Just how much of a "big deal" was Fires of Heaven back in the day?

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FoH was top guild on Veeshan, and with Afterlife, Legacy of Steel, Realm of Insanity and Kreiger one of the top guilds on any server.

Furor Planedefiler was GL of FoH, and was the first 50 as his rogue Kalaran (who got banned). He was also the first warrior to get his epic done (and iirc there were some stats or ratio or something he didn't like about it that SOE actually changed). He may have been loud, but he usually backed up what he said/griped about. Sites like Lum the Mad was standard fare for covering all the EQ drama back in the day, I wonder if some of the posts about Furor are still available on wayback...

Fires of Heaven was the name of the 4th book in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, where the name came from. In fact, there were a LOT of guild and player names lifted/adapted from those books (how many variations of Rand, Perrin and Lan can you invent), along with from the usual suspects like Lord of the Rings, D&D, etc.