A big “thank you” goes out to the kind folks at Namco Bandai, who sent me this very cool Treasure Abyss wallpaper this morning. It features the characters who pop up now and then on their Facebook Wall to introduce new features or dungeons. Namco Bandai has kindly offered to let me post this up on the blog.

The folks up on the upper left are clearly mages. To the right, a warrior meets a thief. On the upper right, a class we haven’t yet seen romances the bartender. A healer class? We can hope. Note the brace of turkey legs hanging above the bar. Mmm.

At the lower left, a warrior looks over a map with a ranger. We haven’t seen a ranger yet in game, either, but he’s popped up in the interstitial screens.

Noticeably absent: monks and samurai!

Those samurai never get any love.

I got a shocking letter from Fernando Blanco of KingsIsle today. As a thank you gift for all the Wizard 101 players who read my blog, the artists have drawn up a “cast list” of all the faculty and staff at the Ravenwood School for the Magical Arts… look closely, because if I’m guessing right, Wizard 101 Director J. Todd Coleman himself (or someone who looks a lot like him) sneaked in while they were gathering for the photograph (see if you can pick him out)!

Click on the smaller picture above to view or download it at its full 1280×1024 size.

And yes, this is my desktop wallpaper now :)

Enjoy!