Wumpus is Discord's mascot who appears in branding, easter eggs, stickers, and images throughout the client and website. Wumpus is sometimes used to wave to new users who join a server. It is also prompted when someone starts a new Direct Message.
It is believed that the character's origin is from the 1973 video game Hunt the Wumpus. There are visual similarities between the mascot and the graphical variation of the game made for the TI-99/4A home computer.
Appearance[]
The Wumpus is a lilac-coloured[Note 1] creature. It's face has two semicircular ears, a square snout with a small mouth underneath, and two beady black eyes. The body is a cuboid shape, though in later artwork this is interpreted as a more slanted cuboid. The Wumpus's legs are stumps, with no distinct foot shape other than a curve. On it's head, there's a floating leaf. In the artworks present within the Discord pages, Wumpus's leaf is depicted as a simple teardrop shape.
At the TGS (Tokyo Game Show) 2022, held between September 15th and September 18th 2022, Wumpus made a Live-Appearance. According to the Discord email sent to Hypesquad members: In a first, Wumpus will be making a live appearance for the first time. Like, actually Wumpus — not a statue like before.. This live appearance was someone wearing a Wumpus mascot costume, who greeted and took photos with attendees.
Merch[]
During the TGS 2022 Discord began selling merchandise in cooperation with Dotexe in the Discord merch shop. The shop also offers a Wumpus plushie for 50$. At TGS 2022, the Discord staff also gave away many of them. Sometimes, when Wumpus made their appearance, they gave away 2 Wumpus plushies to random people in front of them. The other chance to win the Wumpus stuffed toy, together with Nelly's plush, was writing a short description of their own Discord Server on a paper-board, and providing an invite link to the server. The Discord team hung the papers on the "Server wall" and printed QR-codes for the servers in order to join easily.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Wumpus uses they/them pronouns.[1]
- According to the Discord splash texts, the developers state "Our mascot, Wumpus, was originally created as a character with no friends :("