Glen
| Glen D'Arc | |||||||||||||
 Glen D'Arc, from Ultima VI | |||||||||||||
| Species: | human | ||||||||||||
| Profession: | mortician | ||||||||||||
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Glen D'Arc is a mortician in Empath Abbey in Ultima VI.
Description[edit]
The Avatar found Glen D'Arc to be a cold deliberate man who had little interest outside of his funeral home. Formerly from Trinsic, he had moved to Empath Abbey to avoid the sun. He preferred the cold light of the moon and rarely went out during the day. Glen told that Avatar that he thought those who died and were not resurrected were the lucky ones because they experienced true peace, advising the hero to try to stay dead next time disaster struck.[1]
Should the Avatar bring Glen a fresh corpse, Glen would offer to cremate the body for 15gp, ensuring the body would remain forever at peace. This had the side effect of also preventing the body from ever being restored to life.
Glen D'Arc's major frustration was with his assistant Mole the gravedigger. He felt that Mole was incompetent and useless because he refused to dig several graves as was expected. With the help of the Avatar, Glen learned that Mole had not dug the graves because the shovel he had supplied Mole was useless. Mole was unable to afford a new shovel because Glen had failed to properly pay Mole's equipment expenses. When the Avatar supplied Mole with a new shovel, Glen allowed the Avatar to liberate the magical belongings of the unclaimed bodies at the funeral home.
Glen has a magically locked door in his workshop that apparently nobody other than him has ever looked behind. If the player unlocks the door, he will find that the room contains pieces of meat, hinting that Glen might be doing something rather unsavory with the bodies he is provided.
The Ultima 6 Project[edit]
This is an Ultima 6 Project-related NPC article or section. The information within may not apply to Ultima VI or other Ultima games.
In The Ultima 6 Project the problem with Mole was solved in a slightly different manner. After the matter of Mole's money was solved by reminding Glen of it, Glen gave the Avatar the key to his chest where he was storing items from bodies, including that from a dead wizard. When searching the chest, the Avatar could also find a high-quality shovel, which they could give to Mole to solve his problems as well.
At the behest of Geoffrey, Glen D'Arc would cremate the body of Ed, who had fallen trying to liberate the Shrine of Compassion from the Gargoyles. Gled would readily explain that this was a new process he had invented for funerals. The urn could be brought to Britain for a warrior's funeral.
Lore[edit]
| “ | The flame seems to have less effect on the mortician and his grave digger. They’ve been squabbling for weeks; perhaps you can do something to clear it up. – from The Book of Prophecy (Ultima VI)
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Services[edit]
Prices in Ultima VI are as follows:
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Cremation | 15 |
References[edit]
- ↑ Glen. Ultima VI transcript. Ultima VI. "name, job, sun, tric, eter, dead, mole".