Lore · Gods of the Pantheon
Tunare, Mother of All
Every Kelethin druid, every Felwithe paladin, every unicorn in the Faydark owes something to Tunare. Her story is mostly about losing things she loved.
Born of Norrath
Her followers believe Norrath itself is a living being that gave birth to Tunare, and that all life came from her. Worshipping and protecting the land is homage to the Mother of their Mother. They will fight to the death to protect nature. Many druids and rangers, and a great many elves, follow her.
Sources: Allakhazam: Tunare · Library of Erudin: Tunare
The elves and their losses
Tunare was one of the gods of Brell’s first pact, and she made the elves to watch over the surface of the world. Her children built the Elddar Forest and Takish-Hiz, then lost their first king and queen to Innoruuk, and finally lost the forest itself to Solusek Ro’s sun. The whole story is on The Elddar and Takish-Hiz.
Sources: Library of Erudin: “The History of Norrath” (original EverQuest manual text) · Library of Erudin: Elddar Forest
A conversation in the Wakening Lands
An official Echoes of Faydwer story tells of Tunare walking out of the mist in an emerald gown, flowers springing up where she stepped, to visit the dragon Wuoshi in his stone ring in the Wakening Lands. He was sent there in Veeshan’s service, but she thanks him for guarding her forest too. He answers that he cares little for the politics of the Claws or the Ring; the forest is his home.
Equestrielle
Unicorns are Tunare’s favored creatures and guard her purest forests. Because they stand for purity, the dark gods love to ruin them. The RPG records that Cazic-Thule himself took the horn from the famous unicorn Equestrielle and corrupted her, and that she now roams the forests of Faydark.
Who she is
The RPG Handbook calls Tunare the goddess of growth and life, the Mother of All, neutral good. She created the high and wood elves and still watches over them, and they repay her by protecting creation from anyone who would despoil nature. An older deity description says she rules the Plane of Growth and appears as a very attractive older woman in flowing robes with a crown of vines and leaves. She is allied with Karana, Erollisi Marr and Rodcet Nife, and the Library of Erudin lists Bertoxxulous and Innoruuk as her enemies.
Sources: Library of Erudin: EverQuest RPG Player’s Handbook — Tunare (White Wolf, 2002) · Library of Erudin: Tunare (Tunare – The Mother of All)
Tears and nymphs
The in-game book Tale of Two Nymphs gives her grief a shape. When Tunare saw her elves come to ruin at Solusek Ro’s hands, she shed tears on the land. Each tear became a nymph, born to tend the lands Solusek Ro’s anger had twisted, with a different kind of nymph wherever a tear fell.
Tunare’s Chosen
Verant’s early live-event stories centered on Firiona Vie, “Tunare’s Chosen.” After the battle known as Bloody Kithicor, Firiona went to Kelethin looking for a way to honor the Lady properly, since prayer and thanks alone would not do. Another story has the sacred unicorn Equestrielle tell her that the Mother of All herself must be summoned over the loss of the Lifeguide, a staff Tunare had given her. A third describes the annual Festival of Tunare’s Harvest, held at the new outpost of Firiona Vie on Kunark after a hard year that began with Firiona’s capture by the iksar Danak Dhorentath. See Firiona Vie.
Temples and quests
In Felwithe, an official town guide says the paladin and cleric guilds together form the Clerics of Tunare. Her symbol quests start with Yeolarn Bronzeleaf: “We of Tunare are charged with protecting the Great Mother from the forces of Innoruuk. Even now, the evil minions of this foul deity are despoiling our great forest.” In 2010 an official article said Tunare had enlisted Karana and Druzzil Ro to send adventurers back to the Elddar Forest to recover lost knowledge for the fight against Mayong Mistmoore.
Online Adventures
In EverQuest Online Adventures, the Norrathian Times interviewed “an agent of Growth” about the giant-spewing portals at Lake Rathe, Halas, Forkwatch and Hazinak. The agent said that whatever their alignment, “we all return to the lands when we are slain,” asked druid and ranger protesters to stop chaining themselves to trees, and sent helpers to Surefall Glade to keep the portal healed.
Sources: Library of Erudin: Tunare (Norrathian Times Interview with an Agent of Growth)
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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.