Conan the Barbarian Easter egg

[Thorin Oakshield 260]

I'm a bit surprised this one wasn't at the Wiki. I don't know if no-one has seen it before, or it has been removed some way or another.

 

Anyway...

 

In the Orc-region is a cave where you can find a skeleton sitting at a throne, while a sword is standingat the right side of the skeleton.

 

This is obviously a reference to the movie Conan the Barbarian, where Conan ends up in a similar situation after escaping his slavery.

 

The cave is found due west of the Orcish tent where you can pick up the "spider-quest" and east by north east of the Octogalamus. There's a small ridge of land between the tent and the cave entrance.

 

 

Thorin

[Thorin Oakshield 260]

On second thoughts;

it could be possible the image is an easter egg about the end of the movie, where Conan sits at his throne, his head resting at his hand and a sword by his side.

 

At least here's a screenshot to make up your mind.

 

Thorin

[Thorin Oakshield 260]

And another screenshot.

If only Fraps wasn't having problems, I might as well post a screenie of the location.


Thorin

[Flix 5,116]

Seem legit to me.

 

 

 

They also parodied that on Metalocalypse:

 

[Thorin Oakshield 260]

I just found the scene where Conan finds the sword:

 

 

At 01:30 and 01:59 you get a few good close ups of the skelleton at the throne.

 

 

Thorin

[masteff 64]

While not precisely the throne from the movie, it's certainly close enough to merit a mention IMO.

[gogoblender 3,069]

Love this, and gratz on the find Thorin, looks like the committe has accorded you decorum needed for a mention as Easter Egg!

 

gogo

[Gilberticus 374]

I have an idea. In my opinion, the throne room does resemble Atlantean king's tomb. I was wondering if our modders could duplicate the Atlantean sword ingame and have this throne room as the only place where it drops?

[Silver_fox 397]

That's not a bad idea for a mod, actually. Conan is so popular that finding a freely available 3d model of his sword is not hard. So making the sword itself is definitely possible. Making it drop in only one place would require making a quest, which is possible too, though this part of the idea requires some testing with quest scripts.

 

By the way, how came that the Easter Egg itself is not on the wiki? If you compare the in-game room with the video fragment that shows the dead king on his throne, the likeness starts to appear quite striking. So I tend to agree that the room is a recreation of the Athlantean King's Tomb using Sacred 2 props.

Edited June 8, 2014 by Silver_fox

[Gilberticus 374]

Sweet! If that requires a quest, maybe more Conan related items should fall than just the Atlantean sword. The sword is more than enough for me, but there's space left for only...what, 5, 7 quests left? So maybe more than just the sword needs to drop to necessitate a quest. I can't think of many more cool Conan related weapons at the moment. James Earl Jones had that cool dagger with the twin snakes, if memory serves.

[Gilberticus 374]

Or, maybe the trip to the tomb could be tacked on to a preexisting quest? One thing that I'm painfully ignorant of concerning this game is quest manipulation

[Silver_fox 397]

I looked at the Swords section of the wiki a bit closer, and you know, guys, we won't even have to bring the Athlantean sword model from the outside to add this sword as a new unique. Those Easter Egg fans from Ascaron not only made the room which is quite similar to the one from Conan movie - they actually made an Atlantean sword drop as one of the random one-handed swords!

 

Honestly, look at this:

And compare with this (the middle picture is the concept art of the Athlantean sword drawn for the original movie):

A closer look at the texture of this random Sacred 2 sword shows that it has the hilt design and the blade engraving of the exactly same shapes as the Athlantean sword from the Conan movie, but the lighting in game and the low resolution of the texture tends to hide the detail when the sword is wielded by Sacred characters. Here is how the extracted Sacred 2 texture looks:

 

 

On the most Conan-related pictures the Athlantean sword is pictured in darker colors than on the concept art and has more explicit engraving, but that much of design change can be easily applied to the Sacred 2 model using textures. Also, the model in Sacred 2 looks smaller than the sword in the film, so I think about enlarging it to two-hander size.

 

All in all, I'm not promising to make this sword ASAP, but as it appears to be easy to make, I'll probably look into it later. As for the quests - the number of unused quest IDs that are guaranteed to work is indeed small. In my testing I found a way to make custom quest IDs that work at least for silent quests (the ones without dialogue and logs), but I'm not yet 200% sure that this method is completely safe to use. So I won't say a definite "yes" or "no" about the possibility of adding new quests at the moment. Adding a new step for the existing quest is in fact similar to adding a new quest, because script-wise every step is considered a separate quest.

Edited June 9, 2014 by Silver_fox

[Thorin Oakshield 260]

Well, if you manage to get a quest going, I think the "Do you want to live forever?" question should pop up in it too.

It may not be Conan's quote, but it's - imho - one of the key-concepts of the movie.

Thorin

[gogoblender 3,069]

I looked at the Swords section of the wiki a bit closer, and you know, guys, we won't even have to bring the Athlantean sword model from the outside to add this sword as a new unique. Those Easter Egg fans from Ascaron not only made the room which is quite similar to the one from Conan movie - they actually made an Atlantean sword drop as one of the random one-handed swords!

 

Honestly, look at this:

And compare with this (the middle picture is the concept art of the Athlantean sword drawn for the original movie):

A closer look at the texture of this random Sacred 2 sword shows that it has the hilt design and the blade engraving of the exactly same shapes as the Athlantean sword from the Conan movie, but the lighting in game and the low resolution of the texture tends to hide the detail when the sword is wielded by Sacred characters. Here is how the extracted Sacred 2 texture looks:

 

 

On the most Conan-related pictures the Athlantean sword is pictured in darker colors than on the concept art and has more explicit engraving, but that much of design change can be easily applied to the Sacred 2 model using textures. Also, the model in Sacred 2 looks smaller than the sword in the film, so I think about enlarging it to two-hander size.

 

All in all, I'm not promising to make this sword ASAP, but as it appears to be easy to make, I'll probably look into it later. As for the quests - the number of unused quest IDs that are guaranteed to work is indeed small. In my testing I found a way to make custom quest IDs that work at least for silent quests (the ones without dialogue and logs), but I'm not yet 200% sure that this method is completely safe to use. So I won't say a definite "yes" or "no" about the possibility of adding new quests at the moment. Adding a new step for the existing quest is in fact similar to adding a new quest, because script-wise every step is considered a separate quest.

Fanstastic work on the sleuthing.

Just finished reading your article on the compares, love your deductive process Silver

 

gogo

[Silver_fox 397]

I'll just leave this one here:


I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who noticed this statue on the Multiplayer Island Arena, but I decided to mention it in this thread nevertheless, just to have the list of possible Conan references in one place.

Edited July 24, 2014 by Silver_fox