The Guild of the Wooden Flute was a group of Might and Magic fans that were inspired by the wooden flute, a useless item in Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven.
History[]
Might and Magic VI included a wooden flute item that didn't actually have an in-game use. Several fans who had carried the item all through the game began to speculate about secret uses of the item, and two fans, Gamegurl and Steve Jaqvaar, decided to form a guild to celebrate it[1]. The guild created many fake rumors about the flute[2].
When Might and Magic VIII: Day of the Destroyer was released, it included The Tomb of Lord Brinne, a tribute to a Might and Magic fan who had been very active on the forums, but had passed away. Early members of the guild were placed as a silent honor guard in the tomb, and a wooden flute was placed in Lord Brinne's sarcophagus. The flute was a key to a secret dungeon in the Plane Between Planes[1].
The guild's website stopped updating in 2001. DaveO, who maintained the site, said that after the 9/11 attacks, it felt "very inappropriate in my opinion to concentrate any more efforts on fictional fantasies"[3].
Sources[]
| The Might and Magic community | ||
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| English-speaking sites | Age of Heroes (Heroes Community - Tournament of Honor) - Castle Gobs - Celestial Heavens (The Heroes Round Table) - Flamestryke - Maps4Heroes.com - Might & Magic Taverns - The Genie's Lamp | |
| International fansites | Acidcave - Archangel Castle - Behemoth's Lair - Drachenwald - Heroes Centrum - Heroes.fr - Heroic Corner - The Ivory Tower | |
| Defunct fansites | Astral Wizard - Elrath - Guardian's Grove - Nether Gods | |
| Notable works | Heroes of Might and Magic III: Horn of The Abyss — Might and Magic: Swords of Xeen — Heroes of Might and Magic III: In the Wake of Gods — VCMI — Heroes of Might and Magic IV: Equilibris — Might and Magic Tribute: Book of Ceth — Heroes of Might and Magic V fan manual — Skill wheel — Ghosts of the Past — Heroes of Might and Magic V: Legends of the Ancients — New Creature Framework — Might and Magic VI: The Chaos Conspiracy | |
| Related | Guild of the Wooden Flute - SaveHeroes.org - The Tomb of Lord Brinne | |