Ultima VII: The Black Gate pitted the Avatar against a cult seeking to allow the megalomaniacal "Guardian" into Britannia, and is often considered the best game of the entire series. In all three, the Avatar battles an other-worldly being called "The Guardian". The Age of ArmageddonThe third age of Ultima, "The Age of Armageddon", is a mixed bag, despite considerable technological improvement (although VII ended up having an enormous influence on the concept of open-ended, open-world RPGs). (Also, they're pissed off that the Council stole the Codex of Ultimate Wisdom two games ago.) The Avatar must this time save his own life from the gargoyles, whose ancient and infallible prophecies tell them that he will one day destroy their race. The last game of this era, Ultima VI: The False Prophet, deals with some of the long-term consequences of the events of Ultima IV. In Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny, the Avatar must once again journey to Britannia, to reclaim Lord British's throne from an usurper. Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar sets the player out on a quest, essentially, to bring virtue and general goodness to the land-the main objective of the game is, quite simply, to live a virtuous life.
(As a result, the cloth maps given out as Feelies for some releases of the games can be used for any game in the series.)
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After the fairly cataclysmic events which ended Ultima III, the whole world was largely rebuilt, and its geography and culture would remain more or less unchanged for the rest of the series history. With the unification of Sosaria under the rule of Lord British-another visitor from "our" world,-the place was renamed "Britannia". In these games, "the Avatar"-indicated to be the self-same "visitor from our world" as in the first three games-becomes a key player in upholding Britannia's virtue and keeping the world safe. The Age of EnlightenmentBut when people speak of the Ultima series, its tropes and mechanics, they tend to think of the next three games in the series, Ultima IV, V and VI, collectively called the "Age of Enlightenment". This is the one that specifically influenced the creation of Dragon Quest I, and thus unintentionally spurred the birth of the Eastern RPG. This game started laying the foundation of RPG elements such as towns, overworld, dungeons, and monster encounters in the way many video game RPGs came to emulate. The series started to find its legs in Ultima III: Exodus, in which the evil robotic child of the previous two villains wreaks havoc across Sosaria. The series continues with Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress, as space-time distortions threatening Earth are Best Served Cold by Minax, the jilted widowed lover of the first game's last villain. (The "other world" being implicitly "our world", and the "stranger" being implicitly the player.) Its plot saw an Evil Sorcerer named Mondain defeated by The Hero known as "the Stranger from another world".
The Age of DarknessThe world of Akalabeth was fleshed out to form "Sosaria", the setting of Ultima (later subtitled The First Age of Darkness).
The game was hand-coded entirely by Garriott in Applesoft BASIC. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings books the name Akalabeth itself derives from Akallabêth, the fourth part of The Silmarillion. Originally titled "D&D28b", as it was Garriott's 28th game, Akalabeth was also heavily influenced by J. The Ultima saga begins, it is generally considered, with a primitive Dungeons & Dragons-inspired game called Akalabeth (also referred to as "Ultima 0"), which introduced the character of Lord British, king of a pastiche medieval/high fantasy type world.
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