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For years the Ashbringer sat in players' hands with no proper quest attached, which didn't stop an early forum post from inventing an entire made-up quest line to obtain it out of thin air. The story spread as if it were real, and it took roughly two decades before Blizzard finally gave the sword a genuine questline in Season of Discovery, quietly closing the loop on a myth their own community had written for them.
YouTuber Classic Winds worked out that in Vanilla WoW you could theoretically reach level 60 by killing nothing but boars, at 18,058 of them. There's a catch: there aren't enough boars in any single zone to do it, so you'd have to boar-hop the whole world.
Pop into the general store in Saint Denis and take a proper look behind the shopkeeper's counter. Sitting there is the zombie mask from the original game's Undead Nightmare expansion, just quietly hanging around eight years later. You can't buy it or wear it, it's there purely as a nod for anyone who noticed.
The whole visual identity of the show leans on a tightly controlled colour script, with Piltover kept bright, cool and metallic to feel prosperous, while Zaun gets warm, decaying, sickly tones. It's not just pretty to look at, the colour choices are doing a lot of quiet storytelling about class and decay that you might not clock consciously.
Rather than opening with in-game cinematics, the earliest teaser for Black Ops Cold War was built around genuine archival interview footage of Yuri Bezmenov, a real KGB informant who defected to the West in 1970. Splicing real Cold War history into a marketing trailer for a game about spies was a bold way to set the tone before a single frame of gameplay showed up.
Every Call of Duty game before this one opened with a gentle little training section to teach you the basics. World at War throws that out entirely and drops you straight into a brutal war crime as your opening scene - a real tonal shift for the series at the time.
After everything that's happened across the God Wars and beyond, there are only nine known living Mahjarrat left on Gielinor following the Battle of the Monolith, not even counting Zamorak, Moia, or Azzanadra separately. For a race that once shaped the fate of an empire, that's a pretty thin remaining roster.
The Rohan shoot was rough on the cast in more ways than one. Alongside Mortensen's broken toes, Orlando Bloom cracked three ribs falling off a horse, and John Rhys-Davies' stunt double dislocated a kneecap.
The final season deliberately loops back to New York, with key scenes shot around Central Park, Tavern on the Green and the Bleecker Street subway station, the same borough where Joe's very first obsession began. Production even filmed a sequence at the old Joliet Prison in Illinois, using the crumbling building as a stand-in for Joe finally facing his past.
