Tome of Ages  

The oracle is at -17,-6732,-200, on top of mountain in the revamp.

i received an email the other day about a new tradeskill quest that was supposed to go live really soon. and how it had something to do with all the clues that were put in the eqrpg books. amongst them is the grand robe of the oracle. now what that has to do exactly with the tome of ages im not sure. maybe it wont mean a thing, but i went to visit the oracle and i noticed a new guy hanging around him. assist julyan or something like that. maybe part of this new quest might have something to do with the tome of ages. i have noticed that the oracle is mentioned alot in the eqrpg books.

I am convinced that that this quest is either broken or incomplete.

First. Did the Oracle exist before Kunark? Because the Book of scale is used only in the pally epic and epics were added with kunark this NPC could not have asked for the book of scale before kunark.

Second. It appears that the quest for the Book of Turmoil only seems to exist to boost your faction with the oracle in case you've killed him in the past for his robe. That would explain why it's so easy. Although I don't know how a pally is supposed to get all the way into Neriak: 3rd Gate
in order to do it.

The fact than when you ask the oracle about the other books and he says he doesn't need them means that those parts of the quest have not been implemented yet and the other books don't exist in the game.

Another thing, if the result of this quest is supposed to be so great why is the Book of Turmoil quest so easy? You would think that each step would be hard. Also if the Tome of ages is supposed to port you to different places, as speculated in this forum, it doesn't seem to be an adequate reward for killing 2 dragons and whatever else you would be expected to do to complete the other steps of this quest. If the other steps are as difficult as the Book of Scale quest the Tome of Ages would have to be better than just about any epic.

It's too bad that they put little teasers like this in the game and after such a long time, would probably end up with a cruddy reward.

Either way... the teasers may simply be that... teasers... placeholders for other quests that MAY or MAY NOT be implemented.

Heck, it wouldn't surprise me if one day someone asks, "what Lost Book?" and receives:

Oracle of K`Arnon says 'I do not seek the Lost Book at this time, but if you would like to learn more of this Age, purchase Lords of EverQuest, the new RTS brought to you by Sony... with a link to the product.

Looking through some of this , someone posted this about the seven ages .

1)age of scale. when veeshan scared the world and deposited the dragons.

2)the eldar age. when brell got involved and made a pact with tunare, prexus and rallos zek to make creatures and take it from veeshan.

3)the age of monuments. innoruuk creates dark elves. brell makes another pact this time with rallos zek, cazic-thule, and brislebane. it was in this age that the zek races tried to fight the gods and were punished.

4)age of blood. erollisi and mithanial marr go to norrath and make the barbarians (which fought with everything they came in contact with. hence the bloody part)

5)The lost age. sol ro destroyes the elddar forest, takish-hiz crumbled elves leave tunaria (antonica). humans are made. and the creation and fall of the combine.

6)age of enlightenmeent. humans settle in freeport and qeynos. tunaria gets named antonica (after antonious bayle III) humans learn magic and the erudite leave for odus.

7)age the turmoil. miragul rediscovers necromancy and the eruidite civil war begins. the vah shir are translocated to luclin and the hole was created. paineel was created.

Glancing at some of the other info , I kinda noticed a pattern .

1. The Book of Scale is about the age when Veeshan dropped her brood on Norrath . What do you get the halves of the books ? Two exiled dragons .

2. The Book of Turmoil is supposedly the chapter about the civil war and partial destruction of Odus , as well as the revival of Necromancy . This book is received from a scribe whom I suppose has ties with necromancy .

Perhaps the other books might be found within areas regarding the other ages ? Prexus created the Kedge .. maybe something regarding the Elder age could be found in one of the oceans or Kedge Keep ? Rallos Zek created the ogres , and their empire covered most of southern Antonica before they were cursed for killing the Rathe Council near present Oggok .. Tunare created the original elves , which I think are the wood elves . Maybe someone in Kelethin or Felwithe might have a clue ? As for Brell , that may well be a dead end . So many races claim to be his children , it'd be difficult to chase down so many leads . His supposed races are the goblins , gnolls , gnomes , halflings (? Maybe ), and of course the dwarves .

The Age of Monument may have some information in Felwithe , Neriak , Befallen , Mistmoore , or Najena . Oggok may also be a good place , if you can find a competent ogre .
Age of Blood is pretty vague . Odus , Halas , Qeynos , Freeport , and the outlying areas may be the best bets here , though it's unlikely any of the knowledge may have survived .

The Lost Age would be a good place to check the Ro's and elven communities . Befallen , again , would be a good place , as would Innothule . I believe it was about this time that Innothule was vaporized by some high elf wizards , and many trolls were slain by paladins guarding the only escape route . Sro may be a good place to look around .

Enlightenment is the age of magic . Check with the heads of the caster guilds , as well as Odus . Paineel might be an exclusion , as it wasn't created during this age .

These are just a few assumptions , but if this quest really works , those might be the best places ..

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Nerem Voleur
23rd Level Rogue
Tunare Server

I have killed the above named NPC in Mistmoore before. She has dropped an illegibal scroll. I know other forms of this items exist, such as the one found on Orc Apprentices in East Commonlands, but this ones graphic looked different. I have also heard of a gnome in Freeport that can decipher illegibal things. Being a Necromancer I have not had the oppurtunity to hand in this scroll, if anyone else ever has the time could they attempt to hand this in? I am curious as to what it is and the Princess seems to tie in well with this Quest, being a female Dark Elf in Mistmoore.

i went up to the oracle today and asked him "who is marud?" the oracle said. "he's an imposter. those upstart erudites are jealous of the elddar and the knowledge we possess."

also i find it interesting that the oracle is looking for the book on the first age the scale, and the last book, the age of turmoil. not only what but why would he list them out of order?

im trying to find someone that will answer to the question "who is marud?" but ive yet to find on. from what the oracle said its kinda obvious that the oracle of marud is an erudite where is he? someone in the game has to know of him.

one last question. why does the oracle claim to be a member of the dark bargainers? those are the dark elf merchants, so why would one of the first high elves born in felwithe, who was raised in the temple of tunare, and became the royal advisor to the elven king identify himself as a member of the merchants of an enmemy race? that doesnt make sense. i suspect something is up there

(info on the oracle comes from the maps of myrist)



Edited, Sun Jan 12 17:03:58 2003

Just thought I would ad my two cents in on this take a look at my Journal and tell me what you think.
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/journal.html?user=193749&mid=104143315948189

I've just started doing some in-game research on this quest, after following it for over a year.
When I was checking out the library in erudin (a logical place to start my research, I thought) I ran into a female erudite in the library top floor. Here follows the log of our conversation:

[Tue Nov 26 15:38:27 2002] You say, 'Hail, Sornita Eltern'
[Tue Nov 26 15:38:28 2002] Sornita Eltern says 'Greetings, Kanuwen! Please be do not speak too loudly while inside the library. If you need anything special, feel free to ask me. I am a member of the Crimson Hands and my specialty is divination. In my research I have stumbled across many [rare tomes].'
[Tue Nov 26 15:38:40 2002] You say, 'What rare tomes ?'
[Tue Nov 26 15:38:40 2002] Sornita Eltern says 'Why, just yesterday I stumbled upon what I believe to be an excerpt from Miragul's own treatise on the origin of the creatures known as scarecrows. Such a work is heresy and would be destroyed if the High Council knew of its existence so I have been tight-lipped about my discovery. If you would like to see it, I will show it to you, for a nominal donation of 20 gold pieces.'
[Tue Nov 26 15:38:51 2002] Sornita Eltern says 'Oh, yes. Very good friend. Here is the document I mentioned. It would seem to be part of a larger body of work, but this page describes a Teir'Dal who it seems was instrumental in creating the head of the very first scarecrow. You may keep that as it is merely a magical duplicate of the original document which I have carefully hidden.'
[Tue Nov 26 15:38:51 2002] You gain experience!!

She wouldnt give me the tome though. The Teir'Dal in question is probably Mayong Mistmoore, I picked up a text a few months ago regarding MM's research on animating Scarecrows. I dont have the contents of the text with me now, so I'll have to get back to you on this. I will continue my research tonight, heading into Castle Mistmoore in my quest for the Tome of Ages.

I have just recently started my investigation into the Tome of Ages quest and I must admit my information is sketchy at best but I did notice one thing while doing the Book of Turmoil Quest in Neriak I did the Red Wine quest just for the hell of it and got the note from Lokar To'Biath to take to his sister, Rysva To'Biath. After giving her this note and reading it, I read something at the bottom I havent noticed in any other posts here in Allakhazam, Everlore, Castersrealm, or Gaffe. The note is quite long so I will just post the part that caught my attention


"In return, I shall give you the Book of Turmoil, one of the books in the Tome of Ages. If you need any other of these books restored, I will do so for 1000 platinum"

The part about restoring other books is the part I have not read in any of my research online. I may have missed it but I dont think I have. Is this the person who combines the two halves of the Book of Scale? Someone suggested that the Book of Blood may be scattered all over the place as well. Maybe some of the books for the Tome of Ages are pieces you have to bring to a D'al scribe to have them combined. The other thought that occured to me was that in my personal interview with the oracle and in reading the info from the oracle in the posts of others, I saw nothing to indicate the Oracle of Ar'kanon is himself a D'al scribe. So maybe the books are not turned in to him. Has anyone tried turning in the known books into the NPC's we know to be D'al scribes? (I.E. turning the book of scale into Rysva To'Biath)

Just some thoughts. I must put the disclaimer that I am new to this quest and have only been playing EQ since Sept 2001. Feel free to criticise, I hear it all the time. My name and server are posted in my signature so you all know where to find me if you have a really nasty gripe about my post

Just got my copy of the Maps of Myrist. Here's an exerpt from the introduction;
"I suspect you may know something of how to journey to the Plane of Knowledge yourself. I wonder, if I had known the fate that awaited me would I still have gone to visit the Oracle in the Ocean of Tears? Would I have followed his counsel to seek the Fallen?"

Ok, so who are the "Fallen"? It would be those evil Erudites in Paineel, right?

Others have posted info that mentions the Cave of Living Stone or something like that. There's been lots of speculation on what that means. Here's another bit from the Maps of Myrist;
"It was during these explorations that they came across the Vault of Living Stone. This artifact is said to have been created by Brell Serilis to seal the passageway he had opened from the Plane of Underfoot to Norrath. It was through this passageway that he had brought his creations. Once he had finished his seeding, he put the Vault of Living Stone in place. The vault was a magical construct designed to perpetually repair itself and keep Norrath safe from Lord Yael's forces and the more vicious denizens of the Plane of Underfoot."
The preceeding is an exerpt taken from the book's background on The Hole.
The book has several pages specifically about about the new planes but there isn't a section dedicated to the Plane of Underfoot like several other Planes/places.

That's all I got for now. I plan to ask the Oracle about the "Fallen" just as soon as he pops. I'll post if I get anything.

Edited, Fri Oct 18 19:16:04 2002

Deleted, hit enter by mistake.
See above.

Edited, Fri Oct 18 19:12:45 2002

I was messing around on Luclin one day and noticed on the map that there is an unknown zone on the map in EQ atlas for the Netherbian lair. I proceeded on over to it and maaged (with levitate) to wiggle my way through the rocks into the tunnel leading to darkness. I didnt make it very before I kept getting reset back inthe tunnel. I tried casting my Eye of Zomm and running with that. It did not get reset, but niether did it make it much farther then I. Obviously this is a zone line for the expansion, I was just wondering if anyone had any idea where to and ifit might possibly be realted to this quest at all.

If you are class that doesn't have Gate, I would suggest not worming your way in for a look. Try as I might I could not get back past the rock fall to get out with or without levitate.

Volcanus Eruptus
55 DE Conjurer
Mercenaries of Darkness
Vallon Zek

OK here are the books read on this website in the lore section read the whole story from begginning to end
1. enlightenment where erudites gathered knowledge
2.scale- age of the dragons
3.turmoil-time of war and destruction in norrath
4.monuments-well easy its the combine era all the great things are constructed.
5.elders-wisest people among norrath i think
6.blood- not sure exactly
7.lost book-think about it.... all the knowledge was lost and
Now dont same im wrong im just saying what i remember i have to recheck my sources but its logical read the history of norrath then compare it to the names of the books it makes sense each book is a different age in norraths history or explains it from when all was learned till destruction and loss of knowledge....... so think about it use some logic.... word out

i posted on graffe about this and i got a reply back from one of the kind masters of the site saying this quest was a hoax. Now, I can assure you that the oracle does speak of these things, but I'm thinking that it's not really a hoax, it's more of "Hi, we at Verant decided not to put this quest in, and then forgot to take it out. We know of the problem, but we don't fix it."
Either that, or it's a "Well, it's broken and we're too lazy to fix, it but the stuff sucks anyways, so find your nearest wizard and ask him to port you to PoH or something, begone" type of thing.
Now, if this quest really does work, how do you trigger him to be looking for the other books? Or, if you find them (god only knows how you might do that) and then turn them in, if he's "not looking for them" does he then just say "Well, I wasn't looking for this item, so you've wasted your time on one of our best thought of timesinks BWAHAHAHAHA" take the item and then tell you not to let the door hit you on the way out. Either way, I think this quest either needs to be upgraded to be more in line with the high level encounters and keys and such that the "modern" end game player does, or removed completely from the game. Not saying that the reward sucks (I don't know what the reward is, I haven't finished it) but considering it's an old world quest.....

anyways, just my rant/2cp. If ya don't like it, too bad 8)

-Guillemot

This has to be one of the most interesting things I know of in game. This quest has been known of since the beginning but still hasn't been solved after nearly, what is it now, 4 years? Anyway, on to the point of this post, back in one of Annyhillus' earlier posts, he mentions something I find interesting considering the next expansion VI is coming out with.

Quote:
"I feel it duly necessary to report that the Plane of Earth and the 'Planes of Power' are mentioned in conjunction with this book... I do not know if there is a connection."


Anyone else think thats odd?

From this post:
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=65&mid=98686299388667

BTW good work on this Annyhillus. Hope you solve it first.

Edited, Sun Apr 21 14:07:29 2002

*Ack, just realized the book of scale is used in the Fiery Avenger Quest. But, still curious if anyone ever turned in the Book of Turmoil and the Book of Scale in one after the other. Perhaps that would spawn the the need for the next books.


To anyone's knowledge, has the Book of Scale ever been turned in to the Oracle? I am curious what exactly will happen. Given that no one seems to have seen any of the other books besides the book of Turmoil, that the other books will either be triggered into existance after handing in the book of scale, or.....the quest is still broken?
Any further knowledge would be greatly appreciated

Edited, Fri Mar 15 03:01:12 2002

I am of the belief that Marud is either hiding in Paineel (triggered) or in the Hole. I have been exploring Paineel and I think that the Librarian and this Coreilla chick have info on him because she responds to the question, "Who is Marud?". The Librarian also gives out book that tell stories of Norrath. The lil bugger will only give me one atm tho.

*reclines in his chair as he reads the posts noticing few actually know what they speak of* I shall be questing for this book soon.

~Dartimous~
40th Circle of Tholuxe Paells
Dragons of Mesa Moon

*reclines in his chair as he reads the posts noticing few actually know what they speak of* I shall be questing for this book soon.