Skull of Mondain

The Skull of Mondain is an artifact that is evil beyond measure. If used in an area with other living beings, they are all instantly destroyed by the sheer power of the evil within this skull. However, as it is with such evil, the price is high and all virtues will flee the user of this dark skull.

When Mondain died, other dark mages were greedy to retrieve his remains, as the dark power within them was great. Minax was horrified, and at the last instant saved the most powerful part from being defiled: her lover's and mentor's skull, enshrining it in her fortress. When Shadowguard crashed back into Sosaria, the skull was thought lost. In Ultima IV, the Stranger found it near three volcanoes, at double new moons (this site was where Terfin would later form). Throwing it into the fiery entrance of the Abyss, this dark artifact was destroyed forever.

Trivia

 * There is a blunder in Ultima IX, as the Skull is seen in the Museum. It is clearly wrong since Erethian, an expert on ancient artifacts, states that the Skull is destroyed.