Although it was mildly endorsed by Richard Garriott, Ultima Forever had nothing much in common with the Ultima series despite the similar game world and copious namedropping of the Eight Virtues and legacy Ultima characters which EA still owned the rights to. Mainly a whole lot of nothing, interrupted only by the prospects of an Ultima Online 2 (canceled), an Ultima X (also actually Ultima Online 2 (also cancelled)), a very loosely related browser game called “Lords of Ultima” (now dead), and finally “Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar”, a vague attempt at resurrecting the franchise as a free to play iOS game by Mythic Entertainment. The Ultima community, for whom the game was supposedly intended first and foremost, had been through a lot since the release of Ultima IX. Shroud of the Avatar was, even before its official title was announced, even when it was just a thought communicated to the world as “The Ultimate RPG”, a very personal matter.

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