Shadows of Luclin Preview

On the other side of the globe, GameSpot UK has posted up a preview of EverQuest’s upcoming expansion, Shadows of Luclin. Here’s a taste:

In addition to the creations of Luclin, also known as the Mistress of Shadows, the moon is home to several of Norrath’s races. The once-powerful Combine Empire, the same empire that built the wizard teleportation spires that dot Norrath, exists on Luclin but is divided, a shadow of its former self. The Shissar, once the bane of Kunark, fled to Luclin. The cat-people race of Vah Shir (otherwise known pejoratively as Kerrans) was allegedly ported to Luclin by the Erudites in a disastrous test of a great weapon. This weapon was aimed at the Vah Shir home city and flung the entire city and its inhabitants through space. The remaining Vah Shir were banished to Kerra Isle, a small island off the coast of Odus. In essence, the story of the tension between the Vah Shir and the Erudites is fairly old but unclear: Once, the Vah Shir roamed the entire continent of Odus, but when the Erudites arrived, they brought sicknesses that wiped out many Vah Shir. Was this unintentional or part of a deliberate extermination? The reason is not certain, but much of the expansion’s story expands that of the Vah Shir race.