The Warriors Stood in the Shape of a Heart

An anonymous reader writes "Here's a picture of Warsingers funeral. Warsinger was an in-game persona in the rather good MMORPG Dark Age of Camelot". and generally well-liked. The real person behind Warsinger was a 32-year-old with heart trouble, who really died. So the players on his server organized an in-game funeral.At the funeral, players from the three realms of Camelot, who normally kill each other gleefully on sight, stood in the shape of a heart (check the pic above); the two figures in the center of the heart are Warsinger's real-life sister and girlfriend."

Comments

Re:The line between virtual reality and reality...

[fruey]

Yes and no... because in fact I was particularly interested by the virtual community having a ritual in virtual space, rather than meeting IRL to have the funeral.

I do indeed think Warsinger was honored by this, and my respects go out to all who attended and made a great statement about community spirit.

The flippant end comment was just a lame attempt at getting +1 funny for once. Clearly it was in bad taste. My apologies.

Lv99?

[Andy Dodd]

Maximum level in DAoC is 50. And I don't think they would've held a funeral near a Lv99 mob like the Dragon.

That said - I wish I'd known about this. I play DAoC and knew nothing. Of course, it WAS on a different server.

I'm honestly surprised at how few people showed up in that picture - That's on par with a single realm's RvR zerg, and word tends to spread REALLY fast throughout a realm in DAoC. If I'd been on the server in question (Pellinor, I play on Lancelot), I would've been there.

Strange thing was, I was at Beno last night... For the first time ever.

One other odd thing to note: It looks like the screenshot was made by someone not from the guild/realm holding the funeral, as the shot is almost all Midgard players but they have the generic "not from your realm" names. I also see a couple of generic Albion tags, so the shot must've been taken by a Hibernian.