EverQuest's 21st expansion, The Darkened Sea, was released today for Free-to-Play members. The Standard Edition costs $39.99, and the Collector's Edition with several in-game bonus items costs $89.99.

On a mission to restore balance to Norrath, heroine Firiona Vie travels to Katta Castrum, a city in the Buried Sea, to heal the Combine Emperor, Tsaph Katta. However, a corrupt splinter faction of the Combine, along with the treacherous Lanys T'vyl, attacks the city and kidnaps the Combine ruler. It is up to the heroes of Norrath to track down Lanys and her compatriots, rescue the Emperor and put an end to whatever designs Lanys has planned for Norrath.

Check out our expansion preview and wiki guides:

• The Darkened Sea Overview
• Progression & Task Listing
• Group & Raid Armor
• Raiding in The Darkened Sea
• The Darkened Sea Lore

I would say something cliché about spooky things and Halloween, but seriously, I got nothing. So instead let's just sit back and enjoy the first seven of fourteen new trailers coming your way this week!

Upon us is EverQuest's 21st expansion, The Darkened Sea, set to launch tomorrow for All Access members. You'll be able to buy it beginning at 7:30 A.M. Pacific Time / 10:30 A.M. Eastern Time. (The expansion becomes available on November 11, 2014, for Free-to-Play members.)

While you're waiting for servers to come back up (expected around 12:00 P.M. Pacific Time / 3:00 P.M. Eastern Time), you can check out the game update notes, our expansion preview, and our wiki guides:

• The Darkened Sea Overview
• Progression & Task Listing
• Group & Raid Armor
• Raiding in The Darkened Sea
• The Darkened Sea Lore

You may also be interested in this topic on the EQ Forums (posted this evening by Phathom) regarding developer thoughts about how they will handle heroic adventure lockouts (the original plan for which was not received particularly well).

It's likely that the patch will decommission Lucy's Item Collector for a period of time. We'll have that back up and running again as soon as possible, and then items will start piling into the database (many have already have found their way into the database - an update to that effect will be posted some time Tuesday).

As always, if you have any information you'd like to contribute to the site here, just leave a comment on one of the items, quests, NPC, zone pages, etc. or drop us a line at eqteam@allakhazam.com, and we'll get it updated.

Thank you, happy hunting, and try to avoid being eaten by the dinosaur contingent.

SOE Live kicked off its opening ceremony last night, and while the keynotes are still to come this afternoon, we have some great information on the upcoming expansions and more for EverQuest and EverQuest II!