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Qilby is the main antagonist of Season 2 of Wakfu: The Animated Series, and a supporting character in Season 4.
He is an Eliatrope of the Primordial Age and a member of the Council of Six, and he's the Dofus brother of the dragon Shinonome. Unlike the other Eliatropes, Qilby has an eidetic memory which completely transcends his reincarnation cycle, enabling him to remember everything from all of his past lives. This ultimately drove him to insanity, leading him to steal Orgonax's heart to create the Eliacube and trigger the Eliatrope-Mechasm war so that he could see the rest of the Krosmoz via forcing his people to become interstellar nomads. Ultimately, his repeated crimes led to Phaeris ripping off his arm and Yugo's previous incarnation imprisoning him in the White Dimension, where he spent thousands of years in perpetual sensory deprivation.
Qilby was accidentally freed on the present World of Twelve by Yugo and Adamaï combining the Eliacube's power with that of Chibi and Grougaloragran's Dofus, and after deceiving his reincarnated brothers, he proceeded to merge with the Eliacube, open a portal for the Shushus to invade from Shukrute, and attempt to drain the World of Twelve's wakfu so he could recharge the Zinit and resume traveling the stars. This led Yugo to reimprison him in the White Dimension to stop him, until Qilby was freed again several years later by Nora and the newly-freed Eliatrope Goddess. Allied with his family once more, Qilby ultimately died and returned to his and Shinonome's Dofus after creating the Eliasphere to combat the Necrome invasion.
Background[]
Qilby and his sister Shinonome were tasked by the Eliatrope Goddess to preserve history and knowledge and teach them to the Eliatrope people, both of them were cursed with eternal memory of all their past incarnations, unlike their other siblings. They served loyally for many years, but Qilby was eventually driven mad because of his ability/curse and rebelled, he started a war against a mechanoid race known as the Mechasms that nearly led to the extinction of the Eliatrope race, before Yugo and Phaeris were able to imprison Qilby for his actions.
Season 1[]
Qilby in a vision from the Eliacube.
He made a cameo in the series of visions induced when Yugo attempted to rip the Eliacube free inside Nox's Clock; as a demonic-looking silhouette with his left hand outstretched.
Season 2[]
Qilby made his first appearance in season two as the hidden main antagonist. He was accidentally summoned from the blank dimension when Yugo tried to harness the power of the Eliacube, when he came to the World of Twelve he explains the origins of his species (through half-truths) and sent Yugo on a quest to acquire the Dofus (dragon egg) of his sister dragon, Shinonome. His true plan is eventually revealed that the quest was largely to distract Yugo so he could regain his power, steal back the Eliacube and then absorb the Wakfu of the planet to power his ship so he can continue to explore the Krosmoz (the process would destroy the planet). After his battle with Yugo and the Eliatrope children, he was stripped of his powers when Shinonome unleashed a powerful blast of Stasis energy from within her dofus. Now helpless and powerless, Qilby was banished to the Blank Dimension again by Yugo. Despite his pleas that he'll grow crazy alone again, Yugo ignored his pleas and tells him that he is already crazy and alone and left Qilby in the Blank Dimension.
Season 3[]
Qilby returned in the third episode of season 3 where he appeared as an apparition along with the Xelor Nox to torment Yugo, after Elely accidentally triggered a Xelor trap. Qilby and Nox then proceeded to break Yugo's mind and they eventually disappeared when Oropo appeared to Yugo. Qilby then reappeared in the fourth episode "Beastly Girl" when Yugo had several flashbacks from his encounter with them in his mind. Qilby isn't seen again until the episode "Hyperzaap", where he once again reappeared along with Nox while Yugo was trapped in Oropo's mind. Yugo managed to defeat them again, with him giving Qilby a kick to the head. Qilby and Nox's apparition then disappeared again.
Season 4[]
In season four it is revealed that Qilby has been freed by The godess Eliatrope and Nora, later he greeted Yugo and Adamai who had just arrived at the temple. Which he started a argument with but the Godess eliatrope stopped him. He later attempts to make up with Yugo (Rather lazily) by giving him a curosant to which Yugo angrily refused which leads to the both of them getting into another argument. Their mother puts and end to it quickly and lets Qilby rest in her hair, recharging him. Later on Qilby rescues Yugo along with Nora when he is attacked by Necromes in Emelka. After informing their mother of the concering news the goddess recalls all Eliatropes on field, wanting to leave to a new world not wanting to face the Necromes. Yugo ultimately refuses and leaves to help Amalia defend the Saddida kingdom. Qilby also disagrees with his mother saying that aslong as the creatures are capable of traviling them, and their people will never be save. Nora, Qilby and several other eliatropes end up aiding them. After a epic battle on the beach they return to their mother and decide that the only way to stop the Necromes is to find the source that is allowing them to travel. Once Yugo and Nora return (along with Adamai, Joris and Amalia) from informing the leaders of the world of 12 of the threat of the Necromes. Yugo immediately jumps at Qilby after seeing the portal that is allowing the Necromes to travel which looks similar to the on Qilby opened to allow the shushus to invade, Yugo suspects Qilby. After they get into a fight in the sky which Qilby easily wins. After Qilby acompanies the others to examine the portals of the necros and jumped in. This was ultimately a trap, the portal closes behind them and they are faced the to leader of the Necromes, Toross Mordale, as all of them battle Toross all of them are easily defeated. To save himself and the others Adamai lends him the 6 eliatrope dofus and he portals out, after that he refuses to give adamai the dofus and teleports away after a bit he decides he wants lokus's heart so he starts to battle him, he gets pushed into the eliatrope room and the eliatropes escaped into the saddida kingdom. After a long fight he earns the respect of lokus and lokus gives him his heart. The next we see of him he rescues Yugo from Toross using the 6 eliatrope dofus and the eliasphere and he teleports Yugo and himself out soon after dying returning to his dofus leaving the eliasphere to Yugo.
Personality[]
Qilby is urged and motivated to seek new stimuli, specifically new knowledge, due to his eternal memory across all his reincarnations which only he and Shinonome possessed - the effects of being functionally unable to ever permanently die and forget eventually caused Qilby to grow maddeningly and perpetually bored with being confined to one planet in the Krosmoz, as nothing was new to him. This prompted Qilby's scheme to start the Mechasm war, so he could take his people into space and so he could explore the Krosmoz and gain new experiences. Qilby outright calls his eternal memory a curse and evidently resents it to some degree, not least because his and Shinonome's other siblings and everyone else in the Krosmoz have the bliss of forgetting and re-experiencing things anew when they reincarnate. Accumulating knowledge over at least several thousand years has furthermore rendered Qilby nihilistic, noting that individuals mean absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of the Krosmoz, and that life and entire worlds are ceaselessly both dying and being born. He also considers himself and his siblings superior to mortal beings due to the form of immortality granted to them by their Dofus, claiming they are privileged to be able to witness the eternal creation and destruction in the Krosmoz while they themselves remain existing.
After being freed from the White Dimension, Qilby originally presents himself as a quiet, friendly, soft-spoken and weary-eyed old man of wisdom. However, when he enters the Zinit with Adamaï, he gradually unveils his true colours, admitting that he'd hunted the specimens stored in his laboratory with a small smile on his face. He appears to be cold and sure of his own goals and that he knows what's right whilst his brothers do not, but he does seem somewhat morose about being unable to convince them otherwise. It's implied Qilby is wholly sure that he's in the right and that he knows better than everyone else because of his unique experience of having accumulated many lifetimes' worth of knowledge and memory, whereas everyone else forgets their previous incarnations with each death and rebirth.
Immediately after Qilby fuses with the Eliacube, his behaviour changes significantly, taking on a deranged and manic demeanor - it's implied this was partly due to the Eliacube affecting Qilby's impulses and mental state. He acts bloodthirsty, tending to grin and cackle when engaging his brothers (or anyone else) in combat, and also displaying unpredictably intense mood swings.
Qilby is a schemer, demonstrated most notably by his partially-fabricated story about the Council of Six where he painted himself as the Eliatrope king, and his plan to confront Phaeris for his and Shinonome's Dofus only after getting Anathar to possess Adamaï and act as backup. Qilby states that he never liked violence but has always been fascinated by watching idiots tear each-other apart, and he considers intelligence a superior asset over brawns.
Though he's unapologetic for his past crimes and their severe consequences, Qilby does display levels of disappointment and even some remorse for the tragic way things went after he engineered the Mechasm war, though he nevertheless refuses to admit that he was ever in the wrong. Most notably, before fusing with the Eliacube, he sheds a tear when discussing the Eliatrope homeworld with Adamaï. Also, despite his animosity toward his brothers and sadistic impulses in his Eliacube-fused form, he solemnly states a few times while fighting Yugo and Phaeris that he wishes things had not gone the way they had.
Qilby doesn't think twice about destroying the World of Twelve so he and his people can resume exploring the Krosmoz, defending his actions when his brothers call him out on them by stating the World of Twelve isn't their world. Unlike his siblings, who wanted to settle on a new world after leaving their homeworld behind, Qilby wanted their people to remain nomadic. Qilby evidently doesn't understand adoption, being perplexed at why Yugo's most recent incarnation defends the planet he was born on after being told that it isn't their species' original homeworld.
Despite his sociopathic tendencies, Qilby is not incapable of love, shown by his relationship with his twin sister Shinonome (see below). When meeting each of his brothers again during the series, Qilby seems to be fond of reminiscing during his fights with each of them and during his confrontation with Baltazar. But he's also angry over the way they turned on him, declaring they're the ones who wronged him rather than vice versa, and he angrily yells at Yugo after being severed from the Eliacube that none of them ever cared about him; showing feelings of familial neglect and resentment. It's also implied that Qilby is resentful at his extended siblings and his people for neglecting him and not listening to him before the Mechasm war.
Qilby contradicts himself and apparently lies even to himself. As assessed by Yugo; Qilby fears being alone more than anything else, and though he may have been unconscious of it, he engineered the reunion of the Council of Six's currently-living members; suggesting a subconscious part of him yearned for him, his family and his people to be together again. Qilby tends to fly into a rage when one of his brothers call him out as a traitor, and after Yugo deconstructs Qilby's motives for bringing his siblings back together, Qilby is driven to rage towards him and the rest of their people in Emrub and denies it, his reaction heavily implying that Yugo's analysis hit a nerve. Overall, it's implied that for all his belief in his superiority, Qilby himself doesn't like his innermost self, and is running from and unable to face the core of his motivation for forcing the Eliatropes to become inter-planetary nomads and for subsequently trying to bring them back from Emrub. When Shinonome asks Qilby if all the devastation his actions have caused their people was really worth it, he reflects on it for a moment before morosely declaring it was worth it for him, showing the extent of his nihilism-fueled selfishness and hopelessness.
When Qilby was about to be locked in the White Dimension once more, he was visibly terrified to return to the oblivion a second time, where he'd be in perpetual sensory deprivation and all alone, resorting to begging and pleading with Yugo to spare him such a fate within seconds. However, Yugo refused and Qilby is trapped again and looks at a flower and sobs possibly regretting all the things he did.
Abilities[]
He has all the same powers as Yugo though many of them are more advanced versions, as well as an assortment of other Wakfu abilities (including the ability to summon a scythe made of the stuff), he also has full knowledge of the Eliacube and its workings (Nox spent 200 years just trying to figure out how to work it). But Qilby was the one of the weaker Eliatropes in terms of pure power (while his other siblings have powerful potential). He has:
- Ancient Knowledge: His vast ocean of knowledge is where he really shines, Qilby's knowledge spans to the near beginning of the universe (with many untold secrets), as he remembers all of his past lives, unlike his Eliatrope and Dragon siblings. All these memories are "burned" into his mind making him incapable of forgetting. This means that once he has learned somthing like a battle technique he will now it for the rest of his existence.
- Advanced engineering: Qilby was smart enough to build a space ship (The Zinit). He also invented much of the technology the Eliatropes used.
- Advanced Wakfu Knowledge: While he's not the greatest user and while it is not his greatest area of expertise, he still has more knowledge than anyone alive. (since Glip died and Baltazar is not currently in this dimension).
- Manipulation: Qilby is very smart and can always tell what everyone wants and through this he can make people do what he wants (like Adamai, Yugo, Rushu and the King of the Sadida). He is an extremely talented manipulator, most likely due to the thousands or millions of lives he lived before.
- Wakfu Blasts: Qilby was able to bring down Phaeris with pure Wakfu blasts, and Phaeris is believed to be the strongest Dragon among all of the six. Though it should be noted that Qilby's strength was being boosted by the Eliacube, and later the Eliasphere.
- Wakfu Weapons: Qilby, like yugo, is capable of creating weapons out of pure wakfu. However he seems to favor a scythe form for that is the only weapon he is seen using. He is seen using this ability in both his fight with Adamaì and Grougaloragran and later his battle with and Phaeris and Yugo. He is also seen useing it against Lokus and Yugo in season 4.
- Semi-Immortality:Qilby is nearly immortal as he cannot die from disease and old age but he can die in battle.
- Reincarnation: Qilby can reincarnate after dying but due to Goddess Eliatrope's curse he is forced to remember his past lives forever and because of that he cannot rest after being killed and reborn.
Relationships[]
Adamaï[]
Qilby seems to have a mentor-student relationship towards Adamaï when he's hiding his true colors. When he reveals his intent to drain the World of Twelve of its Wakfu to power the Zinit, Qilby laments that Adamaï is unchanging as a person and can't be persuaded. He expresses admiration of Adamaï's fighting prowess during their battle, declaring him the pride of their people. After giving Adamaï to Rushu, Qilby derides Adamaï as a little pest. Following the Goddess's return, Qilby and Adamaï remain on terse terms due to the latter's distrust and suspicion of him.
Baltazar[]
Qilby coldly states he's happy to see Baltazar again in Emrub, implying he had some past fondness for the dragon teacher. He's completely unthreatened by Baltazar's displays of anger and his attempt to fight him, rightfully so given the dragon's lack of fighting prowess, and he seems almost embarrassed by Baltazar's spectacularly poor attempt at charging into a fight. Qilby also has no qualms about subtly threatening Baltazar's young charges, nor brutalizing and bullying the dragon to establish dominance.
Chibi[]
Qilby appears to be fond of the newly-reborn Chibi before revealing his true colors.
Efrim[]
Little is known about Qilby's feelings toward Efrim. Efrim in his current incarnation is aware of Qilby's transcendent eidetic memory and that it's a curse which has badly eroded Qilby's sanity, and that it's made Qilby a lot more learned over his multiple lifetimes than the other five Eliatrope-dragon pairs are.
Great Goddess[]
Much like with Shinonome, Qilby appears to have a good relationship with his mother. He doesn't direct any of his resentment over his curse against her, and he refers to her informally as Mom. The Goddess in turn wants to see the best in Qilby, despite being aware that he's always been an inherently selfish person. When the Goddess is freed by Nora from the Necroworld and they in turn free Qilby from the White Dimension, Qilby gives his allegiance to his mother and family once more. Although Qilby ultimately forces his mother to abandon Ingloriom as collateral of him fighting Lokus, he's apologetic to her about his actions, and his death devastates her.
Grougaloragran[]
The newly-reborn Grougal is an annoyance to Qilby before the latter's true colors are revealed. Immediately after fusing with the Eliacube, Qilby is all too happy to punch and thrash around Baby Grougal, stating he's been secretly wanting to do as much for a while due to the black dragon being such a pest towards him. He also has no compunctions about locking Grougal inside an engine where the baby dragon has nothing to do.
Nora[]
Qilby was, according to the ambiguously-canon Islands of Wakfu game, Nora's mentor before his imprisonment in the White Dimension. In the show, Qilby remembers Nora and her twin Efrim fondly when giving Yugo and Adamaï a partially-fabricated account of their people's history. In Season 4, Qilby and Nora are allied with each-other while serving under their returned mother, although Nora admits that she doesn't trust Qilby due to knowing what he's capable of.
Phaeris[]
Qilby holds an old grudge towards Phaeris for taking his left arm, the former stating when the two meet again after Qilby's release from the White Dimension that he remembers him well. Qilby snarks that Phaeris is a good soothsayer when the latter correctly forebodes trouble. He also considers Phaeris the only one who is capable of rivaling and defeating him in his Eliacube-empowered form, to the point Qilby doesn't dare confront Phaeris on his own. Qilby shows during the battle on Crimson Claw Island that he wishes to make Phaeris pay for taking his arm.
Shinonome[]
Shinonome is the only one of Qilby's siblings who he had a stable and truly loving relationship with. He feels she is the only one who has ever truly understood him and his pain due to having the same eternal memory as him, and who always supported him. He admits when he and Shinonome speak again for the first (and last) time since Qilby's first imprisonment that he's missed her dearly in the millennia since her previous death. Qilby feels that Shinonome is the only one besides himself that he can truly rely on, and when she turns on him because she feels his mad crusade has gone too far, he is shell-shocked. Despite Shinonome's part in helping Yugo reimprison Qilby in the White Dimension, Qilby doesn't hold any hard feelings against her in Season 4; conversing with her before he battles Lokus, and expressing joy during his dying moments that he and Shinonome will finally be reunited after millennia apart.
Yugo[]
Yugo was the sibling responsible for sending Qilby to the White Dimension, due to which Qilby holds a lot of spite and rage towards him, on top of him resenting that Yugo was King of the Eliatropes over him when Qilby felt his eidetic memory gave him more right to that title.
Qilby fluctuates between addressing Yugo with some fondness, and baring his full anger and animosity toward the second Eliatrope king. Due to his nihilistic viewpoint and aforementioned sense of superiority, Qilby is contemptuous of Yugo's strong morals and tendency toward judgmentalism, deeming Yugo's mindset naïve and simplistic; and he is puzzled at why his siblings would support Yugo's claim to leading their people while knowing of what Qilby's gifts could enable him to do for them. When taking Yugo into the White Dimension on the way to Emrub, Qilby bares the full force of his anger at Yugo for sentencing him to this hellish fate for millennia, and threatens to lock Yugo in the same dimension for a few thousand years in retribution.
After rejoining his family under their mother's banner in Season 4, Qilby and Yugo are technically allies again, but they still can't stand each-other after everything that previously happened between them, with Qilby constantly trading jibes and insults with Yugo while Yugo is constantly distrustful of Qilby at the slightest ghost of suspicion. It gets to the point where Qilby and Yugo fight once tensions boil over - Qilby refuses to kill Yugo outright after besting him, but finds that the fight relieves some tension between them. After Yugo is captured by Toross Mordal in the Necroworld, Qilby uses his last minutes before his body expires to stage a one-man rescue of his brother. He admits while dying that he isn't completely sure why he saved Yugo, but he still considers them brothers first and enemies second, and he and Yugo are able to make some peace with each-other and part on good terms.
Nox
Qilby never knew Nox due to him dying before Yugo and Adamaï freed him although he expressed interest in the fact that the Xelor knew how to wield his device when Adamaï mentioned him. Interestingly, they interact for the first time in season 3 albeit in illusions made by Oropo to torment Yugo using his inner turmoil, they also team up against Yugo before being defeated once again.
Oropo
Similar to Nox, Qilby never interacted with Oropo due to the latter also dying before Nora and the Great Goddess freed him again although Oropo seemed to know a lot about Qilby and Yugo’s other siblings from his memories and created an illusion of Qilby along with an illusion of Nox for the purpose of tormenting Yugo in order to slow him down.
Trivia[]
- In the Season 4 trailer of the Eliatrope Goddess's backstory, Qilby and Shinonome are the first pair of her children depicted emerging from the Eliatrope Dofus, implying that they might have been her firstborns among the Council of Six.
- There was originally going to return in season 3 possibly as the main villain or side villain, like Rushu in season 2 and have a green energy hand, however this idea was ultimately scrapped.
- He is a fan favorite character similar to the likes of Nox and to a lesser extent Oropo although the latter is often criticized due to his respective season being shorter and is considered inferior to both his predecessors. Qilby was so well liked that he returned in season 4.
| Animation characters | |
|---|---|
| Protagonists | Yugo · Az · Ruel · Percedal · Rubilax · Amalia · Evangelyne · Adamaï · Junior · Elely · Flopin |
| Antagonists | Nox · Igôle · Remington Smisse · Grany Smisse · Rushu · Anathar · Ombrage · Count Harebourg · Lady Echo · Qilby · Ogrest · Oropo |
| Supporting | Alibert · Grufon · Cleophee · Master Joris · Grougaloragran · Kriss Krass · Goultard · Armand · King Oakheart · The Justice Knight · The Masked Gobbowler · Elaine · Black Ink · Prince Adale · General Mofette · Phaeris · Balthazar · Chibi · Otomaï |