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Disney Dreamlight Valley: All Garden of Whimsy Star Path Duties and Rewards
Riddle Task Type Target Requirements Token Reward Uproot Night Thorns. Remove Night Thorns (Dreamlight Valley), Splinters of Fate (Eternity Isle), and/or Inkies (Storybook Vale) Any 10 10 Practice MINE-fulness. Mine Any mineral/gems 5 20 Tackle Royal Tasks. Complete Royal Duties Any 5 10 Get crafty! Craft Any 3 10 Give a villager their favorite gifts. Give Favorite Gifts Any 3 20 Whip up a 3-star meal. Cook Any 3-star meal 5 10 Go fish! Fish Any 5 20 Spend time with a villager. Hangout Any 5 15 Work a shift at either restaurant. Serve Customers Chez Remy or Tiana’s Palace 3 20 Make small talk. Start Discussion Any 3 15 Pick the fruits that put Snow White to sleep. Harvest Apple 25 10 Mine precious gems with a Royal Tool. Mine Any gems 10 20 Tackle Royal Tasks. Complete Royal Duties Any 10 10 Open up fresh Memories. Collect Memory Orb: Yellow, Red, Blue, Green, Purple 5 10 Delight a robot with his favorite gifts. Give Favorite Gifts Wall-E 4 20 Cook any 4-star meal. Cook Any 4-star meal 10 10 Catch fish somewhere peaceful. Fish Peaceful Meadow 10 20 Enter into a DreamSnaps contest. DreamSnap Submit a DreamSnap 1 15 Serve customers in Chez Remy. Serve Customers Chez Remy 5 20 Say “bonjour” to a tiny chef. Start Discussion Remy 2 15 Uproot Night Thorns. Remove Night Thorns (Dreamlight Valley), Splinters of Fate (Eternity Isle), and/or Inkies (Storybook Vale) Any 20 10 Mine for blue gems. Mine Aquamarine (Dazzle Beach, Forest of Valor), Blue Zircon (The Lagoon), Pure Ice (The Wild Woods, Teapot Falls, The Fallen Fortress, The Beanstalk Marhses), Sapphire (Vitalys Mines), Star Sapphire (The Wild Woods, Teapot Falls, The Fallen Fortress, The Beanstalk Marshes) 10 20 Tackle Royal Tasks. Complete Royal Duties Any 10 20 Spend time with a villager. Hangout Any 15 10 Give a stargazing wayfinder gifts. Give Favorite Gifts Moana 5 20 Cook a fairly fancy dinner. Cook Any 4-star entrée 10 10 Catch fish somewhere dazzling. Fish Dazzle Beach 10 20 Complete Boutique Challenges. Daisy Challenge Daisy’s Boutique 2 15 Serve customers in Chez Remy. Serve Customers Chez Remy 5 20 Have a chat with a demigod. Start Discussion Maui 2 15 Harvest canola. Harvest Canola 50 10 Mine for red gems. Mine Garnet (Plaza, Peaceful Meadow, The Plains, The Wastes), Ruby (Vitalys Mine, Mythopia), Spinel (The Promenade, The Grove) 10 20 Tackle Royal Tasks. Complete Royal Duties Any 15 10 Open up fresh Memories. Collect Memory Orb: Yellow, Red, Blue, Green, Purple 5 10 Give Arendelle’s queen her favorites. Give Favorite Gifts Anna 5 20 Cook a fairly fancy appetizer. Cook Any 4-star appetizer 10 10 Fish somewhere valorous. Fish Forest of Valor 10 20 Enter into a DreamSnaps contest. DreamSnap Submit a DreamSnap 1 15 Serve customers in Chez Remy. Serve Customers Chez Remy 5 20 Chat with a powerfully frosty villager. Start Discussion Elsa 2 15 Uproot Night Thorns. Remove Night Thorns (Dreamlight Valley), Splinters of Fate (Eternity Isle), and/or Inkies (Storybook Vale) Any 20 10 Mine for yellow gems. Mine Topaz (Plaza, The Docks, The Courtyard, The Bind) 10 20 Tackle Royal Tasks. Complete Royal Duties Any 15 10 Spend time with a villager. Hangout Any 15 10 Give favorite gifts to a tiny Space Ranger. Give Favorite Gifts Buzz Lightyear 5 20 Cook a fairly fancy dessert. Cook Any 4-star dessert 10 10 Fish somewhere trustworthy. Fish Glade of Trust 10 20 Complete Boutique Challenges. Daisy Challenge Daisy’s Boutique 2 15 Serve customers at Tiana’s Palace. Serve Customers Tiana’s Palace 5 20 Chat with your favorite deputy. Start Discussion Woody 2 15 Harvest something white and fluffy. Harvest Cotton 50 10 Mine for green gems. Mine Emerald (Forest of Valor, Glade of Trust), Peridot (Peaceful Meadow, Dazzle Beach, The Grasslands, The Promenade), Jade (The Courtyard, The Overlook) 10 20 Tackle Royal Tasks. Complete Royal Duties Any 15 10 Open up fresh Memories. Collect Memory Orb: Yellow, Red, Blue, Green, Purple 5 10 Give favorite gifts to the queen of Pride Rock. Give Favorite Gifts Nala 5 20 Cook a perfect entrée Cook Any 5-star entrée 10 10 Fish somewhere that’s always sunlit. Fish Sunlit Plateau 10 20 Enter into a DreamSnaps contest. DreamSnap Submit a DreamSnap 1 15 Serve customers at Tiana’s Palace. Serve Customers Tiana’s Palace 5 20 Chat with the king of the jungle. Start Discussion Simba 2 15 Uproot Night Thorns. Remove Night Thorns (Dreamlight Valley), Splinters of Fate (Eternity Isle), and/or Inkies (Storybook Vale) Any 20 10 Mine for purple gems. Mine Alexandrite (The Oasis, The Wastes), Amethyst (Frosted Heights, Forgotten Lands) 10 20 Tackle Royal Tasks. Complete Royal Duties Any 20 10 Spend time with a villager. Hangout Any 15 10 Give a book-loving villager her favorite gifts. Give Favorite Gifts Belle 4 20 Cook a perfect appetizer. Cook Any 5-star appetizer 10 10 Fish somewhere frosty. Fish Frosted Heights 10 20 Complete Boutique Challenges. Daisy Challenge Daisy’s Boutique 2 15 Serve customers at Tiana’s Palace. Serve Customers Tiana’s Palace 5 20 Chat with Belle’s beau. Start Discussion The Beast 2 15 Dig up a root vegetable with many eyes. Harvest Potato 50 10 Mine for white gems. Mine Diamond (Forgotten Lands), Opal (The Bind) 10 20 Tackle Royal Tasks. Complete Royal Duties Any 20 10 Open up fresh Memories. Collect Memory Orb: Yellow, Red, Blue, Green, Purple 5 10 Give a curious villager her favorite gifts. Give Favorite Gifts Alice 5 20 Cook a perfect dessert. Cook Any 5-star dessert 10 10 Fish somewhere forgotten. Fish Forgotten Lands 10 20 Enter into a DreamSnaps contest. DreamSnap Submit a DreamSnap 1 15 Serve customers at Tiana’s Palace. Serve Customers Tiana’s Palace 5 20 Chat with a curious young villager. Start Discussion Alice 2 15 Give some feathered villagers their favorite gifts. Give Favorite Gifts Daisy, Donald, Scrooge McDuck 20 20 Open up fresh Memories. Collect Memory Orb: Yellow, Red, Blue, Green, Purple 5 15 Feed squirrel critters their favorite food. Feed Critters Feed peanuts to squirrels in the Plaza 5 20 Mine for square gems. Mine Amethyst (Forgotten Lands, Frosted Heights), Emerald (Forest of Valor, Glade of Trust), Ruby (Vitalys Mines, The Elysian Fields, The Fiery Plains, The Statue’s Shadow, Mount Olympus), Sapphire (Vitalys Mines), Spinel (The Promenade, The Grove), Topaz (Plaza, The Docks, The Courtyard) 10 25 Give a little robot their favorite gifts. Give Favorite Gifts Wall-E, Eve 10 20 Enter into a DreamSnaps contest. DreamSnap Submit a Dreamsnap 1 15 Serve some hungry customers. Serve Customers Chez Remy or Tiana’s Palace 10 20 Spend time with a villager. Hangout Any 30 20 Collect some shoreline shellfish. Collect Clam, Oyster, Scallop 25 25 Give gifts to a blonde. Give Favorite Gifts Alice, Elsa, Kristoff, Rapunzel 20 20 Craft Large Miraculous Elixirs. Craft Even More Miraculous Fishing Bait, Even More Miraculous Growth Elixir, Even More Miraculous Pickaxe Polish, Even More Miraculous Shovel Varnish 3 20 Open up fresh Memories. Collect Memory Orb: Yellow, Red, Blue, Green, Purple 5 15 Give the sea turtle critter their favorite food. Feed Critters Feed seaweed to sea turtles on Dazzle Beach 5 20 Mine for oval gems. Mine Aquamarine (Dazzle Beach, Forest of Valor), Blue Zircon (The Lagoon), Citrine (Sunlit Plateau, Glade of Trust), Garnet (Plaza, Peaceful Meadow, The Plains, The Wastes), Peridot (Peaceful Meadow, Dazzle Beach, The Grasslands, The Promenade), Tourmaline (Frosted Heights, Sunlit Plateau) 20 25 Give residents of Halloween Town their favorite gifts. Give Favorite Gifts Jack, Sally 10 20 Complete Boutique Challenges. Daisy Challenge Daisy’s Boutique 2 15 Serve some hungry customers. Serve Customers Chez Remy or Tiana’s Palace 10 20 Spend time with a villager. Hangout Any 30 20 Cast around for seafood. Fish Brilliant Blue Starfish (The Oasis), Crab (Frosted Heights), Hippocampus (The Elysian Fields, The Fiery Plains, The Statue’s Shadow, Mount Olympus), Lobster (Glade of Trust), Octopus (The Docks, The Overlook), Pretty Pink Starfish (The Oasis), Prisma Shrimp (The Grove), Sea Snail (The Docks, The Overlook), Shrimp (Dazzle Beach), Sorcerer Hat Hermit Crab (The Bind), Stygian Mudskipper (The Elysian Fields, The Fiery Plains, The Shadow’s Statue, Mount Olympus) 20 25 Give Hades or Maui their favorite gifts. Give Favorite Gifts Hades, Maui 10 20 Craft any Training Manual. Craft Fishing Training Manual, Foraging Training Manual, Gardening Training Manual, Mining Training Manual, Timebending Training Manual, Snippet-Catching Training Manual 3 20 Open up fresh Memories. Collect Memory Orb: Yellow, Red, Blue, Green, Purple 5 15 Feed the sunbird critters their favorite food. Feed Critters Feed flowers to sunbirds in the Sunlit Plateau 5 20 Mine for something shiny. Mine Any shiny gem 5 25 Give any restaurateur in the Valley their favorite gifts. Give Favorite Gifts Remy, Tiana 10 20 Enter into a DreamSnaps contest. DreamSnap Submit a DreamSnap 1 15 Serve some hungry customers. Serve Customers Chez Remy or Tiana’s Palace 10 20 Spend time with a villager. Hangout Any 30 20 Catch fish in gold ripples. Fish Any legendary fish or seafood 10 25 Give visitors from the Alice in Wonderland realm their favorite gifts. Give Favorite Gifts Alice, Cheshire Cat 10 30 -
This February In Shut Up & Sit Down…
February 1, 2023Tom: Hello folks! Welcome to Wednesday, the very first of February! You’re reading this direct from the café where I’ve set up a temporary office to fill out our monthly schedule, to craft this very post, and to write our next video review! It’s all very exciting. I’ve got my laptop, a big coffee, an HP Deskjet 2710e, a second monitor, and a massive boom mic for a quick podcast record while I’m here. My ‘associates’ should be arriving any minute.
Let’s talk about videos! Our next review will be for the hot new Splotter game – Horseless Carriage! You can look forward to that, hopefully, next week. Where does it sit in the Splotter Canon? You’re going to have to wait to find out, but I should hope it’ll be an interesting video. The next video after that will be the first from Quinns this year – on yet another classic family-weight game involving pleasing, clacky components! What might it be? I’m going to leave this one as a teaser, just for fun!
Audio-wise, we’ve got some treats! This week’s pod will be the fabled CCG Double-Feature, where myself and Quinns go head to head in a… well, hopefully quite a nice chat about two interesting new CCGs! After that, you can expect a smattering of ‘what have we been playing’ podcasts, as well as some full-fat-thoughts on Paperback Adventures! I’m hoping, too, that we might even have something special ready for the end of the month, but I’ll tease no more than that.
Lastly, what about streams? Yesterday we played some Against The Storm, a fascinating little Roguelike City Builder! That, and the previous stream, will be available as VODs over on the Twitch. Next week’s stream will most likely be a Destiny 2 dungeon or two with a couple friends of the show, schedules permitting, and the week after that we’ll be playing some of the digital implementation of Paperback Adventures.
That’s the month! Some great stuff coming down the pipe for you all to look forward to – hopefully not too messed around by me moving into a new flat! Wish us luck, we’re hoping to get the paperwork signed so I can continue on living life as normally as a professional board game reviewer can.
Thanks everyone! What have you been up to, recently?
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LARP Comes to the Treehouse! — The Treehouse
If you had to give an elevator pitch to attract new players into LARPing, what would you say?
Erin: At its core, LARP is about coming together with other people and exploring a story that none of you could tell alone. People come for lots of different reasons: wanting to act out a role; looking for something more immersive than tabletop or videogames; making music or other performances; crafting flashy costumes. But strip all of that away and there’s no feeling quite like your heartbeat racing as you wait to see the consequences of your actions, or just sitting back and bathing in the atmosphere of a group of people creating a world together.
For those who picture LARPing as wearing costumes in a field, please could you explain a bit about chamber LARPs – what do these involve, and what do players spend their time doing during a game?
Jon: The focus is generally on social interactions, which might be very political and strategic or just hanging out as your characters. There’s also space for very personal storytelling, one of the central themes of Changeling is having your life turned completely upside down by a magical, incomprehensible experience, and trying to make sense of what to do next.
That said, all those things are often possible in “field” LARPs too, so I suppose the biggest difference is that there are fewer rules, and no dramatic combat or spell-slinging. Problems are more likely to be solved with discussion, negotiation, and problem-solving.
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Long-awaited The Division 2 Battle for Brooklyn DLC finally gets a release date
The Division 2 fans have been waiting for the new Battle for Brooklyn DLC for quite some time. While there’ve been plenty of live service seasons and updates to keep players entertained, it’s been just over five years since the first story expansion landed. That’s made the setbacks and delays it experienced particularly painful, but soon, the wait comes to an end. The Division 2 Battle for Brooklyn release date has been locked in.
Battle for Brooklyn has been pushed back a couple of times now – most recently, it was booted out of Ubisoft’s Year 6 roadmap for The Division 2 and pushed into the upcoming slate for Year 7. Taking players back to some new and familiar New York streets, all with an autumnal atmosphere, the co-op game‘s new expansion has been highly anticipated. Now we know much more about it, and while crisp blue skies, cascading brown leaves, and some relatively peaceful residents may make Battle for Brooklyn seem a bit tame at first, it’s anything but.
Those living at the Bridge settlement have done a pretty good job in rebuilding after the hurricane that ravaged New York in the previous expansion. But they’re still in need of protection, and that’s where you (and some notable characters like Theo Parnell, Agent Hoskins, and Dr. Jessica Kandel) come in.
Your main opposition in Battle of Brooklyn are the Cleaners, who have managed to mass-produce a lethal weapon that some endgame grinders will recognize from the Paradise Lost Incursion mission. Now all wielding the power of the Purple Flame, they can dish out lethal, fiery attacks that also stack on a new status effect, corrosion, which gradually lowers your max armor over time. The longer you stay in battle, the less armor capacity you’ll have when it comes to replenishing it.
Smart Cover also returns from The Division 1 as a reworked skill that will let you pick from either a Precision or Fortified variant, giving different benefits to anyone positioned behind the cover points. Precision Smart Cover provides buffs to weapon handling and damage and auto-reloads your guns after swapping, while Fortified Smart Cover grants you extra armor, resistances, and stagger immunity.
In its reveal stream for Battle of Brooklyn, creative director Yannick Banchereau says that the new DLC will give fans around six to ten hours of playtime – so it’s not a monster. However, there still seems to be plenty packed in, with four new Control Points, 12 overworld activities, eight Hunter Riddles, ten bounty locations, and a new collectible bounties set. As mentioned, we now know when this heavily delayed expansion will be launching.
The Division 2 Battle for Brooklyn DLC release date has been locked in for Tuesday, May 27.
The showcase for the new DLC also shared updates on Year 7 of The Division 2, which aims to massively improve the onboarding process for new players, add more depth to the endgame loop, and further expand its seasonal content offerings.
For more, check out some of the best multiplayer games on PC right now. To plan your gaming schedule around the new expansion for The Division 2, head to our upcoming PC games guide.
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Play GMT Games Anytime, Anywhere! (Part 2) – InsideGMT
More of GMT’s Digital Offerings that allow you to “Play GMT Games Anytime, Anywhere.
As I noted in our first article, we have created, in cooperation with individual programmers and digital game platforms, numerous ways for customers to experience our boardgames on your digital devices. We’ve done this for one large, underlying reason: We want players to be able to engage with and experience the learning, fun, challenge, and historical insights of our boardgames with other players from around the world on digital platforms where they can play the games generally much more quickly than they can on their physical game tables.
The Pyramid of Digital Game Options GMT Offers:
- Computer Games. We discussed these in our last installment of this series.
- Online Multi-player Games that enforce the boardgame rules but have no solo AI opponents. We’ll talk about these today.
- Traditional VASSAL and TableTop Simulator Game Modules. We’ll feature these in our next installment of the series.
Free-to-Play Online Games
Today we’ll talk about all of the Free-to-Play Games that we have authorized to be published on Popular Online Platforms. First, a few notes about these games:
- Most GMT Games on online free-to-play platforms look and play like the boardgame. You can play them multi-player with friends or multi-handed “hot seat” solo, but there is no AI built in, so there is no “against the computer” solo play.
- A nice feature of Rally the Troops, one of the platforms listed below, especially if you want to familiarize yourself with gameplay before you play yourself, is that you can “Watch” a game in progress or “Review” a completed game.
- All we ask for those of you who play our games online is that at least one of you who are playing owns the physical boardgame. That’s how it would be if you were meeting friends face to face to play – ONE of you would bring the game. But there’s no requirement that all players own the game to play online. We WANT you to use online free-to-play options to “try before you buy” our boardgames.
Here’s the list of games we have authorized that are currently available on free-to-play online platforms:
Rally the Troops.com
GMT Games Available to play for free on Rally the Troops as of April 21, 2025:
1989: Dawn of Freedom (2-player Card-driven game (CDG) set in Eastern Europe in 1989)
Andean Abyss (1-4 player COIN series game on the struggle for power in Columbia in the 1990s )
Nevsky (1-2-player Levy & Campaign series game about the clash between Latin Teutonic and Orthodox Russian powers along the Baltic frontier in the mid-13th-Century.)
Plantagenet (1-2-player Levy & Campaign series game of the War of the Roses)
Red Flag Over Paris (2-player Card-driven game on the Rise and Fall of the Paris Commune, 1871. )
Time of Crisis (1-4 player Strategy game of Ancient Rome)
Vijayanagara (1-3 player Irregular Conflict Series game of Medieval India, 1290-1398.
Washington’s War (Strategic 2-player CDG about the American Revolution.)
Wilderness War (Strategic 2-player CDG about the French & Indian Wars)
BoardGame Arena
GMT Games Official Implementations that you can play FREE on BoardGame Arena
A Gest of Robin Hood (2-player game in our Irregular Conflict Series)
Bayonets & Tomahawks (2-player strategic CDG on The French and Indian War)
Space Empires (1-4 player 4X Space game. One of our all-time best-sellers.)
Talon (1-2 player game of Tactical Space Combat)
Unconditional Surrender (1-3 player game of WWII in Europe)
TableTopia
GMT Games that you can play FREE on TableTopia:
Paths of Glory (just released!)
GMT Games that you can play FREE on 18xx.games
I should note that we also have a couple GMT Games that you can play as PREMIUM experiences on TableTopia (these are not free):
I hope this article and “all in one place” listing of games gives you insight into what’s available to you for our free-to-play digital games offerings. We want all of you to have plenty of options to find your favorite ways to “Play GMT Games Anytime, Anywhere.”
Next Time: VASSAL, TableTop Simulator Module, Cyberboard for almost all of our games, plus Solo Apps!
Enjoy the games! – Gene
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This March In Shut Up & Sit Down!
March 2, 2023Tom: MARCH MARCHES ONWARDS, IT’S KIND OF COLD BUT GETTING NICER. Here’s what’s happening in Shut Up & Sit Down this month!
Very, very, very soon you can expect a video from Quinns on the fabulous indie RPG ‘Alice Is Missing’! If you’re a fan of ‘SU&SD Videos Persuading You To Buy Something’ then boy howdy, it’s a good day to be you. Following that, I’ve got a review in the works covering a smattering of Word Games I’ve been dabbling in recently – and only one of them is a board game! That’s right, we’re getting WEIRD with it!
We’ll see what else March holds, though. I’ve got a little holiday booked, Matt is making his new house have such luxuries as this thing called ‘Electricity’, and Quinns is getting on with what sounds like a very interesting video over on PMG. So we could be in for another slightly slower month whilst we find our feet in 2023. Some hurdles have been cleared already – I’ve moved into my new flat, and had the first good night’s sleep in about a year and a half! Such joy! But there’s still a few things to sort before we can get the schedule back on track. Thanks so much for your patience with this more comfortable schedule whilst we get everything in order.
Podcasts-wise, we hit a small hitch where one member of the team deleted an entire podcast by accident, so we’re one pod down! I won’t reveal the human responsible, but their name starts with a T and ends in an M. But fear not – we’ll work to keep the games flowing! This month, we’ve got what should be a really interesting podcast where myself and Quinns chat about our time playing Mahjong for review, and the reasons that Quinns didn’t want to proceed turning that script into a full on video. There’s potential for a podcast about John Company 2e, if I can find 3 more fools who might want to take on that journey, and I’m thinking about the potential for a Brass: Birmingham retrospective episode now that the game has ascended into the top spot on the BGG top 100. I’m also about to start gathering people into my nice new living room to work through the stacked in-tray that I’ve accrued, which should fill in the gaps.
That’s March! What have you been up to, everybody?
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Roblox Beaks Codes [APRIL 2025]
Ready to hunt some Birds? Beaks is a fun and colorful Roblox game all about birds, offering a similar vibe to Fisch but with its own unique style. In this game, you can explore, collect, and grow your flock as you soar through different areas. This article covers all the latest codes in Beaks, which can give you helpful boosts and free rewards to make your progress even smoother.
All Beaks Codes List
Active Beaks Codes
The Beaks game is finally out, and it is amazing. But, sadly, it doesn’t seem to have a code redemption system just yet. There’s a good chance the developers will add one soon enough, so you might want to keep this article bookmarked so you can check back for updates.
Expired Beaks Codes
- There are currently no expired Beaks codes.
Collect them all! How to Get More Beaks Codes
As the game currently does not have any Codes or even a code redemption system, it is hard to say what the best way to get them is. We recommend following the game’s creator, NEKAMI, on Roblox and waiting for updates.
What is Beaks?
Beaks is a bird-themed Roblox game where you explore different areas, collect different birds, and grow your flock. It shares a similar style and gameplay feel with Fisch, but with its own bird-focused twist. Whether you’re gliding through the air or discovering new species, Beaks offers a relaxing and fun experience.
We have a lot more fun and goodies in our Dandy’s World Codes and Project Bronze Forever Codes articles, so head over there to get some freebies.
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All in question [duplicate]
The small blind is 12,000, big blind 24,000. First player goes all in with 10,500, Second player goes all in with 22,000. Small blind folds. The big blind did have the 24,000. There are three players left in the hand. What are the pots?
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Men of Iron Historical Look – Battle of Bosworth 22 August 1485 – InsideGMT
In William Shakespeare’s Richard III, the eponymous character is described as physically deformed and a psychopathic villain. Was this the truth or Tudor era propaganda?
Shakespeare has these lines in the play depicting Richard as deformed in body:
“To help thee curse this poisonous bunch-backed toad.”
“O, thou didst prophesy the time would come that I should wish for thee to help me curse that bottled spider, that foul bunch-backed toad!”
“Look how I am bewitched! Behold mine arm is like a blasted sapling withered up”
Old Bill is clearly saying that Richard is a hunchback, much like Quasimodo from the Victor Hugo novel, or the Disney movie, take your pick. And that one of Richard’s arms was withered and wasted. In 2012, archaeologists found and exhumed King Richard III from a car park (parking lot in America) in Leicester, England. The site was formerly part of Greyfriars Priory where the fallen King was buried after his death at Bosworth. An analysis of the skeleton showed that Richard had a severe case of Scoliosis, which at most would have caused one of his shoulders to lower than the other. There was no evidence of the “withered arm” mentioned in the play.
As far as Richard being a psychopathic villain that murdered his brother George, Duke of Clarence, his nephews (the infamous princes in the tower), among others. Richard had served his brother, Edward, well as the Duke of Gloucester, helping him win his crown and become King Edward IV. George was executed for treason and likely “deserved” it, for turning on both Edward and Richard several times. As for the princes, there is much debate about what became of them and who ordered what. The designer of Blood & Roses, Richard Berg, clearly believed that his namesake was a not responsible for their disappearance. There is some evidence that the bones found in the Tower of London were not those of the princes. Politics in England during this time period was a little rougher, to say the least, than it is today. More on par with Soviet Russia, where people suddenly disappeared and were erased from history.
Bosworth, one of the more important battles in English history, wherein, Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, defeated King Richard III and gained the English crown for the House of Tudor (political descendants of the House of Lancaster) as Henry VII.
Battle of Bosworth, as depicted by Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740–1812) But more than that, Bosworth is interesting for two reasons:
• It is the only battle on English soil in which an English king was killed (if one starts counting from the reign of William I)
• It is a rather interesting situation, with each side waiting to see which way the political and tactical wind will blow, and two “Battles” of Stanley’s sitting athwart the field, like soccer fans, waiting to weigh in for whoever looks good.
Richard Berg was a Ricardian, meaning he was pro-Richard amidst all of the Tudorian propaganda out there, much of it thanks to Shakespeare (doing a spin job for the Tudors). Richard, for one, was a most stalwart and capable battlefield commander and fighter, and was unfairly smeared as a hunchback because of his scoliosis of the spine… and a pretty good king while he ruled.
Some of the historical text above was lifted from the Men of Iron Battle Book’s Historical Background for the Battle of Bosworth.
You can learn more or pre-order the Men of Iron Tri-Pack 2nd Printing here.