Quail

### Death:

Died as carnivorous talon worms surfaced his flesh and skin, then bleeding to death, all occurring by the Duncton Stone.

**Quail**, or Elder Senior Brother Quail, is a Newborn under Thripp, and leader of the Senior Brother Inquisitors.

Spoiler warningThis article contains detailed information about the *Duncton* series. Please read with caution if you do not want the story spoiled for you!

## History

### Duncton Rising

#### Part One: Prayers and Pilgrims

- Born in Avebury, one season after Spurling. Was thought to have killed Peach's two siblings. As this event was brought to the elders of Avebury, they had forgiven him in their spiritual and kind way.

Quail was the best scholar in those days, with a strong interest in modern history, and a dark interest in certain leaders of the past like Henbane and Lucerne.

- Quail has an pleasure in perversity. Had this not been so, he could very well have been the Master Librarian of Avebury in that time. When that honour was refused to him, Quail grew bitter and frustrated, and in that fateful moment, he first met a Newborn missionary. And after he heard the Good News of the Right Way, he had decided his new way, and become that way; Newborn.

- One year later, Quail built up a group of young, ardent moles, most of which were male, and then the desecration of the former Avebury took forth.

- There came a day that Quail went to Blagrove Slide with Thripp himself.

- At one point, Quail became very ill on on the verge of death. Surviving, he blamed his illness on a female, and had developed a hatred for all females. As such, no single female was allowed in the Newborn hierarchy. In Avebury, his successors: the first he appointed direct, and those following which had a paw in sending from Blagrove and then Caradoc, were especially brutal toward females. So brutal in fact, that they began to kill newborn female pups. They denied their crime, but it was true.

- He trains his Inquisitors at Buckland. Those Inquisitors have the right to impregnate the females, or rather the female they dominate.

## Appearance

### First Appearance

He is a well-built mole with bleak eyes, a lined face whose skin was drawn tight around his snout, eyes and mouth; he is also bald (having lost all his fur to an illness). His paws are large and well-made, his flanks and back fleshy yet dangerously muscular; his head is also large, round and bald, pink-grey in colour and shiny. He has an intelligent gaze, a handsome snout, and a thick neck.

### Decaying Appearance

As Quail's illness began to overtake him, his appearance changes. Here are his symptoms to describe that change:

* He is balding (as we know).
* He experiences pains over his body.
* His once handsome face has become hideous.
* His snout has carbuncles dotted over it.
* His teeth are falling out and rotting.
* Has a bad body odour, which smells like 'the vomit of a fox, or the stench of a cadaver rotting in a dark pool on a summer's day'.
* He develops growths that spread over his body and head.
* He has three tumorous growths on his body; one over the eye, one on his neck, and the last at his rear.
* He starts dragging his left hind paw, and then one of his front paws as well
* His corneas begin to turn "white and blind"

## Personality

* Charismatic
* Clever
* Cold
* Deep-voiced
* Insane
* Intelligent
* Menacing
* Powerful

Quail is very much painted as a classic psychopath, possibly modeled on real life serial killers, as he is narcissistic, was cruel to smaller animals as a youngster, and later is shown to have an obsessive need to rape and murder a string of helpless victims.

## Quotes

> *"I want her, and I will personally drown her and take time about it, the thin hag-like bitch! To mock us all! To raise the specter of Silence before our snouts! She* will *be found."*
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> Oh indeed, I know Quail! He's the coldest mole I ever met, with habits beyond imagining when he was young. He broke the legs off beetles that he might the more enjoy their struggles before he ate them; he put worms out in the hot sun to suffer as they dried; he caught and blinded dormice and watched them suffer as they died... and what is more... Hmmph! What Peach is referring to is the fact that he is thought to have killed two pups of a litter of three, just out of curiousity.
>
> — Spurling describing Quail;, *Duncton Rising*

> Had him. Here. Could have crushed him. Here. Had him in Caer Caradoc. There. Kill him. Rip him. Eat him, the Rooster mole. Devour him for he is the Snake. He is doubt. Had him here and did not gorge on him, his blood to drink, his entrails to chew, his beating heart to swallow into me.
>
> — Quail, and his insane ramblings of Rooster;, *Duncton Stone*

## Trivia

* His name could be in reference to the late Middle English form of Quail, meaning "Waste away, come to nothing", which compliments his degenerate nature.

## Gallery

The horrific fate of Quail; drawn by Hallowed-Talon
## References and Citations

1. ↑ -- Duncton Rising, pg. 140
2. ↑ -- Duncton Rising, pg. 78
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 -- Duncton Rising, pg. 383
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 -- Duncton Stone, pg. 416
5. ↑ -- Duncton Stone, pg. 419
6. ↑ -- Duncton Stone, pg. 417
7. ↑ -- Duncton Stone, pg. 415
8. ↑ -- Duncton Stone, pg. 414
9. ↑ -- Duncton Stone, pg. 446
10. ↑ -- Duncton Stone, pg. 420
11. ↑ -- Duncton Rising, pg. 75
12. ↑ -- Duncton Stone, pg. 277
13. ↑ -- Duncton Rising, pg. 391