Fedabiblio

Fedabiblio is a mage in Moonshade, known as the Magister. He acts as headmaster of the Seminarium and is charged with testing infants from all over Serpent Isle for magical ability, such as that children with the capacity for magic do not remain untrained and dangerous. He appears in Ultima VII Part Two.

Description
People throughout Serpent Isle told the Avatar tales of the Magister, painting a picture of a dark and wicked figure who kidnapped children in the night, leaving naught but a white stone in their place. These accounts did not necessarily mesh with the reality of Fedabiblio, who seemed an honest man wishing only to prevent the hardships that would be both suffered and incurred by untrained magelings. They were, however, understandable fables for a populace largely devoid of magical training to create, especially given the reality of grieving parents, bereft of their chilren.

The Avatar met Fedabiblio, and requested of the mage a replacement spellbook, after losing the Britannian spellbook to the teleport storms. Fedabiblio agreed to construct a new spellbook, telling the Avatar to bring him mandrake roots from Monk Isle, claiming that the freshest roots would be necessary to create the tome. After bringing him the needed reagents, Fedabiblio quizzed the Avatar on material from Erstam's book, Beyond the Serpent Pillars before crafting the item.

Much later, after Shamino the Anarch overtook Moonshade, he turned Fedabiblio into a stone statue. The Avatar was able to use a wand known as the Philanderer's Friend, which was found in the possession of the undead Vasculio, to return Fedabiblio to flesh and blood. Thankful, he gave the Avatar a key which had previously belonged to Captain Hawk, allowing the hero to eventually locate the dead sailor's treasure. He also provided the Avatar with copy of the scroll of serpent, which was needed to decipher what course of action to take in the imminent Imbalance.

Trivia

 * The model for Fedabiblio's character portrait is Kazutoshi Takaishi.
 * Fedabiblio's questions before getting the spellbook form the second part of the in-game copy protection.
 * Should the Avatar ask Bucia about the pumice stone, pinecone, and egg that a Teleport Storm exchanged for their spellbook, a glass sword, and the Magebane without showing her any of these items, she will recommend that the hero consult Fedabiblio regarding them. If he is shown the objects, he will be able to identify the pumice as having been formed deep within the earth, and he will ascertain that the pinecone came directly from the Northern Forests rather than having been washed up on the shoreline, citing the presence of unreleased seeds within it. The blue egg, however, will baffle him, although Freli will chime in to direct the hero to consult either Captain Hawk or Erstam about the object.
 * According to early design documents for Serpent Isle, Fedabiblio was to have been in possession of a humanoid feline's skeletal remains, which he recovered during an expedition to the neighboring island of Claw (once intended to be an accessible location in the game). Moreover, his transformation to stone was originally the result of an ill-planned prank by his pupil, Freli. Instead of the Philanderer's Friend breaking the spell, a potion found in Torrissio's home would have been needed as the antidote. The Avatar would either have had to return Torrissio's wand to obtain this potion from the life mage, or stolen it from his mansion.