Brell Serilis, Duke of Below

The secret portal

After Veeshan claimed Norrath, Brell Serilis acted next, and quietly. From his Plane of Underfoot he opened a magical portal to a cavern deep in Norrath and filled the depths with creatures of every kind. Then he sealed the portal inside a labyrinth of living stone.

Sources: Library of Erudin: “The History of Norrath” (original EverQuest manual text) · Library of Erudin: EverQuest RPG Player’s Handbook: History of Norrath (2002) · Allakhazam: Brell Serilis

The pacts

Then he went to the other gods and talked them into meeting. Without ever saying how he knew, he told them of Veeshan’s new world and, with words worthy of a king of thieves, proposed an alliance to divide it and keep the dragons in check. Everyone but Rallos Zek agreed, never suspecting that Brell had already released his own creations.

Brell took the depths and made the dwarves. When Bristlebane and Cazic-Thule arrived, he arranged a second pact so he could make more peoples, and created the gnomes, wiry, tinkering cousins of the dwarves.

Sources: Library of Erudin: “The History of Norrath” (original EverQuest manual text) · Library of Erudin: EverQuest RPG Player’s Handbook: History of Norrath (2002)

Before the dwarves

A tale recorded on mithril, “The Duke of Below and The Lord of Light’s Battle,” given in a dwarven quest, tells of a time before the first dwarves, when behemoths of land, sea and air waged war on Veeshan’s dragons. The dragons won, at a terrible cost. Brell loved this world’s caverns, gems and rivers of metal so much that he named it the Underfoot, after his own plane.

But before he could make thinking creatures to share it, the threats had to be removed: great titans of the elements and arcane might were loose, shaking the world’s foundations and warring on the dragons.

Sources: Library of Erudin: Brell Serilis (The Duke of Below and The Lord of Light’s Battle)

Everyone’s father

The Runnyeye goblins claim Brell as their father, to the disgust of the dwarves of Kaladim, and the gnolls of Splitpaw say he sculpted them from the sacred Clay of Cosgrove. Some form of Brell worship can be found almost anywhere underground.

Sources: Allakhazam: Brell Serilis · Library of Erudin: Brell Serilis