Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny

Ultima V is the second game in the trilogy of Enlightenment of the Ultima story. After your character the Avatar had gleaned the title of the avatar from traveling to the eight shrines of virtue in the fourth game you return to find that Lord British has been kidnapped!

Boxart showing an artpiece of the avatar.

Ultima V, on the heels of the moral and technological breakthrough Ultima IV, has that King Arthur quality to it. It's been 2 years in your world(20 in Britannia) and someone named Blackthorn has usurped the throne after Lord British has disappeared. LB has been spotted at marshes some times although Blackthorn has persecuted any who say so as sacreligious. While LB was ruling the Avatar's eight virtues were expounded and practiced to make Britannia more wealthy, but now, there's high taxes and everything and martial law, and Blackthorn has twisted the eight laws to form a police state. He even wants to figure out the mantras and secrets to the Codex and the now sealed-off dungeons. Your object is to rid Britannia of the menace he and possible accomplices lose to Britannia.

Iolo and Shamino, realizing the kingdom is trouble, call on the Avatar of legend to come back. He does, but as he is summoned through the magic moongate, three Shadowlords come in and one throws a bolt into Shamino, who is on the edge of death. The three retreat to Iolo's hut deep in the woods, where they hope to let Shamino recoup.

Title screen

You'll need to get Lord British's artifacts, the Sandalwood Box, visit eight shrines and solve their quests(need to get the mantras too,) get eight words of power to open the dungeon, and find Lord British. You begin as an avatar, but can lose the status by harming virtues. In the game this is shown to you by the fact that important clues won’t be given out. For example, in Britain, you won’t get the password for opening the dungeon Despise. The game now also has day and night time. In the night, the gates to most towns are closed and the people living there mostly lie in there beds with the exception of the guards.

Overworld

Underworld

One of the best improvements, in my opinion, is the magic and combat system. In a combat situation you have a cursor using which you can attack in any direction. That cursor will remain on the selected monster as long as you wish. That doesn’t mean combat is easy since you only get 30 hit-points more when a new character level has been achieved while monsters magic capabilities and sheer numbers have increased. Magical spells are from now on (and in further Ultimas too) divided up into 8 cycles. The higher the level of the spell caster, the more magic he can use.

Great graphics

Game Name	Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny
Platform(s)	Sharp X68000 FM Towns PC NES Commodore 64 Atari ST Apple II Amiga
Publisher(s)	FCI
Developer(s)	Origin Systems
Genres	Add a new genre Role-Playing
Themes	Add a new theme Fantasy
Original US Release	need a fuzzy date?
Original US Release	know the real date?
Aliases	Ultima 5

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