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Does anyone have a good full detailed write-up for Brodert Quink? What knowledge skills did you give him? His languages? etc.
If someone has something I would love to hear it as I have some idea but I am having twisted ideas about him (ie making him more into a subtle bad guy much like Belloq from "raiders of the lost ark")
I don't have anything that's not in the Runelords AP, but I'll note that Quink becomes important in Pathfinder #5, so be sure to introduce him to the PCs in #1. I didn't do such a great job of this, so I've pretty much removed him from the campaign.
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One of my PCs specifically went looking for a person like Quink on the first day after the Swallowtail raid. They had a nice chat about the Old Light and now the PC has agreed to bring Quink back rubbings of any Thassilonian age relics he finds and in exchange, Quink has started to teach him to read Thassilonian - a process that I am going to have take months because I have likened it to learning to read Chinese.
Anyway, in my campaign, Quink is a bit of a distracted academic type in his 50's. He is mostly retired and spends his time rooting through the rubble of the Old Light, finding and cataloguing anything carved in the hopes of salvaging his reputation. He has contacts within the Pathfinder Society but isn't a Pathfinder himself.
I would give him:
Knowledge: History, Geography
Profession: Archaeologist
Linguistics
Languages: Common, Elven, Thassilonian, Draconic, Giant
I went with the old cliche and made him an absent-minded professor type. And as my campaign is set in Greyhawk, knowledge of the old ruins is very, very sparse – and he's about the only one that gets a lot of things right. There's a slight feud with Dr. Aparna in Magnimar, who thinks his readings of old Thassilonian writing is way to mundane (typical Bard).
Where actually he is right, and if they talked about battles involving 10000 people, 18 dragons and 48 demons, this isn't poetic hyperbole for the sake of rhymes and sentence structure.
Not surprisingly, an attractive women came across as a more believable source of information, so the PCs opinion of him has faltered a bit. Problem is, that Thistletop contained magically preserved books, one of the few existing pieces of Thassilonian that's not just a few words written in stone. And they gave it to Quink to translate…
Now, depending on how long it takes for the players to get back into Sandpoint, he will set forth on his own, assembling a ragtag group with the rest of his money. I'll use them either as a McGuffin or as actual rivals to the PCs. Let's see how our mighty heroes fare against a troop of mid-level NPC classes…