Lore · Gods of the Pantheon
Prexus, the Oceanlord
Kedge Keep was the most miserable underwater dungeon in the game. The kedge were the Oceanlord’s answer to the dragons.
The first pact and the kedge
Prexus was one of the gods at Brell’s first meeting. In the abysmal depths of the oceans he left his children, the kedge, hardy water-dwellers with great mental power and stamina, to keep a watchful eye on dragonkind.
Sources: Library of Erudin: “The History of Norrath” (original EverQuest manual text) · Library of Erudin: EverQuest RPG Player’s Handbook: History of Norrath (2002) · Allakhazam: Prexus
The faith of the deep
His followers believe true power lies in the ocean depths, that life first formed there, and that one day the seas will rise to swallow the unworthy and embrace the faithful. Many sailors and fishermen follow him, and they defend the seas against anyone who would harm them.
Sources: Allakhazam: Prexus · Library of Erudin: Prexus
When Prexus left
An EverQuest II book by an anonymous Yha-lei priest remembers the day Prexus left his people. Without him the waves battered their city apart and the Yha-lei began killing one another. Then their ancestors found the resting place of a new god, and the water grew clear and bright. The priest calls it “The Coming of the True Creator.”
Sources: Library of Erudin: Prexus (The Coming of the True Creator)
Where the gods first met
A White Wolf sourcebook places that first meeting in a corner of Faydwer. Prexus preferred the sea, Tunare the forest and Brell the mountains, so Brell dug a great bowl into the cliffs and filled it with water. Prexus sat in the water, Tunare on the shore, Brell among the cliffs to the west, and Rallos Zek crouched among the rocks to the north. The sourcebook says the bowl became Dagnor’s Cauldron, and the dwarves and kedge lived beside it, though the two races didn’t always get along.
Sources: Library of Erudin: Prexus (Realms of Norrath: Dagnor’s Cauldron, ch. 1)
Children after the kedge
Prexus’s first people didn’t last. The RPG bestiary says the same calamities that struck the kedge also struck his mermaids. An othmir in the same book says Prexus searched the seas for a creature worthy of his blessing after the kedge died, found a pack of sea otters in a bay and named them othmir. He also blessed the common seahorse to make guardians, which now serve Phinigel Autropos, the last surviving kedge, in Kedge Keep. The seafury giants, the bestiary adds, were cursed by Prexus for preying on the kedge.
Sources: Library of Erudin: Prexus (Monsters of Norrath: Mermaid, Othmir, Seahorse, Seafury Cyclops)
Erudin and the Deepwater Knights
On land his best-known faithful are in Erudin. An official city guide describes the Knights of the Deep, paladins and clerics with a temple dedicated to Prexus. An in-game book, Writings of the Deepwater Knights, lists the Oceanlord’s gifts: seas to carry ships, fish to eat, his strength, and the order itself, sworn to defend Erudin. Other in-game books remember the necromancer Marnek, whose greatest enemies were the paladins of Prexus, and a traitor named Kenox who sold out Marnek’s hiding place to the Deepwater Knights. Wizards meet him too: Scry’s Compendium of Destruction III gives the ice spell Tears of Prexus.
The god who did not return
In EverQuest II’s age, a developer wrote that most of his children “have passed on,” though his worship still rivals any other god’s. Asked why he stays so elusive, another developer said he is a real god who simply hasn’t returned to Norrath, and might, if the Yha-lei stopped worshipping the Leviathan. The RPG Handbook rates him neutral, says his followers may not be evil, and names Rodcet Nife as his ally and Bertoxxulous as his enemy.
Sources: Library of Erudin: Prexus (developer posts: The God Prexus; Prexus, why so elusive?) · Library of Erudin: EverQuest RPG Player’s Handbook — Prexus (White Wolf, 2002)
Where the sources disagree
- The Yha-lei account comes from EverQuest II, after the gods withdrew from Norrath; it is not part of classic EverQuest’s 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.