Talk:The Traveler/@comment-80.176.89.7-20190324225102

[Mild-to-medium spoilers for campaign 1 ahead. Ye have been warned.]

Since it's pretty obvious at this point that the Traveler is Artagan, the speculation is - is he a god, or still "just" an archfey?

I'd assume that when Vox Machina asked Artagan for help, and he wanted a doorway into their world, it was just both a convenient thing for him, but also a decoy he threw at them. The real prize for Artagan was the knowledge about the whole deal with Vecna and what he was trying to do (ascending to godhood).

I think that after the campaign 1 ended, and Artagan was let into the material plane, he just went after Vecna's research etc. to follow it and become a true god himself. Now, Vecna needed a display of power (massacre in Vasselheim) to kinda "seal" his godhood, but perhaps Artagan - having already performed the necessary ritual to "unlock" godhood - chose to stay low, and gain the following gradually, which he intends to do via people like Jester, which will make him a true god in the end.

- Holvr