Sanctus Seru

I went into this town with my halfling druid and was mostly non-kos until i got to the praetorians or a name like that. They were red at 52 and threatening to me. I learned to con everything before i approach ever since the vindicator hit my ogre shaman for 700 a pop in kael =P

-Leafie Woodspedal

Spent sometime here , cool looking city indeed. Found the arena , bought a ticket and whacked the arena wolf that appeared for me to fight. You recieve an Arena medal for this , which your turn into the same guy you buy the ticket from. It raised my faction with citzens of Sanctus , like 5 got better faction messages ( cant remember them all ) but lowered my faction with Katta Castellum.

No worried since Katta is a Dark race city , I would be kos anyways. Great idea I think , allowing for arena battles just not with other players ... there is a huge crowd there cheering and everthing.

I was in Sanctus Seru tonight and had the misfortune of taking a swim in one of the pools. I could not jump out of it no matter what I did. As a halfing, things are always a little taller for me than other, and sometimes I have to jump to get places, but there was no way I could get out of the pool. Luckily a level 60 magic user was there and ported me out. It was quite lame!! But hey, my swimming skill went up about 10 points while I was trying to get out.

First, EQAtlas has a decent overview of this zone. Basically, any evil race (and possibly evil class) is KOS here. I didn't get any npcs to tell this story but according to EQAtlas this city was founded by political fanatics from the Combine Empire who objected to the Emperor's decision to allow Dark Elves into the Combine. The Darkie loving Combine people went on to found the city of Katta Castellum. Sanctus Seru and Katta are apparently still hostile. I did a newbie faction quest in this city and it raised my faction with several Associations but lowered my faction with citizens of Katta. My cons didn't change with Seru so hopefully, I didn't drop my Katta faction too much.

There are at least 5 factions in Seru. One is apparently composed of the city police force. They have Roman sounding names like Vigilum, Castorem, etc. They glowered at me. Some of the merchants also glowered and I don't know if they are on the same faction as the police or some other faction. About 75% of the merchants were indifferent to me. Other factions that I know of are Hand of Seru, Eye of Seru, Heart of Seru, Shoulders of Seru. These all rose when I completed the newbie quest. See Legionnaire Delaren on the first floor of the Heart of Seru building if you want to do this quest. He wants meat from 4 Zelianks from Dawnshroud.

The Hand, Eye, etc. appear to be guild associations but they aren't organized around just one class. The Hand association had monks, rougues, some casters I couldn't identify and possible some warriors. The Eyes had mostly melee types including quite a few pallys. They weren't too friendly to me. I had a difficult time getting npcs to talk to me, even the amiable ones. Go figure. Maybe the zone is unfinished. I found one other quest which I didn't try since I was afraid it would lower my faction alot. Find and hail Centurion Jellin in here house back in the residential section (she's half elf). She wants you to find her exiled brother in Maru Seru but she implies the questor's faction will drop alot.

Visually, this zone is pretty cool with alot of very large white marble buildings and some pleasant fountains. They even have an Olympic sized swimming pool in the middle of town ) Most of the trades are represented and you can buy Luclin spells. There were warrior, pally and wizard trainers. I didn't see any other trainers but then I was only in town for an hour or two. Check out the HUGE arena complete with spectators too. Ps. Levitate doesn't work in this zone.

Ardvaark Alphalooter
54th Illusionist
Bristlebane

I was walking all over this city with absoulutely no problems. Did you guys maybe kill something before you came to this city? that might have messed up faction. *shrugs*

I'm not sure whether this is a bug in the game or a bad sense of humor on the part of the programmers, but all the humanoid NPCs in Sanctus Seru are super high lvl.. I was really excited to finally get into the game and immediately ported to Luclin. Well on my way to lvl 37, I explored the new lands until I got to a friendly looking town.. Sanctus Seru.. The guards on the outside conned RED and indifferent. Cool, I thought.. I wandered around the town, looking for a merchant to unload some FS weapons from PAW. anyway- whack - dead.. In less than 1 second, I was hit 10 times and killed. Pretty pissed off, but wondering what I did wrong, I ported back up to Luclin, ran back to Sanctus, found corpse, and bam- was attacked and killed again in a split second. To add insult to injury, I tried again to get my corpse, and the same thing happened, before I could even find it.. So, 3 deaths later, I am back to 35, having lost 4 yellow bubbles total. I asked a lvl 52 mage to help me get my corpse. He told me- no way.. that he died in there twice from the same thing. he said that he made it about 8 steps from the first hit before being slaughtered. It just does not make sense that the guards would be indifferent and that the NPCs wandering around inside would be KOS without me having to ***** up faction somehow. BTW, I'm a Barb Warrior and have never had any KOS problems other than with Troll, Ogre, and Dark Elf guards. (evil races) The folks in Sanctus (according to EQAtlas) are supposed to be good!?!?!

Jackmoove
Bertoxx