Sacred:Easter Eggs

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Ascaron and other self-references

The name of King Aarnum is based in Aarne Jungerberg, the game's designer. The name of the Raane set is also an anagram of Aarne.

Ascaron Tavern

Cave of Heroes

A. R. Malion

Thain's Tomb

Arthurian legends

In Bellevue there is a sword stuck in a rock, by interacting with it you can read "I'll be back. A.", this sword in suposed to be Caliburn.

The name DeMordrey is probably a reference to Mordred, and Morgast is a reference to Morgause.

Dune

The name of the item Muadib's Visions is aclear reference to Muad'dib, who also happens to have visions of the future.

Doom

Seraphim's skill BeeEffGee is a reference to the BFG-9000 from the Doom series. It even uses the same sounds as the weapon.

Dungeons and Dragons

The name of the Blackstaff set is a reference to the nickname of Khelben Arunsun from Forgotten Realms, who was the Lord Mage of Waterdeep.

Eragon

The name of the orc Sacred:Urgalook is a reference to the urgals, which are creatures similar to orcs.

GAMEBOX

Game boxes are some items that can be found in the game and have no use, they are a tribute to some videogames created by the company Ikarion. Ikaron was developing Armalion but they went bankrupt, some of the developers ended working for Askaron and used some of the resources originally made for Armalion to create Sacred.

The game boxes represent these games:

• Battle Race
• Bonn Ouvert
• Caribbean Disaster
• Demonworld
• Demonworld: Dark Armies
• Hattrick!
• Hattrick! Wins
• Mad News
• Pinball Wizard 2000
• Project Paradise
• Zeppelin: Giants of the Sky

Kill Bill

There is an item called Bill Killer.

Lovecraft

One of the characters you have to kill in the Bounty Hunt series quest is called Azathot, referencing Azathoth.

During Captain Vernon, the player has to fight several guardians of his necklace; two of which are named after beings from the Lovecraft mythos: Shub-Naggurith the First Guard, named after Shub-Niggurath, and Nyarlothatep the Second Guard, named after Nyarlathotep.

During The Dryads, player fights another demon named after a character from the Lovecraftian mythos: Hoth-Yotsog, named after Yog Sothoth.

Marx Brothers

In Silver Creek, the three soldiers fighting the minotaur are called Harpo, Groucho and Chico.

Monty Pyton

The Fist of the Gods skill has a chance of playing the "Hallelujah!" sound upon using, much like Monthy Python's famous Holy Hand Grenade.

The Rune Stone of the Dancing Dead, located at the Battle Mage's starting point of the Ancarian campaign can summon aggressive rabbits, there are also other rabbits like that at Mystdale Castle, these appear to be based in the Rabbit of Caerbannog.

Music

The name of the item Designer 'It's A Kind of Magic' Shades is a reference to the song "A Kind of Magic" from Queen.

The name of the item Designer 'Stairway to Heaven' Shades is a reference to the song "Stairway To Heaven" from Led Zeppelin.

The name of the item Designer 'Stranger in the Night' Shades is a reference to the song "Stranger in the Night" from Frank Sinatra.

Pirates Of The Carribean

One of the quest-giving pirates is called Jak Arrow, referencing the famous pirate Jack Sparrow.

Star Trek

Elfs are vulkans

Star Wars

Lightsaber

The Matrix

The name of the item Designer 'Neo's Reallity' Shades is a reference to Neo.

The Terminator

The name of the item Designer 'T-IXVMM' Shades is a reference to the movie The Terminator, the names of the terminators models are written with a "T" and a hyphen followed by a number, IXVMM is the roman number for 1984, the year the movie was released.

Sometimes Gladiator will say "Hasta la vista, baby!" referencing Terminator 2.

Tolkien

Sacred has been influenced by Tolkien's work and has a lot of references to it.

The Dark Elf's set Ethan-Rhys looks like the armor of the elves in the battle against Saurom at the start of the first movie of the trilogy.

The name of the item The One Ring of All is a reference to the ring from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The water form bonus is probably a reference to the power of that ring.

Dungolianth's Poisonous Stinger is based in Ungoliant, a big spider from The Silmarillion.

Arogarn the Forest Ranger is based on the character of Aragorn.

The Shaddar'Rims are based in the Nazgûl.

Thorwyn's name is a reference to the dwarf Thorin from The Hobbit, Thorwyn is sometimes mistaken for a dwarf.

The death of Shaddar not being able to control the power of Ilith'Bah and then returning from the death may be based in Gandalf dying fighting the Balrog and then returning as Gandalf the White.

One of the Dwarf sayings "Of course! A dwarf needs no fellowship for quests like these" is a reference to The fellowship of the ring.

Warhammer

Stampfa, the god of goblinoids is a reference to the Ork Stompa war machine from Warhammer 40.000, which is called "Stampfa" in German.