Thieves’ Den – Thieves’ Den from Ali Babba and the 40 Thieves, Jabba’s Palace, and the Mos Eisley Cantina
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Location:Thieves’_Den
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Baba_and_the_Forty_Thieves
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mos_Eisley
https://www.starwars.com/databank/mos-eisley-cantina
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Jabba’s_Palace
Wizards enter this Den of Thieves in a cunning disguise in the quest Devinn’s Dance Squad to retrieve a stolen Djinni’s Lamp from the clutches of the Thuggie Boss.
The found housing item Hanging Lantern (Mirage) can be found here. Sharp-eyed wizards will find evidence of visitors from Skull Island.
To find the Thieves’ Den when not on a quest and you have no directional arrow, take a carpet to Caterwaul. Go up the ramp until you reach the top where the scaly trengils are (fire mobs). Across from them you should see a camel named Amahl. Go to her.
As you’re facing Amahl, there’s a little passageway just to your right. Go down there. At the bottom you will see prickly dire bears (balance mobs). To the left there is a covered wagon and opposite it, off to your right, you will see a darkened lamp standing next to the canyon wall.
Just to the right of the lamp, the door to Thieves Den is hidden in the wall. Just walk through the stone confidently and you’ll end up inside. Thank you Freshta / Alia Misthaven of the Wizard101 forum for these directions.
“Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves” is a folk tale in Arabic added to the One Thousand and One Nights in the 18th century by its French translator Antoine Galland, who heard it from Syrian storyteller Hanna Diyab. As one of the most popular Arabian Nights tales, it has been widely retold and performed in many media across the world, especially for children (for whom the more violent aspects of the story are often suppressed).
In the original version, Ali Baba is a poor woodcutter and an honest person who discovers the secret of a thieves’ den, and enters with the magic phrase “open sesame”. The thieves try to kill Ali Baba, but his faithful slave-girl foils their plots. His son marries her, and Ali Baba keeps the secret of the treasure.
Mos Eisley is a spaceport town in the fictional Star Wars universe. Located on the planet Tatooine, it first appeared in the 1977 film Star Wars, described by the character Obi-Wan Kenobi (played by Alec Guinness) as a “wretched hive of scum and villainy”.
A notable scene set in a seedy Mos Eisley cantina crowded with numerous alien races made a particular impact on audiences. Location filming for the spaceport took place from 1975 to 1976 in Tunisia, with interiors filmed at Elstree Studios near London.
Hutt Castle, often simply called Jabba the Hutt’s Palace after its owner, was a large sandrock and durasteel complex located at the fringes of the Northern Dune Sea on the planet of Tatooine. It first appeared in the 1983 film Return of the Jedi.
Many years after the fateful meeting in the Mos Eisley Cantina, Jabba captured smuggler and Rebel Alliance member Han Solo in carbonite, the Hutt displayed the Human on his trophy wall for all to see. An asset to the increasingly powerful Alliance, Princess Leia Organa was dispatched with the Wookiee Chewbacca to rescue the man. Disguised as the bounty hunter Boushh, Organa attempted to bargain with the Hutt, but her attempt was thwarted and the two were imprisoned. Not long after, the Alliance sent Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker to recover all three Alliance agents. When Skywalker’s attempts failed, he was cast into the rancor pit as a form of public execution. Skywalker, after defeating the rancor, was handed a harsher punishment: Jabba would cast Skywalker and his friends into the maw of the sarlacc at the Great Pit of Carkoon.
Skywalker and his friends defeated Jabba at the sarlacc pit and left Tatooine shartly after.
The current list of all the (known) Mirage 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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