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Q'fura the Pendulous (?b - 2E 582)

Q'fura the Pendulous was a powerful Sload conjurer and ice mage. They possessed great magical abilities, deemed too hazardous for the mages such as Psijic Loremaster Celarus to confront single-handedly. They infiltrated the Dreaming Cave on Artaeum with the intention of unleashing hordes of Oblivion upon the world.

Quill-Weave (fl. 3E 433)

Quill-Weave was a famous Argonian author who lived in Anvil in the final years of the Third Era, and the onset of the Fourth Era. She penned a collection of popular novels such as Red Crater and The Goblin with the Golden Arm and was known for her belief that the Doomstones carried no traces of magical power of any kind, instead linking them to the activities of long-forgotten cults and ancient sky worship of the Beastfolk of the Mythic Era.

Dowager Empress Quintilla (?b - 3E 100)

Quintilla (also known as Qizara) was a noblewoman from the early-mid Third Era and was married into the Septim Dynasty. Originally from Camlorn, she was married to Emperor Pelagius II and mothered three children, Potema, Cephorus and Magnus. In life, she was a skilled maiden and an accomplished sorceress. As told in the Wolf Queen historical-fiction series written by Waughin Jarth, along with Prince Pelagius, Quintilla saved her kingdom from a great werewolf demon and trapped his soul in a yellow gem necklace.

Quintus Varus (?b - 3E 427)

Quintus Varus

Quintus Varus was the Imperial warden of Stormhold prison and a reputed lunatic. He ruled as warden circa 3E 427, forcing his prisoners to dig for crystals, which he valued. He planned to locate the Storm Crystal, a large crystal capable of holding large amounts of corruption, and use it to store all the evil in the Empire, titling himself the Slayer of Evil. Varus has great success extracting the lesser Stormhold Crystals. The prisoners who dug in the tunnels, nicknamed "tunnel rats", kept some of the crystals for themselves, for use in smuggling or exploring the dangerous undead-infested tunnels. Varus overlooked this theft as long as tunnel rats were not greedy.

Varus attempted to use the minor Crystals to contain corruption, removing evil from one man to place into another, but this backfired horribly. The earth itself began to ooze corruption due to how many were afflicted from his scheme. Over time, prisoners and their overseers began to go mad, fleeing into the tunnels and attacking workers clearing the ruins. Digging in the tunnels caused corruption to infect the workers, which led to madness and lizard-like deformities over time. Varus afflicted far too many, and the prison camp's healer, Helga, was unable to cure all of them. Many of the overseers began to show horrific deformities, and prisoners weren't expected to survive long.

Varus, driven insane in his search for the Storm Crystal, continued to open new tunnels and eventually succeeded in tracking it down. A prisoner, whom Varus nicknamed the "master tunnel rat", with the help of the Helga and several other prisoners, gathered enough equipment from the ruins to defeat the overseers and confront Varus. The two fought for the Storm Crystal, and the prisoner was victorious. Although the Crystal was unable to hold the evil of the Empire, the prisoner was able to use it to clear the prison camp of corruption, letting the inmates go free.

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