DAOC Trophy Mobs: The Trophy Museum on Gaheris

The Trophy Museum on Gaheris

After two and a half years of blood-curdling trophy-hunting, the trophy museum is finally complete. It ~~contains~~ used to contain every trophy in the game.

The museum is located in four buildings on lots 41, 42, 44, and 47 in Caerwent on Gaheris.

Interview with the curator

Q. Do these four buildings really contain every trophy?

A. They used to, but not anymore.

Q. What's missing?

A. The two mauler trophies in the Labyrinth expansion. They don't exist on Gaheris, where the museum is located, so the museum wil never again be complete.

Q. What about Roundtable items?

A. I don't consider them part of the game because players can't get them in the game. They are a marketing ploy. Therefore I've made no effort to acquire them for the museum. And I don't think I could get them all if I wanted to, because only one, so far as I know, ever existed on Gaheris. But if you want to see screenshots of them, click here.

Reader mail

A bunch of us who play on Lamorak made a guild trip to check out ur houses. While the PvE server was dead, your house was by far the coolest thing we have ever seen put together on the server. Normally I wouldn't send an e-mail but I had to say congrats on a job well done. A couple of us had always wanted to see some of the trophies like the 2 headed dragon. Thanks again.

—Resp of Lamorak
Elemental Paradox

Q. How many trophies are there?

A. 169 if you count 7 trophies in Darkness Rising.

Q. It must have taken a lot of work to collect all these trophies. What made you do this?

A. No idea. Maybe you should ask my therapist.

Q. Did you get help from other people?

A. Lots of people helped me hunt trophies over the years. In most cases their names are given on the pages of this website that describe individual mobs, so I won't list them here. But my old friend Colossuss deserves special mention in this interview because he began the trophy museum back in 2003. A year later he became disgusted with the game when one of his houses decayed even though the rent was fully paid, so he gave me his accounts and left for City of Heroes. One of those accounts contained a guild mansion with several dozen trophies in it. I kept adding to the collection and eventually moved it into four new buildings.

Q. What's your favorite part of the museum?

A. The Wall of Arr.

Q. What's that?

Colossuss of Gaheris, the museum's founder.

A. It's a wall covered with Arr trophies. (Update: the Arr trophies now occupy a cottage of their own on lot 44 to make room for other trophies in the two mansions.)

Q. What's so special about that?

A. If you've ever hunted Arr, you'll understand.

Q. What's your favorite trophy?

A. Xanxicar.

Q. Why?

A. Because the artwork is terrific. The trophy is big and dramatic. And it's extremely rare.

Q. What's your least favorite trophy?

A. Anything from the Chapter 3 dungeons.

Q. Can you be more specific? There are five trophies in those dungeons.

A. They all look like globs of gook that someone scraped out of a kitchen drain. What's the point of trying to distinguish them?

Q. Aren't you being a little harsh?

A. I'm being harsh because Mythic has an outstanding art department that is capable of much better work.

Q. Now that the trophy collection is complete, what's your next project?

A. Are you suggesting that there's life after trophies?

Q. I don't know, I'm asking you.

A. Trophies are a hard act to follow. I don't know… maybe I'll try collecting matchbooks.

The Wall of Arr.

Reader mail

As a player of four years who has done a lot of farming in his time, I have used your website countless times to figure out where a mob was and whether or not it was worth getting the trophy. I just wanted to congratulate you on the mansions. It was possibly the most impressive setup I have ever seen. Thanks again for starting the website and keeping it alive all this time.

—Alaracon of Mordred

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