![]() ![]() When the Stranger shatters the artifact, each shard is shown to contain an identical image – creating a network of fractured alternate universes patterned after the original land. In the introductory sequence of the game, Mondain is shown drawing power from the gem, which appears crystalline in structure and contains an image of Sosaria embedded within it. In the popular massively multi-player on-line game, Ultima Online, the canon regarding the Gem of Immortality is expanded upon. ![]() – from The Book of Fellowship ( Ultima VII) With Mondain’s destruction, the forces of evil began to wane. ![]() Eventually, the heroic stranger found the malevolent gem and destroyed it, along with its creator. With utter devotion to truth and good, the stranger grew into a hero capable of facing Mondain. Within days, a stranger arrived in Sosaria. Success meant gaining even greater power over the minions of darkness. A chart describing the location and associations of these shards is outlined below.īetween the Underworld exits of Wrong and CovetousĪt the same time as Lord British was gaining a reputation for fair and honest government over his provinces and attracting attention for his startlingly innovative ideas, Mondain was using his father’s gem against itself to produce a black jewel that would render him and his evil immortal. The Avatar, re-summoned to the realm through the hero's persecuted companions, was eventually able to defeat these shades, by locating the three shards of the gem within the underground lands where they lay and immersing each in the appropriate flame of the Principle which opposed the sin which the associated Shadowlord embodied. They further went on to corrupt his regent, Lord Blackthorn, twisting his heart and bringing his reign in British's absence to be one of oppression and terror. The Shadowlords eventually captured and imprisoned ruler lord of Britannia, Lord British, entrapping him deep within the dungeon Doom. Their captain, a man known as Johne was left stranded within the lands below, guilt-wracked for allowing this evil to be unleashed upon the world. Corrupted by their malevolence still present within the shattered gem, three of the stranded sailors became transformed into creatures known as the Shadowlords, imbuing them with the forces of Falsehood, Hatred and Cowardice. Centuries later, three shards of the Gem of Immortality resurfaced in the great Underworld which interconnected the dungeons of what was then Britannia, when the survivors of the wrecked Ararat discovered them. Mondain was slain shortly after the gem's destruction.Īt the time of the gem's destruction at the hands of the Stranger, the fell magic it had been imbued with did not die with it. The hero shattered the gem before it was completed, rendering the young magician mortal. ![]() In Ultima I, however, the Stranger was eventually able to travel from this dark reality through a thousand years of time, to the moment of Mondain's enchantment. Such a gem would have eventually enabled the enchanter to live forever, free to spread the fruits of his wickedness across Sosaria for ages to come. Taking the sun ruby, Mondain was able to turn its powers against itself through sorcerous means, creating the black Gem of Immortality. The fifteen-year-old boy, not wishing to wait for this inheritance, and envious of his unnamed brother's rite of succession, slew Wolfgang instead. Upon seeing the growing sadistic nature of his child, Wolfgang promised Mondain that he should have the ruby, on the condition that he completed a year of study at a local abbey. It was said that this original red stone was capable of harnessing the power of the Sosarian sun. The Gem of Immortality was once the powerful Sun Ruby Gem owned by King Wolfgang, Mondain's father. ![]()
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