In his novel The White Castle (1998), Orhan Pamuk’s narrator says: “I suppose that to see everything as connected with everything else is the addiction of our time.”

Some in the village even recognized that the feats that had been accomplished in the path around the craggy peak were more like the everyday challenges that they faced in the village, and they begin to value to quest badges even more than the traditional badge of the Castle, which, everyone agreed, wasn’t all that it used to be.