Petra

Petra is an Automaton the Avatar meets in Moonshade in Ultima VII/2. But not any Automaton. She is the only automaton with a soul and with emotions. Also she is the only female (and quite beautiful) Automaton ever seen.

Petra worked in the Blue Boar Inn of Moonshade and was quite happy with her simple existance. However, After Shamino the Anarch killed almost everyone in Moonshade, including her mentor and friend Rocco, she was sticken with grief. Deciding that she, now that nothing else was left, should help the Avatar, she joined his group and helped him with a mindswap machine, experiencing feeling through a flesh body for the first time. After this was done, she accompanied him/her loyally through the quest.

It is not known what happened to her afterwards.

However, her background is revealed in the quest of the Silver Seed, 400 years in the past. There, the Avatar met the Sorceress Elissa. She looked very much like Petra, and revealed that she considers her soul to be transferred into an Automaton, but still has fears about the procedure. Judging by this, she had lost her memory in the process, but had kept her human soul and heart intact.

Trivia

 * Despite being an Automaton, the monks can resurrect her.
 * Strange enough, Elissa doesn't react to her future self, nor does Petra remember her old existance as Elissa, when meeting her.