Chronomages view the past as very wibbly-wobbly and have this distressing tendency to fling adventurers into the past with wild abandon. Welcome to the 2026 Chronoportal Phenomenon, where players celebrate the 27th anniversary of the original EverQuest by revisiting special events from EQ's past. This event will run from 12:01 a.m. Pacific on March 5 through 11:59 p.m. on March 16, 2023. After the event is completed the merchants will move from the Chronoweave instance to Antonica and the Commonlands from March 18 through March 30, 2026.

Highlights

The event this year will include all the returning buyables, collections, chronportal instances, the overseer series, as well as new buyables and and updated achievement. The live servers will also get a new painting in the Southern Desert of Ro Public Quest (PQ) as well as level-appropriate drops for level 135 players. The special rule servers will have the following content:

• Zarrakon, Varsoon & Kael Drakkel - The entire event is active, with the exception of Beyond the Shimmering Portal, Miragul's Madness, and the Fabled zones, due to their level.

New Purchased Items

Glowing purple portals can be found in Myrist, the Coliseum of Valor, Antonica, The Commonlands, Enchanted Lands, Thundering Steppes, Steamfont Mountains, Lavastorm, Sinking Sands, Feerrott, and Moors of Ykesha that lead to the Chronoweave instance. There you will find Distun Delki selling various returning items for the Ancient Platinum Coin currency, while his brother Erben Delki has now arrived selling only the newest of the new items. The following new items will be sold on Erben for 1 Ancient Platinum Coin each.

A Thulian Creature Study	Isle Goblin Torch	Molkor Tideweaver Plushie*
Reanimated Hand Plushie	Sailing Another Reality	Sand Mummy Illusion (5)
Thyr Brazier	Thyr Cage, Closed	Thyr Cage, Open
Vision of the Rainkeeper

*Will appear at the start of the event as Molkar Tideweaver Plushie, and is expected to receive a typo fix to be a Molkor as time permits.New Rewards

The public quest "Camping the AC" that is located from "Portal to the Past: Southern Desert of Ro" has had a new reward added to it. In addition to the paintings available in years with this event, a new paiting has been added to the painting options:

Depths of Darkhallow

Plumes!

There are also new plumes for the plume event slot that can be earned from a 2026 Chronoportals achievement as well as 2 new recipe books for the basic tier of plumes.

The books a sold on Erben, for 1 ancient platinum coin apiece and require the completion of the above achievement to unlock purchase.

Quest Tracker

Do you have too many alts? Need to keep track of which one needs what for the achievement? Casdoe of Maj'Dul has updated her quest trackers for 2026 - Chronoportals quest tracker in XLS form and the PDF version.