References

DotD is full of references to popular culture.
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#Easter Eggs 2.0
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==Comics & Cartoons==
*Scuttlegore - Inspired by a creature from Thundercats. 
===DC Comics===
*Riddle Me This... () - Reference to one of the Riddler's catchphrases. 
===Marvel Comics===
==Fairy Tales & Nursery Rhymes==
*Mirror, Mirror, in the Sky () - Reference to the phrase "Mirror, Mirror, on the wall," from Snow White. 
==Folktales & Legends==
===Arthurian Legends===
*Lord Tyranthius - A lot of the lore for Lord Tyranthius is based off of legends about King Arthur. The pre-lore for Ryndor mentions him pulling a sword from the stone, a reference to Excalibur. The pre-lore also describes him as being sealed in a magic cave along with his knights, ready to be awakened if needed, another reference to one of the legends about his death. Camlann Hill is a reference to the Battle of Camlann, believed to be the final battle of King Arthur. The Battle of Badon in the pre-lore for Camlann Hill is another reference to a battle attributed to King Arthur. 
*Sir Cai - The Welsh rendering of Sir Kay, one of the first knights of the Round Table. 
==Games==
*Drakes and Ladders () - Reference to the board game Snakes and Ladders. 
*Faedark Valley () - Reference to Greater/Lesser Faydark from Everquest. 
*Banhammer Bros. - A reference to the Mario characters. 
*Might and Magic () - Reference to the RPG series of the same name. 
*Music Missile () - Reference to the commonly used spell in RPGs, "Magic Missile." 
*The quest boss intro, "*** welcomes you to your doom" - Reference to the old game, Altered Beast, in which a voice would say, "welcome to your doom" whenever you encountered a boss. 
*The Scholar, in the Library, with a Candlestick () - Reference to the board game Clue/Cluedo. 
===5th Planet Games===
==Historical Works==
*Apocolocyntosis () - Reference to the satirical work about the Roman emperor Claudius, (presumably) written by Seneca the Younger, literally meaning The Gourdification of Claudius. 
*Principia Mathematica () - Reference to Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, regarded as one of the most important works in the history of science. 
===Shakespeare===
*All that Glitters () - A play off of "All that Glisters is not Gold". - While variations of this phrase have been used throughout the ages, that specific phrase and the most popular one is from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. 
*Prince Obyron - Reference to Prince Oberon, a folklore used in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. 
==Holidays==
==Misc==
*Iron Curtain () - Reference to the symbolic division of Europe during the mid-late 1900s, known by the same name. 
==Music==
*Behind Purple Lines () - Reference to the song Behind Blue Eyes by The Who. 
*Cadenza () - Reference to the music style of the same name. 
*Mad Dogs and West Krunans () - Reference to the phrase that was started by a 1932 Noël Coward song "Mad Dogs and Englishmen".
*Smote on the Water () - Reference to the song Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple. 
*The Future, it is Murder () - Reference to the song The Future by Leonard Cohen. 
*This Land is Your Land, This Land Is My Land - Reference to Woody Guthrie's song, "This Land is Your Land" 
*Together in Eclectic Dreams () - Reference to the song Together in Electric Dreams by Philip Oakley 
*Welcome to the Jungle () - Reference to the song Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N' Roses 
==Mythology==
===Greek mythology===
*Celeano - A harpy from Greek mythology. 
*Erebus the Black - Named after the primordial deity who was the personification of darkness, and also used to refer to a region of the Underworld. 
*Kerberos - Greek for Cerberus, the 3 headed hound that guarded the gates of the Underworld. 
*Phaedra the Deceiver - Named after Phaedra, the wife of Theseus and step-mother of Hippolytus, she deceived Theseus into killing Hippolytus after Hippolytus rejected her love. 
*Scylla - Named after a monster from Homer's Odyssey and other myths. 
*Tisiphone the Vengeful - A reference to Tisiphone, one of the 3 Erinyes
*Vhaliribdis - A reference to Charybdis, a sea monster from Greek mythology.
===Norse mythology===
*Nidhogg - Loosely based off Norse myths. 
===Roman mythology===
*Tisiphone the Vengeful - A reference to Tisiphone, one of the 3 Furies and guardian of the gates of Tartarus. 
==Novels & Short stories==
*A Tale of Two Swords - Reference to A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. 
*Ataxes - Based on Lord Rataxes, from Babar the Elephant. 
*Death in the Clouds () - Reference to the Agatha Christie novel of the same name. 
*Ghost of Battle Past () - Reference to the Ghost of Christmas Past, from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. 
*In Sylvan Shadows () - Reference to the Forgotten Realms Book II of Cleric Quintet of the same name. 
*Level 42 text - Reference to Douglas Adams' "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" 
*Level 451 text - Reference to Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" 
*Red Harvest () - Reference to Dashiell Hammett's novel of the same name. 
*Rock Worm - Reference to Frank Herbert's Dune franchise, in which people ride giant sandworms that create the spice called melange.
*Slaughterers Six is a possible reference to wikipedia:Slaughterhouse-Five, a satirical novel by Kurt Vonnegut. 
*Strangers in a Strange Land () - Reference to Robert Heinlein's novel of the same name. 
*Wexxa the Worm-Tamer - Reference to Frank Herbert's Dune franchise. Wexxa also uses the same technique as a Dune WormRider. 
===Discworld Series===
===Dracula===
===Frankenstein===
*Stein - A reference to Frankenstein. 
===H. P. Lovecraft===
*Teremarthu - Visual reference to H. P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu 
==People==
*Batiatus' Gladiators - Name of the owner of a famous Gladiator slave compound where Spartacus was supposed to have trained. 
*Caracalla - Reference to the Roman Emperor Caracalla. 
* Count Siculus - Named after Diodorus Siculus, a Greek historian. 
*Euphronios - Named after a famous potter from ancient Greece. 
*Skywayman () - A reference to highwaymen, the mounted robbers. 
===DotD Players===
===5th Planet Games===
*Felendis & Shaoquin - Named after two team members, Robert Wrinkler and Stephen Pladson. 
*Genevieve Everdeen - A reference to the wife of team member Robert Wrinkler. 
*See http://www.5thplanetgames.com/about-us for more information
==Phrases==
===English===
*Aerial Maneuvers () - The line "I heard you taste like chicken," is a reference to the phrase "tastes like chicken," often used to describe food. 
*Been There, Killed That () - Reference to the phrase "Been there, done that". 
*Better Part of Valor () - Reference to the phrase "The better part of valor is discretion." 
*Clothes Maketh the Murderer () - Reference to the phrase "Clothes make the man." 
*Cold, Dead Tentacles () - A reference to the phrase Cold, Dead Hands (as in "You'll have to take them from my cold dead hands"). 
*Crazy Like a Fox () - Same as above 
*Crazy to the Marrow () - Reference to the phrase "Crazy to the bone." 
*Fly-By Slashing () - Reference to the phrase "drive-by shooting." 
*From Frying Pan... + ...Into the Bloodbath ( + ) - Reference to the phrase "From the frying pan and into the fire." 
*Lies, Damned Lies, and Prophecies () - Reference to the phrase "Lies, damned lies, and statistics." 
*Many a Slip Twixt Cup and Lip () - Refers to the Latin "Multa cadunt inter calicem supremaque labra" found in Erasmus's "Adagia". Also refers to the Greek tale the Argonauts, and the fate of one of them. 
*Oroc and a Hot Place () - A play on the phrase "Caught between a rock and a hard place." 
*Open Sesame () - Reference to the phrase "Open Sesame" in the story of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" in One Thousand and One Nights. 
*Terrors and Tribulations () - Reference to the phrase "Trials and Tribulations". 
*The Die is Cast () - Reference to the Latin "Alea iacta est" which Suetonius and Plutarch both quote Caesar as saying as he crossed the Rubicon river. 
*The Pride Goeth for a Fall ( - A pun about lion family groups based on the phrase "Pride goeth before a fall". 
===French===
===Latin===
*Arma virosque Cano () - This is the opening line from Virgil's Aenied. 
* Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Tu. () - same as Night Watchman's Shield 
===Other===
*So Moat It Be () - Reference to the ritual phrase "so mote it be", meaning "so may it be", used by Freemasons and more recently Neopagans in a similar way to "amen." 
==Places==
*Rubicar River () - A reference to the Rubicon River in Italy, and Caesar's crossing of that river. 
==Poetry and Plays==
*Fearful Symmetry () - Reference to The Tyger by William Blake. 
*War Music () - Reference to Christopher Logue's War Music, an adaptation of part of Homer's Iliad. 
==Quotes==
==Religious References==
*Nimrod the Hunter - Named after the biblical king Nimrod, who was depicted as a mighty hunter. 
*The lore text from The Oroc Prisoner () - Reference to the phrase "sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof" (Matthew, 6:34). 
*The lore text from Thief-Taker () - Reference to the phrase "The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion" (Proverbs, 28:1). 
*Your Brother's Keeper () - Reference to Cain and Abel (Genesis, 4). 
==Television & Film==
*Hurkus the Eviscerator - The lore blurb is a reference to the tune of The Teddy Bears Picnic 
*Scavenger Set - Reference to The Wombling Song. 
*Scholar! Lava! Hot! () - Reference to the Jurassic Bark episode of Futurama (Professor! Lava! Hot!) 
*Through Foulness I cannot even imagine () - A quote from The Shawshank Redemption. 
*Top Drake () - Reference to the 1986 film Top Gun. 
===The Guild (Web Series)===
*Avinashi (World Raid) - Reference to Zaboo's mother in The Guild (web series) 
===Star Wars===
*I find your lack of faith disturbing () - A quote from Star Wars - A New Hope (IV), when Darth Vader force chokes one of his admirals. 
*The people hanging in the background of Kang-Gsod (Raid) - Reference to the scene from Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back (V), where Luke is hanging in the Wampa cave. 
*Not the Drake You're Looking For () - Reference to the line "These are not the droids you're looking for," from Star Wars - A New Hope (IV).