Brother Flare – “Nature Boy” Ric Flair
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Brother Ray is a member of the Covenant of Ra. He follows your Wizard through the Moonseum of Taweret correcting the Audio Tour’s fascinating historical facts with the unvarnished truth.
The Covenant of Ra exists to spread the Light of the Sun and pierce the shadow of the Moon, exposing the lies and revealing the truth. Other members of the Covenant of Ra are; Brother Bright, Brother Helio, Brother Ray, Brother Sola, and Brother Sunn. All these brothers have Sun derived names, “The bright ray of the sun was a helio solar flare.” That said the following COULD be a coincidence, but KI has been subtle in their references before. Brother Flare’s vocal intonations sound a lot like retired professional wrestler, Ric Flair.
(Top Left to Bottom Right) Brother Bright, Brother Flare, Brother Helio, Brother Ray, Brother Sola, and Brother Sunn
Richard Morgan Fliehr (born February 25, 1949), known professionally as Ric Flair, is an American retired professional wrestler. Widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, Flair’s career spanned 50 years.
He is noted for his tenures with Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, later WWE) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). Much of his career was spent in JCP and WCW, in which he won numerous titles. Since the mid-1970s, he has used the moniker “the Nature Boy”. A major pay-per-view attraction throughout his career, Flair headlined the premier annual NWA/WCW event, Starrcade, on ten occasions, while also co-headlining its WWF counterpart, WrestleMania, in 1992, after winning that year’s Royal Rumble. Pro Wrestling Illustrated awarded him their PWI Wrestler of the Year award a record six times, while Wrestling Observer Newsletter named him the Wrestler of the Year (an award named after him and Lou Thesz) a record eight times. The first two-time WWE Hall of Fame inductee, first inducted with the class of 2008 for his individual career and again with the class of 2012 as a member of The Four Horsemen, he is also a member of the NWA Hall of Fame, the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame.
Flair is recognized by WWE as a 16-time world champion (8-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion, 6-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, and two-time WWF Champion), although the number of his world championship reigns varies by source, ranging from 16 or 17 to 25. He has claimed to be a 21-time champion. He was the first holder of the WCW World Heavyweight Championship and the WCW International World Heavyweight Championship (which he also held last). As the inaugural WCW World Heavyweight Champion, he became the first person to complete the WCW Triple Crown, having already held the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship and WCW World Tag Team Championship. He then completed the WWE Triple Crown when he won the WWE Intercontinental Championship, after already holding the WWF Championship and the World Tag Team Championship.
The current list of all the (known) Krokotopia 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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Brother Bright, Brother Flare, Brother Helio, Brother Ray, Brother Sola, and Brother Sunn images are from Wizard101, and are copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.
Covenant of Ra combined image assembled by Alien Graphics
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Ric Flair vs. Hulk Hogan is borrowed from Wikipedia. It is copyright Matthew Glover – originally posted to Flickr. It is shared under the CC BY 2.0 Creative Commons license.
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