"You have been a thorn in my side for far too long, Avatar..."A pentagram in the sky lights up.The Guardian's hand emerges from the pentagram, holding the Avatar. "Your two worlds will be crushed... Britannia first, then Earth!""I shall parade you before their conquered peoples, as the fallen idol of a pathetic ideal!"The Guardian's hand turns sideways, dropping the Avatar."I banish you to the world of Pagan!" The Avatar falls from the sky, yelling along the way.The Avatar splashes into the water below."No one here knows of the AVATAR!"PAGAN: Ultima VIII title screen
After the end of Ultima VII Part 2: Serpent Isle, the Guardian's hand
reached through the void and grabbed the Avatar. His hand emerges from a
pentagram in the sky, on another world. The Guardian taunts the Avatar,
then drops him into the ocean below. While the Avatar is busy trying to
survive in a world where nobody knows who he is, the Guardian is free to
take over Britannia and Earth.
As luck would have it, the Avatar is subsequently rescued from certain
death by a fisherman near the docks of Tenebrae.