Karnax

Karnax is the head monk of the Xenkan Monks during Xenka's absence. Also he's quite the cynic.

The Avatar's first impression of Karnax in Ultima VII/2 wasn't a good one. He suddenly appeared and accused Thoxa of foolishness, before the both of them vanished after a magic duel.

Much later, he/she met Karnax on Monk Isle. Now Karnax was a lot more friendlier and explained his reasons. He believed that any action from their side would further the doom that would come upon Serpent Isle. However, it was nothing personal against the Avatar. Karnax went on to speak about the order and how it by now was in a crisis with only few new novices and Xenka missing for a long time by then.

Karnax himself was pretty much frustrated how vague Xenka's prophecies were. (In reality, monks in the past felt her prophecies weren't mystical enough and edited them until they became unreadable and the originals got lost). However, he knew more about the ancient Ophidian culture and how it pretty much destroyed itself. However, Karnax had an interesting artifact, the Amulet of Balance, which was essential for the quest of the Silver Seed. Ineed, he did feel the importance and managed to warp into the past for some moments to instruct the Avatar to plant the seed for the Tree of Balance.

Much later, after the Banes of Chaos]] were released, Karnax told the Avatar that Fedabiblio of Moonshade could know more. After the Avatar gave Karnax a scroll from Fedabiblio, he concluded that it was the imbalance that was destroying the world. Also he finally had an answer how to cure Gwenno.