Lore · Gods of the Pantheon
The Lord of Light & the Titans
Before there were dwarves, says one old dwarven tale, there were titans. This is how Brell made the world safe for his children, and what he buried to do it.
Behemoths, then titans
The story is told in “The Book of Bound Mithril,” an EverQuest II book written in an archaic dwarven dialect. In the Age of Scale, Veeshan’s dragons fought off huge behemoths of land, sea and air, and won, but at a terrible cost. Then came titans born of the elements and of raw magic, and the dragons began to die again.
Sources: Library of Erudin: The Book of Bound Mithril (EverQuest II book)
Four plagues
Earth titans shook the world’s foundations, and creatures of rock, mud and ore broke loose from the ground beneath them. Fire titans leapt from forest to forest and left ash and lava behind. Air titans swallowed the skies in storms. Water titans drowned the coasts. Brell Serilis had fallen in love with Norrath’s caves and veins of metal and named them the Underfoot after his own plane, but nothing he made would be safe while the titans walked.
Sources: Library of Erudin: The Book of Bound Mithril (EverQuest II book)
An alliance
Brell could not stop them alone, and many gods would not help. Some were selfish, some afraid or ignorant, and some he could not ask, because their price would have been too high. So he went to Mithaniel Marr, god of valor, whom the book calls the Lord of Light. Mithaniel had seen the titans’ trail of death too, and agreed.
Sources: Library of Erudin: The Book of Bound Mithril (EverQuest II book)
Cages of the opposite element
Brell noticed that each kind of titan kept to its own element: water titans never crossed desert or lava, fire never went to sea, earth never rose into the air, and air never went under the soil. Mithaniel had noticed something worse: like the behemoths, a broken titan slowly mended itself. They could not be destroyed, only held.
So Mithaniel tore the titans’ bodies apart one by one, and Brell trapped each essence in a cage forged by Varig Ro, the Forge Lord. Air titans went into cages of earth, fire into water, water into fire, and earth into air. Mithaniel sealed every cage with a divine seal, and Brell buried them deep in his plane. Only then did he begin to create.
Sources: Library of Erudin: The Book of Bound Mithril (EverQuest II book)
Other tellings
The Book of Bound Mithril is not the only account of Brell moving against the dragons. The RPG sourcebook Dagnor’s Cauldron says Brell wanted to take Norrath from the dragons and proposed a meeting with Prexus, Tunare and Rallos Zek. To suit them all he dug a water-filled bowl into the cliffs of southwest Faydwer, where they sat and talked. That meeting, it says, began the Elder Age, and afterwards Brell made the dwarves, Tunare the elves and Prexus the kedge. A kobold scroll tells it differently again: Brell decided he alone could not break Veeshan’s grip, and made a pact with the same three gods while keeping secret where he had learned about the world.
Sources: Library of Erudin: Brell Serilis (Dagnor’s Cauldron RPG — Legends; KobScr3)
The goblins’ version
Brell’s other children have their own story. The Goblish Stones, translated in an in-game book, describe the gods worrying that “our made men would know no peace with wyrm kind on rock, in water, and in air.” Since it had taken “other big hitters and biters” to kill many wyrms before, the answer was “With mud we shape big, mean, hitters and biters.” Followers of Brell rarely agree on anything else. The Runny Eye goblins claim him as their father, to the disgust of Kaladim’s dwarves, and the Split Paw gnolls say he sculpted them from the sacred Clay of Cosgrove.
Sources: Library of Erudin: Brell Serilis (The Goblish Stones — A Translation; Brell deity description)
Where the sources disagree
- This story comes from an EverQuest II book. We have not found an EverQuest text that tells it, so treat it as later lore.
- The original manual’s creation story does not mention titans at all; it goes straight from Veeshan’s dragons to Brell’s pact.
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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.