Renfry
| Renfry | |||||
 Renfry, from Ultima VII Part Two | |||||
| Species: | human | ||||
| Profession: | undertaker | ||||
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Renfry is a Serpent Islander who manages Monitor's Crematorium. He appears in Ultima VII Part Two.
Description[edit]
Renfry was a Knight of Monitor's Wolf Command who served as the community's undertaker. An old man at the time of the Avatar's landing on Serpent Isle, Renfry could prove a difficult conversationalist, being in possession of an inexact memory and having been rendered hard of hearing by the constant roar of the cremator.[1] He would eagerly tell the hero, however, about the nature of his work and of the reverence Monitorians had for the ashes of the dead, disclosing that the people of Monitor had deep respect for the mysticism of their funerary ceremonies, even if they eschewed magic proper.[2] He was also quick to mention that he had been authorized by Lord Marsten to distribute monetary rewards to any who brought back the body of a fallen pikeman for proper cremation and interment.[3]
Sometime prior to the Avatar's arrival, Renfry spent some time in Batlin's company, and he could relate that the sage had apparently been involved in a case of theft concerning the city's sculptor, Andral, although he knew little about the affair.[4]
Renfry eventually met his end when Monitor fell to an army of goblins and beasts, which were led against the city by Sir Dupre while he was possessed by the Bane of Wantonness.
Lore[edit]
| “ | I stopped by the Crematorium to see if old Renfry was still there. He was always a bit forgetful, so I wasn't too surprised when he didn’t remember me. He did offer me a job, though, and the pay wasn’t too bad. I said I appreciated the offer, but had important business to attend to. – from Balancing the Scales (Ultima VII Part Two)
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Services[edit]
Renfry offers the following bounty at the crematorium:
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Ashes of a dead pikeman |
100 |
To claim payment, a fallen pikeman must be cremated in the furnace, and the Avatar must carry the resulting urn in inventory when speaking to Renfry. Payment is issued one body at a time. The urn may be disposed of after receiving payment, including re-incinerating it in the cremator.
Trivia[edit]
- Renfry will pay 100 monetari to the Avatar for each pikeman’s body brought to him and then cremated. A decidedly unvirtuous Avatar could exploit this source of money by killing some of the game's unnamed, respawning pikemen and profit from cremating them.
- Should the Avatar show Harnna the severed hand that a teleport storm exchanged for the hero's dagger, she will be surprisingly unfazed and will recommend consulting Renfry, who upon examining the hand will remark that it is still made of living flesh.[5][6]
- Following the sack of Monitor, an urn containing Renfry's ashes can be found inside the crematorium, indicating he perished during the city's fall.
References[edit]
- ↑ Renfry. Paul Carr’s Ultima transcripts. Ultima VII Part Two. "name, theft".
- ↑ Renfry. Paul Carr’s Ultima transcripts. Ultima VII Part Two. "mysticism".
- ↑ Renfry. Paul Carr’s Ultima transcripts. Ultima VII Part Two. "Body, the Dead, Payment".
- ↑ Renfry. Paul Carr’s Ultima transcripts. Ultima VII Part Two. "Andral, theft".
- ↑ Harnna. Paul Carr’s Ultima transcripts. Ultima VII Part Two. "severed hand".
- ↑ Renfry. Paul Carr’s Ultima transcripts. Ultima VII Part Two. "severed hand".