his family and seized control of Whitestone. Vox Machina has just one week to prepare for a diplomatic feast between the Tal'Dorei Council and the sinister and mysterious Lord and Lady Briarwood...
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7.9/1079 votes#25 - Crimson Diplomacy
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 9/24/2015
Vax'ildan finds himself alone in the clutches of the villainous Briarwoods! While the party rushes in to save him, they are joined by a mysterious tiefling named Lillith Daturai, a powerful wizard on the run from bounty hunters. Can Vox Machina save both Vax and Lillith from their grim fates?
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Arrival at Kraghammer" is the best rated episode of "Critical Role" season 1. It scored 8.4/10 based on 128 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/12/2015. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Into the Greyspine Mines".