Pop Culture References of Wizard101: Khrysalis – Tristam YoungBlood and Isolde TrueGrace

Tristam YoungBlood and Isolde TrueGrace – Tristan and Isolde from the Arthurian Legends
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Tristam_YoungBlood
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Isolde_TrueGrace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_and_Iseult

Tristam YoungBlood

Tristam YoungBlood and Isolde TrueGrace are a young burrower couple who are unfrozen with the restoration of the Eclipse Tower.

Tristam and Isolde were purchasing their wedding chalice when the Shadow Queen cursed all of Bastion. They had been separated at the time of the curse and awaken thinking each had lost the other. It is up to your wizard to reunite the loving couple.

Tristan and Iseult, also known as Tristan and Isolde and other names, is a medieval chivalric romance told in numerous variations since the 12th century. Based on a Celtic legend and possibly other sources, the tale is a tragedy about the illicit love between the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Iseult. It depicts Tristan’s mission to escort Iseult from Ireland to marry his uncle, King Mark of Cornwall. On the journey, Tristan and Iseult ingest a love potion, instigating a forbidden love affair between them.

Isolde TrueGrace

The story has had a lasting impact on Western culture. Its different versions exist in many European texts in various languages from the Middle Ages. The earliest instances take two primary forms: the courtly and common branches, associated with the 12th-century poems of Thomas of Britain and Béroul, the latter believed to reflect a now-lost original version. A subsequent version emerged in the 13th century in the wake of the greatly expanded Prose Tristan, merging Tristan’s romance with the legend of King Arthur. Finally, after the revived interest in the medieval era in the 19th century under the influence of Romantic nationalism, the story has continued to be popular in the modern era, notably Wagner’s operatic adaptation.

Tristan and Isolde by Herbert Draper (1901)

The current list of all the (known) Khrysalis references can be found 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.

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Tristan and Isolde by Herbert Draper (1901) is borrowed from Wikipedia it is in the public domain.

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