Lore · Planes & Wars of the Gods
Underfoot & Brell’s Rest
Dwarves have always said they would go home to Brell. The 2009 Underfoot expansion showed you exactly what that home looks like.
The name
According to the dwarven “Book of Bound Mithril,” Brell found Norrath’s caves, metals and bedrock so like his own plane that he gave them the same name: the Underfoot. Before he could fill it with thinking creatures, he first had to deal with the titans.
Sources: Library of Erudin: The Book of Bound Mithril (EverQuest II book)
Brell’s Rest
Brell’s Rest is where the worthy among Brell’s worshippers go when their lives on Norrath end. A few are given work shaping the world, but few enjoy it. Most spend eternity in a setting ideal for their race. Dwarves, gnomes, gnolls, kobolds and others live in or around the Rest, or in the Shining City on the sphere just above. Most of the Rest’s residents are gnolls and kobolds. The dwarves stay in the city brewing beer and working stone and metal, and the gnomes tinker or wander off to see what is out there.
Sources: EverQuest.com: Underfoot: Unfolding the Lore, Brell’s Rest (2009)
The Shining City
Kernagir, the Shining City, is where Brell’s chosen live out eternity. The finest craftspeople of Norrath built it to glorify him, and while others are sometimes let in, it is mostly home to dwarves, Coldain and gnomes.
Sources: Library of Erudin: The Coldain (Kernagir, The Shining City, official article)
Trouble in paradise
The gnolls and kobolds love a fight, which keeps them out of the Shining City, and they have clashed happily on Brell’s Rest’s battlefields and in its arena for millennia. Lately, though, the kobolds have been short of opponents. The gnolls are acting strangely, as if hiding something. Most say nothing at all, and those who do only whisper of “The Destroyer” or “The Undying One,” with fear and worship on their faces in equal measure.
Sources: EverQuest.com: Underfoot: Unfolding the Lore, Brell’s Rest (2009)
The road there
The way into the Underfoot opened through the old ruins in the Hole. Long before, the gnome Ognit Eznertob had breached the Wall of Living Stone in the ruins of Old Paineel, and an army of elementals had poured out across Odus. In 2009 the official event “Road to Underfoot: Breaking the Seal” went back to that wall.
Sources: Library of Erudin: Paineel (Road to Underfoot: Breaking the Seal)
Where the sources disagree
- The Brell’s Rest article never says who “The Destroyer” is. We do not guess.
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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.