Sentinel's Fate Lore

[Litlbigman]

<p>I feel a bit surprised about this, but the new expansion didn't come with any solid lore background. Can anyone give us more details or found an interesting webpage about this ?</p>

[Garnaf]

<p>This expansion is really just a whole bunch of older plot threads being wrapped up.</p><p>so after the incident with Anashti Sul in TSO we become privy to the REAL threat behind "age's end"  Roehn Theer, Avatar of Balance, The Godslayer.  He's been maniplating things for a LONG time (at least since shortly before Odus vanished from Norrath).</p><p>He was originally created by The Nameless to maintain balance throughout the multiverse, and started just policeing the gods so they didn't get too powerful.  Eventually the gods were somehow able to seperate him from Enoxus and Aeteok (his swords, we know them as the Qeynos Claymore and Soulfire, respectively) and seal him in the void.</p><p>Since then he's apparently been trying to escape, and Odus is just the culmination of all his efforts.  With the help of the Erudites that he's subverted with the void (particularly High Primarch El'Arad) he's created a final flaw in his prison, and now he must be confronted.  According to Anashti Sul in the Signature questline he's unable to be sealed again (a given being can only be sealed in the void once), so we must confront him, and either destroy him, or otherwise "purify" him so he returns to his original duty.</p><p>As for why Odus is on / in Ultera.  The Erudites attempted to create a work around for the fact that the nexus was sealed off (Luclin didn't explode until fairly recently).  They cut a massive corner though, and based their Ulteran Spires off the Combine Geomancy Spires.  When the Grand Farisian Nexus on Odus was activated to bring life to the Ulteran Spires it attempted to reconnect with the Luclin Nexus, and rebounded heavily, shunting Odus into Ultera and POSSIBLY being the event that actually caused the Sundering.</p><p>Odus is now firmly wedged between a "rock and a hard place" quite literally.  On one end (in the Sundered Frontier) Odus is being anchored and pulled by the Plane of Underfoot (located on the other side of a heavily damaged sealed door in the Hole).  On the other end, in the Stonebrunt Highlands, Odus is being slowly absorbed into the Void.</p><p>Basically one of 4 things will happen.  A) The two pulls will cancel each other out (the BEST solution), B) Odus will simply be torn in half, with the Highlands being absorbed by the void and the Frontier being absorbed by Underfoot (bad, but not the worst).  C) Odus will be drawn into Underfoot, which will overflow into Norrath, probably destroying it (VERY bad, still not the worst).  D) Odus will be drawn into the Void, which will then draw Underfoot, and through its planar link, Norrath, eventually consuming the entire Multiverse (Worst possible outcome)</p><p>Disclaimer: This is just what *I* understand to be true.  I'm writing this after being up for 22 hours, if I'm wrong, someone can correct me.</p>

[Litlbigman]

<p>Thx a lot, Dranikos.</p><p>But hey ...how do you know all this ? <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/385970365b8ed7503b4294502a458efa.gif" border="0" /></p>

[Cusashorn]

<p>Some of us have been in the expansion for a week now, and some in during Beta.</p>

[Garnaf]

<p><cite>Litlbigman wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Thx a lot, Dranikos.</p><p>But hey ...how do you know all this ? <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/385970365b8ed7503b4294502a458efa.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>I'm unemployed, High functioning (almost to the point of being off the spectrum) autistic, and suffer mild insomnia.  Guess what I do a LOT?  (Read and Play would be the answer I'm looking for).</p><p>I'm the very definition of "no life"</p>

[Litlbigman]

<p><cite>Litlbigman wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>But hey ...how do you know all this ? <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/385970365b8ed7503b4294502a458efa.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>By that, I meant 'What are your sources ?' <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></p><p>Because however large your knowledge, it must have a source. Wait a min, where does that sentence come from ?<img src="/eq2/images/smilies/97ada74b88049a6d50a6ed40898a03d7.gif" border="0" /></p>

[Cusashorn]

<p>The sources are numerous from common quests found in the expansion itself. Really, a good deal of the threads on the main page here on the lore forums are all talking about the same lore that has been discovered through quests and NPCs in SF itself.</p><p>Add to the fact that the void storyline has been building up since the very start of the game, and the Word of God (The devs) confirmation that it will finally end once and for all with this expansion, it has a lot of loose ends to tie up.</p>

[Garnaf]

<p><cite>Dranikos@Butcherblock wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>This expansion is really just a whole bunch of older plot threads being wrapped up.</p><p>so after the incident with Anashti Sul in TSO we become privy to the REAL threat behind "age's end"  Roehn Theer, Avatar of Balance, The Godslayer.  He's been maniplating things for a LONG time (at least since shortly before Odus vanished from Norrath).</p><p>He was originally created by The Nameless to maintain balance throughout the multiverse, and started just policeing the gods so they didn't get too powerful.  Eventually the gods were somehow able to seperate him from Enoxus and Aeteok (his swords, we know them as the Qeynos Claymore and Soulfire, respectively) and seal him in the void.</p><p>Since then he's apparently been trying to escape, and Odus is just the culmination of all his efforts.  With the help of the Erudites that he's subverted with the void (particularly High Primarch El'Arad) he's created a final flaw in his prison, and now he must be confronted.  According to Anashti Sul in the Signature questline he's unable to be sealed again (a given being can only be sealed in the void once), so we must confront him, and either destroy him, or otherwise "purify" him so he returns to his original duty.</p><p>As for why Odus is on / in Ultera.  The Erudites attempted to create a work around for the fact that the nexus was sealed off (Luclin didn't explode until fairly recently).  They cut a massive corner though, and based their Ulteran Spires off the Combine Geomancy Spires.  When the Grand Farisian Nexus on Odus was activated to bring life to the Ulteran Spires it attempted to reconnect with the Luclin Nexus, and rebounded heavily, shunting Odus into Ultera and POSSIBLY being the event that actually caused the Sundering.</p><p>Odus is now firmly wedged between a "rock and a hard place" quite literally.  On one end (in the Sundered Frontier) Odus is being anchored and pulled by the Plane of Underfoot (located on the other side of a heavily damaged sealed door in the Hole).  On the other end, in the Stonebrunt Highlands, Odus is being slowly absorbed into the Void.</p><p>Basically one of 4 things will happen.  A) The two pulls will cancel each other out (the BEST solution), B) Odus will simply be torn in half, with the Highlands being absorbed by the void and the Frontier being absorbed by Underfoot (bad, but not the worst).  C) Odus will be drawn into Underfoot, which will overflow into Norrath, probably destroying it (VERY bad, still not the worst).  D) Odus will be drawn into the Void, which will then draw Underfoot, and through its planar link, Norrath, eventually consuming the entire Multiverse (Worst possible outcome)</p><p>Disclaimer: This is just what *I* understand to be true.  I'm writing this after being up for 22 hours, if I'm wrong, someone can correct me.</p></blockquote><p>Citing Sources as I think of them.</p><p>For Roehn Theer being the main power behind the void, the patch that put in Ward of Elements told us this, as well as his origin (Avatar of the Nameless).</p><p>The names of the "Hands of the Sentinel" come from various bits a dialogue from KoS and EoF.  (Enoxus was what the dragons kept calling the claymore, it's also called that in a few ingame books.  Aeteok spoke to Vallius Bayle thusly "I am Aeteok the Right Hand of Theer, and this is my gift to my other.")</p><p>How he was sealed, and the fact that he can't be again are both from Anashti Sul in the Sentinel's Fate sig line.  (the reasoning is simply a guess on my part, but it explains why Zebuxoruk, Anashti and now Theer can't be sealed again)</p><p>The fact that we have to fight Theer and either destroy him or cleanse him somehow is taken from the fact that he can't be sealed, and he's a threat now (and the fact that every god in existance is cowering in fear of Enoxus and Aeteok, retreated FAR into their own domains.  No divine intervention here)</p><p>His corruption of the Erudites, the Ulteran corner cutting, and the backlash come from the ingame books from the pre-events, along with various bits a dialogue around the expansion (Quel'Ule in particular)</p><p>The fate of Odus is taken from another in game quest, along with the eventual outcomes.</p>

[Rainmare]

<p>the thing with Theer being unable to be sealed away is more that, the same tricks that they pulled on him the last time in thier hail mary last ditch oh my god this better work effort, won't work a second time becuase he's had literally millenia to prepare for them. while the Gods thought him securely and permenantly, locked away, he's been making the proper moves to free himself, and prepare for the same tricks they pulled last time.</p><p>Now the Gods know he's on the way back. Aeteok and Exonus are well on thier way to him, and thier scared sh*tless becuase now they gotta try and scramble up a new plan or hide and hope he doesn't come in cutting them down like weeds.</p><p>Kerafrym himself apparently is on Odus, and under the guise of helping us recover Lucan for freeport, is aiding us against Theer. however according to the Seeress prophecies, He's after the swords for himself, probably to use them to take down Veeshan as assume her place in the pantheon.</p>

[SonnyA]

<p>Amazing info.. Good job putting the pieces together. I would never have made this connection. Thanks lore guys <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>