EverQuest II · Chains of Eternity

Shades of
Drinal

A chronological, waypoint-by-waypoint field guide through the Ethernere - the realm of the dead - and the long crusade to confront the death-god Drinal himself.

Solo (Advanced-Solo zones) Level 92–95 Starts: The Feerrott 10 quests ~70 steps

Before You Begin

A long, linear signature line. It is solo-friendly throughout - but nearly every chapter sends you into an Advanced-Solo instance, so come geared and self-sufficient.

Heroic / boosted characters: if you bought a level boost to 90 or 95, you must run the short prelude Shades of Drinal: Trial of Everafter after Unexpected Consequences and before quest 1. Use the Feerrott spires  -92, 13, 182 to the Eidolon Jungle, hail Lady Liae Croae (good) or Lord Valkiss Ssi'sh (evil) near  -46, 15, 199, and kill the three assassins they name.

The Signature Chain

The Feerrott → Eidolon Jungle → Obol Plains / Cardin Ward → the Deathtoll Tower
01
Feerrott → Eidolon Jungle

Shades of Drinal: The Shores of Everafter

Start: after the letter arrives, speak with The Duality in The Feerrott by the Wizard Portal  -113, 13, 178

The dead are not staying dead. The Duality sends you through the spires into the Ethernere itself - the realm of departed souls - where the shores of the afterlife are under siege.

  • Speak with Ravinus near the Feerrott spires  -92, 13, 182, then use the portal to The Eidolon Jungle.
  • Report to Drinal's Steward at  -84, 14, 172.
  • Help Veris Windcall  26, 2, -51 hold the beach - complete Storm on the Horizon, Shore Defense, Tidal Waves and Pushing Forward (all 92).
  • Aid Riishu Sulrel  -147, 14, 184 - complete Dearly Departed, Proper Direction and Stronger Than Death (all 92). The Veris and Riishu errands can be run together.
  • Find Veris Windcall again at  18, -5, 500 and finish Emergency Exit and Only Way Out (both 92).
  • Return to Drinal's Steward near the spires  -92, 13, 182.

Reward: coin & AA xp - opens the road into the Ethernere and the next chapter.

02
Ethernere · Oggok

Shades of Drinal: Great and Small

Start: Drinal's Steward (continues from chapter 1)

In the Ethernere's echo of Oggok, the spirits of the ogres carry on their old wars. To pass, you must settle their feuds and gather what their dead still cling to.

  • Help Zeeil reclaim the ruins - complete Last of Our Kind, War Machines, Fallen Idol, Fearful Lands and Power to the Tower (all 93).
  • Speak with Nrik and complete Circumstantial Evidence (93).
  • Sit in judgement for Kuule Vilehammer - complete Mistaken Identity and Guilty as Charged (both 93).
  • Collect 8 essences from within Oggok (waypoints are listed on the main quest Great and Small).
  • Return to Drinal's Steward to advance the chapter.

Reward: coin & AA xp.

03
Ethernere → Throne of Fear

Shades of Drinal: Skies of Red

Start: Drinal's Steward  -2400, 201, 734

The sky burns red over the land of fear. Cazic-Thule's old terror still rules here, and the gate to his throne must be opened from the inside.

  • Aid Gulthga - complete Fear Itself (93), Thule vs. Thule (94), Fortunes Turned (94) and And His Name Is… (94).
  • Speak with Yulsluu and complete Open Gates (94).
  • Help Alzilius - complete Unexpected Ally, Lost Keys and Close It Behind You (all 94).
  • At Drinal's Steward's direction, kill Gulthga, then enter Throne of Fear: The Fear Gate.
    • Click the stone  168, 72, 106, then slay The Effigy of Fear (instance boss).
  • Return to Drinal's Steward.

Instance gate. Throne of Fear: The Fear Gate is a quest instance - you must defeat The Effigy of Fear inside to proceed.

Reward: coin & AA xp.

04
Wurmbone Chain (Advanced Solo)

Shades of Drinal: Puzzle Pieces

Start: The Duality (Feerrott), Rikantus (Feerrott) and Lady Nevedaria (Eastern Wastes)

A map to a forgotten place lies scattered in pieces across the bones of dead dragons. You must descend through three Wurmbone instances to reassemble it.

  • Enter Sleeper's Tomb: The Forgotten Catacombs (Advanced Solo) - read the map to find 2 Wurmbone Keys and the Map to Wurmbone Gulch.
  • Speak to Erus Dal'viv in Jarsath Wastes  -757, -49, 1896, then clear Wurmbone Crag (Advanced Solo) - kill Krelgrek Bone-Chair.
  • Return to Erus Dal'viv, then enter Wurmbone's End (Advanced Solo) - find 2 pieces (one is on the map; the second drops from the zone boss, who spawns only after you slay All-Blocker and Necromunger).
  • Report again, then clear Chelsith: The Ancient Vault (Advanced Solo) - kill Murmaz the Believer, then do the location update at  746, -136, -523.
  • Close the loop with Erus Dal'viv, The Duality (Greater Faydark) and Drinal's Steward  -722, -4, 21 in Obol Plains.

Four Advanced-Solo instances. This chapter is the longest dungeon crawl of the line - Sleeper's Tomb, Wurmbone Crag, Wurmbone's End and Chelsith, each soloable but back-to-back.

Reward: coin & AA xp - first arrival in Obol Plains.

05
Obol Plains · Cardin Ward

Shades of Drinal: Cardin Protection

Start: Firiona Vie in Obol Plains

Firiona Vie has raised a mortal outpost - Cardin Ward - on the edge of the dead lands. Help her wardens hold the line against the tourbillion storms tearing at reality.

  • Speak with Firiona Vie and complete A Harrowing Experience (94).
  • Report to General Furtog Ogrebane - complete Ethereal Material, Thugs on a Plain and Gate Crashers! (all 94).
  • Help Galen Cadabrak - complete Constructing Cardin Wardens, Signs of Tourbillion Trouble and Out of the Fire… (all 94).
  • Return to Firiona Vie and complete A Trusted Witness (94).
  • Report to Drinal's Steward (Drinalian Whisper Column)  -70, 43, -233.

Reward: coin & AA xp - secures Cardin Ward as your base in Obol Plains.

06
Cardin Ward → A Nether Space

Shades of Drinal: Incantatory Corruption

Start: speak to Firiona Vie in Obol Plains

The tourbillions are not a natural storm - someone is bleeding raw ether into Cardin Ward. Trace the corruption to its source in the void between worlds.

  • Aid Tal'il Amhenti  -84, 43, -230 - complete Saving Apprentice Phophar, Gehein Some, Lose Some, Soldiers in the Ether and Tourbillion Interruption (all 94).
  • Help K'rin Valdim  -67, 45, -215 - complete Valdim's Grand Plan, Desired Siphon Components and Well Worth the Troubles (all 94).
  • Return to Firiona Vie, then enter A Nether Space at the inner base of the Wizard Spires near  65, 36, -337 and kill Quozz.
  • Return to Drinal's Steward.

Reward: coin & AA xp.

07
Rock of Eternity (Advanced Solo)

Shades of Drinal: Devoted Knowledge

Start: Drinal's Steward

To understand how a god ascends - and how one might be unmade - you study the faithful of the dead and craft a Relic of Fate from living mud drawn out of eternity itself.

  • Study with Venox Tarkog - complete Convenient Conversion and Religious Studies (both 95).
  • Help Deema Mertshak - complete Mertshak's Search for a Bite, Lujien, not Lycan and Littlepaw's Knowledge (all 95).
  • Consult Duskrender - complete Ascension of a God and Ascension Assistance (both 95) - then return to Venox Tarkog for Search of Scales (95).
  • Enter the Rock of Eternity  -261, 2, 381: kill all the Gehein, click the living mud  -183, -35, -3, and exit at  -4, -1, -4.
  • At the Blessed Kiln in Cardin Ward  -374, 13, 16 (the forge the Mender uses), craft the Relic of Fate:
    • Buy a Spark of Ether from Keiya Oakwood  -394, 16, 55; scribe the recipe found on the floor by the Mender; supply one Rough Turquoise (broker or harvest).
  • Return the Relic to Drinal's Steward  -722, -3, 20.

Light crafting + an instance. Clear the Rock of Eternity (Advanced Solo), then craft the Relic of Fate at the Blessed Kiln - stock a Rough Turquoise ahead of time so the chapter doesn't stall.

Reward: coin & AA xp.

08
Obol Plains · Dreary Coast

Shades of Drinal: Dashed Upon the Shore

Start: Drinal's Steward - take Wegadas's Woven Knowledge for the Wegadas and Madyl quests

The dreary coast is choked with corrupted growth and restless ethershades. Cleanse it, parley with what can be reasoned with, and cut down what cannot.

  • Help Wegadas - complete A Jagged Branch, Ethershade Parley, Augur Aggression, Druidic Cleansing and Rooted in Growth (all 95).
  • Aid Madyl D'Lareth - complete Unkempt Desires, Spiritual Guidance and Dreary Coast Guard (all 95).
  • Return to Drinal's Steward or a Whisper Column.

Reward: coin & AA xp.

09
The Dreadcutter (Advanced Solo)

Shades of Drinal: Dreadcutter at World's End

Start: Drinal's Steward or a Whisper Column

A ghost-ship rides the edge of the world, its captain hoarding a secret you need. Board her, take the helm-room key, and pry loose what the dead still guard.

  • Enter The Dreadcutter (Advanced Solo) and make your way to the boss - kill Captain Goldjaw.
  • Use the looted key to open the chest in the boss's room  -13, 34, -102.
  • Go down one flight, head west and turn right; click the tablet in the corner  10, 26, -93.
    • Optional: if you have the moxie, kill Tempest, click the column, then kill Zordakalicus.
  • Hail Firiona Vie at the docks, then return to Drinal's Steward.

Instance gate. The Dreadcutter is an Advanced-Solo zone; Captain Goldjaw must fall before you can finish. The Tempest / Zordakalicus side-fights are optional.

Reward: coin & AA xp - sets up the final confrontation.

10
Harrow's End · Deathtoll TowerFinale

Shades of Drinal: Fate's Crusade

Start: Drinal's Steward or a Whisper Column - ask to be sent to the god's maw

The crusade ends at the foot of a god. Drinal, lord of the dead, waits atop the Deathtoll Tower - and the dead themselves will lend you the weapon to humble him.

  • Ask Drinal's Steward to send you to the god's maw; click the maw to break the relic and receive a Silver Scroll of Entrance.
  • Travel to Harrow's End  442, 31, 524 and enter Harrow's End: The Deathtoll Tower.
  • Make your way to Oligar of the Dead across from the entrance (sneak works) and hire him as your temporary mercenary - you need him for the script above.
  • Use the portal that appears where you found Oligar to reach Drinal.
  • Let the mercenary beat Drinal down to 90% - then use the Soul Skiver on him. (A red charm looted in CoE Advanced-Solo zones strips 30% instantly, if you have one. Don't rip aggro before 90%.)
  • After the Soul Skiver lands the fight ends; hail Drinal, take the portal beside him, and return to Drinal's Steward.

Solo "god fight." Harrow's End: The Deathtoll Tower is a solo instance available only during this line, but Drinal reads as an epic target - the gehein mercenary Oligar does the heavy lifting; your job is to survive to 90% and trigger the Soul Skiver. Keep any dungeon healing-stones handy.

Reward: coin, status, the title Mortal Champion, and your class-specific Steward's cloak of Eternity (Shroud / Cape / Mantle / Cloak) - plus full Chains of Eternity instance access, the Obol druid ring, and a Drinal's Steward faction merchant for Obol gear.

Up next: with the Ethernere conquered and your Steward now a faction vendor, you are set for the Chains of Eternity Advanced-Solo and group instances - and the road on toward Tears of Veeshan.