Easter Eggs

References

• In the description of Ghostbane at says "Who you gonna call?". This is a reference to the film Ghostbusters.
• In the description of the Iron and Steel Greataxe at says "Like the song says: careful with that axe". This is a reference to the song Careful with that axe, Eugene by Pink Floyd.
• In the book at the entrance to the Traitors area of The Mausoleum, there is a text passage reading "War, War never changes". This is a reference to the Fallout series.
• One of the password options for opening the door to the Tower of Tremadan is "Say Mellon". This is a reference to the book or film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
• One of the proposed character names during the initial dialogue of The World is a Stage in New Anthur is "I am the Pineapple Man!". This is a reference to the comic Pineapple Man.

Character Naming

• Many characters in New Garand have their names borrowed from the band Pink Floyd, most notably Trader Pink and Armorer Floyd, but also Barret, Gilmour, Sir Andrew Mason, Waters, and Captain Wright, which refer to the band members Syd Barrett, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, and Richard Wright, respectively.
• Likewise, the names of Spice Trader Jethro and Alchemist Tull hint at the band Jethro Tull.
• Another inspiration seems to have been the band Camel. Not only lent their founder Andrew Latimer his name to Latimer, but there are also references in the quest Spicing things up. The family name of Fritha Rhayader appears as a song in their album The Snow Goose, which itself is referenced in the description of the Rhayader Medallion, "a curious and ancient jewel, with the emblem of a white goose extending its wings". Thanks to Asherun Storba for pointing out these insights into the developers taste in music.
• Many characters in New Anthur have their names borrowed from Shakespeare's plays:
  • Captain Guildenstern, Laertes, Trader Ophelia, Polonius, and Trader Rosencrantz from Hamlet,
  • Captain Demetrius and Hermia from A Midsummer Night's Dream,
  • Cordelia from King Lear,
  • Banquo from Macbeth.