Aabria Iyengar

Aabria Iyengar
Photograph of Aabria Lyengar, by Heirlume Photography.
General Information
Also known as	Quiddie
Pronouns	she/her
Profession	Actress
Critical Role works	Campaign Three: Bells Hells Exandria Unlimited Critter Hug Narrative Telephone The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood "Game Masters of Exandria Roundtable" (Sx69) Candela Obscura, Circle of Tide and Bone Critical Role: Vox Machina - Stories Untold
Internet Presence
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Aabria Iyengar is a tabletop roleplaying game streamer, podcaster, and writer. She is the Dungeon Master of the mini-campaign Exandria Unlimited and its two-part continuation Exandria Unlimited: Kymal, as well as the third chapter of Candela Obscura featuring the Circle of Tide and Bone. Aabria has also appeared as a guest on multiple Critical Role shows.

Critical Role Productions

Aabria first appeared on the fourth episode of Critter Hug, where she was interviewed by Matthew Mercer and Mica Burton. She then appeared as a guest in two episodes of Narrative Telephone and guest-starred in The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood as Tavima.

During the hiatus between Campaign Two and Three, Aabria was Game Master for the eight-part miniseries Exandria Unlimited and returned for the two-part Exandria Unlimited: Kymal, which together comprised the first canonical multi-session campaign set in Exandria led by someone other than Matt. She returned at the table but this time as a player in Campaign Three, playing Deanna Leimert in "Far From The Others" (3x52) through "Escape From The Past" (3x58), "Reunited" (3x64) and for the finale in "A New Age Begins" (3x121). She DMed again in two consecutive episodes of campaign three, "Broken Roads" (3x92) and "Bittersweet Reunions" (3x93), to close the adventures of the Crown Keepers. With ten episodes total, she became second to Matt for the most episodes played as Dungeon Master, overtaking Liam O'Brien's five episodes.(Later surpassed by Brennan Lee Mulligan with 11 episodes). She appeared in "Game Masters of Exandria Roundtable" (Sx69) alongside Matt and Brennan sharing their experience of game mastering in the world of Exandria.

She also appeared in "Let's Play Queen by Midnight!" with Aimee Carrero, Laura Bailey, and Taliesin Jaffe, and in episode 26 of #EverythingisContent, Queen by Midnight: Quarter Past.

Player characters

• Tavima, human Redguard Templar (The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood)
• Laerryn Coramar-Seelie, elven wizard (School of Abjuration) (Exandria Unlimited: Calamity)
• Deanna Leimert, gnome cleric (Life Domain) (Campaign Three: Bells Hells)

Tavima

Laerryn Coramar-Seelie

Deanna Leimert

Games Played as Dungeon Master

• Exandria Unlimited
• Exandria Unlimited: Kymal
• Candela Obscura: The Circle of Tide & Bone
• Campaign Three: Bells Hells (two episodes)

Other work

In the world of D&D, Aabria is a reoccurring guest player and game master in Dropout's D&D real play Dimension 20 and its talkback show, Adventuring Party, created by Brennan Lee Mulligan. Her player characters include:

• Myrtle (Fantasy High spin-off, Pirates of Leviathan) played alongside Matthew Mercer, Marisha Ray, Carlos Luna, and Krystina Arielle, and DMed by Mulligan.
• Antiope Jones (The Seven) played alongside Isabella Roland and Erika Ishii, also DMed by Mulligan.
• Karna Solara (prequel to A Crown of Candy, The Ravening War) played alongside Mulligan, Lou Wilson, and Anjali Bhimani, and GMed by Mercer.

She acted as the GM for:

• Misfits and Magic, players including Mulligan, Ishii, and Wilson, as well as Michelle Nguyen Bradley and Markeia McCarty in it's sequel one-shot liveshow. (The main Misfits and Magic campaign run concurrently with Exandria Unlimited. Her implication in both projects those months made people call that period the "Summer of Aabria". )
• A Court of Fey & Flowers, players including Mulligan, Wilson, Emily Axford, and Omar Najam.
• Burrow's End, players including Roland, Ishii, and Mulligan

Her implication in both projects those months made people call that period the "Summer of Aabria". In November 2021, she also served as the game master for the Imbalance mini-series of The Adventure Zone.

Alongside Krystina, she is a recurring player of Into the Mother Lands, a long-term campaign played using the Cortex Prime system. Aabria is a player or DM in several livestreamed tabletop RPG series on channels like Hyper RPG, Saving Throw Show and the Happy Jacks RPG Network.

Trivia

• Aabria's first experience playing D&D was when she was invited to her husband's board game group, and was handed a cleric character sheet.
• Aabria was the first guest game master to share her playlist as the "architect" of Exandria Unlimited, and the second GM playlist overall, following Matt's playlist made in 2015 for his NPCs.
• Aabria is the first person other than Matt to DM an episode of the main Critical Role show.

External Links

• Aabria Iyengar on the Dimension 20 Wiki
• Aabria Iyengar on the Saving Throw Wiki
• Aabria Iyengar on IMDb

References

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