Cursed Library secrets

#1

@Toastrz included several secrets in the Cursed Library, including some that, as of October 2019, were still unrevealed:

This was his response when I asked about them a few days ago:

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What secrets could have survived over a year after the dungeon’s release? At the least, we know what they aren’t, because the following secrets were already public knowledge:

Known secrets

The Realm Eye

Shortly after release, Toastrz commented that the Realm Eye had 253 unique prompts. It took a couple of months, but those were all finally discovered.

More dialogue has been added to the Realm Eye in the year since its release, including a clue to the Inner Workings. But unless one of the secrets Toastrz refers to was added after the dungeon’s release, we can rule out a prompt being one (though they might involve the Realm Eye in some other way).

Honey Scepter

The honey scepter room was found early in public testing. It’s an Easter Egg referencing Toastrz’ favorite item, which became a meme in UGC/closed testing.

Rare dialogue

The Lips of the Lost rarely say “Tertiary”, which is a reference to an episode of Homestar Runner featuring a curse on the word. After they say the line, they appear to violently self-destruct.

Avalon also has a rare line of dialogue, “Grant us eyes… grant us eyes…”, referencing dialogue spoken by Bloodborne boss Micolash. You do not need to be near Avalon to trigger this line; it seems to be random, like “Tertiary”.

The known Easter eggs might just be that, or they might have greater significance. No way to know right now.

There doesn’t seem to be any obvious clues in the XML and sprite sheets, but here they are anyway:

If you’re hunting for crossbows, be on the lookout, but that three secrets haven’t been noted after so much time suggests that they’re devilishly well hidden (and at least one is significant enough that Toastrz knows for sure it’s undiscovered). Finding them will probably require a lot of luck and creativity. The existence of secrets doesn’t seem to be common knowledge, so link to this thread and spread the word! The more people searching, the better the odds of finding one.

#2

Don’t forget that the Corruption Phantom Minions are named after Machines in Horizon Zero Dawn.

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#3

Ah, so if that counts as a secret, then only two left to find @Toastrz?

#4

Think he said that wasn’t one of them and he had actually completely forgotten this one had existed. I found the Horizon Zero Dawn easter egg by browsing the Cursed Library page on realmeye. I noticed the wisps had very interesting names, all starting with 'Corruption Phantom Wisp" followed by another word that seemed unusual, such as charger, ravager, stalker, and watcher. I just googled those 4 words and the first result was a list of machines from Horizon Zero Dawn.

#5

What Wilhuff said is true. When I said “at least three” I said it because of this reason. I genuinely sorta lost track of some included references, so while the Horizon: Zero Dawn names are a secret, they aren’t one I had in mind when I said at least three.

One of them is so outrageously, almost insultingly obscure that I’m almost positive it will never be found unless someone has an eye for even the tiniest oddity and then takes some serious leaps from there. I wouldn’t exactly sweat that one.

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#6

Trust me, you’ll go insane trying to find it…

#7

Let’s keep an eye on :

https://www.realmeye.com/wiki/headless-specter : Weird HP, weird range.

https://www.realmeye.com/wiki/poltergeist : HP is 1300 and exp is 130, probably referencing the number “13”. It shoots blue shots dealing 30 damage, with 2.6 curse duration and 18.75 range.

I found nothing related to 26 and 1875 except an unconfirmed poltergeist case in a French castle, but it has nothing to do with a library.

#8

I have anxiety solve all of the mysteries right now if you dont want me to die okay thank you veri much

#9

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what does warning mean in this case :thinking:
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oh this is the tertiary thing
“bookwyrm” is a mythical beast used in many games and books and series
thats all i found

#10

At this point I feel like I should record all libraries I do and look for tiniest details watching videos like 10 times if not more…

#11

W h o \ s u m m o n e d \ m e e e e e e . . . . .

#12

Hp lines up with SCP 4205 which happens to be a pair of floating eyes. Unfortunately this is not relevant as I think this page was created after the library was released. Fun coincidence, though.

Also, lol gotem https://i.imgur.com/hIwRHsI.png

#13

Those are effectively unused now, but they were an asset that existed as part of the scrapped bookshelf-swapping mechanic, which I documented here if you’re interested:

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#14

Hopefully the last two secrets arent in game cause guess who isn’t going to find them that way. On a side note looks like finally getting around to learning xml was worth it for something.

#15

Holy crap it’s CaesarVIII!

#16

Bump, and someone test Craig the Builder

#17

Why would you bump this thread with that… :expressionless:

#18

Why not?
There’s been a new update

#19

Are you suggesting to search for new content with the update? (I have yet to see the game with the update applied.)

I’m not entirely sure that these new changes will reveal anything, however. Forgive my initial brutish reply nonetheless.

#20

I don’t know, Craig the Builder just seems to me like it’s the kind of thing that would get a Cursed Library response of its own, although I may just be an idiot.

Don’t worry about it, it’s fine. My response was probably tactless and extremely poorly worded anyhow.