The Plane of Sky

Endless dusk

The Plane of Sky is Veeshan’s realm, a vast open space of air, cloud and stars. Its sky is always in twilight and never becomes full night or day. From there you can watch the planets and moons of the Ro system move, and their motion defines the whole plane.

Islands and chains

Mortals can stand there only because the plane shows itself as a chain of huge floating islands of earth, with a few buildings made of unearthly materials that glisten in the red light of a dawn that never ends. Big steel chains hang beneath the islands. They seem to be decoration, but there are hints that they once meant something.

Where is Veeshan?

Many planar beings live there, all made by Veeshan’s will to serve her. But the Wurmqueen herself is not to be found. Her power is said to be too great for mortals to see and understand, and the rumour is that she lies in an endless sleep, her mind kept safe in the realm of dreams ruled by Morell-Thule.

Servants of the sky

Others served her there. Generation after generation of droag served and worshipped Veeshan in the Plane of Sky, and enforced the laws the dragons made to guide lesser beings. The djinn fared worse: the trickster Mudeef is accused of stealing vessels from the plane and using dark arts to imprison and abuse them.

A sky at war

Veeshan’s children claimed the sky by birthright, but they warred among themselves, dragon lord against dragon lord, and so many other powers were able to carve out their own domains. The Aurai’s Yazdani tribes, united under Queen Shabereh of the Four Winds, took the island of Zimara Breadth, prized for its ore and semiprecious stones, and held it for hundreds of years after she led them up a deadly trail to the top of the Strungstone Peaks, then called Veeshan’s Gaze. The wurms had languished there for ages before them, and a few “insignificant creatures” had claimed it for short breaths between, before being unseated in violent but doomed upheavals.

The Aurai were not impressed by the dragons. “Wurm against wurm. Kin fighting kin. Pathetic,” runs Sacred to the Aurai. If the dragons were made in Veeshan’s image, the writer says, it is no wonder she has stayed away so long.

Tests and trades

For EverQuest players, Sky was a place of class tests. Drakis Bloodcaster asks a necromancer whether they wish to be tested by Dugaas or Jzil. And the last anyone saw of Soulfire in EverQuest, developer Jindrack recalled in 2008, was a paladin handing it to Inte Akera in the Plane of Sky in exchange for the Blessing of Nobility.