How We Source the Lore

The source order

1. Official EverQuest lore. Articles and lore pieces published on everquest.com by the game’s makers. When an official source and any other source disagree, the official one wins.
2. The game’s own text. The original manuals, the EverQuest role-playing game books, in-game books and quest dialogue, mostly read through transcriptions such as the Library of Erudin.
3. Trusted references. Long-running community databases and guides, chiefly Allakhazam and EQ Resource, plus Project 1999 and other wikis where they add something.
4. Other fan-run reference sites. Used only to cross-check our reading of the primary lore. They never override everquest.com and never count toward a page’s official-lore badge.

What we promise, and what we don’t

Every claim in a story is cited in that story’s sources. Nothing is invented to fill a gap, and where the sources disagree, the story has a “Where the sources disagree” section that says so.

EverQuest’s lore has grown over more than 25 years of expansions, manuals, role-playing books and developer posts. Older material was canon in its day, so we don’t discard it: each story leads with current canon and, where the telling changed, shows how it evolved (“the 2002 RPG had told it as…”). We cross-reference several sources rather than fill gaps by guesswork, and we keep a “Where the sources disagree” note only where official sources from about the same time genuinely conflict and nothing later settles it.

Not every page rests on official lore. Many stories have no everquest.com article at all, so they lean on the game’s text and community references. Each lore page with official sources shows a badge counting them: right now 64 of our 92 lore stories cite everquest.com.

What we don’t use

We do not use AI-generated lore sites, or entries whose sources can’t be traced, as sources. When a lore aggregator copies an official article or a manual, we cite the original and use the copy only as a pointer to it.