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Published Jun 25, 2026, 7:14 AM EDT
Sisters are doing it for themselves!
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Come July 9, Critical Role is swapping its Dungeons & Dragons roots for something closer to home with its new series. Enter: Age of Umbra: Sallowlands, which will use Critical Role's own tabletop role-playing game system, Daggerheart. Even better, we now know more about Laura Bailey's new character that she will play in the campaign.
While Dungeons & Dragons is known for its combination of narrative and number-crunching, Daggerheart is a more story-driven gaming system, where mechanics incorporate storytelling to forge epic, or dreadful, moments at the table.
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In Sallowlands, a group of adventurers is once more exploring everything the corrupted, nightmarish land of the Halcyon Domain has to offer. The full cast includes: Laura Bailey (Dispatch), Jennifer English (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33), Vico Ortiz (Our Flag Means Death), Abubakar Salim (House of the Dragon), and Zachery Renauldo (Critical Role). Matthew Mercer returns as Game Master.
With the new miniseries coming in just a few weeks, there's still a lot we don't know about the cast and the characters they'll be playing. However, thanks to the Beacon-exclusive talk show, Fireside Chat, Bailey gave fans a quick tease about what to expect from her new character.
While speaking alongside co-host and CEO Travis Willingham, Bailey compared her new character — Sister, a fungril witch — to the previous fungril character she played, Sweetpea Betabean. Unlike Sweetpea, a cutesy rogue, Bailey describes Sister as a "hot, big fungril" with magical abilities.
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Bailey didn't reveal much more, other than that all the characters involved in Sallowlands are "quite creepy." As someone who appreciates all things horror, I'm very much looking forward to being given the heebie-jeebies come July.
Paired with what was shared on the social media platform X, we know that Sister is a fungril hedge witch. Her design is grotesque in the most beautiful of ways, looking more like a mushroom that's been left out in the sun for too long. Her fellow cast member, Salim, is also playing a fungril, though his ancestry is that of a giant.
We know from Critical Role's previous Age of Umbra miniseries, Bailey's comments, and Matt Mercer's previous description of the setting as "Soulsborne-esque, super dark and deadly," that Critters should expect horrors when Sallowlands comes around. How much will be revealed when Age of Umbra: Sallowlands arrives on July 9.
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