Percy de Rolo

## **Appearance**

Percy is a little taller than average height with a thin but athletic and lean build. His hair is white, a result of the distress he suffered under the hands of the Briarwoods, and he has dark blue eyes framed by a pair of round brass glasses with two additional movable lenses that he uses for detailed work.

A noble, Percy carries himself as one with confidence and, yeah, definitely some arrogance. His clothing is well-maintained and he generally favors vests, cravats, and button-down shirts. The most noticeable thing he wears is a long, blue jacket trimmed in gold.

Percy carries three weapons—Two pepperboxes holstered at his waist and a long-barreled sniper rifle on his back. He also wears a metal gauntlet on his left hand.

## **Powers**

Some taint of Orthax, the demon that possessed Percy, lingers and allows him to cast a hex spell. It appears as swirling black smoke that swirls around the person it was cast upon, and can damage them as well as impede their abilities.

## **Talents**

Engineering, gunslinging, acrobatics, Exandrian history, sarcasm

## **Interests**

Science, engineering, naturalism, horology

## **History**

Percival Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III was the third of seven children born to Lord Frederickstein de Rolo and Lady Johanna de Klossowski of the city-state Whitestone. They were a loving, though distant and not physically affectionate family, and Percy had a happy upbringing. With so many siblings and having little interest in ruling himself, he was able to pursue his own interests and did so with a passion, throwing himself into studies about sciences, engineering, and naturalism.

When Percy was about 18 years old, a mysterious couple, named Lord and Lady Briarwood, came to court with their retinue. They somehow convinced the de Rolo family to permit them to stay and, during a feast held in their honour, they violently took control of the castle, killing or imprisoning everyone who would stand in their way. For reasons that were, at the time, unknown to Percy, he was spared. He awoke chained in the dungeon, and was tortured by Anna Ripley, one of the Briarwood’s followers, who wanted information on the history of Whitestone Castle and on the whitestone ore that Whitestone was famous for.

Later, Percy was freed by his younger sister, Cassandra, and together they fled, chased by the Briarwoods' men. As they ran, Percy's sister took arrows to the chest and fell. Percy kept running, eventually jumping into a freezing river and floating unconscious to freedom. He didn’t remember waking up on a fishing boat. He barely remembered the next two years as he slowly made his way as far south as possible. Then one night, Percy had a dream. A roaring cloud of smoke offered him vengeance against those who destroyed his family. When he woke, Percy began to design his first gun.

After that, Percy began working on tracking down the Briarwoods and their associates. He eventually got word of Anna Ripley and followed her to a town called Stillben. There, he attempted to kill Anna, and failed, and was jailed as a result. The town had recently seen a flux of cultist activity, and Anna accused him of being involved in order to both keep the local authorities off her trail and make sure he wouldn’t cause any more trouble for her. However, a burgeoning group of heroes called Vox Machina were in the area, working the cultist case. They found him in the prison and, after he convinced them he wasn’t a cultist and promised to help them, they released him.

From then on, Percy was one of them. They went on a lot of quests together that ended in victories and losses alike. Eventually, it led them back to Whitestone to confront the Briarwoods who, claiming the de Rolo’s left it to them before their untimely deaths, had the city under their thumb. There, he not only discovered that his sister, Cassandra, was alive, but the reason for the Briarwoods wanting Whitestone. It turned out that Silas Briarwood was a vampire and Delilah Briarwood a necromancer and both were involved in a secret, necromancy cult and Whitestone Castle had an old temple buried deep beneath it.

Vox Machina fought and defeated the Briarwoods, but Anna Ripley managed to escape. Whitestone, however, was freed and Cassandra and Percy reclaimed their ancestral home. Though Whitestone was saved, Vox Machina still had a lot to do, so it wasn’t long before they left to continue other quests.

Not long after, four ancient chromatic dragons attack Emon, the capital of Tal'Dorei, with the Sovereign and other important political figures falling in the onslaught. The dragons take control over and divide the kingdom, and in order to defeat them, Vox Machina needs more power than they currently have. They search for the "Vestiges of Divergence", famed and extremely powerful magical items from ages passed, which are scattered throughout the world. Amongst other things, this puts them in the path of Anna Ripley. In the resulting battle, Percy dies. Vox Machina rushes him back to Whitestone where Pike, the team’s cleric, attempts a resurrection spell. Many of his friends say words over him to try to bring him back, but it was Vex’s voice that reached through to him when she told him "I should have told you. It's yours." calling back to her encounter with Saundor, where she said that her heart was someone else's.

After facing, and defeating, the white, chromatic dragon, Vorugal, Percy and Vex had a talk in the woods. There, Vex tried to tell Percy about how she felt about him. In reply, he kissed her. Shortly later, though not shortly enough for Vex, Percy got up the courage to go to Vex’s room. She greeted him at the door, completely naked, and put a stop to the speech he had prepared. The two slept together and it was as Percy was leaving the room the next morning that he found himself in Wall.