Pop Culture References of Wizard101
Ar’dath Bey – Ardath Bey, Ardeth Bay
http://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Ar%27dath_Bey#axzz7TZGxTh6u
https://universalmonstersuniverse.com/2016/04/11/ardeth-bay-now/
https://mummy.fandom.com/wiki/Ardeth_Bay
Ar’dath Bey is the Fire School Clothing Recipe Vendor in Krokotopia. He is located in the Altar of Kings.
In 1932’s The Mummy, Ardath Bey (Boris Karloff) is the form taken by the awakened mummy. He retains all of his powers and uses them to control Zita Johann‘s character Helen Grosvenor, who in a past life was Princess Ankh-es-en-Amon.
In the 1999 Universal reboot of the Mummy franchise, Ardeth Bay was a Medjai chieftain and warrior that led a band of warriors patrolling the Sahara desert. A personal friend of the O’Connell family in later years, Ardeth Bay dedicated much of his life ensuring with other Medjai warriors that the High Priest Imhotep did not return from the dead and went on to instruct younger warriors, notably Alexander O’Connell, in the ways of the Medjai.
This is the twenty-fourth article chronicling the #W101PopCulture references starting in Wizard City and the first for Krokotopia. The current list of all the (known) Krokotopia references can be found here. These articles were originally put together for a Facebook group I belong to. Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.
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