This change will be added some time late January 2006.

Tyazul’s character fiction will change a bit to reflect this. Sadly, he’ll probably be a necro by then – unless I focus on crafting, but that’s never been very fun to me.

At any rate, now I don’t know what to do. Shame I can’t freeze my remaining game time until this change goes in so I don’t have to waste time playing some crappy class that I have no interest in.

~Mysk

I tried to play a Shadow Knight in EQ2 and it was incredibly boring. I never made it beyond level 11 or so with that character. It just wasn’t worth my time, in my opinion.

I’ve tried other classes. Assassin and wizard being the other two primary classes that I’ve tried. The assassin class is okay, I suppose, but it’s a massive button mashing style of play. The wizard, on the other hand, is an incredibly monotonous style of play that could easily be described as “mind numbing”. I’m hoping that the wizard improves, but I’m not expecting it.

So that leads me back to the original path that I took in EQ and stuck with there. Playing a necro. This goes against my original plans for the heritage, but thankfully I had not finalized the characters.

With any luck, the Enchantress will be an interesting play experience. I really do not want to change her character!

Also, each character was/is to have a distinct view of their parents. The son was to view his father as an intelligent, evil character who danced his victims – either dead or alive – on invisible strings. However, the son would see the need for increased strength and much more direct manner of of approaching things; that’s been changed since he’s no longer a Shadow Knight.

The daughter was/is to see their mother as a dark elf who had chosen the wrong path. Alluring and enchanting, her mother had many at her beck and call who lavished her with gifts and, in general, treated her as royalty. She also, shall we say, had many suitors. As such the daughter saw her mother’s true strength in her ability to enchant and is/will be determined to master this incredible power.

Both the daughter and son have only vague memories of their parents, along with some fragmented journal pieces and the like. Their views of their mother and father are incorrect in many ways, but they would never know the truth. Their entire lives are to be forged by the views that they have of their parents. Neither would ever know of the great love story behind their parents nor of how Mysk’s partner first showed him the logic of love, and then the emotion (not to say that he ever gone completely soft; oh no). They would remember only how they studied, how they spent great spans of time apart, their power (both politically and magically), and their wealth.

The two children, of course, are seperated and know very little of each other. These are dark elves that we’re dealing with, not the loving siblings of the more gentle races. Though they were “close” in their younger years, their philosophies grew an ever greater wedge between them – even while building a dark respect for each other.

On the day of the great cataclysm, their parents were gone as usual and each sibling was persuing their own agendas. The world was rent, the sky exploded into searing light and chunks of the moon fell down upon the land and oceans around them. Did the daughter survive? Ty doesn’t know, though he doesn’t exactly care.

We know, of course, that they both did, but the daughter’s story will unfold another time.

The magic that they knew ceased to function and suddenly each child found themselves without wealth and devoid of the magics that they had come to rely upon. Ty survived on what was left of the land around him and, as the EQ2 story goes, was eventually picked up by one of the many refugee boats that search the still roiling waters for survivors.

This is where Tyazul’s story begins.