Darklight Wood
Zone
- Release
- LU35
- Levels
- 1-20
- Access
- Public
- Harvest tier
- 1 and 2
Darklight Wood is the lower-level counterpart to Nektulos Forest, containing the long-lost evil city of Neriak, City of Hate. It is a level 1-20 newbie zone, containing about 100 well-organized quests. Physically it is the smallest of the five starting locations in EQ2, but it connects directly to The Commonlands on one side and Nektulos on the other side, making it a convenient hub for the low- and mid-levels.
Recently, Darklight Wood has seen an upsurge in undead, vampire and cultist attacks, increased aggression from it's natural inhabitants, the Sullian Fairies, Funnelweb Spiders and Nightmarsh Fungusmen, and perhaps most daunting, a growing Thexian presence. This final group is comprised of purely Tier'dal fanatics that seek to remove the current ruler of the dark elves, Queen Cristanos, from power and install Talvus Thex, Cristanos' son, as king of dark elvendom on Norrath. With such strength of number and will, could The Thexians be the driving force behind the destabilization of this prized f
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