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The Gravemind almost always speaks in a distinct poetic meter, trochaic heptameter, and when Cortana challenges it on this habit, it explains that it carries the memories of countless poets from cultures far beyond human experience, giving it both the vocabulary and the quickness of mind to compose verse as it speaks rather than labour over words.
The flashback chapters show a teenage Nate, played by Billy Unger, trying to lift the Drake ring from a Cartagena museum and getting way out of his depth. That's the moment Sully steps in, and it's basically the origin story for the whole Drake and Sullivan partnership fans already knew from the earlier games.
Down by the docks in Anvil there's a statue in the water that's clearly scaled up from The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen harbour, easily the most photographed statue in Denmark. It's a small, quiet homage that most players sail straight past without noticing.
By its second week, Arcane was outpacing both Stranger Things and The Mandalorian as the most in-demand digital streaming series in America, according to audience analytics firm Parrot Analytics, with total demand for the show growing well over 600% in just a couple of weeks.
You'd think the show would film outside the actual 221B Baker Street, but by the time production started there was so much Sherlock Holmes signage and tourist clutter around the real street that it wasn't usable. The crew ended up shooting exteriors about a mile east, on North Gower Street instead.
Some of Uncharted 4's biggest open areas had to be scaled back because of time pressure. For The Lost Legacy, Naughty Dog restructured how it built environments, letting as many as five separate teams work on a single location at once so the game's big open space wouldn't suffer the same fate.
Katherine Marlowe isn't just some random villain with a grudge, she's the head of a shadowy British order that supposedly traces its roots back to Queen Elizabeth I's own inner circle, including her spymaster Francis Walsingham and the occultist John Dee. That's the whole reason her group has been hunting Iram of the Pillars for centuries before Nate ever showed up.
Nobody in Runeterra actually knows where the Black Cleaver came from, but the item's icon is a dead giveaway. It's modelled on Aatrox's own blade, which links it back to the Darkin, the ancient race of fallen ascended warriors who were sealed inside their own weapons after their war nearly destroyed the world.
Notch selling Minecraft to Microsoft wasn't some long boardroom saga, by his own account it kicked off after he vented his frustration with the community in a single tweet in June 2014. A few months later Microsoft had bought Mojang for $2.5 billion, and Notch, along with co-founders Carl Manneh and Jakob Porser, walked away from the company entirely.
The massive walled capital of the Earth Kingdom wasn't dreamed up from nothing. The creators modeled its layout and architecture directly on Beijing's Forbidden City, which is a big part of why Ba Sing Se feels so imposing and layered compared to the show's smaller towns.
