The Mighty Nein Origins: Beauregard Lionett (2024)

The Mighty Nein Origins: Beauregard Lionett is the seventh issue of Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins, written by Mae Catt with direction from Matthew Mercer and Marisha Ray and with art by Guilherme Balbi. It was published by Dark Horse Comics on May 15, 2024. The comic explores the backstory of Ray's player character Beauregard Lionett.

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Plot summary[edit | edit source]

Thoreau Lionett is again telling his child Beauregard the bedtime story about his past and the "witch" that told him he'd be a great winemaker and that Beau would inherit his name and his business. He warns the girl that the witch has given them many gifts, but she can also take them away, and gives Beau a jade necklace for protection.

Years later, now a young woman, Beau is exasperated with her father, as he strikes down her attempt to make a better deal with the Lionett Winery customers by including the delivery. Thoreau tells her that he knows about her desire to travel across the continent, but he thinks she should concentrate on her studies. Upon hearing that Beauregard wants to leave Kamordah, Thoreau (supported by Clara Lionett) again reminds her how safe she is there, and that their success could easily vanish.

One night, Beau escapes the Lionett house and goes to a tavern to make an under-the-table deal on delivering their wine with the owner, the first of many. She doesn't plan to keep the money to herself, it is all supposed to go back to the winery once Beauregard proves her father about the business and her involvement.

After weeks of making enough money to prove her father wrong, Beau attempts to speak to her father about her success. Instead, he tells her that while he appreciates her dedication to the winery, he had to shut down her dreams of success before she did something foolish.

Later as Beau dejectedly sits at a bar, a tavern bartender tells her about "The Tornado", a smuggler who has a vast network of contacts across the Marrow Valley. Beau comes to another tavern and tells the bartender that she has a business offer for The Tornado. He doesn't believe her, and a bar fight breaks out, but The Tornado breaks it up and offers the young Lionett her help. She introduces herself as Tori.

Beau and Tori begin smuggling the wine and selling it for a triple price; since Beau is also doing the accounting on the winery, no one seems to notice anything. One day, Tori again returns to Kamordah to bring back the money and "steals" Beau for a hike. The two confess their feelings for each other and start dating.

Thoreau eventually discovers the discrepancies between the records and the actual number of wine barrels, but Beau convinces him that these were used for Clara's personal stash.

By then, Beau has collected enough money to prove her father wrong, and just needs one final shipment. She discusses its terms with Tori, and Tori is baffled that Beauregard just wants to keep the money in the family. Beau responds that a life of smuggling seems to be attractive to her, and Tori retorts that there is nothing romantic in it: she always has to be on the run and always has to look over her shoulder, and that is why she wants to use the money to buy herself a new life, while Beau has it all laid out for herself. Beau angrily says that she had to do the grunt work for months to cover Tori, and storms out.

The two continue arguing as they steal a barrel from the winery and get caught. Thoreau comes to the jail to get Beau, and Tori tries to shield her girlfriend by claiming Beau was actually trying to save her father as Tori was threatening to rob the winery and blackmailing her. Thoreau doesn't buy the lies and offers Tori money so that she'd disappear out of Beau's life. Tori refuses and says to Thoreau that women like Beau cannot be caged, and she will soon escape Thoreau's world.

At the Lionett's home, Thoreau tells his daughter that he's taken all of her hoard to "compensate" for Beau's disobedience. Beau tries to argue that she did all of this to prove herself, but Thoreau says that Beau has only brought shame to the family and is trying to break it apart; Beauregard angrily responds that it has already been broken for some time.

Beau spends several days in her room without speaking to her parents, and then gets "kidnapped" by Zeenoth and his gang and taken to the Cobalt Soul. She realizes that her "family" was never hers, and she can always get a found family of her own.

Appearances[edit | edit source]

Returning[edit | edit source]

These characters previously appeared in Campaign 2.

• Beauregard Lionett
• Thoreau Lionett
• Clara Lionett
• Adon Zeenoth
• Isharnai (cameo)

New[edit | edit source]

• Tori

Publication[edit | edit source]

The Mighty Nein Origins: Beauregard Lionett was originally scheduled for publication by Dark Horse Comics with an April 30, 2024 release for book retailers and a May 1, 2024 release for comic shops.^[1] It was later delayed to May 15, 2024.^[3]

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