Did You Know...
--There once was a major battle in Kithicor Forrest...actually a long GM-event, which is why it is haunted by undead at night. In the old days, you would usually see groups of players sitting at the entrances, waiting for dawn to break, as crossing it at night was almost certain death.
--The Green dragon Trakanon used to be a much revered member of the Ring of Scale. He was banished, however, when he went against the will of the rest of the Dragons of Kunark, and made a direct assault on the expanding Iksar Empire, killing Emperor Rile Sathir. This event caused an almost 50-year civil war amongst the Dragons of Kunark.
--Kerafyrm, also called "The Sleeper", is the illegal child of 2 Dragons of opposing elements (Some say Vox and Nagafen, but this is not clear). Veeshan had decreed that 2 dragons of opposing elements were never to mate, as the resulting creature would be an abomination. When this happened anyway, King Yelinak, and his closest advisor Arch-Priest Kildrukaun decided that it was the will of Veeshan, and that this new creature was to be their greatest weapon in the war against the Giants of Velious. Kerafyrm was raised to be a great general, but eventually the chaotic energies in him drove him mad, and warped his body.
--The Expansion-pack "Gates of Discord" gave players access to the new-found continent of Taelosia. However, Taelosia had actually been planned for an expansion as far back as when the first EQ-expansion "Ruins of Kunark" came out several years before. If you take a look at the globes in Skyfire Mountains on Kunark, you can clearly see both Velious and Taelosia.
--The Sarnaks of Kunark are not really an indigenous race. They are a race of creatures orriginally created by the Iksar Emperor Atrebe Sathir, by mixing Dragon and Iksar. They were held as slaves untill the fall of the Iksar Empire, at which point they escaped. Atrebe also created a creature called the "Sokokar", which was a powerful flying mount used in war by the Iksar. No Sokokar are known to have survived to this day, however.
--The oldest "Unused Zoneline" (That is, a place which is obviously a door or a zone-line to a zone that has not been created yet) in the game, is almost as old as the game itself. At the bottom of "The Hole", also called "The Ruins of Old Paineel", is a gigantic seal, guarded by a huge Black Guardian. It is theorised that this doorway was orriginally intended to be the entrance to the Plane of Underfoot, but the doorway has never been used.
--Akhevan, as spoken by many mobs on Luclin, IS an actual language...it is not just gibberish. Each word corresponds to an word in English, and numerous people have tried to comprise an entire dictonary of the language.
--Tserrina Syl'Tor, the vampire Witch who inhabbits the Tower of Frozen Shadow in Iceclad, was once the lover of the Vampire-Lord Mayong Mistmoore. He spurned her when his ambitions grew, which drove her into depravity and madness. Some say that the undead wedding-ceremony that is re-enacted over and over again in her Tower, is her wishful thinking of her union with Mayong. In the DemiPlane of Blood, Mayong Mistmoore carries an earring called "Glimmerice, Tserrina's forgotten Ardor" (Ardor = "An intense feeling of love")
--Newbie Iksar Monks have a quest-series to gain a set of ceremonial shackles. These shackles are worn by the Monks to comemorate the time when the Iksar were the slaves of the Shissar.
--Kwinn the Outlander is a character in Firiona Vie that is needed for the Monk Shackle Quests. When killed, you can loot his decapitated head...however, a skilled Rogue can actually manage to pick-pocket his head, without him noticing...which is rather well done.
--Deep within Droga, there is a place where you can under certain circumstances poke your head through a wall. When you do so, you will see that there is a wall covered with a hidden texture. This texture is a photo of one of the devellopers' cat...
--The 3 Gods referred to as the "Triumvirate of Water" are Povar, Tarew and E'ci. Their names are actually anagrams of the form of water that they represent: Povar => Vapor, Tarew => Water, E'ci => Ice.
--Mobs that Deathtouch were introduced with the Ruins of Kunark-expansion. The reason for having DeathTouch in the game was to remedy the fact that due to the chosen integer-type in the game's data that represents hitpoints, the highest number of hitpoints that a mob could have was 32,000, so another way was needed to increase difficulty. This was later changed, after the introduction of the Wizards' Mana-Burn AA, since this AA essentially allowed a group of Wizards to nuke any mob from Kunark to death in a few seconds.
--Firiona Vie, the scantily clad Elf that features prominently on the cover of most EQ-expansions, is depicted in clothing that would make you think she was a caster of sorts. However, according to the orriginal game-Lore, she is actually a Paladin.
Edited, Dec 20th 2007 12:38pm by Niteklaw