diff --git a/lib/App/Yath/Options/Finder.pm b/lib/App/Yath/Options/Finder.pm
index 94e5511ad..c1b0e5704 100644
--- a/lib/App/Yath/Options/Finder.pm
+++ b/lib/App/Yath/Options/Finder.pm
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ option_group {group => 'finder', category => "Finder Options"} => sub {
         long_examples    => [' MyFinder', ' +App::Yath::Finder::MyFinder'],
         description      => 'Specify what Finder subclass to use when searching for files/processing the file list. Use the "+" prefix to specify a fully qualified namespace, otherwise App::Yath::Finder::XXX namespace is assumed.',
 
-        normalize => sub { fqmod('App::Yath::Finder', $_[0]) },
+        normalize => sub { fqmod($_[0], 'App::Yath::Finder') },
     );
 
     option extensions => (
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ option_group {group => 'finder', category => "Finder Options"} => sub {
         long_examples => [' Foo', ' +App::Yath::Plugin::Foo'],
 
         mod_adds_options => 1,
-        normalize => sub { fqmod('App::Yath::Plugin', $_[0]) },
+        normalize => sub { fqmod($_[0], 'App::Yath::Plugin') },
     );
 
     my $modes = join '|' => sort keys %RERUN_MODES;
diff --git a/lib/App/Yath/Options/IPC.pm b/lib/App/Yath/Options/IPC.pm
index 60f64b1ef..06e61a605 100644
--- a/lib/App/Yath/Options/IPC.pm
+++ b/lib/App/Yath/Options/IPC.pm
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ option_group {group => 'ipc', category => 'IPC Options'} => sub {
         long_examples => [' AtomicPipe', ' +Test2::Harness::IPC::Protocol::AtomicPipe', ' UnixSocket', ' IPSocket'],
         description   => 'Specify what IPC Protocol to use. Use the "+" prefix to specify a fully qualified namespace, otherwise Test2::Harness::IPC::Protocol::XXX namespace is assumed.',
 
-        normalize => sub { fqmod('Test2::Harness::IPC::Protocol', $_[0]) },
+        normalize => sub { fqmod($_[0], 'Test2::Harness::IPC::Protocol') },
     );
 
     option address => (
@@ -168,8 +168,10 @@ sub vivify_ipc {
     ($discovered) = @{$found{p}};
     @ipc{qw/address protocol port peer_pid/} = @$discovered;
     $ipc{address} = clean_path($ipc{address});
-    $ipc{protocol} = fqmod('Test2::Harness::IPC::Protocol', $ipc{protocol});
-    eval { require(mod2file($ipc{protocol})); 1 } or die "\nFailed to load IPC protocol ($ipc{protocol}) specified by IPC file ($ipc{address}): $@\n";
+
+    eval { $ipc{protocol} = fqmod($ipc{protocol}, 'Test2::Harness::IPC::Protocol'); 1 }
+        or die "\nFailed to load IPC protocol ($ipc{protocol}) specified by IPC file ($ipc{address}): $@\n";
+
     print "Found instance FIFO: $ipc{address}\n";
     return {%ipc};
 }
diff --git a/lib/App/Yath/Options/Renderer.pm b/lib/App/Yath/Options/Renderer.pm
index c3ad85ece..c4e45cfda 100644
--- a/lib/App/Yath/Options/Renderer.pm
+++ b/lib/App/Yath/Options/Renderer.pm
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ option_group {group => 'renderer', category => "Renderer Options"} => sub {
         short_examples => ['MyRenderer',     ' +My::Renderer', ' MyRenderer,MyOtherRenderer', ' MyRenderer=opt1,opt2', ' :{ MyRenderer :{ opt1 opt2 }: }:', '=:{ MyRenderer opt1,opt2,... }:'],
         initialize     => sub { {'App::Yath::Renderer::Default' => []} },
 
-        normalize => sub { fqmod('App::Yath::Renderer', $_[0]), ref($_[1]) ? $_[1] : [split(',', $_[1] // '')] },
+        normalize => sub { fqmod($_[0], 'App::Yath::Renderer'), ref($_[1]) ? $_[1] : [split(',', $_[1] // '')] },
 
         mod_adds_options => 1,
     );
diff --git a/lib/App/Yath/Options/Resource.pm b/lib/App/Yath/Options/Resource.pm
index b7837bc4c..4e5d6e23c 100644
--- a/lib/App/Yath/Options/Resource.pm
+++ b/lib/App/Yath/Options/Resource.pm
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ option_group {group => 'resource', category => "Resource Options"} => sub {
         long_examples  => [' +My::Resource', ' MyResource,MyOtherResource', ' MyResource=opt1,opt2', ' :{ MyResource :{ opt1 opt2 }: }:', '=:{ MyResource opt1,opt2,... }:'],
         short_examples => ['MyResource',     ' +My::Resource', ' MyResource,MyOtherResource', ' MyResource=opt1,opt2', ' :{ MyResource :{ opt1 opt2 }: }:', '=:{ MyResource opt1,opt2,... }:'],
 
-        normalize => sub { fqmod('App::Yath::Resource', $_[0]), ref($_[1]) ? $_[1] : [split(',', $_[1] // '')] },
+        normalize => sub { fqmod($_[0], 'App::Yath::Resource'), ref($_[1]) ? $_[1] : [split(',', $_[1] // '')] },
 
         mod_adds_options => 1,
     );
diff --git a/lib/App/Yath/Options/Runner.pm b/lib/App/Yath/Options/Runner.pm
index d3b07f589..fcb7149ce 100644
--- a/lib/App/Yath/Options/Runner.pm
+++ b/lib/App/Yath/Options/Runner.pm
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ option_group {group => 'runner', category => "Runner Options"} => sub {
         long_examples    => [' MyRunner', ' +Test2::Harness::Runner::MyRunner'],
         description      => 'Specify what Runner subclass to use. Use the "+" prefix to specify a fully qualified namespace, otherwise Test2::Harness::Runner::XXX namespace is assumed.',
 
-        normalize => sub { fqmod('Test2::Harness::Runner', $_[0]) },
+        normalize => sub { fqmod($_[0], 'Test2::Harness::Runner') },
     );
 
     option dump_depmap => (
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ option_group {group => 'runner', category => "Runner Options"} => sub {
         type => 'Auto',
         alt => ['reload'],
         autofill => 'Test2::Harness::Reloader',
-        normalize => sub { fqmod('Test2::Harness::Reloader', $_[0]) },
+        normalize => sub { fqmod($_[0], 'Test2::Harness::Reloader') },
 
         description => "Use a reloader (default Test2::Harness::Reloader) to reload modules in place. This is discouraged as there are too many gotchas",
     );
diff --git a/lib/App/Yath/Options/Scheduler.pm b/lib/App/Yath/Options/Scheduler.pm
index 6ac922f6f..ba97da4ad 100644
--- a/lib/App/Yath/Options/Scheduler.pm
+++ b/lib/App/Yath/Options/Scheduler.pm
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ package App::Yath::Options::Scheduler;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 
+use Test2::Harness::Util qw/fqmod/;
+
 our $VERSION = '2.000000';
 
 use Getopt::Yath;
@@ -20,7 +22,7 @@ option_group {group => 'scheduler', category => 'Scheduler Options'} => sub {
         long_examples    => [' MyScheduler', ' +Test2::Harness::MyScheduler'],
         description      => 'Specify what Scheduler subclass to use. Use the "+" prefix to specify a fully qualified namespace, otherwise Test2::Harness::Scheduler::XXX namespace is assumed.',
 
-        normalize => sub { fqmod('Test2::Harness::Scheduler', $_[0]) },
+        normalize => sub { fqmod($_[0], 'Test2::Harness::Scheduler') },
     );
 
     option shared_jobs_config => (
diff --git a/lib/App/Yath/Options/Yath.pm b/lib/App/Yath/Options/Yath.pm
index fee999e65..bd92a1c10 100644
--- a/lib/App/Yath/Options/Yath.pm
+++ b/lib/App/Yath/Options/Yath.pm
@@ -115,9 +115,7 @@ dev-lib '$_' added to \@INC late, it is possible some yath libraries were alread
         normalize => sub {
             my ($class, $args) = @_;
 
-            $class = fqmod('App::Yath::Plugin', $class);
-            my $file = mod2file($class);
-            require $file;
+            $class = fqmod($class, 'App::Yath::Plugin');
 
             $args = $args ? [split ',', $args] : [];
 
diff --git a/lib/Getopt/Yath/Instance.pm b/lib/Getopt/Yath/Instance.pm
index 3be58e41d..2a6dbfb14 100644
--- a/lib/Getopt/Yath/Instance.pm
+++ b/lib/Getopt/Yath/Instance.pm
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ our $VERSION = '2.000000';
 
 use Carp qw/croak/;
 
-use Test2::Harness::Util qw/mod2file fqmod/;
+use Test2::Harness::Util qw/mod2file/;
 
 use Getopt::Yath::Option;
 use Getopt::Yath::Settings;
diff --git a/lib/Getopt/Yath/Option.pm b/lib/Getopt/Yath/Option.pm
index 6f1982caf..e49c5b6ea 100644
--- a/lib/Getopt/Yath/Option.pm
+++ b/lib/Getopt/Yath/Option.pm
@@ -74,8 +74,7 @@ sub create {
 
     my $type = delete $params{type} or croak "No 'type' specified";
 
-    my $new_class = fqmod(__PACKAGE__, $type);
-    require(mod2file($new_class));
+    my $new_class = fqmod($type, __PACKAGE__);
     return $new_class->new(%params);
 }
 
diff --git a/lib/Test2/Harness/Util.pm b/lib/Test2/Harness/Util.pm
index a19f767d1..73ba76188 100644
--- a/lib/Test2/Harness/Util.pm
+++ b/lib/Test2/Harness/Util.pm
@@ -123,9 +123,35 @@ sub hub_truth {
 }
 
 sub fqmod {
-    my ($prefix, $input) = @_;
-    return $1 if $input =~ m/^\+(.*)$/;
-    return "$prefix\::$input";
+    my ($input, $prefixes, %options) = @_;
+
+    croak "At least 1 prefix is required" unless $prefixes;
+
+    $prefixes = [$prefixes] unless ref($prefixes) eq 'ARRAY';
+
+    croak "At least 1 prefix is required" unless @$prefixes;
+    croak "Cannot use no_require when providing multiple prefixes" if $options{no_require} && @$prefixes > 1;
+
+    if ($input =~ m/^\+(.*)$/) {
+        my $mod = $1;
+        return $mod if $options{no_require};
+        return $mod if eval { require(mod2file($mod)); 1 };
+        confess($@);
+    }
+
+    for my $pre (@$prefixes) {
+        my $mod = "$pre\::$input";
+
+        if ($options{no_require}) {
+            return $mod;
+        }
+        else {
+            return $mod if eval { require(mod2file($mod)); 1 };
+            confess($@) unless @$prefixes > 1;
+        }
+    }
+
+    croak "Could not find a module with the given input in the given prefixes";
 }
 
 sub file2mod {