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Fjord Stone

Played by: Travis Willingham

"I don't know if I give off some sort of a sense of knowing shit, but I really don't."

Click ^here  to see Fjord before Level 10.

Race: Half-Orc

Class: Warlock (Hexblade, Pact of the Blade) / Paladin (Oath of the Open Sea)

A roaming half-orc Warlock with a low voice and a knack for disguises. A former sailor by trade, he recently acquired strange magical powers linked to the falchion he carries and is traveling to find someone who can teach him more about his newfound abilities and how to wield them. His patron is Uk'otoa, an ouroboros-like leviathan of the Lucidian Ocean connected to the Cloaked Serpent, one of the Betrayer Gods.

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Tropes A - H

• Absurd Phobia: Gains one for turtles/tortoises after an enemy was polymorphed into a giant tortoise (while Fjord was still under its "fear" effect), and it kept attacking him with surprisingly threatening power. Naturally, a similar incident happened when facing a dragon turtle in episode 100 and a frost worm in episode 117.
• Accent Slip-Up: Fjord speaks with a British accent while dreaming about his patron or in some moments after he wakes up. This is because the Southern accent Fjord uses in day-to-day life is fake. Fjord adopted the Southern accent of his mentor as a way to remember him. After he comes to terms with himself, he drops the Southern accent and speaks with his real British accent from then on.
• Action Survivor: After being Brought Down to Normal he still goes into battle and manages to prove key to all the Mighty Nein surviving a dangerous fight.
• Age-Gap Romance: He ends up becoming lovers with Jester, and he is up to ten years older than she.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: Par for the course since he's a half-orc, but the fact that his skin goes from a dark sea-foam green on his forehead to a lighter green on his lower face is notable since orckins typically don't have two skin tones and if they do it is a typical human skin tone intermingled with their native green.
• An Ice Person: Can use Armor of Agathys to coat himself in magical frost that damages enemies when he is hit with melee attacks. Later in the campaign frost forms whenever he summons his pact weapon, and in the higher-level reunion episodes he able to cast Cone of Cold.
• Atrocious Alias: He is known with the alias of Captain Tusktooth over the seas because he refuses to reveal if he even has a real last name. The fact that it is a Non-Indicative Name makes it even funnier. Then there are also the silly names of the ships he commands, even though his crew-mates are responsible for these ones...
• Bad Powers, Good People:
  • Fjord's magical abilities range from merely destructive (Booming Blade, Eldritch Blast) to sinister (Crown of Madness, Summon Greater Demon, Accursed Specter) to outright Lovecraftian (Hunger of Hadar), but he's good-hearted and one of the most reliably moral people in the party.
  • Becomes averted after the Wildmother becomes his patron. He retains his warlock powers, but they now have qualities and aesthetics resembling those of nature, rather than eldritch energies. On an interesting note, after this change, Fjord tends to forgo his previous sinister powers for melee attacks with the Star Razor, Divine Smites, Eldritch Blasts, and his channel divinity options.
• Beneath the Mask: Part of Fjord's confidence in his identity is tied to his warlock abilities. When Uk'otoa temporarily removes his powers in Episode 61, he's deeply anxious about being abandoned by the group for being useless, and also about losing his chance to find Vandran.
• The Big Guy: Comes with being a Half-Orc and having the party's highest Constitution. In a subversion, Fjord actually has Dexterity & Strength stats that are no better than those of Caleb & Caduceus - he still hits like a truck thanks to his Hexblade abilities, but only if he’s using his pact weapon. After aligning with the Wildmother, his strength is boosted to a more respectable level to meet the multi-class requirements.
• Brains and Brawn: He's quite intelligent and as a Half-Orc he's actually pretty durable; as a Hexblade Warlock, he even has a nice sword to attack enemies with.
• Brief Accent Imitation: He changes accents when he disguises himself to impressive effect. At one point, after changing accents to talk to a member of the Crownsguard, he briefly lapses into another voice that sounds suspiciously like Grog's.
• Brought Down to Normal: Uk'otoa briefly revokes Fjord's powers as a warning against straying too far from his quest of freeing the leviathan. When it tries to intimidate Fjord by pulling the trick a second time in the Kiln of the Wildmother, which is inside an active volcano, Fjord responds by throwing the Sword of Fathoms in a lava pit, which appears to sever Uk'otoa's control over Fjord entirely, at the cost of his spells and abilities.
• Butt-Monkey: Thanks to his rather fragile masculinity and Travis's tendency to roll natural 1s whenever Fjord's pride is on the line (such as him rolling three natural 1s in a row during the shot-putt contest in Episode 17, or getting a hernia whilst doing push-ups to impress Jester in Episode 89), he tends to be this. He also seems to be the most likely to suffer Amusing Injuries amongst the Nein, such as when he's thrown off of the roc in Episode 67.
• Calling Your Attacks: Caleb's attempt to replicate Fjord's accent implies that he really does shout "Eldritch Blast!" every time he casts the spell. Travis confirmed on Talks Machina that Fjord does in fact yell the names of his spells as he casts them. Possibly justified, as most spells require verbal components to be cast, and depending on the player's interpretation, those might simply be the name of the spell.
• The Captain: He is this when the Mighty Nein are at sea, being the only member of the team with sailing experience. It slowly morphs into him being regarded as the party's de facto leader. Over time, he also grows to embody many of the associated tropes: being a levelheaded and encouraging leader, making sure No One Gets Left Behind, and developing into a genuinely skilled veteran mariner.
• Casting a Shadow: Hex. It's described as shadows coalescing around the target to hold it in place.
• Character Death: Killed by servants of Uk'otoa towards the end of episode 98. Caduceus revives him at the start of episode 99.
• Characterization Marches On: At first, Travis played Fjord as the Only Sane Man of the group, a characterization that seemed incongruous with his low Wisdom score. As the campaign has progressed, however, Travis has deliberately played up Fjord's recklessness, impulsiveness, and lack of guile, in a bit of Gameplay and Story Integration. Justified when Fjord explains he was trying to imitate as Vandran, his mentor and father figure.
• Condescending Compassion: Fjord has a bad habit of talking down to Nott while attempting to present himself as a Cool Big Bro. She hates it. He stopped doing so after learning about some of the hardships she's gone through.
• Cool Sword:
  • Has a falchion - a one-handed, single-edged sword similar to a saber or machete - that grows barnacles and drips water when arcane energy is channeled through it, called the Sword of Fathoms. The weapon was apparently discovered by Fjord on the sea shore and can be summoned at will by its wielder. As his pact weapon, it is connected to his patron, and seems to be able to somehow take on aspects of other weapons that Fjord wields.
  • During the Uthodorn arc, Fjord received the hilt of another magical sword: Dwueth'var a.k.a. the Star Razor, an ancient blade forged in the Age of Arcanum through the union of two acolytes of the Wildmother and the Moonweaver. He and the rest of the group are enamored enough by the mystique of the blade to seriously consider facing a dragon to re-forge it.
• Crisis Makes Perfect: Fjord having an average strength score, in spite of his orcish blood, is often made fun of both in and out of universe and, due to Travis' rolls, he tends to humiliate himself whenever he tries to show off his physical skills. However, in episode 73, despite being stripped of his warlock powers at the time, he manages to hold down a Remorhaz through sheer physical force alone.
• Dark and Troubled Past:
  • Growing up, Fjord was bullied and teased for being a half-orc, which led him to file down his tusks. Not only has this habit become so ingrained in him that he does it unconsciously on occasion, it also ties into how he seems somewhat conflicted over his heritage, especially the rougher qualities. Then there's the implication that he was in a shipwreck, which led to him making a pact with a mysterious entity whose intentions for Fjord are unknown.
  • Travis later revealed that Fjord grew up in an Orphanage of Fear where the children were forced to manufacture goods and do hard labor against their will.
• Dating Catwoman: With Captain Avantika who shamelessly flirts with him right from the first meeting. Despite a brief scuffle in the Temple of Uk'otoa where Fjord tries to drown her once they return to the ship she invites him for a drink in her cabin, where Travis decides to "go for it" and they end up sleeping together.
• Deal with the Devil:
  • While the details are still unclear, Fjord has a pact with some kind of demonic leviathan, from whom he received his trademark falchion and magical powers.
  • Inverted as of episode 76, as his patron is now the Wildmother.
  • Strikes another dealing with a god, this time Zehir, the Cloaked Serpent, because Uk'otoa has been released and the power of its father is required to seal him anew. Downplayed, as it is a mutually beneficial arrangement with no strings attached.
• De-power: Uk'otoa threatens him with this in Episode 61 when it becomes clear that Fjord doesn't plan to undo the final seal, and actually does take away his warlock abilities for a bit.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Brazenly defies Uk'otoa when it threatens to CONSUME him for not breaking the third seal, by throwing his pact blade in a lava pit inside a temple consecrated by not one, but two different gods.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • Fjord's decision to take the last orb, so that no one can free Uk'otoa without going through him, makes sure that a third party can't free the demi-god. However, the fact that Fjord puts off going to the last temple to break the seal frustrates Uk'otoa, leading to Fjord being threatened with the loss of his powers.
  • Additionally, he never stopped to think that returning to the ocean after breaking his pact with Uk'otoa may not be the wisest decision...
• Disappeared Dad: Fjord was an orphan, and his surrogate father figure was a man named Vandran, who captained the ship that Fjord crewed on, and disappeared in the wreck that led to Fjord making a warlock pact. Fjord idolized Vandran, and one of his motivations for adventuring was to find Vandran. He's stung to find out via a message from Jester that Vandran is alive and happily retired, with no apparent desire to see Fjord again; immediately afterward, he decides to stop affecting the Southern accent that was an attempt at imitating his captain.
• DIY Dentistry: In Episode 11, Fjord admits that he "used to do [his] own dental work", filing down his tusks in an attempt to avoid Half-Breed Discrimination for his orc blood.
• Embarrassing Last Name: Orphans at the Driftwood Asylum are given plain or insulting surnames by the headmaster; Fjord was dubbed "Stone" as a reminder that he was cast away, like a stone. He eventually embraces it as his last name, first when he finds out that the Stone family devoted to Melora is a huge adoptive family which includes many different races, and finally when he pronounces his Oath of the Open Sea to the Wild Mother.
• Enigmatic Empowering Entity: During the first few chapters of the second campaign, the nature of Fjord's Warlock Patron is a complete mystery. Fjord doesn't even remember even making a pact with it as it happened during a life or death situation where he was drowning and the lack of oxygen probably didn't help. It appears to him in dreams where it gives vague indications through single word sentences and leaves threatening traces of his presence in the morning. Eventually subverted when it is finally named in Episode 37 and his nature and goals are further explored after that.
• Epic Fail: His attempt to play Trebuchet at the Harvest Festival in Zadash ends in disaster, thanks to Travis rolling three natural 1's in a row; his first throw hits a mother in the audience, his second rips the bag and causes him to get covered in sand, and his third results in him eating the ground face first. Made worse when Molly wins on his first try immediately following.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: Fjord's search for answers from his patron leads him dangerously close to unleashing an elder evil upon the world. In his curiosity, he breaks two of three seals binding Uk'otoa, but appears shaken enough, once the gravity of the situation sets in, that he decides to leave well enough alone— at least for a time.
• Evolving Weapon:
  • His falchion, due to the connection with his patron, can take on the essence of other weapons that Fjord bonds to himself, along with some of their appearance. However, it can only hold the powers of one weapon at a time. Absorbing the Cloven Crystal into his chest was more permanent, adding two eyes to the hilt.
  • The Star Razor is also an Evolving Weapon; growing several inches and gaining new powers as a Vestige of Divergence in episode 113.
• The Face: Charismatic, handsome and of seemingly good heart, Fjord was pretty much destined to become this, given the company of mischievous tricksters he keeps.
• Failed a Spot Check: A hilarious example: Fjord heard many times the story of Clay, Stone and Dust from Caduceus before noticing that the last name he was given by the orphanage he grew in is Stone just like one of the families of the legend!.
• Father Neptune: Before his fateful encounter with Uk'otoa, he was a sailor. He's chosen to be the captain when the Nein seize the Mistake and when they're forced to leave Darktow in the Balleater.
• Faustian Rebellion: In Episode 72, Fjord finally stands up to Uk'otoa, and throws his falchion into a pool of lava in an attempt to be rid of Uk'otoa for good. Consequently, he's stripped of his spells and abilities, until the Wildmother accepts him as a follower and replaces Uk'otoa as his patron. Although Uk'otoa can no longer directly menace Fjord, it still sends aquatic monsters and its other thralls to hunt him.
• Foil:
  • To Avantika, who specifically serves as an Evil Counterpart to him. Both of them are sailors who learned the ropes under Vandran, and were eventually chosen as warlocks of Uk'otoa based on their ambition to be more than they were and became captain of their own ship after being granted powers. But Avantika became Drunk with Power which lead her to be fully subservient of the leviathan and to regard him as an actual deity while Fjord was far more coy in his relationship with his patron and eventually rejected him.
  • To Eadwulf, as they're both Magic Knights and Religious Bruisers who fight with swords. However, Fjord is The Captain and turned away from serving an evil master (Uk'otoa), while Eadwulf is an Elite Mook who remains a Punch-Clock Villain until Trent Ikithon is taken down. Last but not least, Fjord shows a great deal more loyalty and bravery in combat than Eadwulf, who attempted to flee in the name of self-preservation when the tide turned against him. It's Invoked by Liam, who narrates that Caleb is struck by how similar the two are face-to-face.
  • Also is one to Lucien. Both are extremely charismatic individuals who were discriminated against as children because of their differences and who struck a deal with an eldritch entity for power, before betraying it. But where Lucien is arrogant, rules through mind control and has no qualm with leaving his allies to die, Fjord is humble, trusts his crew with their respective specialty and usually works under the No One Gets Left Behind philosophy.
• Forgot About His Powers: An out of game example. In Episode 3, during the fight with a group of fiends, Fjord gets knocked out despite being a half-orc, which should give him the ability to get back up from attacks that drop him to zero HP. Apparently, Travis simply forgot.
• Good Is Not Soft: Though generally a good person, Fjord was quite eager to cut off Algar's hand to get at Jundi's control bracelet.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: He has a few thin scars on his face, two of which form an X above his left eye and another that splits his upper lip. On the whole they don't detract from his looks all that much.
• Growing the Beard: Twofold. As his fears and doubts manifest in him losing his powers seemingly for good, he ultimately sheds his past "Texblade" persona and embraces his true self as he begins serving the Wildmother. He also literally begins growing a beard starting in Episode 90.
• Half-Breed Angst: Faced a lot of discrimination when he was young about his half-orc heritage, to the point he would file down his tusks. The half-orc blacksmith Wursh picks up on this and advises him not to be ashamed of his heritage or let how others see him define him.
• Healing Hands: Being a paladin, he has Lay on Hands and showed his ability to use Cure Wounds on himself in Episode 99.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: In one of the campaign's last battles, Travis sarcastically mentions he's about to drop "the mother of all bombs" before using Marine Layer, causing Sam to laugh because of how useless it's been in the past. It turns out to be crucial for their strategy in that fight (crucially providing cover for the two Clerics when both were low on health, while also allowing Veth and Fjord to snipe their enemies without being directly targeted).
• Heroes Prefer Swords: Interestingly, the evolution of his choice in swords parallels his journey towards heroism:
  • The horrifying Sword of Fathoms, the symbol of his servitude to Uk'otoa, is repeatedly described as a falchion, most similar to a machete.
  • After Molly's death, Fjord amalgamates his fallen friend's weapon, the Summer's Dance scimitar, into the Sword of Fathoms, which represents Fjord struggling to turn away from his wicked patron and towards the noble (if roguish) ends that Molly espoused.
  • Finally, after breaking his pact with Uk'otoa and swearing his allegiance to the Wildmother— and right around the time that he sought out advice from Caduceus on how to be an honest-to-goodness hero— Fjord begins wielding Dwueth'var, the Star Razor, a magical longsword that evokes the classic image of The Paladin.
• Heroic Build: As part of switching to serving the Wildmother, she gives him a boost in strength, that gives him more muscles so he can fit the strength requirement of a Paladin.
• Heroic Second Wind: As a half-orc, Fjord possesses Relentless Endurance, allowing him to get back up from a lethal attack that would otherwise knock him unconscious.
• Hide Your Otherness: Hinted at in Episode 11 when Fjord comments that he "used to do his own dental work", then outright confirmed in Episode 16. In an attempt to appear less monstrous, Fjord removed his own tusks when he was young due to being bullied by other children. Though the tusks keep growing back, he's been filing them ever since, partially out of habit.

Tropes I - Q

• I Just Want to Be Free: What motivates his hunger for power at the beginning of the campaign and eventually leads him to pledge himself to the Wildmother. Having been raised in an Orphanage of Fear, he was daily reminded that he was not loved nor wanted and going to sea was his best chance to escape this life.
• It's Personal with the Dragon: Beyond Avantika being the last remaining champion of Uk'otoa, Fjord has a personal grudge against her due to their relationship and her essentially being a dark reflection of himself.
• I "Uh" You, Too: When Jester tells him she loves him for the first time, he's half asleep and flubs the response. He makes up for it later.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: As it turns out, a lot of his early posturing and assertive attitude stems from emulating his former captain and father figure, Vandran. Once the mask is off, Fjord admits that he never felt really confident in himself due to a childhood spent being bullied in an Orphanage of Fear. As the series progresses, he genuinely becomes a true leader while embracing the more vulnerable side of his personality.
• Informed Attribute: Allegedly has the party's lowest Wisdom, but you wouldn't be able to tell that from the way he carries himself, especially when comparing his actions to the rest of the group. Gradually averted as Travis leans more into Fjord's impulsivity and curiosity regarding unknown artifacts (see What Does This Button Do? below). In a painfully hilarious Q&A session at New York Comic Con, a fan asked Travis if Fjord constantly forgetting things was his way of displaying Fjord's low wisdom. Travis's look of utter mortification and shame was all the answer that was needed.
• Large Runt: Thought of as this by some others, and himself at times. He is actually of average size for a half-orc, standing at over 6 feet tall. His strength being previously only average probably did not help this perception, but he has since grown stronger.
• Last Chance Hit Point: Relentless Endurance, a Half-Orc racial ability, serves as this when Travis remembers to use it. Played for laughs when facing a poison troll, he holds at 1HP only to immediately get knocked out again by another attack.
• The Leader: Sometimes fills the role for the party as a type 2 or a type 4. He might be the oldest member of the Nein (bar Caduceus) and as a sailor, the most experienced with The Chain of Command.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Fjord's a decent fighter, but he's recklessly impulsive and not great at strategy. When Caleb reveals that as a young man he suffered at the hands of the incredibly dangerous and powerful archmages of the Cerberus Assembly, who may threaten the Nein in the future, Fjord simply suggests attacking them head-on as if they were common bandits and it has to be repeatedly impressed upon him that such an action would lead to a nigh-immediate Total Party Kill or worse.
• Legendary Weapon: The weapon used to forge his new contract with the Wildmother is Dwueth'var the Star Razor, an ancient sword forged by the acolytes of Melora and Sehanine during The Age of Arcanum, able to glow with radiant light with the command word "galas-var". What was already established to be a powerful weapon turned out to be a Vestige of Divergence when it enters in its exalted state in Episode 113, when Fjord uses it to kill Avantika.
• Lightning Bruiser: Fjord has the party's highest Constitution score, making him one of the sturdiest members of the Nein. He also deals massive damage with his Pact Weapon, which is amplified further by his ability to stack both Warlock and Paladin damage-boosting traits. And to top it all off, he's got multiple tricks up his sleeve that allow him to teleport (Relentless Hex, Thunder Step, and Arcane Gate), while the Star Razor also allows him to fly while wielding it.
• Locked into Strangeness: Fjord's natural hair color is black, but his pact with Uk'otoa has left him with a visible skunk stripe.
• Magic Knight: As a Hexblade Warlock, Fjord can fight up close and cast spells at range to defeat his enemies. He's more experienced at the former than the latter, since he only recently gained his magical abilities. Now that he's taken up Paladin as his class, he's becoming a more traditional knight. As a bonus, any paladin spells he has can be upcast with his warlock spell slots which are always at 5th.
• Making a Splash: When Fjord channels his arcane powers, his sword grows barnacles and begins dripping water, fitting his background as a sailor. Episode 5 confirms through a dream that his warlock patron is tied to the ocean. In episode 10 he also acquires an oceanic-themed set of armor that gives him protection while in water. And after failing to obtain it in Episode 40, he finally gets his chance seven episodes later by gaining the ability to use Control Water. He also takes the Oath of the Open Sea as his Sacred Oath, which gives him access to even more water related spells.
• Master of Disguise: He can use the Eldritch Invocation Mask of Many Faces and can do some pretty impressive fake accents.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Fjord's name has connotations of water, tying in with both his Sailor background and the aquatic theme of his falchion.
  • Per Travis, Fjord was offered a surname at the orphanage to remind him that he was cast away, so Fjord cast it away and went by One Name Only. The name Stone is also that of the surname of a family who worships Melora, who Fjord follows as a paladin. He thinks it's just a coincidence, Caduceus thinks it's fate.
• Mind Manipulation: Can use Crown of Madness to take control of enemies and have them attack their allies.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: A weird Inverted Trope for Fjord, who is portrayed in official art and fan art alike, as tall and muscular, but his Strength score is about the same as Nott and Caleb. Possibly justified by his high Constitution score, or that his musculature is more from his half-orc heritage than any actual muscle building, and could therefore be more form than function.
  • Muscle Angst: Episode 52 tied into this as well, with a Bugbear the group encounters mistaking Fjord for a full-blooded orc and constantly calling him tiny. Fjord is so bothered by this that he uses Disguise Self to make himself look absurdly muscular to the point of hilarity.
• Mysterious Mist: Upon choosing the Oath of the Open Sea at level 13, he gained a Channel Divinity ability called Marine Layer, which allows him to invoke an obscuring layer of fog around him.
• Named Weapon: A particular case. His initial falchion was just a plain old sword but as a symbol of Fjord's pact with Uk'otoa, it carried the leviathan's curse making it the Sword of Fathoms. Fjord later acquired a magic sword called the Waste Hunter Blade that he "ate", causing the curse to transfer, making it a falchion instead and the new Sword of Fathoms. He repeated the same process once more with the Summer's Dance before severing his pact with Uk'otoa by throwing the sword in a pool of lava. His next sword was the reforged Dwueth'var, the Star Razor, a vestige of Divergence.
• My Nayme Is: The J is often, but not always silent. Fjord doesn't seem to keep a specific pronunciation for his name.
• Never Heard That One Before: When his past as a sailor comes out, he has this reaction when the party starts making "sea men" jokes.
  Fjord: (deadpan) Gets funnier every time.
  • He pronounces his name as "Ford," which predictably leads to all manner of fourth-wall-violating automobile puns from fellow cast members.
• Nice Guy: For all his faults, he’s a decent fellow who tries to keep the group in track, morally.
• No Brows: Happens when all of his hair falls out due to a magic spell gone wrong in Aeor. It's undone a few episodes later.
• No One Gets Left Behind: Possibly as a result of his own abandonment issues and his guilt over Mollymauk's death, it becomes a key trait of Fjord's in the mid to late campaign that he never leaves a teammate in danger: among other examples, he carries a stunned Beau out of the King's Cage beneath Bazzoxan and later stops a Remorhaz from dragging her away to be eaten even though he was powerless at the time, he rescues Jester with a clever teleport maneuver while she's dangling over the caldera of Rumblecusp's volcano during TravelerCon, and he throws himself into a Battle Amongst the Flames to protect Caleb from Eadwulf in the final battle against Trent Ikithon.
• Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid: He is clearly a half-orc, but there are some clues like his yellow eyes with a vertical pupil, his skin tone with two shades of green, his difficulty to let facial hair grow in spite of him being in his 30s and a sea leviathan created by one of the Betrayer Gods having a strong personal interest in him that seem to suggest that the other half of his heritage might not be fully human.
• Obliviously Beautiful: Despite being a Pretty Boy, Fjord seems constantly surprised when people comment on it. Potentially stems from lingering self-image issues that were caused by being bullied as a child.
• Oblivious to Love: Partly thanks to his low Wisdom, partly thanks to Travis having NO interest in being part of a romance in a D&D game, Fjord is completely oblivious to Jester's obvious crush on him. It got to the point in episode 38 where Beau calls him dumb because he hasn't noticed that Jester has become a Clingy Jealous Girl in the presence of Captain Avantika. Ultimately subverted when he admits to Beau that he is well aware of Jester's crush. He simply doesn't know how to act on it because he can't read how serious her feelings for him are and he's not sure of his own feelings himself due to the many changes he experienced since starting his travels with the Nein.
• Ocean Awe: Fjord deeply loves the sea. The party notes that he seems far more relaxed and happy once he's back on a ship during the Adventure on the High Seas arc. Towards the end of the campaign, he has a discussion with Jester stating that there is nowhere he feels more at home than in those waters, culminating in him swearing the Oath of the Open Sea as a paladin in service to the Wildmother.
• Only One Name: Likely because he's an orphan, Fjord is one of the only members of the party without a last name. Actually invoked as Fjord was given a name at the orphanage, but due to it being an Ironic Name meant to remind him of his orphan status, he decided to get rid of it.
• Only Sane Man: Tends to become the voice of reason when Nott and Jester start coming up with oddball plans that they have clearly not thought through to their conclusion, especially when nobody else has voiced an objection to back him up.
  Nott: (regarding "Fluffernutter") Think about this!
  Fjord: I am the only one doing that.
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Although very rare, Fjord has had his accent slip once or twice, though this mostly occurs right after ending a disguise that he put on for a period of time, as Travis has to switch back to Fjord's normal accent. In-Universe, Fjord drops the Southern drawl when he is contacted by his patron through his dreams and speaks with a British accent instead. This is revealed to be because he's imitating Vandran's accent.
• Orphan's Ordeal: Fjord never knew either of his parents and grew up in a state-run orphanage he describes as "fucking terrible."
• Our Orcs Are Different: A half-orc, which is common enough in Exandria for him to be able to go everywhere without stirring much trouble. Being an orphan, the exact lineage that constitute his heritage is unclear. Travis implied during the Campaign 2 wrap-up that he might not simply be the son of an orc and a human.
• The Paladin: Becomes a paladin of the Wildmother shortly after he breaks his pact with Uk'toa.
• Pretty Boy: By half-orc standards set in other D&D settings Fjord is goddamn gorgeous, with neat hair, high cheekbones, no visible tusks, and a fair and lean face with little marring or deformity to it. His good looks have been acknowledged multiple times, both by members of the party and people they have encountered during their journey.
• Put on a Bus: Due to Travis and Laura being on leave after having their baby, both Fjord and Jester get separated from the group at the end of Episode 25, along with Yasha due to Ashley's ongoing commitments on Blindspot. Fjord returns in episode 29, though Travis returns to play him in episode 30.
• The Quiet One: Quite reticent in the first session, but quickly grows into The Face of the group, thanks to his high charisma.

Tropes R - Z

• Reforged Blade: Fjord is offered the broken hilt of Dwueth'var, the Star Razor, by Caduceus. The group then goes on a journey in hopes of reforging it in the holy forge of Kravaraad using metal marked by a white dragon's breath.
• Repetitive Name: His alias as a pirate; Captain Tusk-Tooth, which is considered an Atrocious Alias in-universe.
• Romantic Rain: Invokes this after the final battle with Trent, which left the Clays' house on fire. He uses Create Water to summon rain to put it out, then tells Jester "I love you too" in a Call-Back to earlier and kisses her.
• Rugged Scar: His art shows him with two scars in an X shape above and across his left eye and one on his upper lip.
• Shoot the Dog: In episode 133, the Mighty Nein have laid a trap for the Tomb Takers, including their guide Dagen and a detachment of rangers from Balenpost. Realistically, the rangers stand no chance against Lucien and his group, but the Nein's trap relies on the Tomb Takers thinking they beat the Nein to the location, which would logically be guarded— so Fjord makes the call for them to engage.
• Southern-Fried Genius: Fjord's sharp mind and clever wit are contrasted (or perhaps enhanced) by an accent totally suiting of Travis' native Texas. Subverted, the accent is fake, and Fjord switches to a British accent whenever he speaks with his patron. It's later revealed that he's imitating the accent of his mentor, Vandran.
• Summon to Hand:
  • Can make his sword materialize in his hand instantly. When he does, it drips water and is covered with barnacles and other aquatic life, suggesting it spends its time at the bottom of the sea when not in use.
  • When Fjord renounces Uko'toa and pledges himself to the Wildmother, he gains a new pact-blade, in the form of the reforged Dwueth'var. Instead of the ocean effects, Dwueth'var is summoned from the hand with a flash of snow.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: His gold, cat-slit eyes mark him as someone touched by otherworldly forces.
• Sworn in by Oath: The Oath of the Open Sea to be precise. After the spirtual guidance from Caduceus helped him accomplish his Faustian Rebellion, he finds himself deprived of magical abilities. It takes some time, but he eventually swore himself to Melora and regain all his power with the added bonus of now being a paladin. Even after his transition to the new class, it takes several episodes for him to actually make an Oath, but he eventually pledges himself to the Wildmother as a protector of freedom.
• Symbolic Weapon Discarding: When Fjord eventually gets sick of Uk'otoa's attempts to control him, he breaks the pact between them by throwing the Sword of Fathoms into a lava pit.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: He is described as being very good-looking by several people, is the second-tallest member of the Mighty Nein behind Caduceus (though fanart tends to portray Yasha as being taller than he), and he's a warlock beholden to an Eldritch Abomination. This is defied as the campaign progresses, and after severing his pact with Uk’otoa and becoming a paladin of the Wildmother, he more or less loses the dark part. This is even lampshaded by Nott.
• Took a Level in Badass: After spending a few episodes without powers due to throwing away the falchion and the pact with Uk'otoa, Fjord successfully forges a connection to the Wildmother; he comes out of it more buff and with a level in Paladin.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: After leaving Darktow, he's become a lot more callous and self-serving. This has led to plenty of What the Hell, Hero? moments from the other characters. He moves away from it after a disturbing vision and the negative reactions of his crewmates
• The Tooth Hurts: Mentions off-handedly to Nott and Molly in Episode 11 that he "used to do his own dental work". In Episode 16, Fjord admits that he has been continually shaving his tusks down to human-like length ever since his childhood to appear less monstrous.
• Underwater Kiss: While trapped in the flooded temple to Uk'otoa Fjord, seeing that Jester is running out of air, grabs her and kisses her to transfer the last of his breath to her. He later agrees with Jester's characterizing it as an actual kiss.
• Unskilled, but Strong: When it comes to his magical abilities; Fjord can dish out an impressive amount of damage with his spells, but has very little experience with his arcane powers overall, having only acquired them recently. This is translated by his warlock class, as all of his spells are cast at the highest level he can manage but he only has a couple of them between rests.
• What Does This Button Do?: Fjord has a bad habit of, in his own words, "putting [his] hands where they don't belong". After this sends him to face a 10-foot tall monster alone, you would think he might begin to wise up and change that... he doesn't
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Fjord's ability Marine Layer is much-maligned by the cast after it blinded most of them and reduced them to bumbling in a critical fight. After that, Fjord tried to reserve it for stealth purposes, but it turns out having a 20-foot of fog centered on you just draws more attention to yourself. After that, Sam constantly tries to goad Travis into using it, knowing it probably won't work.
• What the Hell, Hero?: He is very pissed at Beau for her attempt at Heroic Sacrifice during the Nein's confrontation with Isharnai and calls her out on how foolish it is to believe that she already peaked and that her life isn't worth much beyond what she's already accomplished.
• You Wake Up on a Beach: How Fjord came upon his warlock-powers: after the Tide's Breath's shipwreck, he woke up on a beach at the Menagerie Coast, his falchion next to him, and with no memories how he survived.
• You Will Not Evade Me: Thanks to the quirky way that warlock spell slots work in 5th edition, Fjord's Counterspells are always cast at the highest spell level he has available. By the late game, that's 5th level, which is enough to automatically shut down the 4th level Dimension Door; Fjord uses this to great effect to shut down both Cree and Trent Ikithon's escape attempts in their separate battles with the Mighty Nein.