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Cronyn

08-12-2009, 03:00 PM

So there I was, minding my own business, pondering the wonders and mysteries of axes and ale (both of which are amazingly important). If you haven't pondered these, you really should. Anyway, I'm getting off topic. So suddenly, there was this brilliant flash of light, and these things fell on the table in front of me!! I almost spilled my stout, but you can all rest easy - I didn't, the stout is safe.So I found these... I looked at them for a while, but I don't think I can figure them out. What do you guys think?<a href="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/glass1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/glass1_500.jpg" width="500" height="750" /></a>That's the first one. Here's the second.<a href="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/glass3.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/glass3_500.jpg" width="500" height="667" /></a>See? I can't read that! Maybe one of you more scholarly types can figure this out. Oh! One more thing. I found this in me beard!<a href="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/shard1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/shard1_th.jpg" width="300" height="517" /></a>Must have fallen there! Almost fell into me stout, which obviously would have been a travesty. I think a few others have appeared in other places, too, from what I am hearing... maybe it's worth looking for all of them?I'd like to help, but as I mentioned before, I'm pretty busy with my musings. I'm interested to hear what you guys find, though! Best of luck!*ponder... ponder... ponder..."

Calthine

08-12-2009, 03:12 PM

Dude. If THAT was in your beard... you're getting combs for Frostfell.

Kamimura

08-12-2009, 03:12 PM

Oh my.. well.. time to get to work then.. think I may need some ale of my own for this one.

Barx

08-12-2009, 03:14 PM

Here's a link to the composite of the shards that we actually discovered so far. I've fixed 9 (it looks like they resized it, it had artifacts and was slightly too small). <a href="http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/6286/actuallydiscodshards.jpg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/...iscodshards.jpg</a>I'm still working on putting the "discovered" (note the quotes) shards together with that. Stay tuned.

Xdatinelia

08-12-2009, 03:16 PM

I'm loves these kinds of lore thingies! Back to translating now tho.

Zabjade

08-12-2009, 03:30 PM

Loggin in know is this Erudish? They really need and easier way to find the fonts...(I like lore, not good with searching through the EQ2 icons, especially with the all my screen shots dissapearing from the screenshots folder since Yekesha).

irish

08-12-2009, 03:34 PM

Yeah its erudish.

Sharakari

08-12-2009, 03:35 PM

Im just treating this like a cryptogram. Might take longer but I got no access to fonts and not sure this is a known one. On glass #1 I got the first line so far as....FROM THE VAULTS OF ELARADI HAVE _A_A_ _ _ TO TRANSLATEWill post more as it makes sense but thats a beginning..... if correct at all. I'm just using standard reasoning with characters.EDIT: Man I need glasses with these fonts!

Barx

08-12-2009, 03:39 PM

Ladies and Gentlemen of the History and Lore boards...<a href="http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/9411/shardsreunited.jpg" target="_blank">SPOILER: The divided, Reunited!</a>Translators, to youI now entrust this puzzleMy work here is done<img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Kamimura

08-12-2009, 03:43 PM

I do have access to the font, and it's still pretty tough.. Erudish is hard on the eyes. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/385970365b8ed7503b4294502a458efa.gif" border="0" /> I started to translate the second pannel, and I seem to be getting a lot of gibberish so far.. :/

Xdatinelia

08-12-2009, 03:44 PM

<cite>Sesketh@Everfrost wrote in a thread about translation of the Obelisk:</cite><blockquote>Translation How-To:I've been asked to put up a comprehensive translation site, and I'll probably do that at some point, but for now, without posting any images of the languages (which outside of this forum might tread perilously close to copyright issues, and I frankly don't want any drama in my life this month), here's the basic primer:1. The fonts are located in your Sony / EverQuest 2 / UI / Fonts folder. Double clicking them on nearly every Windows system will open a sample screen that includes the alphabet in uppercase and lowercase, as well as the number characters.2. If you want to install these fonts for use on your system - which I do - then you do that in the Control Panel -> Fonts control screen. Navigate to the above listed directory, select all, install, poof. Restart any apps that use these fonts.3. For me, I simply put the graphic to translate on the screen, open a blank Word document, select Insert -> Symbol, select the appropriate font, and double click each one into the document. When I'm done, I select the text and simply translate it into Arial or some other English-appearing text.4. None of the materials I have been asked to translate to date have been anything other than English phrases written with EQ2-universe symbol systems, so no actual grammatical transliteration or anything of the sort is required.It's not all that complicated, or all that amazing, or even all that intuitive... but it was nice to keep up the appearance of brilliance on my part for a short while. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /> LOL! I'm a professional music educator for those that know me, and so I'm pretty good with symbol systems. (Obviously.) This has been a great exercise for me, and a lot of fun.I'm happy to continue interpreting anything else you throw at me, and I'll probably find a few things of my own. I'm still working on unlocking the icons that wrap around Bonemire cloud stations, which are the same symbols used throughout Lavastorm, Solusek Ro, and in the stairs outside Halls of Fate. Weird symbols, haven't gotten 'em yet.Good translating!</blockquote>A know how for newer folks.

Barx

08-12-2009, 03:45 PM

<cite>Sorako@Crushbone wrote:</cite><blockquote>I do have access to the font, and it's still pretty tough.. Erudish is hard on the eyes. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/385970365b8ed7503b4294502a458efa.gif" border="0" /> I started to translate the second pannel, and I seem to be getting a lot of gibberish so far.. :/</blockquote>Hmm. Could you take a screenshot of the font and host it on imageshack and give us a link? Despite my little Haiku I'd love to translate if I could get the font.

Calthine

08-12-2009, 03:45 PM

<cite>Sorako@Crushbone wrote:</cite><blockquote>Erudish is hard on the eyes.</blockquote>Try it with bifocals!! gah

Kamimura

08-12-2009, 03:49 PM

<cite>Barx@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote>Ladies and Gentlemen of the History and Lore boards...<a href="http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/9411/shardsreunited.jpg" target="_blank">SPOILER: The divided, Reunited!</a>Translators, to youI now entrust this puzzleMy work here is done<img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /></blockquote>Hmm.. despite my problems with the second pannel, this one is comming along nicely. If you can't get the font out from the translation faq there, I'll post a copy.

Barx

08-12-2009, 03:51 PM

<cite>Sorako@Crushbone wrote:</cite><blockquote>Hmm.. despite my problems with the second pannel, this one is comming along nicely. If you can't get the font out from the translation faq there, I'll post a copy.</blockquote>No EQ2 at work is why I can't get the font out <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Kamimura

08-12-2009, 03:56 PM

<cite>Barx@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Sorako@Crushbone wrote:</cite><blockquote>Hmm.. despite my problems with the second pannel, this one is comming along nicely. If you can't get the font out from the translation faq there, I'll post a copy.</blockquote>No EQ2 at work is why I can't get the font out <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /></blockquote>Lol, well that does make sense! Here's a link .. <a href="http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b44/sirenatsea/erud.jpg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b...natsea/erud.jpg</a>

Wilde_Night

08-12-2009, 03:57 PM

Woooo! *gets to translating*

Barx

08-12-2009, 03:58 PM

Krishti

08-12-2009, 03:58 PM

Thank you so much!

Kamimura

08-12-2009, 04:00 PM

No problem! Hopefully you all are much faster at this than I am (an hour for four words and some gibberish.. *shakes fist at Erudish*) or we could be here for the next week. :p

Sharakari

08-12-2009, 04:02 PM

Glass #1.... updating as I go.......From the vaults of ElraradI have managed to translatethe second set of theresearchers notes I foundwithin the vaults. Afterreading through thisaccount of what was verylikely a turning pointin the history of my people,I am compelled (to) see ifthere is still more to thisstory.I am increasinglyconvinced that getting thisinformation out to the peopleof Norrath is important formany reasons, not the least ofwhich is to discover the truthof what became of theErudites lost ancesteal home.As much as I would like todeliver this informationpersonally, I have alreadyfallen under scrutiny and Ifear that leaving here mightprove a fatal mistake. ThusI have been forced to put thetranslated tome within a stasispocket, a teleportation tearfor lack of a better term, thatshould anyone should be ableto access if they have the key.Wow.... getting better. was able to get the last paragraph done before leaving work.

Barx

08-12-2009, 04:05 PM

Working on the third (shattered) piece now.Updating this line-by-line (ISH) as I go.I HAVE BROKEN THE KEY UP INTOFOUR PARTS SO THAT HOPEFULLYMY HOSTS HERE IN THE VAULT WILLNOT BE ABLE TO EASILY UNLOCKTHE TEAR AND RECOVER THE BOOK...I BELIEVE THIS TO BE A CRYSTALOR STONE OF SOME KINDBUT THE ACTUAL LOCATIONIS A MYSTERY**UPDATE:FIRST SET DONE****UPDATE2: LAST SET DONE, TIME FOR THE TOUGHER MIDDLE**Also, is it bad that I'm starting to think of some of the runes as little guys in sombreros?

Xdatinelia

08-12-2009, 04:07 PM

Glass #2 Line's 1-3 are:THE ONLY CLUE I CAN OFFER ISTHIS WHATEVER THIS OBJECT ISI WAS ABLE TO SCRY ITS FREQUENCYWITH RELATIVE EASE BECAUSETHE RESONATION SIGNATURE WAS* I think I am starting to be able to read Erudian /cry

rodamez

08-12-2009, 04:38 PM

Working on the first tablet, here's what i got so farFrom the vaults of elaradi have managed to translatethe second set of theresearchers notes i foundwithin the vaults afterreading through this

Barx

08-12-2009, 04:58 PM

ok, I have the end 2 sections and about half of the middle section of hte shattered one translated. I'm headed home shortly, I'll finish it up there and post the full middle section.

Foolsfolly

08-12-2009, 05:17 PM

Haven't seen anyone else post all the seperate shards yet...<img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/shard1.jpg" width="628" height="1082" /><img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/shard2.jpg" width="650" height="950" /><img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/shard3.jpg" /><img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/shard4.jpg" /><img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/shard5.jpg" /><img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/shard6.jpg" /><img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/shard7.jpg" /><img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/shard8.jpg" width="900" height="700" /><img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/shard9.jpg" /><img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/shard10.jpg" /><img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/shard11.jpg" />

asdfasdf

08-12-2009, 05:18 PM

I HAVE BROKEN THE KEY UP INTOFOUR PARTS SO THAT HOPEFULLYMY HOSTS HERE IN THE VAULT WILLNOT BE ABLE TO EASILY UNLOCKTHE TEAR AND RECOVER THE BOOKHOWEVER THE PIECES MUST BE RECOVERED BEFORE THE KEY WILL FUNCTION SINCE I AM UNABLE TOLEAVE I HAVE SENT THESE FOUR PIECES TO FOUR TELEPORT LOCATIONS THE LARGEST OF THE SPIRESWHERE THEY SHOULD LIE DORMANT UNTIL THELARGEST PIECE IS BROUGHT NEARTHEY WILL REACT TO THIS CENTER PIECE BY FLOWING ALLOWING THE HOLDEROF THE CENTER PART OF THE KEY TO IDENTIFY THESMALLER PARTS THE TEAR ITSELF MIGHT BE MOREDIFFICULT TO LOCATE BUT I BELIEVE I WAS ABLETO ANCHOR II TO A SPECIFIC OBJECTS RESONATIONFREQUENCEI BELIEVE THIS TO BE A CRYSTAL OR STONE OFSOME KIND BUT THE ACTUAL LOCATION IS A MYSTERY

Barx

08-12-2009, 05:18 PM

<cite>Foolsfolly wrote:</cite><blockquote>{snip}</blockquote>If you don't mind, can you please post them as links instead of images? Images really make the thread unnecessarily long.

Littlelove

08-12-2009, 05:24 PM

<cite>Foolsfolly wrote:</cite><blockquote>Haven't seen anyone else post all the seperate shards yet...<img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/shard1.jpg" width="628" height="1082" /><img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/shard2.jpg" width="650" height="950" /><img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/shard3.jpg" /><img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/shard4.jpg" /><img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/shard5.jpg" /><img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/shard6.jpg" /><img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/shard7.jpg" /><img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/shard8.jpg" width="900" height="700" /><img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/shard9.jpg" /><img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/shard10.jpg" /><img src="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/images/en/features/articles/exp06/lore/shard11.jpg" /></blockquote>I don't like clicking links, please leave them like this.

Chubbylilbud

08-12-2009, 05:27 PM

Ok i am working on this slowly and this is what i have decifered so far I h a v e b r o k e n t h e k e y u p

Calthine

08-12-2009, 05:28 PM

Thanks for posting them all! Apropos of Lore tidbits, the art on those tablets/shards is just astounding.

Cusashorn

08-12-2009, 05:29 PM

Looks like I was right to return to the Vaults earlier today. I didn't take too big a look around though, but I'll return later. Just to make sure I cover all my tracks, I'm taking the Glowing Black Stone with me.

Barx

08-12-2009, 05:30 PM

<cite>Cusashorn wrote:</cite><blockquote>Looks like I was right to return to the Vaults earlier today. I didn't take too big a look around though, but I'll return later. Just to make sure I cover all my tracks, I'm taking the Glowing Black Stone with me.</blockquote>Based on what I've translated so far, it's not in the Vaults that we should start looking.

Arbreth

08-12-2009, 05:31 PM

It could be a shopping list for all I can read it, but it is beautiful.

KanadWinterstorm

08-12-2009, 05:35 PM

So far we've found four pieces of the key, through help from everyone in voice and the translation of the broken tablet. They are in:Teren's Grasp a jewelry box in the Halls of Conviction, then once you have this one;Antonica, Commonlands, Enchanted Lands and Greater Faydark glowing red shinies near the wizard spires.The next step according to the translation is to find the tear the book is hidden in:THE TEAR ITSELF MIGHT BE MORE DIFFICULT TO LOCATE BUT I BELIEVE I WAS ABLE TO ANCHOR IT TO A SPECIFIC OBJECTS RESONATION FREQUENCYI BELIEVE THIS TO BE A CRYSTAL OR STONE OF SOME KIND BUT THE ACTUAL LOCATION IS A MYSTERY

Simulacrum

08-12-2009, 05:39 PM

1st glass reads as follows:From the vaults of elarad: I have managed to translate the second set of the researchers notes I found within the vaults. after reading through this account of what was very likely a turning point in the history of people I am compelled see if there is still more to this story. I am increasingly convinced that getting this information out to the people of norrath is important for many reasons, not the least of which is to discover the truth of what became of erudites lost ancestral home. As much as I would like to deliver this information in person I have already fallen under scrutiny and I fear that leaving here might prove a fatal mistake. thus, I have been forced to put the translated tome within a stasis pocket. a teleportation tear for lack of a better term that should anyone should be able to access if they have the key this is verbatim2nd paragraph should probably say "the erudites lost..." but dosen't"should" is in the last sentence of the last paragraph twice i think the 1st one got overlooked in proofreading.

Aera

08-12-2009, 05:57 PM

First glass line by line translation. Punctuation mine.From the Vaults of ElaradI have managed to translatethe second set of theresearcher's notes. I foundwithin the vaults afterreading through thisaccount of what was verylikely a turning pointin the history of my people.I am compelled. See ifthere is still more to thisstory.I am increasinglyconvinced that getting thisinformation is important formany reasons not the least ofwhich is to discover the truthof what became of theErudites' lost ancestral home.As much as I would like todeliver this informationpersonally, I have alreadyfallen under scrutiny and Ifear that leaving here mightprove a fatal mistake. ThusI have been forced to put thetranslated tome within a stasispocket, a teleportation tearfor lack of a better term, thatshould anyone should be ableto access if they have the key.

Barx

08-12-2009, 06:04 PM

<cite>KanadWinterstorm wrote:</cite><blockquote>So far we've found four pieces of the key, through help from everyone in voice and the translation of the broken tablet. They are in:Teren's Grasp a jewelry box in the Halls of Conviction, then once you have this one;Antonica, Commonlands, Enchanted Lands and Greater Faydark glowing red shinies near the wizard spires.The next step according to the translation is to find the tear the book is hidden in:THE TEAR ITSELF MIGHT BE MORE DIFFICULT TO LOCATE BUT I BELIEVE I WAS ABLE TO ANCHOR IT TO A SPECIFIC OBJECTS RESONATION FREQUENCYI BELIEVE THIS TO BE A CRYSTAL OR STONE OF SOME KIND BUT THE ACTUAL LOCATION IS A MYSTERY</blockquote>Yeah, the third thing talks about the spires (and specifically finding the largest portion of the key at the largest spires -- the TG spires). I'm back at home now, I'll try and finish the full translation and post it.

Aera

08-12-2009, 06:10 PM

Any updates for those of us still at work on what/where the "resonating object" might be?

Barx

08-12-2009, 06:15 PM

<cite>There@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote>Any updates for those of us still at work on what/where the "resonating object" might be? </blockquote>Not yet.

asdfasdf

08-12-2009, 06:18 PM

I've finished the translation, finally...<cite>asdfasdf wrote:</cite><blockquote>I HAVE BROKEN THE KEY UP INTOFOUR PARTS SO THAT HOPEFULLYMY HOSTS HERE IN THE VAULT WILLNOT BE ABLE TO EASILY UNLOCKTHE TEAR AND RECOVER THE BOOKHOWEVER THE PIECES MUST BE RECOVERED BEFORE THE KEY WILL FUNCTION SINCE I AM UNABLE TOLEAVE I HAVE SENT THESE FOUR PIECES TO FOUR TELEPORT LOCATIONS THE LARGEST OF THE SPIRESWHERE THEY SHOULD LIE DORMANT UNTIL THELARGEST PIECE IS BROUGHT NEARTHEY WILL REACT TO THIS CENTER PIECE BY FLOWING ALLOWING THE HOLDEROF THE CENTER PART OF THE KEY TO IDENTIFY THESMALLER PARTS THE TEAR ITSELF MIGHT BE MOREDIFFICULT TO LOCATE BUT I BELIEVE I WAS ABLETO ANCHOR II TO A SPECIFIC OBJECTS RESONATIONFREQUENCEI BELIEVE THIS TO BE A CRYSTAL OR STONE OFSOME KIND BUT THE ACTUAL LOCATION IS A MYSTERY</blockquote>

Xdatinelia

08-12-2009, 06:20 PM

Second Tablet:THE ONLY CLUE I CAN OFFER ISTHIS WHATEVER THIS OBJECT ISI WAS ABLE TO SCRY ITS FREQUENCYWITH RELATIVE EASE BECAUSETHE RESONATION SIGNATURE WASSO MASSIVE THIS LEADS ME TOBELIEVE THAT IT MIGHT HAVEBEEN A PIECE OF SOMETHING FAR

Korven

08-12-2009, 06:55 PM

Got about half of the second paragraph of the second (broken) tablet:However the pieces must be recovered before the key will function since I am unable to leave I have sent these four pieces to four teleport locations the largest of which was sent to the largest of theThat's as much as I could get before a massive headache set in, hope it helps.

Wrapye

08-12-2009, 06:57 PM

Second whole piece was translated a while ago. I'll see if I can find everything I wrote."The only clue I can offer is this: Whatever this object is, I was able to scry its frequency with relative ease. Because the resonating signature was so massive, this leads me to believe that it might have been a piece of something far larger and either broke or fell off at some point not too long ago, perhaps during an impact. Find this larger object and the smaller one should be found nearby."

Hecula

08-12-2009, 07:00 PM

The only clue I can offer isthis: whatever this object is,I was able to scry its frequencywith relative ease becausethe resonation signature wasso massivethis leads me tobelieve that it might havebeen a piece of something farlarger and either broke or felloff at some point not too longago perhaps during an impact.Find this larger object and thesmaller one should be found nearby.Find the anchor and touch thekey to it. The breach shouldopen allowing the book to beretrieved from inside.I will continue my searchfrom here and should Ilocate the other set of notesI will find a way to sharethem with Norrath.

Elfruler

08-12-2009, 07:04 PM

just an idea, but could the piece be a shard of luclin that broke off, and if so, is there something like that scattered on Norrath?

Barx

08-12-2009, 07:08 PM

<cite>Leafsway@Mistmoore wrote:</cite><blockquote>just an idea, but could the piece be a shard of luclin that broke off, and if so, is there something like that scattered on Norrath?</blockquote>Folks are looking at the various shards now, we had the same idea <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Elfruler

08-12-2009, 07:10 PM

ok <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> Guildie jsut informed me on it, so i went and got the shinies and just putting in my two cents now

Eriol

08-12-2009, 07:21 PM

<cite>Barx@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Leafsway@Mistmoore wrote:</cite><blockquote>just an idea, but could the piece be a shard of luclin that broke off, and if so, is there something like that scattered on Norrath?</blockquote>Folks are looking at the various shards now, we had the same idea <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /></blockquote>Could be I guess, but I'm actually thinking of shards of something that we can reach both the large AND the small parts of, and since the "big" part of Luclin is in the sky, I wouldn't say it MUST be that.But what about crashed Gnome airships? Both in Drednever in Bonemire, and Firmroot in Moors there have been "impacts" of relatively large objects, with pieces a bit scattered around. Sure not as "fancy" as pieces of Luclin, but I'd say it fit "enough" to warrant investigation.And btw, if it is Luclin, Venril's Crown in Jarsath sticks out to me as one of the biggest pieces around. And then there's the place near Chelsith where there's a number of smaller fragments, so maybe that pair of "dual impact sites" is what they might be referring to.

Barx

08-12-2009, 07:21 PM

<cite>Leafsway@Mistmoore wrote:</cite><blockquote>ok <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /> Guildie jsut informed me on it, so i went and got the shinies and just putting in my two cents now</blockquote>/join Befallen.Lore <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Elfruler

08-12-2009, 07:23 PM

just joined the chat. thx for telling me <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Zaelicor

08-12-2009, 07:23 PM

First thing I thought of was jarsath wastes, some pretty hefty chunks of luclin there, so checked both venril's crown and the fishmen area and nothing.As a side note, could someone refresh me on the channel name of the serverwide lore channel please? I can't seem to find it.edit : thanks for the channel info! my refresh is gone wacky from today!

Barx

08-12-2009, 07:24 PM

<cite>Zaelicor wrote:</cite><blockquote>First thing I thought of was jarsath wastes, some pretty hefty chunks of luclin there, so checked both venril's crown and the fishmen area and nothing.As a side note, could someone refresh me on the channel name of the serverwide lore channel please? I can't seem to find it.</blockquote>Scroll back 2 posts <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Methriln

08-12-2009, 07:44 PM

so is there only 2 tablets and not a third correct/

Oakum

08-12-2009, 07:55 PM

<cite>Eriol wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Barx@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Leafsway@Mistmoore wrote:</cite><blockquote>just an idea, but could the piece be a shard of luclin that broke off, and if so, is there something like that scattered on Norrath?</blockquote>Folks are looking at the various shards now, we had the same idea <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /></blockquote>Could be I guess, but I'm actually thinking of shards of something that we can reach both the large AND the small parts of, and since the "big" part of Luclin is in the sky, I wouldn't say it MUST be that.But what about crashed Gnome airships? Both in Drednever in Bonemire, and Firmroot in Moors there have been "impacts" of relatively large objects, with pieces a bit scattered around. Sure not as "fancy" as pieces of Luclin, but I'd say it fit "enough" to warrant investigation.And btw, if it is Luclin, Venril's Crown in Jarsath sticks out to me as one of the biggest pieces around. And then there's the place near Chelsith where there's a number of smaller fragments, so maybe that pair of "dual impact sites" is what they might be referring to.</blockquote>Venrils Crown is the first place I thought of too, especially with the little pieces of it that are mined for various quests.

Kiara

08-12-2009, 08:01 PM

* makes more popcorn ** checks her notes ** giggles *

RaphaNissi

08-12-2009, 08:05 PM

<cite>Kiara wrote:</cite><blockquote>* makes more popcorn ** checks her notes ** giggles *</blockquote>*refills Kiara's drink as well for the long night ahead*

Kamimura

08-12-2009, 08:12 PM

Mmm.. I should have gotten some popcorn for this..

Kiara

08-12-2009, 08:28 PM

<cite>Sorako@Crushbone wrote:</cite><blockquote>Mmm.. I should have gotten some popcorn for this..</blockquote>* shares her popcorn *

denmom

08-12-2009, 08:29 PM

The mention of the shards brought this to mind:There's a shard inside Qeynos in the moat.There's another shard outside in Antonica, in Crater Pond.One is larger than the other, and he does state that the smaller one is nearby.Just a thot.

Barx

08-12-2009, 08:29 PM

<cite>Kiara wrote:</cite><blockquote>* makes more popcorn ** checks her notes ** giggles *</blockquote>Oh, so naughty. No more pixie stix until we figure this out!The worst part is, once we know what it is, it will probably be painfully obvious in hindsight.

Homeskillet

08-12-2009, 08:29 PM

<cite>Kiara wrote:</cite><blockquote>* makes more popcorn ** checks her notes ** giggles *</blockquote>So did you all actually remember to put it in this time?

Kamimura

08-12-2009, 08:34 PM

<cite>Pheep@Unrest wrote:</cite><blockquote>The mention of the shards brought this to mind:There's a shard inside Qeynos in the moat.There's another shard outside in Antonica, in Crater Pond.One is larger than the other, and he does state that the smaller one is nearby.Just a thot.</blockquote>Both have been checked, along with many others.Honeslty.. I'm not all that convinced that it is a shard of Luclin we should be looking for, but it's possible.

denmom

08-12-2009, 08:41 PM

<cite>Sorako@Crushbone wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Pheep@Unrest wrote:</cite><blockquote>The mention of the shards brought this to mind:There's a shard inside Qeynos in the moat.There's another shard outside in Antonica, in Crater Pond.One is larger than the other, and he does state that the smaller one is nearby.Just a thot.</blockquote>Both have been checked, along with many others.Honeslty.. I'm not all that convinced that it is a shard of Luclin we should be looking for, but it's possible.</blockquote>Ah, alrighty then.I've not the head for things such as this...but I'm enjoying the read of what you and your fellows do. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Foolsfolly

08-12-2009, 08:44 PM

The key to the last event was a heritage item...are there any heritage rewards that would qualify as a shard of something larger?

Spike4072

08-12-2009, 08:46 PM

Hmm so there is no way to combine the key?

Arbreth

08-12-2009, 08:48 PM

Perhaps it is a broken spire we seek?I am not in game yet... *grumbles*

Anestacia

08-12-2009, 08:49 PM

<cite>Ethena@Najena wrote:</cite><blockquote>Hmm so there is no way to combine the key?</blockquote>I wonder this too. Should we be able to combine it and for some reason (bug) that we cant? Or is there something we have to do extra to combine it? Or does it even matter at all if its combined or not? hmm?

Kamimura

08-12-2009, 08:50 PM

<cite>Pheep@Unrest wrote:</cite><blockquote>Ah, alrighty then.I've not the head for things such as this...but I'm enjoying the read of what you and your fellows do. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></blockquote>Well, if you do think of anything else let us know. We've checked quite a few areas, but we're still stumped! <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Mirander_1

08-12-2009, 08:55 PM

Ok, so we're looking for a shard of a crystal or rock, a shard of a much more massive object, that's sitting near the larger part.At this point, I'm like 90% sure it's not a Luclin shard, as I think I've managed to hit up pretty much all the shards, except for the Jasarth Wastes ones, which others here have checked.So, can anyone think of any other large crystals in the game?...wait, this just occurred to me as I wrote this, has anyone checked the crystal grove in Fens? I'll have to check that later on this evening.

Dawnslight

08-12-2009, 09:01 PM

brainstorming hereShard of fearshard of hateshards of luclina peice of something that is broken and from perhaps an impact.... hmm the moon is something that is broken but is there something else that would fit into that hint? Part of Norath that broke away maybe?

Dawnslight

08-12-2009, 09:03 PM

perhaps in the overrealm.. thats near the larger part that broke right? its in the sky and the moon is in the sky....

Kiara

08-12-2009, 09:07 PM

Is it wrong that I'm giggling at my desk, hitting refresh every few minutes?

Aneova

08-12-2009, 09:08 PM

<cite>Kiara wrote:</cite><blockquote>Is it wrong that I'm giggling at my desk, hitting refresh every few minutes?</blockquote>that's it, you're off my christmas list this year...

Kamimura

08-12-2009, 09:09 PM

It's just a little wrong.. :p

Krishti

08-12-2009, 09:09 PM

You are very mean Kiara <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" /> at least share a bit more of your popcorn with me while I go crazy searching <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" />

Wrapye

08-12-2009, 09:09 PM

Not the mention that the next update is entitled "Shards of Destiny"I also checked around the crashed ship at Firmwood Moot, which certainly impacted (the ground) and had a number of things drop off or fall from it as a result.

Kiara

08-12-2009, 09:10 PM

Awwww <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />* pouts *But it's so much fun to watch!I honestly thought you'd all have it sorted by now...

Elfruler

08-12-2009, 09:11 PM

Lol. I guess we aren't up to SOe's player standards <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Jonaroth

08-12-2009, 09:12 PM

<cite>Sorako@Crushbone wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Barx@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Sorako@Crushbone wrote:</cite><blockquote>Hmm.. despite my problems with the second pannel, this one is comming along nicely. If you can't get the font out from the translation faq there, I'll post a copy.</blockquote>No EQ2 at work is why I can't get the font out <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /></blockquote>Lol, well that does make sense! Here's a link .. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b44/sirenatsea/erud.jpg" target="_blank">http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b...natsea/erud.jpg</a></blockquote>Ah [Removed for Content] I went through like 4 pages of posts making sure no one else had done converted erudite to english, but then found this other thead and found you beat me to it! Ah well, still posting 'cause I put the time into it :-|<img src="http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/8408/fontqei.jpg" width="859" height="390" />

Cronyn

08-12-2009, 09:12 PM

<cite>Kiara wrote:</cite><blockquote>Is it wrong that I'm giggling at my desk, hitting refresh every few minutes?</blockquote>Naw, it's cool. I am chortling. I have not, as of yet, moved into gaffawing.In any case, you guys are so awesome. I love watching you all work together like this. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> Keep searching!

Kiara

08-12-2009, 09:13 PM

<cite>Leafsway@Mistmoore wrote:</cite><blockquote>Lol. I guess we aren't up to SOe's player standards <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></blockquote>Not at all!! I just have that much confidence in everyone's ability to ferrett out the secrets <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" />Good thing that Cronyn made it harder this time round * throws the dwarf under the bus *And while I'm throwing Cronyn under the bus, he was indeed chortling the last time I saw him. I daresay he was even rubbing his hands together gleefully!

Cronyn

08-12-2009, 09:14 PM

<cite>Kiara wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Leafsway@Mistmoore wrote:</cite><blockquote>Lol. I guess we aren't up to SOe's player standards <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></blockquote>Not at all!! I just have that much confidence in everyone's ability to ferrett out the secrets <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" />Good thing that Cronyn made it harder this time round * throws the dwarf under the bus *</blockquote>I'm a dwarf. It drove right over me, and I didn't even spill me stout.Nyeah! :-p

Mystfit

08-12-2009, 09:14 PM

<cite>Kiara wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Leafsway@Mistmoore wrote:</cite><blockquote>Lol. I guess we aren't up to SOe's player standards <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></blockquote>Not at all!! I just have that much confidence in everyone's ability to ferrett out the secrets <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" />Good thing that Cronyn made it harder this time round * throws the dwarf under the bus *And while I'm throwing Cronyn under the bus, he was indeed chortling the last time I saw him. I daresay he was even rubbing his hands together gleefully!</blockquote>Ferret...Feerrott....hmmmmmm

Kiara

08-12-2009, 09:15 PM

Hmmm... I wonder if it would be wrong to accept bribes for hints...

Anestacia

08-12-2009, 09:17 PM

<cite>Kiara wrote:</cite><blockquote>Hmmm... I wonder if it would be wrong to accept bribes for hints...</blockquote>Nope, not wrong at all!

Kiara

08-12-2009, 09:17 PM

Course... I could just be evil and sit here and sing..."I know something you don't know!!!"

Elfruler

08-12-2009, 09:20 PM

The devs need to stop talking to each other lol

Mirander_1

08-12-2009, 09:21 PM

Okay, another idea:The message said that whatever we're looking for broke off its greater whole recently, so what areas have been added or changed recently? The Field of Bone in Fens, and Kurn's Tower. Now, I can't recall anything that fits the bill in the Field of Bone, but is this message ringing any bells for something in Kurn's? I haven't been there before, so I don't know if there's anything relevant there.

Krishti

08-12-2009, 09:23 PM

I tried running around where the Rime had ran into Fens and also Kurns and the Crystal Grove area...nada for me unless I am doing something wrong.

Ballads

08-12-2009, 09:25 PM

<cite>Mystfit wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Kiara wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Leafsway@Mistmoore wrote:</cite><blockquote>Lol. I guess we aren't up to SOe's player standards <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></blockquote>Not at all!! I just have that much confidence in everyone's ability to ferrett out the secrets <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" />Good thing that Cronyn made it harder this time round * throws the dwarf under the bus *And while I'm throwing Cronyn under the bus, he was indeed chortling the last time I saw him. I daresay he was even rubbing his hands together gleefully!</blockquote>Ferret...Feerrott....hmmmmmm</blockquote>Was thinking feerrott myself because of the spire conection (ant+cl lead to same place, el and feerrott also lead to same place.)

freebirth

08-12-2009, 09:33 PM

could we get another hint? ill wash your mount for a month

Faymar

08-12-2009, 09:34 PM

<cite>freebirth wrote:</cite><blockquote>could we get another hint? ill wash your mount for a month</blockquote>That's nominated as my favourite euphimism of the month.

freebirth

08-12-2009, 09:37 PM

dont know what your talking about <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Dawnslight

08-12-2009, 09:38 PM

Rhyme ice sheet!!!

Xdatinelia

08-12-2009, 09:45 PM

I still think it is darklight woods spires cause they go whomp whomp whomp, but I can't find anything there.For completeness sake, and because I am running outta ideals here is the message in it's entirety:From the vaults of ElraradI have managed to translate the second set of the researchers notes I found within the vaults. After reading through this account of what was very likely a turning point in the history of my people, I am compelled (to) see if there is still more to this story.I am increasingly convinced that getting this information out to the people of Norrath is important for many reasons, not the least of which is to discover the truth of what became of the Erudites lost ancesteal home.As much as I would like to deliver this information personally, I have already fallen under scrutiny and I fear that leaving here might prove a fatal mistake. Thus I have been forced to put the translated tome within a stasis pocket, a teleportation tear, for lack of a better term, that should anyone should be able to access if they have the key.I HAVE BROKEN THE KEY UP INTO FOUR PARTS SO THAT HOPEFULLY MY HOSTS HERE IN THE VAULT WILL NOT BE ABLE TO EASILY UNLOCK THE TEAR AND RECOVER THE BOOKHOWEVER THE PIECES MUST BE RECOVERED BEFORE THE KEY WILL FUNCTION. SINCE I AM UNABLE TOLEAVE I HAVE SENT THESE FOUR PIECES TO FOUR TELEPORT LOCATIONS. THE LARGEST OF THE SPIRES WHERE THEY SHOULD LIE DORMANT UNTIL THE LARGEST PIECE IS BROUGHT NEAR. THEY WILL REACT TO THIS CENTER PIECE BY FLOWING ALLOWING THE HOLDER OF THE CENTER PART OF THE KEY TO IDENTIFY THE SMALLER PARTS. THE TEAR ITSELF MIGHT BE MORE DIFFICULT TO LOCATE BUT I BELIEVE I WAS ABLE TO ANCHOR IT TO A SPECIFIC OBJECTS RESONATION FREQUENCE.I BELIEVE THIS TO BE A CRYSTAL OR STONE OFSOME KIND BUT THE ACTUAL LOCATION IS A MYSTERYThe only clue I can offer is this: whatever this object is, I was able to scry its frequency with relative ease because the resonation signature was so massive. This leads me to believe that it might have been a piece of something far larger and either broke or fell off at some point not too long ago, perhaps during an impact.Find this larger object and the smaller one should be found nearby. Find the anchor and touch the key to it. The breach should open allowing the book to be retrieved from inside.I will continue my searchfrom here and should Ilocate the other set of notesI will find a way to sharethem with Norrath.

freebirth

08-12-2009, 09:46 PM

<cite>Xdatinelia wrote:</cite><blockquote>I still think it is darklight woods spires cause they go whomp whomp whomp, but I can't find anything there.For completeness sake, and because I am running outta ideals here is the message in it's entirety:From the vaults of ElraradI have managed to translate the second set of the researchers notes I found within the vaults. After reading through this account of what was very likely a turning point in the history of my people, I am compelled (to) see if there is still more to this story.I am increasingly convinced that getting this information out to the people of Norrath is important for many reasons, not the least of which is to discover the truth of what became of the Erudites lost ancesteal home.As much as I would like to deliver this information personally, I have already fallen under scrutiny and I fear that leaving here might prove a fatal mistake. Thus I have been forced to put the translated tome within a stasis pocket, a teleportation tear, for lack of a better term, that should anyone should be able to access if they have the key.I HAVE BROKEN THE KEY UP INTO FOUR PARTS SO THAT HOPEFULLY MY HOSTS HERE IN THE VAULT WILL NOT BE ABLE TO EASILY UNLOCK THE TEAR AND RECOVER THE BOOKHOWEVER THE PIECES MUST BE RECOVERED BEFORE THE KEY WILL FUNCTION. SINCE I AM UNABLE TOLEAVE I HAVE SENT THESE FOUR PIECES TO FOUR TELEPORT LOCATIONS. THE LARGEST OF THE SPIRES WHERE THEY SHOULD LIE DORMANT UNTIL THE LARGEST PIECE IS BROUGHT NEAR. THEY WILL REACT TO THIS CENTER PIECE BY FLOWING ALLOWING THE HOLDER OF THE CENTER PART OF THE KEY TO IDENTIFY THE SMALLER PARTS. THE TEAR ITSELF MIGHT BE MORE DIFFICULT TO LOCATE BUT I BELIEVE I WAS ABLE TO ANCHOR IT TO A SPECIFIC OBJECTS RESONATION FREQUENCE.I BELIEVE THIS TO BE A CRYSTAL OR STONE OFSOME KIND BUT THE ACTUAL LOCATION IS A MYSTERYThe only clue I can offer is this: whatever this object is, I was able to scry its frequency with relative ease because the resonation signature was so massive. This leads me to believe that it might have been a piece of something far larger and either broke or fell off at some point not too long ago, perhaps during an impact.Find this larger object and the smaller one should be found nearby. Find the anchor and touch the key to it. The breach should open allowing the book to be retrieved from inside.I will continue my searchfrom here and should Ilocate the other set of notesI will find a way to sharethem with Norrath.</blockquote>thank you. that helps

jaykin

08-12-2009, 09:54 PM

does anyone know if the broken spire in everfrost has always been glowing?

Arbreth

08-12-2009, 09:57 PM

I said a couple pages back to check the spires...

Foolsfolly

08-12-2009, 09:58 PM

Has anyone checked the broken spires?edit: noticed after I posted I was really late with this idea =P

jaykin

08-12-2009, 10:02 PM

i have checked all the broken spires that i can remember, all of them are dead except for the one in everfrost that is glowing orange at the base, but i can't remember if it always has been or not. i can't do anything with pieces and there is nothing to click on. i was thinking maybe it was a live event and we just have to wait for a while before we can advance it.

Kamimura

08-12-2009, 10:03 PM

The EF spires have always been glowing like this.

Wrapye

08-12-2009, 10:05 PM

The thing is, the key is broken into parts. Do we need to have it put back together again first? If so, how?

Cronyn

08-12-2009, 10:05 PM

<cite>jaykin wrote:</cite><blockquote>i have checked all the broken spires that i can remember, all of them are dead except for the one in everfrost that is glowing orange at the base, but i can't remember if it always has been or not. i can't do anything with pieces and there is nothing to click on. i was thinking maybe it was a live event and we just have to wait for a while before we can advance it.</blockquote>Ehh... because I can't let that line of thinking go on...The book is in game on live, and is obtainable. I just didn't want you guys to think I had pulled the meanest fast one ever. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Wrapye

08-12-2009, 10:16 PM

<cite>Cronyn wrote:</cite><blockquote>The book is in game on live, and is obtainable. I just didn't want you guys to think I had pulled the meanest fast one ever. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /></blockquote>Way too late for that. The meanest fast one was when they implied that the ability to unlock the Froglok was in the game since day one, and in reality wasn't for about half a year.

Barx

08-12-2009, 10:21 PM

<cite>Cronyn wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>jaykin wrote:</cite><blockquote>i have checked all the broken spires that i can remember, all of them are dead except for the one in everfrost that is glowing orange at the base, but i can't remember if it always has been or not. i can't do anything with pieces and there is nothing to click on. i was thinking maybe it was a live event and we just have to wait for a while before we can advance it.</blockquote>Ehh... because I can't let that line of thinking go on...The book is in game on live, and is obtainable. I just didn't want you guys to think I had pulled the meanest fast one ever. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /></blockquote>Tricksy dorf, tricksy! I still can't think of what the next step is, unless it's something I've already checked but I missed something in checking it.

Methriln

08-12-2009, 10:25 PM

my brain...it hurts

jaykin

08-12-2009, 10:41 PM

does anyone know if when you click on the crystals in the shattered weir, did it always give the message that they vibrate?

Methriln

08-12-2009, 10:44 PM

yes

Kamimura

08-12-2009, 10:46 PM

Oh great keepers the the knowledge of something which you have which we do not have. I come with offerings of 14 chocolate cakes, three Boston cream pies, 6 bottles of orange soda, and a small fuzzy puppy. Now can we have a hint? <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/49869fe8223507d7223db3451e5321aa.gif" border="0" />

kiyokobabygirl

08-12-2009, 10:50 PM

@Kiara - you do know when you re-tweeted my message on twitter suddenly half the lore channel vaulted off to the Lover's Look in TD right? It was amusing to say the least.Oh, and we're still hunting for that book..yep, it's been *checks watch* oh about 12 hours ongoing searching now.. what was that about bribes? *rummages around for her pixie sticks*

Agert

08-12-2009, 10:56 PM

how about the shards at the end of AoB and OOA?

freebirth

08-12-2009, 10:58 PM

ok can i ask this of kiara... do we have to combine the key pieces before we find the dimensional bubble?

Agert

08-12-2009, 11:00 PM

i think it auto combines when you find the shard

Cronyn

08-12-2009, 11:02 PM

Eh... I think you guys can sweat it out for a night. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> Believe me, I don't want to make you guys suffer, I just think it's best when you guys collaberate and figure it out. I also think this might have the added bonus of an unintended piece of lore, as well. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />Good luck, lore fans. As I've said, you're the best group of players in MMO gaming, and I'm confident you'll puzzle it out. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Elfruler

08-12-2009, 11:03 PM

im not sleeping until i figure it out lol.

Kamimura

08-12-2009, 11:04 PM

Haha, I know, right?

jaykin

08-12-2009, 11:06 PM

<cite>Agert wrote:</cite><blockquote>how about the shards at the end of AoB and OOA?</blockquote>i checked all the anchors and found nothing

Mirander_1

08-12-2009, 11:08 PM

My best guess at this point is that whatever we're looking for is in a dungeon. If only because I know the overland zones well, and I'm out of ideas where it could be.

jaykin

08-12-2009, 11:15 PM

i was thinking it would be in an overland zone so it would be open to all lvls

Methriln

08-12-2009, 11:23 PM

dosent have to be last book the vaults part wasnt

IamEvilHomer137

08-12-2009, 11:32 PM

Kiara darling, Lord Pantz and me are offering bribes in amazing times at fanfaire 2010 =P

Xdatinelia

08-13-2009, 12:16 AM

If ferrett was a clue not a type-o, then maybe it has something to do with the roekill.. or ratonga in general.

Aera

08-13-2009, 12:35 AM

I'm just sort of thinking out loud here. Maybe writing this out, or someone reading it, will spark something. The clue we have is that something large object had a piece fall or broken off of it, and that this was caused by a relatively recent impact. By recent, does that mean as recent as a few expansion packs ago (Drednever crash site) or does that mean recent as in Luclin shards hitting something big on the planet (pre-launch)? That smaller piece is resonating with a lot of power of some sort, apparently, so it was easy for our man to slip the book in or near it. We have to find the bigger object first; or rather it might be easier to find the bigger object first. Is there anything on Norrath now that is shattered or in pieces that was whole in EQLive (other than the broken spires, I think that possibility has been ruled out)? Or might we be thinking of it wrongly altogether (which I doubt). But it could be that this recent "impact" is the impact that the return of the gods has caused.Again, just thinking out loud here.

Mustang8259

08-13-2009, 12:35 AM

Just a shot in the dark, but isn't the Shimmering Citadel supposed to be a recent break off of the rest of KoS. Or for that matter isn't the Kingdom of Sky as we know it supposed to be a recent break off from the Plane of Sky that wound up here?

Foolsfolly

08-13-2009, 12:38 AM

The Shard of Love is supposed to be coming out soon I believe...and it's suffered some sort of substatial impact. Perhaps a piece of the shard has found it's way into the mortal realm, and the book details how to access the shard?

Ballads

08-13-2009, 12:42 AM

Did anyoen check shard of fear? Piece of a larger thing to hide in, thats in ferrett er feerrott. I guess you could say it resonates fear.

Gungo

08-13-2009, 01:00 AM

Kamimura

08-13-2009, 01:02 AM

We have checked shimmering citadel, parts of KOS, and around the outside and entrance of shard of fear.. May have missed something in any of those places, as always, but..

Coniaric

08-13-2009, 01:02 AM

<cite>Gungo wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Xdatinelia wrote:</cite><blockquote>I still think it is darklight woods spires cause they go whomp whomp whomp, but I can't find anything there.For completeness sake, and because I am running outta ideals here is the message in it's entirety:From the vaults of ElraradI have managed to translate the second set of the researchers notes I found within the vaults. After reading through this account of what was very likely a turning point in the history of my people, I am compelled (to) see if there is still more to this story.I am increasingly convinced that getting this information out to the people of Norrath is important for many reasons, not the least of which is to discover the truth of what became of the Erudites lost ancesteal home.As much as I would like to deliver this information personally, I have already fallen under scrutiny and I fear that leaving here might prove a fatal mistake. Thus I have been forced to put the translated tome within a stasis pocket, a teleportation tear, for lack of a better term, that should anyone should be able to access if they have the key.I HAVE BROKEN THE KEY UP INTO FOUR PARTS SO THAT HOPEFULLY MY HOSTS HERE IN THE VAULT WILL NOT BE ABLE TO EASILY UNLOCK THE TEAR AND RECOVER THE BOOKHOWEVER THE PIECES MUST BE RECOVERED BEFORE THE KEY WILL FUNCTION. SINCE I AM UNABLE TOLEAVE I HAVE SENT THESE FOUR PIECES TO FOUR TELEPORT LOCATIONS. THE LARGEST OF THE SPIRES WHERE THEY SHOULD LIE DORMANT UNTIL THE LARGEST PIECE IS BROUGHT NEAR. THEY WILL REACT TO THIS CENTER PIECE BY FLOWING ALLOWING THE HOLDER OF THE CENTER PART OF THE KEY TO IDENTIFY THE SMALLER PARTS. THE TEAR ITSELF MIGHT BE MORE DIFFICULT TO LOCATE BUT I BELIEVE I WAS ABLE TO ANCHOR IT TO A SPECIFIC OBJECTS RESONATION FREQUENCE.I BELIEVE THIS TO BE A CRYSTAL OR STONE OFSOME KIND BUT THE ACTUAL LOCATION IS A MYSTERYThe only clue I can offer is this: whatever this object is, I was able to scry its frequency with relative ease because the resonation signature was so massive. This leads me to believe that it might have been a piece of something far larger and either broke or fell off at some point not too long ago, perhaps during an impact.Find this larger object and the smaller one should be found nearby. Find the anchor and touch the key to it. The breach should open allowing the book to be retrieved from inside.I will continue my searchfrom here and should Ilocate the other set of notesI will find a way to sharethem with Norrath.</blockquote>Sorry i got into this late but what else has everyone found? I am presuming the above is the translated pictures?The largest spire is in kylong planes btw.Sounds like we are looking for 4 peices of a key.That can only be found when the center and largest part of the key is brought near it. these 4 peices were teleported to the largest spire locationsThen when all 4 peices are together with the center piece. You must find the tear to find the book.The tear is located by a powerful stone/crystal.Which imho is the stone in the center of the kylong plains spires.(the scrye thing put me off and thought of scrying stones lol)</blockquote>I wish. But that spires had been checked out quite few times. It's somewhere else.

Kamimura

08-13-2009, 01:04 AM

<cite>Gungo wrote:</cite><blockquote>Sorry i got into this late but what else has everyone found? I am presuming the above is the translated pictures?The largest spire is in kylong planes btw.Sounds like we are looking for 4 peices of a key.That can only be found when the center and largest part of the key is brought near it. these 4 peices were teleported to the largest spire locationsThen when all 4 peices are together with the center piece. You must find the tear to find the book.The tear is located by a powerful stone/crystal.Which imho is the stone in the center of the kylong plains spires.(the scrye thing put me off and thought of scrying stones lol)</blockquote>We did translate the plates, and that is the text. We have found the first bit from the spires in KP and the four other bits from other spires.. we're looking for the last section now.

Kiara

08-13-2009, 01:05 AM

I gave you guys a HUGE MASSIVE GINORMOUS hint when I retweeted Stargrace's comment on Twitter <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />* watches everyone tackle Stargrace *I'll be quiet now, lest the lore dorf come for my head.

freebirth

08-13-2009, 01:07 AM

but... i caughtthat.. he said it was from ealier......damnit!!!! i was terhe even

Gungo

08-13-2009, 01:09 AM

<cite>Sorako@Crushbone wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Gungo wrote:</cite><blockquote>Sorry i got into this late but what else has everyone found? I am presuming the above is the translated pictures?The largest spire is in kylong planes btw.Sounds like we are looking for 4 peices of a key.That can only be found when the center and largest part of the key is brought near it. these 4 peices were teleported to the largest spire locationsThen when all 4 peices are together with the center piece. You must find the tear to find the book.The tear is located by a powerful stone/crystal.Which imho is the stone in the center of the kylong plains spires.(the scrye thing put me off and thought of scrying stones lol)</blockquote>We did translate the plates, and that is the text. We have found the first bit from the spires in KP and the four other bits from other spires.. we're looking for the last section now.</blockquote>coll at least i was close what chat channel u guys using

Kiara

08-13-2009, 01:32 AM

Wow, the Befallen.Lore channel is hopping!

Mustang8259

08-13-2009, 01:41 AM

Another guess: Isn't there some sort of stone in one of the Miragul's Phylactery instances that hasn't had a use? Oh and a humble request for those that remain twitterless =P What exactly did Kiara say when she re-twittered Stargraces comment?*edited to add the request*

Josgar

08-13-2009, 01:48 AM

Did any plane of knowledge books survive? Isn't there one in one of the freeport neighborhoods?

Kamimura

08-13-2009, 01:49 AM

The twitter says.. "Oh.. wow.. Have any of you been to "Lover's Look" in Timorous Deep? Right close to the starter area. Amazing view"

Kiara

08-13-2009, 01:53 AM

It's a darn good thing I'm hiding in the Community Lounge... Else the residents of Befallen might be kidnapping right now for taunting them in chat <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Josgar

08-13-2009, 01:56 AM

<cite>Kiara wrote:</cite><blockquote>It's a darn good thing I'm hiding in the Community Lounge... Else the residents of Befallen might be kidnapping right now for taunting them in chat <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></blockquote>I love that place <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Kiara

08-13-2009, 02:05 AM

Ooooooh!It looks like Illuria of Lucan may have found it!* SQUEEEEEEE *

Ozymundas

08-13-2009, 02:18 AM

That was fun, and gratz to Illuria! Thanks again Kiara for hanging out; the torture was as sweet as the victory.

Methriln

08-13-2009, 02:20 AM

Next lore book plz! <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" /> enjoyed this 1 tho thought the rock clue was kinda sketchy

Arbreth

08-13-2009, 02:24 AM

Yeah... not sure how it fits here though... *looks around and shrugs*I will warn you people though, best be quick, for seconds is longer than you have.

Anestacia

08-13-2009, 02:29 AM

That was well thought out and a lot of fun. I agree that the last clue was a bit vague but if it had been too specific it probably would have taken the thrill of the hunt away from it. The continuation to the story was a very enjoyable read and I cant wait to see the next chapter! Thanks Kiara for hanging out in the channel with us and a huge thank you to Cronyn as well for the great quest!!

Mirander_1

08-13-2009, 03:07 AM

Okay, so... what was the answer?

Arbreth

08-13-2009, 03:23 AM

Island not, apart, yet close,your night dress shimmersas memory passes passes by.

PsiaMeese

08-13-2009, 03:25 AM

*a steady purr of satisfaction can be heard as she gazes across the water*"Oh, my..."

Silerua

08-13-2009, 03:45 AM

Who got it on Bazaar? d: I passed out just a wee bit too early. My very kind sister apparently stayed up and got it for Aure (thankies!!) but someone beat her. I'm betting it was Artemiz, the sneaky devil! (;[EDIT: it = disco, that is][EDIT2: Okie, Artemiz just told me I'm wrong... About the part where they got disco, not the sneaky devil part. *grin* Hmmm... Who is sneakier than Artemiz...]

Obann

08-13-2009, 04:00 AM

Oh well had actually hoped I would have gotten this one on my own. Think I'm just being too literal with the last hints. Gratz to all you new book owner! I'm waiting till the answer is up to go get mine now. <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Niltsiar

08-13-2009, 04:03 AM

Sad, my english is not good enough to solve that puzzle <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" />

Kamimura

08-13-2009, 04:15 AM

It was fun, and I'm glad it took a bit longer to solve. I agree with some, the last hint wasn't all that great.. still, I imagine it must be hard to come up with hints which are.. uhh.. hinty enough, without just giving it away.

Valdaglerion

08-13-2009, 04:29 AM

<cite>Aurelis wrote:</cite><blockquote>Who got it on Bazaar? d: I passed out just a wee bit too early. My very kind sister apparently stayed up and got it for Aure (thankies!!) but someone beat her. I'm betting it was Artemiz, the sneaky devil! (;[EDIT: it = disco, that is][EDIT2: Okie, Artemiz just told me I'm wrong... About the part where they got disco, not the sneaky devil part. *grin* Hmmm... Who is sneakier than Artemiz...]</blockquote>sneaky? me? sneaky? zomg Aure. . .Thanks Kiara for popping on the lore channel tonight and tormenting us a little further. Thanks Cronyn for the lore and questing. This was a fun hunt, although yeah, the last hint was a little vague. Really looking forward to more, thanks for the efforts peeps, was a fun way to spend the evening <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" />

Cloudrat

08-13-2009, 05:07 AM

Loads of fun<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> Thanks Kiara for coming to egg us on. Early on, we thought about Timerous but seemed to head off and spread out across the world when we were unable to swim to the big rock. Hehe oh well. Grats to Illuria and thanks for letting us know when you did find it<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />Looking forward to the next one,,,Aeryal

shadowscale

08-13-2009, 06:40 AM

i have the four parts and the center, they wont combien, and nothing is showing up at lovers look.did i miss a step?

Niltsiar

08-13-2009, 06:49 AM

Ok, found my book. No shadowscale, you are fine. Lovers look is not the exact point. See your PMs <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" />For those who want to read the book, <a href="http://www.jasrik.de/eq2/pages.html" target="_blank">HERE</a> are the pages.

PokemonLuVer

08-13-2009, 08:33 AM

OK I give, I have no idea where this book is. I'm at lover's look, I'm looking around all day and all night and aside from a large rock formation of the coast, that I explored I see nothing?

Niltsiar

08-13-2009, 08:41 AM

This is not my text, this is what someone told me in the Befallen.Lore Channel. So no credit to me please <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />1. Go to Teren's Grasp. Go to Hall of Conviction and look for a little box on a table in the upper part.2. Go to the spires in Antonica, Commonlands, Enchanted Lands and Greater Faydark and look for a red shiny.3. Go to Timorous Deep /loc 2090,36,686 and look for an icy crystal

Spike4072

08-13-2009, 09:29 AM

Umm so what was it that it broke off of? <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/136dd33cba83140c7ce38db096d05aed.gif" border="0" />I am on my work computer with all the graphic settings all the way down so I may just have not seen it.

Garnaf

08-13-2009, 09:33 AM

If it's made of ice it may very well be a piece of the Eternal Shard, the big chunk of Ice that Miragul calls a phylactery. (and the current zonein point for Scion, Crucible and Anathema)

Silerua

08-13-2009, 09:43 AM

zomg Artemiz don't lie. *grin*I am glad this one took some time, yes. The thinking that was involved was fun, up until the point my head was splitting in two 11 hours later. *cries*

Barx

08-13-2009, 09:47 AM

<cite>Dranikos@Butcherblock wrote:</cite><blockquote>If it's made of ice it may very well be a piece of the Eternal Shard, the big chunk of Ice that Miragul calls a phylactery. (and the current zonein point for Scion, Crucible and Anathema)</blockquote>Hmmm, but Tim Deep is no where near the main Phylactery, the tablets say the tiny piece should be near the larger piece. I haven't had a chance to find it myself yet (I went to bed before it was found yesterday).Kiara (or Cronyn, if you know), could you post a list of which shard you sent to which site? I'm still not sure where a few of the shards were supposed to have been found, and I think it'd be nice to give them some credit. (I'm going to add this to the forum lore quests on the wiki as well and want to credit the sites there).Also, did we ever confirm that the note for the first book is no longer available since the book is just on the vendors now?

Spike4072

08-13-2009, 09:49 AM

Niltsiar

08-13-2009, 10:07 AM

Hmmm in eq1 there were combine teleportation spires in the deep sea with an underwater teleportation chamber. Maybe there are some ruins of this spires and/or chamber.Edit: in TD that is <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Barx

08-13-2009, 10:11 AM

<cite>Brax@Valor wrote:</cite><blockquote>Hmmm in eq1 there were combine teleportation spires in the deep sea with an underwater teleportation chamber. Maybe there are some ruins of this spires and/or chamber.Edit: in TD that is <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /></blockquote>Yeah, the firepot room.I don't remember if that was ever well explained in EQ1 though, and I haven't seen any trace of it in EQ2 (since it was way out in the water, farther out than you could get in EQ2 for sure).

Wrapye

08-13-2009, 10:13 AM

The portal that shows up is a bit buggy as well. When I activated it, I got no book when I clicked on it. I had to wait for someone else to activate it for themselves, then I was able to get the book. Others in the lore channel had the same issue.

Sightless

08-13-2009, 10:43 AM

Well I got the book but I want the tablet it looks much cooler. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Valdaglerion

08-13-2009, 10:57 AM

Ok, the text from these books is really interesting to me because for quite a while now many players have asked about rebuilding the broken spires in Loping Plains. I would absolutely love to see the knowledge for doing so reclaimed as part of the search for Odus culminating in a rebuilding of the spires in LP along with any thing else which might be planned.Just saying . . .[Edit:: I would also have loved to have seen the tablet done as a collection with the reward being a house/guild hall item of the tablet itself when all the pieces were assembled. Just a thought, beautiful artwork on the tablet]

thecynic315

08-13-2009, 10:58 AM

So let me hinder a guess...the Ice Shard in TD broke off of the Rhyme Ice Sheet when they stoped by TD in the last Lore Story and picked up the Iksar dirge?Hind-sight 20/02 and all it makes sence as its the largest crystaline structure with some kind of magical properties currently in game.

Spike4072

08-13-2009, 11:35 AM

<cite>Androw@Najena wrote:</cite><blockquote>So let me hinder a guess...the Ice Shard in TD broke off of the Rhyme Ice Sheet when they stoped by TD in the last Lore Story and picked up the Iksar dirge?Hind-sight 20/02 and all it makes sence as its the largest crystaline structure with some kind of magical properties currently in game.</blockquote>The ice fort thing that the turtle dragons are pulling seems to be the only thing that moves. The Sheet looks like they just froze the water when they got there.Also the phrase is "hazard a guess" or are you trying to hinder all our guess work? <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" />

Cusashorn

08-13-2009, 11:40 AM

*yawn* Good morning everyone. Now that you've all done the hard parts for me, can I assume that the book is found in Timorous Deep?

Noaani

08-13-2009, 11:48 AM

Anyone have any idea about how long ago the books would have been written?

Cusashorn

08-13-2009, 11:53 AM

Within the first 100 years is the best we can assume.

Barx

08-13-2009, 11:55 AM

<cite>Noaani wrote:</cite><blockquote>Anyone have any idea about how long ago the books would have been written?</blockquote>The actual books don't appear to be recent. The exact date I do not know, but based on the first book (haven't read the second yet) it's sometime after the original Nexus was cut off, but before the Shattering. You can probably find a more in-depth discussion of date of the book in the "I found something" thread.

Noaani

08-13-2009, 11:59 AM

Easiest way to figure it out, I would assume, is to figure out when the major characters in the story were alive.

thecynic315

08-13-2009, 12:00 PM

<cite>Ethena@Najena wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Androw@Najena wrote:</cite><blockquote>So let me hinder a guess...the Ice Shard in TD broke off of the Rhyme Ice Sheet when they stoped by TD in the last Lore Story and picked up the Iksar dirge?Hind-sight 20/02 and all it makes sence as its the largest crystaline structure with some kind of magical properties currently in game.</blockquote>The ice fort thing that the turtle dragons are pulling seems to be the only thing that moves. The Sheet looks like they just froze the water when they got there.Also the phrase is "hazard a guess" or are you trying to hinder all our guess work? <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" /></blockquote>This just teaches me I need more coffee in the morning....But I still think the ice shard fell off of SOMETHING from the Rhyme guys when they touched down in TD in that lore story

Sharakari

08-13-2009, 12:10 PM

The funny part is we still havn't found that "unexpected lore" part that was mentioned.After deciphering one of the stones, listening to voice, and reading the lore chat channel for over 12 hours, I was so ticked when the portal bugged that I just logged off. Some other toon wound up getting server disco for all my hard work. Oh well.How about turning those red shineys into a collection piece for our homes?

Obann

08-13-2009, 12:15 PM

/bangs headI was so close last night. Had the right area just didn't go far enough over! /bangs head

Barx

08-13-2009, 12:16 PM

<cite>Sharakari@Unrest wrote:</cite><blockquote>The funny part is we still havn't found that "unexpected lore" part that was mentioned.After deciphering one of the stones, listening to voice, and reading the lore chat channel for over 12 hours, I was so ticked when the portal bugged that I just logged off. Some other toon wound up getting server disco for all my hard work. Oh well.How about turning those red shineys into a collection piece for our homes?</blockquote>Discos are nothing but epeen, the reward is the lore itself, not being the first one to get it. If everyone wanted to be first then we would have had the collaboration here like we did, instead you'd have everyone keeping their piece to themselves in order to hope that they complete the puzzle first.The unexpected lore likely has to do with the item that we're getting the book from, we have to figure out it's real meaning.A red shinie for houses would be nice though =)

Sharakari

08-13-2009, 12:34 PM

<cite>Barx@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote>Discos are nothing but ep33n ..... instead you'd have everyone keeping their piece to themselves in order to hope that they complete the puzzle first.</blockquote>Like the guy offering 400plat to anyone that gave him the location privately so he could have disco on his server? <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" />You call it ep33n (i got censored but yours got through... interesting), I call it an added bit of fun in the whole thing. I didn't log because I didn't get disco (although it would have been cool), I logged because the portal bugged! Just so you understand that it WAS the lore I was interested in.

Barx

08-13-2009, 12:37 PM

<cite>Sharakari@Unrest wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Barx@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote>Discos are nothing but ep33n ..... instead you'd have everyone keeping their piece to themselves in order to hope that they complete the puzzle first.</blockquote>Like the guy offering 400plat to anyone that gave him the location privately so he could have disco on his server? <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" />You call it ep33n (i got censored but yours got through... interesting), I call it an added bit of fun in the whole thing. I didn't log because I didn't get disco (although it would have been cool), I logged because the portal bugged! Just so you understand that it WAS the lore I was interested in.</blockquote>Yeah, like someone offering a bunch of plat so that they can get disco, that's what I'm talking about not being in the spirit of these quests. (I understand you logged off because it bugged not because you didn't get disco, my remark wasn't directed directly towards you, it was more of a general commentary on the sillyness of 'discos' in general).As for the censoring, hmm. Epeen? epeen. Strange, it doesn't censor it when I type it.

Xdatinelia

08-13-2009, 12:39 PM

My take: There's a rock in TD, a big honkin island with a boat in front of it. It is a piece of Luclin, it was never opened because they didn't need the room.If anyone recalls, in beta, said rock had undead on it you could see, just not get to.Infering that pieces of Luclin attract undead, which can be seen all over norrath. The shard isn't ice, it is a tiny piece of Luclin. and would be in the right area due to the `undead `nearby.I think the shard looks like a small piece of Luclin due to it being blue glowing, and the hint was for a crystal or rock, not ice.

Mystfit

08-13-2009, 12:57 PM

I"ve not yet done the quest, does the shard look like the little shards in JW you harvested as one of hte quests...(sort of purple/blue/black(mebbe).

Kiara

08-13-2009, 01:33 PM

You guys were very impressive working it all out last night!!

Zabjade

08-13-2009, 01:39 PM

<cite>Kiara wrote:</cite><blockquote>You guys were very impressive working it all out last night!!</blockquote>We were able to puzzel out the key bit clues, I was already in TG when someone found the Center. That part was done well, I do admit the ending was a little random however. ;p Don't worry, it's a learning experiance <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Cronyn

08-13-2009, 01:55 PM

Hey all, I'm really glad you all had a good time, and I'm looking forward to putting up the next one -- seriously, you guys rock. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />So, here's what happened on that last clue. I must respectfully disagree that the clue was vague - you guys actually had the right idea right off the bat. It's a piece of Luclin, and you guys named every known shard of Luclin... except one. If you stand on Faydadar Watch, and look out toward that giant mountain in the water? Yeah... that is actually a huge chunk of the moon. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />I apologize, because I thought that lore was known (and I asked a couple designers, who all thought that it was as well), but it seems that you guys didn't have that one piece of information, which was crucial to that clue working. I'm really sorry about that.Anyway, in spite of it, I hope everyone enjoyed themselves, and you guys are enjoying the new piece of the puzzle you were given. Stay tuned for the next one! Can't wait to play this game again. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />Now... back to my pondering... *ponder... ponder... ponder...*

Barx

08-13-2009, 01:55 PM

<cite>Kiara wrote:</cite><blockquote>You guys were very impressive working it all out last night!!</blockquote>Yeah. As soon as I translated the bit about the largest spires, I new it had to be in TG (or at worst Gfay, the only other of the large combine spires), I wish I had been at home to check and let folks in lore chat know.So that part was pretty easy (as with the rest of the spires). It was that last bit that was fiendish <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Zabjade

08-13-2009, 01:59 PM

Ozymundas

08-13-2009, 02:22 PM

<cite>Zabjade wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Cronyn wrote:</cite><blockquote>Hey all, I'm really glad you all had a good time, and I'm looking forward to putting up the next one -- seriously, you guys rock. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" />So, here's what happened on that last clue. I must respectfully disagree that the clue was vague - you guys actually had the right idea right off the bat. It's a piece of Luclin, and you guys named every known shard of Luclin... except one. If you stand on Faydadar Watch, and look out toward that giant mountain in the water? Yeah... that is actually a huge chunk of the moon. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" />I apologize, because I thought that lore was known (and I asked a couple designers, who all thought that it was as well), but it seems that you guys didn't have that one piece of information, which was crucial to that clue working. I'm really sorry about that.Anyway, in spite of it, I hope everyone enjoyed themselves, and you guys are enjoying the new piece of the puzzle you were given. Stay tuned for the next one! Can't wait to play this game again. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" />Now... back to my pondering... *ponder... ponder... ponder...*</blockquote>Oh we knew about that one! Just that no one could get to it perhaps sticking the crystal in the water just this side of the zone barrier would have made it perfect <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /> The second Isle was a little far from it <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /> BTW many are wanting the plate as a house item, is that made from clear glass?</blockquote>I agree, I swam around out toward the huge hunk first thing.

Barx

08-13-2009, 02:24 PM

Aera

08-13-2009, 03:03 PM

Well done, everyone. I had fun running around looking for the shard. I had no idea that huge chunk in TD was a part of Luclin, which explains why I was so confused last night when I got the book. Makes sense now though.Really looking forward to the next one, Cronyn.

denmom

08-13-2009, 03:22 PM

Grats to all!And thank you...I'll go looking for it tonight.

Homeskillet

08-13-2009, 03:27 PM

<cite>Cronyn wrote:</cite><blockquote>Hey all, I'm really glad you all had a good time, and I'm looking forward to putting up the next one -- seriously, you guys rock. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" />So, here's what happened on that last clue. I must respectfully disagree that the clue was vague - you guys actually had the right idea right off the bat. It's a piece of Luclin, and you guys named every known shard of Luclin... except one. If you stand on Faydadar Watch, and look out toward that giant mountain in the water? Yeah... that is actually a huge chunk of the moon. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" />I apologize, because I thought that lore was known (and I asked a couple designers, who all thought that it was as well), but it seems that you guys didn't have that one piece of information, which was crucial to that clue working. I'm really sorry about that.Anyway, in spite of it, I hope everyone enjoyed themselves, and you guys are enjoying the new piece of the puzzle you were given. Stay tuned for the next one! Can't wait to play this game again. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" />Now... back to my pondering... *ponder... ponder... ponder...*</blockquote>That was one of the first pieces I thought of as a possibility after checking out Jarsath Wastes, Forest Ruins, North Qeynos, Sinking Sands etc, I noticed it when I first ever went to TD and it literally looks like a giant spear with the dark iridescent edges typical of Luclin chunks. Considering its distance I did not think it was for sure or not. Like others stated though, that exceptional piece is also the one piece we cannot actually go touch, walk on, explore. Every single other shard of Luclin is reachable by us, even the largest ones in Jarsath Wastes.The little shard itself was in a random place comparatively, considering we cannot get near that giant chunk to really explore, it kind of leads us away from it. So yes, respectfully, your clue was vague. If nobody seems to get it outside of you and game designers, that is somewhat of a tip. Nothing outside of idle guessing could make you realize that is the largest known chunk of Luclin on Norrath, few reasons, just off the top of my head.1) Again, not available for anywhere near "close" scrutiny. I had to rationalize that those faint black iridiscent edges must be of Luclin and come to a firm conclusion yesterday, well, because you just told me thats what I should know...through Twitter, basically.2) While physics has been ignored with all the rather large pieces of the moon falling to Norrath and causing comparatively small impact craters, a chunk that massive would have obliterated every single island in the Timorous Deep, every settlement and trace of life that cannot survive an isolated event of apocolyptic magnitude that happened 50 years ago, give or take..3) In general fashion in the last few expansions, idle lore has been vague. I refer to the lore we glean from random NPCs just making conversation, talking about what they know. Not as common as it used to be. Devs seem more concerned with clever topical easter eggs ("We Salute You, Griffon Tamer Guy") than fleshing out non quest related inhabitants. My point being, nobody in Timorous Deep that I have found talks about this gargantuan chunk of the effing moon sitting off the coast of Gorowyn.

Mirander_1

08-13-2009, 04:11 PM

<cite>Cronyn wrote:</cite><blockquote>I apologize, because I thought that lore was known (and I asked a couple designers, who all thought that it was as well), but it seems that you guys didn't have that one piece of information, which was crucial to that clue working. I'm really sorry about that.</blockquote>To my recollection, it had been commonly rumored to be a chunk of Luclin, but never formally stated in-game or on the forums. It was also rumored that it could have been a part of the mainland, or even just another random island.Now we know <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" />

Mystfit

08-13-2009, 04:11 PM

OK <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /> I finally got online to see the big chunk today. I took a picture of it and I gotta be honest, though there is a hint of a purple glow effect, I am not sure I would have guessed it was a luclin shard. Where's the green...!!!!<img src="http://www.jklm.net/st-auction/images/luclinshard1.jpg" />I didn't run the quest, but I did work with my two (very tired) children as they attempted to find it (and failed). My suggestion was to search out the biggest piece of Luclin. That took us to JW as I figured the biggest was either in Venril's crown and the crator pond area. Both failed and they fanned out and looked everrrrywhere after that. Not sure even if we had known that and gotten to the right place, they could have found the actual location. BUT, my question is this.IS there lore on the rock? As this is the lore place and we like lore.....why is it not polluting the waters (or is it and we can't see it). What effects do the local populace feel due to this rock? Do they use it for decoating like at Danak Shipyards? I is curious now and since you started it, tell me a stttoooorrrryyyyy.

Cronyn

08-13-2009, 04:17 PM

Yeah see... that was my point -- I *thought* someone in TD does mention it, but evidently it isn't made clear at any point. Makes it hard to decern the clue. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> Again, sorry about that.As long as you guys had fun, that's what matters. You guys are awesome. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Arbreth

08-13-2009, 04:18 PM

I posted my little poem before most people found the location but as we are talking about it...If you look at the island at night, and your particles are high enough, you will see it shimmer like the other moon rocks. In the daytime it looks like any other purple mountain.As for the shard, it did not look anything like a piece of Luclin.

oafgirl

08-13-2009, 04:33 PM

Looking back over all the posts -- and thus with the advantage of hindsight -- there is one word in the Erudian messages that was not properly deciphered, and that might have helped folks "see" better.It jumped out at me every time I read it -- talking about something "flowing" in the presence of the keys (or whatever -- can't scroll back far enough to check the exact wording). I thought flowing was a weird thing to do -- and when I looked at the Erudian "alphabet" someone posted, I saw how very similar the symbols for the letters F and G are -- just a matter of a slight distance on the last little curlicue.So maybe, instead of "flowing" in the presence, it should read "glowing"....All moot now that folks have figured it all out and found the book, of course. But I'm a history student by "profession" and like to keep my documentation straight.But a question to the rest of you -- I am very slow learning this game, my highest character is a 31 SK, with a mid-20s monk and guardian the next highest ones. Are these items anywhere I can get them with such lowbie toons? Or am I just stuck waiting a couple months until I can get them higher?

Mystfit

08-13-2009, 04:33 PM

<cite>Cronyn wrote:</cite><blockquote>Yeah see... that was my point -- I *thought* someone in TD does mention it, but evidently it isn't made clear at any point. Makes it hard to decern the clue. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /> Again, sorry about that.As long as you guys had fun, that's what matters. You guys are awesome. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></blockquote>And that's my point (she says giggling, not sarcastically) MAKE US SOME LORE <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Cronyn

08-13-2009, 04:35 PM

<cite>Mystfit wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Cronyn wrote:</cite><blockquote>Yeah see... that was my point -- I *thought* someone in TD does mention it, but evidently it isn't made clear at any point. Makes it hard to decern the clue. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /> Again, sorry about that.As long as you guys had fun, that's what matters. You guys are awesome. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></blockquote>And that's my point (she says giggling, not sarcastically) MAKE US SOME LORE <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /></blockquote>I am! I promise. <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Barx

08-13-2009, 04:43 PM

Yeah that was one thing that struck me strange... for such a HUGE chunk of Luclin you don't see any real effects. I mean, the little hunks in SS are enough to animate or attract the undead. But then again, that chunk sitting in the moat around the Qeynos Citadel doesn't seem to be doing all that much.As for flowing --> glowing, I never translated that part, let me take a quick look. They're very close, but if you look close enough they are distinguishable.

Barx

08-13-2009, 04:50 PM

Arbreth

08-13-2009, 04:53 PM

A lvl 31 should be able to do this without too much trouble, just be careful on the moutain path to Teran's Grasp.

Silerua

08-13-2009, 05:09 PM

<cite>Barx@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote>There is a separation between the right leg of the A-wearing-a-sombrero and the warped t. (For lack of better words to describe the symbols) <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" />.</blockquote>*LOL* I was doing things like that to help myself translate, too. Like, the E was "Claw man doing a curtsey" and the T was "Claw man kicking the air"... G and F were something like, "A with a friend" and "A pushing away his friend" And K was "Claw man curtseying like an Egyptian"...

Aera

08-13-2009, 05:10 PM

So now we know to proofread translations in the future, because I think that would have sped things up a lot. Not that it took less than 24 hours to figure out or anything <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/2786c5c8e1a8be796fb2f726cca5a0fe.gif" border="0" />

KerowynnKaotic

08-13-2009, 05:10 PM

<cite>Arbreth wrote:</cite><blockquote>A lvl 31 should be able to do this without too much trouble, just be careful on the moutain path to Teran's Grasp.</blockquote>so do-able by a lvl 73 .. *IF* someone would be so kinda as to give me a nice NON-hint on where I am supposed to start?Yes, I figured out the spires and I even understand the Luclin Hunk of Rock outside of Gorowyn (though, I'm with a lot of others .. it doesn't LOOK any different than any other Rock in TD .. a Rock is a Rock unless it's a mineral)But, despite scouring the areas around the spires, even walking all the way up the TG spires, and running & swimming in all over TD ... I can't find anything 'new' to click/pick-up or interact with! I'm lost without a map. Help! Please ..

Aera

08-13-2009, 05:13 PM

By non-hint I assume you mean an exact loc? I don't have that, but it's on the hill with all the raptors, facing the sea and gorowyn. It looks like a small crystal sticking out of the ground.

LaRoseMajia

08-13-2009, 05:15 PM

I wish that the clue most of us needed to figure it out hadn't come off of Twitter, and I wish it hadn't given most of us tunnel vision to one location in Timorous Deep that had nothing to do with where the crystal was.I'll look forward to an explanation of how a mountain that huge could have crashed down and not obliterated the whole of Timorous Deep in a tsunami, or at least created WAY more shards. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /> Because it looks to me like just a mountain/island/thing in the middle of the ocean, not something that impacted with the earth with enough force to make serious craters in other places, [see: Venril's Crown]On an utter side note, if you want my opinion, the shard would've made a lot more sense being on the ocean floor inbetween the rock.. thing and Gorowyn, and not two islands away.Anyway.. after a day of hunting, a night of dead ends and frustration, several fistfulls of hair being ripped out, and a good helping of disappointment when my guesses turned out to be entirely wrong and our reward was being given a /loc to /waypoint to and get our books..well. I'm glad it's over, and Aurelis is lucky I like her enough to even poke my nose into the next lore quest like this one.<cite>Aurelis wrote:</cite><blockquote>... My very kind sister apparently stayed up and got it for Aure (thankies!!) ...</blockquote>Hey, I give you reasons to love me sometimes. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" />

Barx

08-13-2009, 05:16 PM

<cite>Aurelis wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Barx@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote>There is a separation between the right leg of the A-wearing-a-sombrero and the warped t. (For lack of better words to describe the symbols) <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" />.</blockquote>*LOL* I was doing things like that to help myself translate, too. Like, the E was "Claw man doing a curtsey" and the T was "Claw man kicking the air"... G and F were something like, "A with a friend" and "A pushing away his friend" And K was "Claw man curtseying like an Egyptian"...</blockquote>*Grins*Yep, they all looked like they were wearing sombreros to me. "A" was just plain ol' sombrero guy, B was sombrero guy with a rifle, C was sombrero guy with 2 rifles (he's insecure), etc. One of the tricks I learned to translating it fast is once you have the first letter or two it got easier to guess what the whole word is and then check it that way (ie if I thought it was "SHARDS" and had "SH" I migut guess and look up the whole word in erudish and see if it matched.It was a lot of fun though, at least more than trying to read behind the little burned spots (which I never really got to do, that was a busy day at work =/ ). Cutting out and patching the shards together in photoshop was fun too =)But keep 'em coming Kiara and Cronyn, we're loving this stuff!

kreepr

08-13-2009, 05:16 PM

The starter is in TG its a jewelry box on a table in one of the building (forget which one)

Silerua

08-13-2009, 05:21 PM

<cite>Barx@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote>*Grins*Yep, they all looked like they were wearing sombreros to me. "A" was just plain ol' sombrero guy, B was sombrero guy with a rifle, C was sombrero guy with 2 rifles (he's insecure), etc. One of the tricks I learned to translating it fast is once you have the first letter or two it got easier to guess what the whole word is and then check it that way (ie if I thought it was "SHARDS" and had "SH" I migut guess and look up the whole word in erudish and see if it matched.</blockquote>*nod, nod* My method was I did all of the vowels first, then the more common letters... such as T, M, D, S, etc.... And B and C, but only because they were the easiest for my brain to spot. Then I went through and stopped at each word that was too obscure to discern from the scattered patchwork letters I overlaid the tablet. It was sooo much fun when I sat down and worked on it. My first attempt came up with gibberish because I didn't realize how similar so many of the letters were...I can't wait for the next book. I mean, for the next lore quest. I'm not only doing this for the books. *cough* Say what?

Arbreth

08-13-2009, 05:27 PM

Kaisha, I sent you a walk through via PM.

KerowynnKaotic

08-13-2009, 05:31 PM

<cite>There@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote>By non-hint I assume you mean an exact loc? I don't have that, but it's on the hill with all the raptors, facing the sea and gorowyn. It looks like a small crystal sticking out of the ground.</blockquote><cite>kreepr13 wrote:</cite><blockquote>The starter is in TG its a jewelry box on a table in one of the building (forget which one)</blockquote>You two aren't helping me !! *snickers* But, Thank you Arbreth for taking pity on me and sending me the walk-through! /unworthy .. /unworthy ...

denmom

08-13-2009, 05:38 PM

<cite>Barx@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote>Yeah that was one thing that struck me strange... for such a HUGE chunk of Luclin you don't see any real effects. I mean, the little hunks in SS are enough to animate or attract the undead. But then again, that chunk sitting in the moat around the Qeynos Citadel doesn't seem to be doing all that much.As for flowing --> glowing, I never translated that part, let me take a quick look. They're very close, but if you look close enough they are distinguishable.</blockquote>Yeah, but look at the Down Below, Vermyn's Snye, Crypt of Betrayal...the interred dead are up around and walking. There are four bound ghosts in CoB. There are the ghosts in Forest Ruins at night, a ghost that pops in The Caves, but Oakmyst doesn't have anything undead wandering. I bet that's due to relation to the shard in NQ.Forest Ruins is off Baubbleshire and Willow Wood, which you go thru Elddar Grove to get to, which isn't that far from the shard itself. Also if you listen in Willow Wood, the small graveyard whispers and moans and has the laughing of children. Used to freak me out until I found where that was coming from.But there aren't any undead in FP's underneath...at least none that I can recall. It's been some time since I was under there. And FP doesn't have any pieces of Luclin.Anyhow, just an idle thought sparked by the first paragraph. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

denmom

08-13-2009, 05:44 PM

And agreed about that huge piece giving a Deep Impact or Armageddon type fiasco when it hit.I've one word: maaaagic.And if I remember right from what folks have said about EQ1 (I never played it), Luclin had a portal. What if that piece didn't get flung to Norrath but instead just appeared? The displacement of water may have caused a tidal wave, but not be as devastating as a true impact. Maybe they just now have things settled down after that.More idle speculation.

LaRoseMajia

08-13-2009, 05:57 PM

<cite>Pheep@Unrest wrote:</cite><blockquote>I've one word: maaaagic.</blockquote>Heeyyy, that's my excuse for everything! ^_^Admittedly, yes, a portal type thing WOULD answer for why it didn't obliterate everything. As well as why the big piece in the North Qeynos moat didn't seem to destroy anything either...

Barx

08-13-2009, 06:28 PM

Bleh, the tear is definately bugging out, Cronyn. I clicked the shard and saw the tear appear... and then immediately disappear before I could get my book.And looking at the piece of luclin... it may be from luclin but it looks nothing like the shiny blue/green ones from the original game / DoF times, unfortunately.

PsiaMeese

08-13-2009, 07:03 PM

<cite>Barx@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote>Bleh, the tear is definately bugging out, Cronyn. I clicked the shard and saw the tear appear... and then immediately disappear before I could get my book.And looking at the piece of luclin... it may be from luclin but it looks nothing like the shiny blue/green ones from the original game / DoF times, unfortunately.</blockquote>Just from being a History & Lore surfer, I was aware what that rock was supposed to be for a while now. But hadn't any means of proving it in the game. Until now. I can't be sure that it was always the case, but it does reflect the behavior of the shards throughout Norrath. During the day it is too hazy to tell. Look at the shard during the night time. Since you are standing still put your graphics card to the test. Turn up your particles as high as they will go (Kudos to Arbreth for suggesting this to me). There are veins of blue to green luminosity all over it. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/b2eb59423fbf5fa39342041237025880.gif" border="0" /> Now I'm all a twitter...hehAnd, yes, I witnessed the tear being bugged for other players also. Forcing them to redo the collection from the start. I wondered if other players were reaching at the same time and only one got the book? But it worked the second time from what I was told.

LaRoseMajia

08-13-2009, 07:05 PM

<cite>Psia@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote>Just from being a History & Lore surfer, I was aware what that rock was supposed to be for a while now. But hadn't any means of proving it in the game. Until now. I can't be sure that it was always the case, but it does reflect the behavior of the shards throughout Norrath. During the day it is too hazy to tell. Look at the shard during the night time. Since you are standing still put your graphics card to the test. Turn up your particles as high as they will go (Kudos to Arbreth for suggesting this to me). There are veins of blue to green lumiosity all over it. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/b2eb59423fbf5fa39342041237025880.gif" border="0" /> Now I'm all a twitter...heh</blockquote>My question is, Psia, is that would you have thought that a shard from that thing would've been allllllllll the way over on the SECOND ISLE?Even knowing it was Luclin, I would've drowned myself trying to find it near the Luclin shard.

Kiara

08-13-2009, 07:07 PM

I confess that the clue via twitter was not planned. It was very spur of the moment when I saw Stargrace's tweet and wasn't meant to be an exact location... Just sort of a OMG this is the right zone! I was trying to help <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> Sowwy.

LaRoseMajia

08-13-2009, 07:11 PM

<cite>Kiara wrote:</cite><blockquote>I confess that the clue via twitter was not planned. It was very spur of the moment when I saw Stargrace's tweet and wasn't meant to be an exact location... Just sort of a OMG this is the right zone! I was trying to help <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" /> Sowwy.</blockquote>Awwwwwwwwwww. *tacklehugs* I'm not mad at anyone. I'm just grumpy.

PsiaMeese

08-13-2009, 07:13 PM

When the Lovers Look clue was brought into this thread and into the Befallen.Lore channel, I surmised that the distant shard was what we were expected to see. I had swam out many times to that shard over the months. I knew it couldn't be reached. So it occured to me that the tear might be under water. Or along a line from Lovers Look toward the shard. I just didn't know, exactly, where. I had the right idea when I was swimming along the coasts of the isles. But was not as fast as others. The coordinates came to me via Befallen.Lore once the tear was discovered.I would have found it, on my own, eventually. I had fun either way.

Kamimura

08-13-2009, 07:35 PM

<cite>Cronyn wrote:</cite><blockquote>So, here's what happened on that last clue. I must respectfully disagree that the clue was vague - you guys actually had the right idea right off the bat. It's a piece of Luclin, and you guys named every known shard of Luclin... except one. If you stand on Faydadar Watch, and look out toward that giant mountain in the water? Yeah... that is actually a huge chunk of the moon. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" />I apologize, because I thought that lore was known (and I asked a couple designers, who all thought that it was as well), but it seems that you guys didn't have that one piece of information, which was crucial to that clue working. I'm really sorry about that.</blockquote>Actually, people did mention that shard, and the area around it was searched. Just not that particular area.. Most were looking in the water, or along other parts of the shore. A lot of people did discount it in favor of other shards because you can't actually get to it, but some did search. I have to admit, I had no idea that was a part of Luclin though. I enjoy reading about lore, but this isn't something I'd heard before. I'd always just assumed it was another island like the ones we can play on. The shard doesn't really look like the others I have seen, and it doesn't seem to have caused a lot of damage in the area compaired to others.. People brought that up though, and I was wondering where they'd heard that from.. (a few mentioned undead from beta, but I wasn't able to participate in beta this time around.) Hopefully we get to see more on that, some day. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" />(Edit: Okay, I waited around for night and now I can see some purple glowing on it, although it's a bit hard to make out at first.)

Obann

08-13-2009, 08:06 PM

Dear Cronyn, Thank you for the latest round of cryptic frustrations. It was extremely enjoyable to have a fighting chance to figure it out after all the glasses had been released 6 hours prior to me actually starting. This was a refreshing reminder of the rich tapestry that is EQ2. That there are stories behind bad guy x, location y, and "why me!" z. Of course this round of lore quests also has an added bonus, a new mysterious npc. I'm just as interested to learn who this brave and determined scholar is as I am in the lore this individual is supplying through research. I hope some day that his/her story will be told either on this forum or in game. Again, thank you for an excellent job and continue the good work.ObannP.S. Next time make the haystack smaller.... Please!

Cusashorn

08-13-2009, 08:31 PM

<cite>Sorako@Crushbone wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Cronyn wrote:</cite><blockquote>So, here's what happened on that last clue. I must respectfully disagree that the clue was vague - you guys actually had the right idea right off the bat. It's a piece of Luclin, and you guys named every known shard of Luclin... except one. If you stand on Faydadar Watch, and look out toward that giant mountain in the water? Yeah... that is actually a huge chunk of the moon. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" />I apologize, because I thought that lore was known (and I asked a couple designers, who all thought that it was as well), but it seems that you guys didn't have that one piece of information, which was crucial to that clue working. I'm really sorry about that.</blockquote>Actually, people did mention that shard, and the area around it was searched. Just not that particular area.. Most were looking in the water, or along other parts of the shore. A lot of people did discount it in favor of other shards because you can't actually get to it, but some did search. I have to admit, I had no idea that was a part of Luclin though. I enjoy reading about lore, but this isn't something I'd heard before. I'd always just assumed it was another island like the ones we can play on. The shard doesn't really look like the others I have seen, and it doesn't seem to have caused a lot of damage in the area compaired to others.. People brought that up though, and I was wondering where they'd heard that from.. (a few mentioned undead from beta, but I wasn't able to participate in beta this time around.) Hopefully we get to see more on that, some day. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" />(Edit: Okay, I waited around for night and now I can see some purple glowing on it, although it's a bit hard to make out at first.)</blockquote>they mention it in the game that it's a giant chunk of Luclin itself. Originally it was gonna be a level 20 group dungeon, but they didn't have enough time to do it. The NPCs still mention it though.

Meirril

08-13-2009, 08:35 PM

<cite>Pheep@Unrest wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Barx@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote>Yeah that was one thing that struck me strange... for such a HUGE chunk of Luclin you don't see any real effects. I mean, the little hunks in SS are enough to animate or attract the undead. But then again, that chunk sitting in the moat around the Qeynos Citadel doesn't seem to be doing all that much.As for flowing --> glowing, I never translated that part, let me take a quick look. They're very close, but if you look close enough they are distinguishable.</blockquote>Yeah, but look at the Down Below, Vermyn's Snye, Crypt of Betrayal...the interred dead are up around and walking. There are four bound ghosts in CoB. There are the ghosts in Forest Ruins at night, a ghost that pops in The Caves, but Oakmyst doesn't have anything undead wandering. I bet that's due to relation to the shard in NQ.Forest Ruins is off Baubbleshire and Willow Wood, which you go thru Elddar Grove to get to, which isn't that far from the shard itself. Also if you listen in Willow Wood, the small graveyard whispers and moans and has the laughing of children. Used to freak me out until I found where that was coming from.But there aren't any undead in FP's underneath...at least none that I can recall. It's been some time since I was under there. And FP doesn't have any pieces of Luclin.Anyhow, just an idle thought sparked by the first paragraph. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></blockquote>Just to note, the gnomes in Forest Ruins are mining Luclin fragments. Apparently a peice of Luclin crashed next to the ruins.

Meirril

08-13-2009, 08:45 PM

<cite>Cusashorn wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Sorako@Crushbone wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Cronyn wrote:</cite><blockquote>So, here's what happened on that last clue. I must respectfully disagree that the clue was vague - you guys actually had the right idea right off the bat. It's a piece of Luclin, and you guys named every known shard of Luclin... except one. If you stand on Faydadar Watch, and look out toward that giant mountain in the water? Yeah... that is actually a huge chunk of the moon. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" />I apologize, because I thought that lore was known (and I asked a couple designers, who all thought that it was as well), but it seems that you guys didn't have that one piece of information, which was crucial to that clue working. I'm really sorry about that.</blockquote>Actually, people did mention that shard, and the area around it was searched. Just not that particular area.. Most were looking in the water, or along other parts of the shore. A lot of people did discount it in favor of other shards because you can't actually get to it, but some did search. I have to admit, I had no idea that was a part of Luclin though. I enjoy reading about lore, but this isn't something I'd heard before. I'd always just assumed it was another island like the ones we can play on. The shard doesn't really look like the others I have seen, and it doesn't seem to have caused a lot of damage in the area compaired to others.. People brought that up though, and I was wondering where they'd heard that from.. (a few mentioned undead from beta, but I wasn't able to participate in beta this time around.) Hopefully we get to see more on that, some day. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" />(Edit: Okay, I waited around for night and now I can see some purple glowing on it, although it's a bit hard to make out at first.)</blockquote>they mention it in the game that it's a giant chunk of Luclin itself. Originally it was gonna be a level 20 group dungeon, but they didn't have enough time to do it. The NPCs still mention it though.</blockquote>Just to point out, if they did any work on it before RoK launched someone probably has saved files for it sitting around. I'd love to see this re-tooled for release sometime about now next year. Somehow you'd expect a Luclin encounter to be something other than just training practice for hatchlings. While Luclin was a full 1-65 expansion for EQ1, here I'd expect it to be in the upper tiers.A lot of us that troll this forum knew it was a chunk of Luclin. Also it does look like one if you turn your setting up a lot. The part that really struck me is that there are no quests that relate to a shard of Luclin in TD, nor are there any discovery points. I didn't remember any Luclin shards anywhere in TD when I did quest through the area, and Luclin shards have a very distinctive Blue/Green/Purple sheen to them that is rather unmistakable. I really hope this shard wasn't added to game just for this. If it was, its very counter-Lore. It would of been much more appropriate for it to be already existing and then made active for this quest. That way people can remember instead of discover. From a Lore perspective, something that has always been there but never had any significants before is much perferable to suddenly finding something that was never there before.

Zabjade

08-13-2009, 09:10 PM

Make it interesting, make it Kerra (slightly larger then average and male and female) and Quadraped Tiger Skeletons

oafgirl

08-13-2009, 09:50 PM

Okay -- in the interest of 'splaining a bit -- let's say that Luclin's disastrous breakup was not instantaneous, and that the bright minds resident there *tried* to control the fragmentation (in the hopes that perhaps it might be stopped some point before total destruction). Would they not try to remove unstable portions from the whole and transport them via the portal to a relatively open part of Norrath -- such as the open sea of Timorous Deep? After the Great Explosion, however, the remaining bits would land more violently on the mother planet.Just my two coppers....

Silerua

08-13-2009, 10:47 PM

Someone mentioned in the lore channel that Luclin was not made of pure luclinite, but that was merely ore on the moon, and that is why the luclinite mountain is hard for us to recognize (because it is part stone part luclinite)... Why do all the pieces that fell aside from the TD appear to be pure luclinite?And why is it that some people say that they can see the TD mountain very very easily, but others can barely make out anything against the greyish stone at High Quality? Someone's recommendation was to have max settings... I hope not! My computer can't handle max settings, and told me that he refuses to work overdrive just so I can stare at a mountain! Hehehe.

Kamimura

08-14-2009, 12:25 AM

<cite>Cusashorn wrote:</cite><blockquote>they mention it in the game that it's a giant chunk of Luclin itself. Originally it was gonna be a level 20 group dungeon, but they didn't have enough time to do it. The NPCs still mention it though.</blockquote>Do you have an idea of who speaks about it? I've been through TD a few times and don't remember anyone talking about it. I've been through a lot of Gorowyn, but that place is still a maze to me so I may have missed it if it is in there..

Cusashorn

08-14-2009, 12:28 AM

<cite>Sorako@Crushbone wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Cusashorn wrote:</cite><blockquote>they mention it in the game that it's a giant chunk of Luclin itself. Originally it was gonna be a level 20 group dungeon, but they didn't have enough time to do it. The NPCs still mention it though.</blockquote>Do you have an idea of who speaks about it? I've been through TD a few times and don't remember anyone talking about it. I've been through a lot of Gorowyn, but that place is still a maze to me so I may have missed it if it is in there..</blockquote>One of the newbie quest givers gives her backstory that she's been around since the Gorowyn sarnaks came to be 50 years ago, right around when the giant shard of Luclin fell to the ground....How anyone would be able to survive that tidal wave, or how there are even any islands left nearby given the size of the impact crator it would make is anyone's guess though..

Kamimura

08-14-2009, 04:05 AM

<cite>Cusashorn wrote:</cite><blockquote>One of the newbie quest givers gives her backstory that she's been around since the Gorowyn sarnaks came to be 50 years ago, right around when the giant shard of Luclin fell to the ground....How anyone would be able to survive that tidal wave, or how there are even any islands left nearby given the size of the impact crator it would make is anyone's guess though..</blockquote>Huh.. I'll have to go back through the quests again sometime with one of my alts and check it out. (Maybe I did see it one of the other times, and just didn't connect exactly what she meant..) It's an interesting story, but yeah, as I said I'm also surprised that anything there survived that kind of impact. Ah, it's Norrath, who knows. :P

Zabjade

08-14-2009, 04:16 AM

As for how the chunks of Luclin hit Norrath with only a localized damage, rather then an Extinction Event, I would hypothize that, the chunks of the core ejected, where in fact in inter-dimensional flux. With their mass spread out among multible dimensions, impact might have occured at more surviable levels. Possibly causing some of the damage to the localized pocket realms such as Fear, Love, Hate, Etc. Dimensional Flux might also account for some continental distortions.

Lodrelhai

08-14-2009, 05:19 AM

It's also entirely possible that the Luclin shards weren't extinction-level events because they didn't have enough velocity to be. These aren't chunks of meteors that have been ricochetting around the solar system for billions of years. They travelled an extremely small distance, by cosmic standards, from Luclin to Norrath. The impact craters around most other Luclin shards bear this out - figure that Meteor Crater in Arizona is 1,200 yards across, and estimated to have been created by a 50yd meteor. That's a crater 24x the size of the cause, and most of that cause evaporated either in-atmosphere or on impact. I don't think there's a single Luclin shard anywhere on Norrath with a ratio that big to it's impact crater.Would there still be devastating tsunamis from that big hunk beyond Gorowyn? Certainly - but we're probably looking more at something like the Indonesian tsunami of 2004, rather than the ocean-relocating waves estimated from the impact which (probably) killed off the dinosaurs.More on-topic, I can't believe I missed the adventure of working out the lore quest clues with everyone! That's it, I'm not going on any more family trips.

Cusashorn

08-14-2009, 12:49 PM

<cite>Lodrelhai wrote:</cite><blockquote>It's also entirely possible that the Luclin shards weren't extinction-level events because they didn't have enough velocity to be. These aren't chunks of meteors that have been ricochetting around the solar system for billions of years. They travelled an extremely small distance, by cosmic standards, from Luclin to Norrath. The impact craters around most other Luclin shards bear this out - figure that Meteor Crater in Arizona is 1,200 yards across, and estimated to have been created by a 50yd meteor. That's a crater 24x the size of the cause, and most of that cause evaporated either in-atmosphere or on impact. I don't think there's a single Luclin shard anywhere on Norrath with a ratio that big to it's impact crater.Would there still be devastating tsunamis from that big hunk beyond Gorowyn? Certainly - but we're probably looking more at something like the Indonesian tsunami of 2004, rather than the ocean-relocating waves estimated from the impact which (probably) killed off the dinosaurs.More on-topic, I can't believe I missed the adventure of working out the lore quest clues with everyone! That's it, I'm not going on any more family trips.</blockquote>Ever see Mobile Suit Gundam 0079? The first episode starts off with the Principality of Zeon <a href="http://www.funnycorner.net/funny-pictures/5000/colony-drop.jpg" target="_blank">dropping a space colony on Sydney, Australia.</a> The resulting crator expanded inwards of Australia by about 50 miles. The colony itself was certainly larger than that shard of luclin, but it was located closer to earth than the moon is.That's the first thing that came to mind when I started up this train of thought.

Noaani

08-14-2009, 01:02 PM

Reguardless of any other Sci Fi sorces, it is fairly easy to see that the chunks of Luclin that hit Norrath did not leave a particularly large crater, nor had much of an impact on anything other than their very imediate surroundings.Look at Crater pond in Anotnica. If we were to believe that shards of Luclin should have the same impact as a meteor does on earth, then Qeynos would have been totally destroyed by its impact. Although it is a fairly small shard, the bit that we see is what did not break up in the atmosphere or on impact, and that remainder is several dozen (hundreds? thousands?) times larger than any piece left over from the above mentioned Arazona impact.We may not know the reasons, but it is clearly observable that the impacts from luclin did not have the force of a meteor.

Cusashorn

08-14-2009, 01:08 PM

Yeah but keep in mind that if Norrath were real, and was actually the same scale as Earth, then the piece we see in Crator pond would be the same size, but the pond itself would be much wider across, and Qeynos would be barely be visible on the horizon.

Clowd

08-14-2009, 01:16 PM

<cite>Cusashorn wrote:</cite><blockquote>Yeah but keep in mind that if Norrath were real, and was actually the same scale as Earth, then the piece we see in Crator pond would be the same size, but the pond itself would be much wider across, and Qeynos would be barely be visible on the horizon.</blockquote>It's Maaaaaaaaaaaaaagic!! Or Blame Tunare. Your pic.But, back on topic, I did feel that the luclin shard that needed to be found for this didn't look the part. I was expecting the typical black/greenish-blue glowing rock, instead there was this blue crystal? I'm confused, it just seems like the graphical choice for this was strange.Otherwise, Great lore quest! I personally enjoyed the journeying around Norrath part more than in the 1st one.Do we have a finalized list of the website locations of all the shards for the tablet? I'm curious as to where they all were found at.

Silerua

08-14-2009, 01:18 PM

<cite>Cusashorn wrote:</cite><blockquote>Ever see Mobile Suit Gundam 0079? The first episode starts off with the Principality of Zeon <a href="http://www.funnycorner.net/funny-pictures/5000/colony-drop.jpg" target="_blank">dropping a space colony on Sydney, Australia.</a> The resulting crator expanded inwards of Australia by about 50 miles. The colony itself was certainly larger than that shard of luclin, but it was located closer to earth than the moon is.That's the first thing that came to mind when I started up this train of thought.</blockquote>What does anime have anything to do with EQ2?

Nisala

08-14-2009, 01:31 PM

Wasn't Luclin breaking up and pieces falling on Norrath what caused the Shattering of the lands? Or am I mis-remembering what exactly caused the Shattering?But I tend to agree that the large piece of Luclin sitting in TD would have really devastated the area. Then again...as someone else mentioned the velocity of the pieces from Luclin, I think, would be different from a true meteor/asteriod. So likely the damage would be different.

Sharakari

08-14-2009, 01:36 PM

I sure hope the "unintended lore" wasn't about how the Luclin shards got on Norrath without destroying everything in its wake!

Kamimura

08-14-2009, 02:48 PM

<cite>Marilia@Everfrost wrote:</cite><blockquote>Wasn't Luclin breaking up and pieces falling on Norrath what caused the Shattering of the lands? Or am I mis-remembering what exactly caused the Shattering?But I tend to agree that the large piece of Luclin sitting in TD would have really devastated the area. Then again...as someone else mentioned the velocity of the pieces from Luclin, I think, would be different from a true meteor/asteriod. So likely the damage would be different.</blockquote>I believe it was the rending which caused a lot of the damage to the shattered lands. I dunno.. either way, you'd think it was an event that would be mentioned more than it apparently is.

RaphaNissi

08-14-2009, 02:49 PM

<cite>Clowd@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Cusashorn wrote:</cite><blockquote>Yeah but keep in mind that if Norrath were real, and was actually the same scale as Earth, then the piece we see in Crator pond would be the same size, but the pond itself would be much wider across, and Qeynos would be barely be visible on the horizon.</blockquote>It's Maaaaaaaaaaaaaagic!! Or Blame Tunare. Your pic.But, back on topic, I did feel that the luclin shard that needed to be found for this didn't look the part. I was expecting the typical black/greenish-blue glowing rock, instead there was this blue crystal? I'm confused, it just seems like the graphical choice for this was strange.Otherwise, Great lore quest! I personally enjoyed the journeying around Norrath part more than in the 1st one.Do we have a finalized list of the website locations of all the shards for the tablet? I'm curious as to where they all were found at.</blockquote>The list of websites would be really good to know. I'm not sure we even found them all.

Boyar

08-14-2009, 03:08 PM

<cite>Marilia@Everfrost wrote:</cite><blockquote>Wasn't Luclin breaking up and pieces falling on Norrath what caused the Shattering of the lands? Or am I mis-remembering what exactly caused the Shattering?But I tend to agree that the large piece of Luclin sitting in TD would have really devastated the area. Then again...as someone else mentioned the velocity of the pieces from Luclin, I think, would be different from a true meteor/asteriod. So likely the damage would be different.</blockquote>Or perhaps that shard was where the Frobozz Magical Slowfall Apparel™ warehouse was located, and thus fell much more slowly than the other chunks (and is actually the source from which all the LoN cloaks and the Luclin Boots patterns have been washing ashore <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />)

Neskonlith

08-14-2009, 03:08 PM

<cite>Cronyn wrote:</cite><blockquote>So there I was, minding my own business, pondering the wonders and mysteries of axes and ale (both of which are amazingly important). <snip>I'd like to help, but as I mentioned before, I'm pretty busy with my musings. I'm interested to hear what you guys find, though! Best of luck!*ponder... ponder... ponder..."</blockquote>Wow, it's amazing how sometimes those Dwarven karaoke nights can get a little rowdy when someone spikes the keg with a lil Luclin ore dust! This was a fun event, and thanks for grooming ...the clues for us!Speaking of karaoke: it's settled lore that no Dwarf ever manages an evening of crooning tunes without abruptly chopping axe-idently into hacked renditions of various ABBA tunes - so here's a friendly encouragement for MORE LORE events like this!! <img src="http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb310/Bitter_Coffee/screenies/ABBAheldhostage.jpg" />ABBA is currently being ...detained... at an undisclosed tavern, performing 4 nights a week (which also includes a 50 item all-you-can-eat buffet table, available free with coupon). Something may or may not happen to or with them, whichever is more amusing - all that is needed to keep the peace is to continue to unveil the Lore as it is discovered. If not, then I'm afraid the gnome might do something inexplicable with sequins, boa feathers and rhinestones.Are you willing to take that chance?...take a chance take a chance take a chance take a chanceIf you change your mind, I'm the first in lineHoney I'm still freeTake a chance on me...<img src="/eq2/images/smilies/b2eb59423fbf5fa39342041237025880.gif" border="0" />

sexieladie

08-14-2009, 05:22 PM

I know this is the wrong thread but reading through the previous lore thread that was last time with the Research Assistants notes, what is the name of the book that you are supposed to be able to buy off of the npc sages?

Silerua

08-14-2009, 05:32 PM

<cite>sexieladie wrote:</cite><blockquote>I know this is the wrong thread but reading through the previous lore thread that was last time with the Research Assistants notes, what is the name of the book that you are supposed to be able to buy off of the npc sages?</blockquote>Assistant Researcher's Notes, Vol. 1, Halls of Erudin is the previous one. (:

denmom

08-14-2009, 07:08 PM

<cite>Meirril wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Pheep@Unrest wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Barx@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite><blockquote>Yeah that was one thing that struck me strange... for such a HUGE chunk of Luclin you don't see any real effects. I mean, the little hunks in SS are enough to animate or attract the undead. But then again, that chunk sitting in the moat around the Qeynos Citadel doesn't seem to be doing all that much.As for flowing --> glowing, I never translated that part, let me take a quick look. They're very close, but if you look close enough they are distinguishable.</blockquote>Yeah, but look at the Down Below, Vermyn's Snye, Crypt of Betrayal...the interred dead are up around and walking. There are four bound ghosts in CoB. There are the ghosts in Forest Ruins at night, a ghost that pops in The Caves, but Oakmyst doesn't have anything undead wandering. I bet that's due to relation to the shard in NQ.Forest Ruins is off Baubbleshire and Willow Wood, which you go thru Elddar Grove to get to, which isn't that far from the shard itself. Also if you listen in Willow Wood, the small graveyard whispers and moans and has the laughing of children. Used to freak me out until I found where that was coming from.But there aren't any undead in FP's underneath...at least none that I can recall. It's been some time since I was under there. And FP doesn't have any pieces of Luclin.Anyhow, just an idle thought sparked by the first paragraph. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></blockquote>Just to note, the gnomes in Forest Ruins are mining Luclin fragments. Apparently a peice of Luclin crashed next to the ruins.</blockquote>Doh, right...I couldn't remember where it was...been awhile since I'd been in there, that was from memory. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />TS has craters with shards and bits embedded, and the dead roam around there. Ruins of Karana, iirc. Not sure why the undead walk thru the dead river, tho, or the Graveyard Pool. No pieces there at all.Nek Forest doesn't have any, undead walk there, but then again it's the forest of the Dark Elves and Everling, and gods alone know what magics have seeped out of Neriak and Nek Castle into the forest around.Nothing in Everfrost, yet there are ice skeletons, but Miragul's there.Yanno, the only undead in Feerrot I can think of are the Bouncer ghosts and the ones around the Shard of Fear cave. There's the few undead inside CT in the middle with the eyeballs.No undead in Zek, none in Lavastorm until you get to the Temple and Sol Eye. But those are ghosts who are bound/haunting the Temple and Sol Eye due to other reasons.Commonlands has undead, but no sign of shards. Then again, it's Freeport and Fallen Gate, seeping Dark Elf and lich magics and all.Heh, now I'm thinking over other areas of where the undead walk, lol.

denmom

08-14-2009, 07:14 PM

<cite>Aurelis wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Cusashorn wrote:</cite><blockquote>Ever see Mobile Suit Gundam 0079? The first episode starts off with the Principality of Zeon <a href="http://www.funnycorner.net/funny-pictures/5000/colony-drop.jpg" target="_blank">dropping a space colony on Sydney, Australia.</a> The resulting crator expanded inwards of Australia by about 50 miles. The colony itself was certainly larger than that shard of luclin, but it was located closer to earth than the moon is.That's the first thing that came to mind when I started up this train of thought.</blockquote>What does anime have anything to do with EQ2?</blockquote>SOGA models. /sage nod<img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />But seriously, she's just using that as an example of what happens when something from space drops onto a planet. Lots of damage.It's unexplained how you can have pieces of Luclin all over with relatively small craters, not much larger than the piece itself, and not have ripped the world of Norrath apart.I gave my theory as magic and portal spells. Those on the moon trying to make things hit less hard and thus destroying Norrath as Luclin broke apart.