Tiery

Tiery is the eccentric undertaker of the Empath Abbey Graveyard during Ultima VII.

Description
Tiery's difficulty hearing, combined with his thick accent, made communicating with the caretaker difficult, as he would frequently misinterpret things said to him, often mistaking them for accusations of sexual misconduct. With careful inquiry, however, the Avatar could determine that the aging undertaker suffered from necromania, believing the corpses to which he tended to be his friends and companions. He also mentioned that Perrin, a local scholar, had recently begun speaking to him.

Speaking with Perrin, the hero could discover that the man had been making a case study of Tiery's delusions and was compiling his observations into a book entitled How Death Affects Those Who Work Around it With Regularity.

Trivia

 * The names of Tiery's "friends" all appear on headstones in the local graveyard. They include: Derek ("His Days Were Numbered"), Garth ("Sorry About Thy Thumb"), Nina ("His Words Remain with Us") and Nina ("May Her Spirit Soar").
 * In the SNES Port of Ultima VII, Tiery's eccentricity is greatly downplayed, with the only reference to his necromania being Perrin's book.