Lore · Gods of the Pantheon
Solusek Ro, the Burning Prince
Every wizard who ran to Solusek’s Eye for spells, and everyone who crossed the Desert of Ro, has met the Burning Prince’s handiwork.
Fire and nothing else
Solusek Ro’s followers believe fire birthed the world and in fire it will be consumed. They are bold and brash, say what they mean, have no use for social graces and expect respect. Many wizards, seeking raw elemental power, turn to him. He is the son of Fennin Ro, the Tyrant of Fire.
Sources: Allakhazam: Solusek Ro · Library of Erudin: Fennin Ro
The curse on the Elddar
In the Lost Age, Solusek Ro arched the spine of the Serpent Mountains and brought the burning sun down on the Elddar Forest. Over years the rivers dried and the forest became desert; Takish-Hiz fell and the elves fled Tunaria. An official Frostcrypt article adds a quieter consequence: when he raised the Serpent Spine, one clan of hill giants was trapped in the valleys and marshes between the new mountains.
Sources: Library of Erudin: “The History of Norrath” (original EverQuest manual text) · Library of Erudin: Elddar Forest · Library of Erudin: Rallos Zek (Into the Depths of: Frostcrypt)
Rathmana Allim
A later illustrated tale shows the young Burning Prince leaving Fennin’s realm for the first time, his eyes burning with the fury of the sun. Crossing the desert he had made in ages past, he found a lost wizard and, unusually for him, saved the man with flame and magic, because he foresaw a use for the wizard’s descendants many generations later. The wizard, Rathmana Allim, swore his life to Ro.
The Temple at Solusek’s Eye
His only known temple on Norrath sits in a great rift in the northern Lavastorm Mountains, in a south-facing cliff above the lava pit called Solusek’s Eye. Fire elementals, imps, goblins and drakes roam outside. Inside, the Seekers and Keepers keep a surprisingly structured peace among hidden rooms, sudden enemies and unexpected allies.
Sources: Library of Erudin: Solusek Ro (RPG: Temple of Solusek Ro)
Who he is
The RPG Handbook calls Solusek Ro, the Burning Prince, the god of fire, discordant neutral. He is chaotic and destructive and favors burning away obstacles and impurities, and his followers can’t be of orderly alignment. An older deity description says he rules the Plane of Sun, which draws its power from his father Fennin Ro’s Plane of Fire. He wears golden ringmail and a crown of flame and wields a spear of fire, and is “allied with no one, enemies with no one.”
Sources: Library of Erudin: EverQuest RPG Player’s Handbook — Solusek Ro (White Wolf, 2002) · Library of Erudin: Solusek Ro (Solusek Ro – The Burning Prince)
Rebellion against Fennin
That neutrality didn’t last. Official Planes of Power lore says he formed an alliance with Rallos Zek and began to siphon power from his father’s realm. The in-game book TSRRiz says Jiva the Reckless tore an opening between the Tower of Solusek Ro and the Plane of Fire using knowledge from Arlyxir, long a trusted go-between for Solusek and Fennin, who “has decided to form alliance with Solusek.” See Fennin Ro.
Sources: Library of Erudin: Solusek Ro (Fabled Planes of Power Lore, Part 16; TSRRiz)
The day the world ended
Several in-game books describe the ruin of the Elddar. The Lava with Life says he raised the spine of the Serpent River “in a fit of jealousy over the prosperity of Tunare’s elves.” Veldyn’s Elven Tale follows an ordinary Elddar silk-weaver at a festival on “the day that the world ended.” The Windwillow Spirit says the giant shaman Goru’kar D’Toldan died when the mountains rose, fighting with all his magic, and Ambersnout and Ro’s Essence says dragon eggs were lifted into the sky along with Ashengate Temple.
Wizards of the flame
Wizards have always been his. The wizard epic’s Solomen says “Solusek Ro has been very generous to those who wield magic in Norrath.” The Game Master’s Guide tells of four wizards who learned their trade from the god himself, and the four staves he gave them, the origin of the Staff of the Four. Erudin’s own wizards appear in a page of AGHJournal, where a writer finds a sealed room above the atrium, open only to the High Council, in which “the flame of Ro burns bright and unfiltered.” A darker follower appears in Scroll of the Burning Dead, where cultists plot to raise their master Marnek Jaull to “spread the cleansing fire of the Burning Prince.”
Where the sources disagree
- The Rathmana Allim tale appears to be a later-era text, not part of the 1999 game.
Keep reading
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.