History Characters / TalesOfTheQuestor

* TeensAreShort: Actually, just him. Quentyn is puny compared to other teenagers, who are essentially the same height as adults.

* BoobsOfSteel: Very physically able and is stacked, though it isn't always easy to notice given she is usually wearing a [[HiddenBuxom smithy uniform that tends to hide her curves.]]

* NoodleIncident: Quentyn’s third year recital was so bad he threw up before, after, and during! When the Mayor wonders how he’s still not over it, Master Rillcreek asks him, “Would ''you'' be over it?”

* PoorMansPorn: His collection of old Questor novels are implied to be this. Kestrel calls them lurid penny-dreadfuls. Fen even grabs one and starts quoting.

Freeman Downs resident master wizard.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Much more level headed than her husband and tends to mediate between him, Quentyn, and the other heads of the town.

* MyGreatestFailure: He heard a complete song in the fairy ring-something that occurs maybe once in a millennium-and was too entranced to copy it down. Unknown to him, the rings ''aren't'' some kind of random inspiration machines, but places where music travels between realms - and the song he composes and sings in solemn memory of the one he forgot passes through the ring to inspire someone else, someplace else.

* HiddenDepths: It does not excuse his behavior, but he admits that while he labors as an apprentice for his wealthy father, he is jealous that Quentyn is a [[TheWoobie Woobie]] who gets away with ''everything'' because everyone feel sorry for him.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: he's just "the mayor".

* GogglesDoNothing: He's never seen using his goggles, even when wearing them would make sense. Fortunately, his students are relatively consistent using theirs.
* NoodleIncident: Master Rillcreek sold him blueprints for a PerpetualMotionMachine during his first year. He's still bitter about it. When Rillcreek and Quentyn come to him to analyze Wildcard, he thinks its another elaborate prank at first.

* ButtMonkey: Gets no respect, gets kicked in the nads, and becomes babysitter for the Junior Questors. [[AssholeVictim Though its hard to say he doesn't deserve it.]]

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Not so much early on, but she does develop into tis.

* StickyFingers: Stole to survive, and still habitually nabs things after traveling with Quentyn.

* CurbStompBattle: In the one corner, Black Tom, jailer of the Unseelie Fae. In the other, a human boy armed with a pendant that makes him invisible to fairy sight, a monocle that can pierce any glamer, and a toy knife carved of rowan wood.

* HumiliationConga: Dolan's {{pride}} seriously bit him in the butt. [[spoiler:First, he called TheWildHunt on Quentyn, both a Racconan and one marked by the White Stag: both forbidden. He gets all debts and favors owed to him cancelled, leaving him a pauper. Then, everything he ever took from the mortal realms is given to Duke Sturmhold, including all his amassed treasure and the children he kidnapped. Lastly, he is forbidden from ever returning to the mortal realms ever again and cannot take any form of revenge as he leaves. ''Damn.'']]

* ThePromise: both Azure & Absinthe promise Quenteyn a proper reward for freeing them.

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu Cardinal Richelieu]], commonly considered to be the father of the modern nation-state, modern centralized power and the modern intelligence service.

* GagBoobs: Her ample chest is often the butt of jokes. [[ActuallyPrettyFunny Though she does not seem to mind.]]

* BuxomBeautyStandard: Has some nice boobs for a 2-and-a-half-foot-tall racoon girl, though her serving-girl outfit is what really brings them out. Her knockers are oft commented upon.

* BuxomIsBetter: Has some nice boobs for a 2 and a half foot tall racoon girl, though her serving-girl outfit is what really brings them out. Her knockers are oft commented upon.

* TheExile: Quentyn becomes this in all but name. [[spoiler:He's set with the ImpossibleTask of retrieving several priceless artifacts which, in a bout of [[WhatAnIdiot clerical stupidity]], had been lost over a century prior. His predecessor Quentyn O'Ridgedale had tried to retrieve the artifacts himself, but failed. Due to a politically-motivated attack by the [[FictionalPoliticalParty Expansionist Party]], large swaths of Freeman Downs is now under threat of seizure by the Archivist Guild due to a century-old debt left by O'Ridgedale, which was ''only'' reactivated because of Quentyn Quinn's decision to become the new Questor. The only way to save his home is to leave Antillia to find the artifacts, which has a snowball's chance in hell of success. If Quentyn had stayed, or returns empty-handed? Quentyn [[YouCantGoHomeAgain wouldn't have a home to return]] ''to''. But, if he dies trying, then the debt finally ends with him.]]

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: As standard for Ralph's works.

* BalefulPolymorph: Azure was bound to a MagicMirror.

* {{Megane}}: Well, Kestrel ''did'' call him cute.

* WitchSpecies: Effectively 100% of their species has some command of Lux, even if pretty sparkles are all he or she can manage. But, as the Racconans will ''emphatically'' tell you, Lux is a natural force/energy and will become [[BerserkButton very upset]] if you tell them otherwise. As Ennias Longsript noted:
-->to quote, "It's not Occultic, blast it! It's just manipulating energies. No nature gods, no spirits of the dead, no demons or deities or deals with Sheol. It's about as 'occultic' as using charcoal on a campfire, or using willow bark tea for a headache. Just because you can't understand it doesn't mean the ruddy supernatural is involved – you great hairless git!"

* FallacyFallacy: Completely writes off one account of the Raccoonan race due to the "fact" that the place it describes their homeland being is widely accepted to be a massive swampland (which, in fairness, Antillia ''is'' surrounded by). Naturally, it's the only one that got things right.

* FailedASpotCheck: So, Dolan, how did you not put 2 & 2 together that the two-foot-tall hairy mortal who challenged you ''might'' be a Racconan? Oh, right, {{pride}}.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Initially, thanks to the [[spoiler:Fae Princeling]] forcing him to steal from his own people.

* GirlNextDoor[=/=]ChildhoodFriendRomance: She and the Duke were playmates as children, mostly because they were the only children of their age in the castle, and the old Duke was too happy that somebody was getting his son out in the sun to care that it was a servant girl.

* TheChosenOne:

* TheExile: Quentyn becomes this in all but name. [[spoiler:He's set with the ImpossibleTask of retrieving several priceless artifacts which, in a bout of [[WhatAnIdiot clerical stupidity]], had been lost over a century prior. His predecessor Quentyn O'Ridgedale had tried to retrieve the artifacts himself, but failed. Due to a politically-motivated attack by the [[FictionalPoliticalParty Expansionist Party]], large swaths of Freeman Downs is now under threat of seizure by the Archivist Guild due to a century-old debt left by O'Ridgedale, which was ''only'' reactivated because of Quentyn Quinn's decision to become the new Questor. NiceJobBreakingItHero! The only way to save his home is to leave Antillia to find the artifacts, which has a snowball's chance in hell of success. If Quentyn had stayed, or returns empty-handed? Quentyn [[YouCantGoHomeAgain wouldn't have a home to return]] ''to''. But, if he dies trying, then the debt finally ends with him.]]

* HappilyMarried

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Doesn't get Quentyn...

* HeelFaceTurn: Starts out very selfish and cowardly, but being around Quentyn helps bring the best out of him.

* TheExile: Quentyn becomes this in all but name. [[spoiler:He's set with the ImpossibleTask of retrieving several priceless artifacts which, in a bout of [[WhatAnIdiot clerical stupidity]], had been lost over a century prior. His predecessor Quentyn O'Ridgedale had tried to retrieve the artifacts himself, but failed. Due to a politically-motivated attack by the [[FictionalPoliticalParty Expansionist Party]], large swaths of Freeman Downs is now under threat of seizure by the Archivist Guild due to a century-old debt left by O'Ridgedale, which was ''only'' reactivated because of Quentyn Quinn's decision to become the new Questor. NiceJobBreakingItHero! The only way to save his home is to leave Antillia to find the artifacts, which has a snowball's chance in hell of success. If Quentyn had stayed, or returns empty-handed? Quentyn [[YouCantGoHomeAgain wouldn't have a home to return ''to'']]. But, if he dies trying, then the debt finally ends with him.]]

* LosingAShoeInTheStruggle: Both his journey boots are ''destroyed'' during the TheWildHunt. Fortunately, they get repaired later on.
* MadeOfIron: Takes hits that send him flying like a rag doll and gets right back up!

* NoodleIncident: Quentyn’s third year recital was so bad he threw up before, after, and during! When the Mayor wonders how he’s still not over it, Master Rillcreek asks him, “Would ''you'' be over it?

-->'''Fen:''' “Slowly he caressed her soft, round…,” Oooo, looks like you were getting to the good part!
-->'''Quentyn:''' IT DOES NOT SAY THAT!

** Essentially, they single-handedly invented, in circuitry terms 'gates' that can serve as a switch, allowing you to have a device switch between three, or more, outputs, instead of just being 'on' and 'off'. Unfortunately? The 'output' is random.

* DeadpanSnarker: Always has something to when someone else does something foolish.

* FailedASpotCheck: So,Dolan, how did you not put 2 & 2 together that the two-foot-tall hairy mortal who challenged you ''might'' be a Racconan? Oh, right, {{pride}}.

* HumiliationConga: Dolan's {{pride}} seriously bit him in the butt. [[spoiler:First, he called TheWildHunt on Quentyn, both a Racconan and one marked by the White Stag, both forbidden. He gets all debts and favors owed to him cancelled, leaving him a pauper. Then, everything he ever took from the mortal realms is given to Duke Sturmhold, including all his amassed treasure and the children he kidnapped. Lastly, he is forbidden from ever returning to the mortal realms ever again and cannot take any form of revenge as he leaves. ''Damn.'']]
* ItAmusedMe: his main motivation for anything.

* TheJudge

* BaitAndSwitchTyrant: He is introduced as a loud and often snide politician, but is in the end a surprisingly good person.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Much more supportive than her husband and tends to mediate between him and the other heads of the town.