The history of the sociopathic traitor Qilby from the French animated series Wakfu.
Primitive Era[]
Council's Formation[]
Qilby and the other members of the Six.
The Great Goddess Eliatrope then seduces the Great Dragon again and he lays six Dofus. But the Goddess has the maternal instinct and wishing to jealously protect her eggs, she decides to hide them on the recently discovered planet.
The Dofus hatch in the shelter, and give birth to the Eliatropes and their twin Dragon brothers. Sons and daughters of the Goddess Eliatrope, they live, die and are reborn in their Dofus. Together, they form the first born of their people and, organized into the Council of Six (or Twelve, if we count their Dragon brothers), they govern the other Eliatropes, born in this way.
Within the Council, Qilby and Shinonomé were the Guardians of History and the Memory of the Ages. Medicine was their Gift. Together, they eradicated many diseases.
New Discoveries[]
During the course of the game, several messages left by Qilby are discoverable, is a background character in Islands of Wakfu. He is implied to be Nora's mentor. We learn that it is Yugo that Chibi has designated as legitimate heir to the throne and that Qilby has very bad experience. Qilby also had a hard time tolerating being chased out of their home world by the Mechasms and that's what made him use stasis, which allowed Orgonax to join them.
Qilby's hologram projected in the laboratory.
At some point right before the game, Qilby reactivated the Eliacube, which allowed the Mechasms to find them again. He fought with Yugo and Phaeris, losing his arm and being banished to his dimensional prison as a result. It is likely that this battle resulted in Yugo's death and return to his Dofus.
Once on a deserted planet (later to become the World of Twelve), the young Eliatropes are freed, but Balthazar, the dragon sibling of Glip (who is part of the Council of the Six), removed their previous memories to force them to believe that this new world is their home world. Qilby does not approve of this lie; he wants the truth to break out so that the Eliatropes become warriors again and go to fight to avenge their dead parents on their home planet. Chibi claimed that it was Qilby who betrayed their people by revealing to Orgonax the position of their new world.
Treason in the War[]
Chibi claimed that it was Qilby who betrayed their people by revealing the location of their new world to Orgonax. However, it is not certain that this is the truth. Qilby actually did research to find Orgonax's weak point to kill him and avenge Shinonomé's death, that said, there is nothing to prove that it was he who warned Orgonax. It is quite possible that Orgonax found them on his own. So Chibi seeks to discredit Qilby — Quite simply because he sought to reveal the truth to young elliatropes about their past —
At his death, Chibi who was the King of Eliatropes, bequeathed his throne to Yugo. It is explained to the player that Qilby had a very bad experience of this situation because he felt that the throne was his right. However, the reality seems to be that Chibi appointed Yugo to limit the influence of Qilby and prevent him from revealing the truth to Eliatropes on their origin. A hologram of Qilby reveals his betrayal (Islands of Wakfu).
Apparently it's all Qilby's fault who lured Orgonax for revenge. In reality, the story is more complicated than it seems. Qilby did not seem to want to confront him since he had suggested leaving this new home planet to avoid a deadly war. The survival of his people therefore came before his desire for revenge. Although this choice was the most reasonable, Chibi opposed this plan, he claimed that the Eliatrope Goddess spoke to him at the top of Mount Zinit and ordered him to stay. In reality, it was not the Eliatrope Goddess who spoke to him, but a strange plant that covered the Zinit ship. It is of the same type as the Sadida Tree of Life, it is a plant endowed with consciousness.
Qilby's loses his arm.
Instantly, a war had been declared the second attack was fatal to the Eliatrope people. Only the firstborn survived, and tried to protect the only thing that could still be saved: Yugo managed to put the children of his people in another dimension; unfortunately in this battle, Nora, Efrim and especially Shinonomé the dragon sister of Qilby perish. Qilby is then locked by Yugo in the White Dimension. Meanwhile, hastened to build a space ark, the Zinit ship, to be able to flee.
Wakfu Era[]
Wakfu: Season 1[]
Qilby does not appear but is indirectly referred to when Adamai explains to Yugo that they are part of an ancient long-gone race.
In the episode Reunion, when Adamaï was sleeping in the Sadida royal palace, he dreams that the tree of life was in danger and that a 6-eyed spider appeared, turning out to be a specimen containment machine (the same one that Qilby would use in the Zinit to lock up Grougal later on).
Qilby's silhouette.
In the episode The Mount Zinit, when Yugo takes advantage of the moment to take the eliacube while Adamai fights against Nox, a series of images shows him in a diffuse way his past life, among them a mysterious silhouette with a hood and glowing eyes is shown in the middle of a reddish background (being from Qilby himself). At that time Yugo would not know the identity of that individual in that memory, because he was still barely remembering who he was after reliving thousands of years in the Wakfu era.
Wakfu: Season 2[]
Thousands of years later, Qilby managed to escape thanks to Yugo, who did not know who he was (asides being the same kind as him) and what happened before. But the said Eliatrope did not forget what happened while he was trapped inside the White Dimension, Qilby could not escape without the help of the Eliacube. Yugo hoped thus to prevent him from harming. He was in a coma for hours and was awakened by an Eniripsa nurse, from that moment he recovered all his memories when talking with Yugo and Adamai.
Qilby is a mysterious character, he misses his left arm, and he seems to know Adamaï and Yugo very well while they have no idea who he is. Realizing that his two friends have forgotten everything about their past, he explains to them the origin of the Eliatropes. Yugo is happy to know that there are still live Eliatropes stuck in a parallel dimension. Unfortunately, to open the Zaap portal that leads to them, you need a huge amount of energy. Just to bring back Qilby, Yugo and Adamaï have been physically very hard. To find enough energy, Qilby proposes to use his original Dofus, that is, the egg in which he is supposed to reincarnate after his death. Thanks to the Eliacube, Qilby can generate a kind of map that allows to locate approximately the location of the dofus. Gruffon, Yugo's magic map looks at the picture and instantly identifies the place. For him, there is no doubt that this place is the Crimson Claw's Archipielago.
In the world of Shushus, he seems determined to face Rushu on his own. Yugo is reluctant to stay because he understands Remington and would like to help him. His hesitation lasts too long and the portal is already closing. Finally, before it closes completely, Percedal catches Yugo and pulls him into their world, and felt the disappearance of Yugo. Qilby then explained to Adamai that there is a telepathic link that unites a dragon to his Eliatrope twin brother. Thanks to this link, Adamaï was able to identify the location of Yugo, then enter into communication with him to indicate the direction of the portal. This portal is created thanks to the Eliacube, unfortunately, as Qilby and Adamaï have to use a lot of their Wakfu to keep it open, they will not be able to last very long.
He stayed in the kingdom of the Sadida for a time until he was ready to "save his people" and take them to The World of the Twelve. During his stay, he socialized with Master Joris, who was impressed by his knowledge and also took care of Chibi while he was still a baby, but that displeased his twin brother Grougaloragran very much, spitting hostile fire in his face or attacking him very distrustful.
To deal with such an influx, the king of the Sadidas prepared a summit meeting with representatives of the twelve kingdoms including Brakmar. Note that each of them represents a warrior class: Iop, Crâ, Sram, Feca, Enutrof, Sadida, Pandala, Sacrieur, Ecaflip, Eniripsa, Osamodas and Xelor. Qilby and Adamaï explain the situation, but the prospect of seeing so many people disembarking worries and the Prince of Brakmar does not hesitate to evoke this return as a form of invasion. The tensions then become palpable. The next return of the eliatropes is not an easy task because several tens of thousands of eliatrope children will arrive in the World of Twelve.
Meanwhile, Adamai no longer has the heart at the party. Grougaloragran's repeated nonsense ended up annoying the Sadidas who want them to leave the palace. On his side Qilby is wary of sadidas, he seems afraid that they are preventing the return of the Eliatropes. So he steals the Eliacube and asks Adamaï to help him activate it. The combination of their power makes it possible to transform the Eliacube into a kind of robot in the shape of a bird. Once this is done, they open a dimensional portal and enter it.
Yugo flies to the Crimson Claw Archipelago to search for and find the Qilby Dofus. But he does not know that the latter is no longer in the Sadida Kingdom. He stole the Eliacube and with the help of Adamaï and Grougaloragran, they opened a portal to another world. In reality, they are still in the same world, they were simply teleported to another very distant place. If this place seems so familiar to Adamaï, it is simply because this place is the Zinit, the huge spaceship that allowed Eliatropes and their dragon siblings to flee their home world to arrive on this planet. As this vessel is huge, the inhabitants have confused it with a mountain, that's why it's called Mount Zinit. Qilby shows the ship in Adamaï and during the trip, he explains that unlike other Eliatropes, when he reincarnates, he keeps the memories of his previous lives. He has the accumulated experience (and sadness) of many millennia of life.
The visit ends in Qilby's secret laboratory where he keeps an animal of each species of their planet of origin, but also of each planet they crossed during their trip. In the center of this laboratory is a strange machine evoking the generator of Zinit. Qilby somehow lost the little reason he had left, he became completely "lobotomized", thinking no more about anything until Yugo and Adamai got it out of there by accident. He first introduced to Yugo that he was the king of the Eliatropes, but he quickly fell off the mask became more serious. Suspicious tattoos on his body, a strange glow in one eye and an arm made with pure wakfu, Qilby was always thirsty for more knowledge and discovery. Adamaï realizes that Qilby is much worse than Nox. He has no choice but to try to stop him. Unfortunately, Qilby uses the Eliacube to replace his arm and this merger boosts his powers. Adamaï is not tall compared to him, luckily, Grougaloragran despite his young age is already very powerful. By combining their strengths, they put Qilby in trouble. Their will and their courage will not be enough because Qilby has great experience of the fight and will eventually defeat the two dragonets. Qilby locks Grougaloragran in the "generator" and takes with him Adamaï who seems dead. Qilby needs his backup Dofus; unfortunately, this Dofus is guarded by Phaeris, a very powerful adult dragon. Given the harm he has had against two young dragonlings, he knows he has no chance of recovering it, which is why he sent Yugo for him.
His goal then was to find his sister Shinonome and his people to undertake the return journey. But now that he has the eliacube in his possession, he is considering another plan because he has learned of the existence of the shushus world. He teleports there to meet Rushu and offer him an alliance. Qilby is committed to building a portal to invade the mortal world, and in return, King Rushu pledges to use his army of shushus to help him kill the dragon Phaeris. Remington and Grany, who were enslaved by Rushu, attend the conversation with interest. These two bandits know how to feel when they have to do to someone dishonest and for them this market stinks confused. Their instinct did not deceive them because Qilby knowingly forgot to mention that when he takes all the wakfu on the planet for his ship, Rushu and his subjects will live there just like the rest of the people of the World of Twelve.
Either way, it does not matter for Qilby if one or two worlds would have to disappear in the process. And for that, he made a deal with Rushu, to invade the World of Twelve, breaking the non-invasion pact again. Of course, Rushu thinks that Qilby betrayed him by deliberately drawing him into a trap, he tries to eliminate him, but Qilby is too fast and disappears by making fun of Rushu. Qilby needed him to make a funny and weaken Phaeris and he wanted it or not, that's exactly what he's doing with his army of shushus. Yugo finds Qilby and tries to talk with him to reveal to him how to make his normal appearance in Adamaï, but he does not get any information from Qilby, the only thing he discovers is that he was the King eliatropes and not Qilby. He also learns that it was he who locked Qilby into another dimension when he discovered that Qilby had betrayed them all by setting off the war against the Mechasms. Seeing that he is weakening more and more and struggling to fight, Phaeris is forced to apply a painful spell to Yugo to allow him to temporarily increase his powers eliatrope. Thanks to that, he will be able to compete with Qilby. Unfortunately in the meantime the situation was complicated because Qilby managed to recover his Dofus which considerably increases his power.
Despite of this, Qilby does not want to hurt Yugo and the rest of the Eliatrope survivors, as he fears above all is solitude. He hopes to get his people to explore the space together aboard their spaceship Zinit. However, to take off this ship, it would take all the energy and Wakfu of the planet Twelve, which would kill its inhabitants in the process. Of course, Yugo refuses this offer and the Eliatrope children have no desire to accompany the one who caused the death of their parents. Qilby may have found his people again, but he feels more alone than ever. Seeing that he can not convince them, he decides to exterminate them and leave alone with his sister Shinonomé. Although Shinonomé is still in her Dofus (egg), she has heard everything and is aware of what is going on. She decides to intervene by causing a deflagration that will break the link between Qilby and the Eliacube. From betrayal to manipulation, Qilby's loneliness had made him more insane than ever. Yugo managed to lock him back into the White Dimension, and he is left quietly sobbing in the white void with nothing around him, except a single flower from Emrub.
In the credits, shows the final scene in which Qilby is sitting in the middle of the none from thats dimension, holding the petals of some flowers, typical of the Emrub world.
Wakfu Tome 1 : La Quête des Dofus Eliatropes[]
Qilby is merely a posthumous character who was only mentioned and seen in flashbacks. After being defeated months earlier, Qilby is now recognized as the manipulative psychopath by the other nations thanks to Yugo exposing his misdeeds.
During his birthday party, Yugo remembers Qilby with regret and feels enormous guilt after having locked him in the white dimension, questioning whether that choice was the right one.
Wakfu Tome 3 : Les Mines de Lamororia[]
A statue of Qilby is visible in a small abandoned eliatrope chamber that connects to a hallway leading to the room where a giant universal Zaap is located.
Wakfu Tome 4 : L'Errance des Eliatropes[]
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OVA: Ush[]
When Adamaï suspects that Lady Echo's sensible words are a facade, he replies "I've heard that one before. Just before falling in the hands of the worst villains", indirectly referring to Qilby since he was that kind of charismatic enemy with convincing monologues.
Wakfu: Season 3[]
Qilby appears in a recap at the beginning of the episode Fallen Heroes, when Dally tells his daughter Elely about all the adversaries he faced in past adventures.
In the episode Oropo's Tower, when the Brotherhood of the Tofu arrives at the tower, a Qilby vision appears alongside Nox to haunt Yugo, showing that he still blames himself for making this decision.
In the episode Pinball Hazard there is a scene where it is shown that in Black Bump's underwear collection there is a special showcase reserved for the six eliatropes, with three places occupied, including Qilby's underwear.
In the episode Hyperzaap the hallucination of Qilby is seen again trying to torment Yugo, only this time he is willing to attack him.
Wakfu: Season 4[]
Qilby returns in this season as an anti-hero, and later tritagonist.
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Wakfu Comics: The Great Wave[]
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Other Media[]
Wakfu: Les Gardiens[]
He will only be seen in one of game cinematics taken from the season 2 episode "The Eliatrope People".
Dofus (game)[]
Qilby Shield
Qilby does not appear in the game due to the distant era in which it is set before what happened in the series, but it is referenced with a special accessory which is called "Qilby Shield", not knowing of its origin at that time.
Wakfu (game)[]
In the online store you can purchase for 30 days a Qilby costume that includes his eliacube arm and a chibi pet of Shinonome.
Krosmaster Arena[]
Qilby's figure and card from Krosmaster.
Qilby appears as a selectable character in the board game, included in the online version.
Qilby's only drawback is his mobility; with only 2 MP, he's one of the two slowest bosses. Only Nox is as slow, but Nox has the ability to teleport. To compensate for this, Qilby boasts a significant range of 1 to 6 cells, comparable to a Cra like Jems Blond. Qilby can even increase his range (or that of an ally) by 2 more cells with the Binoculars spell, which only costs 1 AP. He can therefore cover a distance of 1 to 8 cells, as far as Guy Yometella, the Krosmaster with the longest range.
Ultimately, Qilby proves to be a versatile ally, boasting excellent range and a significant disruptive ability thanks to his Rampart attack, which severely limits his target's actions. This warrior also greatly enhances the Brotherhood of the Tofu by allowing the inclusion of virtually any character, thus opening up interesting strategic possibilities.
We haven't yet discussed the Prospecting power in this article because it's not offensive; however, it's still quite useful as it allows you to earn kamas. When a warrior on your team kills an opposing Krosmaster, you can collect 1 kama from your reserve for each ally who possesses this power. Therefore, with two characters on your team who have the Prospecting power (like Hercul Eudla or Edmond Dentier), you'll earn 2 kamas every time you kill an enemy.
Krosmaga[]
Qilby appears as an infinite card with which he can be summoned on the board, having three phases with which to attack his opponents: the first is his normal form, he can only defend himself by hitting with his wooden staff, the second is his lobotomized form but with his eliacube shoulder pad, with which he will attack using his arm made of wakfu, and the third is the same as the previous one. only without his shoulder pad.
Waven[]
Qilby in Waven.
Qilby appears as a character that can be summoned to support the player. He is also a playable character in one of the combat events in 2024 where he has to hit Lokus as many times as possible to win the game.