Querin Fyndrake

Category:The Thickety Characters category:Males
"And then one day—perhaps a year from now, or ten years, or maybe not until you're old and wrinked—you'll hear a knocking at your door, and it will be your friend Querin Fyndrake. I'll take you back here to the Hourglass Tower and your debt shall be repaid."
-Querin to Taff, Grace, and Kara, in The Last Spell.
Querin Fyndrake is the keeper of the Hourglass Tower and feeder of the Khr'nouls. He worked as the King's head scientist, until an error in one of his experiments caused the destruction of all of Kronia. This led to Querin hiding in a patch of unmoving time, forever sacrificing the lifetimes of others to placate the Khr'nouls and prolong his own extended existence.
== History ==
=== The Destruction of Kronia ===
=== The Last Spell ===
== Appearance ==
Querin is described as being no being no taller than Taff and having the weathered face of an adult. He has thick eyebrows and a ginger root looking beard which is oiled every day. He has a long nose which hooks downward beneath eyes that are as dark as charred wood. Golden incisors run along his lower row of teeth. 
Kara says he has the "sly, calculating stare if a cold-blooded reptile" and his eyes twitch side to side like a pendulum. 
During Kara and Taff's first day in his tower, Querin wears a chekered vest over a crisp white shirt. When they travel to the lower half of the tower, he wears a purple silk shirt and gleaming boots. His clothes are described as lavish when he comes for Taff during the Shadow Festival.
Taff describes him as "monstrous" to Safi.