Massively's piece of the WAR Tomb King mystery has arrived

by Shawn Schuster Jun 11th 2009 at 4:30PM

Filed under: Fantasy, Contests, Culture, Events, real-world, Events, in-game, Expansions, Warhammer Online, Massively meta

As mentioned in a post yesterday, Warhammer Online and Mythic are hosting an expansive community event like none they've done before. Today, we received our piece of this contest in the form of a human skull wrapped in mummy rags and hay. Yes, the hay is real, but the skull is not. Darn.

This contest was created to celebrate the release of WAR's Land of the Dead, later this month. Those who are able to decipher the hieroglyphs from a variety of MMO websites will be rewarded with exclusive in-game items. Follow along after the jump to find out more information on this contest, and to see the photos of our unique Tomb King Cartouche.

To celebrate the culmination of Call to Arms, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning's first live expansion, Mythic Entertainment is hosting a community event like no other.

Beginning in late June, WAR players will be able to adventure into the ancient desert kingdom of the Tomb Kings with the release of The Land of the Dead. This massive new zone is free to all players, and introduces a wealth of new challenges for characters rank 25 and above, including a deadly, trap-laden dungeon.

To mark this occasion, Mythic is giving away 5,000 exclusive in-game items through an online puzzle of epic proportions.

The skull in this press pack is painted with a mysterious Tomb King Cartouche. Should players manage to translate these hieroglyphs into legible letters, an item code will be revealed.

WAR fans can then take this code to the Mythic Account Center and enter it into their account. Once activated, players will receive a unique Scarab Amulet reward. This fun item summons a Scarab swarm that chitters and swirls around a player's character.

Remember, nothing grants kudos like a personalized beetle horde.

The key to the mysterious hieroglyphs has been broken up and scattered amongst the WAR blogosphere. Players will need to roam across their online community to collect and complete the hieroglyphic code.

Massively's Cartouche will hand out just 1,000 amulets for players on the North American servers only. Four other US sites have also been sent Cartouches. Will Massively's be the first code to max out?

[Edit: Added another shot in different lighting to reduce glare. There are still only 9 symbols on this skull]

Tags: cartouche, contest, hieroglyphics, land-of-the-dead, mythic, war, warhammer-online

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Ardy said on 5:59PM 6-11-2009

Woohoo! Got my amulet.

Now to really get back into the WARblogosphere

Carrie said on 6:08PM 6-11-2009

Yep got mine too. I tried Massively's first but it didn't work, or I got it wrong, so I used mmorpg.com's code instead.

Shadow WAR said on 6:09PM 6-11-2009

All of the glyphs to solve this cartouche have supposedly been revealed. That said, one of my readers has reported that it is not working for them when they enter it. Any chance of getting a better image of the first and fourth glyphs to verify their identity? The curve and the glare tend to obscure them and could be causing some error.

phantomoftruth said on 6:17PM 6-11-2009

Did it really accept the 9-digit code in the cartouche?

Shadow WAR said on 6:47PM 6-11-2009

No, and that's the problem. The glare on the fourth character is blowing out the bottom portion of it, and causing errors in the interpretation.

Shadow WAR said on 7:06PM 6-11-2009

Thanks for the new image. It looks very similar to the "I" glyph that we saw on Keen and Graev's site, but it is different enough to cast doubts. Appreciate the swift response!

phantomoftruth said on 7:43PM 6-11-2009

My concern was more about the Cartouche containing 9 symbols and the two others we've seen containing 10.

Brian! said on 1:08AM 6-12-2009

Has anyone been able to get this one to work?

Brian! said on 12:29AM 6-12-2009

Bah, I tried multiple times today to make this work without avail. Very frustrating!

KingGrowl said on 1:13AM 6-12-2009

Still can't get this one to work.

Brian! said on 4:04AM 6-12-2009

Me neither. I keep wondering if one of the characters represents two letters. Like some old runes have characters that represent "th" and "ee"

KingGrowl said on 4:34AM 6-12-2009

Hmmm, that's a good idea.

phantomoftruth said on 10:55AM 6-12-2009

Reports are that Mythic corrected something and there has been confirmation that the code on the cartouche now works. So, if you cracked this code, try to enter it again.

Arovin said on 11:01AM 6-12-2009

Try what you originally thought yesterday but did not work. There was a problem with the code, they have fixed it. Just tried it myself and it worked.