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Fans of The Legend of Vox Machina, the record-breaking animated series from Critical Role and Prime Video, won't want to miss this collection of prequel comics stories featuring Ripley, Cassandra, and The Briarwoods!Get a deeper look into the pasts of iconic characters from The Legend of Vox Machina animated series with this hardcover collection of prequels!Gain a look into the motivations of Dr. Anna Ripley as she betrays the de Rolo family to aid the vicious Briarwoods, then root for Cassandra de Rolo as she works in the shadows to rebel against Delilah and Sylas as they parade her around the city as their pawn. Just as the hate for the Briarwoods settles in, see how the couple fell in love, formed an unbreakable bond, and fell into darkness throughout their time together.This hardcover has brand new cover art by Aviv Or and collects:The Legend of Vox Machina: The Whitestone Chronicles Volume 1-RipleyThe Legend of Vox Machina: The Whitestone Chronicles Volume 2-CassandraThe Legend of Vox Machina: The Whitestone Chronicles Volume 3-The Briarwoods Marieke Nijkamp is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of novels, graphic novels, and comics, including This Is Where It Ends, Critical Role: Vox Machina - Kith & Kin, At The End Of Everything, Hawkeye: Kate Bishop, The Oracle Code, and Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens.Tyler Walpole has been a valued illustrator in the entertainment industry since the year 2000. His clients include Marvel Entertainment, Wizards of the Coast, Warner Bros Animation, Marvel/Lionsgate, DC Comics, Blizzard, Paizo's Pathfinder, IDW, and Dynamite Entertainment, among many others.Currently he is working as an artist for Magic the Gathering, and developing his own urban fantasy setting, Blood of Dragons. His most widely seen work can be found almost anywhere in the form of licensed character images created directly for Marvel Studios. He has illustrated iconic promotional images several Marvel Studios movies, including: Captain America: Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Ant-Man. Travis Hymel is a Colorado based comic book artist and illustrator. He has worked for comic book publishers such as: Devil's Due Comics, Action Lab Entertainment, Boom Studios, Comixtribe, Full Moon Comix, and UNICEF. Aviv Or (she/her) is an illustrator and comic artist, living in London, UK, and definitely should be getting out more to enjoy that fact. She started drawing seriously around age 13, when she realized she could never become one of the X-Men herself, so drawing it would be the next best thing.Nowadays she works mainly in and around tabletop roleplaying games: creating artwork for books, designing characters for streams, and illustrating comics. She is also the co-creator of the webcomic Crystal Heart, about - you guessed it - roleplaying games.Her portfolio is at avivor.com, and she shares art, makes silly word games, and smashes the Like button on pictures of food and adorable animals as @avivor on Bluesky.Diana Sousa lives in Portugal, where she splits her time between all things comics and graphic design, writing, and all sorts of nerdy content.She's the Eisner nominated colorist on the CRITICAL ROLE: VOX MACHINA ORIGINS on-going comics series, as well as the CRITICAL ROLE: THE MIGHTY NEIN ORIGINS: CALEB WIDOGAST, YASHA NYDOORIN, and FJORD STONE graphic novels from Dark Horse Comics. She colored issues 16 and 17 of CROWDED volume 3 from Image Comics. She also colored MALL GOTH, an upcoming graphic novel from Simon & Schuster. She freelances for Hunters Entertainment, and has done the layout for some of their TTRPG books.Diana can be bribed with books, tea, chocolate, comics, video and board games, Dungeons and Dragons shenanigans, dinosaurs, pirates, and yet more chocolate.