Lore · Expansion Sagas
Taelosia & Mata Muram
Gates of Discord and Omens of War were brutal raid years. They started with one mage nobody believed.
Calliav’s visions
A mage named Calliav Giniuar foresaw a great dark land across the stormy Abysmal Sea and an army waiting there, the Legion of Mata Muram. His ravings were written down and his creatures sketched by a painter, by torchlight, after he woke from his visions. People called him a madman, again.
The Queen of Thorns
The Wayfarers Brotherhood took the great ship Queen of Thorns across the Abysmal Sea and found a continent ringed by storms: Taelosia. Calliav had believed the Grozmok Stone would act as a compass, and it did; a scout reported that following it was a terrible journey that ended in a safe harbor on the continent’s west side.
Sources: Library of Erudin: Taelosia (Da Oggok Nooz) · Library of Erudin: Taelosia (fan encyclopedia)
The Aneuk
Among Calliav’s visions were the Aneuk, the legion’s priests, from a world of pure magic, channelling a god of darkness unlike anything on Norrath, able to cause as much harm as they could heal. Their legs had withered after centuries of levitating, so they wore glyph-covered armor hung with the skulls of kings they had conquered. When the legion came for their world it offered a choice: die or join. Many chose to join.
The dark amulet
Aboard the Queen of Thorns, Calliav dreamed again. In a temple full of the corpses of fallen heroes, he watched the rogue Morden Rasp creep toward the leader of the Muramites, a creature of fierce chaotic energy, which clutched an amulet, seemed to speak with someone through it, and laid it on an altar. Its stone pulsed with a sickly dark glow that swallowed the light. When Calliav reached for it, his hand passed through.
Sources: Library of Erudin: Omens of War prologue: The Dark Amulet
Where the sources disagree
- Mata Muram’s origins and the full Gates of Discord storyline are planned for wave 2.
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Retold in our own words from the sources linked under each chapter; short quotes are marked and sourced. The illustration is an original AI-generated painting made for this page alone, not from the game.