Yorl

Yorl is a fisherman living in Skara Brae.

Description
When the Avatar first met Yorl, the fisherman told the hero that his father had been a coastal raider who had been lost when his ship the Merideth Ann when down in a storm with 200 lives lost. Yorl had chosen instead to make his living by fishing the seas. The seaman mentioned that the seas had been bad for fish recently, and that he preferred nets for his catch than using a pole because the nets brought in a larger catch faster. Yorl told the tale of how as a boy he and Quenton had sailed out to sea one evening to try to catch a magical fish called a light-horn, but had instead seen a giant sea serpent, forcing the two boys to row back to shore as quickly as possible.

Asked about Marney and Quenton, he told the spoke of how he learned about Quenton's murder from Gideon and Stivius. With Quenton's death, he promised to take good care of his daughter Marney, and gave her Quenton's precious locket. The fisherman joked to the Avatar that anyone who would court the young girl had to be able to beat him in combat. Ultimately it would be Yorl's close attention that kept Quenton's murderer Michael at bay prior to the girl's death. He had no idea where the Rune of Spirituality had gone, and he was uncertain why Quenton's ghost would haunt Stivius' vineyard, when the sailor's heart had always been for the sea.

Yorl thought that Gideon was a good man, but that his wife Marta was a bit of a nag for she constantly complained his fish shack was an eyesore. He felt Stivious was a strange little man who drank too much of his profits, and the mayor Trenton rarely came around his dock because he felt they smelled bad.

Some months later, Marney died of her illness and Yorl built a tomb for her, which could be visited in Ultima VII. He himself died in the firestorm that destroyed the city.

The Ultima 6 Project
In The Ultima 6 Project, Yorl noted that Michael went around telling people he came from the bloodline of one of Mondain's henchmen, and felt anyone who would tell such a story was bad news.