Quintus Acilius Sympronian

**Quintus Acilius Sympronian** usually known just as **Quintus** is a cleric of Jupiter and one of the longest lived members of the Harpy's Claw group along with Lucan Sunguard and Polikos. He is very passionate about his faith and often converts whomever he can find when the group is traveling.

## Description

### Appearance

Quintus has blue eyes and blonde hair and is often cited as resembling "Prince Charming" from the wildly popular in Remean play Shrek 2. He is most often in the full plate armor he received as a gift from the Queen of Epirus, Olympias. He also carries a large tower shield magic artifact and a spear adorned with lightning. Quintus keeps his armor clean whenever there is a rest so his armor is almost always looks shiny and new.

### Personality

Quintus is a pious believer in Jupiter and hopes to spread his faith to anyone he can, even to the point of showing mercy to a large group of enemies in order to convert them. This can be seen in the successful conversion of the Battered Biking Bastards of Byzantios who were originally very hostile to both him and the town they now serve.

Under normal circumstances he is very loyal to his friends and will fight to protect them even at the cost of his own safety. He was originally quite a happy go lucky type but due to Jupiter commanding him to kill Ventus, one of his party members, saying he was "an evil that needed to be killed before it could grow" he had a small crisis of faith as he did not want to kill his friend and as a result he has become darker.

Quintus possesses a deep self-loathing due to the circumstances of Ventus' death. He believes that if he had seen the evil that Jupiter described within Ventus earlier, he could have helped eradicate it peacefully and he would not have needed to kill him. While he remains faithful to Jupiter entirely he questions if he could have warned Quintus sooner so that he could have helped his friend.

Quintus is methodical, sometimes to the point of annoying the powers that be. He often has lengthy conversations that last deep into the night with Lucan Sunguard about how to best leverage a combination of their spells to bring about an even more powerful killing or suppressing move. They have successfully done this in battle numerous times, most notably on a necromancer.

## Biography

### Background

Quintus was born under a full moon and during one of the most powerful storms in living memory. While traveling and preaching the glory of the thunder god, a priest of Jupiter named Jonah Desrochers sees a young Quintus cast a dilute version of thunderclap instinctual while playing. Sensing a great destiny in the boys future, the priest of the implored his parents to allow him to grow up as an acolyte in his temple.

Seeing a good future for their son and a promise of both monetary and theological compensation, his parents accepted the his offer to send Quintus off to the temple of Jupiter to be raised as a cleric. Growing up in the temple Jupiter in Hoffsburg proved to be good for Quintus as he showed both an aptitude for magic and simple weapons, a strong and unquestioning faith in his god, a strong sense of honor and it seemed a powerful connection to Jupiter.

Soon after graduating as a Cleric he learns about the current war between Jupiter and Poseidon for control of the pantheon. Learning Jupiter could die if he loses his followers he sets out to do his part and spread the faith. Wanting to pay back the debt he believed himself to have to the thunder god for providing him a good life, set out into the world to spread the faith, help the helpless and empower his god. Leaving his temple, he begins his story as he ventures out of the mountains leaving all he knows and into the town/city of Elysia with a bright outlook on his future.

## Character Information

### Quests

Quintus' prime goal is to spread the faith of Jupiter as far as he can, hopefully enough so that Poseidon is weakened to the point of no longer being a thread to his god or perishing. After the death of Ventus part of his focus has shifted to preventing such a calamity from happening again to his group of friends. Losing Ventus, especially because of it was by his own hand, has created a dread that hangs over Quintus heavily and if he can, he will do anything in his power not let any of his friends fall again, even if he has to die to prevent it.

### Notable Items

* Spear of Alexander
* The Hammer
* Shield of Testudo
* Dionysian Plate
* Scepter of Danu
* Bag of Beans

## Quotations

* "What the fuck are you doing to me Jon?!" (Jon taking Quintus' blood to go fishing)
* "Lucan, do you want to cheese on him?" (Quintus and Lucan preparing to nuke a boss NPC)

## Trivia

* Quintus will occasional hear voices in his head from Jupiter but some of the voices are not real and he cannot differentiate, this leads to interesting situations.
* Quintus has both the highest WIS and lowest CON scores of the members of Harpy's Claw.
* There have been multiple encounters where Quintus has not taken a single point of damage.
* Quintus once annihilated a large group of undead with a single channel divinity.
* Quintus once made a Carbonari agent shit his pants, costing him the election to the senate in Elysia.
* In a timeline where events transpired so horribly that Jupiter himself had to reset it: Jon tries to poison the queen Olympias after failing a INT/medicine check. Quintus tries to top him and take poison but fails a slight of hand check. Jon ends up poisoning the Queen's panther then tries to run while chaos occurs. Quintus then finds Jon lying naked in front of the castle with villagers holding him down while a priestess is force feeding him wine. Not knowing what to do Jupiter tells him to take half his gold then resets the timeline while Quintus somehow manages to keep the gold.
* Quintus is an avid brewer and uses his spare time to make beer, sometimes with hornflower.