Ambrosia (U9)



The underwater city of Ambrosia is where the gargoyles retreated to in Ultima IX, a city on the ground of the ocean, protected by a huge dome.

After the Great Cataclysm, the gargoyles of Britannia isolated themselves from the human population and decided in their growing pride to build a city at the ground of the ocean, where no human would reach them, and name it after the lost island of Ambrosia which had sunk during the cataclysm. This did not go without conflict, and they in the end exiled their own king, Vasagralem, which in turn created a schism in gargoyle society, now that a uniting government was gone.

The great inventor Wislem was credited with this "unbreakable" dome. However, his pride would be the gargoyles' doom, as during the Avatar's visit to the city, the dome did start to collapse, killing all the inhabitants in the end.

Inhabitants

 * Deresh: deceased wingless gargoyle
 * Grond: shipwrecked human
 * Exferlem: leader of the wingless
 * Noname: wingless prisoner
 * Queen Zhah: the queen
 * Valkadesh: leader of the winged
 * Voresh: prison warden
 * Wislem: inventor

Trivia

 * While some have felt that instead of falling to Pride, which is a human anti-virtue, the gargoyles should have fallen to an opposite of the Gargoyle Virtues, it would not have made sense since the columns are created upon the corrupted Runes of Virtue.


 * Judging by a concept art from the early development of Ultima IX, a gargoyle city was planned right from the start. However, neither is its name known, nor does the cave wall in the picture indicate if it was supposed to be underground or underwater.


 * In a case of consistency, gargoyle architecture from Ultima VI, namely pyramid-shaped buildings, is used.