Lore · Gods of the Pantheon
Quellious, the Tranquil
Monks across Norrath pray to her. The best story about her is about a monk, too.
The path of peace
Followers of Quellious seek enlightenment and want to help others reach it. They believe that if every creature fully understood itself and its neighbors, there would be no need for war. Many live as nomads, always searching and hoping to find themselves along the way.
Sources: Allakhazam: Quellious · Library of Erudin: Quellious
Master Wu
In the EverQuest II book “The History of the Hand,” Quellious took part of the Plane of Tranquility during the Age of Turmoil and made a demi-plane called Serenity, devoted to inner peace. She raised Master Wu the Enlightened, the only mortal of his time to reach true enlightenment, to demigod status and made him its steward.
When mortals invaded the Planes of Power, the lesser planes began to blink out to feed the greater ones, and Quellious had to take Serenity back. Wu asked for a small part of its energy to make one artifact for mortals.
Sources: Library of Erudin: Quellious (The History of the Hand)
The Hand of Serenity
Wu made a five-bladed katar, each blade marked for Peace, Order, Balance, Harmony and, in the center, Tranquility. It could fan open to teach each idea or close into one stronger blade. He gave it to the monks of the Ashen Order at T’Narev to be the teachers of the world.
Generations later, at the Battle of Defiance at the close of the Age of War, the Hand was carried into battle and struck the Avatar of War with such force that it shattered into its five blades.
Sources: Library of Erudin: Quellious (The History of the Hand)
A friend to the Forsaken
A fan Planes of Power guide records that, sympathetic to Zebuxoruk, Quellious let his followers settle on one of her island sanctuaries, the Plane of Tranquility, which most of us remember as the gateway to the planes.
Who she is
The RPG Handbook calls Quellious the Tranquil, goddess of peace, orderly good. Her followers seek an inner calm, not necessarily pacifism, and treat knowledge as power to be shared, since “only through a shared understanding can universal peace be achieved.” She won’t accept discordant or evil followers. She appears as a serene child in simple robes, radiating light, and has no favored weapon. She is allied with Rodcet Nife and Erollisi Marr, her enemies are Rallos Zek and Innoruuk, and she rules the Plane of Tranquility.
Sources: Library of Erudin: EverQuest RPG Player’s Handbook — Quellious (White Wolf, 2002)
Erudin’s peacemakers
An official Erudin town guide places “the humble temple of Quellious where Erudin’s peacemakers… are forged” away from the city center. Inside, Reklon Gnallen says her clerics and paladins pray there: “As the clerics are the warm hand of healing, the paladins are the stalwart shield of protection, and in times of grave need the sharp sword of justice.” The Game Master’s Guide says the paladin epic, the Fiery Defender, was made by the goddess’s own hands and traces back to Irak Altil, an Erudite paladin of Quellious. In the epic quest Irak himself begins: “I, in my mortal form, was a follower of Quellious.”
The Estate of Unrest
The RPG Dagnor’s Cauldron sourcebook says that a few years after Wilhavyn’s death, a group of Quellious’ priests came to reclaim the estate in her name and cleanse it of evil, “This was not her wish, but they believed otherwise.” In the Butcherblock Mountains, Savil Tranquilsong still remembers it as “a beacon for hope and worship to my goddess, and I hope to see it as such again.”
The Ashen Order and later ages
The RPG Freeport book names the Ashen Order as monks who follow Quellious. The EverQuest II History of the Hand says the Hand of Serenity shattered into five blades when it struck the Avatar of War at the Battle of Defiance. Each elder of the order carried one away, and only one came back to T’Narev. That elder went to Kunark to find the others and was never seen again. The Words of the Avatar adds that Quellious called forth an Avatar of Tranquility from a mortal monk to help defend Freeport against the Rallosian menace.
Where the sources disagree
- The Hand of Serenity is EverQuest II lore that reaches back into EverQuest’s history.
- The Quellious–Zebuxoruk island detail is from a fan guide; we have not yet found it in an official text.
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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.