Proceed at your own risk! Caleb Widogast , born Bren Aldric Ermendrud , is a human wizard and a member of the adventuring party known as the Mighty Nein. He is played by Liam O'Brien. Caleb at level 20, by Hannah Friederichs. Caleb has blue eyes, a cleft chin, and reddish-brown hair.
He first revealed the scars to the party in " A Game of Names " 2x49 , and later permanently removed the bandages he used to conceal them. When Caleb first appeared on Critical Role , he was filthy, unshaven, and had messy hair. He had slept in his filthy travel clothes, including a long coat. Caleb has shifted towards being clean-shaven, tasking Yasha with aiding him in shaving in " Stalker in the Swamp " 2x21 and switching to a razor when she cut him in " Wood and Steel " 2x He purchased new, stylish clothes in " Agreements " 2x61 , throwing away his old tattered ones.
After reading from Lucien 's cursed tome, [35] Caleb had a dream from the Somnovem and became marked with a red eye tattoo on his right shoulder, similar to Lucien's tattoos. After a second dream from the Somnovem [36] , a second red eye tattoo appeared in the center of his shoulder blades on his back. The third eye appeared on the palm of his left hand, [37] and the fourth over his heart. Caleb is reserved, not wanting to draw too much attention to himself or his companion Nott.
Caleb's generally dour and isolated manner morphs into an open and jubilant mood upon purchasing new books. Caleb possesses a deep self-loathing due to the circumstances of his parents' death. He believed that he was fully responsible despite being magically beguiled and the reassurances of both Nott and Beauregard that he was not to blame; he neither wanted nor accepted their consolations.
He originally appeared to want revenge against Trent Ikithon ; however, his present goal seems to be to prevent any more children being recruited and trained as he was. As a young boy Caleb was focused, persuasive, driven, and eloquent, though later in life he used his charismatic personality more to deceive people. Caleb is methodical, sometimes to a fault. He has painstakingly counted objects on multiple occasions, once using the length of counting to cheat a merchant [44] and even counting crossbow bolts as he removed them from his chest.
