From the principles of truth, love and courage are born the eight virtues, an important and enduring aspect of the Ultima universe. The Three Principles Truth Its home lies in the Lycaeum in Moonglow, the city of mages. The book of truth stands for the Principle of Truth Love Has its home in the lush Forest of Yew at the Empath Abbey The candle of Love represents that principle Courage Courage claims Serpents Hold as its home, hidden inside the deep walls of the keep The bell of Courage rings for those brave warriors there Together those 3 principles combine […]
Map Carrying Monsters | Decode Skill Needed | Finding the Chest | Lockpick Requirements |Inaccessible Locations | Chest Content & Guardians | Completed Maps A major update in publish 105, Spring 2019, reduced the number of map levels from 7 to 5 In addition, treasure chests have now been themed based on the following profession inspired packages: Artisan Assassin Mage Ranger Warrior This results in a map that will read like this “A Tattered Treasures Map Leading to a Mage’s Hoard” There are also three qualities of chest, rusty, the familiar normal metal or gold. Chest Quality is determined at […]
Original Minor Artifacts can be found in 3 different ways. Killing the special Paragon Creature that spawns in Ilshenar, which gives you a small chance to receive one. Paragon Creatures can be recognised by their golden color and the text (Paragon) after their name. Anytime a creature spawns in Ilshenar it has a 1 in 20 chance of becoming a Paragon. Paragon Attributes: 5 times as many Hit Points 5% more strength 20% more dexterity and intelligence all skills 20% higher base damage 5 points higher than normal poison (if applicable) one level higher, although no higher than level 5(Lethal […]
Buying a Ship | Decay | Launching & Boarding | Navigation | Security | In Combat Reasons to Own a Ship What are some reasons for buying a ship? You may be a miner planning to mine the cliffs around the shores from your boat, storing the ore for later smelting. You may wish to hunt for sunken treasure You may plan to undertake some peaceful fishing trips, delivering cargo for the fishmonger’s on shore You may see yourself hunting down pirates You may even be a pirate, hunting down the peaceful merchants sailing the seas. On a shard where you […]
Magical Fish Pies To become a chef, simply cook! For many of the preparations you need to be near a heat source, this is most often an oven, but in some instances, such as barbeque, a camp fire or forge is sufficient. In the table, Cooking Menu, below where the proximity resource is listed as ‘flame’ any suitable heat source can be used. All such heat sources are: Campfire Fireplace Forge Heating stand Oven You will need tools: a rolling pin is the easiest to make if your character has no tinkering skill (requires 5 boards) a skillet, next easiest […]
While most people only think of cartography in terms of decoding maps to find buried treasure the skill can also be used to create maps of your surroundings. Sea charts can be used by fisherman, either to plot a circular course to bring them back to shore at the end of their fishing trip or to sail to an area where they might find sunken treasure. Introduced in publish 105, cartography can also increase the dig radius from the treasure spot on treasure maps as follows: 0 to 50.9 skill gives a 1 tile radius (in other words, you must […]
Bowcraft and Fletching are two aspects of a single skill used to make a variety of bows and all types of feathered ammunition. For bows that means arrows and crossbow bolts, but the fletcher also creates fukiya darts for ninjas to use with their carpenter-crafted fukiya blowguns. Kindling and the imbuing ingredient ‘Elven Fletching’ can also be made by a bowyer. Tools and Resources Everything you need can be bought from an NPC Bowyer’s shop, but that can prove costly. You will need fletching tools, those made by a GM tinker are desirable as they will have more uses than […]
The only quest giver in the Stygian Abyss, Sutek’s workshop is found just South West of the Clan Scratch area of The Cavern of The Discarded. A wise questor will study this area well, noting as many locations of highlightable items as possible. Sutek himself is somewhat more elusive and can often be found some considerable distance from his home, as can be seen from the image. He wanders the cavern and surrounding areas muttering strangely to himself. On taking the quest you will receive a clockwork assembly with a timer. Do nothing with this at this point […]
Long looked down upon by other trades, the tinker is the essential backbone of the crafting world, supplying high quality tools to all. From scribe’s pens to miner’s shovels, from sextants to potion kegs. He is also a supreme artist crafting musical windchimes, clocks or lighting for your home from a simple lantern to an elaborate candelabra. Sought out by hunters and fighters for his ability to craft bola; weapons such as nunchaku, cleavers, skinning knives and jewelry; both basic and magical. No gargoyle’s suit is complete without a finely crafted necklace and earrings from a grandmaster tinker (suitably imbued […]
Items may become endowed with magical properties in five different ways. These are: Runic Crafting Imbuing Runic Reforging Random Generated loot Special Crafted items (minor crafted, major crafted, spellbooks) The range of items an individual property can be found on, and the intensity range of the property, will depend on the method by which the item was created. Properties imparted by runic crafting or imbuing were greatly surpassed on the introduction of Runic reforging and the random loot generator, however imbuing has the advantage of granting more control over the combination of properties that can be applied. In some instances […]
