![]() ![]() Having grown rebellious during their time apart, Arcadion paid little heed to the Avatar's orders. Īfter many adventures, the hero was reunited with the sword deep within the hellish prison known as the Mountains of Freedom. Shortly after making landfall on the island's shores, the Avatar's company found themselves beset by a strange teleportative storm, which snatched the Black Sword away and replaced it with a piece of ruddy red stone. Taking this new artifact back to the trial of Courage, the Avatar slew Dracothraxus at last, releasing her from her immortality and completing the Test of Courage.Ī year and a half later, the Avatar set sail for Serpent Isle, a cold and distant world where the disrupted lines of power weakened Arcadion's ability to feed, and seemed to loosen the magical ties that bound the hero and the sword together. To balance the blade, and to infuse it with the daemon's power, the hero had Arcadion join himself to the sword, producing a weapon of vast and deadly power. While the hero was eventually able to complete a serviceable sword from Erethian's materials, the weapon was unwieldy and cumbersome, as blackrock made a poor substitute for steel. ![]() While such a sword had long been hypothesized by writers of the era, the Avatar appeared to be the first mortal to make such an artifact reality. ![]() Erethian, not particularly minding the loss, agreed to help the hero obtain the weapon sought, and produced a blackrock sword blank in addition to a magically summoned forge with which to work the blade. Chagrined that the ether gem had not given him the freedom he sought, Arcadion resigned himself to being under the Avatar's mastery, seemingly preferring the hero to his former captor. At the daemon's behest, the hero shattered the mirror's glass with the gem, transferring Arcadion's spirit to the jewel. This ether gem was sought after by Arcadion, who had long chafed at Erethian's imprisonment of him within a magical mirror. As a gift to the hero for valor in combat, however, she bequeathed to the Avatar a magical gem, which she had previously stolen from Erethian. The hero performed admirably in these challenges, but within the Test of Courage was denied victory, for Dracothraxus, the great dragon who guarded the end of the Test, was immortal and required a weapon of unfathomable power not yet forged to slay her. Lord British, who had become aware of this momentous occurrence, bade the hero investigate, revealing that he had established three great Shrines upon the isle before its initial disappearance, and that trials of Truth, Love, and Courage awaited there to test the Avatar's mettle. History Forge of Virtue Īt the direction of the blind mage Erethian, the Isle of Fire – which had once housed the hellspawn, Exodus – arose from its resting place in the Great Sea around the time of the Avatar's arrival in Ultima VII. In Ultima VII Part Two, the Black Sword has a damage rating of "9" and a bonus hit chance. Effectiveness of the Weapon In Ultima VII, the Black Sword has a damage rating of "25", does magic damage and never misses. Given the daemon's fickle and often arrogant nature, however, the sword would often fail to slay enemies Arcadion deemed beneath him and, in addition to this, could do little to strike down the undead or creatures born of magic, such as liches and stone harpies. At the Avatar's command, the daemon within was able to deliver instant and swift death to enemies to replenish magical capacity with the life force of the slain to reign fire down upon the area or to transport the hero and any companions back to Arcadion's former home on the Isle of Fire. Once completed, the Black Sword became bound to the Avatar, and the hero was unable to part with it while treading Britannian soil. ![]() To counteract its clumsiness, the hero fused an ether gem – within which the daemon, Arcadion, was bound – to the sword's hilt, imbuing it with the dark entity's personality and power. As blackrock is an unmalleable and hard-to-shape substance, the finished blade was initially unwieldy and cumbersome. The Avatar forged the Black Sword within the Castle of Fire, after having obtained a blackrock sword blank from the sage Erethian. ![]()
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