Lore · Gods of the Pantheon
Cazic-Thule, the Faceless
If you ever saw the red sky of the Plane of Fear, or got trained to the zone line in the Feerrott, you have met Cazic-Thule’s work.
The Amygamalion
One in-game myth, “The Amygamalion – The Form,” says that before the land was full of thought and emotion, only a few beings could feel. The greatest, the Source of Amyg, waited to see what forms the lesser emotions would take so he could take a greater one.
The emotion of earth told him to be more solid than anything, so he became stone. Fire told him to be quick and all-consuming, so he became lava. Air could never make up its mind. Water told him to ebb and flow, so he let his lava flow out over the land, and he was nearly lost, everywhere at once and nowhere at all. The myth says this transgression would never be forgotten.
Sources: Library of Erudin: Cazic-Thule (The Amygamalion) · Allakhazam: Cazic-Thule
Ruled by fear
Followers of the Faceless believe that only by terrifying others can they escape his wrath. Pain, torture and living sacrifice are their tools. In the second pact of the Elder Age he went to the swamps and jungles of Norrath and made the green-skinned trolls and, depending on the text, the lizard men or the iksar. He is allied with Rallos Zek and Innoruuk and an enemy of the Marr twins.
Sources: Allakhazam: Cazic-Thule · Library of Erudin: “The History of Norrath” (original EverQuest manual text) · Library of Erudin: EverQuest RPG Player’s Handbook: History of Norrath (2002)
The captive god
The paladin tale “From Pond to Paladin” says Cazic-Thule’s servants lured Mithaniel Marr into the swamps, overwhelmed him with trolls and lizard folk and bound him in Cazic-Thule’s magic. When the tortured god finally slept, Cazic-Thule sent his daughter Terris-Thule into his dreams, first to deceive him and steal the gift of life from his body, then to fill his sleep with nightmares.
The fall of a god
House of Thule (2010) did something EverQuest had never done. Ten Ton Hammer’s Veil of Alaris preview, written after a tour with the developers, says players permanently defeated Cazic-Thule, the first time mortals truly gained the upper hand over a god. As his power was swept away, a continent the dragons had hidden was revealed: Alaris.
Sources: Ten Ton Hammer: Veil of Alaris hands-on preview (2011)
Who he is
The RPG Handbook calls Cazic-Thule the god of fear, the Faceless, rated neutral evil. He rules the Plane of Fear and has no favored weapon. The RPG bestiary describes him as an enormous hulking shape, “a walking mountain,” with a bulbous projection where a head should be and no face or sense organs at all. He has two huge arms that can crush giants and two smaller ones that hold weapons or a shield. He doesn’t walk the world himself. When he needs to act, he sends his Avatar of Fear.
Sources: Library of Erudin: EverQuest RPG Player’s Handbook — Cazic-Thule (White Wolf, 2002) · Library of Erudin: Cazic-Thule (Monsters of Norrath — Cazic-Thule)
The Plane of Fear
The same bestiary places him at the center of the Plane of Fear, brooding over his growing empire surrounded by thousands of dread minions, among them three gargantuan golems named Dread, Fright and Terror. It warns that armies of heroes occasionally break through to his plane on short missions, and that “all but a few of these quests end in doom.” Classic players will know that warning from the raid zone.
Sources: Library of Erudin: Cazic-Thule (Monsters of Norrath — Cazic-Thule)
The Brood, the Heretics and the trolls
His faithful come from many races. Young iksar in Cabilis receive notes in the voice of their order: “The will of Cazic-Thule is strong. The route to Cazic-Thule is through the strength of the Brood,” and a disgraced acolyte is warned that his ground bones will feed the soil at the god’s feet. An official guide to Paineel calls it “the city of the Cazicites,” necromancers cast out of Erudin for their interest in the dark arts. Among the trolls, an in-game book tells of the Warlord Grimgash meditating three days without food or drink in a chamber called The Eyes of Cazic after the victory over Innothule Swamp, until he received a vision.
Sources: Library of Erudin: Cazic-Thule (iksnoob; riteexo; On the Town of: Paineel; The First Vision)
Children and rivals
Official Planes of Power lore names Terris-Thule as his “ghastly daughter,” a master of the subconscious opposed by her twin brother Morell-Thule, Lord of Dreams. See Saryrn and Terris-Thule and Morell-Thule. Mortals have fought him directly. The iksar book Creation of the Swifttails says Master Zan Fi went to the Plane of Fear alone, fought Cazic-Thule for days and weakened him, but was defeated.
Sources: Library of Erudin: Cazic-Thule (Fabled Planes of Power Lore, Part 8; Creation of the Swifttails)
Later ages
In 2009 an official article reported that the Lost Temple of Cazic-Thule had become “as deadly as the Plane of Fear itself” after an infestation of his minions. House of Thule’s preview zone Fear Itself shows him “quite enjoying his dream.” In EverQuest Online Adventures, his statue on the Isle of Dread is “a foothold on Tunaria from the Plane of Fear.”
Where the sources disagree
- Trolls and lizard men (manual) vs trolls and iksar (RPG and iksar tradition).
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Retold in our own words from the sources linked under each chapter; short quotes are marked and sourced. The illustration is an original AI-generated painting made for this page alone, not from the game.