Kurn's Tower....or maybe Estate of Unrest?

[SPAM_is_bad]

<div>Wonder if we are ever going to find the ruins or remains of these once legendary places.</div><div> </div><div>I used to love going to each one and battling it out with the terrors with in their walls.</div><div> </div><div>Would be nice to see then "uncovered" as time passes.</div>

[IlionSturmli]

<div>We will see in a few years.</div>

[Cusashorn]

<div>We'll never find out untill Feydwere and Kunark are rediscovered as future expansion. As the above poster just said, we'll see in a few years.</div>

[Mary the Prophetess]

<div></div><p>I guess we will never see Befallen again, [since they <em>stole</em> it and plopped it down in Antonica as Stormhold!]</p><p>I really regret that, as my character's role-play stories have always centered around the Knights of Truth and the Sisters of the Rose of Erollisi Marr.</p><p>I doubt I'll ever see the Sister's Isle again either.</p><p>/sighs</p>

[i3ry]

I dunno where you people are getting a few years from.  For all you know the next expansion could be Faydwer, Kunark, or Mars if they want.<div></div>

[Cusashorn]

<blockquote><hr>Mary the Prophetess wrote:<div></div><p>I doubt I'll ever see the Sister's Isle again either.</p><hr></blockquote>Don't be so sure. Queen Antonia was born there, and Vhalen recently gave us some impressive information about the background of Sister Isle a few weeks back. I wouldn't count such an important island out just yet.

[Mary the Prophetess]

<div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><p><span class="time_text"><strong><font color="#3333ff">Cusashorn</font><font color="#3366ff">:</font></strong> (or anyone else for that matter),</span></p><p><span class="time_text">This is a background piece I use for one of my characters, Sister Seremella of the Rose, (an elderly) matron and superior of an (imagined) prefectory of the Sisterhood located in South Qeynos and Windstalker Village.</span></p><p><span class="time_text">I have marked the bits of what I believe are valid lore in <font color="#ff0000"><strong>RED</strong></font>, and those bits which are logical assumptions derived from that lore in <font color="#ffff00"><strong>YELLOW</strong>. </font> I would really appreciate a proof-read to see if I am going too far afield with this background piece</span><span class="time_text">.</span></p><p><span class="time_text">Thanks in advance.</span></p><p><span class="time_text">__________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________</span></p><p><span class="time_text"><strong><u>By the Sword, and by the Rose:</u></strong></span></p><span class="time_text"><font size="2"><p><font color="#ffff00">The Sisters of the Rose of Erollisi Marr are not, as they have often been portrayed, mere harlots in a religiously sanctioned brothel.</font> <font color="#ff0000">Contrary to the public perception,</font> <font color="#ff0000">Erollisi Marr is the goddess of love and fidelity, not of lust</font><font color="#ff0000">.</font> <font color="#ffff00">In truth, members of the Order, both males and females, take the traditional vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.</font></p><p><font color="#ff0000">The Sisterhood has existed for many, many centuries</font><font color="#ff0000">.</font> <font color="#ff0000">Their close association with the Paladins of Marr is commonly known;</font> <font color="#ffff00">indeed, they are but two parts of a whole, the Order encompassing both branches.</font><font color="#ffff00"> It is this association, more than any other factor, which has unfairly tarnished their image in the public's perception.</font></p><p><font color="#ff0000">Once, close by what is now the City of Freeport, there was a great fortress that was home to both the Sisterhood and to the Knights of Truth. This was the great fortress of Ardathium, which is now called Befallen.</font> <font color="#ffff00">Within it's walls were storerooms, workshops, armories, treasuries, and most importantly, a library.</font></p><p><font color="#ff0000"><font color="#ffff00">Such a library the world had never seen</font><font color="#ffff00">.</font> Long before Erud led his followers to Odus, </font><font color="#ffff00">before ever there was a Great Library built upon the Plane of Knowledge,</font> <font color="#ff0000">Ardathium and it's Lycaeum were among the very first wonders established during the Age of Monuments.</font> <font color="#ffff00">The wealth and knowledge of the ancient world were gathered within it's gleaming halls.</font></p><p><font color="#ffff00">With the imminent fall of Takish 'Hiz, a number of important documents from that great city were removed to Ardathium for safety</font><font color="#ffff00">, adding the wisdom and knowledge of the ancient Elvish capital to the the tomes and volumes already there.</font> <font color="#ff0000">But</font> <font color="#ff0000">alas, this was to no avail; as the great fortress fell at very nearly the same time as the Elvish city</font><font color="#ff0000">.</font> <font color="#ffff00">So much was lost in the flames, and buried by the sands; yet much still remained within the ruins as well.</font></p><p><font color="#ffff00">Over the years--for centuries--such documents as could be salvaged from the ruins of Befallen were placed in the safe keeping of the Order's new home within the Temple of Marr in Freeport and in the Paladin's Guild House located close-by within the Temple precincts.</font></p><p><font color="#ff0000">With the establishment of a sanctuary of the Sisters in the Ocean of Tears astride the main trade route between Antonica and Feydwer</font><font color="#ff0000">,</font> <font color="#ffff00">the Sisterhood became very wealthy, and very powerful.</font> <font color="#ffff00">They were no longer a small devout and cloistered religious order, but had become international financeers, diplomats, and power brokers.</font></p><p><font color="#ff0000">The presence of the Order at Tearfall on The Sister's Isle, brought them into close contact and association with the Noble Houses of Felwithe</font><font color="#ffff00"><font color="#ff0000">,</font> and allowed the Sisters to serve as intermediaries between Antonica and Faydwer, thus enabling them to maintain cordial relations with both contintents.</font></p><p><font color="#ffff00">During the Age of Cataclysms yet more archival material came into possession of the Order as the Feydwer was consumed by fire and blood. Most found it's way to the Order's headquarters in Freeport, but much stayed in safe keeping on the Sister's Isle as well.</font></p><p><font color="#ff0000">However, with the supression and expulsion of the Order by the Overlord, most of what they had accumulated over the centuries in Freeport was lost.</font> <font color="#ffff00">Only the outposts remained. </font></p><p><font color="#ff0000">The Order was decimated by their betrayal in Freeport, and both the Mother Superior of the Sisterhood, and the Grand Master of the Knights, were arrested, tried, and publically executed;</font> <font color="#ffff00">along with much of the heirarchy of the Order. The treasury and all documents and records were siezed and agents of the Order were hunted down and arrested. </font></p><p><font color="#ffff00">What remains of the once powerful Order is now trying to re-establish itself in the Qeynos area. Although their wealth and holdings have largely vanished, their influence remains.</font></p></font></span><p><span class="time_text"></span> </p><p><span class="time_text"></span> </p><p><span class="time_text"></span> </p><p><span class="time_text"></span> </p><p>Message Edited by Mary the Prophetess on <span class="date_text">03-02-2006</span><span class="time_text">06:14 PM</span></p>

[IlionSturmli]

<div><blockquote><hr>i3ry2k wrote:I dunno where you people are getting a few years from.  For all you know the next expansion could be Faydwer, Kunark, or Mars if they want.<div></div><hr></blockquote>the years are just a guess.</div><div> </div><div>But look at it, currently we have only rediscoverd less than 50% of Antonica and there is much more to find close to the lands we are walking right now.</div><div> </div><div>Sure, they can just say "Let's go to Faydwer now!" I surley can't tell you what the next expansion will be, because my magic 8ball is broken =(</div>

[Cusashorn]

<div>At the current rate of expansion at every 6 months, we still have Innothule Swamp and the Straits of Twelve (Rathe Mountains) to rediscover before we finish up Antonica.</div><div> </div><div>After that we'll have to move onto either Feydwere or Odus, and it wouldn't be surprising if Feydwere is broken up into 2 expansions.</div><div> </div><div>THEN, it seems plausible that Kunark would be the next choice, and thats at least 3 expansions right there.</div><div> </div><div>Finally we got Velious, or what remains of it.</div>

[Mary the Prophetess]

<div></div><p>Not to mentionTelosia, and any 'missing' EQ Live (or EQoA zones), zones they choose to include, in addition to totally new ones they may see fit to include. </p><p>The question is does EQ2 have the subscription rate to sustain it over 2-6 years required to expand it to the breadth of EQ Live?  I don't really know, but I suspect maybe not.</p>

[Cusashorn]

<div>No. Taelosia can remain lost for all I care. I never want to see anything relating to that awful Gates of Discord expansion pack.</div>

[Y]

But since the alien invasion never happened in EQ2's timeline, Taelosia would most likely be a very different place. I for one wouldn't mind seeing it.<div></div>

[Cusashorn]

<div>Yeah. Just as long as it has absolutely nothing relating to Gates of Discord. Not even those pathetic weakling natives.</div>

[Mary the Prophetess]

<div></div>/agrees

[i3ry]

Or, they could do the right thing, and make the next expansion fill out the rest of Antonica, then make each expansion an entire continent.<div></div>

[RiverAssassin]

Or these places could have been destroyed when Luclin was shattered.Only time will tell...

[SisterTheresa]

<div></div><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">Oh yes!  Must jump off the top of Kurn's Tower again!</font>