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17th Feb '13 8:47:39 PM Thexder

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27th Aug '12 7:55:17 AM CaptainLhurgoyf

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[[WMG: Between ''8'' and ''9'', the Avatar repressed his memories of being the Avatar out of crossing the DespairEventHorizon.]]
It's the only way to explain why he doesn't remember anything that he should from the previous games.

After returning to a post-apocalyptic Britannia at the end of ''Ultima 8'', the Avatar fell into a deep sense of depression, guilt, and impotence at the fact that he couldn't stop the Guardian in time. Unable to cope with the loss, he retreated into a fantasy world in which he was still a normal person living in his home on Earth, blocking out the memories of his adventures as the Avatar. Eventually, however, the Wyrmguard attacked, and he had to snap himself out of it, creating a backstory that he was summoned by the Time Lord in order to justify his presence. Although he could retrieve the memories that he was the Avatar, he lost many of the details of his past deeds, which is why he doesn't remember things like paladins or the Codex of Ultimate Wisdom. Some of these superficial traces of memories were imprinted onto his experiences - for example, he saw a skull on display in the museum and decided it was the Skull of Mondain, not remembering that he destroyed it; he recognised the demon he summoned as Pyros, not remembering that he killed him; and he misremembered the Guardian's human minion as being Lord Blackthorne, unaware that he was banished to the Serpent Isle. He learns that Dupre sacrificed himself, but not the reason why, making him believe that it's possible to resurrect him, and eventually goes completely off the deep end by hallucinating Dupre is back when he has mastered the virtues, wanting to believe he's still with him. In the end, he's so burdened with both his past failures and his own insanity that he commits suicide by killing himself along with the Guardian in the Armageddon Spell.

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25th Apr '11 6:09:06 PM Andyzero

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Look at the way he fuses technology and "magic" (i.e., the Force). He has an apprentice. The protagonist of the first "Ultima," who goes up against him, has to become a "space ace" by shooting down enemies who are quite clearly TIE fighters.

[[WMG: The Lizardmen's language seen in ''Ultima Underworld'' is more complex than what is presented in the game.]]

If you work out the Lizardmen's language, it appears to be simple HulkSpeak. However, remember that the Avatar has only just started to learn the language, and until recently was unaware that the Lizardmen even had a language. Hence, when he listens to them, he isn't really going to pick up everything they say; rather, he just gets the key words in the sentence, and works out the meaning based on that. The dialogue presented it just what the Avatar hears, rather than what the Lizardman actually says. This is how most people understand second languages.

Thus, it's likely that the Lizardmen perceive the Avatar to speak their language poorly and haltingly, but appreciate the fact that he is at least trying.

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23rd Oct '10 9:20:09 PM Andyzero

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