Syllokk

[Yotain]

<p>I am playing an iksar that has come to worship and follow Syllokk, other then the information in the Prima Offical Game Guide.  I am curious to know more about said made up or real deity as to properly have the character worship and or having a better religion hold.</p>

[Cusashorn]

<p><cite>Edoz@Lucan DLere wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I am playing an iksar that has come to worship and follow Syllokk, other then the information in the Prima Offical Game Guide.  I am curious to know more about said made up or real deity as to properly have the character worship and or having a better religion hold.</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?start=0&topic_id=187492�" target="_blank">With some cryptic words given to us by our former lore devoloper Vhalen,</a> we eventually found out that Syllokk was nothing more than a false diety that some iksar turned to for guidance in the absense of Cazic Thule and the other dieties over the past 500 years. Not so much a person, but an ideal. Some iksar believe Syllok to be embodiment and spirit of all the iksar who have died over the course of their race's history.</p><p>It wasn't until Kunark was released that we found out that Venril Sathir forced all the Iksar on Kunark to worship him as a god, but some decided to follow this cult dedicated to Syllok instead. Now that Cazic Thule has returned, Iksar are going back to him, but those on Kunark are still forced to accept Venril as their god, by punishment of Death, or fates beyond death.</p>

[Rainmare]

<p>I understood as Venril set himself up as a living god by saying he was basically Syllok's (un)living embodiment on Norrath. so the Sathirian empire on the surface worships Venril as syllok. though I think Rile has his loyalty to Cazic again...at the very least he doesn't 'worship' his father as the embodiment of Syllok for sure.</p><p>Syllok itself though yes is supposed to be the embodiment of all the iksar that have died, thus it is all thier knowledge/experiences. I'd almost say worship for syllok is akin to shaman ancestor worship, myself.</p>

[Yotain]

<p>right i got all that from the Prima guide when the game lanuched but I figure it would be fun to play on that did believe and perhaps followed him, but it is interesting to hear the Venril say he is Syllokk.  It would figure that lowly snake would do such a thing but hell I might go with it and have my character actually believe the Veril is Syllokk.</p>

[DocFlareon]

<p>I'd like to point out that Cazic Thule is just a little miffed that iksar have turned from him to worship this Syllok thing, with Venril as its avatar.  Miffed as in threatening to unleash the Green Mist against the iksar.</p><p>I guess the Unclaimed Eye was right, the Gorowyn Sarnak are now his favored children.</p>

[Cusashorn]

<p>Does Venril ever actually admit to being that avatar? I've only done his encounter once, and couldn't kill him to find anything more.</p><p>It sucks that Cazic is looking away from the Iksar just because ONE PERSON is forcing an entire race to look away in turn. I don't blame him for choosing the Sarnaks though (despite that book being another creation story. Just look at the 7-8 different races that Brell Serilis made. ALL of them claim to be his chosen)</p><p>In Legacy of Ykesha in EQlive, Innoruuk forsakes the Dark Elves because they turned against him to raid his plane. He declares the Luggald as his new chosen race of children. So much so, that he directly comes down to Norrath in order to protect the Luggald Broodmother from being killed (and taking the reproductive future of that race with it.)</p>

[Niltsiar]

<p>Look at the heritage Quest "<a href="http://eq2.wikia.com/wiki/The_Name_of_Fear" target="_blank">The Name of Fear</a>". It is about this story of Cazic vs. Venril</p>

[PsiaMeese]

<p>Well, that is interesting.</p><p>From the first steps of the questline:</p><hr /><p>Travel to the <a title="Shard of Fear" href="http://forums.station.sony.com/wiki/Shard_of_Fear"><span style="color: #002bb8;">Shard of Fear</span></a> and locate the Essence of Fear. He is in the very back, in front of the fire wall around the temple.</p><ol><li>He will send you to defeat the falsity that the children of fear now worship. Go to the Turmoil cemetery in Shard of Fear and kill "a mass of Iksar spirits" Level 80^^^, an easy kill. It is however immune to any control effects (root/mez/stun). </li><li>After killing the mass return to the Essence of Fear.</li></ol><hr /><p>So this "a mass of Iksar spirits" represents the Syllokk? If so, this either implies it was real all along or it was something that has been mistaken all along to be something that it never really was?</p>

[Cusashorn]

<p><cite>Brax@Valor wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Look at the heritage Quest "<a href="http://eq2.wikia.com/wiki/The_Name_of_Fear" target="_blank">The Name of Fear</a>". It is about this story of Cazic vs. Venril</p></blockquote><p>I was wondering where that quest started...</p>

[Niltsiar]

<p>Starting Zone: Emperor Atrebe's Laboratory: The Fabled City of Kor-shaHow to Start: Harvest a statue of Cazic Thule in Guard Captain Kelkrin's room</p><p>An empty zone will be fine. You only have to harvest the statue.</p>

[Rainmare]

<p>Yeah I think during the Greenmist line is where it's mentioned that Venril set himself up to be Syllok's avatar, and during his encounter, he does emote about HIS army of the undead about the beat you down, and when you clicky disable it, he claims that it's impossible, what could stop Syllok's power.</p><p>the mass of iksar spirits you defeat in SoF is only a fraction of 'Syllok'. apparently Venril is partially correct. Syllok I believe is a planar stone, that contains the souls of most/all recently dead iksar. Venril necromantically siphons it's powers/calls on those trapped in it.</p><p>He wove the myth of it being divine though, and being it's avatar, to bolster himself up as a godking and probably prevent anyone from attempting to usurp him (Save Rile)</p>