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Critical Role's fourth campaign ventures into the completely original realm of this unfamiliar territory, an environment completely distinct from the established previous setting where past campaigns occurred. Throughout this domain, the gods met their end by people only 70 years ago, magic has gone wild, and civilization must determine how to manage their affairs lacking celestial direction.

The World of the Fourth Campaign

If Exandria exemplifies a universe characterized by gods, the current setting is marked by their total nonexistence. Within recent history, a transformative battle unfolded, and mortals destroyed the last of the Gods. All seven shaping deities now gone, mortalkind were forced to adapt by themselves in a changed existence, teeming with wild arcane forces and instability.

The main environment for the first installment is Dol-Makjar, positioned on the eastern edge of a region known as Kahad. This mountain city greatly honors the freedom fighters of the defining battle. Monuments of these figures project from the barriers of the community, confronting nearby peaks seemingly restraining them.

Although Dol-Makjar functions as the initial setting, several other locations are named throughout the narrative. The first is the Rookery, evidently the cultural district of the city, where performers, poets, actors, and assorted creatives live. Within this neighborhood that viewers experience the bulk of the narrative during the first episode. This is also where the performance venue, this particular establishment, can be found.

Further into Kahad lies another city called Dol-Rungja, though what is significant concerning this settlement is still explained.

Tir Cruthu embodies the land of the fairies and a mysterious place separate from physical reality. It seems Tir Cruthu has vanished, though, and the portal to the fae realm was sealed. The significance behind this hasn't been disclosed, but it does seem to impact Thimble, who is beginning to grow older since getting disconnected from that realm.

Finally, there is the Mournvale, a territory far from Dol-Makjar and the place this character and a particular group dwell. It appears the territory of the elves, but again, much about it remain unknown so far.

The Plot of Campaign 4

The narrative commences in the settlement of the primary setting. In the beginning of the premiere, the city's inhabitants are gathered for a significant event: the putting to death of Thjazi Fang. Per the official, Thjazi will be put to death for being "a betrayer, magic user, assassin, and blatant rebellion against the settlement and its people." The character previously a celebrated soldier, but presently he's seen as a criminal by the Chamber of Lords-Advisory to the Revolutionary Council.

During the execution, numerous distinct people with ties to him gather to witness. These constitute our main cast for the adventure, comprising one character, Occtis Tachonis, Thaisha Lloy, Halandil Fang, a fifth individual, Murray Mag'nesson, a seventh character, Teor Pridesire, a ninth person, Sir Julien Davinos, an eleventh individual, a twelfth person and a thirteenth character. A handful of these characters seek to free the prisoner; nevertheless, the plan fails and Thjazi is put to death.

Thjazi's death initiates the narrative of the fourth campaign, but all elements relates closely to the contemporary background of the world of Aramán. Seven decades prior to modern times, after the defining battle with the final deity getting destroyed, humanity were forced to address the question: how to proceed? Sorcery quickly grew chaotic and unstable without the gods around, and the mystery about the final resting place of deceased individuals proceed, now that the gods are not present to ferry them to the afterlife, still has yet to be explained.

Inevitably, humanity united and began to build their civilization anew. Though, unsurprisingly, certain individuals approved of what this new world might develop. Despite limited knowledge too much about the War of Axe and Vine, it gets referenced quite a few times in the initial installment, and the character was seen as a celebrated soldier after that battle concluded. Though, two years later, the character struck the Falconer's Rebellion against the ruling families of Dol-Makjar. The cause has yet to be explained, but since the character states that these powerful families "maintain absolute authority", viewers can infer two things: the uprising didn't succeed and the families' control remains absolute in the city of Dol-Makjar.

Furthermore, with sorcery operating chaotically, it appears to be regulated and strictly supervised. Remarkably unlike from arcane practices are viewed in a far more celebratory light in the previous setting.

The Individuals of Campaign 4

In addition to the central figures, we're introduced to multiple significant NPCs in the settlement of the mountain city.

The first is, of course, Thjazi Fang. A rascal, a thief, a rebel, a lover, a family member, a champion: Thjazi is the lynchpin around whom the premiere {centers|focuses|revol