Kedge Keep?

[Jaremai]

<p>Is there anything to suggest what happened to my good fishy friend Phinigel?  My wizzy spent many visits with him in EQ1 negotiating epic drops for friends and guildmates, and I miss him.</p><p>I had figured he would have made an appearance in the EoF expansion but haven't seen anything around the Unrest area to suggest Kedge Keep survived the shattering.  In fact.. now that I think about it.. is there even any 100% underwater zones in the game or am I just blanking out this morning?</p>

[Cusashorn]

<p>Nope. 100% underwater zones result in some SERIOUS Z Axis issues when it comes to combat. The developers said that when EoF came out, they had a technical limitation set in place and they had to decide between Kedge Keep and Unrest. They went with the one that was easier to design and script.</p><p>There's no confirmation that Phinigel is dead, what with him being immortal and all... but there's nothing saying he's still alive either. I'm still holding out on him showing up sometime. It'd be cool to see what a Kedge looks like in EQ2's graphics.</p>

[Meirril]

<p><cite>Cusashorn wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Nope. 100% underwater zones result in some SERIOUS Z Axis issues when it comes to combat. The developers said that when EoF came out, they had a technical limitation set in place and they had to decide between Kedge Keep and Unrest. They went with the one that was easier to design and script.</p><p>There's no confirmation that Phinigel is dead, what with him being immortal and all... but there's nothing saying he's still alive either. I'm still holding out on him showing up sometime. It'd be cool to see what a Kedge looks like in EQ2's graphics.</p></blockquote><p>I predict that Phinigel in his eternal quest to restore the kedge race has managed to obtain the Vessle of Fay'rn, fragments of the Nexus, most of the remains of a shissar, a pinch of the clay of cosgrove, forbidden lore from the Tower of Frozen Shadows and Miraguel's private notes on Immortality and time trave, several ancient runes used in the full Shissar Callendar, and the intact combine library blown from Katta Castillium to his front doorstep.</p><p>After studying all of the newly discovered information he finds his way to the sewers below the Temple of the Forgotten and discovered altars to the Old Ones. Long forgotten dieties that never had worshipers on Norrath. After bargaining with The Old Ones they agree to seperate the Kedge race from Phinigel's soul in return for his and their eternal service. Shattering Phinigel's mind and body the Kedge are brought to life using the waters of the Fay'rn and the clay of cosgrove and the flesh of other undersea creatures Phinigel was able to lure towards his undersea temple. The new Kedge themselves take on the attributes of whatever creatures are absorbed into their new bodies, with a taste for living flesh due to the involvement of the Vessle.</p><p>Phinigel himself was driven quite mad. He bellows forth commandments for worshiping the Old Ones, and in his more lucid moments he plots ways to open a portal so his beloved dieties may visit their new altar and be amused as Norrath is sacrificed to madness.</p>

[Cusashorn]

<p>Don't know why you're predicting in the past tense, but Phinigel was indeed driven insane from the sheer loneliness of being the last of his kind.</p>

[Iskandar]

<p>I wonder if he felt better once EQ1's "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EverQuest:_The_Buried_Sea" target="_blank">The Buried Sea</a>" expansion came out... Shissar and Kedge and Combine, oh my! <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/49869fe8223507d7223db3451e5321aa.gif" border="0" /></p>

[Meirril]

<p><cite>Iskandar wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I wonder if he felt better once EQ1's "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EverQuest:_The_Buried_Sea" target="_blank">The Buried Sea</a>" expansion came out... Shissar and Kedge and Combine, oh my! <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/49869fe8223507d7223db3451e5321aa.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p><a href="http://everquest.allakhazam.com/wiki/Everquest_Guide_The_Buried_Sea">http://everquest.allakhazam.com/wik..._The_Buried_Sea</a></p><p>Zam gives a better explination. Wow. Almost temts me back to EQ1. Almost.</p>

[Jaremai]

<p><cite>Meirril wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Phinigel himself was driven quite mad. He bellows forth commandments for worshiping the Old Ones, and in his more lucid moments he plots ways to open a portal so his beloved dieties may visit their new altar and be amused as Norrath is sacrificed to madness.</p></blockquote><p>This makes me think of one of those overly-repeated Hitler movie dubs on YouTube.</p><p>I miss a lot about EQ1 but I'm wondering if it's nostalgia or dementia.</p>