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After being awakened, Kerafyrm rampaged through much of Velious, slaughtering everything in its path from Sleeper's Tomb to Skyshrine.

Formerly of Sleeper's Tomb, Kerafrym the now awakened currently resides in Crystallos, Lair of the Awakened.

Part of text written by Portingya, 84 Druid of AB :)

Picture is courtesy Blood of the Spider

Category: EverQuest
This page last modified 2009-05-26 11:51:11.

Level: 75
Expansion: Scars of Velious
NPC Added: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
NPC Last Updated: 2020-09-11 01:46:00

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RZ server
# Nov 16 2003 at 12:55 AM Rating: Decent
Ascending dawn ,Magus Imperialis Magicus and Wudan allied tonight to kill the sleeper on rallos zek server ,one of the last servers where the sleeper was never awaken ..... they got it to 25/26 percents hp after hours of fight .....
the sleeper was depoped by SOE ,because they were about to kill it ... that s just sad to interfer in the playgame they made a mob targetable and with a certain amount of hp ,if they didn t want to be killed they should have made it untagetable at the beginniing or simply revamp the zone on all servers at the same time

koppa
65 wizard
celestial empire
rallos zek

ps :gms will surelly say it s a bug ,but a bug on a 1 time blowable event is not acceptable
RE: RZ server
# Nov 16 2003 at 2:37 AM Rating: Excellent
Just to give you a rough picture...

160 people (and like 100 of them PoTime geared) fought him for 3,5 hours we got him to 27% before he poofed mysteriously.

The last official statement as of 11pm EST was that we probably reached the end (time out)of the script which it forced him to despawn. This is at least likely, but it tells us alot about Sony's high quality programmers. You rock. (/sarcasm off)

However, the fight itself was a blast.
Kerafyrm hits for 6999 (exactly yes) max dmg per hit.
Flurries of course and has a 20K proc DD added.
In addition of course the obvisous DT each 30 secs or so.
Totally immun to spells.

Some of us died more than 40 times during that fight, with clerics not doing anything else but ressing the fallen back in.

On one hand we are pleased knowing we would have killed it. On the other hand ,of course, getting the shaft after putting so much effort into it is like someone ripping your heart out.

Thanks to Sony for showing their l33t skills once again.
Grats to all who were there beeing a part of it. It was indeed the most epic battle in EQ we ever could experience and **** Sony..we won! /salute

Grats Wudan.
Grats Ascending Dawn.
Grats Magus.
+ guests
*shudders*
# Nov 15 2003 at 7:40 PM Rating: Default
From what I have heard, even OBTAINING the key to get to this place takes so much time and power. And from what it looks like, he just goes and kills every NPC and PC in Sleeper's Tomb (?), and then flies to Skyshrine (I bet he goes through Kael Drakkel and gets drunk with the giants) and kills Lord Yelinak - why does he do that?

Where can you find EQ lore on stuff like this? I'd REALLY like to figure out why the HELL Kerafyrm and Yelinak hate each other.

Oh, another question - it seems that Kerafyrm goes from Sleeper's Tomb to Skyshrine... does he go zone to zone LOL, like Into Eastern Wastes, then Kael Drakkel, then Wakening Lands, and then FINALLY (what a flight huh?) Skysrhine, DTing NPC and PC's alike? I don't think so (no way SoE would let that fly... would they?)

OH OH OH!!! Last question - once awakened, and after he despawns, can he be awakened again? Or is that like... a one-time thing? Because I'd personally like to see those messages. And then go change my boxers.
RE: *shudders*
# Nov 17 2003 at 11:24 PM Rating: Decent
Waking the Sleeper is a one time deal. The reason he goes from zone to zone killing the other dragons is in the lore of Norrath. Sleeper was locked away for being the first of his kind, a prismatic dragon stonger than the ancient dragons. It's no surprise he'd want a little revenge upon being awakened. As for his traveling, yes he does go from zone to zone in search of his next victim. I was one of the sad lowbies who got in his way and promptly saw LOADING, PLEASE WAIT...

Nyvarras Spiritwind
57 Shaman, serving the Tribunal
<Circle of Iron>
Cazic-Thule Server
truth
# Nov 14 2003 at 2:05 PM Rating: Default
Friends a GM.... there not allowed to ENTER the ToV.. ST... tier 4 planes or above.. Vex Thal. reason is SoE wants GM's to experance these adventures on their own... the Sleeper CAN be killed.. and saddam COULD be nice person inside.... there is no loot for Sleeper.. there will not be loot. no one in EQ will be able to kill Sleeper.. SoE made sure of this by nerfing certan items/ spells. and he was awakened on stromm already! (damn that was fast) PERIOD!
Misconceptions
# Nov 16 2003 at 4:28 PM Rating: Decent
GMs and Guides CAN enter any zone. However there are certain high level zones that Guides cannot hang around in, meaning they would need a petition to be there and have to leave after taking care of the petition. GMs as employees of SOE would be less restricted.
wow you are so wrong
# Nov 16 2003 at 3:03 AM Rating: Default
Oh and you are wrong yet again, after looking at your magelo you have a LORE augment in every single one of your slots.

Its not even possible to do that.
wow you are so wrong
# Nov 16 2003 at 3:00 AM Rating: Default
I petitioned to have an accidentally destroyed item replaced. My petition was responded to while I was in Sleeper's Tomb raiding the Ancients. The GM came directly up to me IN Sleeper's Tomb and replaced the item.
RE: truth
# Nov 15 2003 at 11:57 PM Rating: Default
Raxxus you suck that is my profile on my magelo account go make your own

http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=770563

AHH YOU STOLE MY PROFILE MAKE YOUR OWN

your sayin your a god and to look at it, its a fake warrior (the reason i named it fake warrior) and the only reason i made it was to make a max hp check with the highest hp gear in game

to prove it is mine i am renaming it raxxus sucksmyballs


Edited, Sun Nov 16 00:03:05 2003
RE: truth
# Nov 15 2003 at 2:37 AM Rating: Decent
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dude... those items are sick~.... really sick haha. very nice though... nice name.. makes me wonder... but damn... can you solo Vindi? hehe
new location of the sleeper?
# Nov 10 2003 at 8:55 PM Rating: Default
I was reading in the EQ atlas page 420, and it says that after the sleeper was awaken it fled to an unknown location where its powers grow with ever second. Is it possialbe that the sleep is still in the game but not found yet or a lost quest to bring it back out there?

poiu
65 ranger
SZ PvP server
need new link
# Nov 10 2003 at 6:19 PM Rating: Decent
that link is broken for that movie...can you post a new one plz?

the website itself is down (to me)

Edited, Tue Nov 11 16:44:25 2003
RE: need new link
# Nov 10 2003 at 6:28 PM Rating: Decent
26 posts
http://myweb.hinet.net/home3/wush/pof_sleeper.wmv
hope this 1 works
He's been almost killed.
# Nov 09 2003 at 11:03 PM Rating: Decent
the Sleepers been almost killed ill link the Video so you all can see its possible that its fake but don't ask me. http://myweb.hinet.net/home3/wush/pof_sleeper.wmv
Make Kerafyrm repop...
# Nov 07 2003 at 11:38 PM Rating: Default
Im just a simple silly newb but I wonder SoE will reset the sleeper once hes been triggered on every server.

/em shrugs

Maybe.

Deaths Head II
(Honey, I'm HOmicidal!)
could it be true
# Nov 07 2003 at 5:09 PM Rating: Decent
I heard a story that the sleeper had been killed by a guild who supposedly found a way to get under the zone so the sleeper couldnt hit them and then they eventually killed her but then i think that they got banned for it but like i said it was a story someone told me.
RE: could it be true
# Nov 07 2003 at 11:40 PM Rating: Decent
As quoted from The Shadowknight Den at http://www.albrandes.com/skden/articles/sleeper.asp

Rumor: The only time anyone came close to killing the Sleeper was when "random popular to bash guild" on "sometimes correct, sometimes wrong" server used an exploit to kill him. (There are many different versions of this floating around various message boards).
Fact: Not true. Whether or not anyone has even put a dent in his health will only be known for sure by the people who did so, and any developer's who looked at the log. The guild websites I looked at for some of the guilds who woke him only showed him with full (or maybe 99% of his) health standing amongst a pile or two of corpses. The exploit referenced in this rumor refers not to the Sleeper, but to the third Warder.
The guild Conquest (not Fires of Heaven, Afterlife, Triton, or any other extremely powerful guild) was accused of using an exploit when fighting the third Warder. They were accused of having their raid under the bridge where the warder could not reach them while their main tank built aggro on the dragon without doing damage, so it couldn't start summoning. Only bits and pieces of this were ever released to the public so I'm giving only the confirmed "facts" as released by Sony.
Conquest claimed no such exploit was being used (but defended it by saying people do the same thing to Vox) and that their Main Tank had no way of building sufficient aggro. They lost the fight because their clerics built too much aggro and got summoned and roasted. The fight was not stopped, but they lost. Some time later, when GMs were present and discussing their exploit (read: scolding them) they "accidentally" spawned the Sleeper (for the first time anywhere) and he loaded with the wrong model (a giant human male, there were screenshots of this that were at first called fake by Sony, then later they admitted that the wrong model loaded, they apologized for their false accusation in a Press Release.)
The guild was disbanded and all it's members suspended and two memebers were banned as they had previously been warned from similar exploitation.
This fight did not directly involve the Sleeper at all, that just makes the rumors sound more intriguing, and it took place in Sleeper's Tomb in an attempt to wake the Sleeper.
Update: I have since been contacted by a former member of Conquest who has corrected me that they did wake the Sleeper through an exploit. I have not been able to confirm this claim as either true or false.
RE: could it be true
# Nov 09 2003 at 1:45 AM Rating: Decent
Video is worth a million words....

http://myweb.hinet.net/home3/wush/pof_sleeper.wmv

I would have cried at the end.. They were so CLOSE.
Possible
# Nov 06 2003 at 8:59 PM Rating: Decent
The last post with the movie was a good one, i suppose its possible to do it that way. Its probally possible with around 20 if u do it right. Because he can cast DT every 2 seconds u need infinate tanks basically, or beable to have a bunch up at a time. Get a bunch of mages, clerics for there pets, wizards (for pets also), shadow knights for pets, etc.. Pets only. PCs will not be at the top of the agro list if they do not attack the sleeper, so, u send a crap load of pets on him. When your pet dies send a new one in, eventually his insane amount of hp, whatever it is, will demish and he would die.

Gregg of Prexus
"Every Day is a Good Day"
RE: Possible
# Nov 13 2003 at 6:23 AM Rating: Default
Its not his hps, its his regen. Regening 20k hps per tick is not an easy task man. Guild on my server, CiH, awakened him long time ago. I'm good friends with one of them and he was there. He said they lasted 20 mins against him, and that his regen was insane.. he didnt hit too hard(hard back then prob.) and now they could defeat him. =/
Taiwan's Nerfed Sleeper
# Nov 06 2003 at 10:25 AM Rating: Decent
Taiwan's sleeper had been wakend on 11/4...
here is the movie's login :
http://myweb.hinet.net/home3/wush/pof_sleeper.wmv

Sleeper's hp had been down to 13%
and...
mr 75% slowable
Hit 2k X4 no Flurry No rampage
DT(2 sec)
ae hit porc (or with ) Charm ยก@

PoF use all melee to be tank
and all cle use epic to rez
they used 1hr to fight until 4 warder pop at 13%
and then the warders use ae killed everyone at the back...
but Kerafyrm seems didn't went to ss after the warders have been killed...
we can only conjectured that the patch had broken the zone linking...



RE: Taiwan's Nerfed Sleeper
# Nov 08 2003 at 3:52 AM Rating: Decent


who told you no furry ?
are you there ?
the sleeper story awyas like this
i heard it !!
not watched....




Edited, Sat Nov 8 03:58:56 2003
RE: Taiwan's Nerfed Sleeper
# Nov 06 2003 at 11:06 AM Rating: Decent
btw...
Pof didn't know the Sleeper had been nerfed...
up to now...
it is said that Sleeper had respwaned in his lair...
and also said that "maybe" the 4 warder's pop was a "plan b" planed by VI for Kerafyrm to be deathless ...
RE: Taiwan's Nerfed Sleeper
# Nov 07 2003 at 11:19 AM Rating: Default
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nerfed sleeper? explain.


as far as I know he always hit for near 2k and NEVER had a zone wide deathtouch (look at lucy, no such spell exists).


are people just in denial that their favourite mob was almost killed? :P
RE: Taiwan's Nerfed Sleeper
# Nov 09 2003 at 9:21 PM Rating: Decent
Their in denial... i believe this vid for its authenticy..and ST just like other zones had only recently been revamp...plus Tawain servers do not go past Velious. So yes..i believe that was indeed the sleeper..yet the old sleeper for us.. and they nearly killed it... damn soe for their tricks.
Use your eyes
# Nov 06 2003 at 2:35 AM Rating: Default
As you can see in the picture of Sleeper...there are Two Sleepers Look closely at the neck and wings of this Giant.. Oh blah blah blah to all you newbs talkin bout billions and billions of hp and that you need your newb weapons to damage him/her/it Anyhow your are WRONG Kerafyrm is like any other mob just with 100x the hp's like Zeb and they arnt ment to be killed and I'm sure if you kill em you get exactly 0 loot becuase no items are in the Database for him/her/it whatever you get my point that im trying to make like the few hundred people befor me. Okie I'm out Have fun Ranting me if you want
I AM GETTING ANGRY
# Nov 01 2003 at 3:42 AM Rating: Default
Alright, Let me tell all you noobs that come here and spam OH IF YOU PUT EVERY PERSON ON EVERY SERVER FIGHTING HIM AT THE SAME TIME HE WOULD DIE that you are all ****** geniuses! Yes, if you had a gajillion DPS and a gajillion hp you could kill him, but will it ever happen? IS THERE ANY POINT TYPING THIS USELESS CRAP? NO! SO GO POST ON THE RUSTY LONGSWORD ITEM FORUM, AND DIE!
RE: I AM GETTING ANGRY
# Nov 09 2003 at 3:09 AM Rating: Decent
One reason that what they are saying is stupid, is that everyone would have to get flagged to enter. Another is that if enough people were in the zone, it would crash, causing everyone to go LD. Not everything is as plain, and in front of your face as you think, newbs.
RE: I AM GETTING ANGRY
# Nov 05 2003 at 4:36 PM Rating: Decent
Retarded or not, you are a moron.
what server
# Oct 27 2003 at 10:29 PM Rating: Default
is there even a server left that she hasnt been awaken on?
RE: what server
# Nov 14 2003 at 9:19 AM Rating: Decent
There is 1 server left still where Sleeper is still asleep. But ask again in a while, it will be updated tho.

(Talking in about an original server, not euro servers or splitted halfbreeds)

Edited, Fri Nov 14 09:21:21 2003
She's up on Maelin Starpyre
# Oct 21 2003 at 8:58 PM Rating: Default
35 posts
I think the subject says it all. Naturally the chat channels on Maelin are buzzing at the moment. From what I can tell every single player on the server had a collective bowel movement about 11 am this morning and are currently trying to find out who to blame for it. Ah, well. When you gotta go, you gotta go.

LOOT !
# Oct 18 2003 at 6:45 PM Rating: Default
Man ... have you guys ever just wondered about what is going to drop on Kerafyrm once it gets killed ... ? Aw man i can just imagine it . An item that's 20 / 10 with like a 100% haste clickable effect and like 100 Strength and Dexterity and Stamina and like the proc is "Insta Death" .
RE: LOOT !
# Oct 26 2003 at 3:54 PM Rating: Default
you're an idiot
#REDACTED, Posted: Nov 01 2003 at 3:28 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) /agree Fyrril... oh **** I need to change my sig if Im gonna reply to this
RE: LOOT !
# Nov 06 2003 at 9:05 PM Rating: Decent
Your ooc thing at the bottom of your post is very offensive, as an amputee i know that if u can even attend the special olympics as an ahtlete you are what most people only can hope to be. The fastest amputee on earth (Marlin Sheley, a friend of mine) is less the half a second behind the fastest man with two nomral legs in the 100 meter dash.

Gregg of Prexus
"Every Day is a Good Day"

Edited, Thu Nov 6 21:20:40 2003
Maybe one way.
# Oct 17 2003 at 10:47 PM Rating: Default
His HP was dented in his battle with that dragon...that tells me the only way to actually beat him is to attack him while he's fighting with that dragon. Get everyone and everything you can and go all out on him. But I doubt it's possible now becuase 3/4s of the major guilds on most servers have awoken him. Hey, maybe a GM will summon him for that purpose?
Rumor
# Oct 17 2003 at 8:42 PM Rating: Default
I heard a rumor on a site that Quarm the Time Dragon is the equal to Kerafyrm, and that the dragons Veeshan, Vox, Trakanon, and Nagafen summoned their powers to make sure that Kerafyrm would never release her powers again. Then Quarm is stolen by Zebuxorok for Plane of Time story. Just a rumor, doubt its true, but take a good look at Quarm's picture.... Notice anything about the 4 heads?
RE: Rumor
# Oct 30 2003 at 11:52 PM Rating: Default
Heh, I'd imagine Veeshan is just hanging out up in Plane of Sky taking solace in the fact that Kerafyrm is murdering all the wizards that could give it a port up. :p I sincerely hope the next expansion after LDoN is PoP2. Like Velious was for Kunark, nothing but great new encounters and new loot and new quests. I loved it, and sad to say I belive sony has none of the original creators left and therefore none of the resources to make another expansion like PoP. Anyway, here's hoping. :/

Liveye (lvl 65 Wizard)
RE: Rumor
# Oct 19 2003 at 11:42 AM Rating: Excellent
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1) Quarm's four heads each represent one of the Elemental Planes/Gods. Quarm is the "secret" weapon the Elemental Gods used to try and stop mortals from releasing Zeb. This is all part of the Planes of Power storyline. Quarm has nothing to do with dragons.

2) Veeshan wasn't actually a dragon, but a God who created the Dragons in her image.

3) This post probably belongs under Quarm rather than Kerafyrm.

--Roz
solo
# Oct 07 2003 at 12:12 PM Rating: Default
actually I soloed this the other day...dropped a fine steel dagger and a backpack
#REDACTED, Posted: Oct 08 2003 at 2:12 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Dropped a batwing and a firebeetle eye for me. So wierd.
Quarm vs. Sleeper
# Oct 07 2003 at 2:18 AM Rating: Default
Who would win?....Or more Importantly does it matter? hehe My mom can beat up your dad.
RE: Quarm vs. Sleeper
# Nov 12 2003 at 10:42 PM Rating: Default
Quarm definately.. Sleeper could be killed easily now, with the DPS from PoP and Luclin, etc. Yes, quarm would win. Quarm quads for 4000, Sleeper quaded most 800 i remember =/
RE: Quarm vs. Sleeper
# May 11 2004 at 7:27 PM Rating: Decent
um sleeper has ALOT more hps then quarm. and the sleeper doubles for 7k a hit if i remember correctly. he also DT which is a 20k hit ever 30 sec? or something like that. from what i believe kerafrym would kick quarms *** all over PoTime if they would fight. BUT THEY CANT AND NEVER WILL. its a stupid agrument lol
Awake on KB :(
# Sep 30 2003 at 1:01 PM Rating: Decent
Sleeper was awakened on KB this morning and not under "good" circumstances I'm afraid. A few players decided it would be great fun to rob those who have never seen Sleeper up close of their opportunity. KB guilds had long agreed to not wake Sleeper for many reasons but sadly a few choice players have taken that away. How sad :(
RE: Awake on KB :(
# Oct 13 2003 at 9:45 AM Rating: Default
*sigh* So many good intentions, spoiled by so few.
#REDACTED, Posted: Sep 29 2003 at 6:47 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) all you guys who are talking about Vox and naggy had a child who is the sleeper,
RE: Programs humping
# Oct 04 2003 at 11:56 AM Rating: Decent
jeez man.....you dont belong in ROLE PLAYING games.
It meens you livin to your role and in the world.

And so....there is a story line.
RE: Programs humping
# Oct 05 2003 at 11:25 PM Rating: Decent
There is a storyline... and none of it has to do with Vox and Naggy doing the 2 dragon shuffle. Vox and Naggy were PLANNING on making a little cross breeding dragon that would have been like Kerafyrm. But they were caught before they did the deed and banished to their tombs. Naggy ended up being cursed by having his heart tied to his stomach by Tunare making his heart grow more everytime he got hungry until he was so big he couldn't leave. I dunno about Vox but she ain't going nowhere either. doomed to be killed by any bored raid force really lol.

There are 2 other dragons that spawned (spawn as in give birth now kill them and she appears) the monster known as Kerafyrm.
RE: Programs humping
# Nov 14 2003 at 8:38 PM Rating: Decent
I dunno.. The storyline as told by the post-awakening npc's, seems to suggest that Naggy and Vox (the only two elemental dragons mentioned to having been on Norrath at the time of Kera's creation) apparently did get together. And I am in no way bashing your dismissal of their being able to create such a dragon given their apparent weakness or lvl.. but its been bad information in EQ practically since the beginning, that the lvl or power of an npc against players has anything to do with what they are capable of in the lore of the game. In other non-EQ myth about dragons.. they don't die after mating or become drained of some of their power, they actually become stronger for doing so. Thats the reason why there is always a male or female who is more powerful than all the others.. Their the ones doing all the mating and growing stronger in the process (either a female choosing different mates each time so she's the only one growing stronger, or a male seeking out different females). Kinda like a power struggle that each is trying to win.. but I digress.
In EQ lore, it isn't the power of the two dragons that happen to get together.. its what the dragons are that get together. Hence the agreement by the elders and existing dragons at the time, that no two different dragons would ever breed. The mating of a fire dragon and any other type of dragon (Vox for example) would be a combining of two different elemental powers, and the power of their creation would multiply exponentially. As for Naggy and Vox's current situation, it is true that they are both imprisoned.. but moot as to who or how the imprisonment was done.. The most probable explaination is that unknown to their captors.... they did apparently succeed in their plans....

Edited, Fri Nov 14 21:07:23 2003
Some random Sleeper stuff
# Sep 29 2003 at 10:14 AM Rating: Decent
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Sleeper FAQ

--Roz

Edit: Grr.. links acting funny

Edited, Mon Sep 29 11:12:36 2003
#REDACTED, Posted: Sep 28 2003 at 11:50 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) actually the sleeper has been killed. but he died in a way the people that killed him cheated. everyone began to attack the him then type /q and hit enter. typein this makes u go link dead and if u have ever seen a link dead person fight its pretty insaine. the guild invited a GM to watch. blah blah blah the gm kicked everyone from the game or thats how i hear it anywho. u all may think im talkin BS but i really think this is true. later
RE: HAHAHA ur all wrong
# Aug 31 2005 at 3:25 AM Rating: Decent
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Actually the ones who cheated didn't get him beat because the GMs despawned him before they actually had him killed.

However back in Dec 2004, a few guilds from the Rallos Zek server did kill the Sleeper and did it without cheating and with GMs observing them. It was a zerg fest like no other.
#REDACTED, Posted: Sep 26 2003 at 7:17 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) It was in the same week, it only disapeers after many hours
RE: You Fool
# Sep 29 2003 at 10:12 AM Rating: Default
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You've already proven you're lying, but you're helping the case even more.

After clearing out Sleeper's Tomb, he immediately moves to Skyshrine (takes about half an hour, give or take). After killing Yeli, he despawns. He doesn't stay up that long.

--Roz
Sleepers
# Sep 25 2003 at 10:42 PM Rating: Decent
How the hell can ya try 4 times when i pops and desapears from the server?
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