Evon Hytroga

Evon Hytroga
Non-player character
Official art of Evon Hytroga, by Shaun Ellis.[art 1]
Basic information
ActorMatthew Mercer
RaceHalf-elf
Biographical information
Pronounshe/him
PlacesHeartmoor Hamlet[1]
ProfessionMuseum proprietor[1]
AffiliationsRuby Vanguard[2]
Mechanical information
Creature typeHumanoid
Appearances
First seen"A Hungry Jungle" (3x18)
Last seen"Intense Interrogations" (3x85)
StreamCampaign 3 (4 episodes)

Oh, you could not afford me, honey.

— Evon Hytroga[3]

Evon Hytroga is the proprietor of the Twilight Mirror Museum, and secretly a member of the Ruby Vanguard. As an NPC, Evon Hytroga is played by Matthew Mercer.

Description[edit | edit source]

Official art of Evon Hytroga, by Shaun Ellis.[art 2]

Evon is an older male half-elf. He is tall and very thin, and is described as "spider-like".[4] When Bells Hells first met him, he wore a red and gold mantle with a raised area behind his neck that came to points past his shoulders.[5] Below the mantle, he wore a silver robe. He wears his hair in well-kept sideburns, which are going gray, and has a pencil mustache that the extends down into a still-thin horseshoe mustache. His eyebrows are thick and pointed up at the outer edges. He wears a considerable amount of jewelry.[6]

Personality[edit | edit source]

Evon has a very dramatic personality.[7]

Biography[edit | edit source]

Background[edit | edit source]

Evon claims that he spent his youth in the Shattered Teeth with the Wanderman Assembly, where he earned his fortune. He later traveled to Vasselheim and studied under a Prefect Thoshai, whom he befriended. He also claims that he was a close personal friend of Sovereign Uriel Tal'Dorei II and was present in Emon during the Chroma Conclave's attack on the city. Due to the nature of his character, these claims are of dubious veracity.[8]

Evon Hytroga owns and runs the Twilight Mirror Museum, an "oddities collection"[9] in Heartmoor Hamlet. At some point he developed a rivalry with Jiana Hexum,[1] and, since the failed break-in of Hexum Manor by the Nobodies, has bragged about his highly advanced security.[10] Jiana challenged him to a wager: that if she could hire a team to successfully breach his security measures and steal an item of his choosing from the museum, she would win, and he would attempt the same against her manor.[11]

Campaign 3: Bells Hells[edit | edit source]

Bells Hells, upon arriving in Heartmoor Hamlet, went to the Twilight Mirror Museum to report that they were there and to begin scoping it out. Evon met them, but would not permit them into the building as that would be against the rules he had set for the challenge, and told them to come back the following night at midnight for the competition.[12] He also expressed interest in purchasing Fresh Cut Grass.[13]

The party then showed up the next night at the appropriate time, as did their rivals, The Verdict. Evon provided them with the rules of the challenge and resisted their repeated efforts to give them more information.[14]

The museum revealed Evon to be somewhat self-obsessed,[15] and Bells Hells, notably Ashton Greymoore, found Evon's claim that his security systems were non-fatal to be misleading at best.[16] Before leaving the museum, Ashton broke into a locked drawer in Evon's room and stole some papers as well as a pair of glasses.[17] When the party exited, Evon willingly proclaimed them the winners after joking that he should have his guards kill the party.[18] As a reward to the party, he magically took a picture of Bells Hells and hung it in the foyer among the pictures of himself.[19]

Bells Hells quickly discovered that the alleged journal of Vespin Chloras was a forgery made by Evon,[20], and the documents Ashton stole revealed that Evon had acquired some items through illegal channels, notably Spireling Shenn of the Clasp, and that he had commissioned several other pieces that he passed off as genuine artifacts.[21]

Bells Hells encountered Evon again while in Razora on Ruidus; Evon had joined the Ruby Vanguard and was tasked to join the caravan that ran between Kreviris and the various rural communities.[22] When he and an unnamed companion knocked on Elder Barthie's door, Evon quickly recognized Bells Hells and was pleased to see them, and when Imogen spoke to him telepathically, revealed he hated Ruidus and very much wanted the comforts of Exandria.[23] He invited them to join the caravan the following morning.[24]

Relationships[edit | edit source]

Jiana is Evon's rival, and she is willing to pay Bells Hells an additional 3,500 gold should they not only steal the item but also humiliate him.[25]

Character information[edit | edit source]

Notable items[edit | edit source]

  • Magic hand mirror: able to capture images and immediately display them in picture frames like a camera.[26]

Former items[edit | edit source]

Appearances and mentions[edit | edit source]

Quotations[edit | edit source]

  • (after the heist, about Jiana Hexum and Isha Sabanis) "Mind you, while I may have lost elements of my arrangement with these two, I also still won because one of them lost."[28]

References[edit | edit source]

Art:

  1. Official art of Evon Hytroga, by Shaun Ellis (source, originally published in Critical Role Abridged Episode 18). 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.
  2. Official art of Evon Hytroga, by Shaun Ellis (source, originally published in Critical Role Abridged Episode 18). 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.