[Mentathiel]

The first time I ever saw Kithicor, I was heading from Greater Faydark to Qeynos for bard songs. Must have been level 14 or so, heading out that way in spite of "Lyssa's Cataloging Libretto" being less important than most songs.

My first experience of Kithicor was a quiet forest full of bee-people and some wandering animals. I suspected nothing, having never heard the stories. A guild-mate (I had just joined a guild actually) mentioned that HH was safe because both the orcs and gnolls were camped, even offering an escort just to make sure.

Like any newbie, I got lost. I had the map in front of me, but I somehow took one wrong turning after another and didn't read the notes from EQ Atlas, so I was still there when the sun went down. I was bound nearby, so it was not so bad, but that might have been my first real 'OMG noob!' conversation with the guild. I ended up sitting on the zone-line while someone logged in a higher-level alt to drag my corpse to the Rivervale entrance and rez me.

After learning about the Battle of Bloody Kithicor, I decided to take an interest in the stories...