Sacred 2:Griffinborough Cemetery

Griffinborough: The capital of the Artamark region and the largest human settlement in Artamark during the Sacred 2 era. As such, it has one of the larger cemeteries in the game.

The cemetery occupies an area north of the civilian quarter and south of the military barracks.

• I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

• You've been rickrolled!

- Rickrolling is a rather ugly trick to play on someone. If you have a link to a website promising something of value - a scandalous celebrity picture, funny video, and when you click on the link you're treated to "Together Forever" by 80's pop diva Rick Astley, you've been rickrolled. The term "rick roll" is a reference to aninternet phenomenon where someone puts up a link allegedly to some content that would be desireable to watch or otherwise scandalous and when the unsuspecting person clicks on the link, he or she is 'rewarded' with a video featuring 80's pop "star" Rick Astley performing his one hit, "Never Gonna Give You Up".

• Marcus had one Long Island Iced Tea too many.

• Kimba and Pebbles - RIP - I am grateful that you blessed me with your love.

• Be careful what you wish for - I wished to find a way to solve all my problems, now they're solved, but I'm here.

• Last words: "You wimps, this bridge is perfectly safaaaaaahhhhhhgggggghhhhh..."

• Here lies Andreas L. He asked for POIs once too often...

- A reference to Andreas Liebskind - an Ascaron Employee.

• All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

• I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

• Please knock before entering.

• In Honor of Heiko tom Felde: Guardian of the Iceberg!

- Ascaron employee and manager of Sacred 2.

• In honor of Torsten Meier: Silence was cowardly, talking was gold!

- An Ascaron employee

• Darwin Award Winner #29

- The Darwin Awards are given out annually to those people who have removed themselves from the gene pool.

• I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

• You cannot assault the fortress of Khorad Nur armed only with a fruit knife.

- A reference to an Orc fortress in Sacred (Original game)

• While you're distracted reading this, my ghost is picking your pocket.

• Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no more sincere love the the love of food.

Celebrity Graves

Some of the coolest celebrities have found themselves buried in Griffinborough's cemetary. Many of them have the honor of also having an epitaph that is also an Easter egg - a homage to Douglas Adams. It's a play on the title of one of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series called "So long and Thanks for All the Fish".

• Gene Roddenberry - RIP, and thanks for going boldly where no man went before.

- Creator of Star Trek, Earth: Final Conflict, Andromeda and numerous other science fiction series. Note: He does not have a proper grave as he was cremated shortly after his death. Some of his ashes have been taken into space. After his death in 1991, he was cremated and some of his ashes were taken sent into orbit in 1997. More of his ashes and those of his wife Majel Barret who passed away in 2008, are scheduled to be launched into deep space in 2012.

• Yves St Laurent - RIP, and thanks for all the fashion.

• Hiram Bullock - RIP, and thanks for all that jazz.

• Estelle Getty - RIP, and thanks for all the laughs.

• Aleksander Solzhenitsyn - RIP, and thanks for all the words.

• Warren Zevon - I'll Sleep when I'm dead. RIP, and thanks for all the tunes.

• Robert Aspirin - RIP, and thanks for all the books.

• Heath Ledger - RIP, and thanks for all the movies.

• Joseph Weizenbaum - RIP, and thanks for ELIZA.

• George Carlin - RIP, and thanks for all the laughs.

• Dave Allen - RIP, and thanks for seeing life as it was.

Statues, Memorials and Guardians

• If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - Tolkien

- Tolkien, of course, is J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

• A room without books is like a body without a soul.

• Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. - Hoover

• Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. - Welles

- Refers to Orson Welles, movie maker extraordinare and perpetrator of the 1939 radio broadcast of HG Wells' War of the Worlds. Back in the day, people thought his radio play was real and aliens were actually attacking Earth. He was also a rather large individual. This quote appears to be a rebuttal to John F. Kennedy's quote "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

• All human actions have one or more of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion and desire. - Aristotle

• Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. - proverb

• One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win one is as disastrous as to lose one. - Christie

• Perseverance is more prevailing that violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. - Plutarch

• The superior man is modest in speech, but exceeds in his actions. - Confucius

• Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Wilde

Graveside Spam

A quest exists in Thylysium for the United Undertakers "Daisypushers". It would seem the company isn't limited to the Tyr Lysia region. There is a grave marker in the Griffinborough Cemetary that is sponsored by them:

• The United Undertakers "Daisypushers" welcome you.
• The package "Tender Greetings" includes both a lying surface of 2.10 meters in a quality coffin made of Ancarian Oak, as well as the complimentary undead guarantee for ten years. Accessories include a Kobold plush imitation, a death bell, two T-Energy powered death lights, a statue of Lumen (other gods on request). If you have any questions or if you wish to have a test lie-in, find the nearest portal and travel to Thylysium. You will find us near the temple. The package "Tender Greetings" includes both a lying surface of 2,10 meters in a quality coffin made of Ancarian Oak, as well as the complementary undead guarantee for ten years. Accessories include a Kobold plush imitation, a death bell, two T-Energy powered lights, and a statue of Lumen (other gods available on request). If you have any questions or if you want a test lie-in, find the nearest portal and travel to Thylisium. You will find us near the temple. This grave is in the east end of the cemetary, all by itself, advertising the United Undertakers 'Daisypushers' - headquartered in Thylysium. See Insuring the Insurance.

See Also

• Easter Eggs
• Grave Inscriptions