Freethinker Sphinx

[Rottenapple]

I guess this question would fit in here, anyway... who is Freethinker Sphinx? I saw him standing at the edge of a cliff as I was on the boat departing from Antonica. When I approached him, he threw a smoke bomb and vanished. What story is he part of?

[zero_sage]

He is part of the events dealing with the new guild halls. Occasionally, near the Qeynos Gate griffon tower you can see a member of the Royal Antonican Guard. His name is Commander Vincent something. He doesn't say anything if you hail him, but he does go to the lighthouse and talk to the workers inside. During his conversation they mention that someone has been watching the construction and the knight recognizes him as a member of the League of Freethinkers. I am not sure if there is more to this than these two NPCs and it never states what the league's interest in the construction might be.

[shadowscale]

makes me wonder if the <span class="postbody">League has any intrest in the construction in commenlands as well.</span>

[Rainmare]

My guess is that the League knows about the adventurers recent pact with Mayong, and are monitoring us rather closely at present. after all, they wouldn't want mayong to have a virtual fortress just off the coast of allies to pit against Freeport/Qeynos.

[Coniaric]

<cite>Rainmare@Oasis wrote:</cite><blockquote>My guess is that the League knows about the adventurers recent pact with Mayong, and are monitoring us rather closely at present. after all, they wouldn't want mayong to have a virtual fortress just off the coast of allies to pit against Freeport/Qeynos.</blockquote>An intriguing thought.

[Zabjade]

<span style="color: #00cc00;">I'm glad I've naot made any such pact lol/voice join Befallen.lore</span>

[Oeg]

Has anyone gone to the Freethinker's place in Maj'Dul to see if theres anything new there regarding this?

[Vanisher123]

<cite>Oegen wrote:</cite><blockquote>Has anyone gone to the Freethinker's place in Maj'Dul to see if theres anything new there regarding this?</blockquote>Theres a freethinker place in Maj'dul??? Where? o.O

[Cusashorn]

<cite>Vanisher123 wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Oegen wrote:</cite><blockquote>Has anyone gone to the Freethinker's place in Maj'Dul to see if theres anything new there regarding this?</blockquote>Theres a freethinker place in Maj'dul??? Where? o.O</blockquote><p>It's an integral part of the Peacock questline (The main storyline of the Desert of Flames expansion.)</p><p>Many clues have been revealed there over the course of the game, but they were still rather cryptic, but that's Vhalen's style for ya.</p>

[Cusashorn]

<p>I went over to Freeport's side, and didn't find anyone overlooking the construction. There arn't any conversations between the workers and the Lucanic Knights either.</p><p>I checked the Peacock Club and didn't find any new clues.</p>

[shadowscale]

<cite>Cusashorn wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>I went over to Freeport's side, and didn't find anyone overlooking the construction. There arn't any conversations between the workers and the Lucanic Knights either.</p></blockquote>there is a conversation actualy. atleast there is suposed to be. havent found anyone freethinker involvement thogh.

[Lodrelhai]

<cite>Zabjade wrote:</cite><blockquote><span style="color: #00cc00;">I'm glad I've naot made any such pact lol/voice join Befallen.lore</span></blockquote>Sorry for the bit of derail, but please do not encourage the death of the text lore channel.  If I'm on voice chat, I'm on chat with my guild or with my group, because information being passed by those is often time-sensitive.  Absolutely nothing in the Lore channel must be acted on or replied to immediately, therefore text which stays on screen and can be responded to when something isn't trying to eat my nether-regions is more advantageous there.Lore voice channel is a good way to 1) really whittle down the number of people who use the Lore channel for information (like me) and 2) discourage new lore-junkies from taking an interest in the channel.

[Cusashorn]

<cite>shadowscale wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Cusashorn wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>I went over to Freeport's side, and didn't find anyone overlooking the construction. There arn't any conversations between the workers and the Lucanic Knights either.</p></blockquote>there is a conversation actualy. atleast there is suposed to be. havent found anyone freethinker involvement thogh.</blockquote>All I ever saw was a guard escorting some workers down to the docks and saying "You guys are going on the next boat. Tools and suplies are on the island. Have fun! hahaha!"

[shadowscale]

if you stay at the docks the same luclinc knight from the building of the darklight tunnle will walk out from the docks to the head contractor who also happens to be the one from the darklight tunnle project. and they have a bit of talk about how this construction better work out better then the last project did or there will be consiquinces.

[Lodrelhai]

I took a break from killing Void Tempests to check this out, and noticed another new NPC, Ghil Ventur.  If you hail him he asks, "How can I help you?" but the only reply option is "It's nothing.  Sorry to bother you."I note him because when no one is talking to him, he default facing is directly towards Freethinker Sphinx.  Watching the watcher, I guess.  And having an actual reply to click rather than just a /say indicates to me he's going to be involved in a quest line somewhere around here.

[Zabjade]

<cite>Lodrelhai wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Zabjade wrote:</cite><blockquote><span style="color: #00cc00;">I'm glad I've naot made any such pact lol/voice join Befallen.lore</span></blockquote>Sorry for the bit of derail, but please do not encourage the death of the text lore channel. If I'm on voice chat, I'm on chat with my guild or with my group, because information being passed by those is often time-sensitive. Absolutely nothing in the Lore channel must be acted on or replied to immediately, therefore text which stays on screen and can be responded to when something isn't trying to eat my nether-regions is more advantageous there.Lore voice channel is a good way to 1) really whittle down the number of people who use the Lore channel for information (like me) and 2) discourage new lore-junkies from taking an interest in the channel.</blockquote><span style="color: #00cc00;">It's merely an option the regular lore channel is still around as well. When I'm crafting it can be hard to type I lost one combine trying to keep up with the text lore lolBack on Topic, does he vanish when someone with faction with the Freethinkers approaches him? (the one I approached him with had none) </span>

[Raven_Ancient]

<cite>Lodrelhai wrote:</cite><blockquote>I took a break from killing Void Tempests to check this out, and noticed another new NPC, Ghil Ventur. If you hail him he asks, "How can I help you?" but the only reply option is "It's nothing. Sorry to bother you."I note him because when no one is talking to him, he default facing is directly towards Freethinker Sphinx. Watching the watcher, I guess. And having an actual reply to click rather than just a /say indicates to me he's going to be involved in a quest line somewhere around here.</blockquote>A good theory but I personally doubt they'll use him. Ghil Ventur has been there for quite a while and is a relic. Ghil Ventur used to provide the quest to Qeynosians that allowed a person to choose their bind zone before everyone just got that ability anyway. My guess is we'll see this little story unfolding possibly next update or at least developing a little more.

[Lodrelhai]

<cite>Ruatha@Splitpaw wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Lodrelhai wrote:</cite><blockquote>I took a break from killing Void Tempests to check this out, and noticed another new NPC, Ghil Ventur. If you hail him he asks, "How can I help you?" but the only reply option is "It's nothing. Sorry to bother you."I note him because when no one is talking to him, he default facing is directly towards Freethinker Sphinx. Watching the watcher, I guess. And having an actual reply to click rather than just a /say indicates to me he's going to be involved in a quest line somewhere around here.</blockquote>A good theory but I personally doubt they'll use him. Ghil Ventur has been there for quite a while and is a relic. Ghil Ventur used to provide the quest to Qeynosians that allowed a person to choose their bind zone before everyone just got that ability anyway. My guess is we'll see this little story unfolding possibly next update or at least developing a little more.</blockquote>I remember that quest, and though the quest giver was in the same spot, his name was <a href="http://eq2.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?eq2quest=2039" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ethuriel</a>, an Erudite if I recall correctly (in Freeport it was <a href="http://eq2.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?eq2quest=2040" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Heilanna</a>).On the other hand, a more thorough search at Alla's shows he's for the lvl 50 Sage and Jeweler quests from Shin Village - my bad.  I'd only looked at his page, which had no "Related Quests" links.  Sorry about that.

[Giraku]

I didn't realise the Freethinkers were such a wide network, their main goals are taking down mayong right? Or don't we really know?

[Zabjade]

<span style="color: #00cc00;">He pulled one of those Smoke bombs on Klornie too and she has some positive faction with the Freethinkers.. I vagually toyed with pulling one of the smoke bombs from the SoS Questlines to see if I ended up the same place as him but I fugured that it was not likely to happen. </span>

[Cusashorn]

<cite>Giraku@Lucan DLere wrote:</cite><blockquote>I didn't realise the Freethinkers were such a wide network, their main goals are taking down mayong right? Or don't we really know?</blockquote>The Freethinkers are the Illuminati of Norrath. They're the secret society that has connections with everything. It just happens to be that the majority of them are vampire hunters.

[Zabjade]

<span style="color: #00cc00;">Probably a lot less diabolical then the illuminati. Maybe the early Knight's Templar or the Knights of the ROund Table would be closer. I'll probably think of a better example later on. </span>

[Darkstar101]

Ghil Venture is involved in the quest "The Legendary Paper" which is the crafting quest for sages from the Isle of Mara. He has been there since the introduction of that adventure pack.

[Cusashorn]

<cite>Zabjade wrote:</cite><blockquote><span style="color: #00cc00;">Probably a lot less diabolical then the illuminati. Maybe the early Knight's Templar or the Knights of the ROund Table would be closer. I'll probably think of a better example later on. </span></blockquote><p>Ok, how about this then? The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?</p><p>When people think of Secret Societies, the Illuminati usually comes to mind first just as a rule of thumb, regardless of just how "evil" they are in the world. It's synonimous with "Secret Society". </p><p>That's my opinion anyway.</p>