So....summing up the Eq2 Lore....a lot happened! (Quoting for myself.)
When EQ1 become EQ2.. the history and changes...
Big boom! Everyone lost memories, oh wait, it was all a plot by big evil dragon. Defeated, shiny weapons hurrays!
Ooo a sandy desert! Ewer of life destroyed hurrays! big snakes, Godking, Djinns all deaded.
Look! Up in the sky! More Dragons! The Qeynos Claymore goes missing, oh wait, found it! More dead Dragons.
Hurrays the Fae are here! Ooooh Vampires! Help the Freethinkers to kill Mayong Mistmoore. Haywire clockworks! Scrap metal now hurrays! Whooshi the Dragon protects a flower for Tunare, we got it back!
The Gods return! Huzzah!
Iksar pirates threaten the seas! Oh Sarnak are here! Big zone of lots of dragons! Prophecy of the end of the world! Oh noes! We have to find out what it says! Chelsith Stone found and we've been the stooge of another big enemy we met before!
More hints about the end of the age/world
Void Beasts! And heres where I retreat to a happy place where nothing is complicated at all!
Quoted from an old post of Drakinos
Dranikos@Butcherblock wrote:
This expansion is really just a whole bunch of older plot threads being wrapped up.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
from this thread here:
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