The List

The List
Official art of The List, by Ana Fedina.
General Information
Type	Weapon (Pepperbox)
Attunement	No
Properties	1st and 4th barrel deal additional 1d6 fire and cold damage respectively
Historical Information
Created by	Percival de Rolo
Owner	Percival de Rolo (formerly)
Fate	Melted in acid underneath Whitestone Castle

The List was Percival de Rolo's original pepperbox pistol, and the first gun he ever created under the influence of Orthax.

Properties

At some point Percy had two of the barrels enchanted to shoot magical bullets: one with a fire enchantment and one with ice.^{[citation needed]}

History

The name of the gun came from the inscriptions on five of the six barrels showing the names of people Percy sought vengeance against. The names on it were:

• Lord Briarwood
• Lady Briarwood
• Doctor Ripley
• Sir Kerrion Stonefell
• Professor Anders

The sixth barrel was originally blank, but after Percy returned to Whitestone, the final name appeared: Cassandra de Rolo, Percy's younger sister.

Fan art of Percy wielding the List while being manipulated by Orthax, by David Rodrigues.

It was eventually discovered that Orthax, the shadow demon Percy had unknowingly made a pact with, was bound to him through The List.

After killing Lord Briarwood and defeating Lady Briarwood, Percy communed with Orthax, and as Percy refused to continue his revenge any further, the demon materialized. Vox Machina soon defeated it, and its essence retreated back into Percy, quickly fading to a small nugget of cold in his heart before seeming to vanish entirely.

Later, at the acid vats where they destroyed Delilah's corpse, Percy found that his sister's name had not disappeared from the gun's barrel. He used some acid at a nearby work station to burn the name away, confident as he felt no compulsion to use the weapon on Cassandra, though his friends remained tentative. Ultimately, Scanlan was unwilling to risk Orthax returning: the gnome charmed Percy into handing him the gun and then tossed it into the acid vat, where it was dissolved into nothing. As it did, Orthax's diminished essence vanished from the destroyed gun and from Percy's heart, his bond to the shadow demon broken forever.

The Legend of Vox Machina

While Percy battled Orthax, Vex'ahlia and Grog's names appeared on empty barrels in addition to Cassandra's. Scanlan still threw the gun into a pit of acid, although without charming Percy first. After he did so, Orthax briefly screeched and appeared within the acid pit.

Trivia

Fan art of The List, by Constant Scribbles.

• Despite fan speculation that the sixth, blank barrel was for Percy himself, Taliesin Jaffe has stated that no specific name was originally meant for that barrel. Instead, the sixth barrel represented a new start and a new list. If Percy had killed all the people on the list, six more names would have appeared in an endless cycle.
  • In the same conversation it was revealed that Matthew Mercer had decided that, if Percy killed everyone on the list then a new list would appear. Matt and Taliesin came up with this independently and only found out in the campaign wrap-up that they had the same idea.
  • Curiously there is a rather peculiar and sinister detail during the seventh episode of the first season of The Legend of Vox Machina, Season One. After Scanlan asks Percy "who's the sixth barrel for", Percy's silhouette is visible on the wall and it appears as if he was pointing the gun at his own head.
• Percy himself did not refer to this weapon by name, leading to some debate if the name was just made up by fans, or if the proper name was actually "Pepperbox". Matt referred to it as the List twice during the show, while Taliesin confirmed in a tweet that the type of gun was pepperbox while having its own unique name, and later named all 3 pistols with the List as one of them.

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