Quoor
You've proven that you don't know anything about the Eyes of the World, or what Orin and his people stand for. To me, they're a convenient tool, but to you mortals—you weak-minded, pathetic mortals—he should be a savior.—Quoor, An Unwanted Offer (C1:E81) Quoor is a rogue mind flayer who, rather than belong to a hive mind controlled by an Elder Brain, pursued arcane arts and eventually attained immortality as an illithilich. His mastery over psionics and the brain was instrumental in Orochi's plan to create an army of warforged. Quoor's purpose in assisting the eight-headed serpent seemed to have been access to the tools and resources necessary to revive his species, which had all but vanished from Alen'dal during the great rebellion leading to the Free Age. He claimed to be the last of his kind, though no one can quite say what remains sealed behind the prismatic wall in the basement of Helja Ironshield's tower.
Physical Description
Body Features
Quoor went through several physical transitions over the course of his encounters with the Antiheroes. When they first met he was an undead creature with dry, cracked, and flaky paper-like skin, but when that form was destroyed, he forced his soul into the body of a warforged mind flayer. Later when his prototype body was also demolished, he inhabited a larger and more imposing warforged mind flayer body. Finally, when the Antiheroes confronted him in his lair, they discovered that he had managed to merge his consciousness with a metallic brain-like structure, effectively transforming himself into a warforged elderbrain.
Facial Features
Like all mind flayers, Quoor had a bulbous octopus-like head with four tentacles that draped down in front of his mouth. When he embraced undeath his dark blue skin turned pale purple and grew dry and cracked and his pale white eyes grew dull and gray. Later, he took warforged form, though he maintained his mind flayer shape even then.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
His first encounter with the Antiheroes was at the top of Helja Ironshield's tower. They had been sent by Siaal to check on her, and they found her in Quoor's clutches mere moments after her death while Quoor worked to extract Helja's brain using a bone saw. Wen escaped with Helja's brain while Quoor and his pet gauth kept the Antiheroes occupied. The Antiheroes slayed Quoor here, or so they thought, not yet understanding that the illithilich was immortal so long as his phylactery remained intact.
He remained in Ferindel and took advantage of the proximity of the Thimblefoot Enterprises laboratories to inhabit a new body, a mind flayer variant of warforged. It was in this new body that the Antiheroes encountered him while hunting down Orin in the throne room beneath the palace in Ferindel. Again, they fought, and again, the Antiheroes believed that they destroyed him.
Quoor next appeared before the Antiheroes in Ravenmoor at the Temple of the Raven Queen. Though his remodeled warforged body was larger and more imposing than before, his stated intentions at this time were peaceful: he claimed that the vampire lord Al-Kin could not be allowed to fulfill his designs on the material plane when Quoor already had plans for it. He offered to lend the Antiheroes his forces against Al-Kin's undead hordes. The Antiheroes immediately rejected his offer and attacked, nearly destroying Quoor's new body, before he employed his psychic blast to leave them stunned while he escaped. He did not leave Ravenmoor, but instead hung back waiting for an opportunity. While the party's forces were divided after successfully eliminating the young shadow dragons patrolling the skies, Quoor's warforged swooped in, kidnapped Princess Dawn Erindora, and occupied Ravenmoor.
From there, Quoor withdrew to his laboratory in the Elderhaven Reaches, taking Dawn with him. There, he underwent a process that turned him into a biomechanical elder brain in the hopes of establishing a new colony. The Antiheroes gave everything they had in a battle that took the lives of Harmony and Thaddeus, and managed to destroy Quoor as well as his phylactery, along with all of the dormant mind flayer tadpole samples he had collected in his personal archives.
Gender Identity
He/Him
Accomplishments & Achievements
Quoor worked with gnome artificers to perfect the transfer of humanoid brains into mechanical bodies at the behest of Orochi. He also made great strides in his research on resurrection in his attempt to restore the mind flayers to their former glory, though this research was not completed before his permanent demise.
Mental Trauma
Quoor claimed to be the last of his kind in Alen'dal, the others having either been killed during the uprising leading to the Free Age or fleeing the plane altogether. He used the Eyes of the World and Orochi to further his ambitions of restoring mind flayers to their former glory, but was killed before his plans could come to fruition.
Intellectual Characteristics
Quoor was cold, calculating, and entirely devoid of empathy. He preferred being alone, with the exception of his pet intellect devourers, Cera and Bellum.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Quoor dreamed of one day rejoining his kind and restoring their former glory on Alen'dal.
Alignment
Neutral Evil
Species
Year of Death
7509
Children
Aligned Organization
The Fate of Helja Ironshield (C1:E46)
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