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The Avatar is the main player character and protagonist in the ''Ultima'' series of video games by Origin Systems. The character was first introduced as "The Stranger" in the 1980 role-playing video game ''Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness''. ==Appearances== The Avatar was first known as the ''Stranger'' (or ''Stranger from another world'') in ''Ultima I'', when he rid the world of the evil wizard Mondain, later returning to bring an end to the wicked sorceress Minax in ''Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress'' and to dispatch their legacy in ''Ultima III: Exodus''. ''Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar'' included ''The History of Britannia'', which did not state whether the heroes from the first three games or the current one were the same person or not, leaving it rather vague. Later games imply that the Stranger and the Avatar are the same person. While in later games the player character follows a set of ethic guidelines called the Virtues, in the first three games the player is not bound by any moral guidelines, leaving the future Avatar free to steal and murder, with only the easily avoided town guards to stop them. The first three games forced the player to steal food in order to survive.〔The Official Book of Ultima, second edition, by Shay Addams, page 40〕 The fourth time the Stranger returns, his quest focuses on a different task. Instead of defeating an enemy, his goal is to follow the path of the Virtues, and retrieve the Codex of Ultimate Wisdom from the Great Stygian Abyss. In the fifth episode, the Avatar defeats a repressive regime in Britannia, and in the sixth, he brings peace between men and gargoyles. Beginning with ''Ultima VII'', the Avatar battles the Guardian, finally destroying both himself and his foe in ''Ultima IX: Ascension''. In all of ''Ultima'' games except for ''Ultima IX: Ascension'', the player can choose the Avatar's name. Beginning with ''Ultima IV'', the player could choose the gender of the Avatar character. In most later games, several different character portraits with different skin and hair colors are available. The Avatar sprite is determined by class in early games, and always the same in ''Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny'' and ''Ultima VI: The False Prophet''. ''Ultima VII'' and ''Ultima: Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams'' have two different sprites, one for each gender. In ''Ultima VIII: Pagan'' and ''IX'', there is no choice in gender, portrait or sprite/3D model - the character is male with blond hair. The Avatar's clothing generally includes a chain mail hauberk, with a white, red, or orange tunic (with a golden Ankh symbol on the chest and back) over it, and a red cape. Typically, he or she is shown wielding a sword. His or her appearance varies from game to game and version to version, but usually follows this schema. In ''Ultima VIII'', the Avatar's face is obscured by a large helmet. In ''Ultima I'' to ''III'', no speech by the Stranger was ever shown. In ''Ultima IV'' and onward, the player must choose keywords to engage in conversations. Thus, the other characters discuss things with the Avatar, but apart from the topic, the player never sees what the Avatar actually says. The dialogue choices available in conversation with every character are "name" (asking the character to introduce themselves), "job" (asking the character to describe their position in the community), and "bye" (ending the conversation). This is parodied in ''Ultima VII'', where an actor playing the Avatar in a play boasts about how he has hundreds of lines to memorize, only to reveal that every line literally consists of "Name!", "Job!", or "Bye!". The first time the Avatar actually speaks directly is in ''Ultima VII'', but full lines are very rare and only appear in one or two instances. ''Ultima Underworld'' broke this tradition by being the first ''Ultima'' to give the Avatar full dialogue throughout the game; ''Ultima IX'' would later follow this tradition, adding digitized speech to accompany the text. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Avatar (Ultima)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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