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| “ | I... Would like... To... RAAAAAGE!!! | „ |
| ~ Grog's catchphrase. |
Grog Strongjaw is one of the main protagonists of the adult animated fantasy series The Legend of Vox Machina, based on campaign one of the Dungeons & Dragons podcast web series Critical Role. He is a member of Vox Machina and a goliath barbarian.
He is voiced by Travis Willingham.
Biography[]
Background[]
Grog was born and raised in a tribe called the Herd of Storms, led by his uncle Kevdak. At one point, he and his tribe encountered a cluster of gnomes. His tribe attacked them, but Grog disagreed with his companions' cruelty against the small humanoids, and openly objected by protecting them. Enraged, Kevdak brutally beats Grog within an inch of his life before departing and leaving him for dead. Grateful for being saved, Wilhand Trickfoot had his granddaughter Pike nurse Grog back to health. The two became very close and inseparable friends after that. Eventually, the two met the rest of the Vox Machina members and became a traveling party.
Season 1[]
Briarwoods arc[]
Grog participates in a drinking contest with his friends and wins. However, he becomes angered by the taunting of another group of mercs, and after enough goading from Vax, he chops off the hand of one of the mercs. It delves into a bar fight, which enrages the bar keep enough to kick Vox Machina out. Although the group are in a funk after being kicked out, Grog happily plays with the hand he severed before Scanlan shows everyone a help wanted sheet that would earn them money. They meet the council of Tal'dorei, who hire them to kill the unknown beast attacking innocent lands. As they seek out on their mission, they learn it's a blue dragon called Brimscythe. Grog impulsively decides to fight the dragon despite being woefully unprepared, which leads to him being easily struck down by the dragon. Brimscythe defeats the party by sending rocks down on them. They survive, but Grog is severely injured, before being healed by Pike. Grog initially wants to abandon the mission, but after finding a village they passed through had been ravaged, he has a change of heart and wants to kill the dragon.
The party returns to Emon, informing Uriel that while they did survive the fight, the dragon was still at large. Uriel made the decision to bring the fight to the dragon, dismissing Vox Machina from the palace. Vex'ahlia then reveals she felt the presence of someone working with the dragon in the council, meaning one of them was a mole. Scanlan claims the mole is probably Allura, with Grog agreeing. Vex shoots them down claiming it to be Fince, with Grog conceding he didn't actually get anyone's name. Vex then assigns Grog & Scanlan to the task of looking for Fince, much to Scanlan's boredom. Grog steals a keg of ale and chugs it to pass the time until Scanlan notices Fince going past them. The two quickly follow him and watch as he enters a mansion whilst drawing a blade, locking the door. Scanlan rushes off to tell the others just as Grog asks him to get him a sandwich. Scanlan caves to the request before getting the others. As Grog enjoys eating his sandwich, the other party members try different ways of getting the door open. After a couple failures, Vax takes a toothpick off Grog's sandwich and uses it to pick the lock. As they go inside, they look seek Fince and finally catch him stealing documents from Krieg's cellar. He tries to explain himself to the party until Krieg murders him. The party gives chase to him, landing themselves in a room filled with magic. Grog suddenly becomes infatuated with a pornographic painting, much to Keyleth's disgust. She throws a book at him, which bounces off his head and reveals a hidden portal.
They go threw it, revealing a huge treasure trove. They become ecstatic as Grog helps fill the party's bag of holding with various valuable items, until Vex comes to her senses and informs the party that this is the dragon's hoard. Krieg shows back up and reveals to have actually been the dragon all along. Another fight ensues and Brimscythe begins to manhandle the party in battle, giving Grog a heavy shock with his lightning. When they have a moment, the party devises a plan. Scanlan creates an illusion to trick the party. With Brimscythe hoodwinked, the party each play their part in killing the dragon with Grog delivering the final blow by axing Brimscythe in the skull before taking one of the dragon's teeth as proof that they killed him. Scanlan credits him on this. They then run as fast as they can as the place began to collapse. They return to the council, who congratulates and thanks Vox Machina for their victory, giving them a deed and key to their new keep as a reward.
The morning after their first night in the keep, Grog is eating breakfast with his friends. He quickly punches Vax in the crotch, proudly announcing, "7 to 2!" Lady Allura quickly shows up to call for their audience. Grog smashes the door open when she calls for them. She informs them that Sovereign Uriel expects them at his banquet. As Grog listens to Allura, Vax suddenly elbows him in the crotch as a delayed retaliation, much to Allura's intolerance. Scanlan points it out as a three pointer. They eventually make it to the banquet the following night. Begrudgingly leaving their weapons at the main booth. Grog and the others disperse as they get inside. He and Pike pick up a few glasses of champagne, which confuses Grog as he was planning to get drunk. Nevertheless, he chugs down two of them.
After that, Grog and the others reconnect just in time to see Percy in a state of anger and paranoia, explaining that the Briarwoods, who just showed up to the banquet took everything from him when he was a teenager. Upon learning they would be staying over night, Vax offers to sneak into their room. Scanlan suggests a safe word for Vax in case things go south, which Grog suggests should be "Jenga". The party, excluding Vax then attend Uriel's table. Grog notices Percy grimace as he sees the Briarwoods were also attending the table, understanding things were going to be intense.
As they all sit down. Grog suggests Percy says hello to the Briarwoods to break the ice before landing a punch on them, with Pike shooting the idea down. Grog eats improperly as dinner goes on and Percy remains on edge. After Percy has an outburst from a lie about the de Rolos spewed by Delilah, the party takes him away to talk in private. Percy tells them the Briarwoods killed his entire family and conquered Whitestone, surprising the party. After learning who the Briarwoods really were, the party decides to leave and save Vax, as he was in the room they would be staying in.
After Vex sensed Vax was in imminent danger, Grog throws the guy who made them leave their weapons out of his booth. They collected their weapons and ran out of the building to save Vax, who was just about to be killed by Sylas. Grog runs into battle to face Sylas head on. Sylas draws his personal greatsword, Craven Edge and slash Grog a few times with it. Grog gazes in awe not only as the blade absorbs the blood drawn from him, but also increases its size. The two continue to square off until Delilah calls for their carriage driver. The couple then take off. As Percy gets ready to shoot the driver for his working for the Briarwoods, the party is stopped and seized by Uriel's guards.
Grog and the others are taken before Uriel who reprimands them for attacking the Briarwoods and thus, ruining the banquet. Lady Allura calms him down, promising to handle the party accordingly, by putting them under house arrest. Grog and the others are then confined to their keep and their weapons are taken away by Captain Jarett's men. Grog angrily objects to just having to sit in the keep, but the decision was made. So Grog decided to entertain himself by lifting a makeshift weight bar. He then suggested beating up the guards and escaping, but Vax shot the idea down. Percy instead finds a secret opening in the room that leads to a hallway, which leads to a way out, but Jarett catches them and has them separated. Grog is locked away with Pike in the latter's shrine.
Grog checks in on Pike to see if she's okay. Pike claims she was trying to meditate. Grog then looks around for something to eat. He then finds an urn and starts eating the contents out of it until Pike tells him their her ancestors' remains. Grog then picks up Pike's holy symbol. Understanding Pike speaks to the Everlight through it, he tries to speak through it himself, hoping for a reply. Pike soon breaks into tears, telling him ever since the symbol was cracked, it feels like the Everlight doesn't listen to her anymore. Grog suggests simply apologizing to her in that.
They hear a commotion outside and decide to investigate. The door was locked however, and Grog was reluctant to break Pike's shrine until she gave him her permission to do so, as it sounded serious. The party reconnects and they realize that Delilah had sent wraiths their way. Understanding they were under attack, Jarett gives them weapons to fend off the wraiths.
The wraiths gain the upper hand at the start of the battle as they were in darkness and could not by hit by their victims. That comes to a change however, when Keyleth conjures light, rendering the wraiths vulnerable. The party could finally hit and destroy them. Once they did, this convinced Jarett to let them go and stop whoever it was who sent them.
The party begins to leave in the morning but Pike remains behind as she needs to reconnect with the Everlight. Grog offered to stand by her side the whole time, but Pike insisted this was a journey she had to do on her own. She assures him she would still be there even if she was gone. Grog tearfully hugs her goodbye before reluctantly leaving.
They then devise a plan for getting what they need in order to start their journey. Grog takes part in stealing a humble horse carriage. Grog then begins to feel distressed. Grog moped and wept, still upset about Pike's absence, even admitting Pike was stronger than all of them. He was not worried about her, but how they would fare without her.
Vex has Percy stop the cart when she feels a disturbing presence. It turns out to be monstrous canine creatures sent by Delilah. They capture Scanlan as he had Delilah's book. The party chases after them all the way to a cliff. Noticing a couple of the monsters chasing them as well, Grog & Vax fight them head on. Both monsters hop into the carriage. Grog nearly gets swallowed by one of them, but he rips the creature in half before he could be eaten. He then tosses the other one out after it bit Vax. The party then notices how dangerously close they are to the cliff and they all jump out, losing their carriage and stuff they bought from Gilmore in the process.
When they find a spot to make camp, Grog watches Scanlan use a scroll he looted from Brimscythe's cave. He watched with fascination as the gnome turned into various things. Later that night, Grog suggests the party goes around explaining the craziest thing they have ever killed. When it was Grog's turn, he spoke about a desert monster he fought and killed it by prying its jaws open and biting its tongue out. When Percy is asked what the worst monsters he faced were, he answers that its the Briarwoods, and that they would be seeing them soon. Grog calls him a buzzkill.
When they finally make it to Whitestone, they see it in the desecrated state that it is. Percy later gains their attention by pointing to seven corpses hung from the Sun Tree, each corpse dressed as a member of Vox Machina, showing them the Briarwoods were anticipating them. Though unsettled by this, the party had to move on as a resistance member called them over to hide with them as a zombie giant was heading their direction. When the resistance member notices Percy's attire, she asks if he's another member of it. The party is later taken to Keeper Yennen, who is amazed to see Percy again and seeing him as a leader now. Grog scoffs at this, claiming Percy's size was insufficient for him to be a leader. Yennen takes them into a secret hideout. When Grog sees that there are ale barrels, but finds them empty, he becomes furious.
The party later try to devise plans to rescue Archibald Desnay. after Yennen informed Percy he had been captured. Grog's plan was just to kill everyone and leave. Since Grog's idea was one of the bad ones, Vex devised her own plan. She, Keyleth, and Grog would take the front door of the building the Briarwoods' men were keeping Archie in. Grog tosses a few Briarwoods guards while Keyleth picks up the keys to the prison. The party reconnects and they save Archie, only to be stopped in their tracks by Sir Kerrion Stonefell. Grog helps fight against the guards Stonefell had on hand and they eventually won.
They all flee from the prison, returning to Yennen's hideout. After Percy explains the origin story of his pepperbox, Grog asks why it had writing on the barrels. When Keyleth tried to put life back into the Sun tree, she accidentally starts a fire, prompting Vax to put it out with a barrel of liquid. When said liquid was revealed to be ale, Grog restrained himself from acting violently. Later, the party run off on a rescue mission for Cassandra, while spying on Professor Anders when they find the building the two are located in. Grog laughs when Scanlan suggests he lures the guards away from Anders' house, but the party later relents and lets him go.
Upon seeing a sign that Scanlan's solo mission was a success, the party runs to enter Anders' home. Vax tries to see if there is a trap first, only for Grog to dismiss the idea and impulsively bust the door open, where guards were pointing bows at the party. The guards released their arrows into Grog, only igniting the goliath's wrath in the process, which gets most of the guards killed.
When Grog catches up to Percy, he notices Anders had brought empty suits of armor to life. Grog eagerly fights one of them, only to realize he cannot lay a dent on the construct. The party later learns they need to disassemble the armor by going for their joints. Grog turns to Anders himself, ready to kill him, only for Anders to possess Grog with his silver tongue. On Anders' orders, Grog attacks his friends. This escalates when Vex tries to kill Anders to break the possession, but Anders possesses her, Keyleth, & Vax in the same manner. When it seems he has the upper hand, Percy eventually manages to shoot Anders' tongue out, restoring his friends' minds before killing Anders. After that, they reconnect with Scanlan outside, who warns them of a hoard of zombies heading their way.
They made a run for it to Archibald's hideout. They were not safe there for long however, as zombies burst through the door and attacked. They managed to slay the zombies, but Scanlan got bit. Since it would spread, Grog offered to amputate the arm, but Scanlan accepted it only as a last resort. They eventually move out of the hideout, where they find a zombie giant heading their way. Percy uses a rifle to destroy the giant in one shot, much to Grog's amusement. Unfortunately, Duke Vedmire showed up with two more giants, ordering them to kill Vox Machina. The party split up, not ready to fight them, before meeting back up at the Sun Tree. Try as they may have, more zombies showed up, making the denizens of Whitestone lose hope. But after a rousing speech from Percy, Grog encouraged everyone to kill everything.
Killing all the zombies was still no easy task. And when things seemed hopeless, Pike returned, coolly greeting the party. Grog gratefully embraced her. But upon noticing she was glowing he asked if she was a ghost, but she quickly explained that she was in astral projection form. Now the fight was much easier. Grog had Scanlan throw him at one of the incoming zombie giants. When Grog landed on top of the undead, he bisected it by chopping it from the head all the way down. When the zombie hoard finally lets up, Vox Machina, along with Cassandra hunt down the Briarwoods. They go through an underground dungeon on the way. A prisoner calls out to them asking to be freed in exchange for helping them find the Briarwoods, but Percy only turns his pepperbox on the prisoner. He tries to kill her before Cassandra stops him. Percy reveals to the party that the prisoner is Dr. Anna Ripley, a former Briarwood pawn.
After Percy takes her prisoner, Ripley leads the party to the Ziggurat. On the way, Grog continues trying to figure out how Pike's astral form truly works while also checking in on her regarding her spiritual crisis. Eventually, they make it to the crypt of the dungeon, where they realize it was holding corpses that were animated by Delilah's magic. Grog took immense satisfaction in destroying the zombies. When the fight is over, Ripley leads the party to a room sealed by a heavy door, which Grog opens. The room is revealed to be a residuem manufacturing room. Suddenly, Cassandra traps the party (Save Vax who managed to escape) in the room, with the Briarwoods revealing themselves to have brainwashed Cassandra. Sylas then possess Vax to set off an acid trap to kill the party.
Finding a way to stop the acid, Scanlan has everybody climb onto his magic hand to raise them to find a pair of levers. When Percy reveals there is a third lever beneath the acid, Grog promptly strips and dives into the acid to find it, with Pike healing him the deeper he swam. When Grog, finds it, he, Percy, & Ripley pull the levers and drain the room of the acid before they all continue their journey to the ziggurat.
Grog offered to kill Vax or Cassandra, but Pike managed to convince him to focus his efforts on Sylas, which he gladly obliged to. Grog stood proudly before the vampire lord, who tried to use his charm on him. Remembering the time Anders used it on him however, Grog refused to give in to the magic and attacked Sylas with closed eyes. Eventually, he managed to grapple Sylas and hold him long enough for Keyleth to kill him with a beam of holy light, thus ending his charm on Cassandra & Vax. With Sylas dead, Delilah tried to complete the ritual to bring The Whispered One to their plane. Grog and the others followed her to stop her from doing so.
More TBA
Season 2[]
Chroma Conclave arc[]
To be added
Physical Appearance[]
Grog is a tall and brawny gray-skinned goliath with tattoos along his body. He wears a single shoulder plate strapped to a diagonal torso belt, black trousers, a furry waist-wrap and brown boots. He typically carried a greataxe until it was destroyed.
After putting on a belt of dwarven kind, he grew a black beard.
Personality[]
Grog is a typical strong, dumb brute. His limited intelligence tends to lead him making severe lapses of common sense, like when he chose to believe opening a door to a manor was not a trap, only to realize there were armed guards aiming arrows at him. He also had trouble reading other languages, but expressed an interest in doing so at least.
He is very impulsive and enjoys almost nothing more than a good fight, even if the odds are not in his favor. He charges into danger even if he does not know what lies ahead or how dangerous it is actually going to be. He loathes losing in combat and prefers not to give up.
Despite his flaws, he is very protective and supportive of his friends (especially Pike), and enjoys spending time with them and will help them whenever they need it.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Superhuman strength: As a goliath, Grog is incredibly strong and can lift or destroy heavy objects with ease.
- Superhuman durability: Grog has incredibly thick and durable skin. He felt no pain after being shot by several arrows.
- Axemanship: Grog's signature weapon is a two headed greataxe and uses it expertly.
Equipment[]
- Greataxe (until it was destroyed against Raishan)
- Belt of Dwarvenkind
- Craven Edge (formerly)
- Bloodaxe
- Titanstone Knuckles
Trivia[]
- "Grog" is usually a term for any alcoholic beverage. Grog likely got this name due to his love of chugging ale.
- He bares a similarity to Kratos from the God of War franchise.
- Some fans believe that Grog has brain damage as a result of being beaten almost to death by Kevdak with the Titanstone Knuckles, which might explain his low intelligence.
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Vox Machina (Vex'ahlia, Vax'ildan, Grog Strongjaw, Percival de Rolo, Pike Trickfoot, Scanlan Shorthalt, Keyleth, Trinket) | Cassandra de Rolo | Sovereign Uriel Tal'Dorei II | Lady Allura Vysoren | Lady Kima of Vord | Sir Gregory Fince | Jarrett Howarth | Shaun Gilmore | Keeper Yennen | Archibald Desnay | Everlight | Artagan | Matron of Ravens | Zahra Hydris | Kashaw Vesh | Kamaljiori | Wilhand Trickfoot | Cerkonos | Korrin | Earthbreaker Groon | Kaylie | Dr. Dranzel | Zanror | J'mon Sa Ord | Syldor Vessar | Pa'tice | ||