Feldon A decidely frumpy thread speculating about the positive aspects of the upcoming Destiny of Velious expansion entitled “So… Has anyone got anything good to say about Velious?” has drawn the attention of SmokeJumper who announced that the main Signature quest telling the storyline of Destiny of Velious was withheld from Beta to keep it a surprise:
Much of this gets explained in the signature quest line. As usual, the sig line was not included in the beta test so that it would be new to everyone at launch. This is slightly risky from a QA perspective, but is traditional with EQII releases, so we did it that way again here.
But that might be why you didn’t get the lore explanations you wanted. (Although I don’t think we touch on #7 much at all in DoV. Maybe a teensy bit in the Tserrina stuff.)
This was in response to an interesting recap of the Lore as seen in (and leading up to) Beta by SgtPmpkn that we thought was worth reproducing:
The Lore bits were few and far between until late in the Beta when they added in the Deepwater Circle NPCs, which gave out quests which explained what happened to Velious and to solve some mysteries. Assuming at this point the DC NPCs are agents of the Duality in Paineel.
Things we know or I’ve seen while questing:
1. Othmir – they escaped Cobalt Scar before it was swallowed up by the sea, due to their visionary which you help, and then help his successor. They are helping the Snowfang Gnolls fight off the agents of the Tower of Frozen Shadow from killing them off. Also Tserrina, is trying to poison the Lodizal.
2. Thurgadin – the land has been changed dramatically, cutting up EW from WW at the current time. The Coldain are fighting with the Rime at the current time, and been sending out scouts to see what is happening to the Ry’Gorr Orcs and the Kromzek Giants from Kael. The questlines needed some polishing towards the end of beta so didnt get to the of the lines here.
3. Ry’Gorr/Othmir/Geonids in EW: All are trying to survive from the invasion of the Giants in EW. The Giants from Kael are forming offensives and tearing down the forests and growth in EW for some reason. (might be explained more in Kael quests). The Wakening Lands has been ravaged by the Giants and is without much help since Wuoshi took the Bloom of Growth to LFay in EoF.
4. Kael Drakkel: Home of the Kromzek Giants. We know the the Giant King and the Statue of Rallos Zek are raid targets, but didnt have time to get quests done in Contested Kael. For some reason they are forming an offensive to claim Velious for their own.
5. Dragons: Little is known as WW is cut off at the current time. There is little lore in Thurgadin, as Yelinak is inside, talking about aligning with the Coldain to fight off a threat that the dragons cant do alone. More to come I’m sure.
6. Tserrina: Gninja did alot with the ToFS zones to explain lore, and going through the zones we will know what has happened to her since her imprisonment.
7. Mayong/Firiona: Both not mentioned in any quest/lore yet or their involvement in Velious.
There is an overarching Signature Questline, that was mentioned by the Devs in the Beta Forums that is complete but wasnt released due to wanting it to go Live so no one gets a sneak peak. This hopefully, will tie up loose ends and lead us forward. But overall that is what I got above from the questlines in beta.