Dino's Guide to
Ultima VIII - Pagan

Writings - Book about Protector

Details

• Type: book
• Location:
  • Tenebrae Library
• Description: This book seems to be a letter from Veras, a Theurgist and mother of Stellos, to her husband Prevan. It tells the story of how the magnificent silver sword known as "Protector" was created from the knitting needle of a woman called Nehdra, who called upon Stratos to protect her child. In the unpatched version of the game, the sword was called "Nehdra's Needle" in the book. The last part of the book hints at the location of the sword, in the catacombs beneath the monastery on Argentrock Isle.

Written Content

Mothers wailed as babes were torn from their breasts and fathers cried in anguish as one by one their children were eaten alive. The bloody procession went on and on and I fear the screams and sobs will ring in my darkest dreams forever.         And then, a miracle occured. From the final house,

came not a cry of torment, but one of victory. We raced down the street to the house. We found the inside strewn with the bodies of the trolls and there in the middle stood Nehdra, a young woman who had just given birth a few days before. She had her newborn clutched in one arm, in the other was a magnificent silver sword.