If Ian from ‘Mythic Quest’ and Mac from ‘It’s Always Sunny..’ ever meet, there’d be a fistfight, says Rob McElhenney

Ahead of the second season launch, co-creators Megan Ganz and Rob McElhenney and the rest of the cast of ‘Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet’ — Charlotte Nicdao, Danny Pudi, Ashly Burch, Imani Hakim, F. Murray Abraham, and Jessie Ennis — chat about why the Apple TV Plus series is more than about video games

At the mention of ‘Hyderabad’, actor Danny Pudi breaks into a ear-to-ear grin, spreads his arms wide and exclaims over a video call, “Hyderabad!” with the familiarity of a man from the Godavari district. He continues, “One of my last trips before the pandemic was to Hyderabad, and I cannot wait to be back.” Starring in season two of Apple TV+’s Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet, Pudi plays Brad Bakshi, the shark-like head of monetisation at developer studio Mythic Quest. Season one saw a team of game developers, testers, writers and other staff led by the egotistical Ian (Rob McElhenney), working on an open-world role-playing game – very similar to World of Warcraft and Skyrim – called Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet.