Cardew "Dewey" Quurk

Level 20 Art by @Gremlynnart

Cardew "Dewey" Quurk (*he/him*) is an aarakocra artificer and the Paragon of Gal Tenger. He is played by Max Guo in The Second Stranger.

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## *Description*

### Appearance

Dewey is a pigeon-like arrakocra with grey-blue feathers, talon-like feet, and wide, soft wings. He has yellow eyes and a short beak, enternally holding a pair of circular gold-rimmed glasses. He generally wears handmade armor and a pair of practical cargo shorts. After becoming the Paragon of Gal Tenger, Dewey's wings gain star-like speckles at the tips, and his tails becomes long and radiant, like that of a phoenix. His clothes also become divine, flowing robes with an ever-moving ribbon, but he insists on wearing cargo shorts underneath them.

### Personality

Dewey is soft-spoken and nervous, often referred to by others and himself as a coward at the beginning of the series. He gains confidence slowly and isn't quick to trust, but he always tries to do right by his friends and family.

## *Biography*

### Backstory

Dewey grew up in the mountains of Haelina Island in Uhànahi and travelled with a nomadic community as an adolescent. While the rest of his friends may have collected shiny trinkets, Dewey was fascinated by shreds of printed paper. He began sneaking off and perching in the rafters of a local classroom and eventually left the nomads to live by himself and take classes. He rarely spoke to the other students, but loved learning and quickly made it to the top of his class. At his graduation, a young engineer from Nabal, Tanga, came to speak to him, having heard of his academic achievements. He was hired as an inventor at her small business and moved to the capital city of Raso.

Dewey found great joy working at the engineer’s shop. He built small, hand- and solar-powered automated machines to make everyday tasks easier. Tanga's shop often served the contestants of the Championship Challenges, and Dewey was caught up making more complex and flashy gadgets. Unfortunately, many of the people he met through his work died in the competition, including his mentee Rose, and he left the city, his mentor, and that sort of work soon afterwards, returning to his work with accessibility aids in Uhànahi. He met his partner U’ilani, and his inventions and reputation spread throughout the island. He and U'ilani adopted a child they found abandoned, and their family prospered. Even Queen Kekoa herself visited his shop.

Some years later, Dewey received a missive from the Uhànahi Research Laboratory, requesting he tour the facility and speak to their management. Dewey moved to Nahwaa Island without his wife and child, and began his work as a researcher at the URL. However, as he worked, his superiors started ordering him to add military aspects to his devices — shields, blades, and cannons, which suggested its use was no longer just for gathering information. He sent dozens of messages to his superiors inquiring about the purpose and intended use of the parts, but, aside from one vague response telling him to keep his doubts to himself or there would be “consequences,” either received no response or error messages about his clearance level or rank. He always recorded his findings and thoughts in a series of journals and logs at the lab, but began detailing his hesitation and confusion about his latest orders in a smaller, more discreet log he kept in his off-campus home.

Dewey became increasingly dissatisfied with his life at the URL. He missed his partner and his daughter, and felt that leaving his happy, established life for the job at the URL was a huge mistake. He was only able to take time off to visit them every few weeks between projects. Eventually, he returned to his home only to find it empty, with U'ilani's wedding ring and a goodbye note on the kitchen table. He ended up heading back to the lab early and throwing himself into a new project — and the URL started giving him increasingly disturbing work. Some time later, he was sent a letter from Adbuta Burala, an investigative journalist from mainland Andake, and agreed to meet up with her under the impression that she was interested in knowing about his work. He accidentally let a few details slip about his concerns over the militarization of his inventions, and when she was very interested in them, began verbalizing his feelings about it, without the intention of leaking information.

The Director of the URL, Lilith, brought Dewey into her office soon after this meeting with Adbuta Burala. She gave Dewey a watch, and told him it would detonate if he violated the terms of his non-disclosure agreement, and they threatened his contact Adbuta and his ex-wife and child. Dewey fled from the URL as fast as he could, gathering supplies, pictures and letters from his family, and his research notes, leaving behind his prized inventions. He searched through his secret journals for the name Adbuta had offhandedly mentioned: Dalapathi Sayyid. To his knowledge, Dalapathi wasn’t associated with the U.R.L., and might have some way to disrupt the watch’s power.

Soon afterwards, he set off towards Kheer Tal, away from Uhànahi. During his journey, he became a self-sufficient outdoors-bird and learned many survival skills. Despite not having his full set of inventing tools, he rigged up a flying sword to accompany him and keep watch while he slept... and he searched for Dalapathi Sayyid.

### Campaign

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### Epilogue

After the events of The Second Stranger...

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## Trivia

* Dewey got his nickname after U'ilani and Hana found him passed out at his workbench covered in morning dew.
* Dewey was actually a ranger in earlier arcs of The Second Stranger, because Max didn't know that the artificer class existed.
* During his time at the U.R.L., Dewey worked as a hardware consultant and was considered one of the most brilliant inventors at the facility.
* When he lived in Raso, Dewey and Tanga mentored a young inventor named Rose, who was killed in a Championship Challenge by Cain.