Gate Travel

Quick travel to one of the eight moongates is possible with the Gate Travel spell.

Spell Description
Not everyone has an Orb of the Moons at their disposal. In order to make use of the moongates from anywhere in the land without a loss of time, this useful but difficult to cast spell was created. Upon casting Gate Travel, a blue moongate will open up, transporting the spellcaster and their party to any of the eight moongates on the surface of Britannia. It was once rumored that revealing the components of the spell would render it useless, though that was only a rumor as later publications proved.

Travel Destinations
Using the spell, the following numbers lead to the following gates:


 * [[File:Image001.gif]] (1) New Moon: Moonglow


 * [[File:Image002.gif]] (2) Crescent Waxing Moon: Britain


 * [[File:Image003.gif]] (3) First Quarter: Jhelom


 * [[File:Image004.gif]] (4) Gibbous Waxing Moon: Yew


 * [[File:Image005.gif]] (5) Full Moon: Minoc


 * [[File:Image006.gif]] (6) Gibbous Waning Moon: Trinsic


 * [[File:Image007.gif]] (7) Last Quarter: Skara Brae


 * [[File:Image008.gif]] (8) Crescent Waning Moon: New Magincia

Lore




Ultima Saga
In the beginning of Lynn Abbey's Ultima Saga, DuPre and the mage Meraise arrive near Hawksnest by way of moongate, and it was noted that only a magician of the highest rank could compel a gate to open against its moon phase. Later, Balthan's endless mystical stairs ended in a moongate created by a scroll.

Quote

 * Jordan added his own oaths and exclamations, but Althea knew the light for what it was.


 * "A moon gate."


 * The heir of Hawksnest was skeptical. "A moon gate that works in the daylight and opens down?"


 * "Balthan said he was carrying scrolls and that the Avatar showed him how to use them together. He was Felespar's amanuensis--he told me once that the spell he illuminated most often was one that opened a moon gate at any time and from any place."


 * "Probably costs a small fortune in gold. Who'd use it?" Jordan wondered.


 * Drum knew. "Peers of Virtue Quests--who else? The question is: Are we going to use this one? Looks like Balthan smeared the ink, if you ask me."

Trivia

 * A spell of the same name, but with different effects, appears in both of the Underworlds. This spell still worked in Ultima Underworld II despite the destruction of the moongates in Ultima VII.
 * In Ultima IV, the formula is given by Mentorian.