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Which is why you can get an OldSaveBonus (UsefulNotes/AppleII only, sorry) of transferring characters between Ultima III, Wizardry I, and Bard's Tale. The dimensional shift hadn't ''quite'' sealed completely, and Moongates still occasionally sent people across.

* [[NamesTheSame Skare Brae]] was split in two by the eventual separation, and both "halves" regrew into their own cities. [[spoiler: And both eventually got destroyed.]]

Richard Garriott, in his interview for ''Ultima: The Avatar Adventures'', conducted prior to the release of Ultima VII, stated that he imagined the Guardian originating from a race of deities or deity-like entities, and also suggested he wants to expand on this pantheon in next Ultima games. Come ''Ultima VIII: Pagan'' we have a pantheon of gods (Zealan Gods), quite fitting the description of what Richard Garriott told abut exploring the Guardian's race in further games. Ultima Underworld II also suggested Pagan is the Guardian's home world, and directly stated it is were Guardian's "throne" is located. The Guardian was also stated by Richard Garriott to not be the strongest of his race, maybe even being weak - so it's possible Guardian was a weaker Zealan God, but who became the most powerful by turning away worship from others of his kind, as well possibly by becoming the original Titan of Ether. About what "emotion" he embodied, it's possible he embodied the feelings of superiority and inferiority, or feelings of being dominant (and possibly also submissive), but it's possible he evolved beyond his divine races limitations (by becoming the Titan of Ether).

Richard Garriott, in his interview for ''Ultima: The Avatar Adventures'', conducted prior to the release of Ultima VII, stated Guardian's originating from a race of deities or deity-like entities, and also suggested he wants to expand on this pantheon in next games. Come Ultima VIII: Pagan we have a pantheon (Zealan Gods), quite fitting the description of what Richard Garriott told abut exploring the Guardian's race in further games. Ultima Underworld II also suggested Pagan is the Guardian's home world, and directly stated it is were Guardian's "throne" is located. The Guardian was also stated by Richard Garriott to not be the strongest of his race, maybe even being weak - so it's possible Guardian was a weaker Zealan God, but who became the most powerful by turning away worship from others of his kind, as well possibly by becoming the original Titan of Ether. About what "emotion" he embodied, it's possible he embodied the feelings of superiority and inferiority, or feelings of being dominant (and possibly also submissive), but it's possible he evolved beyond his divine races limitations (by becoming the Titan of Ether).

Richard Garriott, in his interview for ''Ultima: The Avatar Adventures'', conducted prior to the release of Ultima VII, stated Guardian's originating from a race of deities or deity-like entities, and also suggested he wants to expand on this pantheon in next games. Come Ultima VIII: Pagan we have a pantheon (Zealan Gods), quite fitting the description of what Richard Garriott told abut exploring the Guardian's race in further games. Ultima Underworld II also suggested Pagan is the Guardian's home world, and directly stated it is were his "throne" is located. The Guardian was also stated by Richard Garriott to not be the strongest of his race, maybe even being weak - so it's possible Guardian was a weaker Zealan God, but who became the most powerful by turning away worship from others of his kind, as well possibly by becoming the original Titan of Ether. About what "emotion" he embodied, it's possible he embodied the feelings of superiority and ineriority, or feelings of being dominant (and possibly also submissive), but it's possible he evolved beyond his limitations (by becoming the Titan of Ether).

Supposedly ''Ultima 6'' explained that what we thought were the most evil of the random monsters in 1-4 were a "simply misunderstood" race whose sleep powers were due to a potion they carried around, and super strength from a drug that killed them after they succeeded in battle. If this is so, they've totally succumbed to LoweredMonsterDifficulty in U6. However, there is an alternate explaination. The original ''Ultima 1'' had the Stranger/Avatar going back in time 1000 years before Mondain becomes immortal to kill him. Mondain was terrorizing Brittania for a millenia in the original timeline. It's stated in the U1 instructions that before Mondain came, demons didn't exist. Mondain enslaved the Gargoyles, and gave them as host bodies to the Daemons who would become Balrons. Balrons could travel through dimensions, so were immune to the change when the Stranger/Avatar went back in time and killed Mondain. In the new timeline, without his influence, the Gargoyles relied on the Codex to purify themselves, and the "Time Orphan" Balrons were eliminated when the Codex's influence was brought to the surface world in U4.