Around a week ago I decided to make the definite compilation of all Easter eggs and pop-culture references found in Arcanum, since it turned out nobody ever bothered to make one. And here it finally is. Some of the things mentioned in this article could be common knowledge, some are rare, and some were never seen before. This isn't a complete list, however, it's obvious that there will be new additions, so I encourage everyone to contribute by sending me their finds.

<a href="http://terra-arcanum.com/index.php?section=council&content=articles&id=eastereggs">Have a good read!</a>

Holy goddamn fuckit!

A good read indeed!

Thanks Drog.

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Lacy: How did I fall in love with such a jerk like him? Why can't I ever meet a nice man?
Tom: You've met lots of nice men, Lacy. I'm a nice man. The biggest lie all of you women tell yourselves is that you like nice men, when, in fact, we bore you silly.
The trouble is, you tell this lie out loud and so damned often that some of us more gullible types hear it growing up and work hard to become nice men.
Well, from all the nice men in the world, Lacy, fuck you very much.

Definitely a good read. Thank you for making the effort, Drog.

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There's probably a Wallachian proverb for it.

Kick arse! *is gonna try a lot of these next time she plays*

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"Writer's block: it affects the best of us, and doesn't affect the worst of us enough."
~ Kitty, ImpishIdea

Currently surviving on caffiene, microwave dinners and requests for porn from certain fandoms. Guess the fandoms, win some porn!

Nice Girls Don't Scream Orcish Battlecries. (Thank God I'm Not A Nice Girl.)

I've never found the Smurf village.
Now I have to go look.

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"There comes a time when you look into the mirror, and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
Then you accept it, or you kill yourself.
Or you stop looking into mirrors."
--Londo Mollari

Good Job, I shall definely try them out.

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Ash: [talking to mirror] I'm fine... I'm fine...
[Mirror Ash jumps out of the mirror and grabs Ash]
Mirror Ash: I don't think so. We just cut up our girlfriend with a chainsaw. Does that sound "fine"?

Added a few more references and a large section dedicated to the epitaphs found in Arcanum's cemeteries.

Thanks for doing this, definitely worth reading.

That's quite the list... I'll definitely go hunting for the smurf village now.

Thanks DBT! This is an awesome thing you've done.

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Nice! Thank you.

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If you can't go through a problem, go over it, under it, or around it.

This is pretty cool.

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RPG Codex - We're a bunch of angry cunts.
Tacticular Cancer # We'll have your balls #
Terra Arcanum >> the World of Troika Games

Moo... Moo... I'm an Interplay Cow.

Complexity is only simplicity multiplied

And don't forget that Arronax is the narrator of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

It's hard to call the fact, that a voice actor did work somewhere else besides a particular game an easter egg for that game. Here's an easter egg on Tim Cain, Leonard Boyarsky and Jason Anderson - they worked on Fallout! Woohoo!

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Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.

He's not talking about a voice actor. How can you not know this famous book?

Regardless, I don't think that Professor Pierre Aronnax is in any way related to Arcanum's Arronax.

Ah, indeed have I failed in this situation. It would be impossible not to hear about the book, yet I have yet to find enough motivation to familiarise myself closer with Verne's writings, with reading "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth" being on my "to do" list.

Regardless, even if professor Pierre Aronnax isn't in any way related to Arcanum's Arronax in personality nor actions, the very name could have been borrowed from the book. Someone from the staff could encounter it, think "Hey, that sounds nice, why not place it in our game?" and then do so. I believe that's how Arroyo appeared in Fallout 2.

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Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.

Yes, precisely what I meant.

However, without any verification, I don't think such a fact is worth including.

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I didn't know the Fallout 2 designers were fans of A:WIP

Quite honestly, I think it would be difficult for it not to be intentional. Arronax (or Aronnax) is hardly a common name for a character, and Verne is arguably the most significant inspiration for the steampunk genre. I'm sure Troika did some reading during the design phase.

That being said, I definitely didn't mean to bring such controversy to a great list.

While picking up a package for an alchemist named Jongle Donne, the shopkeeper in Dernholm tells you, "That wizard is just a crazy old man," quoting Owen Lars from Episode IV.


The main character's companion and sidekick Virgil encounters his old mentor who turned him from a life of petty thievery, a priest named Father Joachim. In the good path, this encounter provides helpful information. In the evil path, Joachim appears to make a desperate plea for Virgil to stop, and when he refuses, tries to stand in his way. One of Virgil's taunts to Joachim is "Your powers are weak, old man," quoting Darth Vader from Episode IV.

Added. Thank you.

Unified Kingdom maybe United Kingdom.

Caladon might refer to Jerusalem cuz it's said that's the house Nasrudin's corpse.And Jerusalem it's the house of Jesus corpse.

Journey to the Center of Arcanum...once again Jules Verne - Journey to the Center of the Earth...

There's no such thing as a journey to the center of Arcanum, I believe. If your talking about the Void, that is most propably supposed to be a different dimension, a parallel universe, that sort of thing.

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Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.

I beg to differ.
Or come to think of it, there is no such thing, but the reference is real.

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Regardless, the name of the scrapped sequel is hardly worth including.