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Lord Nagafen & Lady Vox
For many of us they were the first dragons we ever raided. Nobody told us in 1999 that they were in love.
The young strategist
Nagafen is the youngest of the ancient dragons; even Lady Vox is older. He won favor in the dragon courts as a fighter and strategist, and his advice was behind the destruction of the iksar navy, though he did not join Trakanon’s attack. In the war that followed, Jaled Dar respectfully kept him as an adviser rather than a commander.
Sources: Library of Erudin: Lord Nagafen
A forbidden affair
After Jaled Dar died and Trakanon retreated to Old Sebilis, Nagafen fell for Lady Vox, a cherished priestess of Veeshan. The Dragon Lords discovered the affair right after it was consummated and pursued the pair to Antonica. They bound Vox with powerful magic in the fortress of Permafrost, drove Nagafen into the Lavastorm Mountains and sealed him deep inside Solusek’s Eye behind wards he could not break. Then, draconic justice done, they left.
Sources: Library of Erudin: Lord Nagafen · Library of Erudin: Lady Vox
Waiting
Nagafen began planning his escape at once. Over the centuries the fire giants nearby came to revere him as a leader and forced the rest of the Eye’s creatures into line, while he studied and bent the Eye’s power to build ever stronger guardians.
Then word came through the Cyth that Vox had laid an egg, and that it would not hatch in Permafrost. Nagafen does not believe that is coincidence: only the harshest conditions can stop a dragon’s egg from hatching, so Veeshan herself must be holding the child until it can be brought to him and changed by the power of Solusek’s Eye.
Sources: Library of Erudin: Lord Nagafen
On the servers
Vox was raided too. A player account from the Tribunal server describes the Tribunal Council guild alliance killing her in a fight of about two minutes, interrupting the Complete Heal she began just before she fell.
A son greater than Kerafyrm
The RPG’s Solusek’s Eye spells out Nagafen’s plan. Changed by the destructive forces of the Eye and raised by “a most attendant and determined father,” the child would surpass even Kerafyrm in physical and magical power. With that godlike son, Nagafen and Vox would take their revenge on the Dragon Lords, then cleanse Norrath of the lesser races and reclaim it for the Wurmqueen.
Sources: Library of Erudin: Lord Nagafen (Solusek’s Eye — A Brief Biography)
The Heart of Fire
The same book says the Heart of Fire, the artifact the gnomes of the Solusek Mining Company search for, is real and lies in Nagafen’s own chamber: a grotto inside the lava of his cave holds an orb of lava far hotter than the ordinary kind. Only the Krombral, the fire giants, clearly remember his arrival in the Eye; other races have turned it into myth. The kobolds guard their part of the lair fiercely, “mindful of their duties to Lord Nagafen.”
Exiled Ones, now free
EverQuest II’s age books look back on them. The Age of Turmoil says the Ring of Scale watched, bemused, as mortals kept trying to destroy Vox and Nagafen, and so missed that the old enemy’s land was being rediscovered. The Age of Destiny calls them “the Exiled Ones who created a force of destruction that could barely be contained,” and ends: “It is known that they are now free.” In EverQuest II, a developer post says three Drakota killed Vox in her lair, while five more, led by Aurraxius, attacked Nagafen. Najena’s guardians wounded one, and Nagafen killed Aurraxius and tore off his translocation ring.
Where the sources disagree
- Where is Nagafen’s prison? This lore says the Dragon Lords drove him into the Lavastorm Mountains and sealed him inside Solusek’s Eye. In the game his lair is its own zone, Nagafen’s Lair, which Allakhazam lists separately from Solusek’s Eye.
- EverQuest II lore says three Drakota killed Vox in her lair and five more attacked Nagafen; that belongs to the later timeline.
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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.