Daranor
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| Daranor | |||||||||
 Daranor, from Ultima IV | |||||||||
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Daranor is an insane man who may be found raving in the shrubbery of Moonglow during Ultima IV.
Description[edit]
Daranor appeared to be afflicted with some manner of madness, claiming that he was responsible for the motion of the sun. Seemingly unaware of his own well-being outside of his celestial mandate, he claimed that the twin moons of Britannia opposed his cosmic works, and begged the Stranger to help him in dragging the malevolent satellites from the sky, denouncing the adventurer as a fool if refusing to help.[1]
Trivia[edit]
- While Daranor is almost undoubtedly insane (evidenced by the fact that the sun appears to remain stable long after he presumably dies), his madness does reflect the geocentric model that is generally accepted by Britannian astronomers. Nevertheless, workings of magic eventually do drive the moons to nearly fall from the sky in Ultima IX.
- In Yoko Tanaka's manga, Ultima: The Quest of the Avatar, Daranor is the dwarfish and deformed-looking henchman of the malevolent Hawkwind, who is eventually responsible for the death of the protagonist's brother, Shiva, before being killed by Shamino and Mariah.[2]
- In the Nintendo remake of Ultima IV (where most character names were omitted and dialogue was significantly modified), Daranor can be identified with the beggar on a different island, in Buccaneer's Den. He still gets angry and insults the Companions if they show no compassion for him.[3]
Gallery[edit]
Daranor as he appears in Yoko Tanaka's Quest of the Avatar manga
NES remake
References[edit]
- ↑ Daranor. Underworld Dragon’s Ultima IV transcript. Ultima IV. "health, job, moons, sun".
- ↑ Tanaka, Yuko. Quest of the Avatar (Ultima IV). JICC: August 29, 1989. Pages 209–212.
- ↑ Ultima IV transcript by subject § Practicing the Virtues