The Omen Archive

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Thumbnail for Critical Role IV episode 25, with a red emblem around the episode number and birds in the bottom corners. A split image having the effect of cracked plaster, with a photo of Luis on the left and Marisha on the right. Both sit at the table. Luis sticks his arm out in front of him as if pointing a sword. He speaks angrily, although his eyes express some sadness as well. Marisha clasps her hands in front of her mouth in an expression of shock and worry. She looks forward, observing intently.

Runtime

3h 25m 4s

Cold Open End 00:20:17

Episode Start 00:34:01

Break Start 02:04:04

Break End 02:17:02

Running Bird Count

A number in a slightly cracked egg: 139

* See our note on how we count this

Total Combat Time

2h 17m 39s

Battlemap Highlight

A battlemap of a large stone banquet chamber with surrounding hallways. King Augustus Valian, a Hound, and a druid sit across a table from Photarch Yanessa and an attendant Lux. Murray hides behind a pillar near the table. Outside the closed south entrance of the chamber, Filoneus Halovar stands with his two dogs Wrath and Judgement, wielding a large axe. Inside the chamber are some long tables and chairs, marble pillars holding up the ceiling, and green globes spaced along the walls.

Table Comparisons!

An animated image of Marisha standing behind the table, confusedly looking around with her arms out like a popular GIF of John Travolta from Pulp Fiction. She wears a yellow and orange top with flower-like patterns on it.

Spells per Table

Soldiers

98 total, 65 leveled (non-Cantrip), 84 total spell levels

  1. Disguise Self (14)
  2. Guidance (10)
  3. Shield/Thaumaturgy (6)
Seekers

91 total, 57 leveled, 80 total spell levels

  1. Guidance/Identify (8)
  2. Prestidigitation (5)
  3. Druidcraft/Find Familiar/Fire Bolt (4)
Schemers

131 total, 72 leveled, 105 total spell levels

  1. Message (23)
  2. Guidance (11)
  3. Identify (8)

Crits per Table

Soldiers

21 nat 20s, 12 nat 1s

Seekers

21 nat 20s, 21 nat 1s

Schemers

15 nat 20s, 7 nat 1s

Nat 20s by Character

(eps 5–25)

  1. Occtis/Thimble (8)
  2. Azune (7)
  3. Bolaire/Teor (6)
Nat 1s by Character

(eps 5–25)

  1. Thaisha (7)
  2. Julien/Occtis (6)
  3. Thimble (4)

Kills/HDYWTDTs per Table

Soldiers

16 kills, 7 HDYWTDT

Seekers

27 kills, 3 HDYWTDT

Schemers

7 kills, 1 HDYWTDT

Damage Dealt/Taken and Healing per Table

Soldiers

629 damage dealt, 281 damage taken, 117 healing performed

Seekers

763 damage dealt, 278 damage taken, 90 healing performed

Schemers

216 damage dealt, 55 damage taken, 32 healing performed

Combat Times per Table

Soldiers

6h 9m 8s time, 18 rounds

Seekers

5h 30m 30s time, 19 rounds

Schemers

4h 2m 14s time, 12 rounds

PC KOs per Table

Soldiers

3 KOs (all Wick)

Seekers

2 KOs

Schemers

1 KO

Ability Uses per Table

Soldiers

93 total

  1. Mask of Many Faces (15)
  2. Sneak Attack (9)
  3. Fairy Magic/Savage Attacker (5)
Seekers

59 total

  1. Ritual Adept (9)
  2. Vex (8)
  3. Sap/Wild Shape (5)
Schemers

86 total

  1. Ritual Adept (9)
  2. Lucky (8)
  3. Bardic Inspiration Granted/Portent Rolled (7)

d20 Rolls per Table

Soldiers
  • 391 rolls
  • Average raw value: 12.89*
  • Average total value: 16.2**
Seekers
  • 363 rolls
  • Average raw value: 12.10*
  • Average total value: 17.23**
Schemers
  • 294 rolls
  • Average raw value: 13.91*
  • Average total value: 16.57**

*across all rolls with announced raw value (109 for Soldiers, 72 for Seekers, 66 for Schemers)

**across all rolls with announced total value (325 for Soldiers, 292 for Seekers, 260 for Schemers)

Top d20 Rolls per Episode

  1. C4E010: 151
  2. C4E014: 126
  3. C4E017: 118

DM d20 Rolls per Table

Soldiers
  • 143 DM rolls
  • Average raw value: 9.71*
  • Average total value: 14.64**
Seekers
  • 121 DM rolls
  • Average raw value: 10.68*
  • Average total value: 16.93**
Schemers
  • 123 DM rolls
  • Average raw value: 8.48*
  • Average total value: 13.89**
Overall
  • 387 DM rolls
  • Average raw value: 9.41*
  • Average total value: 15.22**

*across all rolls with announced raw value (31 during Soldiers, 25 during Seekers, 44 during Schemers, 100 total)

**across all rolls with announced total value (39 during Soldiers, 28 during Seekers, 19 during Schemers, 86 total)

HEY, there might be some SPOILERS under the thing:

Created by Flando Maltrizian, Master of Time(stamps)
Timestamp Description
00:02:10 The Seekers catch up with each other
00:09:45 Mournvale holly
00:15:05 Physical letter
00:20:15 Critical Role Announcement Playhouse
00:21:20 The Devil and Marisha Ray
00:25:40 Travis’ Laura’s merch corner
00:28:35 The Weird Kids made a friend and a zine
00:30:10 What is this hand motion? (Talogen)
00:32:40 Intro cinematic
00:34:00 EPISODE STARTS (fomenting)
00:37:30 Recap Ends (Map out)
00:47:20 Romanovs or Caesars?
00:48:20 Hero passes out museum placards
00:51:00 Gus gets poisoned
00:52:35 Initiative (Schemer fights are puzzles)
00:55:10 Open your eyes
00:58:15 Anti-dog weaponry
01:00:35 Wait, are these assassins based?
01:02:35 Any questions about what is going on?
01:04:00 Once again, Brennan likes to kill dogs
01:05:15 You can go home
01:07:45 Photarch rolls a nat 1 on her death save
01:11:00 Bonus battle map unlocked
01:13:45 Unsettling words
01:17:25 This druid is still a problem
01:18:20 And now the door is locked
01:23:35 Hiring security was a good idea
01:27:55 These assassins would be pretty cool if they weren’t ruining everything
01:32:55 A portentious death save
01:37:40 This is a Wendy’s
01:39:50 A high stakes save
01:43:55 Slapping Hal’s titties
01:46:45 Schemer’s strike
01:50:55 The tricks are not over
01:53:55 Old Gorson gets crowned
02:03:00 Azune drops
02:04:05 BREAK STARTS
02:17:00 BREAK ENDS
02:21:30 Brennan references himself
02:23:20 Hal unsettlingly shatters
02:25:55 Gus gets up and has 3 attacks
02:31:40 Conjure Muppet
02:37:45 Murray saves Gus (probably)
02:40:50 Another clutch portent
02:45:25 Gus is so cool
02:47:45 Reinforcements arrive, we’re saving the king
02:55:15 An assassin takes the hit for Azune
02:57:30 Mayali Nayar
02:58:50 Last attacks on Gus
03:01:00 Musical migraine
03:05:00 Gus and Murray OTP
03:08:50 Azune saves his sister
03:12:10 Her last happy moment
03:13:25 Calm
03:16:25 The Halovars were in on it
03:23:30 A resurrection
03:24:35 Episode Ends
Full time Gameplay time Game 1st half Game 2nd half Mid break 1st start Ad start Ad end 1st end 2nd start 2nd end
3h 25m 4s 2h 57m 18s 1h 50m 20s 1h 6m 58s 12m 58s 00:00:00 00:20:17 00:34:01 02:04:04 02:17:02 03:24:00
Encounter Total length Start time End time Rounds In game time Notes
Assassination attempt on King Gus 2h 17m 39s 00:52:32 03:23:09 6 36s "Total length" calculation removed break time; total combat ends on Filoneus beheading the final assassin

Main cast attendance

Aabria Iyengar, Alexander Ward, Ashley Johnson, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Liam O’Brien, Luis Carazo, Marisha Ray, Matthew Mercer, and Taliesin Jaffe.

Absent

Laura Bailey, Robbie Daymond, Sam Riegel, Travis Willingham, and Whitney Moore.

Week 2

Episodes in week: C4E024C4E025.

Day 6
Priest’s Day / Solaire
28th Trozemere
Day 7
Weaver’s Day / Luniere
29th Trozemere
Day 8
Hunter’s Day / Chassaire
30th Trozemere
Day 9
Victor’s Day / Victoire
31st Trozemere
Day 10
Smith’s Day / Forgiere
32nd Trozemere
Day 11
Farmer’s Day / Viére
Day 12
Trader’s Day / Marchandiere
World
  • Assassins attack King Augustus Valian and "kill" Photarch Yanessa Halovar [ep. 25]
  • Photarch Yanessa Halovar is "resurrected" through the power of the Candescent Creed [ep. 25]
  • Expected meeting of leadership of the Sundered Houses [ep. 24, 25]
Soldiers
Seekers
  • Group review documents recovered from Tannesar barracks that include: Tachonis troop movements to Golden Orchard and Houndsport, missives about petrification from Sir Aniko Seremai, and a sprig of holly from Vaelus’s abbey in Mournvale [ep. 25]
  • Occtis reads a letter from Petra and Ryah Tachonis describing frustrations with their father's rushing of plans that include Occtis’s transformation into a celestial, Univere and Doset Tachonis "harvesting" something undisclosed, a targeting of the Old Path, a plot to kill King Augustus Valian, and an effort to lay low the Grey Tower of Dol-Makjar [ep. 25]
Schemers
  • Azune, Bolaire, and Murray defend King Augustus Valian against assassins while Halandil fights Lord-Minister Gorson Brightmane who ultimately teleports away [ep. 25]
  • Murray discovers through divination that Photarch Yanessa Halovar is faking her death at the hands of the assassins [ep. 25]
  • Azune briefly reunites with his sister Mayali Nayar, who is working with the assassins, before she teleports away [ep. 25]
Map number Map
1

NOTE: Numbers represent damage as dealt, taking into account resistances and other effects, and may differ from the damage as rolled.

Total: 96

Character Damage dealt
Julien 0
Thaisha 0
Occtis 0
Vaelus 0
Halandil 30
Murray 17
Azune 35
Bolaire 14

NOTE: Numbers represent damage as taken, taking into account resistances and other effects, and may differ from the damage as rolled.

Total: 55

Character Damage taken
Julien 0
Thaisha 0
Occtis 0
Vaelus 0
Halandil 0
Murray 0
Azune 55
Bolaire 0

Total: 19

Character Healing performed
Julien 0
Thaisha 0
Occtis 0
Vaelus 0
Halandil 0
Murray 0
Azune 12
Bolaire 7

Total: 2

Timestamp Character(s) Description
02:30:12 Bolaire Assassin, Glass Rapier with Green-Flame Blade
02:35:39 Azune Assassin, Booming Blade

KOs

Total: 1

Timestamp Character Circumstance Resolution Notes
02:03:09 Azune Assassin, poisoned blade, gala at the Arcanade's Lyceum Brought back up by potion from Bolaire
Totals
Spells Leveled Spells Only Spell Levels
22 15 25
Character Spell Base level Cast at Notes
Thaisha Speak with Plants 3 - via Lloy Staff
Bolaire See Invisibility 2 - via spell glyph
Azune See Invisibility 2 2
Halandil Disguise Self 1 1
Bolaire Command 1 1 "Grovel"
Azune Booming Blade Cantrip Cantrip
Azune Flaming Sphere 2 2
Bolaire Mind Sliver Cantrip Cantrip
Halandil Shatter 2 2
Halandil Shield 1 - via spell glyph
Azune Booming Blade Cantrip Cantrip
Bolaire Crown of Madness 2 2
Halandil Shatter 2 2
Bolaire Green-Flame Blade Cantrip Cantrip
Azune Booming Blade Cantrip Cantrip
Murray Shield 1 - via spell glyph
Murray True Strike Cantrip Cantrip
Bolaire Mind Sliver Cantrip Cantrip
Murray Musical Migraine 1 1
Bolaire Phantasmal Force 2 2
Bolaire Command 1 1 on Azune, "Calm"
Murray Hold Person 2 2

Total: 17

Character Ability/Feature/Trait Type From Notes
Halandil Unsettling Words Subclass Feature College of Eloquence
Bolaire Eldritch Invocation: Pact of the Blade Class Feature Warlock
Azune Metamagic: Quickened Spell Class Feature Sorcerer
Bolaire War Caster - Feat Opportunity attack (Spell)
Halandil Unsettling Words Subclass Feature College of Eloquence
Azune Lucky Ability Feat
Azune Push Weapon Mastery -
Murray Portent: Used Subclass Feature Divination Changed Mayali Nayar Perception to 6
Halandil Unsettling Words Subclass Feature College of Eloquence
Azune Metamagic: Quickened Spell Class Feature Sorcerer
Azune Desperate Meaures: +5 to D20 Test Homebrew -
Murray Portent: Used Subclass Feature Divination Changed Assassin Executioner WIS Save to 7
Halandil Adrenaline Rush Species Feature Orc
Halandil Adrenaline Rush Species Feature Orc
Azune Lay on Hands Class Feature Paladin Mayali Nayar heals for 5 points
Bolaire War Caster - Feat Opportunity attack (Spell)
Halandil Bardic Inspiration: Granted Class Feature Bard to Azune

PC natural 1s

Total: 3

Timestamp Character Description
00:42:45 Murray Perception Check on what’s going on at the Gala
02:52:31 Veteran d20, rolled by Luis
02:53:50 Veteran d20, rolled by Luis

DM natural 20s

Total: 3

Timestamp Character Description
01:40:56 Lord-Minister Gorson Brightmane Concentration Save on Dominate Person
02:00:51 Assassin Dagger attack on Azune
02:45:41 King Augustus Valian Sword attack with advantage on Assassin

DM natural 1s

Total: 2

Timestamp Character Description
01:19:34 Lord-Minister Gorson Brightmane Fire Bolt attack on Halandil
02:47:38 Spellcaster Concentration Save on keeping the doors closed

Total: 6

Timestamp Item Payer Recipient How obtained Notes
00:09:53 sprig of holly - Vaelus found
00:53:50 See Invisibility glyph Bolaire - used
01:06:27 healing potion Murray King Augustus Valian gave
01:44:09 Shield glyph Halandil - used
02:28:54 healing potion Bolaire Azune used Azune heals for 7 points
02:37:27 Shield glyph Murray King Augustus Valian used

Total: 1

Timestamp Administered by Administered to Potion Effect
02:28:54 Bolaire Azune potion of healing Azune heals for 7 points

Total: 4

Name First mention First appearance Race (if given) Identifier (if relevant) Description (if given)
Lord-Minister Gorson Brightmane C4E024 Good Tidings at 04:40:46 C4E025 Targeted at 00:43:43 Nama From Argosia. Visiting the Stahlkeep in Dol-Makjar. Wearing a sheep mask and Argosian minister's garb to the gala at the Lyceum. Has a red-gold mane.
Sir Carbrady C4E025 Targeted at 00:40:31 C4E025 Targeted at 00:40:31 Knight of King Gus Died during the assassination attempt at the gala. About 19 years old.
Sir Zavisi Hewn C4E025 Targeted at 00:40:31 C4E025 Targeted at 00:40:31 Sir Carbrady's partner in all things Has deep, dark skin, a beard with a little bit of grey at the bottom, and locs tied back around him. (He/him)
Lux Andrea Tivoli C4E025 Targeted at 00:39:36 C4E025 Targeted at 00:39:36 Candescent Creed acolyte Died during the Photarch's faked assassination attempt at the gala.

Proverbs, Hymns, Quotables

Total: 1

Proverb, Hymn, or Other Phrase First Appearance First Said By
"In the name of the Holy Light, I lay low all enemies of the Creed!" C4E025 at 03:23:01 Filoneus Halovar

This category includes any mention of a bird by Brennan. Things named after birds (i.e. The Crow Keepers) are only counted in Bird Lore. Things associated with birds (i.e. feathers), metaphors, idioms, and catchphrases including birds (i.e. “I can still hear the falcon’s cry”), and actual birds are counted on all mentions.

Summary
Species Count
Total 1
Bird person (Eisfuura) 1

Total: 1

Timestamp Species (if given) Line Notes
02:21:36 Bird person (Eisfuura) "We are pulling a Cerrit Agrupnin from "Calamity" when he crushed the glyphs in his kids' hands. We are literally--"