Vax'ildan Vesser

**Vax'ildan Vessar**, was the male half-elf rogue of the renowned Gwesser based Exandrian adventuring group Vox Machina. He was commonly referred to as '**Vax'** which was similar to his sister 'Vex' meaning it was common for the two to be mistakenly called the wrong name. During his adventures, he became a champion of the Raven Queen giving him access to divine magic, even being brought back to life after being disintegrated by Vecna, the ascended, upon their first meeting.

### Description

   Like his identical twin sister Vex'ahlia, was a half-elf. They were both around twenty-eight years old when they began adventuring with Vox Machina. They were identical twins and so shared extremely similar features, both sharing their mother's brown hair, which Vax wore down or tied behind his head, and dark brown eyes. The two clearly had an elvish heritage with pointy ears, paler complexion and a lean muscular composition. Vax was two inches taller than his sister. Vax always wore dark clothes to aid in his stealthy abilities and after becoming the champion of the Raven Queen, he was drawn to black feathers. Over time, Vax picked up different markings. He got a pair of tattoos in Vasselheim after completing the Slayer's Take trial. Firstly, on his upper back, a handprint-shaped burn scar on his back from when he asked Keyleth to burn away the Clasp's brand. Vax's two resurrections left him with a dark bruise like mark over his heart as a sign of his agreement with the Raven Queen. Like the other members of Vox Machina, the final brand on Vax was the Slayer's Take brand on his right arm, however, Vax was not only covered in brands and marks but also had three tattoos. He got a pair of tattoos in Vasselheim after completing the Slayer's Take trial. On the inside of his left wrist were the sounds for "V" and "M" written in Elvish script. On the inside of his right wrist was an icosahedron and while spending a year with Keyleth at Zephyr, he got a tattoo of her antlers on his upper right arm.

Vax was a focused and serious character, but he was not without his moments of immaturity, as he was quite fond of being a prankster. He could be incredibly deceptive, and often navigated through social situations with ease and occasionally coin. Vax was said to have worn his heart on his sleeve, unlike his sister, but had a habit of self-loathing and tended to brood when undergoing emotional crises, preferring to walk away when feeling overwhelmed instead of dealing with the problem. For many years, Vax thought of himself as "lost and a wanderer", only trusting his sister and had the life goal to find a purpose and unwillingly he began to see his relationship to the Raven Queen as a purpose.

### Biography

#### Adventures of Vox Machina

→*Main article: Adventures of Vox Machina*

### Abilities

The highly prestigious education Vax'ildan received in Syngorn prepared him for later life by teaching him skills with many weapons, survival techniques, and social encounters, alongside normal subjects such as languages and history. From an early age, he showed promise with the art of stealth and deception and tracking. Despite his skill, he still suffered discrimination from both teachers and students for being a half-elf.

After leaving Syngorn and the academy, Vax and his sister worked as mercenaries for a while before meeting Vox Machina in Stilben. It was during this time that the two of them began to find their expertise; Vex remained to the wilderness and gained a companion of a brown bear and Vax staying to the shadows, stealing, trespassing and eliminating individuals in unseen ways. Vax became familiar with daggers, lockpicking utensils and many other concealed tools. Additionally, his elven ancestry aided these such endeavours as he was agile and had improved sight and hearing, especially in the dark.

Unlike his sister, Vax was commonly confused by the arts of magic and took no interest in it when he was younger. However, upon becoming the champion of the Raven Queen he was all but forced to learn as he was granted divine magic her. After being disintegrated by Vecna, Vax became a revenant of the Raven Queen meaning that before Vecna was defeated he could not die, yet was forced to return to the afterlife but after they were victorious he returned to his death.

### Notable items

* Blinkback Belt
* Boots of Haste
* Dagger of Lifestealing
* Dagger of Venom
* Deathwalker's Ward
* Earring of Whisper
* Flametongue Dagger
* Whisper

Vax'ildan was a master assassin

ex'ahlia was most famous for wielding longbows, the specific one changing a few times during her adventuring career. **Fenthras**, was the name of the vestige that she wielded during the end of her adventures. This weapon she retrieved this bow from a wayward archfey named Saundor as Vox Machinacleansed the Shademurk Bog of Exandria's Feywild. Tiberius created the **Blazing Bowstring**that Vex stringed all her bows with setting her arrows alight as they were fired from the string.

When Vox Machina's first subgroup embarked on the trial for membership into the Slayer's Take guild, Murtin Cyndrial temporarily loaned the party a special satchel.  The bag featured an over-the-shoulder strap that opened and closed through a series of metal snap-buttons across the top, and the interior resembled that of a normal bag of holding. Murtin explained that perishable items kept inside should be preserved as it was a **Bag of Colding.**

Vex'ahlia developed a near obsession for flying so when the opportunity presented itself to her to acquire a flying broomstick, she took it, slipping Gern Blanston's enchanted broom into Grog's Bag of Holding. Percy then made a few adjustments to make flying easier and more comfortable and after this Vex named it **Death from Above.**

As a way of protecting her bear Trinket when he fell unconscious during combat, Vex used the Raven's Slumber which was a necklace broach that was a gateway to a pocket dimension able to hold one creature inside. She used this multiple times for both Grog and Trinket.