Editing Quarass (section)

== Background ==
Typically, the Quarass chooses her own successor based on talent. Upon her death, a ritual is enacted by the people of Germina to bestow the [Quarass] class to the successor, which requires three individuals:

''"Three. One of Ger, to remind the Quarass to be of who she was. One of childhood to follow the Quarass until her death and take it in her place. And one of distant sands, to tell her of what is and what must be. Let us bring her forth, and swear our oath on blood and the stones of Ger to ever be her protectors.".<ref name="6.12 K" />'' 

The successor will become the Quarass upon accepting the oaths from the three.

The Quarass claimed to have lived for ten thousand lifetimes. While that may be an exaggeration, she certainly lived a multitude of varied lives, having been [Archmage], [Bandit Lord], and even [Drunkard].<ref name=":0">[[Chapter 8.64 K]]</ref><ref>[[Chapter 6.65]]</ref>

The Quarass is younger than Teriarch, and thus 58,000 years old at most. Given that the Shield Kingdoms are older than Khelt, she is at least 21,000 years old.

=== Previous Incarnations ===
The Quarass was born in an age when [[Dragons]] ruled Chandrar. The First Quarass was the most powerful incarnation she ever had, and created the class and legacy of her later incarnations. She founded the Shield Kingdom of Germina, with the purpose that it would stand forever to protect Chandrar from Dragons, for it would last as long as she does.<ref name=":7.09 K" />

During her fourth incarnation, she fought in the Dragonwars of Chandrar, killing multiple Dragons. At one point, she arranged a meeting with [[Teriarch]] to request for his help.<ref>[[Chapter 7.25]]</ref>

She's been an [Innkeeper] twice in her past lifetimes, though both times she already had the class when she became the Quarass and had not sought it out.<ref name=":1">[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/06/07/9-01/ Chapter 9.01]</ref> She has fled from her position of Quarass in eighty-seven lives.<ref name="6.54 K">[https://wanderinginn.com/2019/11/02/6-54-k/ Chapter 6.54 K]</ref> She died on a flying carpet at least seven times.<ref>{{VERef|Heroes of Hraace (Pt. 3)}}</ref>

During periods of rebuilding after armageddon, she often reinvented yeast and sold it to the world.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2023/01/24/interlude-foody-discussions/ Interlude - Foody Discussions]</ref>

Six of her incarnations had met [[Khelta]]. She first met Khelta when she was first staking out land for a kingdom. Jaded from seeing other Shield Kingdoms fall and not believing that a Necrocracy would last when those hadn't, she mocked her. She later learned to respect her will.<ref name=":1" />

Several of the Quarass' incarnations sought to become [[vampires]]. She was one during their reign over Chandrar, that Quarass was possessed by its power until her champion's sacrifice convinced her of its corruption. She then drank a terrible poison, entered one of their greatest lairs and tainted their bloodwells with her blood. She fought her kin for hours before they tore her apart; her next incarnation then rallied an army to finish off the survivors. To warn the others, she had the rest executed by burning them from the toes upwards in molten stone. The Vampires would be pushed from Chandrar by a coalition of the continent's nations.<ref name=":2" />

When she met the first nomad-kings of [[Jecrass]], they offered her a dish of Estreke Almeat. She's since tried to eat it with each ruler of Jecrass once.<ref name=":2" />

During the [[Creler Wars]], the Quarass had not heeded the warning signs and was inadequately prepared for the threat, as her poisons were ineffective against [[Crelers]]. She began learning more about corrosion and decay as a result.<ref name=":2" />

Though she denies it, one incarnation may have been a [[Demons|Demon]], if only so she would have perspective about them.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2023/06/10/9-46-s/ Chapter 9.46 S]</ref>

Twenty-one lifetimes ago, she visited [[Baleros]] and asked for permission to hold the Serkonian Lance.<ref name=":0" />

One incarnation was once a part on the [[Ullsinoi]] faction in [[Wistram]].<ref name=":0" />

Her fifth predecessor before her current incarnation was a [Mage] of some talent.<ref name="6.54 K" />

The current Quarass's third predecessor was fatally poisoned by her daughter, who took her place. However, she failed to realize what becoming the Quarass actually was and was broken by the knowledge of her mother's contempt and bitterness of her death. During the King of Destruction's initial conquest of Chandrar, she was forced to surrender and Germina became a vassal state of Reim. It presumably regained its independence after Flos entered his slumber.<ref name="6.54 K" /> She also took [[Rastandius]]' eye for indirectly starting Flos' rise to power.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/08/20/9-09-p/ Chapter 9.09 P]</ref>

The only event of note her current incarnation experienced before becoming the Quarass was killing a viper to save her sleeping father and getting bitten four times in doing so.<ref name=":2" />