Moon

[DmonInjected]

<div>yeha i saw it back a few months ago someone was sayin that the moon was moving back together. So well today i was helpin someone in Commonlands and i see all the shooting stars more then usual or its been a while since ive been to the commonlands <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> anyway i look up in the sky lookin for the mashed up moon and its perfectly back together :O so what do you guys think there going to roll this into and expansion and open luclan again? and if so how do think we would get there spires? and how could they roll history into it? Well just a few questions <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></div>

[Cusashorn]

<div>You were looking at Drinal, not Luclin. Drinal is the airless moon. Luclin is the one that blew up.</div>

[DmonInjected]

<div>yeah i was lookin 4 luclan tho i use to be able to see it in the commonlands but no more, so do you think they will roll the moon u were sayin into a story?</div>

[Descolin]

Just saw Luclin in the Enchanted lands, and it still looks pretty messed up to me.<div></div>

[Cusashorn]

<div>Drinal, Trorsmang, Anbeal, and Cordain are atmosphereless moons. There's nothing there to make any expansion out of.</div>

[PinkBi]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Cusashorn wrote:<div>Drinal, Trorsmang, Anbeal, and Cordain are atmosphereless moons. There's nothing there to make any expansion out of.</div><hr></blockquote>Oo I only heard of Drinal of those moon. Thanks for the info!

[Cusashorn]

<div>Yeah its a little known tidbit. Norrath actually has 5 moons. Luclin was the only one that was inhabitable. Drinal used to be hidden from view on Norrath because of Luclin's Veil to keep it hidden. The other 3 moons are still hidden as well, but for whatever reason we don't know.</div>

[Duhulk]

<div></div><p></p><hr>Drinal used to be hidden from view on Norrath because of Luclin's Veil to keep it hidden.<hr><p>Did you mean Luclin? Pretty sure there was always a moon visible in EQ1 and i thought that was Drinal</p>

[PinkBi]

<div>If they can't see them though, how do they know they're there?</div>

[Cusashorn]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Duhulk wrote:<div></div><p></p><hr>Drinal used to be hidden from view on Norrath because of Luclin's Veil to keep it hidden.<hr><p>Did you mean Luclin? Pretty sure there was always a moon visible in EQ1 and i thought that was Drinal</p><hr></blockquote>Yeah my bad. Freudian slip.

[DreamerClou]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>PinkBike wrote:<div>If they can't see them though, how do they know they're there?</div><hr></blockquote>The other moons' existances were mentioned in a book that was used during the monk epic quest in EQ 1

[Kamimura]

<div></div><div></div><div></div><blockquote><p></p><hr><p>DreamerCloud9 wrote:</p><p>The other moons' existances were mentioned in a book that was used during the monk epic quest in EQ 1</p><p></p><hr></blockquote><p>"The immortals who can be spoken of are not the Eternal Immortals. Their Spoken names are not the eternal names. In the namelessness they are the beginning of heaven and earth. Named they are one of the ten thousand things. Though different in title they spring from one source and appear as darkness Darkness within darkness. The gate to their mystery. The immortals do not go forth. All comes to them. They are like the ocean, the king of ten thousand streams. By staying beneath they are a receptacle for all things. They do nothing. Yet are masters of the universe. Trorsmang! Be our course of action. Anbeal! Become the Vessel to hold our virtue. Drinal! Be our stability, where we can take root. Cordan! Fill our vessels and calm our ambitions. Norrath! Take our husks and breathe life into them. We beseech you! Guide us in your humility."</p><p>If my saved file is correct, this is the text to that book.</p><p>Message Edited by Kamimura on <span class="date_text">02-06-2006</span><span class="time_text">01:17 AM</span></p>

[Zabjade]

<div></div><span><blockquote><hr>Cusashorn wrote:<div>Yeah its a little known tidbit. Norrath actually has 5 moons. Luclin was the only one that was inhabitable. Drinal used to be hidden from view on Norrath because of Luclin's Veil to keep it hidden. The other 3 moons are still hidden as well, but for whatever reason we don't know.</div><hr></blockquote><b><font color="#66cc00">Luclin not Drinal was hidden. Drinal was always visable. the other 3 dunno. sorry for repeat didn't read further posts until afterward lol <span>:smileytongue:</span></font></b></span><div></div><p>Message Edited by Zabjade on <span class="date_text">02-06-2006</span><span class="time_text">04:43 AM</span></p>

[Cusashorn]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Zabjade wrote:<div></div><span><blockquote><hr>Cusashorn wrote:<div>Yeah its a little known tidbit. Norrath actually has 5 moons. Luclin was the only one that was inhabitable. Drinal used to be hidden from view on Norrath because of Luclin's Veil to keep it hidden. The other 3 moons are still hidden as well, but for whatever reason we don't know.</div><hr></blockquote><b><font color="#66cc00">Luclin not Drinal was hidden. Drinal was always visable. the other 3 dunno. sorry for repeat didn't read further posts until afterward lol <span>:smileytongue:</span></font></b></span><div></div><p>Message Edited by Zabjade on <span class="date_text">02-06-2006</span><span class="time_text">04:43 AM</span></p><hr></blockquote>I already corrected myself above...

[Zabjade]

<div></div><i><b><font color="#66cc00"><font face="Comic Sans MS">   Cool Cusa, still I wonder what happend to the other moons, also the chunks of Luclin that have fallen have been poisinous to Norrath.   Makes you wonder what the battle did to the Acrylla that composed most of the planet. The stuff is supposed to be a white glowing marble-like stone but the pieces that have landed are black with a blue(more than atmospheric entery would cause we would see chips of true acryla after all these years). Not to mention bringing giant mushrooms and owlbears to nek forrest and some odd grass to Ro. <span><span>:smileytongue:</span></span></font></font></b></i><div></div><p>Message Edited by Zabjade on <span class="date_text">02-06-2006</span><span class="time_text">05:18 AM</span></p>

[Descolin]

How do you suppose the knowledge of these moons came about if no one has supposedly seen them? The gods, no doubt?<div></div>

[Tharangus]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Descolin wrote:How do you suppose the knowledge of these moons came about if no one has supposedly seen them? The gods, no doubt?<div></div><hr></blockquote>The ability to perceive the unseen is not uncommon in Norrath.  I would venture to guess that they could be perceived through some supernatural powers.  Perhaps something intrinsic to erudites?  Maybe even something scientific (such as measuring gravitational fields and space-time shifts) might have been possible.  Bottom-line, invisible does not meen undectectable.

[Saroc_Luclin]

I think Acrylia has always been black marble basically. Among other things, I think you can see veins of it in the Nexus around the landing portal.Despite lots of Luclin crashing onto Norrath, when you look into the sky it is obvious that the majority of that moon is still in orbit around the planet. (The moon was just a very BIG moon). What this bodes for the future is unknown.As for the other 3 moons we have yet to account for, I'm wondering if the Norrathian sky gazers mistook 3 planets in the system for moons (especially early visitors to the Plane of Sky). There's a tower with a display of the Ro System in DoF which only shows 2 moons around Norrath. (And there is more information coming in EQLive that will fuel this fire further )The white glowing marble you are thinking of may have been Velium.<div></div>

[Zabjade]

<font color="#66cc00"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><i><b>   No Shar Vahl was rebuilt with Acryla, the stuff you saw at the Nexus is a unique feature that draws teleportations to it almost like a Mystic Singularity (Without the soul crushing gravity)</b></i></font></font><div></div>

[backya]

<div>If these moons do exist all you would really have to do is look up into the clear sky and see if there is a section where there is anabsance of stars. If the moon is black, ALTHOUGH if the moons are invisible the light reflecting behind them would be visible from the front, giving them total invisibility.</div>

[Descolin]

Tharangus's theory actually sounds the most pheasable to me; that they simply mistook other planets for moons. Might also explain why we can't obviously see them as moons, since planets are often distant enough to appear as stars at a mere glance.<div></div>

[Cusashorn]

<div></div><div></div><div></div><blockquote><hr>Descolin wrote:How do you suppose the knowledge of these moons came about if no one has supposedly seen them? The gods, no doubt?<div></div><hr></blockquote><p>Back when the Plane of Sky first opened, anyone who traveled up there could visibly see all 5 moons. Luclin was a ringed moon in appearance but they probably had no intention of giving it a ring when the expansion came out.</p><p>The other 4 were atmosphereless grey moons just like our own Luna.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Not to mention the book that mentions them is called "The Book of Immortals", whose origins and authors are forever unknown. It just was.</p><p> </p><p>Sadly, sometime during 2003, they upgraded the skies all over Norrath during the infamous "Direct X 9.0 patch" to make the skies more realistic and fluid with better graphics and stuff. When that change happened, the moons in Plane of Sky were forever lost.</p><p>Message Edited by Cusashorn on <span class="date_text">02-06-2006</span><span class="time_text">04:20 PM</span></p>

[AbsentmindedMage]

<div></div>No, I do not think Luclin is somehow rebuilding itself.  However, I do not think it is as bad off as we might think.  I took this screenshot of a rare occurance.  Luclin is passing before the sun.  As you can see while it might have chunks missing it is largerly still in tack.<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/icarus137/EQ2_000190.jpg"><div></div>

[Cusashorn]

<div>Keep in mind that an eclipse of Luclin over the sun isn't really a good example, as the sunlight doesn't shine through it.</div><div> </div><div>Luclin is gone. When a celestial body explodes from it's core, it doesn't just go BOOM! It breaks up on it's continental plates and releases out at the weakest points. To be sure, there are some really sizable chunks of Luclin still being held together by a loose gravitational pull from it's core, but It's gone. The 2nd thing to go when a planet blows up is it's atmosphere gets ignited instantly. At least, that's what I imagine would happen, since you can see from here that the surface is scorched.</div>

[Kryussius]

<div></div><p>Keep in mind also that you're talking about a computer graphic.</p><p>The texture of the artwork is painted to look like the moon is split into pieces, but is likely a single solid object as far as actual mechanics go.</p><p>Luclin's in very sizable pieces, but multiple pieces nonetheless.</p>

[DreamerClou]

<div></div>Also, the model of Luclin rotates in the sky as well.  Some days you can see the really messed up side of Luclin when it looks like a bunch of exploded rocks rather than a moon.