Reconstructing Norrath & Imaginary zones.

[Khikik]

Very neat!

I never thought about it but a Orc dungeon/canyon zone that connected to the Oasis Orc highway sounded really cool to me. Make it like level 20 - 30 or something and would really fit in to the level of the area.

Really sweet job on this!

[pickled_heretic]

I think everyone expected a deathfist orc zone and that would be a logical place. All of the major antagonists of the low lvl zones have their own home base except for the death fist orcs in the commonlands (Gnolls in blackburrow, crushbone orcs in crushbone). I guess the kobolds of steamfont could have used their own place too.

[Jimjam]

So I've been thinking about that dried riverbed/canyon from oasis that cuts into the mountains. I was looking at the position of Oggok on Lune’s map and had a realisation:

Oggok has a tunnel leading nowhere, suspiciously similar to a zoneline tunnel. Perhaps this could have been a second zoneline into the Runjark hills, alongside the canyon?

[Zephys]

I always thought the devs should have put more effort into filling out the areas of norrath that already existed, instead of the direction they took things. Wasn't there talk of custom content in p99 later? Maybe we should homebrew some zones. That area southwest of the Feerrott and Rathe looks fun and high level.

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by Zephys [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I always thought the devs should have put more effort into filling out the areas of norrath that already existed, instead of the direction they took things.

Totally I am so hyped to explore some of these magical little nooks and crannies one of these days when I finish this dumb project lol

Im excited to squeeze a crushbone type derve zone behind the camps in WC between that zone, and those magical lakes & waterfalls that were never built! There has to be something cool there!!

Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Oggok has a tunnel leading nowhere, suspiciously similar to a zoneline tunnel. Perhaps this could have been a second zoneline into the Runjark hills, alongside the canyon?

It will be now! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Knuckle]

Originally Posted by Zephys [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I always thought the devs should have put more effort into filling out the areas of norrath that already existed, instead of the direction they took things. Wasn't there talk of custom content in p99 later? Maybe we should homebrew some zones. That area southwest of the Feerrott and Rathe looks fun and high level.

They did end up doing stuff like "Gulf of Gunthak" Stonebrunt Hills, etc. LDON I think continued the trend of using old world areas and adding instanced dungeons/areas. Not sure any direction they took mattered after Planes of Power which I think was the last hurrah as far as playerbase before the WoW Migration.

[wrighter00]

https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/...tml?zstrat=942

Turns out the Dead Hills were a part of the Call of the Forsaken expansion on live EQ.

Also, The Serpent's Spine mountainous region is basically adjacent to the Rujarkian hills and would be split and disputed by factions somewhere around Kith. Admittedly, according to classic EQ geography, there probably isn't enough land for all the zones added to those areas in LDoN and TSS expansions, but I have no way to scale the actual dead space between the classic zones to the zones themselves.

[Naerron]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grk0Y0_T-JA

this might be helpful

[magnetaress]

yaaaahh that little orc pass canyonlands area woulda been coooooool

very neat OP

rayye-the mountains... oh my

[Gustoo]

Jibartik you are a total hero.

I heard a rumor that a guy loaded non tutorial maps into the original EQ tutorial EXE that runs offline.

Would kill for this to explore.