On Saturday over in the Blizzard Watch Discord, Anna Bell noted that the recently-released Titanium Court was “aggressively Phil U. coded.” She’s not wrong, of course; it has been on my wishlist since the demo launched a month or two ago, and an incredibly wry combination of match-3 puzzler, roguelite, and auto-battler about faerie courts trapped in a perpetual war in a surreal shifting reality, led by a queen who really just wants to go home but finds that her steward who holds all the answers is avoiding her as much as possible, is in fact squarely in my wheelhouse. Titanium Court is a game that’s not afraid to ask the big questions, like “what if you could replace intrusive thoughts with pleasant ones about baseball?” and “is the desire for a taco universal?”
And so, I launched it yesterday and lost my entire night immersed in it. I looked up and said “when did the sun go down?” Been a while since that happened. But today is a new day! So let’s set that “potion of liking baseball” in a sunny spot until it bubbles and answer some questions insetad, because this is The Queue, where we do that kind of thing.
This is Mistress Nagmara, a barmaid at the Grim Guzzler tavern in Shadowforge City, Blackrock Mountain (home of the Dark Iron Dwarves). In WoW, she used to start and end a quest that has since been removed from the game, making her a rare Succubus character that players could interact with. In Hearthstone, she’s just been added as both a Warlock skin and a bartender in Battlegrounds. She’s my current bartender of choice, in fact. I really like her voice lines. She’s very good at her job of encouraging you in a way that sounds much more “friendly barmaid” than “saucy succubus,” to be honest.
Also, “Nagmara” is an anagram of “anagram.”
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