Road to Eostia

"“Join Stewie, Brian and friends in the ultimate Family Guy adventure like you've never before!” ―Tagline"Road to Eostia is the Season 18 premiere of Family Guy and the 330th overall episode, which aired on Fox in the United States on September 29, 2019. A four-parter spanning the length of one-and-a-half hour, it was first broadcast as a made-for-television movie, celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the show. Directed by Greg Colton and co-written by Kevin Biggins and Danny Smith, it is the ninth installment of Family Guy's Road to... series of episodes and the first one to introduce an original setting built exclusively for this show.

The TV movie follows Brian, Stewie, Peter, Quagmire, Joe and Cleveland, who escape from prison after having been framed for murder by the Mysterious Mr. Enter, who apparently holds a personal vendetta against all of them. Afterwards, they cross through an inter-dimensional portal called the "Crossgate" and travel into the unfamiliar world of Eostia, where they would discover some nasty secrets, including those involving Mr. Enter.

The special received critical acclaim upon release and was viewed by 10.87 million viewers in its original airing, the highest the show's reached since Road to the Multiverse, another Road to... episode and season premiere from Season 8. This special's events would be followed up by another four-parter and the season finale, Road to La Gias.

Main Characters

 * Brian Griffin - The Griffins' family dog and voice of reason. Second only to his best friend Stewie, he is the most intelligent person in the family despite coming off as pretentious many times. A liberal centrist atheist, he often claims to be both a very charming romantic and an excellent writer (even though he sucks at both).
 * Stewie Griffin - The one-year-old supergenius baby with a British accent and a somewhat flamboyant demeanor despite being serious a lot of times. He is Brian's best and closest friend, and the same can be said vice versa.
 * Peter Griffin - The fat head of the Griffin family and frequent town drunkard.
 * Glenn Quagmire - Peter's big-chinned best friend who craves sex and perverted stuff all the time.
 * Joe Swanson - Peter's neighbor next door and a paraplegic police officer who always travels with his wheelchair.
 * Cleveland Brown - The calm and reserved black neighbor of the Griffins.
 * Chris Griffin - Stewie's idiotic 14-year-old brother who likes to jerk off everyday. He plays a major role in the third act of the special when he helps Brian and Stewie defeat Mr. Enter's Judecca while piloting the G-3 robot, with Stewie and Brian controlling the G-1 and G-2 robots respectively.

??? / "The Empire"

 * The Mysterious Mr. Enter - He is a mysterious man with a very Nietzsche-esque nihilistic views on the world, who holds a grudge against the people of Quahog, as well as a personal vendetta against Brian for some reason. He also joins the Black Dogs Mercenary Army for reasons only known to him and his sister Ms. Escape. He is the wirepuller and mastermind behind everything that went down in the movie's events, from sending Brian and his friends to jail, to manipulating the Black Dogs as a means to rebuild and upgrade his Judecca.
 * Judecca - The machine is said to be a flagship machine of "the Empire". A black-colored Judecca is used by Mr. Enter to link itself with Crossgate so that he could control all of causality and warp time and space to his will.
 * The Malignant Ms. Escape - She is Mr. Enter's younger sister.
 * Septuagint - The true form of Meteor X, designed as a superweapon from "the Empire" to destroy an entire solar system. It takes form of an abominable monstrosity that is composed almost entirely of purple crystals. It is triggered when the Judecca was destroyed and Mr. Enter uses this as a last resort to destroy both Earth and Eostia.

Black Dogs

 * Volt - The founder and leader of the Black Dogs mercenary group who was given immense power to rule over the lands of Eostia.
 * Kin - A mage within the ranks of the Black Dogs and Volt's right-hand man.
 * Hicks - Volt's left-hand man and a weapons blacksmith.
 * Beasley - The Prime Minister of Feoh.
 * Mortadella Brothers - Anthropomorphic pig siblings who have a friendship with Prim.
 * Sir John Mandeville - Chloe's former slaver.
 * Shamuhaza - A necromancer and Kaguya's former adviser.
 * Michelle Pantielle - A rich aristocrat from Ken.
 * Tororo - Leader of the ogres.
 * Grave Levantine - General of Ansur's army, Klaus' father and Claudia's father-in-law.

Eostia

 * Origa Discordia - Queen of the dark elves.
 * Celestine Lucullus - High Goddess of Eostia, stationed at her sanctuary at Thorn.
 * Chloe - Origa's loyal aide.
 * Alicia Arcturus - Princess-Knight of Feoh.
 * Prim Fiorire - Princess of Ur and cousin of Alicia.
 * Claudia Levantine - Celestine's right-hand knight and guardian of Ansur.
 * Kaguya - Shrine maiden and head priestess of Rad.
 * Maia - Former Black Dogs member and protector of Ken.
 * Ruu-Ruu - Leader of the halflings and defender of Geofu.
 * Klaus Curtis-Levantine - Claudia's husband and Civil Minister of Ansur.

Quahog / Earth

 * Lois Griffin - Peter's understanding yet always nagging wife.
 * Ida Davis - Quagmire's father who was surgically changed into a woman.
 * Bonnie Swanson - Joe's wife who often resents her husband's handicap.
 * Donna Tubbs-Brown - Cleveland's second wife.
 * Tom Tucker - Anchor reporter from Quahog's Channel 5 News.
 * Joyce Kinney - Tom's co-anchor.
 * Dr. Hartman - The skilled and incompetent-at-the-same-time doctor from Quahog's hospital.
 * Carter Pewterschmidt - Lois' father and a multibillionaire.
 * Seamus Levine - A pirate with no limbs, all replaced by peg legs and arms.
 * Bruce - A gentle-speaker part-timer in many jobs.

Trivia

 * This episode marks as the first TV movie in Family Guy, as well as the first episode to exceed two parts/44 minutes.

Other Pages

 * Road to La Gias (season finale)
 * Road to Balmar (Season 19 finale)
 * Road to the End of the Galaxy (Season 20 and series finale)