Dino's Guide to
Ultima VII
The Black Gate

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Background

The Digital Antiquarian's article on "Scientology and the Fellowship" is a detailed history of the Church of Scientology and explains how it served as the inspiration for The Fellowship in Ultima VII: The Black Gate.

Concentrations

Other Guides

The following are sites or parts of sites with information about Ultima 7: The Black Gate.

Sections

Ultima 7 - The Black Gate sections on websites can be found:

Documentation

A list of manuals is at Bootstrike.

The Ultima VII copy protection questions and answers are available on my copy protections document.

Magic

Mike's RPG Center has a list of spells showing the reagents they require and the price to buy them from each location. There is also a separate page with reagents, including the price at each location.

Fermix's Ultima VII - The Black Gate Spell Costs spreadsheet shows, for each spell, the cost at each location and which location is cheapest.

Media

There are some pictures of Lord British's castle and the Black Gate (Wayback Machine link) that used to be at The World of Ultima (now defunct).

Find more good screenshots about the whole game at Bootstrike.

Indie Gamer has a post about Ultima 7: The Black Gate. It includes a brief description of what the game is about, and a YouTube video in which she plays through the introduction and the first few minutes of the game.

Episode 56 of The Classic Gamers Guild Podcast covers "Ultima 7: how awesome is/was it?" (24th December 2019).

Music

Downloads of Ultima 7 music can be found:

Also, check out this YouTube video of Raymond Benson playing the Love theme. Raymond Benson was the lead writer for Ultima 7.

People

The Ultima VII: The Black Gate Who's Who at Houston Dragon's Ultima Page shows in detail the many characters in Ultima 7, as well as their portraits and their role.

The Ultima 7 Transcript (zipped) is among the Transcripts on Underworld Dragon's Notable Ultima.

There are also some Ultima VII character portraits on the World of Ultima.

Mike's RPG Center has a list of citizens of Britannia, showing their name, location, job, and any notes.

Several NPCs' portraits were modelled around real people as a result of the Immortality Contest.

The Ultima VII Party Planner lets you play with building out a party and plan how to train them. This blog post explains more about what it does and how it was built.

Remakes and Engines

The Bread Gate

Title screen
Title screen
The comic-style tutorial explains the context of the game
The comic-style tutorial explains the context of the game
Instructions show you what you need to do
Instructions show you what you need to do
Baking a loaf of bread to feed the famished Iolo
Baking a loaf of bread to feed the famished Iolo
Once you've saved enough extra loaves, you can get a candelabra
Once you've saved enough extra loaves, you can get a candelabra

The Bread Gate is a short game made by Yulo Tomorrow in February 2021 using Unity 3D. In this parody of both the bread-baking and companion-feeding activities in Ultima 7: The Black Gate, you have to frantically bake loaves of bread to feed an ever-hungry Iolo. If you time things right, you can save extra loaves of bread in your backpack, and once you accumulate enough (ten, actually), you can use the extra earnings to buy a Fellowship candelabra.

Trade

Mike's RPG Center has prices of armour, items, weapons, training, spells, reagents and potions.

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