Dariax Zaveon

Dariax Zaveon is a dwarven sorcerer who appears in Exandria Unlimited. He is played by Matthew Mercer.

Appearance
Dariax is a young mountain dwarf with wild, floppy, reddish-auburn hair and a chinstrap beard. He wears a vest over a chain shirt, and has a compass rose chained on his light chain necklace.

After touching the thorny circlet and failing his wisdom saving throw, Dariax's eyes turned inky black. They were restored to their normal "dreamy" brown color by Shaun Gilmore a few days later.

Personality
Dariax is easygoing, reacting cheerfully to being pranked by his friends. However, he becomes intense when he realises he’s being lied to, as he has had bad experiences with people who lie a lot. He is impulsive and prone to throwing himself unthinkingly into dangerous situations.

Despite his cheerful nature, Dariax is somewhat cynical, considering the world to be built on “fucking people over” and feeling that doing bad things in order to survive is necessary. However, he believes in putting his friends before his own selfish desires, such as when he refused the Spider Queen's offer.

Background
Dariax grew up in Turst Fields. He has an older brother, Taros Zaveon, whom Dariax described as "a bit of a dick, but we get along all right, I guess." Taros was the "workhorse" on the family farm, the one stepping in the same family path; overall a good guy, but the brothers got in scuffles here and there. Dariax, on the other hand, was a troublemaker growing up, and Taros had to frequently put out fires Dariax set both figuratively and literally.

Dariax has worked in thieves' circles. For a time, he had mentioned he was in a relationship with the traveling burlesque dancer Tharla Starr, though this was revealed to be a lie during a conversation in.

Campaign Three
Dariax did not accompany Orym, Dorian Storm, and Fearne Calloway on their adventures to Marquet later in 843 PD. He opted to stay with Opal as she dealt with issues regarding her sister and the Circlet of Barbed Vision, which she continued to be unable to remove.

Dorian Storm
Dariax and Dorian have a friendly relationship. Dariax appeared touched when Dorian referred to him as a friend, and Dorian told Poska that "if he doesn't like someone, I don't like someone." The two seem to be close and trust each other, sleeping back to back on multiple occasions and talking about their nightmares with each other.

Little Mister
Dariax had a childhood incident with a monkey. Since it bit his finger, he began to be wary of any monkey, including the Little Mister. Once Dariax attempted to harm him. During the investigation of the plateau, Mister turned into a fire elemental, then back in his monkey form. Dariax saw this as an opportunity and charged him, breaking his spear.

However, a couple of days since, when the Little Mister was in the weak spot, Dariax had the opportunity to harm him but didn't. Furthermore, he helped him by casting Cure Wounds spell.

Orym
Dariax cares about Orym, despite the small amount of time they’ve spent together. He appeared confused and concerned by Orym’s reluctance to engage in crime, saying that if Orym didn’t start “fucking people over”, he wouldn’t survive.

Opal
Dariax stayed with Opal to support her while the rest of the party left for Marquet.

Notable items

 * Spear
 * Thieves' tools
 * Circlet of Barbed Vision
 * Gloves of Thievery
 * Compass rose pendant
 * Cloak of Disguise

Sorcerer abilities

 * Sorcerous Origin: Divine Soul
 * Divine Magic
 * Favored by the Gods
 * Font of Magic
 * 3 Sorcery Points
 * Flexible Casting
 * Metamagic
 * Empowered Spell
 * Quickened Spell

Sorcerer spells
Cantrips
 * Light
 * Sacred Flame
 * Thaumaturgy
 * Mage Hand

1st-level
 * Bless
 * Cure Wounds
 * Burning Hands

2nd-level
 * Invisibility

Quotations
Dariax: This entire world is built on it. I've spent my whole life gettin' fucked over. If you don't start fuckin' people over you're not going to survive, buddy. I know you're from some highfalutin' mountain town you've been talking about, you know, but like, welcome to Emon, man.
 * Orym: I just don't like fuckin' people over, Dariax.
 * "You don't have to be a bad person to do bad things if it's hurtin' other bad people."
 * "If you steal something that may have originally been stolen, does that unsteal it?"
 * "If I'm wrong, it's not my fault."

Trivia

 * Dariax is the player character that Matt has played the longest on the Critical Role channel, with 8 episodes. He is followed by Clayton Sharpe, who appeared in all four episodes of UnDeadwood.
 * Matt confirmed in the campaign wrap-up that Dariax was designed to be unlike any other character he had played, and to be a full chaos demon, "a tumbleweed of a person."
 * The similarity between the names Dariax and Dorian caused amusing mixups for Aabria Iyengar and some of the others at the table, reminiscent of Vex and Vax. Mercer noted that he and Robbie Daymond had picked their characters' names independently, and sometimes that's what you get.
 * According to the co-founder of Eldritch Foundry, which created the Exandria Unlimited miniatures, Dariax was a Light Domain cleric during the miniature-making process. Additionally, the studio at Eldritch Foundry took Dariax as an opportunity to "sneak" a complete re-design of their dwarves past the co-founder.
 * A monkey bit Dariax when he was 12 years old, which eventually led to his negative relationship with Little Mister.