Get ready for Vox Machina to deliver some of its "hardest punches" in season 3

The third season of The Legend of Vox Machina, based on the role-playing adventures of voice acting Dungeons & Dragons troupe Critical Role, is coming to Amazon Prime Video this fall, and the cast members are promising conflict aplenty.

“If the first season was about found family and the second season was about everybody coming together and learning the joys of having said found family, this third season definitely touches on a decent amount of but also, families have conflict,” Marisha Ray (Keyleth) told TV Insider. “Especially kind of looking back at where Vox Machina started in that first season, in those first couple of episodes where they were just like, a bunch of sidekicks with very little responsibility. This is like all of the responsibility all at once happening now. And the stakes are very high.”

The Vox Machina team is currently facing down the Chroma Conclave, a group of power-hungry dragons who have no problem burning everything in their sight. They've killed two of the five, but you're never fully safe when there are live dragons again. Ray teases "interesting, juicy stuff” ahead for the crew.

It's easy to imagine some heartbreaking moments in the show's future. Travis Willingham, who voices the crew's affable barbarian bruiser Grog, pretty much guarantees it. "[Director Eugene Lee is]...going to pull some of the hardest punches in season three," he told Screen Rant. "No spoilers. But yeah, he's got a knack for making the end of the episode hurt! In a beautiful way."

They both sound pretty serious, but let's also remember that Vox Machina can be an extremely goofy series. Ahead of its showing at this year's San Diego Comic-Con, they released a brief clip of what happens when the impish bard Scanlan (Emmett J. Scanlan) rides a magic broom through a crowded city, singing all the while:

So rest assured that there will plenty of laughs into between the heartbreaks when The Legend of Vox Machina premieres its third season on October 3.

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