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Noliniel
08-20-2003, 09:33 PM
Anyone know any website with detailed Everquest lore? Looking for detailed Planes of power lore kinda. Checked EQ live etc..... ( Sony websites ) looking for more though.

Maody
08-21-2003, 03:29 AM
Vaslin Slickfinger did a very good job on gathering everything for his Everquest Compendium (http://www.eqcaster.com/) .

Unfortunately he abondoned working on it at Luclin because there was almost no lore published by Verant nor placed ingame.

But anyhow, i can really recommend to read the compendium to anyone interestet in EQ Lore.

FyyrLuStorm
08-22-2003, 05:13 PM
I was thinking about this the other day.

nm on Miragul, misread the captions.

Panamah
08-22-2003, 05:30 PM
Female?

FyyrLuStorm
08-22-2003, 06:14 PM
Alan Vancouvering: Miragul was a legendary spellcaster. The tales say that he studied all four styles of magic, and may have been the first erudite to understand the powers of necromancy. They say that he was there when the heretics made their plans to split from the fold, and that he stole as many tomes and artifacts from Erudin as he could before the war between the factions began. He fled from sight into the depths of the north with his treasures.

Ok, now where did I see those images of the gnome?

/shrug

Oldoaktree
08-22-2003, 06:37 PM
...but it is getting a little out of date perhaps. Not sure it covers PoP...think it doesn't. But pretty comprehensive...

<a href="http://www.1stfistoflight.com/~fol/public_html/codex/" target="top">www.1stfistoflight.com/~fol/public_html/codex/</a>

Elephi Phelephi
08-23-2003, 06:41 AM
<blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>...but it is getting a little out of date perhaps. Not sure it covers PoP...think it doesn't. But pretty comprehensive...[/quote]

the codex of war is not lore, it's fan fiction and beta lore that was disregarded at release (although much better written then real lore :p ).

Read through it and you'll see how it contridicts real official EQ lore. Ex, it says the frogloks of guk worship prexus while EQ lore says they worship mith marr.

Nadia brell
08-23-2003, 08:04 PM
I have a lore section at my messageboard with links to other sites

pub45.ezboard.com/fotherworlds31279frm6 (http://pub45.ezboard.com/fotherworlds31279frm6)

Oldoaktree
08-24-2003, 01:09 AM
In any lore in EQ I think you will find that it changes over time.

Think about all the water gods, just as an example. When they came out with POP they had to roll 4 of htem together to create Coirnav as a composite avatar (granted this is more "fan" lore from that map book they put out). And for some reason, Prexus wasn't one of the four.

I always read that fist of light thing as being written in a voice, but using a variety of in game and GM event game lore as its source. It used to be less fictiony in tone, but I think a lot of the source lore is in game stuff.

The devs themselves are pretty unapologetic about the internal conflicts in the lore over time. A lot of different hands have been in it, and no matter where you come down on the role play question, you can't claim that EQ has a coherent backstory (though the site I referenced does, lol).

Itzena
08-24-2003, 08:11 AM
That's because Prexus isn't an Elemental water-god, he's just the god of the ocean.

Oldoaktree
08-24-2003, 09:36 PM
I am trying to see that distinction....; ).

Tiane
08-25-2003, 12:29 AM
There's more water out there than just salty ocean water! :cool:

Anyway, they handy thing about myths and lore is that they are, by definition really, often vague and self contradicting. Just take a look at what we have in real life! So EQ I think can be forgiven for having it's history being altered now and then.

After all, history is written by the developers!

8P

Tia

Elephi Phelephi
08-25-2003, 06:09 AM
<blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Think about all the water gods, just as an example. When they came out with POP they had to roll 4 of htem together to create Coirnav as a composite avatar (granted this is more "fan" lore from that map book they put out). And for some reason, Prexus wasn't one of the four.[/quote]

The cleric epic quest's story is about the triumvriate of water and fennin ro. So there was in game lore about them, and like already stated Prexus was never part of the group.

I was disapointed when they merged the 3 into one. I think before pop was released there was pictures of the corinav model and how is was originially going to be used as tarew marr's model.

Oldoaktree
08-25-2003, 07:49 AM
Quote:

There's more water out there than just salty ocean water!


And yet...Prexus's greatest (?) followers were the Kedge, and as we all know, they lived in a lake....


Game lore is hugely inconsistant of course, but on the whole, of all the water based gods, Prexus seems to be the most prominent to me in its mentions in game lore, spell names, etc.

Good info on the cleric epic though...I never knew the lore on it, just the steps ; ).

Panamah
08-25-2003, 08:10 AM
Hmmm... never thought of that body of water as being a lake.

Oldoaktree
08-25-2003, 08:27 AM
...seems to be a crater lake to me....

And I know I have walked all around it ; ).

Itzena
08-25-2003, 02:11 PM
OK, let me try again. :)

The Triumverate are the gods of the element Water ('element' in the medieval/fantasy sense) as Fennin Ro is Elemental Fire, Rathe Elemental Earth and Xegony is Elemental Air.

Prexus is the god of the Ocean - fish, boats, storms, reefs, islands, sailors, tsunami, dolphins, whales, Godzilla, Dread Cthulu sleeping in the ruins of Ry'leh etc. Not just the water in the ocean.

And, yes, PoWater does fit Prexus better than E'ci/Tarew Marr/Povar - PoWater should (technically) be a third ice, a third liquid water and a third steam.

Alyn Cross
08-25-2003, 02:44 PM
yeah, but if they had followed that model for all elemental planes, imagine how painful fire would be? and how dull earth would be?

/cackle