Quin

Quin is an incredibly powerful seasinger of the Wushanko Isles. At some time around the year 149, she managed to take control of all of the sea monsters in the archipelago at once. She used this ability to take over the islands, and to try to get the natives to worship her as a Goddess. There are reports of her controlling hydras, giant flying turtles, white snakes, whales the size of islands, etc. Her right-hand man is her personal bodyguard named Discord, who rides an albino narwhal.

Quin started the war that boiled the seas years ago. Although she won the battle against all the khans, killing tens of thousands of the khans' troops, the number of sea monsters was drastically reduced. This allowed safer travel throughout the Wushanko Isles. Quin still rules many islands and the largest city in the Wushanko Isles, New Heritage.

Quin's home is the palace called Paradise. It is described as an ivory palace on golden pillars. She also controls the largest city in Wushanko, New Heritage, located in the Pincers region.

The Death Lotus, the order of assassins led by Baby Tooth, were drawn into Quin's service after a failed attempt on her life purchased by the khans who opposed her.

Quin is the former employer of Zu Zu, the Occultist and a former target of Ling, the Assassin. She tasked Zu Zu with obtaining immortality for her after Zu Zu prevented Ling from killing Quin with death darts. Zu Zu managed to escape Quin's control by promising to marry Oroshu, a powerful khan who obeys Quin. He secretly escorted her out of the palace and now expects the Occultist to marry him, even though he has hundreds of wives. Because he stole the Brain, the Body, and the Blood the Occultist needs to make herself mortal again, the Occultist kills Oroshu at their date and proceeds to travel to Pincers to jump into "The Hole in the World", however, Discord, Quin's right hand man, attemps to capture her for Quin. A ship is sent both to stop Zu Zu from jumping and to stop Discord from capturing her.

Her greatest city is currently about to be attacked by the Whaler's greatest nemesis, Shuma, the deaf whale. The Whaler can now communicate with sea monsters thanks to the Old Man of the Sea, so he realizes that Shuma's pod and family of whales were sacrificed by Quin's current chief occultist (Quin is sitll attempting to gain immortality) and Shuma wants revenge. However, instead of going to attack Quin directly, she's targeting humanity, and the biggest concentration of humans is at the grand city of New Heritage. It is protected by powerful khans with massive armies, and the Whaler is hurrying to convince Shuma to attack Quin and her minions, not humanity in general.

The Whaler, the Assassin, and the Occultist storylines all will eventually merge with Quin's storyline after the Pincers are unlocked.

Baby Tooth's son Fat Wu was killed by the Assassin in the Scythe region. In the Bowl region, Ling attempts to kill Baby Tooth during his one-day visit to the training isles of the Death Lotus in the Tokoko Islands. However, it was a trap set up by Kirau, her informer. She kills Kirau in Pincers, even though Kirau told her his entire family was being threatened to be killed if he didn't set a trap for. In tears, she kills him. She then decides to deal with Baby Tooth and Quin.

The Assassin, with the Whaler and Occultist's assistance, kills Quin in the final story.