EverQuest II · The Shadow Odyssey

The Ethernaut
Saga

A chronological, waypoint-by-waypoint field guide to TSO's signature line - from a downed ethership in the Moors of Ykesha to the Void anchors of Bazzul and Ferzhul.

Solo → Heroic (group) Level 80 (req. 75) Starts: Qeynos / Freeport 9 quests ~46 steps

Before You Begin

The opening two quests solo, but Chapters 2–8 are heroic and lean on TSO's instanced dungeons - line up a group before you commit.

Heroic & instance gating. Chapter 2 onward is Heroic. Chapter 5 alone sends you through seven separate group dungeons (Befallen, Najena, Veksar, Miragul's, Ravenscale, Lower Guk, Kor-sha) plus two Void instances. The two anchor-destruction steps (Obelisk of Ahkzul, Anchor of Bazzul) end with a 3-minute escape timer - dying or calling out resets the step. Chapter 7 is a timed kill quest. Chapter 8's finale runs through The Palace of Ferzhul.

The Signature Chain

Home city → Moors of Ykesha → the Void Pits → Brokenskull Rock → the Palace of Ferzhul
01
Qeynos / Freeport

Prologue: A Missive from the Queen · The Overlord's Command

Start: Rosalina Goodfallow, Qeynos 943, -25, 26 (good)  ·  Vimminy Crix, East Freeport docks -212, -56, 39 (evil). Solo.

Your ruler has heard of a strange flying vessel and its crew of "Ethernauts," and summons you to court before the expedition departs.

  • Good: go to the Qeynos Capitol District and enter Antonia Bayle's Chambers  488, 5, -19 (you must drop group to enter), then speak with Queen Antonia Bayle  18, 0, 55.
  • Evil: head to the Overlord's Plaza and take the portal to the Citadel  10, -20, 10 in the center of Freeport; enter The Overlord's Office and hail Lucan D'Lere.
  • Finish the audience to complete the Prologue and unlock Chapter 1.

Reward: coin & AA xp - opens the Ethernaut signature line.

02
Sinking Sands → Moors of Ykesha

Chapter 1: Come Sail Away

Start: Queen Antonia Bayle in Antonia Bayle's Chambers (good)  ·  Overlord Lucan D'Lere in The Overlord's Office (evil). Solo.

  • Travel to The Skystrider Launch-Dock in The Sinking Sands and speak with Professor Fondfate  -1355, -167, -752 - he hands you The Collected Tales of the Ethernauts.
  • Take The Skystrider airship (or a Mariner's Bell) to the Dropship Landing Zone in the Moors of Ykesha and speak with Professor Fondfate again on arrival  1740, 451, 846.
  • Seek out the missing clockwork, z-bot XGO, in the lizardman camp outside U.J.L. 1.0  1149, 392, 860.
    • Good: hail Shaman Zaz'i'zaz for the next quest.
    • Evil: first kill a group of Thalz'Iz'Zaz lizardmen at the camp, then speak with Shaman Zaz'i'zaz (who is none too pleased).

Reward: coin & AA xp.

03
Moors → Obelisk of Ahkzul

Chapter 2: The Gods Must Be Crazy

Start: Shaman Zaz'i'zaz in the Thalz'Iz'Zaz Area  1150, 392, 865. Heroic.

Earn the lizardfolk's regard by recovering the clockwork's last missing piece - a trail that leads straight into the Void.

  • Kill Brokenskull pirates  988, 386, 1058 until you loot a Clockwork Transmission Regulator.
  • Hail z-bot XGO  1149, 392, 860.
  • Approach the entrance to the Obelisk of Ahkzul  855, 508, 1831 for the update - do not zone in yet (you can be pulled in remotely later).
  • Report to Professor Fondfate at the Dropship Landing Zone  1740, 451, 846.
  • Enter the Obelisk of Ahkzul and slay the final named, Executor Vark - awards a Staff of Theer.
  • Return to Professor Fondfate at the Dropship Landing Zone.

Reward: Staff of Theer (Fabled) · coin · status · AA xp.

04
Moors of Ykesha · Firmroot Moot

Chapter 3: Veilbreaker Down

Start: Professor Fondfate at the Dropship Landing Zone. Heroic.

Fondfate hasn't reported back from the ruins. The crew of the downed ethership Veilbreaker fears the worst.

  • Find Firmroot Moot in the Moors of Ykesha and hail Captain Cogglespot  81, -88, -438.
  • Locate Professor Fondfate in the Thullosian ruins  365, 20, 148 - two linked level-80 ^^ heroics ambush you. (Approach carefully to spawn only one; grab the location update before fighting if they are already up.)
  • Slay Fondfate's captors.
  • Return to Firmroot Moot and speak with Professor Fondfate  74, -86, -434.
  • Speak with The Great Morsley beside him to end the quest and receive the next.

Reward: coin · status · AA xp.

05
Obelisk of Lost Souls

Chapter 4: History Repeating

Start: The Great Morsley in Firmroot Moot. Heroic · needs Summoning the Creator done.

Tapestries depicting the Ethernauts have surfaced - proof the crew's tale stretches back further than anyone guessed.

  • Go to East Freeport and speak to Ignacius Fallon  -62, -38, 30.
  • Enter The Obelisk of Lost Souls and reach the Keeper of Nihility's room on the 2nd level  47, 566, 453.
    • Walk up to each Ethernaut tapestry to identify it - the Claymore (Bayle), Mandolin (Eylee), Coverall (Fiddlewiz), Fork (Kruzz), Mage Robe (Asharae), Simple Robe (Kaltuk) and Shield (Nurgg). Two slow counter-clockwise laps touching every wall will update them.
    • Find the blank spot behind the broken pillar near the entrance door  50, 568, 502 where a tapestry is missing.
  • Return to Ignacius Fallon in East Freeport.
  • Break into the Nasin home: run the left side of 3 Compassion Road in North Freeport  -150, -58, -226 to zone into the Library, kill the 83^^^ guard, and take down the two tapestries inside.
  • Return to the Obelisk's 2nd level and click a tapestry to hang the recovered pair.
  • Return to The Great Morsley at Firmroot Moot.

Reward: coin · AA xp.

06
TSO Dungeons → The Void

Chapter 5: Breaking the Chains

Start: The Great Morsley in Firmroot Moot. Heroic · the dungeon crawl of the line.

The Staff of Theer is broken into seven runes, scattered across the dungeons of the Shadow Odyssey. Reforge it, then turn it on the Void anchors themselves.

  • Gather the seven missing runes from across TSO's group dungeons:
    • Befallen: Necrotic Asylum - from the last boss.
    • Najena's Hollow Tower - a box in the final boss room  -82, -349, 98.
    • Veksar: The Sunken Theater - from Lord Sasil.
    • Miragul's Phylactery: The Crucible - a box in the last boss room  -1, 50, 206.
    • Ravenscale Repository - from T'Lon the Powermonger (Mistmoore's rune).
    • The Ruins of Guk: The Lower Corridors - from Hoptor Thagglor, the Ghoul Lord.
    • Emperor Atrebe's Laboratory: Kor-sha - a box in the last boss room  -255, -58, -182.
  • Return to Firmroot Moot and talk to The Great Morsley, who reforges a Staff of Theer and sends you to the anchors.
  • In the Obelisk of Ahkzul, examine the anchor in the last room, kill Executor Vark to turn it hostile, then equip the Staff of Theer and destroy it.
  • In the Anchor of Bazzul (lower Moors), examine the anchor in the final room, kill Executor Zynos, then destroy the anchor with the staff. (At L100+ disable auto-attack so you don't kill the anchor before using the staff.)
  • Return to Morsley at Firmroot Moot.

Escape timer. Each destroyed anchor starts a 3-minute countdown - you must run back out through the zone entrance. Dying or calling out resets the whole step.

Reward: coin. (Tip: while in Kor-sha you can harvest The Name of Fear for the Greenmist line.)

07
Brokenskull Rock

Chapter 6: The Guns of Brokenskull

Start: The Great Morsley in Firmroot Moot. Heroic.

Morsley's plan: light the fuse on a war between the Ykeshans and the Brokenskull pirates - starting with the legendary Grozmok Stone.

  • Speak with Captain Lip Marrsquire about the Grozmok Stone  115, -88, -500; he sends you to assist Gurlig Valorheart  118, -88, -475.
  • Complete Gurlig's three sub-quests - Heroes Honored, Legacy of the Curse and The Stone of Legend.
  • Return to Lip Marrsquire, then take the Grozmok Stone from the clickable rock by Gurlig  116, -88, -479.
  • Climb to the top of Brokenskull Rock and kill Captain Wavesmasher  -1762, -966, 2642.
  • In any order: place the Grozmok Stone on the platform beside the captain, then destroy the four catapults  -1554, -1007, 2739 -1762, -1019, 2488 -1737, -975, 2558 -1879, -1094, 2729.
  • Return to Professor Fondfate at Firmroot Moot.

Heads up: Fondfate immediately offers Chapter 7, which is timed the moment you accept it. Decline (or delete it) until you are ready to start.

Reward: coin.

08
Moors of Ykesha · Timed

Chapter 7: The Drums of War

Start: The Great Morsley in Firmroot Moot. Heroic · timed (30 min).

War is here. Cut the Brokenskull defenders down before they can rally.

  • Within 30 minutes, kill groups of Brokenskull defenders: 12 groups if good-aligned, 10 groups if evil-aligned.
    • Groups respawn roughly every 4 minutes near the Anchor of Bazzul  48, -79, 235 -136, -63, 127 -211, -86, -125 -112, -87, -51, with more in the lower Moors around Gunthak's Shanty.
    • Each spawned group is already in combat - wait for them to settle before you pull.
  • Return to Professor Fondfate in Firmroot Moot.
  • (Evil only) Report back to the Overlord in The Overlord's Office  -5, -20, 24.

Reward: coin.

09
The Palace of FerzhulFinale

Chapter 8: Aloha, Ethernauts

Start: Professor Fondfate in Firmroot Moot  1740, 451, 846. Heroic finale.

The Veilbreaker's last secret waits in the Palace of Ferzhul, where a name out of Norrath's darkest history has been pulling the strings all along.

  • Enter The Palace of Ferzhul  -1773, -967, 2667 and kill the first three named encounters to spawn the Ethernaut NPCs.
  • Return to Transcension Hall and complete the dialogue with the NPC Bayle for an update.
  • Defeat Valdoartus Varsoon.
  • Return to Transcension Hall once more - approach the center of the room for an auto-update.
  • Speak with Professor Fondfate at Firmroot Moot.
  • He sends you home to Antonia Bayle (good) or Lucan D'Lere (evil) to claim your fabled reward.

Reward: the Title: Hero of the Ethernauts, a fabled Ethernaut class weapon/item of your choice, plus an alignment cloak - Antonia's Cloak of the Exalted (good) or the Overlord's Cloak of the Formidable (evil).

Up next: with the Ethernaut saga closed, the Moors of Ykesha open up further through the Moors of Ykesha Timeline and the six new TSO Heritage Quests - and the Void Shard armor sets are the natural gear chase for a level-80 group.