The official Wizard101 Twitter account teased Darkmoor is coming as a playable Wizard101 world Fall 2025.
Further reports indicate this will be the official start of Arc 5, meaning Selenopolis is a side expansion like the Wizard City Drains of 2019.
Darkmoor has history with both Wizard101 and Pirate101. Our level 100 Wizard went to Darkmoor Castle to defeat Malistaire the Undying in 2014. Later that same year The Professor sent your level 40 (or above) wizard to Darkmoor to prevent the Mastero from replacing Dworgyn as the Death Professor.
If your Pirate chooses the Witchdoctor path, he or she is schooled by Madame Vadima.
Description: Madame Vadima came to Skull Island from far off Darkmoor–though she won’t talk about what made her leave her homeland, some say she’s hiding on Skull Island under Avery’s protection–from who or from what remains a mystery. Some say she was once a student at Pigswick Academy but was expelled for research into black magic. Vadima is an amazing fortune teller. The prophecies she sees card readin’ and crystal gazin’ have earned her a high place in Avery’s organization. Though often confusin’, her pronouncements are rarely wrong. She spends most of her time consulting with new Witchdoctors as they train their powers of Hoodoo. Make sure you drop by and pay her a visit when you’re returning to Avery’s Court–just look for the Ghostly green vapors escaping from her Witchdoctor’s Sanctum.
In Cool Ranch your Pirate chances upon lawman, Bat Masterson and a fleet of Darkmoor ships controlled by William The Duck (English Bill).
Description: A member of the Magnificent 7, they say Bat’s from Darkmoor, but his heart’s in the right place. He’s as quiet as a shadow and a better tracker than a bloodhound. Bat was featured in the November 2017 Pirate101 Newsletter Rogue’s Gallery:
The vampire that would come to be known as Bat Masterson was born Barklementizov Masterson in distant Darkmoor. He came from a vampire clan who had spent centuries serving a powerful elder vampire (they were quite literally the “Master’s Sons”). A junior member of the clan, young Barklementizov’s life was one of service and drudgery. All that changed when The Master started a feud with the dreaded Shane von Shane – The Master lost the battle, and his servants scattered to the four winds.
Barklementizov made his way Back East, where the locals had no patience for his tongue-twisting name and simply called him “Bat.” His Darkmoor origins left Bat shunned and even persecuted by the local fowl, so Bat made his way to Cool Ranch to try and build a new life in solitude.
He tried his hand at Buffaloon hunting, and found his magical talents and fearsome nature made him an ideal bounty hunter. But he gave up that career when he met legendary lawman Wyatt Chirp, who was the first bird who happily called bat by his proper name (a “five dollar name,” as Wyatt put it). Wyatt recruited Bat in the Magnificent Seven, where he made quite a name for himself. By the time the Seven broke up, Bat tried his hand as a businessman – a career he quickly abandoned when he met a young pirate…
So what can Wizards expect from Darkmoor? Hoodoo Magic, Zombies, Creatures of the Night, Vampires, Gothic Horror, and of course Pop Culture references based on the macabre, horror, Grimms Fairy Tales and Eastern Europe.
Known Pop Culture references associated with Darkmoor:
Aphrodite II – Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Aphrodite_II
https://littleshop.fandom.com/wiki/Audrey_II
Dworgyn – Ygor / Igor
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Dworgyn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_(character)
Harker – Jonathan Harker from Bram Stoker’s Dracula and its many adaptations.
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Harker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Harker
Howling Chaney – Lon Chaney Jr.
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Howling_Chaney
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Chaney_Jr.
Malistaire Drake (Malistaire the Undying)– The planet Malastare from the Star Wars universe
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Malistaire_Drake
https://101universe.fandom.com/wiki/Malistaire_Drake
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Malastare
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Ainlee_Teem
Renfield FlyGob – R. M. Renfield
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Renfield_FlyGob
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renfield
Shane von Shane – Dracula / Atticus Shane? / Count Strahd von Zarovich (updated 9/27/2024)
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Shane_von_Shane_(Star)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula
https://vampirediaries.fandom.com/wiki/Atticus_Shane
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Strahd_von_Zarovich
Tatyana – Tatyana from the Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms Curse of Strahd campaign.
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Tatyana
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Tatyana
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