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| These little references or trivia
tidbits have been submitted by other MM7 fans. If you spot any little
trivia items in the game please submit them to me via
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| When characters are hit, they say either: "it's just a scratch" or "it's just a flesh wound". That is exactly what the black knight in Monty Pythons "Quest for the Holy Grail" says after one of his arms and one of his legs are cut off.
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| The dragon familiar says, "Growf!" Growf is a nap dragon from "What's New with Phil and Dixie" by Phil Foglio.
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| "Lenord Skinner" (Harmondale, master disarm teacher) is a reference to the musical group "Lynyrd Skynyrd". -
Versenwald |
| In Stone City, when you leave the temple, they say "Be careful
out there." Could this be a reference to the closing phrase used
on Hill Street Blues. (Old Chicago-based cop show series?) -
IThink2 |
| Bracada and Celeste: The guildmasters of the Light guilds are called Lews and Therin; this is a reference to the Kinslayer in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time. - Paul |
| Grognard the goblin (Harmondale): The goblin chief with the signal fires and the semi-useful cutlass is named after a French word meaning "grumbler". The "Grognards" were the veterans of Napoleon's army. They had been in enough battles to give them the right to grumble now and then, even with higher officers present. Nowadays, "grognard" is also a name that wargaming veterans use to describe themselves! - Øystein |
| The Land of the Giants - form THORGAL [Rosinski - Van Hamme] series: after war beetwen gods and giants the world was divided to three parts Asgard - land of gods, Midgard - land of the middle where humans live, and the Land of the Giants where all giants where moved after the final battle Ragna Rokkr [Twilight of Gods]. Since then gods couldn't go to the Land of the Gigants. Only residents of Midgard can make the trip. Thorgal had to go there to retrieve the artifact, the holy bracelet of Odin 'Draupnir' , to prove that he was the right man to bear their name and become free. - SZUWAKS |
| Bracada desert : (In French at least) aBRACADAbra is a common word that wizards, whitches, and more often, children, are supposed to say when casting a spell. - Aykavil |
| In the Tularean Forest, Schmendrick the Alchemist (Also briefly mentioned in the Golem quest) is based on a character of the same name in Peter S. Beagle's novel, The Last Unicorn (later made into an animated feature by Ralph Bakshi) - Fiona Firehair |
| The name "Barrow Downs" and in fact, that area (the interconnected barrows filled with undead and treasure laying arround) comes strait out of The Fellowship of the Ring (first book in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy). - Spyder |
| Agatha Putnam (Expert learning) - there is a math competition in USA between college students called Putnam examination, a variation of Math Olimpiade in other countries. - Vadim |
| As you enter stables in Bracada Desert, you hear "Where do you want to go today?". It is taken from well-known Microsoft advertisement. - Rze¼nik |
| It seems that NWC gives another nod to Star Trek in MM7 with Robert the Wise, who directed Star Trek: The Motion Picture - DumB |
| A nod to Micro$oft (specifically, Windoze® :þ) with the Bracada stablemaster who says "where do you want to go today? - DumB |
| Crag the Hack was the name of the first default character in the original Might and Magic. - Baumer |
| Tularean Forest - Garret Dotes may be a nod to Glen Cook's fantasy private investigator Garrett, in the series that starts with SWEET SILVER BLUES. - Mark Reichert (additional info: In the series, a friend of Garrett's is Morley Dotes. That's probably where the last name comes from. - BJS) |
| Xavier Bremen - Bremen was the name of one of the druids in Terry Brooks "Shanarra" books - Peter2 |
| Capt. Halsey of the Sea Sprite(?). I believe that to be a reference to Admiral Halsey. Best movie reference for that is The Hunt for Red October in the meeting between the 2 sub crews aboard the Red October. - Keirian |
| In various temples as you leave, they say to you, "Walk in the light," which is a referance to the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. In the book the phrase is used much like "May the Force be with you," is used in Star Wars, a departing message. - Nine |
| JVC Corral in Harmondale for our creater naturally. - Nanc |
| The Chimney Sweep NPC (+20 Luck) is a reference to the Mary Poppins character played by Dick Van Dyke. In one of his songs, the line goes, "Chim chiminy chim chim chiree, a sweep is as lucky, as lucky can be. - Sean Casey |
| Speaker For the Dead is straight out of Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card - Old Dude |
| Master of learning in Nighon Dorothy Senjak is a nod to another Glen Cook character. Dorotea Senjak is the "real" name of the Lady, a character in the "Black Company" series. - Death Monger |
| The voice of the Item Shop clerk is none other than Eric Idle from Monty Python fame - Soulcutter |
| Bracada Desert: The bad golem head, "Abbey Normal", which is the name given to the head stolen from the morgue by Marty Feldman as Igor in Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein". - Steve Sutton |
| Avlee: The Grandmaster of Meditation may be an homage to ole Grasshopper himself, Kwai Chang Caine, the main character of the 70's TV series Kung Fu. - Mark Reichert |
| In Body Building, Kelli Hollyfield, the expert trainer in the Bracada desert, and Evander, the Grandmaster of Body Building in Nighon, are both obviously nods to Evandar Holyfield, that most "body built" of boxers. - Mark Reichert |
| The grandmaster of Mind magic (I think he's in Tatalia) is called Xavier Bremen, Xavier is the leader of the X-Men that can read other people minds, entering their soul. - Sha'iich Desert Twister |
| The Elf king, Elrond. Elrond is a character from JRR Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings". - Geir Øveraas |
| Correction - The Lincoln: The Lincoln is actually named after the Lincoln a ship currently in the U.S. Naval fleet. - Paul from NWC |
| Tatalia: Wacko - A contest winner. - Flamestryke |
| NWC Dungeon: Lord Roberts, contest winner & high standing member of the 3DO Community. - Flamestryke |
| Erathia: Guthwulf - The 3DO Webmaster. - Flamestryke |
| Deyja, Harli's Place: Harli Quinn = Harlequin. Harlequin is a European fairy tale character with colourful clothes. - Morten Øen |
| Deyja, Mogren Residence: Claes Mogren. An actual Swedish
name. No well know person is named by that name (AFAIK), though
there are people (at least one) in Sweden named Claes Mogren. -
Morten Øen Any one know if this was one of the contest winners to get your name in the game? |
| Erathia: The Grandmaster of Unarmed Combat's name is simply Norris, obviously a reference to Chuck Norris. The pic even looks like him! - Hansone2 |
| Erathia: There is a Wain Manor (Wayne Manor, Batman), where you find Kenneth Wain, the Dodging Grandmaster. Could this guy have been one of Bruce Wayne's ancestors? - Hansone2 |
| One of the disarm trainers (GM) is named (in part) Silk, who happens to be a spy/thief character from the Belgariad, a series of novels by author David Eddings. - Michael M. Aein |
| Deyja. The word Deyja is Icelandic and means "to die" or "death". - Geir Øveraas |
| Celeste: Sir Caneghem is a reference to New World's game creator Jon Caneghem who lead the development of MM7. - Morten Øen |
| Celeste is the French adjective for celestial; heavenly body. - Gilles M. D'Aoust |
| Colony Zod: Xenofex is derived from the prefix xeno- meaning of foreign or alien origin. - Morten Øen |
| School of Sorcery: Thomas Grey seems to refer to JRR Tolkien's Gandalf the Grey. - Morten Øen |
| Red Dwarf Mines: The name of the mines can
have two different sources. The first is the Narnia-books of C.S. Lewis
where red dwarfs is a separate strain of dwarfs. The other, and may be
more likely, is a reference to the space soap parody "Red Dwarf". - Morten
Øen I would like to note here that the Red Dwarf Mines were also in the Clouds of Xeen by NWC. - Flamestryke |
| Bracada, Applebee Manor: Issaac Applebee seems to refer to Sir Isaac Newton and the falling apple. - Morten Øen |
| Stone City, Gizmo's: Gizmo is the friendly gremlin in "Gremlins". - Morten Øen |
| Stone City, Thorinson Residence: Trip Thorinson is an annotation to JRR Tolkien, The Hobbit. Thorin Oakenshield persuaded Bilbo to go with him on his quest (his trip) "there and back again". - Morten Øen |
| Harmondale, Arbiter: The first arbiter, judge Grey, seems to indicate neutrality since grey is between black and white. - Morten Øen |
| Harmondale, Chadric's House: Turgon Woodsplitter has got his name from Silmarilion of JRR Tolkien, where Turgon is the king of the hidden city of Gondolin. - Morten Øen |
| Erathia, Quixote Residence: Sir Quixote is of course a rewriting of Servantes' character Don Quixote from the novel by the same name. (Don is the Spanish for Sir.) The novel Don Quixote is usually recognised as the first novel ever in the modern meaning of the word. - Morten Øen |
| Erathia, Sewers: William Lasker; 'lascar' is French for something close to rogue. A burly one. - Gilles M. D'Aoust |
| Deyja, Falk Residence: Daedalus Falk is named after the mythical old Greek inventor of sculptures Daedalus. (He built the Minoean Labyrinth, but was trapped in it not to reveal it's secret. He fled with his son Icarus using wings he made. Icarus flied to near the sun and scorched he fell in the sea and drowned.) Daedalus is an old Greek word meaning carved image. - Morten Øen |
| Deyja, William Setag's Tower: William Setag, Villain. Setag is Gates backwards: William (Bill) Setag. - Morten Øen |
| Tularean Forest, Miyon's Home: Miyon the Quick seems to be a wordplay on the fast elementary particles myons (or muons). - Morten Øen |
| Harmondale: Thomas Moore in Harmondale is a reference to Sir Thomas Moore, author of "Utopia". - Tony |