Game Update 100's Island of Zek Profiled

The  EverQuest II site has been updated with a look at the Island of Zek, a new location coming with the members-only Game Update 100. The island is divided into several new zones, each featuring its own quests, features and items. In the first of a series of lore-related articles, the team reveals the Scourge Wastes zone.

Ravaged by the horrors of war, the vast majority of the island of Zek has been unsuitable for habitation by anyone, ever since the Deathfist clan of orcs took control of the entirety of the island. They reduced the once-sprawling Jaggedpine Forest to a mere husk of its former glory, stripping much of the forest down to barren, charred earth, while pillaging the land deep below the surface through their ravaging mining operations. What little landscape remained lush and green was guarded by a band of woodland defenders known as the Green Hoods. Their numbers surged during the Age of Destiny, providing them the manpower necessary to begin striking back at the Deathfist Empire, but their successes would be short lived.

Game Update 100 is expected to launch on April 28th.

Read more on the EverQuest II site.