The EverQuest series of lore is what makes these games so great so when some lore is shared officially, it's always a good read. Game Designer missdoomcookie shares this story:

From the pen of Eylee Zephyrswell --

The last of all our destinations - save the bastion of the invasion, the first location we failed to save, Innothule Swamp - would be the continent of Kunark. The iksar might have once been powerful, if not entirely trustworthy, allies, but they had been reduced to small villages of savage jungle dwellers. Even so, we tried to approach them, but our efforts were met with spearheads in response. We learned to travel by night, as silently as possible, heading as directly as we could to where we found the rifts. Though we were refused entry to Chardok, an envoy of the sarnak heard our story and said the sarnak would not be letting any invaders into their lands.

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