Quiauhquetzal
Last updated 2026-09-01
Quiauhquetzal is an open-world NPC located in Mahavaipulya Chamber: Library, Mahavaipulya Chamber, Temple of Space.
Location
- Before completing the Hidden Exploration Objective Bound for the Skies
- After completing Bound for the Skies
Profile
Quiauhquetzal is one of the "Uplifted," people chosen to be preserved as living memories in the Temple of Space.
Before she got uplifted to the temple, she lived in Natlantea with a tribe similar to today's Scions of the Canopy. After some time, a man called Cuauheztli slaughtered everyone in her tribe and abducted her to serve as his concubine. As Cuauheztli had ambitions to unite the peoples of Natlantea, the dragons deemed him a nuisance to be dealt with. Accordingly, one of the Thirteen Sovereign Lords, Twelfth Lord Ix Roq'ratik'obala' Ka'alahun, lent Quiauhquetzal assistance to take revenge against him, which she did by drowning him in a bath. Leaderless, Cuauheztli's tribe fell apart due to internecine strife.
In the Temple of Space she likes to stay at high places and is encountered by the Traveler on top of a flying page.
Appearance
Quiauhquetzal is a tall, fair-skinned woman with medium-long dark-gray hair. She wears the Scions of the Canopy's attire consisting of a cropped long-sleeve top in green and orange, paired with light-green capri pants with green details and belt. She also wears brown boots with heels and a laurel wreath.
Quests and Events
Hidden Exploration Objectives
Dialogue
Available after completing Bound for the Skies.
- Quiauhquetzal: Staying in high places allows me to sense the scent of danger sooner... Sorry. It's a bad habit from the past.
What are you doing?
- Quiauhquetzal: I'm braiding ropes. When I walked on the ground, ropes were our songs.
- Quiauhquetzal: The children whose births I did not witness told me that Great Houses of the North taught them how to weave "woven scrolls."
- Quiauhquetzal: But those fabrics were too bulky. If their Great Houses were attacked by others...
- Quiauhquetzal: Or burned by the great ruler above our heads, those fabrics couldn't be hidden away as quickly as a rope.
- Quiauhquetzal: Since I can walk forever — unlike that brutal man who abducted me — I must sing. I must carve these stories down. Vindia says this is a good thing.
- The one who abducted you...
- Quiauhquetzal: Ah, Cuauheztli that savage man who claimed to be the successor of Chaac. He slaughtered everyone in my Great House, yet he let me live to serve as his concubine.
- Quiauhquetzal: He believed that as long as he mastered the Phlogiston, he could end the era of the great ruler above our heads. But in the eyes of the great rulers, he was nothing more than an infant wielding a rusted knife.
- Quiauhquetzal: The Great Lord Ix Roq'ratik'obala' Ka'alahun Ch'ule-L did not even deign to appear in person. She merely granted me the power of vengeance, so that I might repay blood with blood.
- Quiauhquetzal: And so, I did. Pinning that man beneath the water... It took far less effort than I had initially thought.
- High places?
- Quiauhquetzal: Here, it's high up, and you can see far and wide. It's a good place to hide.
- Quiauhquetzal: In our Calpul, being on the ground is considered dangerous. Even if the Great Rulers above us don't decide to wipe us out on a whim, the other Calpulli will still come to plunder us.
- Quiauhquetzal: Perching on the cliffs and in the trees like the quetzals allows us to flee calamity before it strikes.
- Quiauhquetzal: There are no noble beastlords here, nor conquerors who enjoy flaying skin. It's safe, but... I'm used to securing an escape.
- See you.
- Quiauhquetzal: Goodbye. May you be spared the fearful sight of the great ruler.
Trivia
Etymology
- Quiauhquetzal is derived from the Nahuatl words quiyahuitl ("rain") and quetzalli ("something precious").
- The words that Quiauhquetzal used to represent tribes, calpul and calpulli, are derived from the calpulli, units of commoner housing that had been split into kin-based or other land holding groups within Nahua city-states or altepetls in pre-Columbian Aztec society.
Other Languages
| Language | Official Name |
|---|---|
| English | Quiauhquetzal |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 葵娅乌赫奎扎尔 Kuíyàwūhèkuízhā'ěr |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 葵婭烏赫奎扎爾 Kuíyàwūhèkuízhā'ěr |
| Japanese | クイアウヘケツァル Kuiauheketsaru |
| Korean | 키야우케찰 Kiyaukechal |
| Spanish | Quiauhquetzal |
| French | Quiauhquetzal |
| Russian | Квиаукетцаль Kviaukettsal' |
| Thai | Quiauhquetzal |
| Vietnamese | Quiauhquetzal |
| German | Quiauhquetzal |
| Indonesian | Quiauhquetzal |
| Portuguese | Quiauhquetzal |
| Turkish | Quiauhquetzal |
| Italian | Quiauhquetzal |
Change History
- Quiauhquetzal was released.
- The "Successor of Chaac"'s unnamed favorite concubine was mentioned in Priestess's Records: I in Temple of Cascading Colors: Ch'upikaq Tajin.