Pop Culture References of Wizard101: Dragonspyre – Pitter Daybreeze

Pitter Daybreeze – Piter de Vries
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Quest:Pitter_Pattern#axzz7czfd4ta7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piter_De_Vries

Pitter Daybreeze’s House

Storm Wizards must search the rubble in his house for their level 48 Spell Quest, Pitter Pattern.

Piter De Vries is a fictional character from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. He is primarily featured in the 1965 novel Dune, but also appears in the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy (1999–2001) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.

Dune – Berkley Paperback edition

De Vries is portrayed by Brad Dourif in David Lynch’s 1984 film Dune, by Jan Unger in the 2000 Dune miniseries, and by David Dastmalchian in the 2021 Denis Villeneuve film Dune

Brad Dourif
Jan Unger
David Dastmalchian

In the service of the ruthless Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, De Vries is a Mentat—a human specially trained to perform mental functions rivaling computers, which are forbidden universe-wide, after the Butlerian Jihad. In addition, De Vries has been “twisted” into an amoral sadist by the Tleilaxu.

The current list of all the (known) Dragonspyre references are located here.

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.

Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages

Dragonspyre image is from Wizard101, and is copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.

Dune cover is copyright Berkley Books
Brad Dourif as Piter De Vries is copyright Universal Pictures
Jan Unger as Piter De Vries is copyright Artisan Enterment and the SciFi Channel
David Dastmalchian as Piter De Vries from Denis Villeneuve’s Dune (2021) is copyright Legendary Pictures

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