Who writes the puns and flavor text?

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Found almost all of them amusing, and it’s almost a game to guess where some of them came from. Just realized Behemoth’s text “10 times bigger than a man” is from Paul Bunyan’s blue ox Babe.

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Usually it’s @Sirrian, I believe…

I find about half make me chuckle and half make me cringe…

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Sirrian is a Brit I think? Sounds like one. English is too good to be Scottish lol

The Archon Statue “Don’t blink!” one I bet he wrote, that’s a Doctor Who homage.

Curious about Alchemist, “A master of mixology. Just add parsley, rosemary and thyme.” What drink is that? A strange idea on a bloody mary?

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Uh oh, I think he’s an Aussie and I just called him a Pommie lol

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I’ve always assumed it’s a play on the Simon & Garfunkel song.

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Since the Alchemist is essentially a Sage.

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I’m also sure “Don’t blink!” is a reference to Kenny Chesney.

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Don’t Blink is 100% from Doctor Who, the episode “Blink” with weeping angels. Living statues that could only move if no one was looking at them.

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Good call on Scarborough Fair. I still want a bloody mary to drink…

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Alchemist was originally called Sage… but we like the flavor text and kept it.

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@Nimhain
Hmmm, flavor and not flavour. And at this hour…

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I think he’s a bit of both…

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A few are obvious. Raven and Queen Mab both share lines from “The Raven”.

Hippogryph was based off of a comment from Dragon Age: Origins

Celestasia is another straightforward one. (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)

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Webspinner “Looks like she came straight out of Module Q1. If you get that reference, you’re HARDCORE.” was easy.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/Q1QueenDemonwebPitsCover.jpg

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Reaver as Drizzt.

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Reaver is obvious, never read the books but I did have the diablo clone on the original xbox.

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Abhorath “The Old Gods are SO last year.” and Ancient Horror “Forget those new-age horrors – they’ve got nothing on the ancient ones.” are both HP Lovecraft references.

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I love the flavor text, props to @Sirrian.

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So, forum competition to submit/choose a flavor text?

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Well, if we ever get some type of crocodile creature, we name it Gustave. Flavor text, “Crikey, mate. Look at the size of that croc”