Day 5: Splash and Purple Penguin

Posted 27th Jun 2008 09:19 AM by Flux

The 5th (and second to last?) day of splash images has arrived, and here they are.  The breaking ice hasn’t advanced very much in this image, but the runes have been made more obvious, the 5th rune of a snowflake seems like an obvious reference to Blizzard itself, and the glowing eyes and demonic face in the center is more evident than previously.

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As for the secret purple beast; the 5th image is linked, and named “harbinger.” The 6th image was available as well, using the Lost six-number code, and here’s the whole image. It’s a… penguin?

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EzkiMo
Posted 27, Jun 2008 11:07 AM
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[QUOTE=ViceTheVandal;6568281]Those &quot;demonic eyes&quot; look more like Protoss eyes to me.

The thing is that they can be either from a Protoss, Arthas or the Lord of Terror himself. Again Blizzard is creating confusion!

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fenomas
Posted 27, Jun 2008 11:10 AM
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SaberWolfy: Well, WoW is out - since the expansion is in alpha, everything they could announce has been leaked already except a release date. But for the other universes, you’re dead right.

Personally, I think they’re tricking us into speculating about D3 so that we’ll be all the more surprised by the real announcement - D2 patch 2.0! All known dupes and TPPKs are fixed! All demon-type monsters are now immune to Blessed Hammer! And best of all… now supports 1024x768!

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EzkiMo
Posted 27, Jun 2008 11:13 AM
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[QUOTE=fenomas;6568288]SaberWolfy: Well, WoW is out - since the expansion is in alpha, everything they could announce has been leaked already except a release date. But for the other universes, you’re dead right.

Personally, I think they’re tricking us into speculating about D3 so that we’ll be all the more surprised by the real announcement - D2 patch 2.0! All known dupes and TPPKs are fixed! All demon-type monsters are now immune to Blessed Hammer! And best of all… now supports 1024x768!

Ya, sure! They release a Patch (which practically doesn’t do anything) just to release a new one! THAT makes sense.
On the other hand not much of this makes sense…

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eXCheez
Posted 27, Jun 2008 11:18 AM
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Could it maybe be the announcement of a 4th race for StarCraft II? The Xel’Naga? o_O

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EzkiMo
Posted 27, Jun 2008 11:19 AM
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Ain’t the Xel’Naga supposed to be dead?

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token287
Posted 27, Jun 2008 11:23 AM
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just compare the logo of this site with the eyes… it’s the same!

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Thyiad
Posted 27, Jun 2008 11:26 AM
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What worries me is what I first thought were Diablo’s horns either side of the eyes, now looks like the vapour coming off the eyes of the Lich King. And that faint outline in the centre of his head could be the detail on his helmet. The eyes are the same angle for D2 and Lich King. Check the overlays.

I really hope I’m wrong because having read the WoW Forums, those whiny little gits don’t deserve new content. *sniff*

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S Z
Posted 27, Jun 2008 11:28 AM
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The rune is a Viking Compass

http://brentberryarts.com/bjork_art/4a697960.jpg

All the runes are clearer now, and the first day’s rune is quite obviously from Frostmourne.

Anyway since the rune is a Viking Compass and the number of the tiled jpg’s (04 08 15 16 23 42) are the Lost number sequence Blizzard are pulling our legs with the ‘Lost Vikings’ allusions. I just wonder if an Evil Penguin features in that game at all.

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hjl
Posted 27, Jun 2008 11:40 AM
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tundra 04
cold 16
cavern 15
harbinger 08
icy 23
evilpenguin 42


Let’s just state the obvious here…

All grab your dictionaries atlas, right here we go!
tundra - a vast, flat, treeless Arctic region of Europe, Asia, and North America in which the subsoil is permanently frozen.
harbinger - a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another

So here’s the deal. Tundra’s are exclusive to the very north of our planet, we have a penguin in the equation and the rest is pretty self explanatory.

What does this mean. Simple…

From a cold icy northern cavern (home of lich king) an evil being (lich king) will signal the approach of another.

As pointed out in brackets that refers to the Lich King, but the Lich King is not the announcement, he’s merely the means of conveying the message of what is to come….

Blizzard chose the Lich King to be the ‘messenger’ just cause a) they can b) its the next thing that will be released on their schedule, so its an obvious choice.

So there you have it, pretty simple. There are no clues as to what the actual announcement will be, its simply a creative way to let us know something is coming… nothing more nothing less.

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Jaklax
Posted 27, Jun 2008 11:42 AM
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Harbringer huh? well get this

har·bin·ger
–noun 1. a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another
To signal the approach of; presage

thats what it means..

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