Quintus

Token Art of Quintus

Quintus is a tiefling bard and member of the Snow Drifters.

## Description

Feel free to change this page if this is your Player Character. This is purely based off what the token art shows and what I can remember.

Quintus is a purple skinned tiefling with one horn broken off. His eyes are a pale yellow and pupil-less. He wears fine clothes, and the cold seems to have no effect on him, resulting in him now having to don cold weather furs like the rest of the party outside of Sapphira.

Quintus speaks with a stern, but fair, demeanor, and oftentimes is the ringleader when it comes to planning amongst the party. He has little tolerance for nonsense in serious situations but otherwise is calm and friendly when relaxing. Given his ability to steer conversations at put his emotions aside for the good of the party, he often speaks for them in social situations. Even when his ability with words fails, he can continue to exert his will using his magical abilities. When discussions start to devolve into arguments, Quintus has often been able to reel the party back to civil discussion.

## Relationships

Quintus comes from Baldur's Gate. It is known he is on the run, having to have fled his home when he secured a chest of documents incriminating a group of people of dealing with Levistus.

He once had a mentor who taught him magic. This mentor is presumed dead when a heist went sideways and Quintus had to flee.

At some point, in Baldur's Gate, he met Hlin Trollbane, who smuggled him out of the city to Icewind Dale.

It is known that Quintus had parents in Baldur's Gate. They had dealings with Kadroth, a high ranking member of the Knights of the Black Sword, and sold Quintus' soul to Levistus through Kadroth.

Quintus met V outside of Bryn Shander, finding her barely alive and frozen. He saved her life, and the two became fast friends and remaining close, often speaking in private when Quintus notices V struggling with her psionic demons.

## Biography

### Pre-Icewind Dale

Quintus hails from Baldur's Gate. Prior to his birth, his parents lived in poverty. The Knights of the Black Sword targeted them as victims, ruining their lives and forcing them to make a deal with Kadroth: Sell their firstborn's soul to Levistus in exchange for gold. They accepted, and Quintus was born a tiefling, marked by the blood of Levistus.

Quintus at one point found a mentor who taught him the ability to manipulate the weave through the use of his words. Quintus, and presumably his mentor, learned of the Knights of the Black Sword and how they operate. The learned of a chest of documents incriminating them, and performed a heist to steal them. The heist was partially successful; Quintus escaped with the documents, but his mentor presumably did not.

While on the run, at some point, Quintus found himself being chased by bounty hunters through a bog near Leilon. He was nearly caught when he luckily ran past the Tower of Thalivar, and by sheer luck, the entirety of the hunting party was paralyzed as they looked upon the tower. Quintus, having the sense not to look where they were, successfully fled.

### Arrival in Icewind Dale

Eventually, Quintus met Hlin Trollbane, who he paid handsomely to smuggle him out of the Sword Coast and into Icewind Dale. Upon his arrival, he made his home in Bryn Shander, staying at the Northlook.

Eventually, one night, Quintus left to use the outhouse and found V, frozen and nearly dead. He brought her inside and saved her life. The two of them grew close after.

### Joining the Snow Drifters

One day, Quintus and V found a job posting for Adventurers, Mercenaries, Freelancers, Warriors, Investigators, Guards, Bruisers, Rat-catchers and Opportunists from his old friend Hlin. Quintus and V jumped at the opportunity and met Gabar, Big Smile and Sapphira, all who responded to the posting. Shortly after, they met with Hlin, who gave them their first job together, where they encountered a goblin raiding party while searching for some missing dwarves. After learning their abilities were complementary to one another, the group decided to stick together after that.

Quintus quickly proved to be useful in combat, not by directly damaging hostile creatures but controlling the battlefield, bolstering his allies and weakening his enemies. However, Quintus quickly established himself to be very useful in social situations, controlling conversations, being persuasive or deceptive when needed, and when that fails, using his magical abilities to control others to do his bidding.

In Bryn Shander, Quintus at one point collected a chest from his room in the Northlook and asked to hide it within Big Smile's house. It was later revealed, when the party talked about what to do if they were to die, that the chest contained documents incriminating high ranking members of the Knight s of the Black Sword, a cult worshiping Levistus. Quintus told the party to leak the documents to the public if he were to die, though he would prefer to do it back in Baldur's Gate after the party ends the Endless Winter.

When the party encountered Kadroth and the Knights of the Black Sword in Caer Dineval, Quintus revealed to the party he was aware of the Knights, claiming they were cult worshipers of Levistus. Kadroth seemed particularly interested in Quintus in their first meeting, likely knowing Quintus' true identity. In a rare display of mercilessness, Quintus proclaimed that any member of the Knights of the Black Sword must die with no exception. In the fight against Kadroth in Caer Dineval, Kadroth referred to Quintus by another name, Cordova.

In Sunblight Fortress, the party encountered Klondorn, the high advisor to Xardorok. There, Klondorn revealed that he knew Deep Duera was Asmodeus in disguise all along as he transformed into a barbed devil. In the ensuing battle, Klondorn called Quintus by yet another name, Kailon. At one point, Klondorn claims his master told him one of Quintus' allies would aide in the plot of Levistus.

Another incident where Quintus showed mercilessness occurred in Easthaven after it was destroyed by the chardalyn dragon. The party found a pair of thugs attempting to rob an old woman of her valuables. The thugs were subdued and knocked unconscious, after which Quintus executed them, causing a minor argument to break out before the party had to rush to find Arlaggath.

In the Lost Spire, the party found a magical room that could transform illusions into reality. An argument erupted as Vellynne stopped the party from using the room as she found it to be unstable. Quintus seemed to have little opinion initially, but ultimately sided with V and Vellynne in determining that the room should remain undisturbed until it could be studied or repaired. Sapphira wanted the room destroyed, Gabar and Big Smile wanted to create enough gold to pay off their bounty, and Ilikan wanted to create enough diamonds to be used as material spell components.