Sin'Vraal

Sin'Vraal is a winged gargoyle who once served the Shadowlord Astaroth, lord of Hatred. Seemingly the first of his people to journey to the surface of Britannia, the peaceable creature came to dwell in the Drylands after his conversion to the path of the virtues.

Biography
Sin'Vraal once lived in the Realm of the Gargoyles, suffering as a slave along with his wingless brethren due to his inability to fly. Discontent with his lot, the gargoyle left his homelands, and through means unknown, eventually came to serve as Astraroth's thrall. Eventually, he left the service of his master after having met with Lord British in his prison within Doom, where he learned from the monarch the ways of Britannian virtue. Leaving the Underworld, Sin'Vraal lived a solitary life within his hut in the Eastern desserts, far from the humans of the realm who mistook him for a daemon.

During the Avatar's quest to depose of the tyrant Blackthorn in Ultima V, the hero sought out Sin'Vrall, who told the returned champion of his conversion at the hands of the captive ruler. When asked, the seeming "daemon" gave the Avatar much needed information about his former master, revealing not only the hateful wraith's name, but also the location of the Shard of Hatred that spawned it.

Years later, during the Britannian war against the forces Draxinusom, the Avatar sought Sin'Vraal's council again. Telling the hero of his reasons for leaving his people, the gargoyle was able to impart some rudimentary information regarding the Gargish race, telling of the caste divide between the winged and the wingless and describing the necessity of flight in reaching the Shrine of Singularity. Although his deprived upbringing had left him illiterate, he had long known the text of the Book of Prophecies by heart, and knowledgeable of the omens which marked the age of the False Prophet, he directed the Avatar to seek passage to his homeland through the dungeon Hythloth and thereby work towards an end to the war with his people.

Should the Avatar ask after the pirate, Ol' Hawknose, who had numbered amongst the ten crewmates of Captain Hawkins, the gargoyle would reveal that the man who had once attempted to hunt him had been overwhelmed by a nearby colony of giant ants and had been dragged into  their mound.

After this point in time, Sin'Vraal did not meet with the Avatar again, likely having succumbed to the weight of his years in the two centuries between the hero's departure following Draxinusum and British's peaceable accord, and their return at the behest of the Time Lord. By the time of the champion's quests in the realm during Ultima VII, no evidence of the gargoyle or his dwelling remained.

Trivia

 * Unlike many other gargoyles, Sin'Vraal speaks the Britannian language with perfect syntax.