The Ultima 6 Project Walkthrough

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

This Walkthough for the Ultima 6 Project tries to give a complete overview of all the aspects of the game, including tips on various topics like the party and equipment, a detailled main story walkthrough and solutions for all side-quests.

Party Members
The choice of party members is important, and party members have certain restictions, according to their class. Fighters and Tinkers are forbidden from using magic weapons and armour, Bards and Rangers can't use heavy weapons or armour (but magical is allowed), Druids can only use blunt weapons (and no magic swords) and only leather armour (but are allowed to use magic armour).

Your first three companions will never leave. Surprisingly, the choice of characters is easier than you can think, since all the characters that can join while you are stuck on the mainland (minus Blaine) are really good characters and make your party well-rounded. In contrast, the later NPCs are worse and also behind the rest due to having less experience at that point. However, you should only have a seven-man party since you on occassion need the eigth slot for some character and much later, Beh Lem fills it permanently.

The party therefore should consist of the Avatar, Iolo, Shamino and Dupre as set characters. Jaana is an excellent addition, since she is the strongest NPC spellcaster in the game. Gwenno is basically the same as Iolo and therefore has his exact strengths. Julia as a Tinker is strong in battle (but has no magic) and therefore can be a frontliner. Late in the game, Beh Lem can dish out as well (and you need to have him).

Weapons and Armour
With concerns to weapons and armour there is the general rule: magic stuff rules it all All your characters should strive to have the following equipment, with the exceptions listed below:


 * Swamp Boots in order to stop the annoying poisoning in swmps (of which there are a lot of). They can be bought from Utomo in Yew.


 * Magic Armour and Helmets, since these are the best available. They can be bought from Brandon in Trinsic. The Mgaic Shield however can only be found at various locations.


 * Spiked Collars, which give extra protection, which can be bought once from various blacksmiths.


 * Protections Rings, which give extra armour. These are strewn all over Britannia and have to be found.


 * The best melee weapon is the Magic Sword, of there can be found numerous in the arious dungeons (and one on the overword west of Lost Lake).


 * The best distance weapon is the Magic Bow, which can be bought in Britain from Gwenneth.

There are several exceptions to these rules:


 * Avatar

The Avatar should get the Mystic Armour and Mystic Sword from the Lycaeum. Later, switch to use Enilno, which you find in the dungeon Hythloth. Additionally, the Storm Cloak is to be used when dealing with enemy magic, which you get from Mariah at the Lycaeum.


 * Julia

As a Tinker, Julia is resticted to use non-magical weapons and armour, with exception of the magic bow. The best possible equipment for her is plate armour, a great helm and a halberd as a weapon, which can be bought at Serpent's Hold.


 * Jaana

Jaana as a Druid is resticted in her weapons usage, as she is not allowed to use bladed wepons, only blunt ones. Since there are no magical hammers, the best she can use is the Two-Handed Hammer, which can be bought in Trinsic.


 * Beh Lem

As a gargoyle, Beh Lem faces severe restrictions, therefore here the best you can do for him. He can use a magic sword and keep his boomerang as a distance weapon. He can wear a spiked collar and give him four protection rings to ramp up his armour rating.

Magic
Magic is surprisingly complicated issue.

For the part of the game where you are trapped on the main land, you have not much need of magic (since you are too weak to survive dangeons anyway) and the only spells you have need of are healing and cure spells as well as the magic unlock spell. You however should use the time time to already collect as many reagents as you can (more in the next section) in order to fill your stores.

This situation changes dramatically once the world opens up to you.

Generally, all characters that can do magic should have a spellbook in order to cast the most basic spells (heal, cure, unlock, light) so that they free up your main spellcasters, who can save their mana for more important spells. Besides the Avatar, Jaana is the main spellcaster, as she is allowed usage of all spells, while other characters have limitations up to which circle they can learn spells. These two should learn all spells possible. The eigth circle spells from Xiao only become available once you are that level and fulfill her quest (see side-quests).

Generally, the following spells are a must-have, the rest is up to you:


 * Awaken - to counter these annoying sleep spells.
 * Cure - absolutely essential, since poison is everywhere.
 * Dispel Magic - since posession is really annoying to deal with.
 * Light - at least until you get the better spell, so that you are not in the dark in dungeons.
 * Heal - should be self-explandatory.
 * Telekinesis - creates some good shortcuts.
 * Unlock Magic - absolutely needed, alo opens up lots of nice loot.
 * Untrap - since traps are everywhere.
 * Dispel Field - considering the sheer number of magic fields, you do need this.
 * Fetch - nice to get some tucked away items.
 * Great Light - this light spell is much more useful in dungeons and lasts longer as well.
 * Peer - very nice to replace peer gems and lights up dungeons even more.
 * Pickpocket - needed to solve the Phoenix quest, also nice to get good stuff.
 * Reveal - since some enemies (Liches) love to go invisible, having this is a must.
 * Seance - needed to solve the Skara Brae quest.
 * Kill - the ultimate spell to kill single enemies with one blast.
 * Death Wind - THE ultimate spell. One casting destroys huge groups of enemies.

Reagents
Finding reagents is essential in the first half of the game to conserve your money and get what you need for spellcasting. Generally, there are numerous places where harvesting regents is especially easy and all reagents re-grow after a day, so that they can be harvested again. Note that there are many more places where reagents can be found, which should all be written down into the compendium so that they can be found again, but these are simply the most plentiful and also quite easy to reach for harvesting the reagents.
 * Cove Area

The Cove area is very rich in Ginseng and Garlic. Ginsing can be foun around the Ettin camp east of Rudyom's house and Garlic at the coast below a little west of the Swamp Cave. More Ginseng and Garlic can be found a little north on the plateau that runs parallel to the pass that leads from Cove to Minoc, you just need to get ris of some Headless.


 * East of Yew

Just a little outside the eastern gate of Yew there is a respectable patch of Blood Moss on the forest floor, ready to be harvested.


 * Spider Cave

Of course, the Spider Cave south of Empath Abbey holds a huge amount of Spider Silk, just don't expect the Giant Spiders to give it up without a fight. Killing the spider queen nets you 500 of the reagent.


 * Beach North of Skara Brae

The long, big beach north of Skara Brae houses numerous oysters with Black Pearls, that only wait to be picked up.


 * Beach West of Trinsic

The big beach far west of Trinsic holds an even bigger cache of Black Pearls and is even easier to reach.


 * A Bit West of Trinsic

Just a bit west of Trinisc and and up one mountain level, a huge cache of Blood Moss and Ginsing can be found (you need to look aroud a bit to find all of it). This one can be easily missed because of the confusing terrain and you can reach it by first looking north from the lake to find the small path that leads deeper into the mountain/forest.


 * Spektran

Spektran is the big haul. After you've gotten rid of the initial inhabitants of Hydrae, the island is completely safe and houses an obscene amount of Black Pearls, Nightshade and Mandrake Roots. For the latter two reagents, you never need another source for harvesting again (although do so when the opportunity arises), just remember to only harvest from 23:00 - 1:00, when the plants are glowing blue (otherwise they are worthless).


 * Terfin

Terfin is littered with caches of Sulfurous Ash, just be careful with the nasties there.


 * Volkania

The lone volcanic island Volkania south-east of the Isle of the Avatar holds the biggest amout of Sulfurous Ash, but you have to deal with its inhabitants of Drakes first.

Making Money
One of your biggest concerns will be, to make money. After all, the stuff you need to buy will cost you a fortune. There are several ways to fill your coffers.

The straightforward way of course is through fighting, since enemies, especially the humanoid ones, often have gold with them and it quickly adds up. Fighting also gives you the gear of the enemies (when humanoid), which you can sell at the next blacksmith. Just be sure that you don't pick up broken equipment - with brown tags - as these aren't worth anything. Indeed, this is a great tactic later in the game. Go to Jhelom and enter the Heftimus Cave. The waves of evil fighters you can mow down there with the right equipment leave behind tons of gold and especially good equipment which you can sell for ungodly amounts of money at the next blacksmith. Please note that things like royal shields and guard chainmail can't be sold on the open market. In these cases, Enrik in Buccaneer's Den is your fence, as he doesn't care where your wares come from.

Besides finding money, the other big way to get gold is to sell stuff to the right people. The mint in Britain is pobably your best friend, as you can sell them all your Gold Bars, Gold Nuggets and Gems, which will quickly add up to a considerable sum. Another profitable deal is - surprisingly - to sell peer gems to provisioners, since the price for one alone is quite high. The wine vendors in Empath Abbey and Skara Brae also buy each other's specialty wines for considerable sums.

There are also two one-time ways to make money:


 * Play Nim with Dr. Cat in Paws. The trick to the game is, that you can only win when you are the one to take the first stone, meaning that you should bet the maximum when you have the first turn, and the minimum when Dr. Cat has the first turn. The corect number of stones you should take at each turn is always the same and is 1 - 3 - 2. After you've won several thousand gold pieces, Dr. Cat will admit defeat.


 * After you've reached the Lycaeum, talk to Xiao about the eigth level of spells, then get the "Book of Lost Mantras" from the library and go to Spiritwood. Talk to the Xorinite Wisp there and exchange the information in the book for gold, which you can exchange at the mint (the information is useless). That's worth several thousand gold pieces.

Battle Tactics
Simply charing into battle is suicide, you need tactics for certain monsters, or you'll be dead meat faster that you think. While most of the weaker monsters can be simply beaten down in melee combat, others need more refined techniques to survive the encounter with them.

Reapers, Daemons and Liches: These monsters are especially annoying thanks to their magical abilities that can toast you from afar or possess you (which is especially annyoing). You need to avoid these like the plague until you got the Storm Cloak from mariah, which short-circuits their magic. However, that still leaves their powerful physical attacks. Never attack these monsters in melee. Instead, arm your party with magic bows and mow the foes down from afar before they can reach you.

Drakes and Dragons: These thankfully don't do magic, so the cloak isn't needed. However, they have very strong physical attacks, so avoid a melee battle like the plague and use concentrated bow fire. Still, their fire breath does hurt. Once you do have the right level, avoid battles altogether and just kill them outright with Kill and Death Wind to avoid severe injury. And then of course there are the Elder Wyrm Dragons. These DO magic, so wear the cloak. Their hide is so thick, that phsical attacks are useless, so use Kill spells, and even then you need numerous to kill these beasts.

Corpsers: Corspers are very mean monsters, since they surprise you all of a sudden and do massive damage with their attacks. Thankfully, once you do know where they are, you can just stay out of their range and easily kill them with bows. No melee, that would probably cause deaths in the party.

Slimes and Acid Slugs: Probably the most annoying monsters in the game. While the former can poison, the latter destroy non-magical equipment. They also split after being killed the first time, rising their annyoance factor even more. Their sheer numbers in encouters forbid melee. For most of the game, they can only be defeated the slow way; destroying them one by one with bow fire. If an invisibility ring is at hand, place a Powder Keg in the middle of the foes and ignite it with bow fire. Later, the double usage of Death Wind can wipe out even the biggest groups.

Gazers: One of the most dangerous enemies in the game. You need to wear the Storm Cloak to negate their magic, but this helps little sinc ethey then will zoom towards you and hurt you with powerful physical attacks. The best course of action is to weaken them with both fire and then destroy them in melee. Later, use Kill to quickly get rid of them. You should pray you don't meet bigger groups of these.

Gargoyles: You only meet these as enemies in the first third of the game, but that makes things even worse. They guard the shrines and as soon as you come too close, they'll swarm you and rip you to pieces. To prevent that from happening, equip your party with bows and carefully lure the gargoyles away fro mthe shrine so that you can can kill them one by one. The winged ones also cast spells, yet only attack them when you are sure you won't get swarmed by wingless ones.

The Main Quest Walkthrough
This walkthrough goes through all steps needed for the main quest, but not side-quests, which are listed seperately. Note that everything is in a linear fashion here, which in the real game, you often work on multiple objectives at the same time. Also, you should go to side-areas and do side task all the time, since otherwise you'll be far too weak later in the game and under-equipped.

Compassion
For a map with labels, see:Cove - Ultima 6 Project Map

You go right into battle after being rescued from the gargoyles, but the battle isn't too hard, since everyone in the throne room helps you. After that is done, talk with Lord British about all topics and also let him heal you. Talk to Nystul next, who will tell you to show the Book of Prophecies to Mariah at the Lycaeum to get more information. Also on his insistance show the Orb of the Moons to Lord British to be able to use it. After all this is doen, get your equipment from you room in the castle and then take all useful equipment from the castle itself (you are freeto do so) and also pick all chests to take all you need. Once you are ready, talk to Geoffrey in the throne room to get teleported to Cove, site of the most recent battle.

You arrive in a carnage and the Shrine of Compassion is surrounded by a force field. Quickly help the citizen to get the wonded survivors to the healer. Once that is done, the women that take care of the Temple of Virtue warn you that the gargoyles have invaded the temple. Talk to the wounded soldiers first before you deal with the problem. Each character should have the best possible equipment and lots of yellow potions at hand before you go into the temple itself. You of course get ambushed inside and the doors get locked. The battle against the gargoyles is not easy, but with enough potions at hand it should be managable.

Just as you win, a winged gargoyle appears and tries to get you, but the arrival of the guards chases him away. Talk with your companions about the orb that the gargoyle used. Cove is safe for now, so return by foot to Britain and talk to the guard at the drawbridge of the castle to lower it, so that you can now enter and leave it as you please.

For a map with labels, see:Britain - Ultima 6 Project Map

Your mission for the time being is to free all of the eight shrines of virtue from the gargoyles. To do so, you need the mantra and the rune for the shrine, which can be found in the city that embodies said virtue. Once you have these two things, it's easy to free the shrine. You actually need to free the five shrines on the mainland, since Arty the shipwright will tell you, that you can't get a ship (they are all used by the government) until the situation on the mainland has de-escalated.

Since you start in Britain, the city of Compassion, and Lord British has told you that the mayor knows more about the situation, go into the town hall and talk to Lord Tholden about it. He tells you that the bards at the conservatory have both, rune and mantra. The conservatory thankfully is just across the street, so talk to the bards Kenneth and Nan, and they will gladly tell you the mantra "MU" and explain, that their young student Ariana has the rune. The young girl however won'tgive it to you until you got permissin from her mother. So visit Anya in the Blue Boar Tavern and get her permission, which will make Ariana release the rune.

Now return to Cove and use the rune near the shrine to free it. Take the moonstone you find on it and use it on the damaged moongate of Britain to repair it (keep the stone!). Then give Lord British a report of your success.

Justice
For a map with labels, see:Yew - Ultima 6 Project Map

Next go to Yew, the city of Justice, since it's closest to Britain. Just stay on the path, since the forest is crawling with nasties who would love to bring you to an early grave.

Once in Yew, go directly to mayor Lenora and ask for rune and mantra. She readily gives you the mantra "BEH" (although she wonders how you could forget it) but tells you that the thief Boskin has stolen the rune from the grave of the previous mayor, and despite him being captured, the rune is gone. That of course makes things a bit more complicated. Trying to talk to Boskin, who's in the high-security cell of the prison, doesn't work, since the warden won't let you in without permission. So get one from Lenora and get the key from the warden. That finally enables you to talk to Boskin, who gives you a big sob story. Go to Lenora, who dismisses his story outright. Return to Boskin, who admits he'd overblown it, but still wants security for his wife and daughter.

Asking Lenora gives no result, so afterwards first talk to his wife and daughter, who are found on the field west of Utomo's forge, and then talk with a purple-clad female druid at the druid circle. She promises to take care of the problem, so return to Boskin, who tells you that his neighbor Witton has the rune. Witton gives it to you. While you now have everything for the shrine, you should first listen to Witton's story about Lenora and why she's become so harsh. Next talk to all the prisoners and especially the male druid. Finally, talk to the purple druidess again, before you talk to Lenora a final time. She finally understands that in her grief over her predecessor, she's lost sight of true justice, and frees the wrongfully imprisoned people (you can visit all affected people to get responses). That done, return the key to the warden.

Now go to the Shrine of Justice. It's guarded by gargoyles, so better use the right tactics inroder to defeat them, then use the rune to free the shrine and take the moonstone. Use the moonstone to repair the moongate of Yew, then return to Lord British to report your success to him.

Spirituality
For a map with labels, see:Skara Brae - Ultima 6 Project Map

Skara Brae, the city of Spirituality shuld be your next stop. It's easily reached as long as you stay on the path in Spiritwood.

When you visit the mayor Trenton, however, you get bad news. The runekeeper Quenton got killed under mysterious circumstances and the rune got lost. As for the mantra, he suggests reading. Since there's nothing mor eto get, search for the Book of Spiritulaity in town, which tells you right away the mantra "OM". But getting the rune will be a bit more complicated. First talk to Yorl, Quenton's best friend about the deceased runekeeper. Then go to the house of Marney, Quenton's daughter, while she's at home. During your conversation a poem should come up, in which a basket and a chest are mentioned. When you mention it to Marney, she realizes that her hope chest is meant and she finds the runeinside and gives it to you, as long as you promise to return it.

Now, getting to the shrine is a different matter, since it's located in the Ethereal Void and your orb isn't programmed yet for it. To reach the void, you fist need to have at least two working moongates, so that they open up at night, and then enter a gate a midnight, when both moons are equal at height in the sky, to reach the void. Additionally, both moons need to be new moon, which only happens once a month, so if you are really unlucky, you have to wait 27 days. The Shrine of Spirituality is thankfully not guarded, so you can use the rune to free the shrine and take the moonstone without problem. Quickly repair the Skara Brae moongate with the moonstone, then report to Lord British.

Sacrifice
For a map with labels, see:Minoc - Ultima 6 Project Map

Getting to Minoc, the city of Sacrifice, from Cove won't be difficult, just be sure to stay on the road and you'll just have to deal with Headless. Leaving the road will result in ugly meetings with bandits and Tangle Vines.

Once you are in Minoc, go straight to the mayor Isabella. She tells you that Selganor of the Artisan's Guild is the appointed runekeeper and reveals that the healer Tara knows the mantra. So visit her first and she tells you the mantra, "CAH" right away. Next go the the guild hall and talk to Selganor. Things however are never easy and Selganor only wants to give you the rune once you are a member of the guild yourself. To do so, you need to play Stones on a set of special panpipes to him. To get these panpipes, you first need a board made of a Yew log. So return to Yew and find the lumberjack Ben north of Yew and talk to him during work hours to get a Yew log. Take that to Aaron at the sawmill in Minoc to get a board made from it. Take that board to Julia, who by that point should already be in your party, and let her make a set of panpipes from it.

Next talk to Gwenno, who also should by now be in your party by now, and let her tell you the correct notation for Stones. Better practise the song until you got it down perfectly, then again talk to Selganor while he's in the guild hall and demonstrate your panpipes skills to him. He'll release the rune to you. Now that you have both, the Shrine of Sacrifice is found in the Drylands, far to the east. It of course is guarded by gargoyles, so use your usual tactics to get them out of the way, then free the shrine with the rune and take the moonstone with you. Finally, repair the moongate of Minoc with the moonstone, before you report your success to Lord british, leaving only one mainland shrine to be freed.

Honor
For a map with labels, see:Paws - Ultima 6 Project Map

For the last shrine, you want to go to Trinsic, the city of Honor. While you do so, you'll travel through the town of Paws.

In Paws, you hea that there has some sort of tragedy happened recently, although the victims were not well-liked in the community, and gargoyle involvement is suspected. So go to the burnt-out barn yourself and your companions will give some comments that maybe you should investigate later and be more concerned about the tracks that lead south. Also talk to the guard that you meet at the southern guard tower. He'll pretty much tell you that there's something bad going on south, and you'll see it's true when you meet a roadblock further south, blocking entrance to the Fens of the Dead, with a guard saying that it's closed unti lfurther notice.

Since that doesn't sound good, go to the stone bridge a little further to the west and then south into the forest. A guard will stop you and bring you to their leader, Baden. He'll finally tell you what is going on. The gargoyles have laid siege to Trinsic, meaning that right now no one will enter or leave the city, making your quest pretty much impossible for the time being. However, he already has a plan to break the siege, which involves using the moongate of the city. Go back to the castle to tell Geoffrey about it, then return to Baden. You need to get into the city to tell everyone about the plan and get the emans to reapir the trinsic moongate, so Baden will make you invisible at night and tells you to find a rope to climb the walls.

Now go south and turn off the scripts of your party. You need to be peaceful. Once youreach the southern end of the swamp, you see the siege. The gargoyles will raise the alarm if they notice you, so it's now a game of finding a way to get by to reach the wall. You'll find the hanging rope at the north-eastern corner. Use it to get into the city (if you are discovered, it'll not be there).

For a map with labels, see:Trinsic - Ultima 6 Project Map

Finally on the walls of the city, start talking to everyone you find on the walls to tell them about the plan. On the way you'll meet the mayor, Whitsaber. Explain the plan to him and he tells you to tell everyone else so that they can be ready. He also tells you the mantra "SUMM" and that the rune is resting on a pedestal in the middle of the city. So take the rune right away, your main problem for the time being is to alert everyone of the plan. The problem with that is, that some people are sleeping, meaning you have to wait for them to wake up. Also, there are people in the basement of the guard tower who need to be told as well. After everyone knows, return to Whitsaber (he tells you if you forgot someone), then orb out of the city and return to Baden.

Baden now tells you that they'll attack as soon a s the moongate of the city is back in working order. Since you do not want to meet the siege force, go along the western coast of the mainland to get to the Shrine of Honor. The gargoyles guarding it need to be dealt with as usual, then free the shrine and take the moonstone. After that is done, now comes the difficult part, getting to the moongate. The safest way is, to drink invisibility potions and then quickly go through the lake north of the gate. You will get discovered, but only by a few gargoyles, so kill them after running through the lake. Now, before you do anything, you should lure a number of gargoyles from the elevated path east of the gate to make the counterattack easier. Once that is done, arm yourself and then repair the moongate with the moonstone. Things quickly turn into a full-out battle. Use your bows to kill the winged gargoyles first, since they are most dangerous. If all went according to plan, the gargoyles should be defeated and Baden thanks your for your help.

Now, take the loot of the battle and sell it, before returning to Paws. Shamino now has the time to easily see that the death of the family was just an accident. Fianlly return to Lord British and report the freeing of the final mainland shrine.

Valor
For a map with labels, see:Jhelom - Ultima 6 Project Map

Now that all the mainland shrines are cleared, Arty can finally sell you a ship. So buy it and finally set sail for the remaining shrines. Your first destination should be Jhelom, the city of Valor.

Once there, go to the mayor Zellivan and ask for the rune and mantra. However, he has neither, since as he says, the rune was supposed to be kept by Nomaan but got stolen by a rat, and he has no idea of the mantra. Now, getting the mantra is easy, just listen to the songs of the bard Culham in the tavern to learn it is "RA". Now that this is done, you need to know how to get the rune. Nomaan and Jerris (while in the tavern) can give you additional information about the rat hole in which the rune has vanished into, while the serving girl Lyssandra gives you the important clue, that Sherry the Mouse could get the rune out of the hole. So you need to get her.

However, before you do so, re-enter your ship and dock at the island that houses the Shrine of Valor. Approach the gargoyles guarding it and kill them all in the usual manner. That's important, because you want the shrine as an orb location to speed things up significantly. That done, orb back to the castle and have some cheese - found in the kitchen - with you when you approach Sherry. After you got her help, orb back to the shrine and use your ship to return to Jhelom. Now it's easy for Sherry to get the rune out of the rat hole. Steer your ship then back to the shrine island and orb back to the castle and release Sherry from your party, once inside.

After all this, finally orb back to the shrine and use the rune to free it. Take the moonstone and use your ship to return to Jhelom. Repair the moongate, then report back to Lord British.

Honesty
For a map with labels, see:Moonglow - Ultima 6 Project Map

Now, return to your ship and set sail for Moonglow, the city of Honesty.

First after you have arrived, go to the town hall and talk with the mayor, Aganar. Aganar tells you that the rune is held by Beyvin, the husband of Penumbra, but he has no idea of the mantra. So go to the house of Penumbra and, after getting through some fields, get the bad news that Beyvin got killed for being too honest, leaving Penumbra a widow, and the rune got buried together with him in the tombs. At least, some donations to her make her reveal the mantra "AHM" to you. That still leaves you with the problem of finding the rune. Talk to Beyvin's cousin Manrel and promise to put some flowers to his grave to get the crypt key from him.

The entrace to the crypts is in a floor panel in the tavern, behind the counter. Just look for it. Now, the crypts are a dangerous place, but with a little preperation easy to manage and it has no secret doors. The first level is a big circle, which you should completely empty of loot, while getting annoyed by undead and slimes in thankfully managable numbers. The fun starts in the second level, where you have to defeat numerous evil fighters. The third level is even worse, since it's overrun with slimes and acid slugs. Best use the powder keg trick to get rid of them, then place the flowers at the grave there to get the stairs to the fourth level. There, search the graves until you have the rune.

For a more detailled solution, see Solution for the Crypts.

Now, backtrack back to Moonglow and return the crypt key to Manrel, before you board your ship to Dagger Isle. Kill the gargoyles guarding the Shrine of Honesty as usual, then free it and take the moonstone. Return to Moonglow and repair the moongate before going to Lord British to report.

Humility
For a map with labels, see:New Magincia - Ultima 6 Project Map

Setting sail for New Magincia, the city of Humility, you finally only have one more shrine left to be freed.

Arriving at the docks, you should go straight to the twon hall to speak with mayor Antonio about the rune and the mantra. Too bad the mayor is bored to tears on this peaceful island and will only give the rune to you after telling him the name of the most humble person living in New Magincia. As for the mantra, he says you should ask around. The people in the city are very diverse and none really fit to being most humble, but Conor at the southern docks does, since he insists that he's NOT the most humble person (which means he is). He also knows the mantra, "LUM". So go back to Antonio and tell him that Conor is the most humble one in order to get the rune as well.

Since this was short and painless, set sail for the Isle of the Avatar, where the Shrine of Humility is located on the northern side. This island is a dangerous place, so go directly to the shrine and kill off the gargoyles, then free the shrine with the rune and take the moonstone. After that is done, sail back to New Magincia, and repair the moongate with the moonstone.

Finally, report to Lord British, that now all eight shrines of virtue are again in britannian hands and all the moongates repaired.

The Silver Tablet
For a map with labels, see:Buccaneer's Den - Ultima 6 Project Map

Now that you've solved the problem with the shrines and forced the gargoyles out of Britannia, it's time to see what the strange book is about, that you got from the gargoyles. So go to the Lycaeum and talk to Mariah. She instantly recognises it as a script she has already seen, but sadly her translation tablet got damaged during delivery to her, so she only has a fourth of it and needs the rest before she can make something of it. Take the fragment of the Silver Tablet from her room, and then set out to find the gypsies under Zoltan, who had brought it to her in the first place. Use the Gypsy Calendar to find out where to find Zoltan and talk to him. As it turns out, Captain Johne wanted him to get the tablet to Mariah some years ago, but the pirates under Captain Hawkins ambushed him and the tablet broke in two. The only way to get the other half is to find these pirates.

Since Buccaneer's Den is the obvious choice for pirates, go there and talk around. Homer is the man you want and he says right away that his crew (meaning including him) has murdered Hawkins, but he won't reveal more until you are a member of the Guild of Thieves and sends you to Budo, the guild master. Budo in turn wants the thief Phoenix cast out of the guild before he allows you to join, by you stealing her membership belt, adding that she's made her home in the sewers under Britain. So return to Britain and enter the sewers through the castle.

For a detailled solution to the sewers, see Solution for the Sewers.

If you have followed everything, you have found Phoenix, who is quite talkative but won't give the belt on her own. So, use the spell Pickpocket to get it from her. Now you have the choice to either orb out and use your ship again, or to have further adventure in the sewers and then the Buccaneer's Cave, which leads onto the island. If you do so, first invade the pirate fort in the lake near Phoenix' home to get obscene amounts of loot, before following the Solution for the Buccaneer's Cave to return to the surface.

One way or another, you finally show Budo your belt and gain membership. Now Homer is perfectly willing to talk to you and explains that after murdering Hawkings, the pirates burried the treasure and ripped the map into nine pieces. Homer has one and knows the details, but won't give any of these until you show him the other pieces. However, he only remembers five of the pirates - of which four have a map piece - and he can't help you further for the time being until you have all of the pieces.

Map Pieces and the Treasure
Your next course of action is clear, you need this map in order to get the silver tablet.

Since it would be pointless to look for the pieces before you know where to find them, go to Trinisc first and talk to Sandy, who was the cook on Hawkins' ship and doesn't have piece of the map of his own. Sandy actually is willing to trade the information, as long as you get him a fresh dragon egg from the dungeon Destard. He won't take any others, since these are rotten and unusable. Destard is west of Trinsic, and infested with Dragons, giving you a real challenge.

For a detailled solution how to solve this mess, see Solution for Destard.

Once you have finally gotten the egg that Sandy wants from Destard, return to him and make the exchange. Of course Sandy tries to weasel out of telling the last name, who actually is the mayor of Trinsic, but in the end you get all eight of the names and now are ready to take on finding these pirates and their map pieces.

The first one is really easy, since you already are in Trinsic. Just remind the mayor Lord Whitsaber of his past as Alastor Gordon under Captain Hawkins and promise to keep things quit in exchange for the map piece and he gives it to you on his own.

The next one is the pirate Bonn who has shipwrecked on Dagger Isle years ago and became a herimit. Approaching him, Bonn himself only spouts insane rantings and says little of use, but mentions concerning the map, that it is in his baement, his "future grave". That's enough of a hint to search the basement of his house, where you find an illusionary wall and walk directly through it, to find the map piece in a chest behind it.

The third pirate is the Unnamed Pirate, who has died in a shipwreck at the Cape of Heroes. So search the islands of the cape with your ship until you see the wreck. Now, there first is the issue of the undead crew, but once that is settled, you can easily find the map piece in a chest in the wreck.

The fourth pirate is Nathaniel Moorhead, but once you reach Empath Abbey, his wife Sylaina tells you he already is dead and the map piece got stolen by the gypsies under the thief Arturos. So use the Gypsy Calendar to find out where they currently are and talk to Arturos. You can either pay his price of 100 gold pieces, or refuse once to get it down to 50. One way or another, you have the map piece.

The fifth map piece is held by Morchella, who lives on the Isle of Deeds. She will only release it for a special shield from the Order of the Silver Serpent. So first talk to Koranada in Serpent's Hold, who easily allows you entrance. Take a curved heater, a gold nugget and a peering gem to Gherick, so that you get the special shield, Then be present in the order tower to get initiated. Afterwards, trade the shield with Morchella to get the map piece.

These were the easy ones. The final three pieces are far more difficult to get.

The sixth piece was held by Heftimus McPry, who has become a beggar in Jhelom and says that rats stole it from him in dungeon Wrong. That obviously means you have to enter the dungeon to get it back from them. Now, Wrong is connected to dungeon Covetous and this will be a really complicated and dangerous trip, so read Solution for Wrong and Covetous to solve the problem and get hold of the map piece.

The seventh piece is not much easier, since the pirate Old Ybarra is lost in dungeon Shame. So go to Lost Lake, enter dungeon Shame and then follow the Solution for Shame to navigate your way through the dungeon. Since you already have found the wishing well (it conjures food), talking to Old Ybarra, you first exchange food for the map piece since he's half starved to death and then explain the well, so that he is saved.

The last piece was held by Ol' Hawknose, but as Sin Vraal in the Drylands tells you, the pirate got killed by Giant Ants when he tried to kill the gargoyle and his body got dragged into the Ant Mound. This really is the hardest map piece to get, so refer the Solution for the Ant Mound to solve this mess and find the map piece on Ol' Hawknoses dead body.

Now that you finally have the eight pieces of the map, return to Homer and promise his to get the storm cloak fro mthe treasure for him, so that he in return gives you the last piece together with instructions how to find the entrance. You should have several powder kegs in your inventory and purchase a shovel from Budo, before setting sail for Spektran. Follow Homer's instructions and use your shovel to free then entrance to enter the Pirate Cave.

Now, the Pirate Cave is a very dangerous and also very complicated place, follow the Solution for the Pirate Cave until you have reached the treasure chamber. Once you are there, pile up three powder kegs in front of the entrance door and blow them up to gain entrance. Feel free to get all of the loot. Important are the strom cloak for Homer, the Magic Fan from Utomo and of course the second piece of the Silver Tablet. Once you have everything you want, notice how slimes seem to appear through the back wall of the room? It's fake and is a fast way back to the surface.

So follow the path and you emerge at the island Pirate's Den. After getting rid of the pirates, plunder it as well and get the deed for their ship, before using it to return to Spektran to get your own ship, which is still docking there. Since you are honest, bring the storm cloak to Homer, who will thank you for it (no loss, since you have the one from Mariah).

The False Prophet
Now that you finally have the whole silver tablet, bring both pieces and the gargoyle book again to Mariah at the Lycaeum and she this time can translate you the whole thing without much problem. It holds quite the nasty surprise in that the gargoyles think that you are the villan in the whole think, thinking that you are the False Prophet, who will bring doom to their race. It also states that only a "sacrifice" of the False Prophet will bring peace. Mariah doesn't like this at all and suggests you should go to Sin Vraal in the Drylands and see, what he thinks about the whole thing. So orb to the Shrine of Sacrifice and walk to his hut to speak with the gargoyle.

Sin Vraal explains, that sacrifice can mean many things and since he had been an outcast in gargoyle society, he wouldn't know all of them, thus the need to talk to a gargoyle scholar to get more information. Sin Vraal explain further, that you will pobably need to visit the Shrine of Singularity, but that this is impossible without flying, which you obviously can't. That's a problem for later however. He also mentions that Captain Johne should know more and that the entrance to the Realm of the Gargoyles and the house of the captain are at the bottom of the dungeon Hythloth, which is located on the Isle of the Avatar.

Now, orb to the Shrine of Humility and walk the eastern coast until you reach Hythloth (only possible in newest 1.1). hythloth is the biggest and meanest of the dungeons, so pray that you come out of it alive. Also use the Solution for Hythloth to make it even possible.

One way or another, once you have found Captain Johne's house, talk extensively to him and he gives you much enlightenment about the whole mess and begs you to help the gargoyles, before their whole world is destroyed by the void. He suggests meeting his friend Beh Lem at the nearby gargoyle exit of Hythloth and then gives you a Gargish-English dictionary. Read that one completely, down to the last page. That will enable you to finally understand the gargoyles, then proceed to the exit to meet Beh Lem. If he's not there, explore the island a bit and then wait at the entrance until he arrives at the appointed time. Beh Lem in turn pretty much tells you, that his father Valkadesh could shed light into the whole sacrifice mess and then joins you permanently (you need him, or gargoyles will attack you).

Now, enter the teleporter to the main island, then find the path into the gargoyle city. Stay far away from the gargoyles for now and instead seek out Valkadesh's house in the southwest of the city. Valkadesh gives you more information and that there possibly are ways to prevent the prophecy, but warns you, that you better first surrender to Lord Draxinusom so that the other gargoyles no longer see you as a threat. So go to the house of Draxinusom and say Valkadesh sends you, then agree to his conditions without complaint, and he puts the Amulet of Submission onto you, which you should keep on, as it shows you have surrendered to the seemingly inevitable. Return to Valkadesh and he tells you that you'll have more than enough time now, since the next possible date for a sacrifice is far away. Since you without doubt want to prevent getting stabbed to death, he sends you to Naxatilor to finally get to the meat of the prophecy.

Naxatilor says there are three meanings to sacrifice - self, others, and valuables. Since sacrificing yourself is what you have been trying to avoid, and you certainly don't want to sacrifice your friends, you must sacrifice that which is valuable. The only thing of value to the Gargoyles is the Codex of Ultimate Wisdom, and Naxatilor will ask if you mean destroying the Codex. Answer no, leaving only one alternative - return the Codex to the Vortex. So that's what you have to do. So Naxatilor sends you to the Hall of Knowledge to read the Book of Rituals so that you know what to do. Also take the broken purple lens and get it repaired by the Lensmaker, then go back to Naxatilor, who says you need a human lens as well. Also, you need the Vortex Cube and access to the Codex. Too bad that that right now is impossible, as Captain Bolesh will tell you, while he's recovering at the healer. The only way to gain entrance is to get a quest from the Shrine of Singularity.

The Balloon
The flying issue is a real problem, so you need to find a why to fly. Since your orb has by now programmed the center of gargoyle city into it, return to Britannia with the orb, then board your ship and go to Buccaneer's Den. Once you are there, listen to the song of Johann, who mentions a balloon. Since that needs more information, go to the Lycaeum and search the library until you've found the book "The Lost Art of ballooning", and read it thoroughly. Interesting, a balloonist is rumored to be in Minoc. So orb to Minoc and first ask mayor Isabella and then Selganor, who tell youthat the balloonist was hired by Sutek the mad mage, who lives on the island of Terfin, which will be your next stop.

Once you have docked there, be shocked at what kind of monsters Sutek is creating. And then be angered that his castle (once Blackthorn's palace) is a huge labyrinth. Sutek is a dick, especially once you talk to him and he tells you the balloonist is dead in his dungeon. Now, what follows is tideous, you must find four keys in order to slowly progress through the castle, changing floors multiple times, until finally you get access to the tower near then entrance, which can be unlocked from the inside. Then go into the basement, where you meet Pushme Pullyu. This thing is confusing, but don't be fooled and take the eastern way. You need to do lava-walking but finally should find the body of the balloonist and the plans. Read them, then backtrack out of the castle and back to your ship.

So, you need to build a balloon. Here what you need to do:


 * Cauldorn: you can find several in dungeon Wrong, but one is enough.


 * Anchor: you can buy it from Budo.


 * Rope: Mortude in Paws sells rope. Buy six rolls from him.


 * Basket: Michelle in Minoc can make that one for you if you have the plans.


 * Baloon Hull: Have Arbeth in Paws make 40 spider silk into thread, then try Thindlefor weaving, but he can't. Instead go to Charlotte in New Magincia, who can. Then bring the silk cloth to Marissa in Pas to let her make the bag according to the plans.

Finally return to the gargoyle lands and go to the clearing beneth the Shrine of Singularity. Using the clearing repeatedly will enable you to build the balloon, until it is ready. Then board it and fly up to the shrine. Once there, use an extra rpe to secure the way back down (you can now use the rope to get up there). Finally, you have arrived at the Shrine of Singularity.

The Sacred Quest
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Restoring the Peace
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Side-Quests
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