Virtue System
The 8 Virtues, by Joshua Rowan



Symbol:
Derived From: Love
Anti-Virtue: Despise
Original Class: Bard
Original Home City: Britain
Opposing Dungeon: Despise
Mantra: Mu
Companion: Iolo

Compassion is nonjudgmental empathy for one's fellow creatures. - Ultima V

Human is to have compassion on the unhappy.
- Boccaccio in Decameron


Symbol:
Derived From: Truth
Anti-Virtue: Deceit
Original Class: Mage
Original Home City: Moonglow
Opposing Dungeon: Deceit
Mantra: Ahm
Companion: Mariah

Honesty is scrupulous respect for truth - the willingness never to deceive oneself or another. - Ultima V

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy.
- George Washington on Honesty


Symbol:
Derived From: Truth and Courage
Anti-Virtue: Shame
Original Class: Paladin
Original Home City: Trinsic
Opposing Dungeon: Shame
Mantra: Summ
Companion: Dupre

Honor is the courage to stand for the truth, against any odds. - Ultima V

Nothing is less worthy of honor than an old man who has no other evidence of having lived long except his age
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Honor


Symbol:
Derived From: Absence of Any Principle
Anti-Virtue: Pride
Original Class: Shepherd
Original Home City: Magincia
Opposing Dungeon: Doom aka The Abyss
Mantra: Lum
Companion: Katrina

Humility is perceiving one's place in the world, not according to one's own accomplishments, but according to the intrinsic value of all individuals. - Ultima V

The greatest friend of Truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility
- Charles Caleb Colton in The Lacon


Symbol:
Derived From: Truth and Love
Anti-Virtue: Wrong
Original Class: Druid
Original Home City: Yew
Opposing Dungeon: Wrong
Mantra: Beh
Companion: Jaana

Justice is the devotion to truth, tempered by love. - Ultima V

There is one universal law....That law is justice. Justice forms the cornerstone of each nation's law.
- Alexis de Tocqueville on Justice

Justice without force is impotent; force without justice is tyranny.

- Pascal on Justice


Symbol:
Derived From: Love and Courage
Anti-Virtue: Covetous (also Greed)
Original Class: Tinker
Original Home City: Minoc
Opposing Dungeon: Covetous
Mantra: Cah
Companion: Julia

Sacrifice is the courage to give of oneself in the name of love. - Ultima V

The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
- Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address


Symbol:
Derived From: Truth, Love, and Courage
Anti-Virtue: Hylotheism (also Sacrilege)
Original Class: Ranger
Original Home City: Skara Brae
Opposing Dungeon: Hythloth
Mantra: Om
Companion: Shamino

Spirituality is the concern with one's inner being and how one deals with truth, love, and courage. - Ultima V

The natural inheritance of everyone who is capable of spiritual life is an unsubdued forest where the wolf howls and the obscene bird of night chatters.
- Henry James Sr. on Spirituality


Symbol:
Derived From: Courage
Anti-Virtue: Dastardly
Original Class: Fighter
Original Home City: Jhelom
Opposing Dungeon: Destard
Mantra: Ra
Companion: Geoffrey

Valor is the courage to take actions in support of one's convictions. - Ultima V

It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live.
- Sir Thomas Browne on Valor