Built from whole sources
Most lore wikis hand you a paragraph some editor wrote, and bury the sources in a footnote — if they cite them at all. This library inverts that. The unit here is the whole source text: an in-game book, an official EverQuest posting, a passage from the 1999 manual, a god's own description. You read what Verant wrote, not a summary of it.
A topic page — a race, a god, a zone, an event — is not an article. It is a short factual gloss, then the source texts that bear on the subject, gathered and ranked: the most central, most authoritative reading leads; the rest follow, each a click from its full source and complete provenance.
Four tiers of authority
Every text is graded by how close it sits to the source. A page always leads with the most authoritative text it has.
The original Verant / SOE / Daybreak text — an in-game book, official post, or manual.
A verbatim copy of an official primary text, preserved on a wiki or archive.
A fan-written encyclopedia article synthesizing sources. Useful overview, lower authority.
Player-authored discussion or notes.
Two canons, never blurred
EverQuest (1999) and EverQuest II (2004) tell different versions of Norrath's history — the second openly retcons the first. Every text carries its canon, shown as a pill (EQ1 EQ2), and a topic page lets you filter by it. An EQ2 detail is never quietly presented as a 1999 fact.
One canonical copy, endlessly cross-linked
The same book is mirrored on a dozen fan sites; the library keeps one canonical copy and records the rest as where-you-can-also-read-it. And because every text is tagged to the topics it touches, the world links itself: follow any name to descend into it. The connections you see between pages are overlaps in the source material itself — not an editor's guesses.