New to 1999 - Want to do a Ogre Shaman / Iksar Monk duo

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Hi,

Me and my brother just found out about project 1999 after being off EQ since well Velious. We've decided to do a classic shaman / monk duo but the problem is he wants to be an Iksar Monk and I want to be an Ogre Shaman. The difficulty is we'd like to play together from level 1 ideally which is difficult given our factions and starting zones.

The solution I came up with is that I would get my Ogre monk to Cabalis somehow and then he'd handle all the vendor stuff until some level later when we'd move on and start trying to fix our faction in the good cities.

So my question is, is it even possible to get a level 1 Ogre to Cabalis and if yes what's the best route to take?