[loramin]

Personally instead of a big giant flaming sword memorial, I think a much better custom content way to include Brad would be to make Aradune OR some similar analog, in a relevant place (eg. an NPC named Daraune or Rabd in McQuaid's in Halas ... classic EQ was all about word play names!)

That NPC shouldn't just be some stationary reminder: he should have (at least one) quest. It'd be extra fun if he was a rare spawn, or had interesting pathing, or had an interesting spawn trigger, or whatever, or if the quest was actually worth doing (even if only to level 3s on Green). But the really important bit, to me, is that he should be an "active part" (as active as NPCs get) of the world.

If you look at Classic EQ as "Brad's Vision", static memorials were never in that vision. NPCs with quests (even pointless ones) and wordplay names absolutely were.

P.S. But I also still like the idea of adding him to "dev island" in Plane of Sky. And I like the idea of bringing "dev island" back in the first place (I heard they removed it?)