Hook

Hook is the Fellowship's grand executioner during Ultima VII.

Description
For details regarding the movements of Hook and his ship, the Crown Jewel, in Britannia see: Fellowship Movements in Ultima VII

Hook long made his living as a pirate on Britannia's  seas, earning for himself a reputation of exceptional ruthlessness as he did so. Former sailors such as D'Rel and Rutherford could attest first hand to his cruelty, although he seldom left his opponents alive to tell such tales.

Some time prior to Ultima VII, Hook had undertaken a change in careers, having joined with the Fellowship and become their grand executioner. Trained under the equally violent De Snel, the former pirate did the grim work of disposing of his organization's enemies as identified by Abraham. He and his assistant, Forskis, would ritually slaughter these unfortunate targets, severing their head and limbs and often leaving them in publicly accessible areas—no doubt, to strike fear into others who might seek to oppose the group.

Well known to the High Court, Hook made his home in remote Buccaneer's Den, in a series of tunnels behind the House of Games. Most of the islanders lived in fear of him and would not speak of his presence, knowing his reputation. Eventually, however, the Avatar was able to use the powers of the blackrock cube to ferret out his location, and within his chambers the hero was able to find the key to the Fellowship stronghold on the Isle of the Avatar. Here, the champion of the virtue confronted the killer, along with his co-conspirators, and slew him in the chamber of the Black Gate.

Hook's Victims

 * Hook's file at the High Court lists at least 14 proven murders prior to the events of Ultima VII.
 * Finister of Britain
 * Duncan of Buccaneer's Den
 * Christopher of Trinsic
 * Inamo of Trinsic
 * Frederico of Minoc
 * Tania of Minoc
 * Alagner of New Magincia
 * Lord British (intended)
 * The Avatar (intended)

Trivia

 * Hook's character portrait is based upon Ultima VII and Ultima VII Part Two programmer, Philip Brogden.
 * Looking in Hook's living area will reveal a dead alligator with a clock inside of its body, a reference to J. M. Barrie's popular children's novel  Peter Pan.
 * Early design documents for Ultima VII Part Two make mention of a posthumous encounter with the hostile, albeit communicative spirit of Hook, among several other deceased adversaries of the Avatar (including Batlin, Elizabeth, Abraham, Mondain, and notably, Lord Blackthorn) in Mortegro's abandoned manor during Shamino the Anarch's perverse rule over Moonshade. With the eventual truncation of the game's plot, however, no such event occurs in the final release.