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Awesome work! Doing the great game justice.

That was awesome. ~25 years of playing this game (albeit on and off), and hearing/seeing almost every name in this lore video 100x over, and I never knew even half of these stories. Love this series, thanks! Can't wait for part 2

6:45 I'm not saying you're right or wrong, but that's certainly the first time I've heard Trakanon pronounced that way, haha!

I love Kunark's history, it was so well thought out. Looking forward to part 2!

So technically, i been doing this same Hunter melee way before actual SoD wow players , been made a Melee hunter on Project Ascension and recently Turtle WoW . EQ1 never played it, but they should get more of the edge based on they did it first

Well that takes me back, 7th Hammer represent

EPIC!!!!!

I quit the game 4 years ago and went to eso and ff14 and tho I love those games I still talk about eq to everyone I meet on them I mis my de necro with his 3.o epic .I miss ec tunnel I miss poh raids I mis luclin.nothing will ever eclipse ever crack .

This explains so much about all of the giant stuff near Halas I'm excited to learn about the zones that are up north, where I know there is some Giants but I haven't played that expansion

As far as the Rallos server goes, it was the beginning of the end. I think Velious was my favorite expansion.

Really awesome video. I randomly stumbled into this and now I can't stop watching. Thanks for putting your time into this!

thanks for fixing audio, these are ridiculously well made and well edited

These are great videos!

so so good ! well made :)

Absolutely love the depth and richness of the lore in EverQuest. I swear they could make a AAA movie or Netflix series and call it whatever and it would be a smash. This lore is what I miss most and the industry as a whole should work to keep this franchise going. Just wish I had the time to play like I used to.

Love this stuff. Would recommend you place a picture of who you are discussing while discussing as you mis pronounced several names and it got confusing on who you were talking about

Awesome

I wonder, is it possible for Daybreak to finance a series on Max or Netflix, etc, that is the history of Norrath, but in GoT or Arkane style? Seems it would be amazing.

Most of what is said, I already knew, and it was from a collector's box, gold-colored metal thing with an encyclopedia type thing in it (circa 2003). Perhaps this is the source they used?

The Bazaar was personal, Nexus removed that. So it depends on whether or not you want the personal touch.

I love the idea of statistical offers. Where individual players get drops and spawns by how much time they spent within a certain realm of behavior. Which can be hanging around a zone actively doing stuff, or number of failed attempts at a specific task. ElderScrolls online has the ability to make NPCs only visable to specific players. So this can be a way for guilds to fight overworld bosses, without it being stolen or blocked. Requiring as well that guilds hang out and do stuff other than violance.

maps with no gps would be cool. Spot landmarks

It's almost a crime that the developers have players go on murder Rampages and barely know why. Thank you so much for the work you did here

Luclin is my favorite expansion. I also really enjoyed the beastlord class back in the day.

I farmed swirling shadows for all the gear I wanted including horse bridles. I could make a couple thousand plat early on Saturday mornings. Good times!

Luclin was awesome ;) I stand by that assertion!

This event called Bloody Kithicor played out live on all servers with the GM's and guides playing roles. I was there as a guide, and I played Lord Tephys. The guide playing Lanys T'Vyl advanced with an army of players she rallied from various zones (and eventually a Teir'Dahl army spawned by the GM) while the guide playing Firiona Vie and myself waited near the zone along with an army of players we gathered to defend Highpass (along with eventually a GM spawned army of High Elves and Humans.) When the two army's clashed it was chaos. The spawned armies began attacking anyone in range and not just their opponents, and more and more players poured into the zone making it increasingly unstable. Unfortunately many crashed and were unable to see the conclusion. In the end as scripted Lanys slayed my Lord Tephys while Firiona took up the defense and thwarted the Teir'Dal victory. The stone was invoked, and the undead poured in wiping out nearly everyone. At that point the GM's rebooted the zone from the original tame forest to the new version where the stronger undead come out at night permanently. The event was one of the first of its type in EQ, and it was also intended to feature the characters of Firiona Vie and Lanys T'Vyl as polar rivals on into many events afterward. The featuring of Firiona Vie was particularly important with ties to the marketing of the Kunark expansion which was at that time coming out soon. It was a lot of fun and it definately felt significant for the EQ community at the time because it was unprecedented and made a permanent change to Kithicor. Good times!

I find it kind of hilarious that 2 different empires both went "Well everything is going to shit, where can we bunker down and rebuild?....THE MOON!" and then just teleported themselves up there.

Nice and well told story, with just one flaw... it is a bedtime story for little kids. The truth is much shorter: once there was a mighty gnome wizzard, and his wife. He was obsessed with explosives, magic and tinkering. She loved cats and had lots of them. He hates them, and one day he planned to get rid of them, so he put them in a windmill on a big mountain in steamfont mountain and planned to blow them up... Well the experiment went a bit wrong, the whole mountain including the windmill went of with a big explosion and flew to the sky. That's how Luclin appeared in the sky, and why there are cats on the moon. Which mountain and windmill you may aks... well today there is just a little hole, left side if you leave Ak'Anon and right infront of the druid ring. But besides that, well told story, I liked it.

For me it did, I know for some the expansion brought great features but I think the look and feel is what was lost. Animations seemed stiffer, graphics were pretty jarring and changed the look of some of my favorite characters. I still played it, but it was pushing me away at that point.

I played EQ for many years and i still learned a new things today ! thank you, i love this game !

yes it did

Asheron's Call had way better graphics imo... and they never fked the game up bad. But we too had that magic early era

I say PoP did killed it. After that most of my friends left the game.

WoW killed Everquest. I played before Luclin/ PoP. Loved Planes and the stuff that came with it. WoW just smoked it for graphics/ visuals. I remember the lag when transitioning from one zone to the next. EQ started nerfing stuff. No more mass buffs was a big one.

Luclin had some issues I feel, but I enjoyed it. It was Plains of Power that killed EQ for me and I quit right before Gates of Discord. In Luclin, the Spires as transport did mess with traveling, but not nearly as bad as PoP. The Bazaar was a mistake, whey they hell they didn't create an actual auction house market I'll never know.

I had kind of pieced together some of this! But I sure didn't know the full breadth of the story. Really makes me want to go play project quarm

Make more

What killed me was the speed at which expansions started coming out. Who are these maniacs finishing expansions in 90 days? I liked to make alts, talk to NPCs looking for quests and just explore in general. If you weren't focusing on one toon and constantly grinding for keys and flags, you couldn't keep up with expansions dropping 3 times a year.

Luclin is fine, EQ2 and the main city revamp killed EQ

Luclin was amazing I got my first account suspension because of Luclin and the bazaar.

Luclin ruined EQ for me. I played from August 1999 until maybe a couple months into Luclin, but I just couldn't stomach it. It was too different. The soul of the game indeed was lost.

I really like the EQ lore videos and look forward to seeing more of them

I have no idea about your realationship but my first thought about this is that she just wanna see your deaths being laughed at by other wowplayers.

I miss EQ. Giving Blizzard money for WoW is blasphemy though. You're telling the MMO dev community that WoW is what we want.

I like when you do these back and forth videos nice work!

Yes do it

What did you do to make her hate you? Hardcore is soul crushing at times

Finished the BFG just before removal.

the Addition of AA points made the game. so much fun grinding AA's after the levels. its the main draw for me returning over the years