Plane of Knowledge
When I started playing Everquest in grad school, I was amazed at the complexity of the world and I was overwhelmed by not only the quests, but the different systems that had been put in place for trade skills, combat, spells and so many other aspects of the game. I spent night after night reading posts on bulletin boards like The Ranger's Glade (many thanks to Sunmoon for that site) and the Druids Grove. I poured over posts on EQTraders (thanks Den Mum) and marveled at the maps on EQAtlas.
There was huge amount of community knowledge, and as I played it just grew and grew. It seemed like it would never end, quest upon quest, item upon item, recipe upon recipe. Then I took a break.
When I came back to the game, I was married, had kids, and I couldn't stay up ALL night researching quests or seeking out a specific ingredient for a tradeskill combine. So I went back to the sites I had loved in the begining....but they were gone. EQAtlas had disappeared. The Ranger's Glade had been lost to a database issue. I realized how important that information was, and how delicate (and precarious) an ecosystem it was.
So it was time to give back to the community. The Plane of Knowledge is my attempt to capture and preserve the information that makes playing Everquest possible.
The Plane of Knowledge was made by the entire community of EverQuest players and fans who over decades documented the inner workings of game. I am but a humble librarian trying to sort and preserve the collected knowledge of the world of Norrath.
I am Tarmor of Surefall; Tarmor of Veeshan. I started playing with my best friends from college back when one of them said, "Hey you need to try this game!", and from there....
I saw a lot of world firsts. I got to play with some of the best players the game has known. I was a member of Cestus Dei and we did impossible things based on our abilities as a bunch of nerdy grad students to crunch numbers.
Since then I've played with friends on various challenge and TLP servers. First there was Quarm (and yes Cestus kind of got the band back together to show people how OMM was done) and then there was Ragefire and then and then....
These days it's Teek with the Qeynos Yatch Club. We're a bunch of guys in our 50's and we still play, still explore, still make jokes, still crunch numbers.
So greetings from The Plane of Knowledge, and from Surefall, may the strength of the bears be with you on your journey
This site has tools that have been resurrected from many sources, and some that are new or revised. If you find an old tool that needs a new home, please let me know.
When it comes to the references, I've tried to include the most accurate sources (and yes some of those are my own notes from 25 years ago) so things might not be perfect. Modern computing is great at coallessing things from different sources but it screws up in marvelous ways (so if you find something weird let me know, it's probably the fault of some pickclaw goblins)
I should really get around to putting a good email address here