Continent · Gates of Discord, 2004
Taelosia
Taelosia is the stormbound continent the Wayfarers found across the Abysmal Sea: a land of broken stone whose native city lies in ruins under the Legion of Mata Muram. Gates of Discord brought it to EverQuest in February 2004.
All 21 connections as a list
- The Abysmal Sea ↔ Natimbi, the Broken Shores (ship route)
- Natimbi, the Broken Shores ↔ Qinimi, Court of Nihilia (zone line)
- Kod’Taz, Broken Trial Grounds ↔ Natimbi, the Broken Shores (zone line)
- Natimbi, the Broken Shores ↔ Qvic, Prayer Grounds of Calling (zone line)
- Barindu, Hanging Gardens ↔ Qinimi, Court of Nihilia (zone line)
- Ferubi, Forgotten Temple of Taelosia ↔ Qinimi, Court of Nihilia (zone line)
- Qinimi, Court of Nihilia ↔ Riwwi, Coliseum of Games (zone line)
- Barindu, Hanging Gardens ↔ Riwwi, Coliseum of Games (zone line)
- Ferubi, Forgotten Temple of Taelosia ↔ Riwwi, Coliseum of Games (zone line)
- Barindu, Hanging Gardens ↔ Ferubi, Forgotten Temple of Taelosia (zone line)
- Barindu, Hanging Gardens ↔ The Sewers of Nihilia (zone line)
- Barindu, Hanging Gardens ↔ Vxed, the Crumbling Caverns (zone line)
- Barindu, Hanging Gardens ↔ Tipt, Treacherous Crags (zone line)
- Kod’Taz, Broken Trial Grounds ↔ Yxtta, Pulpit of Exiles (zone line)
- Kod’Taz, Broken Trial Grounds ↔ Qvic, Prayer Grounds of Calling (zone line)
- Ikkinz, Chambers of Destruction ↔ Kod’Taz, Broken Trial Grounds (zone line)
- Qvic, Prayer Grounds of Calling ↔ Yxtta, Pulpit of Exiles (zone line)
- Uqua, the Ocean God Chantry ↔ Yxtta, Pulpit of Exiles (zone line)
- Inktu’ta, the Unmasked Chapel ↔ Qvic, Prayer Grounds of Calling (zone line)
- Qvic, Prayer Grounds of Calling ↔ Txevu, Lair of the Elite (zone line)
- Tacvi, Seat of the Slaver ↔ Txevu, Lair of the Elite (zone line)
Zones by region
The coast
- The Abysmal Sea · levels 1–75
- Natimbi, the Broken Shores · levels 43–60
The city of Nihilia
- Qinimi, Court of Nihilia · levels 50–75
- Riwwi, Coliseum of Games · levels 60–70
- Barindu, Hanging Gardens · levels 55–65
- Ferubi, Forgotten Temple of Taelosia · levels 60–75
- The Sewers of Nihilia coming
- Vxed, the Crumbling Caverns coming
- Tipt, Treacherous Crags coming
The northern temples
- Kod’Taz, Broken Trial Grounds · levels 65–75
- Ikkinz, Chambers of Destruction coming
- Yxtta, Pulpit of Exiles · levels 65–75
- Uqua, the Ocean God Chantry coming
- Qvic, Prayer Grounds of Calling · levels 65–75
- Inktu’ta, the Unmasked Chapel coming
- Txevu, Lair of the Elite coming
- Tacvi, Seat of the Slaver coming
Gates of Discord
Gates of Discord was released on February 10, 2004. It added the Berserker class and a long, hard raid progression across Taelosia that ends in the temples of Txevu and Tacvi. The story behind it is told in Taelosia and Mata Muram.
Taelosia is a land of rock and ruin. Its native city sits on barren, broken ground around the old Hanging Gardens of Barindu, with mountain passes and temple grounds in the north.
Sources: Allakhazam: Progression in Gates of Discord · Library of Erudin: Riwwi
The voyage
The mage Calliav Giniuar saw a dark land across the Abysmal Sea, and an army waiting there. The Wayfarers Brotherhood sailed the Queen of Thorns across, following the Grozmok Stone, and landed on the west coast. The ship stayed at anchor and is now the zone called the Abysmal Sea, reached from Nedaria’s Landing.
From the ship you cross to Natimbi, the Broken Shores, where Morden Rasp first came ashore.
Sources: Allakhazam: Abysmal Sea (zone) · Allakhazam: Natimbi, the Broken Shores (zone)
The city of the nihil
Taminoa Bialu, on the ship, explains that the natives lived in a grand city of four districts. Qinimi was the court, now the legion’s fortified headquarters. Riwwi held the games and is now a fighting pit. Barindu was a lush garden where stone workers were built, now a slave yard and golem works. Ferubi was the central temple, now one of the best-guarded posts on the island.
An earth-shaking blast damaged the whole city. The Muramites turned the ruins into a slave camp and keep most of their captives in Qinimi.
Sources: Library of Erudin: Barindu, Hanging Gardens · Library of Erudin: Riwwi
The temples of the north
North of the city, the temple grounds belong to the Trusik and the legion. Kod’Taz holds the Ikkinz trials, where a resistance network sends you in. Yxtta, the Pulpit of Exiles, hides Uqua, the Ocean God Chantry, below it. Qvic is where two mountain passes meet at the prayer grounds, with the chapel of Inktu’ta in its caves.
North of Qvic is Txevu, the Lair of the Elite, and behind a sealed door in its far west lies Tacvi, Seat of the Slaver, where the Tunat`Muram Cuu Vauax keeps his officers.
Sources: Allakhazam: Kod’Taz, Broken Trial Grounds (zone) · Allakhazam: Yxtta, Pulpit of Exiles (zone) · Allakhazam: Qvic, Prayer Grounds of Calling (zone) · Allakhazam: Txevu, Lair of the Elite (zone) · Allakhazam: Tacvi, Seat of the Slaver (zone)
The instances
Much of Gates of Discord is instanced. From Barindu you enter the Sewers of Nihilia, Vxed in the eastern mountains and Tipt, the Treacherous Crags. Ikkinz opens from Kod’Taz, Uqua from Yxtta, Inktu’ta from Qvic and Tacvi from Txevu. Our map draws every one of them as an icon placed near its entrance, so the continent’s zones stay compact.
Sources: Allakhazam: Progression in Gates of Discord · Allakhazam: Sewers of Nihilia, the Crematory (zone) · Allakhazam: Vxed, the Crumbling Caverns (zone) · Allakhazam: Tipt, Treacherous Crags (zone) · Allakhazam: Ikkinz, Chambers of Destruction (zone)
The legion
The army that holds Taelosia is the Legion of Mata Muram: Muramite officers such as the Pixtt, Ikaav and Zun`Muram, and the slave races they conquered on other worlds, the ukun war-hounds, kyv hunters, mastruq, nocs and aneuk priests. What they want with Taelosia, and with Norrath, is the story that runs on into Omens of War.
Sources: Allakhazam: Qinimi, Court of Nihilia (zone) · Allakhazam: Ferubi, Forgotten Temple of Taelosia (zone) · Allakhazam: Qvic, Prayer Grounds of Calling (zone)
How our map is drawn
Our map follows the in-game Taelosia map for shape and placement: a kidney-shaped continent with Natimbi on a hooked arm to the west, the ship to the south-west, Qinimi, Riwwi and Ferubi west of centre, Barindu at the heart, and the temple grounds of Kod’Taz, Qvic and Yxtta across the north. The zone-line files decide every link. Each Gates of Discord zone file is drawn in that zone’s own frame rather than to continent north, so we turn the exits of Natimbi, Qinimi, Kod’Taz and Qvic by a quarter or half turn before checking them; once turned, every exit faces the neighbour it leads to.
The links to Tipt, Ikkinz and Tacvi have no labelled zone line in the files, so they rest on the zone records alone.