For anyone interested in the "History of Everquest" this might be a good read for you. It's the (VERY) old EQ newsletter and can still be found on the Wayback machine. Anything prior to Issue #65 ish is from the Beta phases and includes many articles written by the Developers themselves, including Aradune.
http://web.archive.org/web/199812012...simplenet.com/
*cross posted on the P99 Discord, hope that's ok?