Erasmus (Quest for Glory)

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Erasmus is a fictional character from Sierra's classic graphic adventure series Quest for Glory. The character first appeared in 1989's Hero's Quest I: So You Want to be a Hero. The character later appeared in Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire, Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness, and Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire.

Erasmus is a powerful, friendly and somewhat insane wizard that helps the player in his quests. Always with his rat familiar Fenrus, both provide some comic relief with witty comments and bad jokes. In the first adventure Erasmus lives in the Valley of Spielburg high atop Zauberberg Mountain in a strange purple house, guarded by a gargoyle who will test you with three questions (a parody of the Gorge of Eternal Peril scene of Monty Python and the Holy Grail). Sitting in his high tower, he loves to tell pun-laden jokes and engage in the game of Mage's Maze, and is known to associate with other magic users in the valley such as Baba Yaga, Zara, and Henry the Hermit. In the second game, he can introduce a magic user to the Wizard's Institute of Technocery, turning the Hero into a fully accredited Wizard. At the end of the fourth game, he summons the Hero to Silmaria, setting up the fifth game, in which he sponsors the Hero in the Rites of Rulership, which allow the Hero to earn the title of King of Silmaria. Erasmus is later poisoned, but he and the other victims of the mysterious poisoner are cured by the Hero with the assistance of Julanar and Salim Nafs.