New Lore Incoming w/ GU#56

[Anestacia]

<p>Check the link out <a href="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/gameinfo/updates" target="_blank">here</a>! Lots of new stuff it seems heading our way. Don't want to say too much to keep from spoilers but looks like we will have plenty to ponder over the next few months.  Halas, of course, but also more on the Hole and the Icy Keep and their ties to the Planes.  Also the prelude to Expansion 7 with the rebuilding of the druid rings! Visually it all looks stunning and I can't wait till May 25!</p>

[Cusashorn]

<blockquote><p>Enter the lair of <strong>E'ci the demi goddess of ice.</strong></p><p>Long ago before the cataclysms and before the gods left Norrath,<strong> E'ci, the demi-goddess of ice</strong> left in the possession of her Ice Maidens one ice dragon egg. The Maidens kept their promise until a Frostfoot slave managed to escape. The Frostfoot goblins sent a goblin by the name of Snarf recruit adventurers in order to make an attack on the Icy Keep and free their brothers.</p></blockquote><p>E'ci, the demi-goddess of ice</p><p>demi-goddess of ice</p><p>demi-goddess</p><p>demi-</p><p>[Removed for Content]! Who the heck wrote this stuff!?</p>

[Mary the Prophetess]

<p>Long ago and far away I seem to recall a character from The Dragon Magazine called Snarf (mid to late 70's I think).</p><p>There must be some members of the design team that cut their teeth on D&D (Stone of the Gygax, Snarfquest, et al)</p><p>Unfortunately they failed to recognize E'ci as a member of the Triumvirate of Water (along with Povar and Tarew Marr).  That makes her an elemental god, and much more powerful than a demi-god.  I'm surprised that the author of the press release didn't know it.</p>

[BleemTeam]

<p>Or they "cut their teeth" on Thundercats and really liked Snarf <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/b2eb59423fbf5fa39342041237025880.gif" border="0" /></p>

[Brook]

<p><cite>Mary the Prophetess wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Long ago and far away I seem to recall a character from The Dragon Magazine called Snarf (mid to late 70's I think).</p><p>There must be some members of the design team that cut their teeth on D&D (Stone of the Gygax, Snarfquest, et al)</p><p>Unfortunately they failed to recognize E'ci as a member of the Triumvirate of Water (along with Povar and Tarew Marr).  That makes her an elemental god, and much more powerful than a demi-god.  I'm surprised that the author of the press release didn't know it.</p></blockquote><p>Your not really surprised are you?</p>

[Rainmare]

<p>did you read the little blurb about why you start as a good toon in halas? the thing about the rygorr orcs attacking nad sinking your ship adn the pilgrims pulling you ashore?</p><p>yeah like the small force of rygorr near halas have a navy to stop every ship heading to Qeynos.</p>

[Tyrus Dracofire]

<p>i saw "Bonus" log-in gift, a small white lion cub.</p>

[LordPazuzu]

<p><cite>Cusashorn wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><blockquote><p>Enter the lair of <strong>E'ci the demi goddess of ice.</strong></p><p>Long ago before the cataclysms and before the gods left Norrath,<strong> E'ci, the demi-goddess of ice</strong> left in the possession of her Ice Maidens one ice dragon egg. The Maidens kept their promise until a Frostfoot slave managed to escape. The Frostfoot goblins sent a goblin by the name of Snarf recruit adventurers in order to make an attack on the Icy Keep and free their brothers.</p></blockquote><p>E'ci, the demi-goddess of ice</p><p>demi-goddess of ice</p><p>demi-goddess</p><p>demi-</p><p>[Removed for Content]! Who the heck wrote this stuff!?</p></blockquote><p>Yeah, looks like being one of the Triumverate of Water doesn't get you very far these days.</p>

[Meirril]

<p><cite>Meaghan@Lucan DLere wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Cusashorn wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><blockquote><p>Enter the lair of <strong>E'ci the demi goddess of ice.</strong></p><p>Long ago before the cataclysms and before the gods left Norrath,<strong> E'ci, the demi-goddess of ice</strong> left in the possession of her Ice Maidens one ice dragon egg. The Maidens kept their promise until a Frostfoot slave managed to escape. The Frostfoot goblins sent a goblin by the name of Snarf recruit adventurers in order to make an attack on the Icy Keep and free their brothers.</p></blockquote><p>E'ci, the demi-goddess of ice</p><p>demi-goddess of ice</p><p>demi-goddess</p><p>demi-</p><p>[Removed for Content]! Who the heck wrote this stuff!?</p></blockquote><p>Yeah, looks like being one of the Triumverate of Water doesn't get you very far these days.</p></blockquote><p>E'ci got demoted after Tarew won most of her powers in a King's Cross game and consumed them to prevent the plane of water from shrinking. Povar hasn't been seen since that night. If you have seen Povar, or know of any details of the incident surrounding his dissapearance please contact the Tribunal immediately. There is a reward of up to 1 million plat for information leading to the rediscovery or arrest in this case.</p>

[Vaedaer]

<p><cite>Meirril wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Meaghan@Lucan DLere wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Cusashorn wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><blockquote><p>Enter the lair of <strong>E'ci the demi goddess of ice.</strong></p><p>Long ago before the cataclysms and before the gods left Norrath,<strong> E'ci, the demi-goddess of ice</strong> left in the possession of her Ice Maidens one ice dragon egg. The Maidens kept their promise until a Frostfoot slave managed to escape. The Frostfoot goblins sent a goblin by the name of Snarf recruit adventurers in order to make an attack on the Icy Keep and free their brothers.</p></blockquote><p>E'ci, the demi-goddess of ice</p><p>demi-goddess of ice</p><p>demi-goddess</p><p>demi-</p><p>[Removed for Content]! Who the heck wrote this stuff!?</p></blockquote><p>Yeah, looks like being one of the Triumverate of Water doesn't get you very far these days.</p></blockquote><p>E'ci got demoted after Tarew won most of her powers in a King's Cross game and consumed them to prevent the plane of water from shrinking. Povar hasn't been seen since that night. If you have seen Povar, or know of any details of the incident surrounding his dissapearance please contact the Tribunal immediately. There is a reward of up to 1 million plat for information leading to the rediscovery or arrest in this case.</p></blockquote><p>lol this 3 posts made my night ...</p><p>I Agree with Cusa tho, W.T.F? D:</p>

[Aneova]

<p><cite>Mary the Prophetess wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Long ago and far away I seem to recall a character from The Dragon Magazine called Snarf (mid to late 70's I think).</p><p>There must be some members of the design team that cut their teeth on D&D (Stone of the Gygax, Snarfquest, et al)</p><p>Unfortunately they failed to recognize E'ci as a member of the Triumvirate of Water (along with Povar and Tarew Marr).  That makes her an elemental god, and much more powerful than a demi-god.  I'm surprised that the author of the press release didn't know it.</p></blockquote><p><img src="http://www.cheezey.org/thundercats/gallery/snarf_ledge.jpg" width="640" height="480" /></p><p>Snarf, from Thundercats. <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Trevalon]

<p>I find it less surprising that a Dev doesnt know EQ lore and more that the next xpac is going to start with rebuilding the Druid Rings (Thank god too! Sucks my Druid has crappy ports compard to wizards now).</p><p>Anyways interesting.</p>

[Meirril]

<p><cite>Trevalon wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I find it less surprising that a Dev doesnt know EQ lore and more that the next xpac is going to start with rebuilding the Druid Rings (Thank god too! Sucks my Druid has crappy ports compard to wizards now).</p><p>Anyways interesting.</p></blockquote><p>rebuilding the druid rings? So we'll have functional Zek, Loping Plains and Feerott rings? Are they going to introduce a new portal to Enchanted Lands so its a bit more like Mistly Thicket was? What about the druid evac for Jasarath Wastes?</p><p>I'm more currious about the lore behind the reclimation. Who is behind it? Druids from Darklight Woods or an actual diety? If a diety, is it the diety that created and is responsable for the functioning of the druid rings? A lot of questions could be answered...or glossed over again. Or worse, inappropriately answered leading to (more) internal conflicts in EQ2 Lore.</p>

[Banditman]

<p>You know, I could have sworn the Ry'gorr Orcs were inhabitants of Velious . . .</p>

[Vaedaer]

<p><cite>Banditman wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>You know, I could have sworn the Ry'gorr Orcs were inhabitants of Velious . . .</p></blockquote><p>They are/were</p>

[Rainmare]

<p>the iceberg that New Halas is built on is a chunk of Velious severed off during the shattering...which trapped a coldain hunting aprty and a force of Ry'gorr orcs on it.</p><p>as to the druid rings being repowered/rebuilt...I imagine this is more a druidic endeavor then a deity involvement. after all the lore we got about th espires reactivating hinted that Sol Ro powered them back up....but he wasn't involved in powering or building the ulterean ones we added later.</p><p>My guess will be that will all the returning gods and the flux of divine/arcane power stemming from them, the druids themselves will be instructing us on the upkeep/restoration of the druid rings. the things they probably used to do all the time before the gods went on hiatus for a bit.</p><p>Though maybe, considering the druid ring in the wakening lands...tunare might have a hand in it. you knwo it might be something from the Dartain line. the last part has you go to Tunare's prophet with a note from Dartain. she acts rather concerned about it's contents and states she has to go and she doesn't go into detail.</p><p>maybe the note is about events with Kera/Lucan/Theer and her task is to ask Tunare for heklp to empower the druid rings to travel to the place most obvious to become Kera's stronghold - Velious.</p>

[KniteShayd]

<p><cite>Rainmare@Oasis wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>the iceberg that New Halas is built on is a chunk of Velious severed off during the shattering...which trapped a coldain hunting aprty and a force of Ry'gorr orcs on it.</p><p>as to the druid rings being repowered/rebuilt...I imagine this is more a druidic endeavor then a deity involvement. after all the lore we got about th espires reactivating hinted that Sol Ro powered them back up....but he wasn't involved in powering or building the ulterean ones we added later.</p><p>My guess will be that will all the returning gods and the flux of divine/arcane power stemming from them, the druids themselves will be instructing us on the upkeep/restoration of the druid rings. the things they probably used to do all the time before the gods went on hiatus for a bit.</p><p>Though maybe, considering the druid ring in the wakening lands...tunare might have a hand in it. you knwo it might be something from the Dartain line. the last part has you go to Tunare's prophet with a note from Dartain. she acts rather concerned about it's contents and states she has to go and she doesn't go into detail.</p><p>maybe the note is about events with Kera/Lucan/Theer and her task is to ask Tunare for heklp to empower the druid rings to travel to the place most obvious to become Kera's stronghold - Velious.</p></blockquote><p>We have been told that the rings are powered by Growth. With Tunare's returning, they became active. We were not given a reason as to why they ALL didn't go live when the first ones did though. Apparently, they were destroyed or damaged, and now need to be restored.</p>

[Barx]

<p><cite>Rainmare@Oasis wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>did you read the little blurb about why you start as a good toon in halas? the thing about the rygorr orcs attacking nad sinking your ship adn the pilgrims pulling you ashore?</p><p>yeah like the small force of rygorr near halas have a navy to stop every ship heading to Qeynos.</p></blockquote><p>One of the nice things about MMOs (and Fantasy MMOs) is that probabilities become irrevelent. Everyone gets to be the person that just happened to be in rare_situation_01. So it's not that the Rygorr would be stopping every ship, but rather that they happened to stop <em>your</em> ship. Otherwise you'd just be a miscellanious, unnamed and unseen NPC on a ship that happened to make the journey normally.</p><p>Regarding the OP... I can't wait for the druid rings to be rebuilt. It's something I've wanted since... well since launch when we saw the non-functioning and mostly-destroyed druid rings, hehe.</p>

[KniteShayd]

<p><cite>Barx@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Regarding the OP... I can't wait for the druid rings to be rebuilt. It's something I've wanted since... well since launch when we saw the non-functioning and mostly-destroyed druid rings, hehe.</p></blockquote><p>Meeeee Too!</p><p>When I started, I was like, "[Removed for Content]?! How are people supposed to travel?!" lol...  Later I was like, "WhyTF do they even have the rings, if we can't use em?!"</p><p>And then finally, they opened em up..., but not all @ once. And again, I was like, "[Removed for Content]?!"</p><p>LoL</p>