Editing The Elemental Cisterns (section)

== Summary ==
* August 17th 2002 - Portal to the [[Core of the Ice Cistern]] (restricted level 20 - 40) opens up in [[Qalaba'r]]
* August 24th 2002 - Portal to the [[Core of the Fire Cistern]] (restricted level 30 - 60) opens up in [[Stonehold]]
* August 31th 2002 - Portal to the [[Core of the Acid Cistern]] (restricted level 50 - 80) opens up in [[Ayan Baqur]]
* September 16th 2002 - Portals to the [[Core of the Lightning Cistern]] open up in [[Dryreach]].
* Four portals in total opened up successively, with different level restrictions: (Lightning Cistern Lower Core: 20-40, Lightning Cistern Mid Core: 30-60, Lightning Cistern High Core: 60-80), and a last one (80+), which could only be accessed if you were PK.
* Towns were also attacked by [[Crystal Lord Sovereign]]s and [[Elemental Cloud]]s around the time of these events.

Further reading:
* [[The Defense of the Cisterns]] - Turbine account of how the event played out on Thistledown, Harvestgain and Darktide when the crystals still stood.