Artagan

* Artagan
* Garmelie
* Traveler
* Keelyn

Fan art of Artagan, by Veronica Anrathi (Disarmonia).

Fan art of Garmelie, by Thomas Brin.

Fan art of the Traveler, by BlackSalander.

Fan art of Keelyn, by Kileigh Gallagher.

“
You know, for someone who hates the theatre, you've made quite a show of all of this.
”

–
Keyleth to Artagan
[!h]

**Artagan** is an Archfey from the Feywild. He posed as a satyr named **Garmelie** to travel with Vox Machina for his own amusement before eventually revealing himself, and later became a minor deity known as **the Traveler**. As an NPC, he is played by Matthew Mercer in *Critical Role*. Garmelie is played by Billy Boyd and Matthew Mercer in *The Legend of Vox Machina*, Season Two.

## **Description**

### **Appearance**

Artagan was very tall and thin, walking chest-forward and regal-poised. He appeared almost elflike but still had exaggerated fey-like features and long ears that curled past his small head, with a pointed chin, almond-shaped, verdant-emerald green (and sometimes cat-like) eyes and wild, curly orange hair like a lion’s mane going down to his lower back. He wore sleeveless silk vestments of blue and green billowing freely behind him. One of its pockets contained an extra dimension.

### **Personality**

While posing as the satyr Garmelie, Artagan played a mischievous and self-centered character that enjoyed amusing himself by drawing immature caricatures of people, stealing items that caught his eye or imagination, and playing pranks. He greatly valued his possessions, sometimes disproportionately to their actual value. Wearing his heart on his sleeve, Garmelie's capricious emotional state was typically easy to read due to his exaggerated and dramatic reactions, even when he tried to hide his feelings. When his impulses were stymied by external forces, he became frustrated easily, but his mood could just as abruptly shift again, seemingly without holding a grudge.

Garmelie preferred to avoid direct confrontation, choosing to run or hide when such situations arose. He also expressed a strong dislike and distrust of "the theatre" on multiple occasions.

Artagan, after dropping the Garmelie persona, had a calmer, more patient, more mature disposition. His deep valedictory bow toward Vox Machina also indicated a more respectful nature than Garmelie's.

## **Biography**

### **Background**

Unlike many fey creatures, Artagan did not belong to one of the fey courts.

Possibly before or during the Calamity, Corellon banished Artagan to the Feywild for tricking an elven culture into worshiping "Mister Demeanor", a whale carcass.

As of 812 PD, he was among the five Archfey identified by the Arcana Pansophical.

When Syngorn was in the Feywild during the Chroma Crisis, Artagan helped some fey, including a pixie prince named Windybranch, slip through the city's defenses, where they occupied a noblewoman's manor and transformed it into a fun slice of the Feywild; she tried to reclaim her home for years afterward.

### **Garmelie**

A cartoonist with an immature perspective, Garmelie produced many juvenile caricatures in his sketchbook. When Syngorn phased from the Material Plane into the Feywild after the Chroma Conclave attacked Tal'Dorei, Garmelie suddenly found himself with a city full of new subjects for his unique brand of art.

Garmelie claimed to have an uncle named Jameson, who taught him about some of the dangers in the Feywild.

#### **"The Feywild" (1x59)**

Garmelie began stalking and drawing Vox Machina after the party entered the Feywild to retrieve Fenthras. Vex'ahlia noticed the stealthy satyr and managed to sneak up on him using her broom, but she also noticed that he didn't pose a serious threat. Rather playfully, Vex hovered on her broom behind Garmelie, then playfully asked, "Whatcha drawin'?" Garmelie was very flustered and prepared to flee, but not before Vex grabbed hold of him and brought him to the rest of Vox Machina.

Eventually, after Garmelie charmed Percy, he and Vox Machina arrived at an agreement: after completing two tasks in Syngorn, Garmelie would guide the party to the Shademurk Bog.

#### **"Heredity and Hats" (1x60)**

As it turned out, Garmelie sought a piece of a threshold crest and High Warden Tyrelda's travel hat. Vox Machina acquired the hat through deception and theft. However, Percy and Keyleth managed to satisfy the requirement for a piece of a Threshold Crest through a technicality in the verbal agreement, with Keyleth using *Stone Shape* to create a Whitestone crest from the threshold of a door, then Percy breaking it and handing a piece to Garmelie—literally "a piece of a threshold crest". Garmelie agreed in frustration that Vox Machina upheld its end of the bargain, but he was still quite pleased with Tyrelda's travel hat. Garmelie then began leading the group toward Shademurk Bog.

#### **"Denizens of the Moonbrush" (1x61) - "Uninviting Waters" (1x62)**

Garmelie continued to guide Vox Machina through the Feywild, accompanied the party to a series of rivers called the Gilded Run that blocked their path, and he attempted to part ways. Instead, Scanlan threw him (with *Bigby's Hand*) as far as he could across the rivers. Ultimately Garmelie reached the other side before he was able to leave.

#### **"The Echo Tree" (1x63)**

After Vox Machina faced and defeated Saundor, Garmelie returned, revealing himself to be an Archfey named Artagan, who greatly enjoyed watching the group's adventures in the Feywild. Artagan invited Vox Machina to visit him again sometime.

#### **"Dark Dealings" (1x112)**

When Vox Machina fled Thar Amphala to the Feywild, they struck a bargain with Artagan. The Archfey agreed to alter the Feywild's time dilation effect so that the party could rest for a day in the Feywild while only an hour passed on the Material Plane...on two conditions. The first condition was that Vox Machina would later create a door for Artagan to enter into the Material Plane. The second condition was that Artagan wanted to strangle Vax'ildan until he died, something he became interested in after hearing the half-elf say he was "kind of unkillable lately". Vax agreed to this and let the Archfey strangle him to death.

#### **"The Final Ascent" (1x113)**

The next morning, Artagan greeted the party, telling them they had been been in the Feywild for longer than the agreed-upon twenty-four hours but he would see what he could whip up. He cast a spell to control the time dilation, and Keyleth took them back to the Material Plane.

#### **"The Chapter Closes" (1x115)**

As of the wrap up of Vox Machina's tale they had not yet fulfilled the first condition of the deal made with Artagan to provide a doorway into the Material Plane. However, Matthew Mercer later confirmed that the doorway was built, even if it wasn't explicitly covered in the episode.

### **The Traveler**

*Main article: The Traveler*
Artagan's "Traveler" persona began sensing a kinship with a little blue girl named Jester Lavorre, and discovered a spark uniquely similar to his own. Young Jester believed with such unconditional childlike faith and wonder in Artagan's "divinity" as The Traveler that Artagan pretended to be the god she believed him to be, only to discover he actually started to become newly empowered from the unconditional faith she bestowed on him.

#### **"With Great Power..." (2x94)**

    The Traveler revealed his true nature to Jester: that while he was indeed her Traveler, her deity, he was not always so. He explained that after befriending Jester and earning her belief in him as a god, Artagan (as The Traveler) began to seek out others like her and himself who also believed in joy, mischief and the exposure of arrogance and hypocrisy, becoming increasingly deified by his followers' growing faith. However, as his followers multiplied, Artagan found himself overwhelmed by the increasing multitudes of voices calling upon him through prayer, demanding aid, guidance and the responsibilities of godhood. Inspired by their long standing relationship as his first disciple and witnessing Jester's mastery of creative trickery in bargaining with the witch Isharnai to release Nott the Brave from a curse, Artagan decided to confide the truth in Jester, asking she advise him, revealing that he in truth "has no idea what [he] is doing," asking her aid in knowing how to proceed in his newfound role as the deity of joy and trickery known as The Traveler.

#### **"Blessing in Disguise" (2x95)**

Artagan appeared in front of the rest of the Mighty Nein and revealed himself to be not a god, but in fact an Archfey from the Feywild. He asked for their help in planning Traveler Con so that his followers would become less reliant on him and more on each other.

#### **"The Fancy and the Fooled" (2x97)**

Marion Lavorre recalled someone roughly matching Artagan's distinguishing features occasionally appearing in the audience of the Lavish Chateau.

#### **"Maritime Mysteries" (2x103)**

Jester cast *Commune* and asked the Traveler if had known how Vokodo affected people's memories before deciding on that location for Traveler Con. He responded that yes, he knew what happened to those who stayed on the island. The Traveler reassured her that he was never going to leave her on the island, and when she pressed him, he included her friends as well. To cheer Jester up, he manipulated the shadows around Catha to create an image of a googly-eyed Tusktooth.

#### **"Devoutness and Dicks" (2x107)**

While the Mighty Nein were planning Traveler Con, Artagan appeared and they brainstormed how to get him out of the god business. They eventually settled on the idea of convincing his followers that the Traveler was actually the Moonweaver in disguise. On the eve of Traveler Con, Jester pulled him aside and he told her how much she's changed him for the better, and how much she's grown. She told him he was her best friend and always will be. He cautioned her that he doesn't expect things to last forever, and they should appreciate the time they have, then wandered off to enjoy the party.

#### **"Traveler Con" (2x108)**

During Traveler Con, Artagan was present (though mostly in disguise), and aided Caleb in providing special effects. At its conclusion on the volcano top, he made himself look like the Moonweaver, giving a speech about hiding "her" identity from them and starting a new sect of the religion. Suddenly the clouds parted, revealing a full moon. Jester and Artagan were confused, since the moon wasn't supposed to be in the sky. Gossamer chains rained down and bound Artagan as an angelic figure descended and called for the Traveler to be brought back to the Feywild to be punished. Jester grabbed his legs, begging the angel to forgive him. The chains began rising up from the ground, along with the angel. Fjord used his Relentless Hex to grab Jester, and the Traveler kicked them both off of him. Caleb cast *Feather Fall* to slow their descent. At that, the angel halted, asking Artagan if he was sorry for what he had done. He apologized for impersonating the Moonweaver. The chains then broke apart, sending him into a freefall, eventually halted by Veth's *Feather Fall*. Artagan addressed the crowd, saying they should go worship the Moonweaver, and walked away. He later visited the party as they rested in the dome for the night and apologized for what had happened. He thanked them all for keeping Jester safe from harm's way.

#### **"A Walk to Warmer Welcomes" (2x124)**

Artagan maintained a close relationship with Jester as the granter of her cleric abilities, even if he was not technically a "god". He came when she called upon him for aid with *Scrying* or *Sending* and provided guidance through *Commune* in a casual and laid-back manner, even when it interrupted his other activities. While the party was in Eiselcross, he came for a long casual chat while holding a mai tai he brought from Port Damali when Jester failed on a *Divine Intervention*.

#### **"Hell or High Water" (2x136)**

It was confirmed by Caleb and Beauregard's *Truesight* that Artagan takes the form of Jester's red weasel, Sprinkle. Caleb noted that as Capeleb he had seen Sprinkle chittering in Jester's ear while she scried, and he saw the same thing again as himself later. Sprinkle then perked up and started talking to Jester, confirming that he is Artagan.

#### **"Long May He Reign" (2x140)**

During the fighty against Lucien the influence of Cognouza was strong enough to affect Artagan, who wasn't able to help Jester as much as he would have liked, but he still granted her magic to defeat their enemy.

#### **"Fond Farewells" (2x141)**

The archfey had a sincer conversation with his cleric, apologizing for not being the god she had expected, but praising her for her own virtues, and promising to bring her to the Fey Realm some day.

#### ***The Tales of Exandria: Artagan***

At some point after 836 PD the Seelie and Unseelie archfey gathered on the same place to preside over the trial against Artagan for his plays for false godhood. The rogue archfey remembered his crimes as those were being explained, and took the whole matter with hilarity, and joked even when facing the accusations and the potential punishment, angering Elmenore and Sammanar. Artagan managed to free himself from his handcuffs, and after a failed attempt to teleport away, Seelie and Unseelie soldiers made him stay in the room while the trial continued.

#### **"By the Road" (E1x04)**

Fearne Calloway led the Exandria Unlimited adventuring party to the gate built by Vox Machina for Artagan, through which both he and she traveled from the Feywild to the Prime Material Plane. It was located in the depths of the Verdant Expanse, some distance off the Wildwood Byway about two weeks south of Emon and half way to Byroden.

#### **"The Mighty Nein Reunion: Echoes of the Solstice" (Sx79)**

At the very beginning of the Apogee Solstice of 843 PD Artagan seemed to be in a hurry, busy with something. When Jester tried to *Scry* on Trent Ikithon the archfey guided her as he normally did, but left as soon as the spell failed. The following day, when the cleric summoned him with the *Gate* spell, the Traveler was initially shocked by Omentis, the monster they were fighting in Blumenthal, but he joined the battle nonetheless, casting *Chain Lighting* (and preventing his magic from reaching the locals) and trying to empower Jester's *Guiding Bolt* (although their combined attack failed). When Trent and Omentis were sealed inside an artifact, Artagan tried to leave, since he had things to do, but Jester used Divine Intervention to make sure he stayed to hang out with the Mighty Nein for a while. The archfey used his powers to decorate the streets of the village with Feywild flowers at the victory party, and using that same effect to celebrate that Jester and Fjord got engaged (after which the tiefling confirmed that he could not leave yet).

### ***The Legend of Vox Machina***

#### **"The Fey Realm" (LVM2x07)**

Half of the party found themselves in the Fey Realm after a confrontation with Umbrasyl. Vex noticed a creature spying on them and investigated on her broom, finding and confronting a small satyr busily drawing in a book. He introduced himself as Garmelie, and his book contained vulgar caricatures of the group. He offered to guide them where they needed to go, but disappeared when the group was attacked. However, when Vex and Keyleth woke up, hungover and nauseous, he was waiting and drawing. Percy confronted him, and Garmelie told him their quarry, Fenthras, lay in the Shademurk Bog. He again offered to guide them, and this time, Percy accepted his help. Eventually, Garmelie led the party to an overlook of the elven city of Syngorn, saying that one day it just appeared out of nowhere, and they needed to go through it to reach the Shademurk.

#### **"Echo Tree" (LVM2x08)**

The party quietly entered Syngorn, evading the numerous patrolling guards, guided by Garmelie, but when they were eventually confronted and taken to Ambassador Vessar, Garmelie disappeared, reappearing once again after the party's audience and when they were again outside the city. He guided them onward to a shadowy area, where they began hearing whispers that Garmelie frantically urged them not to listen to because it was a cursed Archfey named Saundor whose sadness can overwhelm a person. He then disappeared, reappearing after Saundor's defeat and chortling at the show Vox Machina had provided him. He told them they were going home, and with a snap of his fingers opened a portal between the planes, back to Tal'Dorei. They'd entertained him the most he'd been in millennia. The party ran through it, and alone, Garmelie transformed into the archfey Artagan and bid them safe travels.

## **Relationships**

### **Wodenna**

Artagan claimed that Wodenna was "an ex". This ambiguously-phrased claim does not clarify whose "ex" or an "ex" of what. For example, Wodenna could have been an ex-lover of Artagan or an ex-lover of Saundor—or even an ex-lover of Saundor first, whom she might have betrayed for Artagan before later separating from him, as well.

### **Jester Lavorre**

*Main article: Relationship between Jester and The Traveler*
Artagan and Jester are life-long companions and close friends. Artagan became enthralled with the exhilaration of worship after he began granting boons to Jester as a child. As both he and Jester spread word of him throughout Wildemount, he grew in power. He told her she was his first follower, and will always be his favorite. After Jester was able to break the curse on Nott by tricking a hag, Artagan sought her help in coming to grips with the onset of Godhood.

As Traveler Con approached, Artagan continued to approach Jester for advice. When the Mighty Nein discovered that being on Rumblecusp caused its residents to lose their memories, Jester became concerned that the Traveler had known about this, and intended to take advantage of this fact to get rid of his followers. When she confronted him about this, he told her that yes, he knew what happened to those who stayed on the island. This upset Jester greatly. Artagan reassured her that he was never going to leave her and her friends on the island. To cheer Jester up, he manipulated the shadows around Catha to create an image of the mark of Tusktooth.

On Traveler Con Eve, Artagan spoke with Jester, telling her that she was still his favorite. He told her how much she had changed him for the better, and how much she'd grown. The conversation seemed to quiet all Jester's recent fears and uncertainties about him, and she told him he was her best friend and always would be, just before leaning in like she was going to kiss him and biting his nose instead. He cautioned her that he didn't expect things to last forever, and they should appreciate the time they had together.

During the Traveler Con proceedings, Artagan was interrupted by an avatar of Sehanine. He was restrained by silver chains, and the entity said he was being punished and brought back to the Feywild where he belonged. As the Traveler, panicking, was being dragged away, Jester grabbed onto him and begged for him to be released, saying that she loved him. To prevent her from being captured along with him, Artagan kicked her (and Fjord) free. Seeing that Artagan had grown to truly care for another creature, the celestial entity asked him if he'd learned his lesson, and released him. Later that evening, Artagan and Jester talked privately, and he apologized to her for endangering her and her friends.

They became somewhat closer after that, and during their adventures in Aeor it was revealed that Sprinkle was the way Artagan checked on his cleric constantly, making sure she was ok. Some time after the conclusion of the Mighty Nein's adventures, Artagan visited Jester as she walked toward the docks in Nicodranas. He apologized for not being the god she wanted, but she thanked him for being the friend she actually wanted. He admitted he was feeling wanderlust again, and needed a change, but he has enjoyed their relationship. He told Jester she doesn't need him and he might not be around as much, but he promised that he would take her to see the Feywild with him some day. As they parted, she once again bit him on the nose. Although the quasi-divine archfey was, indeed, aloof sometimes, not wanting to stay with mortals, he always granted Jester magic, and when she became powerful enough to cast successful Divine Interventions weekly, she used that ability constantly to ask him small favors (like making coffee), even if it was only to spend time with him. He always granted them, for she was still his favorite cleric.

## **Character information**

### **Abilities**

As of the time Artagan introduces himself to the Mighty Nein, his spells or abilities have a saving throw DC equal to or lower than 22.

* Spellcasting
	+ A type of charm spell (most likely *Charm Person*) that notifies the victim upon ending
	+ *Chain Lightning*
* A type of invisibility spell or ability that lasts for at least 6 hours and requires concentration
* Able to tell directions without use of a map (Can tell which way is Duskward in the Feywild)
* Can create portals to different places
* Able to manipulate plant life

### **Notable items**

* ~~Ocarina~~ (stolen by Pike)
* Sketchbook
	+ Caricatures of all of Vox Machina
		- "Very finely detailed sketch of Grog. Very well drawn, but he has bulging eyes, big buck teeth, and a very tiny penis."
		- "For Pike, her head is extremely large."
		- "There's a picture of Vax and Keyleth that are both covered in poo and slapping it on their face. Written in Elvish 'I love this!' with a word bubble."
	+ Caricatures of inhabitants of Syngorn
		- "You start seeing a number of elven individuals. You see people in really nice regal armor, but all of them are pooping themselves. There's a bunch of elvish ladies with oversized floppy boobs smacking each other in the face. It's truly childish. But they're really well drawn and well shaded! There is a serious talent to the artwork."
* "A lanky, tall humanoid that is oozing black, thick, viscous tar. It's shaded in a way where it looks like it has that glaze that only thick, oil-like substances really give off. And it's dragging this absolutely unnecessarily large dong behind it about four feet."

## **Appearances and mentions**

* Campaign One
	+ "The Feywild" (1x59) (first appearance)
	+ "Heredity and Hats" (1x60)
	+ "Denizens of the Moonbrush" (1x61)
	+ "Uninviting Waters" (1x62)
	+ "The Echo Tree" (1x63)
	+ "The Frigid Doom" (1x64), mentioned only
	+ "The Fate-Touched" (1x103), mentioned only
	+ "Dark Dealings" (1x112)
	+ "The Final Ascent" (1x113)
* Campaign Two
	+ "With Great Power..." (2x94)
	+ "Blessing in Disguise" (2x95)
	+ "High Seas, High Stakes" (2x99)
	+ "Devoutness and Dicks" (2x107)
	+ "Traveler Con" (2x108)
	+ "Solace Between the Secrets" (2x118), commune
	+ "Contentious Company" (2x120)
	+ "Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained" (2x122)
	+ "Fair-weather Faith" (2x123)
	+ "A Walk to Warmer Welcomes" (2x124)
	+ "The Neverending Day" (2x125)
	+ "Worth Fighting For" (2x126)
	+ "Cat and Mouse" (2x128)
	+ "Into the Eye" (2x131)
	+ "Aeor" (2x132), via *Scrying*
	+ "Hunter and Hunted" (2x133)
	+ "The Streets of the Forgotten" (2x134), via *Scrying*
	+ "Hell or High Water" (2x136)
	+ "Welcome to Cognouza" (2x137)
	+ "Where There Is a Will..." (2x138)
	+ "Rebirth" (2x139)
	+ "Long May He Reign" (2x140)
	+ "Fond Farewells" (2x141)
* Specials
	+ "The Mighty Nein Reunited Part 1" (Sx73)
	+ "The Mighty Nein Reunion: Echoes of the Solstice" (Sx79)
* *The Tales of Exandria: Artagan*
	+ Issue 1
	+ Issue 2
	+ Issue 3
	+ Issue 4
* *The Mighty Nein Origins: Jester Lavorre*
* The Legend of Vox Machina
	+ "The Fey Realm" (LVM2x07)
	+ "Echo Tree" (LVM2x08)

## **Quotations**

Campaign One: Vox Machina
* *(to Vox Machina)* "Travel safe. Stay alive. And, uh, maybe visit... if you get lonely."
	+ *(to Vex, Percy, Keyleth, and Vax, in the animated series)* "Travel safe, friends. Stay alive."
* "I'll help you under two conditions. One: should you go back and defeat this wannabe god thing you speak of and all is well and you're heroes and you have all of this influence and money and everything's grand, we can discuss maybe creating a doorway for me that allows passage. I'll come visit and see what strangeness your world seems to have whenever I'd like. [...] Second: I wish to strangle you until death."

Campaign Two: The Mighty Nein
* "Nothing happens for a reason; it's absolute fucking chaos."
* "Delightfully foolish, I love it."
* "Very few individuals know how to pull the rug out from under the world around them and still leave them smiling."
* "I've lived a very long time. I've made many friends and lost many friends. So I don't expect things to always last. With the time that I have, I've learned to appreciate it, the temporary things. I mean, there's a good chance that even I'm not as eternal as I believe. When things are temporary and you know it and you understand it, you truly savor it. Even we might be temporary. So let us appreciate the time we have."
* *(to Jester)* "It's so strange. Classically, mortal life is so... brief and dull and spoken of from the perspective of my folk for ages as... toys. Why are you so different? It makes no sense, really. It's frustrating. I just wanted to say I'm sorry I couldn't be the god you wanted me to be."

## **Trivia**

* His name translates as *above the peak* in Basque.
* Artagan is sometimes called *Artagan of the Morncrown*. It has never been stated what the Morncrown is exactly: it could be the name of his archfey domain, or a reference to his tousled mane.
* There was speculation from an early date that Artagan was the true identity of The Traveler, and the archfey had been posing as Jester's deity.
	+ Artagan was confirmed to be the true identity of The Traveler in "With Great Power..." (2x94), thereby making him the third confirmed non-player character from Campaign 1 to appear in Campaign 2, after Captain Adella and Allura Vysoren.
* Garmelie was technically a "satire satyr".
* Matthew Mercer has stated that Artagan is an unaligned fey, belonging to neither the Seelie nor the Unseelie fey courts.
* He is the closest thing Matt has to a god self-insert.
* Mercer dressed as Artagan for the Halloween 2020 episode.

## **Art gallery**

For more images, see Category:Images of Artagan.

## **References**

1. ↑ Matthew Mercer confirmed the spelling of "Artagan" (source).
2. ↑ Matthew Mercer released a page of his DM notes, which contains the official spelling of Garmelie's name. Previously published spellings include the unofficial "Garmeely" from an article on Geek & Sundry (not written by Mercer) and "Garmili" from G&S's summary (not written by Mercer) of "Heredity and Hats" (1x60).
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 See *Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting*, p. 123.
4. ↑ See *Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn*, p. 220.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 *The Tales of Exandria: Artagan* #1
6. ↑ See "Denizens of the Moonbrush" (1x61) at 2:18:33.  As Garmelie, he claims to have an Uncle Jameson who taught him about the Moonbrush. It is unclear if this is the truth.
7. ↑ See "The Echo Tree" (1x63) at 4:03:44.
8. ↑ See "The Echo Tree" (1x63) at 4:03:20.
9. ↑ See "The Echo Tree" (1x63) at 3:51:15.
10. ↑ See "The Echo Tree" (1x63) at 3:51:15.
11. ↑ See "Heredity and Hats" (1x60) at 1:08:54.
12. ↑ See "The Feywild" (1x59) from 2:02:43 through 2:03:02.
13. ↑ See "Denizens of the Moonbrush" (1x61) from 3:16:27 through 3:16:31.
14. ↑ See "Heredity and Hats" (1x60) from 2:16:28 through 2:16:36.
15. ↑ See "The Echo Tree" (1x63) at 3:51:15.
16. ↑ Matthew Mercer confirmed on Twitter that Artagan was a "courtless Archfey" (source).
17. ↑ As of 835 PD, this happened "a millennium ago." See *Explorer's Guide to Wildemount*, p. 32.
18. ↑ See *Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting*, p. 123. The five archfey are Saundor, Artagan, Elmenore, Sammanar, and the Keeper of the Moontides.
19. ↑ See *Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting*, pp. 83–84.
20. ↑ See "The Feywild" (1x59) from 1:37:45 through 1:37:57.
21. ↑ See "Denizens of the Moonbrush" (1x61) from 2:18:35 through 2:18:41.
22. ↑ See "The Feywild" (1x59) from 1:27:23 through 1:30:35.
23. ↑ See "The Feywild" (1x59) from 2:06:37 through 2:16:23.
24. ↑ Matthew Mercer released a page of his DM notes containing a description of Feywild characters.
25. ↑ See "Heredity and Hats" (1x60) from 1:10:41 through 1:12:42.
26. ↑ See "Heredity and Hats" (1x60) from 1:51:11 through 1:54:02.
27. ↑ See "Heredity and Hats" (1x60) from 2:10:49 through 2:12:22.
28. ↑ See "Heredity and Hats" (1x60) at 2:12:57.
29. ↑ See "The Echo Tree" (1x63) from 3:58:45 through 4:06:30.
30. ↑ See Matthew Mercer's tweet from 10/13/2017.
31. ↑ See "With Great Power..." (2x94) from 3:56:35 through 3:58:12.
32. ↑ While he did not give his name, Matthew Mercer confirmed after ending the session that the Traveler was the Archfey Lord Artagan of the Morncrown encountered by Vox Machina in the Feywild.  See "With Great Power..." (2x94) at 4:00:08.
33. ↑ See "With Great Power..." (2x94) from 3:52:58 through 3:59:37.
34. ↑ See "Blessing in Disguise" (2x95) at 38:20.
35. ↑ See "The Fancy and the Fooled" (2x97) from 1:36:22 through 1:37:16.
36. ↑ See "Maritime Mysteries" (2x103) at 1:22:26.
37. ↑ See "A Walk to Warmer Welcomes" (2x124) at 3:40:09.
38. ↑ See "Hell or High Water" (2x136) at 0:18:48.
39. ↑ See "By the Road" (E1x04) at 0:37:36.
40. ↑ Aabria Iyengar's playlist for Exandria Unlimited confirmed the gate was Artagan's.
41. ↑ See "The Echo Tree" (1x63) at 4:03:44.
42. ↑ See "Blessing in Disguise" (2x95) from 0:35:50 through 0:36:41.
43. ↑ See "The Feywild" (1x59) at 2:26:52.
44. ↑ See "The Mighty Nein Reunion: Echoes of the Solstice" (Sx79) at 4:05:43.
45. ↑ See "The Feywild" (1x59) at 1:40:09.
46. ↑ See "The Feywild" (1x59) at 2:19:52.
47. ↑ See "The Feywild" (1x59) at 1:34:24.
48. ↑ See "The Feywild" (1x59) at 1:35:45.
49. ↑ See "The Feywild" (1x59) at 1:36:10.
50. ↑ See "The Feywild" (1x59) at 1:36:51.
51. ↑ See "The Feywild" (1x59) at 2:04:27.
52. ↑ See "The Frigid Doom" (1x64) at 0:10:09.
53. ↑ See "The Echo Tree" (1x63) at 3:58:29.
54. ↑ See "Echo Tree" (LVM2x08) at 24:00.
55. ↑ See "Dark Dealings" (1x112) at 3:33:37.
56. ↑ See "Blessing in Disguise" (2x95) at 21:30.
57. ↑ See "Blessing in Disguise" (2x95) at 0:24:30.
58. ↑ See "Devoutness and Dicks" (2x107) from 3:37:54 through 3:38:03.
59. ↑ See "Devoutness and Dicks" (2x107) at 3:39:32.
60. ↑ See "Fond Farewells" (2x141) at 5:50:39.
61. ↑ See Chatting with Matthew Mercer at 34:14.
62. ↑ See "An Open Window" (2x114) at 0:05:03.

**Art**

1. ↑ Fan art of Artagan, by Veronica Anrathi (Disarmonia) (source). Used with permission.
2. ↑ Fan art of Garmelie, by Thomas Brin (source). Used with permission.
3. ↑ Fan art of the Traveler, by BlackSalander (source). Used with permission.
4. ↑ Fan art of Keelyn, by Kileigh Gallagher (source). Used with permission.
5. ↑ Fan art of Artagan, by David Rodrigues (source). Used with permission.
6. ↑ Fan art of Artagan, by LornArt (source). Used with permission.
7. ↑ Artagan and "Mister Demeanor", by Aviv Or and Cris Peter from *The Tales of Exandria: Artagan* #1. This file is a copyrighted work. Its use in this article is asserted to qualify as fair use of the material under United States copyright law.
8. ↑ Fan art of Artagan, by Kristen Cameron (source). Used with permission.
9. ↑ Fan art of Artagan strangling Vax'ildan, by Ace Newland (source). Used with permission.
10. ↑ Artagan's door, by Kamille Areopagita and Kevin Areopagita from "A Gathering of Heroes" (3x76). Used with permission.
11. ↑ Fan art of the Traveler, by Nikki Dawes (source). Used with permission.
12. ↑ Fan art of Traveler Con, by Sam Hogg (source). Used with permission.
13. ↑ Fan art of Artagan and Jester, by pixelllls (source). Used with permission.