Character trivia: Witch King

NPC

Enemy

Trivia

• The Witch King draws inspiration from the same tropes as Sauron from The Lord of the Rings and Voldemort from the Harry Potter series, both tyrants who cast terror through dark magic, who were thought defeated in the past with factions intent on their resurrection.
  • His title is reminiscent to the Witch-king of Angmar in LOTR, and to a lesser extent, the Lich King in the Warcraft series.
• The Chinese transliteration of his epithet, Herkunftshorn, sounds more identical to the House of Hohenzollern, the sole ruling family of the German Empire.
• Though the Arknights 1 2 3! comic strip featuring Ebenholz is not canon to the game's storyline, it is implied that the Witch King hates rock music, which is plausible since he himself is specifically a classical musician.
• The Witch King is the only enemy that has different in-game tooltips in different operations.