Quove Lentis was a powerful academic in Great Glade, and the uncle of Nate Quarter. Greedy, vain and self-satisfied, he considered himself and his family to be a cut above the rest. He disowned one of his sisters, Hermia, for marrying Abe Quarter, who in his eyes was a worthless commoner. He also prided himself on being a distant descendant of Vox Verlix, and owned a stone head of the ancient academic taken from the ruins of Undertown. He considered descending heresy.