History YMMV / TalesOfTheQuestor

* CultClassic: Mostly unknown compared to other fantasy web comics, but is incredibly well-liked for its strong story and good world building. Its consistently idealistic tone has also received praise when compared to other serious fantasy web comics which have a reputation for [[CerebusSyndrome getting dark and cynical.]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The [[https://www.rhjunior.com/tales-of-the-questor-0575/ Silver Springs]] arc is about dealing with a slowly building environmental issue, which the authorities downplay because it isn't yet a major problem but which if not dealt with will eventually become a catastrophic threat which would require titanic efforts to fix. [[ClimateChangeAllegory The real-world parallels]] are obvious (though, given the author's stated political views, almost certainly ''not'' intentional).

* CultClassic: Mostly unknown compared to other fantasy web comics, but is incredibly well-liked for its strong story and good world building. Its consistently idealistic tone has also received praise when compared to other serious fantasy web comics which have a reputation for [[CerebusSyndrome getting dark and cynical.]]

* CultClassic: Mostly unknown compared to other fantasy web comics, but is incredibly well-liked for its strong story and good world building. Its idealistic tone has also received praise compared to other serious fantasy webcomics which have a reputation for getting really dark.

* CultClassic: Mostly unknown in the word of fantasy comics, but is incredibly well-liked for its strong story, good world building, and idealistic tone when a lot of other serious fantasy webcomics tend to get really dark.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is Rosad Athair Beither the Monster Maker a WellIntentionedExtremist? After spending a good part of his lifetime aiding in the fight against monsters, he began to believe that all monsters had a single source, the Patronum Monstrum. He did terrible, unspeakable thing trying to prove that every evil unnatural monster in the world could be duplicated through the use of biomancy. His findings were so startling that when he was finally captured and put on trial, he was kept alive for a full year to collect and sort his notes. And there's been no proof that he was wrong. If he is right, and ultimately could have pointed to a single, destroyable source for the evil creatures of the world, then his work could go right into UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans, since until that source is stopped, there will always be evil monsters continuously ravaging the land, and it will be impossible for most of the world to advance out of TheDungAges, since anyone who tries will inevitably draw dragons, giants, and other horrors down on his head. Yes, his methods were horrifying, but there's a reason why we have a trope called TheExtremistWasRight.
* CultClassic: Mostly unknown in the word of fantasy comics, but has is incredibly well-liked for its strong story, good world building, and idealistic tone when a lot of serious fantasy webcomics tend to get really dark.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is Rosad Athair Beither the Monster Maker a WellIntentionedExtremist? After spending a good part of his lifetime aiding in the fight against monsters, he began to believe that all monsters had a single source, the Patronum Monstrum. He did terrible, unspeakable thing trying to prove that every evil unnatural monster in the world could be duplicated through the use of biomancy. His findings were so startling that when he was finally captured and put on trial, he was kept alive for a full year to collect and sort his notes. And there's been no proof that he was wrong. If he is right, and ultimately could have pointed to a single, destroyable source for the evil creatures of the world, then his work could go right into UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans, since until that source is stopped, there will always be evil monsters continuously ravaging the land, and it will be impossible for most of the world to advance out of TheDungAges, since anyone who tries will inevitably draw dragons, giants, and other horrors down on his head. Yes, his methods were horrifying, but there's a reason why we have a trope called TheExtremistWasRight...

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is Rosad Athair Beither the Monster Maker a WellIntentionedExtremist? After spending a good part of his lifetime aiding in the fight against monsters, he began to believe that all monsters had a single source, the Patronum Monstrum. He did terrible, unspeakable thing trying to prove that every evil unnatural monster in the world could be duplicated through the use of biomancy. His findings were so startling that when he was finally captured and put on trial, he was kept alive for a full year to collect and sort his notes. And there's been no proof that he was wrong. If he is right, and ultimately could have pointed to a single, destroyable source for the evil creatures of the world, then his work could go right into UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans, since until that source is stopped, there will always be evil monsters continuously ravaging the land, and it will be impossible for most of the world to advance out of TheDungAges, since anyone who tries will inevitably draw dragons, giants, and other horrors down on his head. Yes, his methods were horrifying, but there's a reason why we have a trope called TheExtremistWasRight...
* MarySuetopia: The filler pages of a human scholar's travels in Antillas highlights the issues; they're a race of PersecutedIntellectuals who have built a [[HiddenElfVillage Hidden Elf Civilization]] in order to practice their talents without interference from their much more numerous and belligerent neighbors. As a result, they are incredibly scientifically advanced in comparison to the other races, have a near monopoly on Lux/Magical expertise among the mortal races, are unbelievably prosperous despite not only running out of the metals necessary to maintain a technological civilization, but starting to lose entire villages to environmental damage(but a genius ends up growing a plant that can GROW metal out of Bauxite poisoned soil which might very well solve ''both'' issues).

* MarySuetopia:
** The filler pages of a human scholar's travels in Antillas highlights the issues; they're a race of PersecutedIntellectuals who have built a [[HiddenElfVillage Hidden Elf Civilization]] in order to practice their talents without interference from their much more numerous and belligerent neighbors. As a result, they are incredibly scientifically advanced in comparison to the other races, have a near monopoly on Lux/Magical expertise among the mortal races, are unbelievably prosperous despite not only running out of the metals necessary to maintain a technological civilization, but starting to lose entire villages to environmental damage(but a genius ends up growing a plant that can GROW metal out of Bauxite poisoned soil which might very well solve ''both'' issues).
** They do, however, have one '''''serious''''' problem; political corruption - perhaps even by an AncientConspiracy. Large cities are starting to become overrun with street gangs due to overpopulation, which is also contributing to the rise of a hawkish political faction that wishes to steal land from their neighbors. Quentyn's ruined their plans twice, perhaps even three times; first, he exposed a FalseFlagOperation, then foiled a plot to eliminate an entire village's worth of political opponents by revoking its stateship. He may also have destroyed one of their bioweapons programs when he slew the Rat King; the "Junior Questors" end up investigating ties between the Expansionist party and "Beitherite Brotherhood." [[spoiler:However, it appears that the Beitherite Brotherhood and the Expansionist Party blew pretty much all their resources in their attempt to neutralize the Open Traders. Quentyn's self-exile has reduced the once-mighty Ancient Conspiracy to a BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats - "a bunch of old farts with signet rings and secret handshakes who met once a month to talk about Rosad Beither and tell each other what daring and bold revolutionary thinkers they all were.[[http://www.rhjunior.com/tales-of-the-questor-0689/]]"]]

** They do, however, have one '''''serious''''' problem; political corruption - perhaps even by an AncientConspiracy. Large cities are starting to become overrun with street gangs due to overpopulation, which is also contributing to the rise of a hawkish political faction that wishes to steal land from their neighbors. Quentyn's ruined their plans twice, perhaps even three times; first, he exposed a FalseFlagOperation, then foiled a plot to eliminate an entire village's worth of political opponents by revoking its stateship. He may also have destroyed one of their bioweapons programs; the "Junior Questors" end up investigating ties between the Expansionist party and "Beitherite Brotherhood." [[spoiler:However, it appears that the Beitherite Brotherhood and the Expansionist Party blew pretty much all their resources in their attempt to neutralize the Open Traders. Quentyn's self-exile has reduced the once-mighty Ancient Conspiracy to a BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats - "a bunch of old farts with signet rings and secret handshakes who met once a month to talk about Rosad Beither and tell each other what daring and bold revolutionary thinkers they all were.[[http://www.rhjunior.com/tales-of-the-questor-0689/]]"]]

* MarySue: Fortunately very few if any of the comic's main characters fall into this trap and Quentyn himself has enough faults to balance off his awesome traits. However the entire Rac Con Daimh race in its entirety technically counts. The recent filler pages of a human scholar's travels in Antillas highlights the issues; they're a race of PersecutedIntellectuals who have built a [[HiddenElfVillage Hidden Elf Civilization]] in order to practice their talents without interference from their much more numerous and belligerent neighbors. As a result, they are incredibly scientifically advanced in comparison to the other races, have a near monopoly on Lux/Magical expertise among the mortal races, are unbelievably prosperous despite not only running out of the metals necessary to maintain a technological civilization, but starting to lose entire villages to environmental damage(but a genius ends up growing a plant that can GROW metal out of Bauxite poisoned soil which might very well solve ''both'' issues).
** They do, however, have one '''''serious''''' problem; political corruption - perhaps even by an AncientConspiracy. Large cities are starting to become overrun with street gangs due to overpopulation, which is also contributing to the rise of a hawkish political faction that wishes to steal land from their neighbors. Quentyn's ruined their plans twice, perhaps even three times; first, he exposed a FalseFlagOperation, then foiled a plot to eliminate an entire village's worth of political opponents by revoking its stateship. He may also have destroyed one of their bioweapons programs; the "Junior Questors" end up investigating ties between the Expansionist party and "Beitherite Brotherhood."
*** [[spoiler:However, it appears that the Beitherite Brotherhood and the Expansionist Party blew pretty much all their resources in their attempt to neutralize the Open Traders. Quentyn's self-exile has reduced the once-mighty Ancient Conspiracy to a BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats - "a bunch of old farts with signet rings and secret handshakes who met once a month to talk about Rosad Beither and tell each other what daring and bold revolutionary thinkers they all were.[[http://www.rhjunior.com/tales-of-the-questor-0689/]]"]]

* MarySue: Fortunately very few if any of the comic's main characters fall into this trap and Quentyn himself has enough faults to balance off his awesome traits. However the entire Rac Con Daimh race in its entirety technically counts. The recent filler pages of a human scholar's travels in Antillas highlights the issues; they're a race of PersecutedIntellectuals who have built a [[HiddenElfVillage Hidden Elf Civilization]] in order to practice their talents without interference from their much more numerous and belligerent neighbors. As a result, they are incredibly scientifically advanced in comparison to the other races, have a near monopoly on Lux/Magical expertise among the mortal races, are unbelievably prosperous despite not only running out of the metals necessary to maintain a technological civilization, but starting to lose entire villages to environmental damage(but a genius ends up growing a plant that can GROW metal out of Bauxite poisoned soil which very might solve ''both'' issues).

** They do, however, have one '''''serious''''' problem; political corruption - perhaps even by an AncientConspiracy. Large cities are starting to become overrun with street gangs due to overpopulation, which is also contributing to the rise of a hawkish political faction that wishes to steal land from their neighbors. Quentyn's ruined their plans twice, perhaps even three times; first, he exposed a FalseFlagOperation, then foiled a plot to eliminate an entire village's worth of political opponents by revoking its stateship. He may also have destroyed one of their bioweapons programs; the "Junior Questors" end up investigating ties between the Expansionist party and "[[AncientConspiracy Beitherite Brotherhood]]."

*** [[spoiler:However, it appears that the Beitherite Brotherhood and the Expansionist Party blew pretty much all their resources in their attempt to neutralize the Open Traders. Quentyn's self-exile has reduced the once-mighty Ancient Conspiracy to a BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats - "a bunch of old farts with signet rings and secret handshakes who met once a month to talk about Rosad Beither and tell each other what daring and bold revolutionary thinkers they all were.[[http://www.rhjunior.com/TotQ/npc0000.html#Comic=689]]"]]

** They do, however, have one '''''serious''''' problem; political corruption - perhaps even by an AncientConspiracy. Large cities are starting to become overrun with street gangs due to overpopulation, which is also contributing to the rise of a hawkish political faction that wishes to steal land from their neighbors. Quentyn's ruined their plans twice, perhaps even three times; first, he exposed a FalseFlagOperation, then foiled a plot to eliminate an entire village's worth of political opponents by revoking its stateship. He may also have destroyed one of their bioweapons programs; the "Junior Questors" are currently investigating ties between the Expansionist party and "[[AncientConspiracy Beitherite Brotherhood]]."

* MarySue: Fortunately very few if any of the comic's main characters fall into this trap and Quentyn himself has enough faults to balance off his awesome traits. However the entire Rac Con Daimh race in its entirety technically counts. The recent filler pages of a human scholar's travels in Antillas highlights the issues; they're a race of persecuted geniuses who have built a [[HiddenElfVillage Hidden Elf Civilization]] in order to practice their talents without interference from their much more numerous and belligerent neighbors. As a result, they are incredibly scientifically advanced in comparison to the other races, have a near monopoly on Lux/Magical expertise among the mortal races, are unbelievably prosperous despite not only running out of the metals necessary to maintain a technological civilization, but starting to lose entire villages to environmental damage(but a genius ends up growing a plant that can GROW metal out of Bauxite poisoned soil which very might solve ''both'' issues).

*** [[spoiler:However, it appears that the Beitherite Brotherhood and the Expansionist Party blew pretty much all their resources in their attempt to neutralize the Open Traders. Quentyn's self-exile has reduced the once-mighty Ancient Conspiracy to a BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats - "a bunch of old farts with signet rings and secret handshakes who met once a month to talk about Rosad Beither and tell each other what daring and bold revolutionary thinkers they all were.[[http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00798.html]]"]]

*** [[spoiler:However, it appears that the Beitherite Brotherhood and the Expansionist Party blew pretty much all their resources in their attempt to neutralize the Open Traders. Quentyn's self-exile has reduced the once-mighty Ancient Conspiracy to a BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats - "[[http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00798.html a bunch of old farts with signet rings and secret handshakes who met once a month to talk about Rosad Beither and tell each other what daring and bold revolutionary thinkers they all were.]]"]]

** They do, however, have one '''''serious''''' problem; political corruption - perhaps even by an AncientConspiracy. Large cities are starting to become overrun with street gangs due to overpopulation, which is also contributing to the rise of a hawkish political faction that wishes to steal land from their neighbors. Quentyn's ruined their plans twice, perhaps even three times; first, he exposed a FalseFlagOperation, then foiled a plot to eliminate an entire village's worth of political opponents by revoking its stateship. He may also have destroyed one of their bioweapons programs; the "Junior Questors" are currently investigating ties between the Expansionist party and "Rosad's Disciples" - the Monster Maker.

** They do, however, have one '''''serious''''' problem; [[TownWithADarkSecret political corruption]]. Large cities are starting to become overrun with street gangs due to overpopulation, which is also contributing to the rise of a hawkish political faction that wishes to steal land from their neighbors. Quentyn's ruined their plans twice, perhaps even three times; first, he exposed a FalseFlagOperation, then foiled a plot to eliminate an entire village's worth of political opponents by revoking its stateship. He may also have destroyed one of their bioweapons programs; the "Junior Questors" are currently investigating ties between the Expansionist party and a secret society of dark monster-creating magicians.

* MarySue: Fortunately very few if any of the comic's main characters fall into this trap and Quentyn himself has enough faults to balance off his awesome traits. However the entire Rac Con Daimh race in its entirety technically counts. Troubled past, incredibly scientifically advanced in comparison to the other races, have a near monopoly on Lux/Magical ability among the mortal races for no adequately explained reason, unbelievably prosperous despite not only running out of the metals necessary to maintain a technological civilization, but starting to lose entire villages to environmental damage(but a genius ends up growing a plant that can GROW metal out of Bauxite poisoned soil which very might solve ''both'' issues)... Its understandable if they had some advantages in comparison to their much more numerous and belligerent neighbors but its gotten a bit ridiculous, the recent filler pages of a human scholars travels in Antillas only highlights the issue.
** They do, however, have one '''''serious''''' problem; rising political corruption. Large cities are starting to become overrun with street gangs due to overpopulation, which is also contributing to the rise of a hawkish political faction that wishes to steal land from their neighbors. Quentyn's ruined their plans twice, perhaps even three times; first, he exposed a FalseFlagOperation, then foiled a plot to eliminate an entire village's worth of political opponents by revoking its stateship. He may also have destroyed one of their bioweapons programs; the "Junior Questors" are currently investigating ties between the Expansionist party and a secret society of dark monster-creating magicians.

** They do, however, have one '''''serious''''' problem; rising political corruption. Large cities are starting to become overrun with street gangs due to overpopulation, which is also contributing to the rise of a hawkish political faction that wishes to steal land from their neighbors. Quentyn's ruined their plans twice, perhaps even three times; first, he exposed a FalseFlagOperation, then foiled a plot to eliminate an entire village's worth of political opponents by revoking its stateship. He may also have ruined one of their bioweapons programs; the "Junior Questors" are currently investigating ties between the Expansionist party and a secret society of dark monster-creating magicians.

* MarySue: Fortunately very few if any of the comic's main characters fall into this trap and Quentyn himself has enough faults to balance off his awesome traits. However the entire Rac Con Daimh race in its entirety technically counts. Troubled past, incredibly scientifically advanced in comparison to the other races, have a near monopoly on Lux/Magical ability among the mortal races for no adequately explained reason, unbelievably prosperous with little downside to the society other then not having enough metal going around, (and growing a plant that can GROW metal out of Bauxite poisoned soil which very might solve the issue). Its understandable if they had some advantages in comparison to their much more numerous and belligerent neighbors but its gotten a bit ridiculous, the recent filler pages of a human scholars travels in Antillas only highlights the issue.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Rosad Athair Beither the Monster Maker: CompleteMonster or WellIntentionedExtremist? After spending a good part of his lifetime aiding in the fight against monsters, he began to believe that all monsters had a single source, the Patronum Monstrum. He did terrible, unspeakable thing trying to prove that every evil unnatural monster in the world could be duplicated through the use of biomancy. His findings were so startling that when he was finally captured and put on trial, he was kept alive for a full year to collect and sort his notes. And there's been no evidence to prove that he was wrong. If he is right, and ultimately could have pointed to a single, destroyable source for the evil creatures of the world, then his work could go right into UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans, since until that source is stopped, there will always be evil monsters continuously ravaging the land, and it will be impossible for most of the world to advance out of TheDungAges, since anyone who tries will inevitably draw dragons, giants, and other horrors down on his head. Yes, his methods were horrifying, but there's a reason why we have a trope called TheExtremistWasRight...

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel / AdultFear: The Gragum shaman [[spoiler:holding Nessie's cage underwater. ]]

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel / AdultFear: The Gragum shaman [[spoiler:holding Nessie's cage underwater. ]]
* Rosad Athair Beither the Monster Maker: CompleteMonster or WellIntentionedExtremist? After spending a good part of his lifetime aiding in the fight against monsters, he began to believe that all monsters had a single source, the Patronum Monstrum. He did terrible, unspeakable thing trying to prove that every evil unnatural monster in the world could be duplicated through the use of biomancy. His findings were so startling that when he was finally captured and put on trial, he was kept alive for a full year to collect and sort his notes. And there's been no evidence to prove that he was wrong. If he is right, and ultimately could have pointed to a single, destroyable source for the evil creatures of the world, then his work could go right into UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans, since until that source is stopped, there will always be evil monsters continuously ravaging the land, and it will be impossible for most of the world to advance out of TheDungAges, since anyone who tries will inevitably draw dragons, giants, and other horrors down on his head. Yes, his methods were horrifying, but there's a reason why we have a trope called TheExtremistWasRight...

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel / AdultFear: The Gragum shaman [[spoiler:holding Nessie's cage underwater. ]]

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The end of the rat-king, among others.
** [[http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00212.html This page]] in particular.
** The best part of [[http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00213.html this page]] may just be that rather than talking or screaming, he just charges through, mentally chanting the Psalm.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny:
** [[http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00222.html This page.]]
->"I can only imagine what's running through your mind..."
->"At the moment? The time you told the there was a monster under my bed when I was ten."
--> "Sweet merciful CRAP, there's a girl in the room, could someone give me a TOWEL?!"
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Sometimes a boy just needs his mom.
** "From the Questor of Freeman Downs, to the Questor of Freeman Downs."
** Nessie's reunion with her family.
** Quentyn's "letter to God" for [[spoiler: the Gragum]], albeit in more of a soul-touching, almost TearJerker way.
[[http://www.rhjunior.com/QQSR/00049.html God got the letter.]]
** [[http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00164.html This page]], also in a Tearjerker manner.
** Also [[http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00214.html here]].
* NightmareFuel: The Gragum shaman [[spoiler:holding Nessie's cage underwater. ]]
* TearJerker: "Meanwhile Pt. II"
** "I killed them, Mama..."
** Actually, most of that arc.
** And [[http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00169.html this page.]]

** [[http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00212.html This page]] in particular. Crosses with DieWithDignity.