This is one of my greatest memories of a paladin: killing Miragul, for the Fiery Avenger.
So my guild leader set up a time where the whole guild (this was overkill, but I insisted) ported and walked all the way to Everfrost, entered that little crack in the iced over river, and got into Miragul's caves. For a time when there wasn't such a thing as a raid window, and people that had... difficulty finding their away around, this was a time consuming task. So where was I during all this? Right in front of the caves, waiting for everybody like a smart responsible person? No, I was in Freeport by myself - give me a break, I was a teenager. I realized people were headed there, and I started running without thinking of asking for a port. My guild leader, rightfully so, sent me a tell saying if you want the guild to help you on something like this, you really should be responsible and be there on time. Well, he said something like that. So I ran, again without thinking of ports, with just my jboots, from Freeport to Everfrost. Luckily, I knew the game map better than my own neighborhood. While they were waiting for me, they killed the Priest of Discord in Halas to keep people from bailing. This was when he dropped his robe and staff.
I finally got there, and 40+ people assembled in the caves, after ressing a couple that drowned in the river despite instructions to have an enduring breath item or spell cast on them. Someone tracks the lich, which you need to charm and hand his phylactery to, so he becomes alive again - then you kill him. He drops his head and his robe. All of these 40 people were there to help just me get one of the very first fiery avengers on The Rathe. I was sick to my stomach, because Miragul wore a decent robe that had a beautiful color tint to it - mind you, this was way, way before dyes were implemented. I was worried sick someone would loot the robe - and even though it was a caster item, you need both the robe and head to finish the quest. So I am repeating, do not loot the robe, do not loot the robe! I lost the screenshots, but I did use the internet wayback machine to recover some a while ago. I got a couple good screenshots of the Miragul kill (taken by someone else,) but unfortunately the screenshots of me in Plane of Sky, being given the Fiery Avenger, were only saved by that site in a pitiful 150x133 resolution.
Still, it was a wonderful experience. Having a weapon with particle effects at the time was limited to just paladins with the Fiery Avenger and Soulfire and it was such an honor to get it. Not to mention the weapon was really good. The guild that helped me receive it was Clan Icewind on The Rathe, who later reformed as Myth Lords during the Luclin? era. I miss everybody I played with during that time and that period of my life is so highly cherished to me, to this day. If anybody from those ancient times are still around, thank you.
Here are a few images. Two from the Miragul kill, you can see my extreme anxiousness about someone looting the robe in the text. The other two are horribly small resolution pictures that I could only recover from the internet wayback machine, probably compressed by them to save space. If you look closely, you can see a paladin in blue valorium, just wielding his brand new Fiery Avenger, with some very close friends, and of course the quest giver, Inte Akera, in the Windmill on Pegasus Isle in Plane of Sky. Sadly these aren't my own personal screenshots since they have been lost due to time.
On the way to Miragul! Why does Halffoot have only four spells memmed?
Miragul's dead, I'm waiting for the time until I can loot the robe since my group didn't get the exp for him. Check the text for how nervous I was.
Awesome screenshots of being handed the Fiery Avenger, that were sadly compressed when I recovered them.
Thanks for reading!
edit: Oh yeah, Xegony.Edrick since the thread asks for that, but you already know that Sir Rorce.
