King's Quest/Headscratchers

• If the Lord of the Dead has been sitting on his throne, almost completely unmoving, for over a thousand years, why does he have a steed?
  • Perhaps it was his before he was chained?
  • As he is Lord of the Dead, in a sense everything there is his.
• The mirror was stolen by the sorcerer, the shield by the dwarf, and the chest by the witch. So how did the mirror end up with the dragon, the shield with the leprechauns, and the chest with the giant?
  • The dragon, the giant, and the rats were guardians set in place by the new possessors of the objects.
• If the ferry has been out of order for years and peppermint isn't grown on the Island of the Crown, how does the pawn shop have peppermints during the game at all? Presuming Shamir Shamazzle visited once a day and ate a mint, that dish would be empty in a matter of months; and he's been around since Cassima was a child.
  • Connected to the above, if no one except the genie can move around freely, why do these people think that thieves from other islands stole their treasures? How would these purported thieves get to and from their victims?
  • The ferry was still open then. In fact, the ferry was closed (by Abdul's order) due to the fighting that was caused by the thefts.
  • That and the genie is a shapeshifter. As for the mints? Hassan (the pawnshop owner) is a mysterious figure who is probably sitting on a few secrets of his own. How does get some of that junk into his shop, after all? Perhaps his candy dish was a distraction for the Vizier's spy - if Shamir were too drunk to complete a sentence, how could he report anything about Hassan's doings?
  • The game does comment that the mints are a little stale when you try to eat them. I guess the pawn shop owner simply had a large supply lying around.
• This comic brings up a good, albeit minor headscratcher: http://goldsickle.deviantart.com/art/Mini-Game-006-98377735
• Now that I think about it, I've always been kind of mildly baffled by the fact that Graham is portrayed as being old-looking in the later games and some of the fan games, with all-grey hair, if not also wrinkles and such. Even allowing for a bit of fudge room, considering the Royal Twins' ages, the fellow's got to be only in his mid-40s by KQ6/7 at most. Especially if you take the hint book novelizations as canon, where he's apparently stated as being 19 when he gets crowned. Maybe the events of KQ3 aged him prematurely?
  • This gets worse if you realize that Alexander was 17 -- about to turn 18 -- in KQ3, and he and Rosella are twins. Rosella is stated to be 20 in KQ7. That puts only 2 years between KQ3 and KQ7!
  • Well, think about it. Think of all the stuff that has happened to him as of late: He nearly been killed and eaten several times before (Hagatha, Count Caldeur, The Ogre, The Monks, The Sharkees...), the stress of running a kingdom (even a fairly nice peaceful kingdom like Daventry)and trying to keep it safe and protected, plus the fact that his SON was taken from him by a mysterious man and they thought they'd never see him again , AND the fact that the dragon started terrorizing the land along with the Black Cloak Society CURSING THEIR ENTIRE FAMILY and wanting to cover the land in darkness... you can't imagine gett some grey hair over all that?!
• In KQ6, Alexander couldn't find the Land of the Green Isles until he saw the stars in the magic mirror. Yet at the end of KQ5, Crispin knew where it was and teleported Cassima there. So why didn't Alexander just go to Crispin and ask him? The best I can come up with is that he wanted to avoid having to meet Cedric (which I wouldn't blame him for).
  • Crispin's not the most helpful and competent wizard around, and for all we know he may have died of old age by that point.
• This is something that has haunted me ever since I was a little kid. It's funny the things that you remember. In the screen with the walnut tree there is a bizarre brown thing in the background to the right. (Check it out at 4:37 in this video.) What is that thing??!! I know that the graphics can be unclear at times but at least on every other occasion the background is comprehensible or even possible to speculate on. Is it just me? Does anybody know what the fuck that brown thing is??
  • Just looks like the side of a really tiny cliff or something.
  • Yeah, a simple bluff. The soil there collapsed and slid away.