Jaana

Jaana is one of The Companions of the Avatar. She is a native of Earth, and friend of Lord British. In Britannia Jaana is a Druid.

Originally, she lived in the forest town of Yew. In Ultima IV, she gladly joined the future Avata's quest to find the Codex of Ultimate Wisdom.

In Ultima V, she was declared an outlaw by Lord Blackthorn, and retreated to a secret group of tunnels deep under Yew, where she worked with the Resistance against the Dark Lord's rule. When the Avatar came, she gladly joined the quest to topple Blackthorn.

By Ultima VI, Jaana again lived in Yew as the town druid, but the quiet life of a town druid wasn't really for her and she was horribly bored. So when the Avatar came to Yew to search for the Rune of Justice, she gladly joined the party to assist in the quest of the False Prophet, and even provided the strong Storm Cloak.

200 years after the gargoyle war, in Ultima VII, Jaana had moved to the town of Cove, and worked there as a healer. She was in love with the town's mayor, Lord Heather. While the Ether was disturbed by the Guardian's Generators, it didn't quite have the same effect on her as it did to other magic-users of Britannia; she remained sane and was able to use magic normally, albeit with much exhaustion on her part. She joined the Avatar's party when they visited Cove, promising Lord Heather to return safety.

In Ultima IX, Jaana was seduced to service in the Wyrmguard, where she came under the control of the Guardian. She tried to trick the Avatar in Dungeon Wrong, but he outwitted her. The Avatar was able to free her, and she would later assist him in the final battle against the Guardian.

The Tale of Jaana and the Goblin: A Parable of Justice
''You know that the fellowship of the Druids is dedicated to the Virtue of Justice, and that Druids are from ancient times the custodians of the High Court of the land. It was also the custom, in bygone days, for Druids to wander the land in the King's name, acting as circuit judges and agents of the high court. It was their lot to adjudicate those cases that did not require the attention of the high court. At the time of which I speak, Jaana was such a Druid. She was a strong young woman, with no fear of a life of travel, and so it pleased the elders of her order to give her a large and wild portion of the land. She traveled about between nearly a score of small towns and villages, visiting each two or three times in a year.''

''Now it happened that one of the larger towns in this region - a walled mountain fortress - was engaged in a fierce and ongoing battle with a tribe of goblins that lived in those parts. The object of this contention was the control and security of a nearby mountain pass, which brought trade to the humans and plunder to the goblins. The chief engine of this conflict's continuance was a goblin chieftain of exceptional wit and ambition, who for years bedeviled all humans who passed through his territory.''

See the complete tale at: The Tale of Jaana and the Goblin: a Parable of Justice

Trivia

 * She is based on a friend of Richard Garriott. The name and the person is Finnish.
 * Her icon in Ultima V is a white bearded, robed man (as with all mages - which is strange, since Mariah and Jaana, major Wizard characters in Ultima IV and V are women)