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The Empire of Tal'Dorei
Emon, the City of Fellowship
Sovereign Uriel
Sovereign Uriel Tal'Dorei II
Voiced by: Khary Payton (English), Peter Flechtner (German)
Race: Human
The sovereign ruler of Tal'Dorei and its capital Emon.
- Abdicate the Throne: He declares he will do this during his speech at the end of "The Darkness Within", shaken by the relative ease with which he was manipulated by General Krieg and the Briarwoods.
- Bald of Authority: He's bald and is the ruler of Tal'Dorei.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Sylas Briarwood uses his powers to brainwash him into not investigating Whitestone any further.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: He is too late to get behind Allura's protection spell and ends up caught in Raishan's poisonous breath. He gets to look one last time at his family as the dragon's poison causes him to bleed from every orifice.
- Go Out with a Smile: As he is caught by Raishan's poison, he spends his last moments with a relieved expression, seeing that his family got out of danger, and shines a final smile to his wife.
- Oh, Crap!: At the end of Season 1 when he sees the Chroma Conclave heading his way.
"Gods above us."
- Race Lift: In the original webshow he had a long dark hair, and while he wasn't specifically described as white, he was depicted as such, including in the Kickstarter teaser trailer. In this show however he's bald, black, and has a white beard.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Unlike the rest of the council, he's at least willing to give Vox Machina the chance to prove themselves, mostly because he likes Trinket the bear. Even while brainwashed, he at least leaves Vox Machina's punishment to Allura's discretion. After all is said and done, he decides to abdicate in favor of establishing the council as the new governing body, reasoning that one person being given so much authority means that the country's leadership is at greater risk if that one person is corrupted or controlled.
- Retirony: Just as he abdicates the throne in order to be with his family, he's killed by Raishan's poisonous breath, and tragically right in front of his wife.
Lady Allura
Allura Vysoren
Master of Arcana of the Tal'Dorei Council.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the original game, she was very friendly with Vox Machina by the time of the Briarwood arc. Here, she barely knows them, and their exploits are much less impressive by Episode 3. As such, this version of Lady Allura is barely tolerant of Vox Machina.
- Battle Couple: With Lady Kima, having adventured alongside her for years before joining the council of Tal'Dorei.
- Hero of Another Story: Allura is said to have saved the world from Thordak when she was younger, but we only gleam a short flashback of her and a group of friends much like Vox Machina.
- Nice Girl: Always polite to everyone, even the wacky Vox Machina.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She's naturally angry with Vox Machina for attacking the Briarwoods at the feast (unaware that they're sadistically evil), but she also realizes that Uriel is acting rashly, listens to Vox Machina's side of the story, acknowledges that the kingdom owes them for killing a dragon, and places them under house arrest rather than throwing them in the palace prison.
- Silk Hiding Steel: When the Conclave attacks Emon, Allura is able to shield civilians from Raishan's noxious gas and magically restrain Umbrasyl long enough to knock him out of the sky. She's the Master of Arcana for a REASON.
Lady Kima
Lady Kima of Vord
The headstrong companion of Lady Allura.
- Adaptational Job Change: In the stream, Lady Kima was a paladin of Bahamut from the holy city of Vasselheim. Here, she's a member of the Council of Tal'Dorei, which is on a whole other continent. The guards at the Platinum Sanctuary in Vasselheim wear similar armor as her, implying the connection is still present but not confirming it.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the original game, Vox Machina rescued Kima and so she was a strong supporter of theirs, to the point of being an Honorary True Companion. Here, she is a fairly skeptical member of the Council instead.
- Battle Couple: With Lady Allura, using brawn in tandem with Allura's magical abilities as adventurers and council members.
- Deadpan Snarker: She's rather dismissive of Vox Machina and prone to throwing snarky comments at them.
- Light 'em Up: During the Chroma Conclave's attack on Emon, Kima blasts Umbrasyl with a bolt of light from a strike with her hammer.
- Magic Knight: As a Paladin, Kima is primarily a physical fighter who also wields divine magic.
Gilmore
Shaun Gilmore
Voiced by: Sunil Malhotra (English), Oliver Feld (German)
The fabulous proprietor of Gilmore's Glorious Goods.Race: Human
Class: Sorcerer-Runechild
- Beware the Nice Ones: His shop is well-armed against would-be thieves, as Vex, Vax, and Keyleth discover in "Fate's Journey".
- Big Beautiful Man: Gilmore is a big man with a large midsection, and he's also gorgeous and flamboyant.
- Big Fun: Gilmore has a husky physique and an extraverted personality to match.
- Camp Gay: A very flamboyant man with a romantic history with Vax.
- Friendly Shopkeeper: Friendly, even when he catches some of his favorite customers (well Vax at least) attempting to steal from him. Doesn't stop him from magically defending his stock, though.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Despite openly carrying a torch for Vax, he is delighted once he picks up on Vax's feelings for Keyleth.
- Mr. Exposition: Is Vox Machina's go-to person for tips on how to take down magical enemies.
- No Hero Discount: While in Season 1 where even his friendly discount is steep, but averted in Season 2 where he tells Vox Machina to grab whatever they from the ruins of his shop since the city is burning down anyway.
- Proud Beauty: He is very concerned over using too much magic because it might affect his complexion.
- Shipper on Deck: He immediately picks up on Vax's crush on Keyleth and seems very supportive of it. Much to Vex's chagrin.
- You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: A nonverbal example. Gilmore is left dumbfounded by Vax when he suddenly calls him Shaun in season 2, being just another sign that something is off with Vax.
General Krieg
General Krieg
Voiced by: David Tennant
Race: Human
Master of Law and General of Emon's Army. Brimscythe killed him a long time ago and took his appearance.
- Animal Motifs: Keyleth notes that Kreig's lab really has "a thing for dragons" when Vox Machina searches it. There's a huge painting of a nude dragonborn woman covering one wall, and a symbol featuring five dragon heads is on the ground. Makes sense, since the owner themselves is a disguised blue dragon in human form.
- Covert Pervert: The battle-hardened and jovial General Krieg doesn't seem the type to have a gigantic, practically nude painting of a dragonborn woman hanging in his office. It's hard to tell if this was something General Krieg owned or was something added in by Brimscythe, although the fact that the portal behind the portrait leads directly into the cave containing Brimscythe's hoard seems to imply the latter.
- Dead All Along: The real General Krieg was slain by Brimscythe long ago and the dragon has taken the General's identity for itself.
- A Father to His Men: General Krieg appears to be close to the soldiers under his command and inspires a contingent with a rousing speech during the hunt for Brimscythe. Of course, it's all an act done by a disguised Brimscythe and he slaughters the soldiers afterwards in his true form as the dragon they're hunting.
- General Ripper: Seems far too eager to send his troops to fight a blue dragon, especially given how woefully outmatched they are. Except that was part of his plan all along.
- Kill and Replace: Brimscythe killed the real General Krieg sometime ago, taking his appearance and his position of power for himself.
- Mole in Charge: As general of Emon's armies, Brimscythe in the guise of Krieg is in perfect position to manipulate Sovereign Uriel and slaughter his own soldiers, leaving the capital defenseless.
- Posthumous Character: He's long dead by the time we meet him and it's just Brimscythe running around with his likeness.
- Rousing Speech: Gives an impressive speech to rally some of the soldiers hunting Brimscythe.
- Stout Strength: General Krieg is an experienced soldier of a wide and heavy build with armor on top.
Sir Fince
Sir Gregory Fince
Voiced by: Tony Hale
Race: Elf
Master of Defense of the Tal'Dorei Council.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Is a Drow-looking elf who is snooty to boot, but he was loyal and gathering information.
- Good All Along: While he does propose capturing the dragon or bribing it away, he is actually loyal and gathering intelligence on the true traitor before he is killed.
- In the Back: Krieg kills him by stabbing him in the back with his sword.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's not the most pleasant person, but he was honestly trying to help Emon and put his life and reputation on the line to expose Krieg/Brymscythe.
- Jerkass: He is a snobby aristocrat who acts very rude and condescending towards Vox Machina.
- Obviously Evil: Vox Machina suspect him of being the dragon's inside man in the council once Vex clarifies that there's definitely somebody working with the beast in the room, pointing put his shifty attitude, Jerkass attitude towards them, and Percy even pointing out that he looks like 'a withered piece of scrap leather'. He's not, but he didn't really do himself any favours acting and looking as suspicious as he does.
- Red Herring Mole: Fince is set up as the traitor on the council working with the dragon Brimscythe, with Vex's dragon senses acting up around him along with his general jerkass attitude causing them to suspect him. But he is actually trying to uncover the true traitor: General Krieg.
- Suspect Existence Failure: Fince desperately pleads to Vox Machina that he isn't working for the dragon, and he gets his innocence proven true by Brimscythe killing him.
Jarrett Howarth
Captain Jarret Howarth
Voiced by: Eugene Byrd
Race: Human
Captain of the Guards in Emon's Army.
- Adaptational Job Change: Here Jarett Howarth is a Captain of the Arms of Emon instead of a mere guard at Greyskull Keep for Vox Machina.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: As a result of his Adaptational Job Change, Jarett is much colder and antagonistic towards Vox Machina as opposed to being a friendly employee to them.
- A Father to His Men: Part of the reason he lets Vox Machina go is that they intend to stop the people who sent wraiths to kill his guards.
- Deadpan Snarker: When Scanlan asks what the hell Vox Machina are supposed to do without their gear (including his lute), Jarrett dryly notes that he's sure they'll figure something out, considering they have the run of the entirety of Greyskull Keep.
- No-Nonsense Nemesis: He takes his job of keeping Vox Machina under house arrest very seriously. Even when Vox Machina found a secret escape route, Jarett and his men were waiting for them at the exit.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Once he realizes that Vox Machina isn't responsible for killing his men and that there may be some truth to their story, he gives them weapons to fight the wraiths and eventually lets them go.
- Sole Survivor: The only one out of his squad who isn't gruesomely murdered by the wraiths.
Whitestone
Cassandra de Rolo
Cassandra de Rolo
Voiced by: Esme Creed-Miles
Race: Human
Class: Rogue-Swashbuckler
The sole surviving daughter of the de Rolo family, and currently a ward of the Briarwoods.
- Adaptational Heroism: In the show, she is explicitly enthralled by Sylas the entire time, and turns on the Briarwoods the moment his control over her is broken. The campaign was more ambiguous, with Sylas only directly controlling her when her resolve begins to waver during her battle with Percy. Prior to that, it was implied she was acting of her own accordnote but had been so thoroughly broken by the Briarwoods that she had begun to willingly aid them out of a Stockholm Syndrome-esque survival instinct. In particular, her betrayal of Percy in the acid trap seems to have been genuine rather than forced as it was in the show.
- Age Lift: Cassandra was originally the youngest of the de Rolo siblings; here, she appears to be the middle child and only slightly younger than Percy, with two younger twin siblings.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Flashbacks in episode 7 show she was this to Percy, frequently attempting to distract and bother him when they were being tutored. She still excipits some of this in the present, occasionally teasing Percy.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: Most of the time she has an exhausted calm about her and simply follows Vox Machina around. However, once she gets her hands on a weapon, she proves to be a very skilled fencer. She also shows just as much if not more contempt for her and Percy's tormentors, icily informing Dr. Ripley that she only kept Percy from killing her because they need her as a guide. When finally freed from Delilah's influence, she assists Percy in torturing the necromancer, and in the end she is the one to put her blade through the usurper's throat when Delilah tries for one last spiteful attack.
- Blood from the Mouth: The horribly realistic outcome of Anders cutting her throat is that, rather than dying quickly like most examples of this trope, Cass spends about ten minutes drowning in her own blood and feebly trying to cough it out.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Not only did the Briarwoods torture her throughout her imprisonment, Sylas also put her under a charm to use her as an undercover agent and personal attack dog. This leads to her turning on and almost killing Vox Machina in the refinery, then fighting Percy alongside Sylas when Vox Machina arrives at the ziggurat. Though it's possible that her doing this was More than Mind Control.
- Broken Bird: After a lifetime of trauma, the once-vivacious Cassandra now looks as exhausted and lifeless as the dead in Delilah's service.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Most of her family were killed by the Briarwoods. She and Percy were repeatedly tortured. And while he escaped, she was forced to be with the Briarwoods, as her older brother genuinely thought she was dead. Cassandra survived but remain a pawn for the sadistic couple.
- The Dog Bites Back: After a life of torture, brainwashing, and loneliness, Cassandra finally manages to get karmic balance against the Briarwoods by putting her sword through Delilah's throat at the end of Season 1.
- Locked into Strangeness: Has a white streak in her hair, likely due to trauma and whatever messed-up experiments the Briarwoods performed on her.
- Morality Pet: Downplayed. She talks Percy down from shooting Dr. Ripley, but makes it very clear to the latter that she wasn't doing so out of mercy, but because they need information. It's also her calling out to him that gets Percy to fight Orthax's influence for the first time.
- More than Mind Control: Implied. Her Face–Heel Turn was influenced by Sylas' supernatural abilities, but the reasons she states for why she joined the Briarwoods hit close enough to home that there was probably some measure of genuine resentment from being left behind with them.
- Royal Rapier: During the undead attack, she pulls out a rapier stabbed into one of the shambling undead from its body and uses it thereafter to defend herself, showcasing some impressive skills with it. A very fitting weapon for a noble daughter.
- Slashed Throat: Anders does this to her in the Cliffhanger for episode 7, right in front of Percy, just to taunt him, though thanks to Keyleth's healing spell, it's ultimately not fatal.
- Vampire Hickey: She has Sylas' bites all over her neck. He minds-controls her through the bites.
Keeper Yennen
Keeper Yennen
Voiced by: Gina Torres (English), Susanne von Medvey (German)
Race: Human
One of the few people in Whitestone who opposes the Briarwoods' rule.
- Adaptational Job Change: Originally a priest of the Lawbearer in the livestream, she worships the Dawnfather in the animated series.
- Badass Pacifist: She's questioned about supposedly being a pacifist this as soon as she meets the party, but she makes it clear she's not going to stand by and let others do the fighting.
- Composite Character: Because Seeker Assum is Demoted to Extra, Yennen is instead the ally Raishan impersonates to meet with Vox Machina.
- Gender Flip: Was male in the original campaign, is female in the animated series.
- Good Shepherd: A cleric of the Dawnfather who does her best support the people of Whitestone.
- Turbulent Priest: Host sermons to keep the spirits of Whitestone's citizens up while also choosing her words carefully to stoke the rebellion.
- Uncertain Doom: At the end of S2E12, it's not entirely clear what happened to her after Raishan impersonated her to propose her Enemy Mine alliance.
Archibald Desnay
Archibald Desnay
Voiced by: Dominic Monaghan
Race: Dwarf
Childhood friend of Percy turned rebel leader.
- Adaptational Badass: The original Archibald was an elderly, frail man who served as the chancellor of Percy's father; while he did help coordinate the rebellion, he never fought in combat. This time around, he's a much younger and stronger man who was childhood friends with Percy, a skilled warrior and one of the active leaders of the Whitestone rebellion.
- Adaptational Species Change: Went from an elderly human male to a movie Gimli look-alike dwarf.
- Age Lift: This version of Archibald is significantly younger than the original, having grown up as one of Percy's childhood friends instead of serving his father as an elderly chancellor.
- Baritone of Strength: Has a very gruff, raspy voice that fits his rough, tumble personality and enthusiasm for fights.
- Brave Scot: Archibald may be from a fantasy world, but he comes across as this with his thick Scottish accent and red hair.
- Bring It: "Just like the old days, creating a diversion while you get away", while charging at the prison guards.
- Casting Gag: Archibald is voiced by Dominic Monaghan, who played Meriadoc "Merry" Brandybuck. And him being changed from an elderly man to a Blood Knight red headed dwarf is hardly a coincidence.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: He is beaten and has his ear ripped off by Vedmire.
- Death by Adaptation: The original Archibald survived the liberation of Whitestone, but here he is killed in battle against Vedmire.
- Ear Ache: Vedmire brutally rips off his left ear during his interrogation.
- Fiery Redhead: He is decisive, fearless, and most at home on the battlefield.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: Is bisected by Goran Vedmire during a battle with undead hordes.
- In Name Only: Has little in common with his namesake from the original campaign.
- Interspecies Friendship: With Percy, since childhood. They would often create havoc in the kitchen.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: He jumps in between Scanlan and the Duke when the latter goes after him for burning down his mansion and rendering him Two-Faced, and is almost immediately cut in half once the Duke turns his attention to him.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He is a dwarf quite strong for his size, and takes down many guards.
- Rebel Leader: Archibald leads the resistance efforts in Whitestone.
- Sacrificial Lion: Archie is killed by the Duke as a part of Vox Machina's Darkest Hour.
- Surprisingly Sudden Death: Compounding the tragedy of his loss, Archie gets cut in half by the Duke in an instant and collapses dead immediately. No final words, not even a reaction shot of his face, just gone. As he and Percy were just starting to reconnect and reminiscing on their childhood escapades, it leaves Percy shellshocked upon losing another person he held dear from his past.
Westruun
Wilhand Trickfoot
Wilhand Trickfoot
Voiced By: Henry Winkler
Race: Gnome
The great-great grandfather of Pike Trickfoot, who rescued and raised Grog after he was exiled from the Herd of Storms.
- Affectionate Nickname: He calls Grog "big boy" and Pike "pumpkin". Pike and Grog call him "Poppop."
- Foil: To Kevdak. They're both the patriarch of their families and have both served as some kind of Parental Substitute to Grog, but Kevdak was an abusive monster who nearly killed Grog while Wilhand saved him and helped shape him into the man he is.
- Interspecies Adoption: After Grog was cast out of the herd, Wilhand took him in and raised him like one of his own.
- Nice Guy: Wilhand is friendly, grandfatherly, and merciful to almost untold degrees, having saved the young Grog's life and took him in in spite of nearly being on the wrong end of the boy's axe. He might just be the kindest, most all-around decent person in the entire show, and it's quite obvious where Pike gets it.
- Parental Substitute: To both Pike and Grog.
- Properly Paranoid: He is introduced concerned that raiders are coming after him, which is reasonable considering the Herd has taken over nearby Westruun.
- Secret-Keeper: He never told Pike about the exact circumstances behind meeting Grog or Grog's previous life in the Herd.
Kaylie
Kaylie
Voiced by: Aisling Franciosi
Race: Gnome
The apparent leader of the (few remaining) Westruun civilians, trying to survive and escape from the Herd of Storms.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Downplayed. Upon first encountering Scanlan, she's dismissive, snarky, and forceful in getting him to help Westruun's survivors. This is, however, leagues better than in the source material, where she's actively trying to humiliate and ruin him. Granted, the life-or-death situation may have caused her to reorganize her priorities.
- Childish Tooth Gap: Has a small but noticeable gap in her upper teeth, indicating she's still rather young, at least for a gnome.
- Cowardice Callout: In her anger, after informing Scanlan that she is his daughter, Kaylie accuses him of being just a hedonistic coward who always runs away and abandons everyone, especially women, and calls him a selfish gnome who doesn't even bother to remember the women he beds. Which is not totally untrue.
- Fate Worse than Death: Already deeply enraged by how Scanlan abandoned her mother, Kaylie is utterly furious when he's completely unable to even recall the woman's name. Despite having him completely at her mercy, Kaylie decides death would just be an escape and spares her father, knowing the burden would torment him.
- Fighting Irish: Kaylie is a scrappy, Hot-Blooded revolutionary, and her Irish voice actress makes no attempt at all to hide her natural accent.
- Foreshadowing: She bears a very strong resemblance to Scanlan and is a talented bard just like him. It turns out she's related to him- being the daughter of one of the many women he slept with.
- Hates Their Parent: While she loved her mother very much, she absolutely hates Scanlan's guts for abandoning her mother with nothing and even forgetting her name. She comes very close to killing his before realizing the burden of knowing what he did would be worse.
- Luke, You Are My Father: In possibly the most awkward way imaginable. Kaylie invites Scanlan to have sex with her and ties him up under the pretence of BDSM before telling him about her mother and revealing she is his daughter. Kaylie then delivers a "The Reason You Suck" Speech and nearly kills him for abandoning her mother.
- Nonconformist Dyed Hair: Has a notable splash of pink in her hair, which fits her being a member of a band of roguish bards.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Calls Scanlan out a couple of times as she thinks his attempts to go get Pike and Grog are him trying to run away instead of help.
Dr. Dranzel
Dr. Dranzel
Voiced by: Matthew Mercer
Race: Half-Orc
The leader of a travelling band of musicians, and a big fan of Scanlan's.
- Adapted Out: His role in Scanlan's backstory, as here the two are strangers and Dranzel is instead just an admirer of Scanlan's work. In the original stream, he was the one who made Scanlan famous in the first place.
- The Dandy: As to be expected of a travelling musician.
- Stereotype Flip: Orcs and Half-Orcs are typically stereotyped as being large, brutish creatures tailored towards being roaming barbarians or at least marital types. Dr. Dranzel is a campy musician and couldn't be further from the expectation.
Zanror
Zanror
Voiced by: Abubakar Salim
The son of Kevdak and Grog's cousin.Race: Goliath
- Adaptational Attractiveness: Grog broke his jaw before he was banished in the original campaign, and it healed crooked, giving Zanror a distinct look. In the animated series he does not have this injury and is fairly handsome among the half-giants shown.
- Adaptational Heroism: In the stream, he directly killed kindly NPC Reggie the farmer. In the show, he is only ever shown as defiant of the more openly villainous Kevdak, even attempting to save Grog during The Kill Box despite being chained up.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Grog considered him a brother when they were teens...and he snitches to his father after Grog hits him during a raid. He even responds petulantly when Grog rescues him, snarking "Are you in charge now?"
- Ascended Extra: Zanror doesn't actually appear until Kevdak has been defeated during the campaign, when Grog frees him and proclaims him Thunderlord. In the show he's the point of view character for Umbrasyl's activities in Westruun and is central to Grog's backstory, giving him comparably quite a bit of screentime.
- Bash Brothers: Was this with Grog when they were young.
- Beauty Equals Goodness: One of the handsomer members of the Herd and the one chosen to lead the Herd into a more noble future. While none of the Herd is "good," Zanror doesn't engage in nearly as much direct violence, and he's less scarred and haggard than other Herd members. His introduction in flashback is even him protecting Grog, rather than simply being part of the raid.
- Distressed Dude: Is chained up and in need of rescue when Grog shows up at the end of A Test of Pride.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Appears for a second as the half-giant making an offering to Umbrasyl several episodes before his proper introduction as Grog's cousin.
- Easily Forgiven: Grog doesn't hold it against him that Zanror told Kevdak about his attempt to rescue Wilhand when they were young, despite it leading to Grog's beating and banishment. In adulthood, Zanror does seem to admire the fact that Grog stood up to Kevdak.
- Foil: To his cousin Grog. They're both young half-giants challenging the leadership of the Herd, who were both raised by Kevdak. Grog stood up to Kevdak when they were young and it took Zanror until well into adulthood. Zanror is quite a bit smarter and more cautious while Grog is notably ditzy and recklessly brave.
- Like Father, Unlike Son: Kevdak is cold, pragmatic and ambitious. Zanror is not.
- Punch-Clock Villain: He's less interested in killing and raiding than his father (moving to kill Wilhand just so his dad doesn't find out Grog hesitated), seeming to keep it up to spare himself Kevdak's abuse until he finally has enough. He's happy to agree to lead honorably and help kill Umbrasyl.
- The Starscream: Believes his father is running the Herd into the ground to the point of challenging his leadership.
- Super-Toughness: Like his cousin, he can take a beating without seeming any worse for wear. Kevdak throws him off a building and he's drinking and partying hours later.
- Tragic Keepsake: Zigzagged. Zanror is happy to give up the Titanstone Knuckles and Kevdak's Blood Axe to his cousin, apparently wanting nothing of his father for himself. However, he does use the bear pelt Kevdak wore to mark a memorial for the fallen Herd members.
- You Are in Command Now: Takes over as Thunderlord upon his father's death.
Issylra
Vasselheim
Zahra Hydris
Zahra Hydris
- Adaptational Hairstyle Change: Downplayed somewhat. Zahra's official portrait from the stream gave her a full head of long white hair, whereas her depiction in The Legend of Vox Machina, while still having long hair, has the sides completely shaved below the horns.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Zahra's and Vex's relationship during the stream started off frosty but quickly grew into a close friendship. Here, their relationship is more hostile, owing to the fact that Vex stole a kill worth 12,000 gold pieces that was rightfully Zahra's. Also, while they are helping Vox Machina try to recover Deathwalker's Ward from the Sunken Tomb, she and Kashaw do so with the intention of stealing the vestige out from under them, and they have no qualms about letting them go ahead to set off any traps in their way.
- Adaptational Villainy: While already more antagonistic than she was in the stream, here Zahra decides to impede Vox Machina by unleashing the Onlooker she's been keeping in her amulet so she and Kash can swipe the vestige once they're petrified.
- Composite Character: Downplayed, but her more antagonistic relationship with Vox Machina and higher rank among the Slayer's Take seem to take from Vanessa Cyndrial, the leader of the Slayer's Take in the stream. This includes having Zahra reject the request for aid against the Chroma Conclave; whereas in the stream, Vanessa was reluctant to offer help unless they were given a contract, Zahra and Kashaw were happy to offer aid almost immediately, and took part in preparing Whitestone's army for potential dragon conflict.
- Dramatically Missing the Point: She's resentful of the fact that her own patron sent outsiders to get the Vestiges that she sees at the rightful property of the Slayer's Take. However, her greed and selfishness prevents her from seeing that the reason Osysa tasked Vox Machina with retrieving them is because they're the only people trying to stop the Chroma Conclave's reign of terror.
- Easily Forgiven: Despite almost getting the group killed to steal the Deathwalker's Ward from them, she and Kash part amicably with Vox Machina after coming to realize they truly are worthy of its power.
- Establishing Character Moment: Her intimidating and callous personality is established when she's introduced killing and eating a rather cute snail.
- Evil Is Not a Toy: Letting loose a creature with powerful, swift attacks and able to petrify people with ease, a creature which obviously has no plan to go back to its prison, was not the smartest move.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Releasing an Eldritch Abomination on Vox Machina works quite well, but said monster is extremely strong and has no real loyalty to her. Thus, when Kashaw abandons her to help the team and she begrudgingly tries to capture the creature back, she gets petrified for her trouble.
- Jerkass: While her distrust for Vox Machina (and Vex, in particular), is perfectly warranted, her callous attitude of using them as baits and meat shields for traps is cold-hearted and manipulative, and she makes it clear she is only there to snatch the vestige from them, her matron's will be damned. She then decides to use a powerful monster to incapacitate and possibly kill all of them, right after Vex nearly died, something that Kashaw doesn't approve, voicing his concern that this is a step too far. She only stops when Kashaw essentially turns on her, and after Vax demonstrates that he has been chosen by the Matron of Ravens.
- Lady of Black Magic: She is sophisticated, morally questionable, aloof, wears dark clothing and wields red-colored magic.
- Prehensile Tail: In her first appearance, she's shown using her tail to grab her drink.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: She wears black and wield demonic spells. Downplayed because Zahra is not an outright villain. While she is initially antagonistic for wanting to follow her own agenda, she remains an ally to Vox Machina and departs in good terms with Vex.
- The Resenter: She hates the fact her patron has given the task of retrieving the Vestiges of Divergence to a bunch of outsiders.
- Too Dumb to Live: Releasing a super powerful creature she can't control and has no desire to be imprisoned by her again gets her petrified instead.
- You Owe Me: Holds the fact Vex stole one of her quarries over her head.
Kashaw Vesh
Kashaw Vesh
- Adaptational Hairstyle Change: Kashaw during the original campaign was depicted as clean shaven and his long hair was styled in a loose braid. His Legend of Vox Machina incarnation wears his hair loose, and he also sports thicker eyebrows and a pair of mutton chop sideburns.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Downplayed to the point where it is barely noticeable, but Kashaw in The Legend of Vox Machina is more of an arrogant jerk than his original incarnation, who was already rather prickly and aloof. Also, while they are helping Vox Machina try to recover Deathwalker's Ward from the Sunken Tomb, he and Zahra do so with the intention of stealing the vestige out from under them, and they have no qualms about letting them go ahead to set off any traps in their way, though he does slightly call Zahra out for them abandoning Vox Machina after they mutually saved each other during a merman ambush.
- Adapted Out: While this applies to Zahra as well as the initial Slayer's Take arc is skipped over, Kashaw in particular is hampered by it as much of the depth to his relationship with Keyleth is replaced with casual flirtingnote , and his backstory and unique relationship with his patron Vesh, which makes his aloof nature more understandable, is completely cut out outside of some scars on his arm. Strangely, Vesh was an original creation of Critical Role, so unlike the Raven Queen, Vecna, or other gods, there was nothing stopping them from properly acknowledging her.
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: He has thick, expressive eyebrows.
- Duality Motif: One of his eyes is gold while the other is more grey.
- Easily Forgiven: He and Zahra part amicably with Vox Machina even after blatantly attempting to steal the Deathwalker's Ward from them, although in Kash's case he at least objected to risking the group's lives to achieve their goals.
- Everyone Has Standards: He has no problem with stealing Deathwalker's Ward out from under Vox Machina, but he draws the line at leaving them to die, even when he's threatened with being seen as betraying the Take.
- Failed a Spot Check: Uses magic to find the location of Deathwalker's Ward and assumes it's in one of the false tombs before leading Zahra through the tunnel it leads to. However, Kashaw fails to notice a floor panel that, when activated, reveals the true tomb, owing to the fact a merman's corpse was covering it.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: His armour is either missing a pauldron on his left shoulder or he is using a pauldron that belonged to a completely different set of armour. Either way, it is this.
- Hot Blooded Sideburns: Kash is a braggadocious, very loosely moral man with the massive flared mutton chops to match.
- Ignore the Fanservice: He completely ignores Vex'ahlia's tries to seduce him and calls for Zahra to resolve the situation. His uncomfortable face when Vex invades his personal space says everything.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Kashaw is a smarmy jerk who plots with Zahra to steal the Deathwalker's Ward under Vox Machina's nose, but when Vex dies from a trap in the tomb he quickly jumps in to try and revive her. He also objects to Zahra summoning her captured aberration to take the Vestige from them and jumps in to help fight it.
- Light 'em Up: Like fellow cleric Pike, Kashaw in the series doesn't carry a physical weapon, instead using his divine magic to manifest spears of light, similar to his weapon of choice in the original campaign.
- Love at First Sight: Love is a bit of a stretch, but he flirts with Keyleth from the very moment he meets her in Vasselheim.
- Morality Pet: To Zahra, to some degree. While they are usually on the same wavelength, he is the one who ultimately convinces her to stop her actions against Vox Machina.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Goes by "Kash", and is rarely called by his full name.
- The Tease: Casually flirts with Keyleth even though he's ultimately got no attachment to her.
- What You Are in the Dark: When Vex gets killed by a trap, he could've easily gone ahead with Zahra and stole the vestige. Instead, he immediately leaps in to help Pike revive Vex.
Highbearer Vord
Voiced by: Sumalee Montano
Race: Elf
- Adaptational Job Change: Was a priest of the Platinum Dragon in the livestream, but in the series she instead serves the Lawbearer.
- Bystander Syndrome: Despite sympathizing with Emon's plight and offering hospitality to those affected she refuses to allow her forces to battle the Chroma Conclave, prioritizing the safety of Vasselheim above all else.
- Gender Flip: The original Highbearer Vord in the campaign was male, while here Vord is female.
Earthbreaker Groon
Earthbreaker Groon
- Armor-Piercing Question: Before, during, and after the beating he gives Grog he gives him the same one over and over until he finally finds an answer. At first he didn't know, but after some Character Development and destroying Craven Edge, he finds protecting the weak is a good answer. And he's tested by this when Groon appears before him and asks this question before Grog goes into a rage.Earthbreaker Groon: Where does your strength come from?
- Bad Ass Normal: He may be just a human, but Earthbreaker Groon is just as powerfully built as Grog (a goliath) and more than capable of serving his ass on a silver platter.
- Bare-Fisted Monk: Being a monk, Earthbreaker Groon fights Grog with only his bare hands.
- Bare-Handed Blade Block: During their fight, he catches Grog's black sword in one hand. And while it cuts his hand he manages to keep it in place.
- Cryptic Conversation: His first conversation with Grog involves him directly telling Grog his problems, but refusing to explain his meaning leaving it for a confused Grog to ponder.
- Figure It Out Yourself: His core question to Grog "Where does your Strength come from?" is repeated multiple times over the course of the fight. When Grog finally answers that he doesn't know, Groon is satisfied and lets Grog go so he can figure an answer on his own.
- Old Master: Groon is an old monk who completely curb stomps the much younger and larger Grog with his bare hands.
- Warrior Therapist: His philosophy is that answers can only be earned in the field of battle, likewise he teaches Grog about his own weakness by sparring him.
Osysa
Osysa
Voiced by: Alanna Ubach
Race: Sphinx
The patron of the Slayer's Take.
- I Know What You Fear: She outright questions the will of each member of Vox Machina by exposing their fears and sending them through their own personal hell.
- Last of Her Kind: Sphinxes are believed to be extinct, making Osysa and her mate the only two known to still exist. She likely becomes this after Umbrasyl kills Kamaljiori.
- Our Sphinxes Are Different: She's a massive creature with a feline body and a humanoid head. Though she doesn't speak in riddles, she does test the mental fortitude of Vox Machina by attacking their personal fears and insecurities.
- Secret Test of Character: Osysa traps the members of Vox Machina into an illusionary Psychological Torment Zone where she torments them about their inabilities to face their deepest fears and insecurities. After she releases them, she comes to the conclusion that just like others before them, Vox Machina are another bunch of fools who think they can make a difference but lack the determination to complete their tasks. But Pike does not accept what Osysa has to say about them and refuses to leave or give up. Seeing that Vox Machina actually do have the will to give everything to make a difference, Osysa accepts to give them the knowledge they need to defeat the Chroma Conclave.
Victor
Victor
Voiced by: Matthew Mercer
Race: Human
A peculiar vendor of mining equipment who's crazy enough to sell black powder.
- Catchphrase: "Learn from my mistakes!"
- Expy: His animated look takes direct cues from Avatar: The Last Airbender's King Bumi mixed with Matt's Halloween cosplay of Victor.
- Fingore: Already lost a couple of fingers from botched experiments.
- Mad Bomber: He's a crazy old man who sells black powder and appears to enjoy experimenting with the stuff.
The Wider Continent
Kamaljiori
Kamaljiori
Voiced by: Tony Plana
Race: Sphinx
Mate of Osysa, he is a sphinx who defends his lair in the Rimecleft mountain. Keeper of the Vestige of Divergence known as Mythcarver.
- Barrier Warrior: Blocks all of Vox Machina's attacks with powerful magic shields during their trial. Only Umbrasyl's acid and brute strength is powerful enough to overpower them.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: He tests Vox Machina by having them try to wound him, as he states he has never felt pain. Scanlan makes him feel the pain of heartbreak and longing with a song reminding him of his mate. He also undoubtedly felt large amounts of pain in the following battle against Umbrasyl, where he was eventually killed by the dragon.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Easily defeats each member of Vox Machina who fights him during their trial to wound him, even when three of them, Pike, Percy, and Keyleth, try to attack him all at once. Only Scanlan, who decides to wound Kamaljiori emotionally instead of physically, manages to succeed.
- Death by Adaptation: Is killed by Umbrasyl when the black dragon launches a surprise attack after Vox Machina's trial. No such event happened in the campaign.
- Eye Beams: His primary attacks aside from his size and strength are blue beams of force that shoot out of his eyes, slamming his targets away.
- Our Sphinxes Are Different: Instead of a riddle, his challenge to Vox Machina is to simply wound him once, as he has never felt pain in his eons of life. It does still require some lateral thinking to win, though. Scanlan succeeds where all of the others failed by showing Kamaljiori a vision of his love, hurting his heart by reminding him of how long they've been separated.
Purvan Suul
Purvan Suul
Voiced by: Matthew Mercer
Race: formerly humanoid
The Champion of the Matron of Ravens ever since the Calamity.
- Authority Sounds Deep: His single line of dialogue.
- Passing the Torch: After testing Vax's will in a Battle in the Center of the Mind, he passes his vestige to him.
- Posthumous Character: Is long dead by the modern age of the Post-Divergence.
- Skeleton Motif: Befitting a champion of the goddess of death, the faceplate of his helmet is skull-shaped.
- Threshold Guardian: Purvan's spirit ferociously attacks whoever wears the Deathwalker's Ward in an attempt to see if they can accept mortality and the burden being a champion of death brings.
- Unfortunate Names: The Party laughs that his name sounds like "Perv On".
- Worthy Opponent: After Vax figures out the point of their duel, Purvan respectfully bows to him, acknowledging Vax as his successor.
The Ashari
Korrin
Korrin of the Air Ashari
Voiced by: Fred Tatasciore
Race: Half-elf
The leader of the Air Ashari and Keyleth's father.
- Good Parents: A loving and supportive father, standing in stark contrast to Vex and Vax's dad.
- Shipper on Deck: He seems to approve of Vax, much to his and Keyleth's mutual embarrassment.
Vilya
Vilya of the Air Ashari
Voiced by: Janet Varney
Race: Half-elf
Keyleth's long lost mother.
- Casting Gag: It's not the first time Janet Varney voices an elemental master.
- Missing Mom: She left Keyleth to fulfill her Aramente, and hasn't been seen since.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Just look at her picture, the only differences between her and Keyleth are Vilya's slightly fuller lips and more narrow eyes.
Cerkonos
Cerkonos the Flamespeaker
Voiced by: Robbie Daymond
Race: Human
The leader of the Fire Ashari.
- An Arm and a Leg: Appears to have lost an arm in the time between Thordak's imprisonment and the attack on Pyrah.
The Feywild
Syldor Vessar
Syldor Vessar
Voiced by: Troy Baker
Race: Elf
An elven noble and the father of Vex and Vax.
- Abusive Parents: Belittles his own children for being half-human.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Even more of an asshole than he was in the campaign. Here, when Percy declares that Vex is a noblewoman and baroness of Whitestone, he stubbornly refuses to accept that either of his half-breed children could ever amount to anything. We also see more of his abuse towards the twins via flashbacks, when previously this had been only informed by their reaction to him, as in the present he was trying to make some degree of amends. And while in the original campaign he was bigoted, this was a cultural issue with Syngorn as a whole and Syldor himself was actually one of the more progressive members by comparison; here, Syngorn's larger issue with anti-non-elf racism isn't touched on or shown in contrast to his racism becoming his most defining trait.
- Blue Blood: Has this in spades. He has significant influence over the city and hates when his family name is used by those he deems unworthy. It's especially notable when he's only polite to a fellow noble such as Percy which even then it's so thinly veiled that it doesn't even matter.
- Break the Haughty: Very mildly this comes into play. When the usually confident and assertive Vex'ahlia meekly diffuses an incoming argument between Vax'ildan and Syldor after Syldor rudely tells Percy that neither of the twins (who are right in front of him, by the way) could or would do anything for the greater good, by saying they meant no harm and would greatly appreciate their help, Syldor resumes his seat with an arrogant grin saying it's the least he can do for family. This indicates that Syldor's well aware of the abusive control he has over Vex and he loves it. Fortunately after Vex dishes out some long over due verbal payback about how awful of a dad he's been to Syldor after he insulted her and Percy. He sulks back inside and irritatedly tells the twins to not bother him again until they have the Fenthras Bow. Causing Vex'ahlia to shout "Fuck you! and leave with Vax, Percy and Keyleth in tow. It doesn't make Syldor repent for his years of abuse, neglect and dominance, but it does make him aware that Vex'ahlia is no longer dealing with nor tolerating his shit in the hopes he'll love and be proud of her (which will likely never happen), breaking the hold he's had over her for years.
- Can't Argue with Elves: May as well be the personification of this trope. He's a smug, condescending elitist and absolutely unrepentant in his disdain for humans. He despises his own children as they are half-elves and considers everything they do unworthy of his time, and sees nothing wrong with Syngorn using its powerful plane-shifting system to bug out to the Fey Realm and avoid the Chroma Conclave's wrath, leaving everyone else in Tal'Dorei to suffer.
- Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe: Syldor smokes a pipe during Vox Machina's visit to Syngorn, serving as a symbol of his high status in society.
- Fantastic Racism: Considers both of his children to be diluted half-breeds.
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Jerks Are Worse Than Villains: It's true that Syldor isn't murderous like the Briarwoods nor a kaiju level threat like the Chroma Conclave, but even they have more sympathetic and/or impressive qualitites than Syldor. The Briarwoods genuinely loved each other and are at the very least superficially charming. - Jerkass: Wow. Where to begin? From the top, Syldor is sneeringly racist and classist, abusive to his half-elf children, completely dismissive of Vox Machina and the draconic threat in general, and doesn't seem especially bothered by the idea of Vex possibly losing her life trying to earn his approval. Even compared to the Briarwoods, who at least have genuine love for each other balanced their actions with being classy and even compared to the Chroma Conclave, who are at least sinister and magnificent while being kaiju-level apocalyptic threats, Syldor is just an outright asshole.
- Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: Syldor verbally, emotionally and possibly even physically abused Vax'ildan and Vex'ahlia all throughout their childhood (to the point where he's got a sick hold on Vex causing her to try appeasing and diffusing escalating arguments with him and Vax just to get some iota of approval and affection from Syldor even as a young adult). In the present day, he absolutely refuses to see that Vex and Vax could ever amount to anything heroic or even non-criminal in society and insults their friends when they stick up for them. Yet throughout all this he thinks that he deserves the utmost gratitude from his children, just for housing, feeding and giving them proper education after their loving mother was killed in a dragon attack despite the fact that he constantly abuses and insults them for being half-elves and it's likely his enrolling the twins with their vast education was not at all to help them reach their full potential as intelligent, compassionate decent people and more to keep them out of his way by foisting the twins to various teachers to deal with them.
Devana Vessar
Devana Vessar
Voiced by: Toks Olagundoye
Race: Elf
The wife of Syldor and by extension the stepmother of the twins.
- Extreme Door Mat: Devana possibly shows shades of this when it comes to Syldor's bullying of Vex'ahlia and Vax'ildan. When Syldor coldly denies crediting Vex in the scroll that provides free passage through Syngorn as "Lady Vex'ahlia, Baroness Of The Third House Of Whitestone" implying that Vex doesn't deserve to be considered nobility on top of insulting Percy for suggesting this, causing Vex to finally stand up to Syldor about what a bigoted, hard-hearted bully of a father he's been all their life. Devana stays absolutely silent when her husband dishes out more abuse to Vex but she doesn't stop Vex from speaking out nor does she defend his stance either. This could show that Devana probably hates how he treats the twins just as much as the twins do, but doesn't speak up out of fear.
- Good Stepmother: Devana is nothing but polite and welcoming to her stepchildren, not showing the same prejudice as her husband. In turn, the twins are quite polite and affectionate with Devana, and don't seem to hold any ill-will against her.
- Nice Girl: Unlike her husband, she is on good terms with the twins and even introduces them to her daughter.
- What Does She See in Him?: It'd most likely take a Sphinx to figure out how such a kind-hearted, unprejudiced and hospitable lady could marry such an elitist, bigoted and abusive jackass like Syldor and willingly have a child with him.
Velora Vessar
Velora Vessar
Voiced by: Jayla Lavender Nicholas
Race: Elf
The young daughter of Syldor and Devana.
- Alliterative Name: Velora Vessar.
- Big Brother Worship: And sister. Velora is absolutely delighted when meeting her older twin siblings, and compliments Vex's feather. And she's annoyed when they have to leave. From the twins' end, despite the initial shock, the duo quickly come to dote and love her.
- Cain and Abel and Seth: Subverted. Vex and Vax are a bit shocked to learn about Velora, but they are loving toward the little girl and her existence doesn't disrupt their Brother–Sister Team.
- Cheerful Child: She's happy to meet her half-siblings and even compliments Vex's feather.
- Companion Cube: When we first see Velora, she's carrying a stuffed owl-bear doll.
- Innocent Swearing: She innocently asks her mother what "fuck you" means after hearing Vex say it. Her mother is appropriately horrified.
- Practically Different Generations: She is a little girl, who doesn't seem older than 8, while her older siblings are adults in their twenties.
Garmelie
Garmelie
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A puckish satyr who's been following Vox Machina through the Feywild.
- God Was My Copilot: After Vox Machina leaves the Fey Realm, Garmelie takes the appearance of a majestic exaggerated elf that looks a lot like the archfey they just fought.
- Great Gazoo: Garmelie may be an immature pornographer, but he also knows his way around the dangers of Faerie better than anyone and can even open magical portals to other dimensions on a whim.
- Mythology Gag: Refers to himself as a "traveller"; in the original web series's second campaign, The Traveller is the patron diety of Jester, and is later revealed to actually be an alias used by Garmelie, or rather, their true identity, Artagan.
- The Peeping Tom: Is stalking Vox Machina for kicks and enjoys drawing lewd sketches of them.
Deities
The Everlight
The Everlight
Voiced by: Tracie Thoms
Race: Celestial
The goddess of healing, temperance, and redemption and the deity that Pike prays to.
- Big Good: A goddess of light and the source of Pike's holy power.
- Light Is Good: The goddess of light and pretty benevolent and reasonable, asking only that Pike be honest with herself.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: While at first she seems to be a punishing goddess, it's only an act to get Pike to confess her doubts to herself and discover the true reason for why her powers have stopped working. She even doesn't fault Pike for the way she acts with the rest of the group, and instead tells Pike that her friends can dictate how she acts in the world, while her temple dictates her faith, marking them as separate, but not invalid, paths. She even says that whether she's a good cleric or not doesn't matter, and that any path she walks can be holy, only finding fault with Pike's divided loyalty between her temple and the team.
- Physical Goddess: She’s the goddess of Light is worshipped by her followers and serves as the source of Pike’s holy abilities.
- Writing Around Trademarks: Much like the other gods, she is never referred to as either Sarenrae or Raei; only her title is used. She's a bit more notable as the first god on the show to establish this practice for the adaptation.
The Matron of Ravens
The Matron of Ravens
Voiced by: Courtenay Taylor
Race: Psychopomp
The goddess of death, fate, and winter.
- Creepy Crows: This goddess of darkness and death has her tombs decorated with ravens carrying dead spirits and lined with traps that shoot out killer raven feathers.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Well, some of our crew might have a low opinion of her, but for all that she can be sinister, she has not seemed evil as such; she simply carries out her duty with virtually no hesitation, and is unafraid to lay challenges at the feet of the one who would presume to be her champion. She later explains that she desires to preserve the sanctity of death for the meaning it gives life, and desires her champion to safeguard that moment. She also never kills anyone, she guides the spirits of those slain to the next world.
- Don't Fear the Reaper: Despite the intimidating appearance of both herself and her temples, the Matron is ultimately a benevolent Goddess. In her eyes, death is what makes life so precious, and dying is not the end, just the next step on the journey. She has no problem with her champion preserving life, as it ensures the moment of death is sanctitified.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Vax briefly glimpses her among the carnage in Emon, and then later at her temple, before she shows up in full in "Those Who Walk Away" to take Vax as her champion. And of course, the raven that represents her is displayed prominently in the title sequence as early as the second episode.
- Enigmatic Empowering Entity: She bestows the Deathwalker's Ward on Vax and names him her Champion, but has not yet revealed her motive for choosing him. Instead, she sends him cryptic, terrifying visions, leaving it to him to decipher what she wants. Subverted when he actually gets to have a face to face conversation with her, as she's much less cryptic and kinder in person.
- Floating Limbs: When Vax sees her true form, her forearms are completely seperate from her body.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: She normally appears as a tall woman wearing a white mask. When Vax sees her in what seems to be her own realm, her true form appears to be a gigantic woman with her body partially made of shadow, multiple raven skulls emerging from the sides of her head, and a much more regal mask.
- Giant Woman: When she appears in a vision to Vax'ildan, The Matron of Ravens towers over him, to the point that Vax is only about as big as the Matron's nose. When she gets more up close and personal, she shrinks down considerably. She's still taller than he is, but only slightly as opposed to towering over him.
- God Is Good: The Matron might be a God of the Dead, but at the end of the day, she wants her champion to protect the sanctity of death because death makes life more precious. Once Vax is able to actually talk to her, she shows she speaks kindly to him, such as calling him her 'beautiful champion,' and encourages him to make his own destiny. She even grants him access to wings when he and Scanlan are falling to their doom when he prays for help.
- God of the Dead: Described as the goddess of death by Kashaw, the Matron has appeared only in scenes of mass death and has only been seen to be worshipped in the form of an ancient tomb filled with elaborate sarcophagi.
- Mind Screw: Her MO. Instead of just directly communicating with Vax, she prefers to haunt him with confusing dreams and illusions about ravens, dead people and ghostly appearances that he cannot decipher. She's considerably less cryptic when she and Vax finally get to talk face-to-face.
- Physical Goddess: She is the Goddess of Death, and she is worshipped as such.
- Properly Paranoid: Out of all the Vestiges in season 2, her Deathwalker's Ward has the most security on it: it's hidden underneath a lake in a forgotten temple with a deadly trap tied to it, Vax can't access its power until he passes her tests, and it refuses to come off when Vax tries. Given that the three other Vestiges found that season are stolen by Umbrasyl and two of them were found in the hands of villains, she was right to be cautious.
- Psychopomp: Vax sees the Matron tending to the corpses of those killed by the Chroma Conclave. Her ravens also ferry souls off to the afterlife, if the murals in the Sunken Tomb are to be believed.
- Secret Test of Character: Her terrifying visions are her way to testing if Vax has the fortitude to be her Champion. When he decides to come to her, she finally tells him what his role means and asks again if he'll be her Champion, even knowing what it might entail. He accepts.
- Sliding Scale of Free Will vs. Fate: As a goddess of fate, she falls on the "Prophecies are Guides, not Rules" portion of the spectrum. People have destinies, but they still ultimately choose whether to follow those destinies or reject them. Vox Machina are being guided to slay the Chroma Conclave and quite a lot of strange coincidences align to prepare and arm them for that task, but they are still capable of turning it down.The Matron of Ravens: The threads of fate are not puppet strings.
- White Mask of Doom: As in the livestream, the Matron's face is completely hidden behind an expressionless porcelain mask. She is not evil, but she is the goddess of death, and seeing her is a bad sign.
- Writing Around Trademarks: "The Raven Queen" was introduced with the Nentir Vale setting for D&D 4th edition, before being backported to other settings. So like other gods on the show she's not addressed by her more common name. Thus "The Raven Queen, Matron of Death" has been condensed down to "The Matron of Ravens".
Others
"Matt Mercer"
"Matt Mercer"
Voiced by: Matthew Mercer
Race: Elf or Half-elf
A poor, hapless civilian that's always on the receiving end of Vox Machina's shenanigans.
- Butt-Monkey: No matter where he is or what he's doing, something is always going to go wrong for this guy.
- Creator Cameo: Was drawn to look like Matt Mercer and is voiced by him too.
- Inexplicably Identical Individuals: The only way he can show up in any place no matter where Vox Machina goes. A couple versions of him even get killed brutally.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Several of them end up dying horribly.
