Future Update Clue or Just a Poem?

[Hamtaro]

Right now, Bill Blakey, the only musician with an actual name (to my best knowledge), says something quite interesting when you take a ghost speak amulet down to the winding path north-west of Morton and speak to him. He says this:

 

 

Post your thoughts.

[Poppet]

The silver blooms part refers to the silver sickle thats all I got. :P

 

 

 

Edit:Sounds like a new farming patch or garden.

[Den]

Sounds to me like the Vampyre Queen "kissed" him or something, turning him into the 'silver' ghost form.

 

 

 

Other then that, something about gardens. :P

[Bananamatic]

he's trippin balls

 

dwarf weed is a helluva drug

[Suiku]

The ghost is a reference to a singer, the poet is a reference to a song of the singer.

[Mil]

he's trippin balls

 

dwarf weed is a helluva drug

 

 

 

Banana .

 

 

 

Sounds like a quest to me. I've had enough of poems this year though :ohnoes:.

[Esper_Jones]

Wow. They actually got that through?

 

 

 

Guess most kids don't know the definition of "sporting" used in this song. ;)

[spacheco]

he's trippin balls

 

dwarf weed is a helluva drug

 

 

 

 

 

[bleep]in siggied

[Caromon]

The ghost piper in the Wildy also says stuff about him remembering playing to rally Saradomins troops where he was and doesn't remember anythign after that. Since he's in the Wildy it must have taken place in the God Wars times when he was killed. You have to be wearing a ghostspeak amulet to talk to him.

[Beethovens29]

"...I the queen..."

 

"...my wings where wet..."

 

"...caught me in her silken net..."

 

"...silver wing..."

 

*ahem*...anyone smell fairies in here? =]

 

 

 

as for the "Phoebus" well i googled** that and it came up as the Latin-form of the greek mythological god Apollo which translates to "the shining one".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OffT: have you ever noticed that the word "Google" which originated as a noun, is now being turned into a verb as well. Instead of saying, "Hey, why don't you go on ^Google^ and search that?" we say, "Hey, just ^google^ it - it's much faster."

[Aidos Drakon]

Since the poem mentions the roman god Phoebus, we can assume that "queen of love" is Aphrodite. This suggests that the poem is symbolic and not literal. It does seem to give an account of his death, but what the rest means I can not be sure.

[Great_one]

The son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis. Apollo was the god of music (principally the lyre, and he directed the choir of the Muses) and also of prophecy, colonization, medicine, archery (but not for war or hunting), poetry, dance, intellectual inquiry and the carer of herds and flocks. He was also a god of light, known as "Phoebus" (radiant or beaming, and he was sometimes identified with Helios the sun god). He was also the god of plague and was worshiped as Smintheus (from sminthos, rat) and as Parnopius (from parnops, grasshopper) and was known as the destroyer of rats and locust, and according to Homer's Iliad, Apollo shot arrows of plague into the Greek camp. Apollo being the god of religious healing would give those guilty of murder and other immoral deeds a ritual purification. Sacred to Apollo are the swan (one legend says that Apollo flew on the back of a swan to the land of the Hyperboreans, he would spend the winter months among them), the wolf and the dolphin. His attributes are the bow and arrows, on his head a laurel crown, and the cithara (or lyre) and plectrum. But his most famous attribute is the tripod, the symbol of his prophetic powers.

[Alg]

So it's not just a bard singing?

[Drakolord7]

Since the poem mentions the roman god Phoebus, we can assume that "queen of love" is Aphrodite. This suggests that the poem is symbolic and not literal. It does seem to give an account of his death, but what the rest means I can not be sure.

 

 

 

Actually, the fact is uses Phoebus would make us assume that the Queen of Love is Venus ;)

 

 

 

Anyways, the poem makes me think of Queen Efaritay of the Icyene

[strilmus]

Er, it sounds like a vampir-I mean, vyre lured him into a trap and forced him to stay bound to the land forever as a singing ghost for her amusement.

[harbringerjm]

Er, it sounds like a vampir-I mean, vyre lured him into a trap and forced him to stay bound to the land forever as a singing ghost for her amusement.

 

 

 

Sounds almost like he was a Vyrewatch, then got cured of the disease and turned to a ghost (Like the thingies in the columbarium).

[Xecer]

Since the poem mentions the roman god Phoebus, we can assume that "queen of love" is Aphrodite. This suggests that the poem is symbolic and not literal. It does seem to give an account of his death, but what the rest means I can not be sure.

 

 

 

Actually, the fact is uses Phoebus would make us assume that the Queen of Love is Venus ;)

 

 

 

Anyways, the poem makes me think of Queen Efaritay of the Icyene

 

 

 

Venus = Aphrodite, just 2 languages; Latin and Greek.

[Darkkalphite]

Since the poem mentions the roman god Phoebus, we can assume that "queen of love" is Aphrodite. This suggests that the poem is symbolic and not literal. It does seem to give an account of his death, but what the rest means I can not be sure.

 

 

 

Actually, the fact is uses Phoebus would make us assume that the Queen of Love is Venus ;)

 

 

 

Anyways, the poem makes me think of Queen Efaritay of the Icyene

 

Exactly.

 

 

 

I think Queen Efaritay might have had the power to turn humans into some kind of divine spirit.

 

Also, Queen Efaritay used to rule Morytania so...

 

The next myreque quest might be coming :

[strilmus]

Has anybody tried to talk to them with the ghost robes on?

[Neos_Matrix]

Sounds like a poem, I heard from the other sites.

[Hippodo]

I've been to the ghost, it's a really nice poem in my opinion : .

 

 

 

Knowing the ghost stands in Morytania, it is easy to think the 'queen' he is talking about is in fact Queen Efaritay. In the first three screens, he's singing about roaming through the Myre and meeting the 'queen of love'. She shows him her gardens fair and wore flowers in her hair. Furthermore, the last screen states 'Then stretches out her silver wing'. This could all very well refer to Efaritay. She's an Icyene and they have silver wings. But what puzzles me are these sentences:

 

 

 

'She'd caught me in her silken net,

 

And trap'd me as this silver shade.

 

...

 

And mocks my loss of liberty.'

 

 

 

This all sounds a bit cruel for the Queen Efaritay we know. She was known as a good queen, a benign ruler fighting against the forces of evil. I can't really see this coming from her. Either this isn't Efaritay, or this is Efaritay, but she's being possessed in the last part, or she isn't that good as we thought...

 

 

 

Finally, I'm intrigued by 'Phoebus' kiss' that slowly faded. What is this? If we look at the meaning of Phoebus (posted above), I think Phoebus' kiss is some sort of blessing, maybe of medicine/health or light. If I understand the text posted above correctly, the name Phoebus refers to Apollo being the God of Light, so light would be a good choice. But Bill talks about his blessing slowly fading away, so this may indicate a slipping health, or dieing. Maybe the unknown queen turned him into a ghost because he was dieing anyway, and she just enjoyed his music too much...

 

 

 

[/historian] :P

[demby123]

he's trippin balls

 

dwarf weed is a helluva drug

 

LOL :ohnoes: :lol:

[sir_molk]

Poem by in-game Bill Blakey:

 

 

 

How sweet I roamed from fen to fen, And tasted all the Myre's pride,

 

'Till I the queen of love did ken, Who in the spirit beams did glide!

 

She shew'd me lilies in her hair, And blushing roses for her brow.

 

She led me through her gardens fair, Where all her silver blooms do grow.

 

With sweet Myre dews my wings were wet, And Phoebus' kiss did slowly fade

 

She'd caught me in her silken net, And trap'd me as this silver shade.

 

She loves to sit and hear me sing, Then laughing, sports and plays with me

 

Then stretches out her silver wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.

 

 

 

Poem by real life poet William Blake:

 

 

 

How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride

 

'Til the prince of love beheld who in the sunny beams did glide!

 

He shew'd me lilies for my hair And blushing roses for my brow

 

He led me through his garden fair, Where all his golden pleasures grow

 

With sweet May dews my wings were wet, And Phoebus fir'd my vocal rage

 

He caught me in his silken net, And shut me in his golden cage

 

He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me

 

Then stretches out my golden wing,And mocks my loss of liberty.

 

 

 

I bolded the parts that are different, so those are the parts are most likely to refer to anything in-game.

[Hamtaro]

Poem by in-game Bill Blakey:

 

[hide=]How sweet I roamed from fen to fen, And tasted all the Myre's pride,

 

'Till I the queen of love did ken, Who in the spirit beams did glide!

 

She shew'd me lilies in her hair, And blushing roses for her brow.

 

She led me through her gardens fair, Where all her silver blooms do grow.

 

With sweet Myre dews my wings were wet, And Phoebus' kiss did slowly fade

 

She'd caught me in her silken net, And trap'd me as this silver shade.

 

She loves to sit and hear me sing, Then laughing, sports and plays with me

 

Then stretches out her silver wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.[/hide]

 

 

 

Poem by real life poet William Blake:

 

 

 

[hide=]How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride

 

'Til the prince of love beheld who in the sunny beams did glide!

 

He shew'd me lilies for my hair And blushing roses for my brow

 

He led me through his garden fair, Where all his golden pleasures grow

 

With sweet May dews my wings were wet, And Phoebus fir'd my vocal rage

 

He caught me in his silken net, And shut me in his golden cage

 

He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me

 

Then stretches out my golden wing,And mocks my loss of liberty.[/hide]

 

 

 

I bolded the parts that are different, so those are the parts are most likely to refer to anything in-game.

 

 

 

Great catch!

[deathhead154]

Phoebus is often used in litterature to symbolize the Sun, or sunlight in its many forms. Perhaps here, it could reference to the rotting of Morytania, hence the loss of sunlight?