Ykesha's Inner Stronghold - Interesting Map

[Clowd]

<p>So my guild just recently cleared up to Ykesha in Ykesha's Inner Stronghold, so I decided to look around and see what I could find of interest.  Below is one particular picture of interest.  It's a map with some interesting characters.  Looks like Greater Faydark.  Why would this be on the tables of Field General Uktap? Why in Ykesha's Inner Stronghold?  What's this text mean anyway?  I can try to get a pic of it closer to look better if you want me to try.</p><p><img src="http://i26.tinypic.com/fkpf0w.png" /></p>

[Xalmat]

<p>I'll translate the text when I get the chance. But it most definitely looks like GFay.</p>

[Xalmat]

<p>The font is High Elf.</p><p>The one on the far left is Kelethin. Lower right corner is Felwith. Can't quite make out the rest of the letters yet.</p>

[Cusashorn]

<p>Probably the Fae Nursury and Crushbone, if I had to guess offhand. I think I've seen that map before though. Somewhere else in the game. It looks familiar, and I don't just mean it's direct similarities to the actual Greater Faydark map.</p>

[Xalmat]

<p>Upper right I wager says Ocean, right below it Crushbone. The one that has me baffled is the middle.</p><p>As for what Ykesha would have use for a map of the Greater Faydark, perhaps he is working with Munzok and planning to invade. It's no secret that Ykesha himself and his servants are Void touched, and that he works directly with Munzok's agents (Tyrannus the Dark is a void being). And it's also no secret that agents of the Void have established a foothold within the Greater Faydark already (although no Void anchor is present there, there is one in Lesser Faydark).</p><p>*edit* Got it. The middle one says Tunare Sapling. Here's the translated map.</p><p>What i'm now curious about is what those little orangish-yellow dots represent. The X represents the Combine Spires. And I'm curious why GFay is partitioned off like it is.</p><p><img src="http://www.mattcrews.com/images/eq2/yis-map-translated.jpg" /></p>

[Barx]

<p>It's probably a military-type map.</p><p>War of the Fay, maybe? If the yellow dots represent tropp concentrations, then you'll notice the only place <em>not</em> overrun is the districts marked as Kelethin and Tunare's Sapling.</p>

[Cusashorn]

<p>Look like giant mushrooms to me.</p>

[Akien]

<p>I agree looks like mushrooms to me too.</p>

[Xalmat]

<p>Yeah I agree, they look like the giant mushrooms throughout GFay. They coincide with the in-game map too, for the most part.</p>

[Barx]

<p><cite>Cusashorn wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Look like giant mushrooms to me.</p></blockquote><p>Yeah looking at it again, they're definately mushrooms.</p><p>The roads seem kind of weird though, I don't remember Gfay in EQ1 looking like that, and I certianly don't think the roads look like that now, do they? I mean some parts make sense, but the W-shape near the spires doesn't seem to.</p>

[Cusashorn]

<p>It's based off EQ2's Greater Faydark map. The similarities are clearly there. Besides, this is obviously drawn by an amateur cartographer who's going off of memory..</p><p>Just most maps were back in the day.</p>

[Mary the Prophetess]

<p>The same map can be found at the General Goods vender at the Crossing of the River Road in Greater Faydark:</p><p><img src="http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t105/agh1950/EQ2_000247.jpg?t=1249693870" /></p><p>I suspect it may be found in all sorts of places, but it's locations have no in-game significance other than decorative.  I guess the large 'X" must be the spires.</p>