Lore · Gods of the Pantheon
Xegony, Queen of Air
If you ever chased an aviak along the coast of Antonica, you were hunting the descendants of Xegony’s first favorites.
The Queen of Air
Xegony rules the Plane of Air. She appears as a young elven maiden with angel-like wings, and of all the elemental powers she is the most delicate and benevolent, and the most revered for it. She is also an enigma, because she has never turned her attention to the world below, staying focused on the elemental powers.
Sources: Allakhazam: Xegony · Library of Erudin: Xegony
First Flight
An aviak tale, “First Flight,” says the creatures that walked on two legs or four displeased her; they were so ungainly. So Xegony made a beautiful winged race, and they built their nests in the choicest places on Norrath, because they were her chosen.
Over time they began to whisper beak to beak that their wings proved they were better than the wretches who had to walk everywhere, and they looked down on the other races, both literally and figuratively. The aviaks tell it as the story of their fall from grace.
One of four
With Fennin Ro, Tarew Marr and the Rathe, she is one of the elemental powers the lore credits with their own creation, and the Planes of Power lore credits the four elemental gods with Quarm.
Sources: EverQuest.com: The Fabled Planes of Power Lore, Part 22 · Library of Erudin: Rallos Zek (ZSQuint in-game book)
Her place in creation
A 2007 official article, “From the Library of Norrath,” tells a creation myth in which the Nameless made four elemental powers. The fourth, Xegony, was given the task of drawing away the material in between and setting each thing in its place. She made her portion of chaos into Air, using it to blow the chaos away and to cushion each world from the harshness of the cold cosmos. The RPG Game Master’s Guide rates her neutral good.
Sources: Library of Erudin: Xegony (From the Library of Norrath; GMG — Xegony, The Queen of Air)
Eryslai, the Kingdom of Wind
Her realm is the Plane of Air. Official Planes of Power lore describes Eryslai, the Kingdom of Wind, as floating within it, perched atop the material and astral worlds on clouds of vapor: a collection of floating, majestic islands that Xegony watches over in peace. The RPG bestiary names Quillmane, a unique pegasus, as her favored creation. It notes that claims Quillmane has sired lesser pegasi with ordinary horses are unconfirmed rumor.
Sources: Library of Erudin: Xegony (Fabled Planes of Power Lore, Part 19; Monsters of Norrath — Quillmane)
The Quintessence and the Plane of Time
The in-game book ZSQuint says Tarew Marr, the Rathe Council and Xegony combined the essence of their beings to create an object of infinite power, the Quintessence of the Elements. Realizing how dangerous its wielder would be, they locked it in the Rathe’s vault. In the Plane of Time script she speaks for the elemental gods over Zebuxoruk: “The mortals possess a direct tie to Zebuxoruk. If his stasis is finished their link will dwindle as well as their powers and knowledge.” See Zebuxoruk, the Forsaken.
Sources: Library of Erudin: Xegony (ZSQuint; Plane of Time script)
How much is known
Not much more. The Library of Erudin indexes only about fourteen texts that mention her, compared with hundreds for gods like Innoruuk. She has no Norrathian temple or player faith in the classic game, which fits the old description of a goddess who never turned her attention to the world below. We’ve kept this page to what those texts say.
Where the sources disagree
- Agnarr the Storm Lord, the Plane of Air’s great guardian in Planes of Power, is not covered yet: we have not found a sourced account of his story.
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.