Quentin Bloom

### Relatives

Barnabas Bloom (grandfather), Hyrum Bloom (father), Viola Bloom (mother), Lamar Bloom (brother), Gregor Bloom (brother), Lytton Bloom (brother)

### Affiliation

The Bloom Mining Company (formerly), the Imbeciles, Gundren Rockseeker, the city of Phandalin

### Occupation

Adventurer for hire (formerly), Townmaster of Phandalin

## Appearances

### Appears in

Sessions 1.1-1.11, TIIIatLMoP Chapters 1-19

### Debut

Session 1

The half-elven sorcerer Quentin Bloom was the son of the powerful Hyrum Bloom, second owner of the Bloom Mining Company. While still in his early twenties, Quentin left home, eventually beginning to work for Gundren Rockseeker and becoming one of the founding members of the Imbeciles.

**Early Life**

Third-born son of the human Hyrum Bloom and the elven Viola Bloom, Quentin grew up with all the luxuries his parents could afford him. Despite his siblings' infatuation with their family's mining company, Quentin was uncomfortable with the great disparity between his family's lives and the lives of their employees. This would eventually lead to his relationship with both his father and brothers becoming difficult to maintain, with his mother being the only one within their family who still treated him civilly. Despite her own views regarding the company differing from his, Viola nonetheless recognized a combination of intelligence and kindness within Quentin that was not present within any of his brothers. As such, she ensured that he was taught how to use the sorcery afforded to him by her family's draconic ancestry. While in his early twenties, Quentin eventually chose to separate himself from his family over their amoral actions, being disowned by his father in the process.

**With the Imbeciles**

With nowhere to go and no plan other than wanting to help people, Quentin eventually found his way to Gundren Rockseeker, who he was acquainted with due to Rockseeker's previous business dealings with Hyrum. This led to Gundren choosing to take pity on Quentin and hire him for a few jobs, including the adventure which would lead to the Imbeciles' formation. During his time with the Imbeciles, Quentin tried to act with kindness and rationality towards most individuals they encountered, often attempting to take a pacifistic approach when possible - which was met with differing levels of success. Although academically intelligent, there were many instances wherein Quentin's lack of real-world experience became a hinderance for him or others, particularly during the early stages of their adventures.

During the Imbecile's attack upon the Red Brands' base, Quentin acquired both the glass staff previously owned by the wizard of the same name, as well as a clockwork owl named Rasputin. While generally uninterested in money and possessions, Quentin exhibited a sizable amount of possessiveness regarding the staff, indicating that he had the capacity for selfishness like the rest of the Imbeciles - simply for far fewer things.

Despite being against killing, Quentin accidentally killed a group of four goblins during the Imbeciles' invasion of Crawmaga Castle, which he seemed to feel great guilt over. Quentin had also previously killed one twig blight during an earlier encounter, but did not seem to consider this as being genuine murder to the same degree as the goblins' lives.

Quentin played a sizable role in the defeat of the Black Spider, in addition to admonishing him for his simplistically evil actions. At the conclusion of their adventures, Quentin decided to take the position of Townmaster of Phandalin, which had previously been held and misused by Glass Staff. He moved into the mansion which had once been the Red Brands' hideout, along with Lucian and Thresh.

**Later Life**

During his time as townmaster, Quentin worked to ensure prosperity within Phandalin for everyone, wishing to establish a much more equal economy than that which had existed under Glass Staff. He also worked to help Thresh regain his memories. Although unconfirmed at present, it is probable that Quentin eventually reunited with the Imbeciles to break D'Jango out of prison, as well as for possible other adventures. Quentin lived to be about seven-hundred-and-fifty, in all likelihood, although much of his later life remains vaguely defined at present.

**Trivia**

- Despite being the most passivistic member of the Imbeciles, Quentin killed one twig blight and four goblins for a total kill count of five.

- Quentin's use of the alias "Alpine Febreze" was an out-of-universe reference to a character by the same name portrayed by Gracie Nelson.

- Unlike the other Imbeciles, Quentin's appearance changed considerably across their adventures due to his purchasing of different clothes as they went on, trading in the fine clothes of his family for more durable and practical adventuring clothing.

- Quentin is the only member of the Imbeciles to have been present for every single session of the campaign.

- Quentin was the first character to deal damage to both Glass Staff and the Black Spider, hitting both with several magic missiles to the face.

- Quentin is simultaneously one of the most intelligent members of the Imbeciles and also the most naïve.

- Quentin has two older brothers, Lamar and Gregor, and one younger brother named Lytton.

- Due to the fact that Quentin has never canonically expressed any kind of romantic feelings, it is entirely possible that Quentin is asexual.

**Behind the Scenes**

Quentin Bloom was the first character portrayed by Malachi Nutter. Although much of Quentin's life is planned out to varying degrees, only some of it has actually occurred within actual media. His name was inspired by the character of Quentin Collins from *Dark Shadows* and Leopold Bloom from *Ulysses*, while his appearance was somewhat inspired by the Eight Doctor from *Doctor Who*.