Peg leg

An artificial leg. Depending on the time period, it could be made of any number of materials.

Overview

Alyx Vance and her father, Eli Vance.

A peg-leg is a form of artificial limb. Peg-legs are typically illustrated as a carved piece of wood, as often seen related to pirates. In modern days/games, peg-legs have been replaced by more modern materials. One of the best known game characters using a peg-leg in a modern environment, is Eli Vance from the Half-Life 2 games.

The Legacy of Wirt's Leg

Wirt's Third Leg from World of Warcraft

The best known peg-leg in the gaming world is without a doubt belonging to the boy Wirt.

Wirt is first encountered in Diablo as a NPC in the town of Tristram. He was attacked by a swarm of demons, who severed his leg as he tried to escape. Fortunately, he was rescued, and Pepin the town healer was able to save his life. Now he hobbles through life on a peg leg. Incredibly greedy by nature, Wirt will sell the player a single magical item, but it always costs a vast amount of gold, and it costs 50 gold just to see what it is.
By the time of Diablo II, Wirt has unfortunately been killed. By clicking on his corpse, Wirt's ill-gotten gold will drop together with an item called "Wirt's Leg". The leg can be used as a club, but has very low stats - making it practically unusable. The leg is the key to unlocking the secret cow level; a place where demonic cows with halberds hunts the players, while they all say the characteristic "Moo, moo, moo-moo."
In Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne an item called "Wirt's Second Leg" is hidden in a secret area as an easter egg.
In World of Warcraft the rare item " Wirt's Third Leg" can be found by players in the world of Azeroth.

It obviously makes no sense that Wirt should have three legs, but Blizzard are amongst the elite when it comes to easter eggs and integrated, hidden comedy in games.

Name	Platforms	Developer
Pirates, Vikings and Knights II	PC
Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 5: Rise of the Pirate God released on Dec. 8, 2009	PC, WSHP	Telltale Games
Scribblenauts released on Sept. 15, 2009	DS	5th Cell Media
The Orange Box released on Oct. 10, 2007	PC, X360, PS3	Valve Corporation
Half-Life 2: Episode Two released on Oct. 10, 2007	PC	Valve Corporation
Half-Life 2: Episode One released on June 1, 2006	PC	Valve Corporation
World of Warcraft released on Nov. 23, 2004	PC, MAC	Blizzard Entertainment
Half-Life 2 released on Nov. 16, 2004	X360, PS3, XBOX, PC	Valve Corporation
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne released on July 1, 2003	PC, MAC	Blizzard Entertainment
Will Rock released on June 9, 2003	PC	Saber Interactive

Name:	Peg leg
Appears in:	14 games
First appearance:
Aliases	Peg, Artificial Leg, Pegleg, Wooden Leg

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