Kerra use to be...

Taelana · 10-22-2006, 04:02 PM

Ok. Once upon a time in Norrath, before the Shattering, there lived a little race of catlike humanoids on Odus(?). Their heritage, I suspected, was passed down from Shir Vahl, but they're culture was more subdued. I once came upon them during a hodge podge scavenger hunt. I saw many adventurers of all races hurrying to their one little village to slaughter the masses for [a kerra doll] to add to their growing list of mob dropped items. As I walked through the tent and hut filled village, I noticed that they didnt seem to have much fight in them and they appeared a bit overcautious about visitors. As groups of them were being massacred, run through like hunted anim...Oh for heaven's sakes...

Anyway, Kerra were suppose to be distant relatives to VS, right? But they didnt fight. They looked kinda passive actually. How come all of a sudden, they're a class? Why not Vahl Shir? Even though Shir Vahl and Luclin were destroyed, most of them were adventurers in Pok and beyond. They wouldnt have been on Luclin. There should still be some floating around, right?

Calthine · 10-22-2006, 04:15 PM

Actually, if you check your lore, the playable race in EQ2 is Kerra, not Vah Shir

Vhalen had some good Lore reasoning behind this on the Official Forums.

Oh - in the official lore, Kerra came first. The explosion that created The Hole blew a bunch of them to Luclin, they deleoped a seperate civilization that was not rediscovered until we learned how to get to Luclin.

Arthais · 10-22-2006, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Calthine

Actually, if you check your lore, the playable race in EQ2 is Kerra, not Vah Shir

Vhalen had some good Lore reasoning behind this on the Official Forums.

Oh - in the official lore, Kerra came first. The explosion that created The Hole blew a bunch of them to Luclin, they deleoped a seperate civilization that was not rediscovered until we learned how to get to Luclin.

If I remember right, what happened was the Kerra who lived on odus were caught in a weapons test that the people of Erudin used on the heritics of paniel. I think the first try "missed", hit the kerrans, and the intense energy somehow ported them to luclin. The second attack destroyed paniel and created the hole. Hence the real name of the zone "the hole" in eq1 is "ruins of old paniel. If you look around you see elements of the ruined villiage.

The heretics rebuilt paniel into the mountains to protect themselves from another attack.

The kerrans that got sent to the moon rebuilt their society, called themselves the vah shir, who were destroyed when the moon blew up. The kerrans of eq2 are the original kerrans who got left behind, NOT the vah shir from luclin, as most never made it back alive. Presumably there were some vah shir floating around as some would have made it off luclin before the shattering, so it's presumed that the vah shir merged back into the kerran culture, which may explain why the kerrans of eq2 are far more advanced and civilized than the kerrans of eq1, having gained some influence of the vah shir.

So the kerrans of eq2 are the descendants of the kerrans of eq1 and whatever vah shir managed to reintegrate back into kerran society, advancing them a bit as they did.

Taelana · 10-22-2006, 06:04 PM

I started a story about my Kerra Fury Shilalah (on our guild site) that had to deal with that. She basically snuck off of Luclin, unknowingly followed by her sister Ciara, just before The Shattering and she assumes her Kerra father's (who she finds out later had died after secretly mating with her mother, who leaves...well that's a long story) name. She finds out later from a high elven friend of hers and a mysterious dwarf, that her sister had followed her through the portal to PoK and she tries to find her. On her travels she tells everybody that she's Kerra and only her friends know where she's from. I didnt know the lore behind the Kerra and the lore in my story is pretty shotty at best and the time table might be off becuz of it, but it wasnt that important...lol. But its great to know that I was on the right road.

Arthais · 10-22-2006, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Taelana

I started a story about my Kerra Fury Shilalah (on our guild site) that had to deal with that. She basically snuck off of Luclin, unknowingly followed by her sister Ciara, just before The Shattering and she assumes her Kerra father's (who she finds out later had died after secretly mating with her mother, who leaves...well that's a long story) name. She finds out later from a high elven friend of hers and a mysterious dwarf, that her sister had followed her through the portal to PoK and she tries to find her. On her travels she tells everybody that she's Kerra and only her friends know where she's from. I didnt know the lore behind the Kerra and the lore in my story is pretty shotty at best and the time table might be off becuz of it, but it wasnt that important...lol. But its great to know that I was on the right road.

There is one problem with that story. It couldn't have happened "just before the shattering".

The portals to the moon fell inactive just at the timeline split, about 500 years before the current time in EQ2. The moon blew up about 15-20ish years ago. What happened on the moon for those 450 years is largely speculation and not known, but nobody was going to or from luclin for hundreds of years before it blew up.

Taelana · 10-22-2006, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Arthais

There is one problem with that story. It couldn't have happened "just before the shattering".

The portals to the moon fell inactive just at the timeline split, about 500 years before the current time in EQ2. The moon blew up about 15-20ish years ago. What happened on the moon for those 450 years is largely speculation and not known, but nobody was going to or from luclin for hundreds of years before it blew up.

And that's why i said the time line was off...lol. It didnt matter really to the story other than to have something tragic like having her family lost to her. Basically it was loosely based on the what really happened.

Illuminator · 10-22-2006, 09:17 PM

Kerra are another victim of the same old recipe, which is to cut off the head of any ordinary animal and shove it on a human body.

Faabio · 10-22-2006, 09:36 PM

The Kerra from EQ1 were more like... real cats.

The Kerra in EQ2 are excatly what you describe~

Loolee · 10-23-2006, 08:47 AM

Vah Shir never like real cats either, they still only had the one set of nipples.

Taelana · 10-23-2006, 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Illuminator

Kerra are another victim of the same old recipe, which is to cut off the head of any ordinary animal and shove it on a human body.

Humanoid syndrome. You can't have a TALKING breathing entity wielding a man-made item/weapon/armor without giving them opposible thumbs. Besides, its easier to fit a cat-headed animal with a human body than say a cat with an 8 tentacled entity becuz then people would whine about how the race can use 8 weapons instead of 1 or 2 like they're whining about how the Fae have a better safe fall than any other class or race on station.com...lol

http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/e...ssage.id=22661

And it would look gross...