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This page should be called 'the Incomplete History of New Sosaria'.

Contains spoilers, useless info, plot, things past, present and future, unwritten quests and vague characters.

How New Sosaria Came to Be

Already explained in flowery english here: History of New Sosaria.

In the canon (ie OSI) version of events, Mondain's gem was shattered and destroyed. Each shard of the gem created an alternate picture of Sosaria with its own history and future. New Sosaria that we know in EUO is one of these shards. Its timeline co-exists with the canon history - it could be considered an alternate history or even a parallel universe.

So with the destruction of the gem came the creation of New Sosaria's own timeline, landscape, populace and version of events. The more passes, the more it diverges from the story chronicled by Ultima I-V and beyond.

Landscape

"Ye Olde Sossaria" - click to enlarge.

First there was Sosaria, probably not unlike the Sosaria known in Ultima III. There was great upheaval etc, and the land was reformed into Sosaria - what we know as the western hemisphere of New Sosaria today. Tanelorne was yet to be discovered.

Timeline

The 3 digit number number is a year. 000 represents the creation of New Sosaria. (each RL day is 1 month EUO. There are 30 euo years in 1 RL year. Some of these timeline dates correllate directly with events in the creation of EUO)

with the destruction of the shard of immortality in the Canon-universe, the EUO-verse is created with it's own timeline
Lord Wggleton arrives through a moongate, befriends Shamino, becomes king (this actually happened before the above, if you can believe that)
Lord Eggleton defeats Mondain, Minax and Exodus, possibly with help from a 'stranger'
Kazadoom, the last refuge of the dwarves, is invaded by giants, orcs, and minotaurs, and the dwarves are made extinct
with the destruction of exodus and the end of the dark age, the lands are reformed, the moon 'Trammel' is cast out of its orbit, and Sosaria becomes Ye Olde Sossaria
Tanelorne discovered (much earlier than in-game time but who's going to know) - the world consisting of Ye Olde Sossaria (renamed to Sosaria West) and Tanelorne collectively known as New Sosaria
Lord Eggleton steps back through a portal to do the quest of the avatar then comes back (as chronicled in Ultima IV)
Lord Eggleton decrees that there isn't enough 'virtue' and the shrines are created
Patrick, Estorrath, Byron and Golwid part ways. Golwid assumes control of Kazadoom (or some of it). Patrick moves to Bakyre (with his fortune). Byron and Estorrath move to Tanelorne
a shrine for the Codex is erected in the far Southeast of New Sosaria on an island, but Lord Eggleton does not yet raise the Codex
the great council of wizards is formed, inc Estorrath, Virgil, Henry and others
the Runic alphabet of Old Sosaria is dropped in favour of the English alphabet
the lich Xile gets imprisioned in his own underground fortress
Lord Eggleton is summoned away again to rescue Lord British (as chronicled in Ultima V) - he is yet to return
004: Lord Broden's Keep is built
009: Patrick elected Mayor of Bakyre
030: Byron assumes control of Tanelorne, making himself a lord
071: the 8 shrines to virtue are finally completed

Characters

Lord Eggleton

Benevolant ruler or something; currently MIA in the canon-shard on a mission to rescue Lord British from the underworld. Rumour has it that he forgot the sandalwood box, and won't be coming back to New Sosaria any time soon.

Estorrath

Is a retired member of the great council of wizards. Has a rivalry with Nestor of the library.

Is it merely a coincidence that his name bears an uncanny resembelance to that of the Shadowlord of Hatred, Astaroth ?

Old Henry

Esterrath's older brother, likes fishing and isn't as silly as he seems. Another great wizard that was, he knows the cure for lycanthropy.

Lord Byron

Lord of Tanelorne. Wife has died recently and until he gets his bronze statue of her, he remains sad. Has 3 advisors working for him: Shamino the rogue, Virgil the Mage and Greyson the fighter. Used to run with Patrick, Estorrath and Golwid the minotaur king under Kaza.

Virgil

Byron's advisor, mage, once on the council of wizards.

Greyson

Byron's advisor, fighter.

Shamino

Byron's advisor, rogue. This is the same Shamino that Lord Eggleton first met when he stepped through the moongate and into Sosaria for the first time.

Lord Broden

Brother of Lord Byron (hence the same avatar). A player, missing in action. His legacy: an empty keep south of Mirkwood.

Nestor the Librarian

Nestor is in charge of the recovery of lost books, but he is probably also cheif librarian. Among other things, he orders the 'recovery' of Estorrath's Journal (for reasons unknown), which contains nothing but recipes for 'dropped pie'. Other books he needs recovery of:

Chronicles of Nchuleft
Beyond good and Evil
Necromancer
Interview with the Vampire
Estorrath's Journal

Zazaram & Titania

(cut n paste from forums - by cat - needs clarification!)

In the spirit of the age, a mighty adventuring band sets out to explore the newly created / accessible Underworld, to spread the Virtues across the whole of Sosaria. They have been at the forefront of clearing the Dungeons of dangerous creatures and pacifying the land & their leader ??? has created an order of Paladins and creates many Keeps dedicated to the Virtues (eg Thantos Keep). They discover a sliver of the Shard of Hatred, guarded by many Balrons, in a fortress deep under the Underworld itself. Their leader (Zazaram?), sensing great power in it, keeps it, and his sorceress lover (Titania) forges it into an amulet that gives him power over Hellspawn & martial prowess. Determined to use this force for good he & his companions seek to cleanse the Underworld. However, since the Sliver is a conduit for the Shadowlords, his nature becomes slowly more and more extreme and fervent, his rage (which he still thinks is fervour for the Virtues) leading to a genocidal pogrom against all non-humans. His lover, Titianna, slowly becomes infected with blood lust as well, until she is transformed into a Vampire ...

Zazaram is now a lich everyone gets to kill.

Lord Percy, Sir Markham, Sir Larant

Members of the above order of Paladins, all now dead and haunting Mountain Pass.

Patrick

The mayor of Bakyre and an ex-adventurer and ex-rogue. Patrick is always willing to listen to the tales of other adventurers and will share a pint most anyone. However, don't be surprised if he tries to swindle you out of some gold in some manner of speaking.

King Golwid

A local Minotaur lord who's taken up residence in the old throne room of the once dwarven capital Kazadoom. He's unseemingly amicable considering his hordes of minions will kill and eat any would be adventurer on sight. Old buds with Patrick, estranged from Byron and Estorrath.

Shadowlords

1 spawned under forest, 1 spawned at end of lunacy, and 2 spawned at end of monstary. There should only be 3 total.

Although the Sliver of Hatred has been sealed away, the shadowlords are slowly trying to regain the victory they almost won. Although not really manifest yet (in that they can be defeated and temporarily banished by mortals) they are slowly regaining strength.

Other Big Events

Disappearance of the Dwarves

The dwarves last refuge, Kazadoom, the Dwarven Capital, was overrun by nasties and the dwarves became extinct. The only remnants of the dwarves left in New Sosaria are their nasty green cousins, the gnomes, who are often mistaken for gremlins.

There is a book, Chronicles of Nchuleft, referenced in one of the book quests. This is of course a dwarven book from Morrowind.

Ultima canon, in U3, also had elves, bobbits and fuzzies :X

The disappearance of the dwarves happened long before Goldwid got into Kaza and started taking over. Infact, I'd be tempted now to convert the lower sections of Kaza into some sort of non-hostile town, rather than just never ending baddies with Golwid in the middle. Golwid is some sort of happy mino and he should be leading by example. Maybe there could be a battleground or frontlines where there are good-aligned mino's spawning, fighting off ettins and the like ... Maybe the Royal Banquet and Meeting Hall could be the place for this neverending spawner battle!

Trammel being cast from its orbit

Happened some time after Exodus was defeated, destroyed, whatever.

The death of everyone in Whalebone

Apparently, according to Jocasta, a small party consisting of Jaana, Sentri and the Avatar gated in. Everyone caught some sort of weird-earth plague and died after the party visited the local brothel. Jaana cursed the mayor so that in death he would live on as a demi liche. Even the cows live on as zombies.

If Lord Eggleton is meant to be the Avatar in the canon version of events, it must be said that Lord Eggleton certainly wasn't a part of this merry band. This Avatar and this party would be from some other twisted shard/reality.

Or the Story/history of snowy Island could be updated/rewritten.