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Several months ago, Lord Blackthorn was seen being escorted ("escaping")
through a Red Moongate from the hunt to find and kill the Evil Lord
Jou'Nar. Several weeks later, he was seen again, this time in the depths
of Covetous, running from hiding into yet another Red Moongate. No explanation
was left for this dissapearance, and noone has spoken to the man since
before these events. It is assumed that Lord British mourns the loss
of his friend (although noone's seen nor heard any such sorrow expressed)
The question exists, Where is he? Why did he leave? Who opened the
Red Moongate?
Some have suggested that this Red Moongate is a mirror of another moongate
on Britannia's "Original" shard. If this is true, I suppose
it can be assumed that what happened in Ultima V (?) just finished, and
Lord British there has just given Blackthorn the choice of the red moongate.
Following that line of reasoning, I suppose we can believe the following
idea presented to me in e-mail:
One other thing about Blackthorn. In Ultima 7 part 2: Serpent
Isle I read hat it was rumored in the game -and supported by one of
the in-game books- that when Blackthorn was banished through the red
moongate he ended up on Serpent Isle, one of Sosaria's four original
continents. There he became a monk by the name of Braccus and assisted
the Avatar's party in their quest to Serpent Isle.
You can find this information at this Ultima site:
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dungeon/1350/ultima.html
Braccus is in the Monk Isle section of the "Who's who of
Serpent Isle" Following your previous surmise, maybe it is possible
that Blackthorn ended up on the new continent to be "discovered"
this fall?
This is an interesting possibility. If true, it would open up the amazing
belief that our shards are loosely tied to what happens on the"original"
shard of Britannia. So, You can expect me to be exploring the new land
in "UO-Gold" for a monastery of some kind... hopefully Lord
Blackthorn will be discovered there.
This is a radical idea, and requires belief in something that would
seem too impossible to accept. However, it is the only theory put forward
thus far that has some "evidence" supporting it.
Again, the question looms, who opened the red moongate.... why? from
where? Where did it lead? Why did Blackthorn leave?
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