Quentin Makepeace is a playwright in the Magician British Empire. His plays include Swans of Araby and From Wapping to Westminster. Throughout the series, he plays a small, if not insignificant part in the affairs of the series, until the end of the third book, Ptolemy's Gate, where he is revealed to be the true Mastermind behind every conspiracy that had ocurred over the past 7 years. He had the idea for the large pentacle that would bring about the coming of Ramuthra in the Lovelace Conspiracy, and had his subordinate Clem Hopkins suggest the use of a Golem to the police chief, Henry Duvall, in the Golem Affair.