Hi, I'm VortexUK.

I've been playing EverQuest on and off since the 90s , mostly as a templar healer (Menludiir on Varsoon/Kaladim - Shout out to the Splitpaw crew from live), currently with Exordium. The site started as a parse-storage tool for my own raid and grew from there.

I build and maintain EQ2 Lexicon — a free, open-source companion site for raiders on EverQuest II's Time-Locked Expansion (TLE) servers (Varsoon and Wuoshi).

The site bundles the boring-but-essential infrastructure that small MMO communities usually have to glue together from spreadsheets and Discord bots:

• Parse uploads via a custom ACT plugin — every encounter you finish lands on the site automatically, attributed to your character and guild.
• Character, guild, and item lookups backed by the Daybreak Census API with persistent caching so the site stays fast even when Census is having a bad day.
• Raid strategies — a wiki-style markdown database with revision history, seeded from EQ2i and editable by trusted contributors.
• ACT trigger packs for raid encounters, exportable to ACT in one click.

Everything is 100% free with no feature gating, and the code is open source.

Sponsorships cover real running costs (Railway hosting, R2 backup storage, the domain, monitoring) plus a coffee budget that helps justify the late-night feature pushes. If the site has ever saved you or your raid time, a sponsorship is a way of saying please keep this running.

Supporters get a 👑 badge next to their name across the site. That's the entire perk by design — the site's value comes from being equally useful to everyone, so no features will ever be paywalled.