Shout Out / Embric of Wulfhammer's Castle

• Quite a few to Dungeons & Dragons.
• One of the insults that the elves and dark elves have for humans is "Mon-Keigh.'
• The Dwarves in this game are the fortress type, complete with interrupt messages, incidents involving killer carp, and allusions to fey moods. On the other hand, one of them cheers "Lali-ho!" once. He is ignored.
• Duchess' vocal warm-ups are the same as Daisy Adair's in Dead Like Me.
• Examine a barrel and the Duchess will shout "Barrel!" just in the Atelier Series.
• The Blue Smith notes that dwarf bread is very hard to cut.
• One of the peasants' Welcome to Corneria lines is "Times are tough."
• Ecinacea's laugh? GYORK GYORK GYORK.
• Reading one of the Everbrook tombstones quotes "Carry On My Wayward Son" near-verbatim.
• Another of the Everbrook graves is for Erdrick. This in itself is a reference to similar gravestone in Final Fantasy. The Duchess thinks it gives him too little credit.
• Young Grettel starts training as The Strategist by reading A Game of Crowns.
• Elza comments that if the Duchess dies, the game's going to become Atelier Elza.
• In the kitchen, Duchess and Chef have an argument over woks and the silliness thereof. She is told to take her silly wok elsewhere.
  • Duchess finds a tombstone with the legend "Speak Friend and Enter" on it. She spends a minute shouting "Friend" at it.
• The Villiage Elder has brittle old-man hips.
• The God of Tardiness is a white rabbit.

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