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{{Character
|image=[[Image:Qesnef01.jpg]]
|caption=Qesnef disguised as a "doughty halfling," as depicted in ''White Plume Mountain'' (1979). Art by Bill Willingham.
|name=Qesnef
|home=[[White Plume Mountain (mountain)|White Plume Mountain]]
|gender=Male
|race=Ogre mage
|class=Wizard 15
|alignment=Chaotic evil
|age=Unknown
}}
'''Qesnef''', also called '''Spatterdock''', is an [[ogre mage]] who once served the first False [[Keraptis]], guarding ''[[Blackrazor]]'' in [[White Plume Mountain (mountain)|White Plume Mountain]].

==Description==
[[Image:Qesnef02.jpg|left]]
Qesnef is an ogre mage, resembling a huge, horned, blue-skinned ogre, but he normally uses his innate shape-changing magic to appear in the guise of a doughty halfling. 

==Relationships==
Qesnef has 34 subsumed minds under his control. His favorite servant is the vampire [[Ctenmiir]], who he permits to use the magical warhammer ''[[Whelm]]''.

==History==
Qesnef served the first False Keraptis, a [[gnome]], but after that version of Keraptis's death, Qesnef himself became one of the beings imprinted by Keraptis's personality. Calling himself Keraptis but known as Spatterdock by others, Qesnef acquired subsumed 34 other minds (mostly gnomes) under his control using the Keraptis-imprinting spells, which added to his power until he was the equivalent of a 15th level wizard. He managed to locate and claim one of the true Keraptis's four implements of power, the warhammer ''Whelm'', although he gave it to his servant Ctenmiir to wield in battle. 

==Bibliography==
*[[Cordell, Bruce R.]] ''[[Return to White Plume Mountain]]''. Renton, WA: TSR, 1999.

*[[Lawrence Schick|Shick, Lawrence]]. ''[[White Plume Mountain (adventure)|White Plume Mountain]]''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1979.

*[[Lawrence Schick|Shick, Lawrence]], Andy Collins, Gwendolyn F.M. Kestrel, and [[James Wyatt]]. ''White Plume Mountain (Revised)''. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2005. Available online: [http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/oa/20051207a]

*[[Aaron Williams|Williams, Aaron]]. "Climb Every (White Plume) Mountain." ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'' #267. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2000.

[[Category:Characters of White Plume Mountain]]
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