{ "id": "ep2k8msd70", "slug": "candela-obscura", "title": "Candela Obscura", "updated": "2026-11-01", "topic_path": [ { "id": "culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture" }, { "id": "culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted", "label": "Unscripted, reality, and web-native series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native", "label": "Web-native and streaming-original series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native.horror_thriller_scifi_webseries", "label": "Genre web series: horror, thriller, science fiction, and mystery", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native.horror_thriller_scifi_webseries" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native", "label": "United States · 2021 and later: Web-native and streaming-original series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native", "path": [ { "id": "geo.us", "label": "United States", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2021", "label": "United States · 2021 and later", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2021" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2021.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2021.culture" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2021.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2021.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted", "label": "Unscripted, reality, and web-native series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_unscripted" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native", "label": "Web-native and streaming-original series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Candela Obscura is an investigative horror tabletop RPG by Darrington Press, Critical Role's publishing arm, using the six-sided-dice Illuminated Worlds System. Released November 14, 2023, set in the Fairelands, and showcased in Critical Role's monthly actual play anthology.", "snippet": "Candela Obscura is an investigative horror tabletop RPG by Darrington Press, Critical Role's publishing arm, using the six-sided-dice Illuminated Worlds System. Released November 14, 2023, set in the Fairelands, and showcased in Critical Role's monthly actual play anthology.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_web_native.horror_thriller_scifi_webseries", "markdown": "# Candela Obscura\n\n**Candela Obscura** is an investigative horror tabletop roleplaying game published by Darrington Press, the publishing arm of [Critical Role](https://www.edgepedia.org/critical-role), and the first game to use the Illuminated Worlds System, a narrative, arc-driven system built on six-sided dice.[1](https://darringtonpress.com/candela/) Players take the roles of investigators working for a secret society of the same name, pursuing strange occurrences and dangerous magicks while fighting back against a mysterious source of corruption and bleed (in-game corruption spreading from the supernatural into the world).[1](https://darringtonpress.com/candela/) The game is also the basis of a monthly actual play (show where people play an RPG as entertainment) anthology series on Critical Role's Twitch and YouTube channels, which premiered on May 25, 2023.[2](https://critrole.com/hype-candela-obscura-our-new-horror-ttrpg-show-premieres-may-25th/)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Publisher | Darrington Press, Critical Role's publishing division, established in 2020[1](https://darringtonpress.com/candela/) • [3](https://d3ialxc06lvqvq.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/07203808/Press-Release_-Darrington-Press_Macmillan.pdf) |\n| System | Illuminated Worlds, using six-sided dice and designed for narrative, arc-driven play[1](https://darringtonpress.com/candela/) |\n| Lead game design | Spenser Starke and Rowan Hall; Illuminated Worlds system design by Stras Acimovic and Layla Adelman[1](https://darringtonpress.com/candela/) |\n| Core rulebook release | November 14, 2023; standard edition $39.99 USD, limited edition $59.99 USD[1](https://darringtonpress.com/candela/) |\n| Setting | The Fairelands, a turn-of-the-century-inspired region; the rulebook devotes over 90 of its 204 pages to setting[1](https://darringtonpress.com/candela/) • [2](https://critrole.com/hype-candela-obscura-our-new-horror-ttrpg-show-premieres-may-25th/) |\n| Show premiere | May 25, 2023, as a monthly anthology of three-episode chapters[2](https://critrole.com/hype-candela-obscura-our-new-horror-ttrpg-show-premieres-may-25th/) • [4](https://www.thetvdb.com/series/candela-obscura) |\n| Main inspiration | Blades in the Dark, cited in the rulebook's opening pages[5](https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/candela-obscura-core-rulebook-review-deep-campaign-setting-straightforward-narrative-game/) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot\n\nThe series is an anthology: each chapter is a self-contained arc with a new circle of investigators and a new game master, all set in the same world. The setting is the Fairelands, a turn-of-the-century-inspired region of the fictional country Hale, where the order Candela Obscura fights incursions from beyond the Flare and the reality-distorting residue called bleed.[17](https://criticalrole.fandom.com/wiki/Candela_Obscura)\n\n#### Chapter 1: Vassal & Veil (May 25 to July 27, 2023)\n\nNewfaire, 1907. The Circle of Vassal & Veil is assembled around Arlo Black ([Laura Bailey](https://www.edgepedia.org/laura-bailey)), a medium whose connection to bleed is stronger than anyone else's at the table, and whose dead sister is never far from her thoughts. Alongside her are Charlotte Lorne (Anjali Bhimani), Rajan Savarisi ([Robbie Daymond](https://www.edgepedia.org/robbie-daymond)), Nathaniel Trapp ([Travis Willingham](https://www.edgepedia.org/travis-willingham)), and June Vellamonte (Marisha Ray), with Matt Mercer behind the screen. The circle works a case that pulls them through séances, high-society secrets, and the machinery of a city where the wealthy treat the supernatural as one more resource to exploit. The arc's themes run hard at class inequality, and the finale forces the circle to pay in scars for what they learn, since in this game four scars means a character is dead or retired.\n\n#### Chapter 2: Needle & Thread (August 31 to November 2, 2023)\n\nThe second circle is war-forged. Game master Spenser Starke leads Marion Collodi (Luis Carazo), Sean Finnerty (Travis Willingham), Jean Basar (Zehra Fazal), and others through a story about veterans carrying the war home with them. Carazo entered the arc one scar deep, a quarter of the way to death or retirement before the first scene. The chapter's signature moments are intimate: red light bathes the studio as Marion and Sean revisit their shared past, with ambient combat sound underscoring Sean's retracing of events, turning a tabletop conversation into something close to staged theater.[18](https://web.archive.org/web/20230913192409/https:/www.cbr.com/critical-role-tackles-ptsd-in-candela-obscura/)\n\n**The scene people remember from this chapter is Marion taking Jean into a vision of their childhood memories, staged with shifting colored set lighting that turns the studio itself into a memory palace.** Dicebreaker called the audience at the table the show's biggest strength and singled the moment out, noting that Travis Willingham bought into the atmosphere so completely that he flinched at a mere coat hook.[19](https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/candela-obscura/news/candela-obscura-audience-at-the-table)\n\n#### Chapter 3: Tide & Bone (November 30, 2023 to January 25, 2024)\n\nThe third chapter opens with Silva Sarkis, a former officer of the Office of Unexplained Phenomenon, escaping Grayslate Sanatorium and recruiting a shaky new alliance, the Circle of Tide & Bone, at a bookshop called The Antiquarian. Their target is The Maw, an abomination disguised as Sister Iovar. The circle includes Dr. Elsie Roberts ([Ashly Burch](https://www.edgepedia.org/ashly-burch)) and Oscar Grimm ([Sam Riegel](https://www.edgepedia.org/sam-riegel)), and the production experiments with a split-screen mechanic during one-on-one roleplaying scenes between characters.[20](https://www.escapistmagazine.com/critical-role-candela-obscura-chapter-3-episode-1-recap-spoilers/)\n\n**The banner moment of the chapter comes when Elsie transforms into an orca-mantis creature and kills Oscar, and the series then reveals Oscar has died seven times before under a twisted immortality, and that the seemingly young man is actually the father of the 97-year-old Cosmo Grimm.** In the space of one episode the show flips its own cast list upside down.[20](https://www.escapistmagazine.com/critical-role-candela-obscura-chapter-3-episode-1-recap-spoilers/)\n\nThe finale, \"Candles in the Dark,\" aired January 25, 2024, and closes the arc in the sunken ruins of Oldfaire. Rajan sacrifices himself to the goddess Iomene to free his sister Aadtika from a thinning, opening his arms to her in the dark. Oscar chooses to stay beneath Oldfaire with the undying Iomene, and his son Cosmo, learning this, lets go and dies, with Iomene remaining at his side until the end. Cordelia Glask asks the sea to reclaim her and wash away Mina's sins, whispering \"Home\" as she dissolves into sea foam at sunset. Only Elsie returns to Newfaire, carrying a golden Auric Tome; after years of research into a cure for the terminal lung condition Cullet, she chooses never to use the tome. The finale also reveals Iomene's carved gold doors bearing five of her names: The Everlasting, the Lady of Light, the Bane of Empires, Unblinking, and the Vengeful.[21](https://criticalrole.fandom.com/wiki/Candela_Obscura:_Candles_in_the_Dark)\n\n#### Chapter 4: Crimson Mirror and the live special (February 29 to May 30, 2024)\n\nThe fourth chapter, Crimson Mirror, ran from late February through April 2024, with Robbie Daymond among the players. At [San Diego Comic-Con](https://www.edgepedia.org/san-diego-comic-con) 2023, the cast had already singled out the moment when Daymond's character Howard drills into his own skull, a consequence made possible by the scar system's refusal to let characters shrug off harm.[22](https://criticalrole.miraheze.org/wiki/San_Diego_Comic-Con_2023:_Making_Candela_Obscura) A live special, \"The Circle of the Silver Screen,\" followed on May 30, 2024. In June 2024, [Marisha Ray](https://www.edgepedia.org/marisha-ray) announced the show would pause for the summer, with a likely return in the autumn.[17](https://criticalrole.fandom.com/wiki/Candela_Obscura)\n\n### Characters\n\nArlo Black (Laura Bailey) is the Chapter 1 circle's medium, the person most open to bleed, and the emotional center of the first arc's questions about the dead and who profits from them.[23](https://www.cbr.com/candela-obscura-taliesin-jaffe-laura-bailey-critical-role-interview/) Marion Collodi (Luis Carazo) is the Chapter 2 tailor carrying his scars into the story from the first scene, a man defined by what the war left in him.[18](https://web.archive.org/web/20230913192409/https:/www.cbr.com/critical-role-tackles-ptsd-in-candela-obscura/) Elsie Roberts (Ashly Burch) is the Chapter 3 doctor who can become something with an orca-mantis shape, and the only member of her circle to walk out of the finale with a relic she refuses to use. Oscar Grimm (Sam Riegel) is her circle's seemingly young companion, unmasked as a seven-times-dead immortal and the father of the elderly Cosmo Grimm. Howard (Robbie Daymond) is the Chapter 4 investigator whose self-inflicted trepanation became the cast's favorite example of the system's fragility.[22](https://criticalrole.miraheze.org/wiki/San_Diego_Comic-Con_2023:_Making_Candela_Obscura)\n\n### Interpretations and controversies\n\nReception was divided on the premiere. Gizmodo judged the first four-hour episode and its game \"rote,\" with familiar lorebuilding and underwhelming production, while still crediting the show with likely pulling Critical Role fans toward games outside the D&D hegemony.[24](https://gizmodo.com/critical-role-candela-obscura-review-dungeons-dragons-1850480134) The creators, for their part, have framed the setting's real villain as capitalism, \"one of the most haunting monsters the world has ever known,\" alongside its eldritch terrors.[25](https://www.looper.com/1439372/critical-role-spender-starke-rowan-hall-candela-obscura-origins-interview/)\n\n### Sequels, spin-offs, and adaptations\n\nCandela Obscura is itself the first showcase of the Illuminated Worlds system, which Critical Role plans to use for future arc-driven narrative games.[13](https://www.wired.com/story/candela-obscura-critical-role-cast-interview/) A free 26-page Quickstart Guide PDF was released on the day of the first episode, and Darrington Press published the full Candela Obscura Core Rulebook, with over 200 pages of lore and mechanics, on November 14, 2023.[17](https://criticalrole.fandom.com/wiki/Candela_Obscura)\n\n## The game\n\nCandela Obscura places players as investigators of varied talents brought together under the esoteric order Candela Obscura, organized into teams called circles. Each assignment begins with an inciting incident that prompts the circle to uncover and solve a mystery, and the order works to keep the true nature of magickal incursions hidden from the wider world.[1](https://darringtonpress.com/candela/) • [2](https://critrole.com/hype-candela-obscura-our-new-horror-ttrpg-show-premieres-may-25th/) The setting is the Fairelands, a fictional region with a turn-of-the-century feel described as a place of terrifying magick.[2](https://critrole.com/hype-candela-obscura-our-new-horror-ttrpg-show-premieres-may-25th/)\n\n**Mechanics.** The Illuminated Worlds System uses six-sided dice and lends itself to narrative, arc-driven play.[1](https://darringtonpress.com/candela/) [Characters](https://www.edgepedia.org/characters) have actions rated from 0 to 3, and the rating determines how many dice a player rolls when performing that action.[6](https://darringtonpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Candela-Obscura-Guides-and-FAQ-11-17-23.pdf) A review at Cannibal Halfling Gaming counted nine core verbs in Candela Obscura, compared with twelve in Blades in the Dark, and described the game as nestling into genres already popularized in roleplaying, alongside Call of Cthulhu.[7](https://cannibalhalflinggaming.com/2023/05/31/candela-obscura-quickstart-review/) Like Blades in the Dark, the game uses a tiered success system and breaks its statistics into actions.[8](https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2023/05/critical-roles-candela-obscura-might-not-be-forged-in-the-dark-but-it-sure-feels-that-way.html) Character creation includes writing the character's Catalyst, why they joined Candela Obscura, and their Question, the mystery they hope to answer through their investigations.[9](https://roll20.net/compendium/candela/The%20Mechanics)\n\n**Design lineage.** The first pages of the rulebook name Blades in the Dark as a primary source of inspiration for Candela Obscura, and the ComicBook.com review called the game engine a streamlined version of the Blades in the Dark ruleset, one that supports a contained narrative arc but omits the crew-advancement systems that sustain player engagement over long campaigns.[5](https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/candela-obscura-core-rulebook-review-deep-campaign-setting-straightforward-narrative-game/) At the game's announcement, Critical Role's Matt Mercer noted that Illuminated Worlds suited short-term campaigns emphasizing roleplay.[10](https://www.superherohype.com/geek-culture/551550-critical-roles-ttrpg-candela-obscura-announces-a-release-date)\n\n## The actual play series\n\nThe show is a monthly horror drama following the esoteric order of investigators, structured as standalone three-episode chapters so that viewers can jump in on any episode without prior background.[2](https://critrole.com/hype-candela-obscura-our-new-horror-ttrpg-show-premieres-may-25th/) • [11](https://www.tvinsider.com/1094177/critical-role-candela-obscura-taliesin-jaffe-anjali-bhimani/) Each episode opens with the Lightkeeper, played by [Taliesin Jaffe](https://www.edgepedia.org/taliesin-jaffe), a steward who provides prologues; in the fiction, a Lightkeeper is an enlightened veteran who guides recruits and assigns each circle its mission.[2](https://critrole.com/hype-candela-obscura-our-new-horror-ttrpg-show-premieres-may-25th/)\n\nFour chapters aired between May 2023 and April 2024, each with a different circle and game master:[4](https://www.thetvdb.com/series/candela-obscura)\n\n1. **The Circle of the Vassal and the Veil** (May to July 2023), game master [Matthew Mercer](https://www.edgepedia.org/matthew-mercer), with players Robbie Daymond, Laura Bailey, Anjali Bhimani, and [Ashley Johnson](https://www.edgepedia.org/ashley-johnson).[2](https://critrole.com/hype-candela-obscura-our-new-horror-ttrpg-show-premieres-may-25th/) • [4](https://www.thetvdb.com/series/candela-obscura)\n2. **The Circle of Needle and Thread** (August to November 2023), three episodes.[4](https://www.thetvdb.com/series/candela-obscura)\n3. **The Circle of Tide & Bone** (November 2023 to January 2024), beginning with the episode \"The Antiquarian,\" in which a legendary creature emerges within the city of Newfaire.[4](https://www.thetvdb.com/series/candela-obscura)\n4. **The Circle of the Crimson Mirror** (February to April 2024), game master [Liam O'Brien](https://www.edgepedia.org/liam-obrien), with players Taliesin Jaffe, Aimee Carrero, Imari Williams, and Alexander Ward.[4](https://www.thetvdb.com/series/candela-obscura)\n\nEpisodes air live on Twitch on the last Thursday of the month, with rebroadcasts and later release on YouTube and podcast platforms.[2](https://critrole.com/hype-candela-obscura-our-new-horror-ttrpg-show-premieres-may-25th/) A live show, Candela Obscura Live with the Circle of the Silver Screen, followed in May 2024.[12](https://beacon.tv/series/candela-obscura) WIRED reported in July 2023 that reception to the first episodes had been positive enough that the show was already greenlit for a second season.[13](https://www.wired.com/story/candela-obscura-critical-role-cast-interview/)\n\n## Release and reception\n\nA free Quickstart Guide and a How to Play video featuring lead game designer Spenser Starke were released on May 25, 2023, ahead of the premiere.[2](https://critrole.com/hype-candela-obscura-our-new-horror-ttrpg-show-premieres-may-25th/) The full Candela Obscura Core Rulebook followed on November 14, 2023, in standard and limited editions, sold through Critical Role shops, Darrington Press Guild stores, and other retailers, with a PDF bundled with print purchases at the Critical Role shops.[1](https://darringtonpress.com/candela/) The book runs 204 pages and contains over 90 pages of setting material along with example assignments for game masters.[1](https://darringtonpress.com/candela/) Digital versions are available as a standalone PDF, on Demiplane's Candela Obscura Nexus, and on Roll20's Candela Obscura Compendium, and licensed translations exist in Spanish (Devir), German (Pegasus Spiele), Portuguese (Jambô Editora), and Italian (Acheron Games).[1](https://darringtonpress.com/candela/) In January 2025, [Macmillan Publishers](https://www.edgepedia.org/macmillan-publishers) announced a sales and distribution agreement with Darrington Press covering US and international sales of the Candela Obscura Core Rulebook alongside other titles.[3](https://d3ialxc06lvqvq.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/07203808/Press-Release_-Darrington-Press_Macmillan.pdf)\n\n**Critical response.** Reviews divided along the game's two halves. The ComicBook.com review praised the deep campaign setting and called the ruleset straightforward but thin relative to the world, judging the game better suited to short arcs than long campaigns.[5](https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/candela-obscura-core-rulebook-review-deep-campaign-setting-straightforward-narrative-game/) A Dexerto review positioned it as a distinct partner to Call of Cthulhu for horror players looking for something different.[14](https://www.dexerto.com/reviews/is-the-critical-role-candela-obscura-ttrpg-rulebook-worth-buying-2392368/) A review at Board Game Academics singled out the game's treatment of disability, noting that the rules educate game masters on the topic rather than leaving them to their own devices.[15](https://boardgameacademics.com/critical-roles-candela-obscura-world-building-to-build-a-better-world/) GamesRadar's roundup of horror tabletop RPGs lists Candela Obscura alongside Call of Cthulhu and Vaesen as games horror fans should look at.[16](https://www.gamesradar.com/best-tabletop-rpgs/)\n\n## References\n\n1. [Candela Obscura, Darrington Press](https://darringtonpress.com/candela/)\n2. [HYPE! Candela Obscura – Our New Horror TTRPG Show Premieres May 25th!, Critical Role](https://critrole.com/hype-candela-obscura-our-new-horror-ttrpg-show-premieres-may-25th/)\n3. [Press Release: Macmillan Enters into a Sales & Distribution Agreement with Critical Role's Darrington Press (January 7, 2025)](https://d3ialxc06lvqvq.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/07203808/Press-Release_-Darrington-Press_Macmillan.pdf)\n4. [Candela Obscura – Aired Order, TheTVDB.com](https://www.thetvdb.com/series/candela-obscura)\n5. [Candela Obscura Core Rulebook Review: Deep Campaign Setting, Straightforward Narrative Game, ComicBook.com](https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/candela-obscura-core-rulebook-review-deep-campaign-setting-straightforward-narrative-game/)\n6. [Candela Obscura – Guides and FAQ, Darrington Press](https://darringtonpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Candela-Obscura-Guides-and-FAQ-11-17-23.pdf)\n7. [Candela Obscura Quickstart Review, Cannibal Halfling Gaming](https://cannibalhalflinggaming.com/2023/05/31/candela-obscura-quickstart-review/)\n8. [Critical Role's Candela Obscura Might Not Be Forged in the Dark But It Sure Feels That Way, Bell of Lost Souls](https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2023/05/critical-roles-candela-obscura-might-not-be-forged-in-the-dark-but-it-sure-feels-that-way.html)\n9. [The Mechanics, Candela Obscura on Roll20 Compendium](https://roll20.net/compendium/candela/The%20Mechanics)\n10. [Critical Role's TTRPG Candela Obscura Announces a Release Date, SuperHeroHype](https://www.superherohype.com/geek-culture/551550-critical-roles-ttrpg-candela-obscura-announces-a-release-date)\n11. [Critical Role's Taliesin Jaffe & Anjali Bhimani Tease New Candela Obscura Series, TV Insider](https://www.tvinsider.com/1094177/critical-role-candela-obscura-taliesin-jaffe-anjali-bhimani/)\n12. [Candela Obscura, Beacon](https://beacon.tv/series/candela-obscura)\n13. [Candela Obscura's All-Star Cast on Magic and Play in an Oppressive World, WIRED](https://www.wired.com/story/candela-obscura-critical-role-cast-interview/)\n14. [Is the Critical Role Candela Obscura TTRPG rulebook worth buying?, Dexerto](https://www.dexerto.com/reviews/is-the-critical-role-candela-obscura-ttrpg-rulebook-worth-buying-2392368/)\n15. [Critical Role's Candela Obscura: World Building to Build a Better World, Board Game Academics](https://boardgameacademics.com/critical-roles-candela-obscura-world-building-to-build-a-better-world/)\n16. [Best tabletop RPGs, GamesRadar](https://www.gamesradar.com/best-tabletop-rpgs/)\n17. 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[https://criticalrole.miraheze.org/wiki/San_Diego_Comic-Con_2023:_Making_Candela_Obscura](https://criticalrole.miraheze.org/wiki/San_Diego_Comic-Con_2023:_Making_Candela_Obscura)\n23. [https://www.cbr.com/candela-obscura-taliesin-jaffe-laura-bailey-critical-role-interview/](https://www.cbr.com/candela-obscura-taliesin-jaffe-laura-bailey-critical-role-interview/)\n24. [https://gizmodo.com/critical-role-candela-obscura-review-dungeons-dragons-1850480134](https://gizmodo.com/critical-role-candela-obscura-review-dungeons-dragons-1850480134)\n25. 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