Quimny

Overview
Quimny is a small city east of Noogle. It was once a quaint and comfortable place to visit, but in more recent years the city has become tainted with an inexplicable sourness. The once hospitable inhabitants are impatient and rude, often driven to the extremes of violence and punishment when it comes to crime. Food and drink spoil prematurely, thorns grow in every shrub, and the waters of Lake Mossley have become murky and foul.

Early Period
Quimny began in the early First Age as two settlements built on either side of a river. However, in the years following the Age of Illiteracy, the towns expanded greatly and merged into one as a result of travel, trade, and population growth. Inns and lodging were the most profitable businesses during that period, but were gradually overtaken by trade, farming and fishing.

Grimbrand War
During the Grimbrand War, Quimny was transformed into a fortified outpost for the Spaurian Empire. Castle Crtomir, constructed in IA 72 to house rare art pieces, was quickly militarized and filled with troops, weapons, and supplies for the war effort. The city saw no battles, but was an essential base of operations for the Spaurian military as the war raged on. The strong outer walls of the city, and the remnants of old fortifications in the southeast fields are testaments of Quimny's military involvement 163 years ago.

Pureblood Conspiracies
In IIA 158, Quimny Mayor Orfaldo Steth leapt from the high window of his tower in Castle Crtomir, in an apparent act of suicide. It wasn't until nearly five years later during the Reformation of IIA 163 that the Crownsoath uncovered the truth of Steth's fate.

According to the interrogated elders of the Pureblood Guild, Steth had been experimenting with a dangerous artifact left near Quimny by the Switch. The object possessed transmutation abilities, and could switch out the bodies and sometimes minds of various creatures it was exposed to. During an experiment gone wrong, Steth's assistant, whose body had been accidentally swapped with the mayor's, struggled briefly with Steth before either jumping or being cast from the tower window, to his demise. Orfaldo, in the body of the assistant, then retreated to the Pureblood Stronghold beneath Castle Crtomir, where he would continue his arcane research for the guild. Quimny would remain mayorless for the next five years, being manipulated by the cult from the shadows.

Eventually, according to the elite priests, Steth went too far, and transmutated himself into a hideous monster. He was turned loose in the catacombs beneath Crtomir, and for his remaining years he guarded the stronghold against intruders and curious castle servants, before being destroyed by Cadence Qrow and the Bois in IIA 163.

Qrow's Coming
In IIA 163, nearly twenty years after being smuggled away from the city, Cadence, the son of Luvon Qrow, returned to Quimny with a vengeance, beginning what was later known as Qrow's Reckoning, or Qrow's Coming. During his time there, the bard and his allies revolutionized the city by destroying the Pureblood Guild, eradicating a Switch-made Chimera in the streets, and breaking "Quimny's Curse" by slaying two young black dragons that dwelt in Lake Mossley.

It was only after Cadence Qrow and "the Bois" disappeared that the people of Quimny fully understood the martyred hero they had lost. Thus, to this day, the residents of Quimny celebrate Qrow's Coming two weeks before Goldmoon, celebrating the half-drow by spinning songs and dueling in his honor.

Trivia
- In IIA 152, a large, rubbery, and mangled flipper was found by a gnomish fisherman on the shores of Lake Mossley. Up until that point, sightings and stories of an elusive aquatic beast with a long neck and stout body, nicknamed "Mossy," were common around the lake. The chewed flipper was the last of the sightings ever recorded. - The Saint of Walcott is an urban legend originating from the Walcott Family Inn, in which a mysterious red-eyed traveler appears for a short time in the tavern, leaves behind a wealthy sum of gold, and allows patrons to eat and drink to their heart's content. The Saint has allegedly appeared twice, and eyewitnesses say that on the latest occasion, he vanished in a flash of green light after leaving his gift.