Quincy Bingles

You know, gnomes are a core race of the world. Without us, you would be, so to say, screwed. We're not warriors. We don't fight. We stand behind the lines and support the troops. How? Armor. Weapons. Artillery. Tactics. We've done a lot outside this as well. Steam tanks, all sorts of gadgets, the Deeprun Tram. . . You name it. That is why you shouldn't look DOWN on a gnome! . . . What do you mean, we're small?
Quingles, upon explaining why he dislikes being looked down on.
==Appearance==
Quingles is about one metre tall. His haircolour is shifting constantly between black, gray, white, brown and green. Occasionally, his beard style changes. He almost always wears a blue robe, spiky shoulderpads, brown gloves and a blue wizard hat. Sometimes, he'll wear his goggles made through engineering. He's rarely seen without anything on his head, and he sometimes uses blue overalls, when working. He's a little chubby, but its rarely seen when he wears his clothes. He often carries a wand or a spanner.
==Family==
Father: Nuldin Springsprocket Bingles. Deceased.
Mother: Myetta Hydrowave Bingles. Deceased.
Brother: Varlan Bingles. Unknown.
==Background==
=== Introduction ===
"Quincy Aran Philipe Uldor San Vedile Screwspanner Bingles" was born in Gnomeregan as most gnomes about thirty years back from now. He lived with his parents and his younger brother for a few years before he got accepted into the Engineering Academy, where he moved and lived deeper inside the large city. The Academy was known for inventing several items used by many engineers. Once, the great Gelbin Mekkatourqe visited the academy to observe. It was here his precious mechanostrider was built, by himself. Quincy didn't ever see that event, because he was tinkering with his own mechanostrider, MechOps X-2. He later replaced it with MechOps X-3000. Quincy was known as a great speaker, with a good heart and great mind. He was part of the academy council for about two months. During this time, he managed to improve the Arclight Spanner's efficiency, which he thought himself was a great accomplishment, though they already could remain for fifty years (the new age being fifty-two). At the very start at the third month in the council, he got a letter concerning a terrible tragedy.
At the age of nineteen, he recieved a letter. The letter seemed like a simple threat:
"You and your family will soon perish. Bring me the heirloom, and you shall be saved."
He had frowned upon such stupidity, but went to his parents after all. What he met was terrible: his parents were dead, the house burnt and heirloom stolen. What the heirloom was, though, remained unclear to anyone but Quincy himself. Their bodies were scorched by dark magic, and he immediatly suspected his brother. His brother, Varlan, was a well trained warlock. Varlan was known as a rebel, but Quincy had always felt that there was a darkness in hom. because of that, Quincy sought him out and questioned him, and learned the horrible truth. Varlan had not only ventured to their parents house and slain them, he had sacrificed their souls to demons. The heirloom, a wand named Naggirath (intelligence in gnomish), was stolen, but not by Varlan. Seemingly, another agent was at large. Quincy was heartbroken and let Varlan go for his crimes. He never really recovered from his poor state.
=== Magical grasp and insanity ===
At the age of twenty-two, he was travelling around in the harsh mountains of Blackrock, along with two dwarves named Paelan and Kalien Hammerfist. Kalien and Paelan was also known as Boozebeard and Badbeard, because of their magnificent beards and personality. The three of them travelled far into the mountains. They examined different creatures, minerals and geography. They eventually heard about a great treasure hidden around. They searched for it near the Cauldron, but was ambushed by orcs and a black dragon named Fissure. Kalien fight bravely and slew a few orcs, but was later slain, scorched and devoured himself by Fissure. Paelan vanquished the remaining orcs, and wounded Fissure before he was pushed into the depths of the Cauldron. He was considered lost at that point. Quincy was the only one who didn't fight, and when his fellow travellers were slain, Fissure came after him. In a moment of desperation, he tried to fire some sort of advanced gun, which failed, and he was knocked unconcious by Fissure, presumably to be sacrificed or eaten. . .
When Quincy woke up later, he was in a blueish cave along with a wounded blue dragon who revealed himself to be named Quiragos, and that he was the sworn enemy of Fissure. He told Quincy that he had slain Fissure and rescued Quincy to this cave, and he told that he wouldn't have more than a few hours left to live. Quincy then came with a proposal. Quincy, well educated and bright, proposed that they would share their souls in hos own mortal body. Quiragos agreed instantly. Quiragos' mind was stored within Quincy's conciousness, and his magical abilities was inherited by Quincy. However, a slight error during the ritual made his poor state of depression he already had from his parents' slaughter into a haunting madness. No longer able to converse normally, act normally, follow orders, notice sarcasm and irony, or know what is wrong and right, Quincy was crippled, forever.
=== Third War ===
After suddenly having a superior grasp around magic, Quincy was sent to Dalaran. There he was taught of using the arcane arts, especially in conjuration and fire. However, about a year later, he heard that his home of Gnomeregan was attacked by the Troggs. He immediatly wanted to travel back and help, but other problems was rising. The Scourge's invasion of Dalaran ruined his chances to return to Gnomeregan before it was too late. He saved himself by fleeing into the Alterac Mountains. There he hid in a cave filled with Yeti. He was later found by a band of elven hunters who had taken him to the Hinterlands, where he met Kalien and Paelan's brother, Koldan. Koldan, also known as Swiftbeard, was heartbroken by the news. He took Quincy with himself on a flight on his gryphon, Feathersin. They flew over the Wetlands and Loch Modan, where they were shot down by a mortar team. Koldan died instantly, Feathersin was wounded heavily. Quincy shielded himself in a barrier, and was not injured at all. He buried Koldan quickly, and hid Feathersin in a cave. He later ventured towards one of the dwarven lookouts, but never came so long. He was found by a band of iron dwarves who later sold him as a slave to a man, who revealed himself to be a war veteran from the second war, who took care of the starved and mad gnome. His name was Geoffrey Tiros. Quincy begged Geoffrey to return to Loch Modan to fetch Feathersin, but wasn't allowed. It was too dangerous, and a new enemy had surfaced to the north. The Scourge had lost control over some undead, and they had been raiding the area. Quincy went regardless, but found Feathersin raised as an undead gryphon, used by a skeletal dwarf he recalled as Koldan. He slipped away without being noticed, and cried silently.
Geoffrey's daughter, Atiana Tiros, befriended Quincy quickly. She was a young teenager at the time they met, barely sixteen years old. They were quite a weird couple to look at, but there was no more than great friendship between them. Atiana had a boyfriend as well, named Sarth Flamewalker, a human that had been working for Dalaran as a drake hunter. Their friendship would seem to last forever, untill about one year after the third war. Atiana and Quincy were needed at Lights Hope chapel by the Argent Dawn, whom Atiana was a member of. On the way, Sarth had been injured and sent home. Upon reaching Hillsbrad, they had seen that the Tarren Mill had been taken over by the Forsaken. Quincy immediately felt the anger he had felt when he saw the risen Feathersin and Koldan. They snuck past them, and ventured into Alterac. They encountered some ogres, which Atiana negotiated with. Three ogres accompanied them further, into the lands known as the Plaguelands. In the city of Andorhal, they saw terrible undead and golems, marching around mindlessly. The three ogres were discovered fairly quickly, and was slain. Atiana and Quincy was able to sneak into the abandoned Town Hall, where they found something startling. A ghost of Kalian and Koldan appeared to Quincy. Something else appeared to Atiana, unknown to Quincy. The ghosts told him what really had happened to them. They also said that. . . Paelan, Badbeard, was still alive. Shortly after, a lich entered the scene. A lich named Araj. Atiana was killed, and Quincy was found dying in the Town Hall. Araj had disappeared, it seemed. Quincy was barely saved by a team of priests, and his insanity grew even more. Undeath and the loss of friends was disturbing his twin mind.
=== The Alliance Cavalry ===
After staring death in the eye a few times, Quincy realized he could change that. He travelled to Stormwind where he met a lot of new persons, some good, some bad. Quincy later met an old gnome, Milles Togglesprocket, which he befriended. They were later asked by a dwarf to join the Alliance Cavalry. The two of them was accepted into the Alliance Cavalry as engineers. Quincy was quickly ascending in the ranks to lieutenant, but his gnomish friend went missing after only two months. He gained a lot of new friends in the cavalry: Marth, a ladiesman; Tariel, an eccentric druidess; Karandras, a sturdy night elf; Luke, a gnome with a love for engineering who later became Quincy's apprentice; and he always found his relation with the high general Garathorn a bit special.
For about three months, he did his duty as both an engineer, a lieutenant, a mage and as a gnome. Then he found himself caught into a dramatic encounted with his old friend, Sarth the drake hunter. Through several encounters, Quincy was almost slain as he was identified the carrier of a dragon's soul. He was later saved by his druidess friend Tariel, after four big fights, ending with the death of Sarth. However, he was risen by a necromancer who turned out to be his brother, Varlan. Quincy was able to track down Varlan himself, nearly dying in the attempt. With the undead Sarth after him, and hordes of demons in front, Quincy tactically blasted his way through the ground. He appeared below Varlan, and defeated him utterly. The demons could no longer be kept in this world, and was dragged into a portal among with Sarth, who now was a shell of a corpse. Varlan was nearly dragged in, but Quincy rescued him, which he later regretted. Varlan flickered, and disappeared. Quincy never got to understand how, but he had defeated his brother yet again, and Sarth remained dead. Nevertheless, he let his brother go again. A wise decision? Perhaps not.
Recovering after the fight, he went to his friends, among them Tariel, to return to normal life. However, Tariel's new boyfriend was a rather disturbing element for Quincy. Baharroth, and Glacier, his name be. Baharroth was a bit split in two parts, one good and one evil. Glacier being the evil part. This had unsettled Quincy a bit, and he had misinterpreted some of Tariel's behaviour. Trying to arrest them both in rage (though he can't, as he is no guard) broke their friendship a bit. After this, he disappeared for about two months, travelling to a silent untouched area in Gnomeregan, meditating.
When he returned, the cavalry had changed. New captains, majors, colonels... And the hatred started to turn towards his eccentric lifestyle. He pondered for about a month, when he chose to leave the cavalry, but work along with them as an outside contact man. Here he stands today, outside everyone's reach, trying to re-establish his normal life before his insanity. . . He later rejoined of remorse, and a different state of mind. . .
===Severing the Chains===
Quincy has had many problems, but Quiragos' control would be his greatest. The draconic soul corrupted Quincy's, resulting in an absolute change of character. His madness is now "invisible", and he pays respect in all ways. He never actually use words linked with the gnomish culture, and refuses to even touch an arclight spanner. His mind was split in two, one minor and a greater part. The problem was indeed that Quiragos' soul controlled the greater part. Quincy succumbed, and his body is now a vessel of a lost dragon's soul. He had to retaliate, and came up with a plan, involving destroying the chains to his past, and forever forget the reasons of his madness. Incredibly, Quiragos agreed. Though it would only be the surface of the plan.
===Broken Chains - Cleansing of Evils===
Upon the time Glacier the nether-fiend attacked, Quincy had to unleash the powers of Quiragos. Not a wise decision, as it drained his mind for power. When Glacier was temporarily banished, they fled to Stormwind. Soon, Quiragos would resurface. Quincy knew this, and fought with his greatest powers to hold the draconic powers back. However, in a second attack, he was forced to use it again. This would seem to create a crack of his energies, when it resulted in an explosion of magic once he was able to reattain his gnomish form. Banishing the fiend a second time made the draconic energies seem good, but agony struck Quincy's mind, and he was immobilized. He watched as Quiragos slaughtered his plans of redemption, and he was set back to a prison in his own mind. For about a week, Quiragos assumed Quincy's form, and nearly terrorized his near. However, the high-general Garathorn was a spark of hope. Both Quiragos and Quincy knew he had the potential to free them both.
Quiragos lead the high-general Garathorn with him towards Coldarra, in an ultimate attempt to devastate the one that could free Quincy. This resulted in a clash of dragonkin, as Garathorn brought his bronze dragon Kvarlx. They fought tirelessly from the tops of the flying platforms, and into the ley line itself. The huge amount of arcane energies had energized Quiragos, powering his drakonid form, making him tenfolds stronger. Kvarlx however, had some interesting powers, and managed to take out Quiragos in an aerial battle. This resulted in Quiragos, and Quincy, to fall down into the halls of the nexus, shattering the form of Quiragos, as well as the wicked soul. Quincy himself was found dead on the bottom, seemingly intact. Through desperate attempts of reviving him, Garathorn found it futile. Meanwhile, a dragon called Chromostrasz appeared and took them all to the Caverns of Time.
In the Caverns of Time, Quincy was brought to the Tavern of Time. Here he was left, while Kvarlx, Garathorn and Chromostrasz went for a timepocket to find a priest of the past. Utilizing a memory, Chromostrasz brought a priestess named Yaressa back from the caverns, and over to Quincy, where he would be revived. The priestess later faded into time again, as the appiration never existed. Garathorn was granted a special gift, through Kvarlx, that Chromostrasz would teach him. Quincy woke up later in Stormwind, hanging in a ceiling, not remembering anything of Quiragos at all.
===Comeback===
Quincy made a big comeback into the Alliance Cavalry once freed from the corruption, and started working straight ahead. His first plans was, of course, promotion. To achieve that, he had some vicious plans involving cruel actions mixed within a seemingly legit scheme, that would involve drastic changes that would rock the pillars of the Alliance Cavalry. His ideas was but a few, changing the ranking systems completely, destroying units and adding new, even getting rid of certain members... He truly wanted this to happen, and it did once... Major Quincy Bingles was born, but upon this, he re-took two of his birthnames, becoming Quincy Aran Screwspanner Bingles. Now, he tried to put another plan into life, but it failed utterly, when he heard that two of the major officers had abandoned the Cavalry, presumably because of him... In addition, he had heard from his old friend, Geoffrey, recently. He had travelled to Stormwind to talk over with Quincy, but Quincy had other things to take care of. Minutes after sending Geoffrey away, Varlan appeared. Quincy had in rage tried to kill him, but Geoffrey had followed him and stopped his actions. However, words slipped out from Varlan, that the Righteous Crusader was the true murderer of their parents... And unfortunately, Geoffrey had revealed minutes earlier, that he was also called "The Righteous Crusader"... And so, flames licked the ground amongst the two of them, but they managed to escape...
===A new dawn... For Gnomeregan!===
Upon scheming, Quincy had heard the news: Mekkatorque had started the assault on Gnomeregan! Quincy immediatly found his armour and donned it, ready to fight for his home... Being sent to recruit more gnomes, he travelled (with recruits, eventually) to Steelgrills Depot to prepare, among many other gnomes. Here he had been swiftly reacquainted with military basics, before discovering that the gnomes, once again, would become a major part of the Alliance. The Spidertanks of Gnomeregan amused Quincy a lot, as he had never actually used one in the past. And then, finally, the siege would begin. He, among three other gnomes he would get to know, Fargus, Whinchbolt and Ropplestater, had grouped in a slight different way than the majority, and had started with the anti-air turrets, failingly. But when the power had been cut, their sabotage proved helpful. Upon entering Gnomeregan, Quincy and the others fought the troggs, that came storming towards them at the entrance. Once they were defeated, he would later move into the city, to see many of his previous friends, colleagues and enemies, irradated. In sadness he had slain some of them, and got bitten by his teacher in Common. He never liked Common language anyways. Once they were defeated, they had ran into a trap, where an immense radiation bomb had been waiting for them. Quincy and the lot was beamed out by Mekkatorque and his team, just in time. However, he found this battle victorious, for they had won the ground around the mighty city. In relief, he and the three other gnomes had partied, and he sent himself through an initiation rite he should have completed over fifteen years ago: the rite of gnomish achievments! The rite where he chooses a new name, to no longer be named after his family. He chose the name... Quingles Sprocketsaver.
===Recent Activity===
A new dawn smiles upon Quincy, as his evil scheming and plotting works out, and so that his new confidence takes over. He has his ideas of what he's going to do, like finding Paelan, Varlan and ending a secret order of paladins, that he recently discovered as culprits...
==Involvement==
In World of Warcraft, Quingles is rather known as a sicco old gnome wandering around Stormwind with his x-ray specs, lots of inventions, talking about the weirdest things like engineering to why his hair colour is changing all the time. He is serious sometimes, and pretty mad other times. His mood changes very easily, so watch out.
As his mind was corrupted by Quiragos, his temper is somewhat dimmed. You can basically insult him with the worst of insults without having even a nudge back. However, the rage goes somewhere else. A place that's called "Alliance Cavalry Training". . .
==Heirloom==
In the early chapters of Quincy's life, he was told about a powerful heirloom inherited into his posession, but he had never really believed. Upon the message before the deaths of his parents, he had realized that it was real. What it was, was unknown. However. . . A clue was found in an old book he had found in the Library of Dalaran. The heirloom "Naggirath", meaning "Intellect" in gnomish, was supposedly inherited down from a family of archmages. The archmages had perished, and the heirloom lost. Yet, it seemed like this had a connection with his old fairytales. He had searched his burnt house again, and successfully found what he was looking for. A shard of a crystal, with powerful magic abilities. Since then, he had tried to hunt down the remaining pieces. So far he has found these:
- Eyeshard, in family house.
- Eyeshard, in the Jasperlode mine, among the cave spiders.
- Shattered Binding, in the Emerald Nightmare of Wailing Caverns.
- Fusion Sphere of Arcana, in Stormwind Cathedral, in a book.
- Blue Scale of Magic, on his cloak when waking up in a roof in Stormwind.
- (Discovered, not acquired!) Heart of Arcana, on Geoffrey Tiros' blade.
It is a total of ten pieces, and he has now searched since 6. January 2010. Halfly done in a bit more than a year.
==Strategy==
Punt him and you should be okay. . .
Quincy's combat style has changed dramatically. His new style is a unbalanced twist of engineering and frost magic. Engineering being the major part. He should be fairly easy to defeat, but bear in mind, he has some pretty nasty tricks up his sleeves, and in his hat.
Eventually, he has become adept at fire magics, so don't bring combustable armour, as he can instantly ignite it.
==Quotes==
"If it weren't for us gnomes, you wouldn't stand here today, elf!", to a raging elf named Karandras Spritewing, during a fight.
". . . I wouldn't hand you this device even if you gave me ten thousand gold for it, elf!", to an elf impressed by the awe of one of his creations.
"Marth, lets go check out some girls with my specs today. Shall we?", to Marth Stoneman, on a boring day.
"True anger comes from within. There is a man I know that may teach you this. He goes by the name "The Righteous Crusader".", to Connor Bartlett, after a hard day of work in the Cavalry.
"Have faith in my magic, it will save your life, morta-- I mean soldier.", to Connor Bartlett, between two encounters in Blackrock Depths.
"I don't remember exactly what's been going on ever since the spellweaver fell. Geargrinders, was I kidnapped or something!?", upon waking up in a roof in Stormwind.
"Operation: Gnomeregan was still a success, Whinchbolt... We have retaken the grounds of our mighty city! The mighty city that overcomes both Stormwind, Ironforge and Silvermoon, in awe... But now, I finally have my achievment, so if you could excuse me, I have a name to take...", after the party once Operation Gnomeregan was finished.
==Trivia==
- Quincy's name derives from the character Bingles found in Loch Modan.
- A lot of his history is based on several short stories written in real life.
- Quincy uses some special words: Shigga (meaning awesome) and boogerschnoozle (meaning idiot).
- Every time someone says that something is "worse than a goblin", he gasps.
- Quincy has a great fear for cats.
- Joking with this fellow is dangerous! He takes everything literally.
- Quincy has re-utilized his old vocabulary, meaning he curses with words like "Geargrinding troggs!" or "Spinnerwhistles!".
- Quincy's new name is also his character name, Quingles.
==See also==
Geoffrey Tiros
==External links==
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