Since you described it's location in more detail, that seems very familiar to me now. I can't remember if I got to that NPC or not, but remember having trouble, I think back in the day, with my first Iks War toon. Back then, I tried to talk to every NPC. Lol, me trying to talk to every NPC I ran into seems very ironic, since, I'm really very quiet, and rarely talk in real life :D Also, I was thinking that NPC was in East Cabilis in the Shaman guild (#1 on the following map: http://www.eqmacwiki.com/eqatlas/ecabilismap.html )
If I'm not thinking of Return to Castle Wolfenstein, I seem to remember with levi, a way I thought, or may have gotten to him, from a building outside and floating over. But again, that could of been RtCW, which had quite few hidden enemies, with no real (hallway, steps, etc.) way to get to them, but jumping from roof to roof and so on, you could.
If I get back into game soon, I'll go take a look at West Cabilis again :)
EDIT: I thought you specifically mentioned, West Cabilis, but I see I got that from the Elder Patriarch Ixthal bestiary page, which lists him as being West Cabilis, but from your description, it seems like he is in East Cabilis.
Yther Ore.
Edited, Dec 16th 2011 7:48am by Yther
Edited, Dec 16th 2011 9:08am by Yther