Agnarr the Storm Lord

A sleeping god

The Plane of Storms is the consciousness of Karana, the Rainkeeper, and storm giants live almost everywhere in it. The 2008 Planes of Power lore tells what went wrong. As Karana meditated, he slid deeper and deeper into the dark of his own mind. Out of the swirl of his memory came a pair of eyes, a nose and a great white beard. A huge face laughed, rose up and swallowed his consciousness, leaving only the sneering face of Agnarr.

Sources: EverQuest.com: The Fabled Planes of Power Lore, Part 11 (2008) · EverQuest.com: The Fabled Planes of Power Lore, Part 13 (2008)

What Agnarr is

The official entry calls Agnarr a semi-physical embodiment of the raging, uncontrollable storm. Every storm, natural or otherworldly, is part of him, and he can raise and command any kind. He stands for the chaos and doubt that had been troubling Karana even in sleep, and the will that animates him is the same force that has kept Karana asleep so long.

Sources: EverQuest.com: The Fabled Planes of Power Lore, Part 13 (2008)

The exile on the shore

Askr had been the Rainkeeper’s servant. Now he sat in a rocky hollow by the shores of Larquin, an outcast in the waterlogged southern caves. In less than a month the storm giants had wrecked nearly all of the Bastion of Thunder’s furniture and tapestries. Without Karana keeping the balance, lightning set the forest of Calidor ablaze, and only the downpours that followed saved it. The stormriders hid deeper in their woods.

Askr wore a golden medallion that he knew was somehow the key to rebalancing the storms, but he was afraid to go back into the Bastion. He felt he had failed his master in a way he could not even name. If Agnarr were banished, the lore says, Askr might be able to wake the Rainkeeper.

Sources: EverQuest.com: The Fabled Planes of Power Lore, Part 13 (2008)

Mount Grenidor

The Maps of Myrist describe the Plane of Storms as governed and made manifest by Karana’s will and consciousness. Storm giants live everywhere except Mount Grenidor, which stands in the middle of a vast open wilderness and holds the Bastion of Thunder. Impassable ridges run down from its peaks and split the rest of the plane into three regions. The giants’ tribes are always at war with one another, and both their bodies and their homes reflect the terrain they live in. The 2008 Fabled Planes of Power lore, Part 13, says the Bastion hovers inside an immense volcanic mountain above a “silver blanket of perpetual storm,” with its snowy upper reaches lost in the storms above.

Sources: Library of Erudin: Plane of Storms (The Maps of Myrist; Fabled Planes of Power Lore — Parts 11 and 13)

Desert, forest and lake

To the north lies Krendic, the Desert of Chaos: dark brown stone polished smooth by endless wind, with rock obelisks, scraggly cactus-like plants, a storm giant tent camp, and an old circle of standing stones in the east. To the west is Renidar, the Forest of Tears. Its huge branches form bridges big enough for giants, the trees vanish into fog above and below, and stormriders live in the canopy. Near an enormous stump, storm-wrecked trees lie in chaotic heaps. The plains carry rivers down from the mountain to a great lake, with shipwrecks on its southern shore and a giant settlement on stilt-piers along its northern shore, where one ornate house marks the leader’s residence.

Sources: Library of Erudin: Plane of Storms (The Maps of Myrist — Plane of Storms)

Askr in his cave

In game, Askr the Lost is less dignified than the lore makes him sound. He points drunkenly at the cave exit and complains about “the foul denizens of destruction outside… pillaging, plundering,” saying he is lucky to have survived and that nobody can stop them. That, he says, is why he is still stuck there with his potions.

Sources: Library of Erudin: Plane of Storms (Askr the Lost dialogue)