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Produced by: Team Return
Website: Return to the Serpent Isle
Forum: Return Forums
Releases:
* Unified System Hak Pak (1.8 MiB, 246 hits)
* Unified System Module (14.9 MiB, 244 hits)
* Character Creation Stills (Normal) (14.6 MiB, 224 hits)
* Character Creation Stills (Wide) (14.6 MiB, 217 hits)
* Custom Dialog TLK File (23.2 KiB, 211 hits)
* Unified System Documentation (1.1 MiB, 221 hits)

Led by Sergorn Dragon, Return to the Serpent Isle is a “fan-made game based upon the legendary Ultima series and…crafted with the use of the Neverwinter Nights 2 engine.” It intends “to follow in and uphold the tradition of the Ultima series, it will lead the players to revisit the Serpent Isle which first had been introduced in Ultima VII Part Two,” Serpent Isle.

This ambitious effort isn’t a remake, but is in fact a completely new story set in the Ultima universe, and will tell a completely new tale set in a post-holocaust Serpent Isle. Several familiar faces from the second part of Ultima 7 will be making a return in the game, though many new characters will also feature in it.

[image:108:r:s=1:l=x]Produced by: Withstand the Fury Dragon
Website: Worlds of Ultima: Lost Sosaria
Downloads:
* [drain file 509 url Lost Sosaria (module)] ([drain file 509 size])
* [drain file 503 url Castle Expanded v4 (hak pak)] ([drain file 503 size])
* [drain file 504 url CEP2 No Tilesets (hak pak)] ([drain file 504 size])
* [drain file 505 url No Cobble CRF (hak pak)] ([drain file 505 size])
* [drain file 506 url Rocky Mountains v11.1 (hak pak)] ([drain file 506 size])
* [drain file 507 url Seasonal Forest v9 (hak pak)] ([drain file 507 size])
* [drain file 508 url Ultima Music (hak pak, music)] ([drain file 508 size])
* [drain file 502 url ERF files (erf)] ([drain file 502 size])
* [drain file 510 url CEP2 TLK file (tlk)] ([drain file 510 size])

Worlds of Ultima: Lost Sosaria is a Neverwinter Nights module that tells the story of those companions of the Avatar who were missing without explanation after Ultima 7, as well as several other key characters from The Black Gate.

Pursuing Fellowship agents deep into the bowels of Britannia and the ruins of the Great Stygian Abyss, the companion Sentri leads his party of former friends and companions of the Avatar into an unknown part of the world: Lost Sosaria, one of the continents of Old Sosaria left missing after the death of the Wizard Mondain.

This project suspended development for a goodly while between 2005 and the present, and in fact Withstand the Fury Dragon has had to restart the module from scratch. However, he has revised his development plan, and feels confident that he can still deliver a good game with a large game world, this time using much more elegant tilesets.

[image:104:l:s=0:l=x]Produced by: Darkheart Dragon, Avatus Kingsman (formerly), and many others
Website: Ultima Legacy
Releases:
* Custom Data Files (516.2 KiB, 321 hits)

Ultima Legacy was a modified version of Ultima Online which could be played for free, set in a post-Ultima 8 Britannia. Its premise includes the assumption that Ultima 9: Ascension did not happen, and out of that it has spawned a complex and involved storyline that included the Atarkan invasion of Britannia. Legacy doesn’t exactly form the backstory for the Titans of Ether project entitled Ultima IX: Redemption, although there is a relation there as both projects were founded, in part, by Avatus Kingsman (although where he has gone to, none now know).

Joining Legacy was a bit of an involved process — the modified data files that were necessary for game play are provided here for download, but there was more to it than just that. For starters, you needed to own a copy of Ultima Online: The Second Age, and it was actually recommended that you have Ultima Online: Renaissance instead. Ultima Online: Lord Blackthorn’s Revenge may also have worked.

The rest of the joining process was explained at the Legacy website. However, as of 2008, Legacy was being revised to tell a Serpent Isle-based tale, and was also switching from the Sphere freeshard system to RunUO. The project website is now little more than a placeholder page.

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Produced by: General Maximus
Website: Ultima for Civ IV
Releases:
* Ultima X Conquest (Civ III) (59.4 KiB, 242 hits)
* Ultima X: Medieval Deity Challenge (Civ III) (104.6 KiB, 242 hits)
* Ultima X: Battle for Britannia (Civ 4) (1.3 MiB, 250 hits)

General Maximus has produced an Ultima-derived scenario (in two forms) for Civilization III, as well as an updated version of the Conquest scenario for Civilization 4 Warlords. All are set in Britannia after the events of Ultima 9. The forms of the scenario are as follows (one appearing to be a more difficult version of the scenario than the other two):

Ultima X: Conquest

In the kingdom of Britannia, Lord British lost hold of his kingdom with breakway of the other seven city states now ruled by deviant warlords. Play as British under civilization group Bards. Forces and castles still loyal to you are now isolated in hostile teritory and may not hold for long. With news of the arrival of the hero of Britannia, the Avatar; the rebelion states begin marching towards Britain, the capital of Britannia for an pre-emptive strike. With the help of the mighty Avatar and his heroic companions, reclaim your entire kingdom!

Ultima X: Medieval Deity Challenge

In the kingdom of Britannia, Lord British (LB) lost hold of his kingdom with breakway of the other seven city states now ruled by independent warlords who were once friends of Lord British (LB) himself. Play as LB under civilisation group Bards. Forces or cities still loyal to you are now isolated in hostile teritory and may not hold for long. With news of the arrival of the hero of Britannia, the Avatar, the rebelions states has begin marching towards Britain, the capital of Britannia for an pre-emptive strike. With the help of the mighty Avatar and his companion Iolo, reclaim your entire kingdom!

Ultima X: Battle for Britannia

Battlecrys are once again heard in the ancient kingdom of Britannia. Lord British has lost hold of his kingdom with the breakaway of seven city-states. Lord British who preaches the Way of the Avatar and its Eight Virtues is now under siege in the city Britain that is being attacked from all sides. The renegade states are under the influences of a rising movement known as The Fellowship and Britannia is not big enough for both. The mutinuos city states are some lead by warlords who were once companion of the Avatar who have turned against him. Once again, the Avatar, champion of Britannia is called upon to fight off the hostile forces against Lord British.

The second form of the scenario seems to be more combat-oriented, and provides fewer allies/companions for the player.

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Produced by: Wizardry Dragon, Marzo Sette Torres Jr., Crysta the Elf
Website: Ultima 7: The Feudal Lands
Releases:
* v0.1 Alpha Release (Windows) (4.0 MiB, 250 hits)
* v0.1 Alpha Release (SFX) (5.7 MiB, 165 hits)
* v0.1 Alpha Release (RAR) (3.8 MiB, 169 hits)
* v0.1 Alpha Release (TAR.GZ) (6.2 MiB, 168 hits)

Old Releases:
* Oct. 29 2006 Snapshot (2.7 MiB, 398 hits)

This is a mod for Exult (with the release of Exult Studio, expect these to become more and more common) that seeks to merge The Black Gate and Serpent Isle into one seamless narrative. Additionally, it will feature a third continent — the Lands of the Feudal Lords — and a series of quests that the Avatar and his/her party must complete there.

This is an ambitious remake (and also a spin-off, within the technical definition of the term), to be sure! In addition to the expanded narrative, the developers plan to re-introduce the Virtues to the lands of Ultima (i.e. the Avatar will once again be able to interact with the Shrines). As well, they plan to overhaul the spellcasting system and to enable party members to wield spellbooks.

The alpha release of The Feudal Lands is now available, and can be obtained by downloading one of the four files listed above. There is a Windows installer file, which provides a standard wizard-based installation method for the mod (as long as you have Exult installed, it should work just fine).

Also available is a compressed archive of the entire TFL file repository available as either an SFX, RAR, or GZIPped TAR file. Grab the one appropriate to your OS and unzip into the ‘mods’ folder in the install directory for The Black Gate.