11/23/2023 0 Comments Ultima online world map![]() With most gargoyles refused employment or working as inexpensive laborers, Vesper's Gargish citizens were often poor and disenfranchised. Many of its people belonged to the separatist Britannian Purity League, and supported efforts to deport gargoyles from human civilization. The human population, having much of the institutional power in the region, held almost all positions of political and economic power. With many inhabitants of the town subscribing to overtly racist rhetoric, the society of the settlement had become sharply segregated. Owing to the BMC's penchant for hiring Gargish workers, Vesper was the only city in modern Britannia with comparable numbers of both gargoyles and humans and suffered from a significant and growing socio-economic class disparity between the two races that comprised its populace. Born from a community of miners employed by the Britannian Mining Company (BMC), the city's economy largely centered on the BMC's operations in the area. Whatever the reason, the land remained unsettled for centuries following the first Vesper's demise, with the only inhabitant of the region for many years being the gargoyle, Sin'Vraal.īy the time of Ultima VII, however, a new Vesper had been founded, and was inhabited by both humans and gargoyles alike. In later years, the town vanished from the Britannian landscape – perhaps having been abandoned during the droughts that begat the Drylands or having been depopulated by the eventual diaspora of the Magincians. A diverse hamlet, the town also was the single home to a branch of the Guild of Thieves outside of Buccaneer's Den, and a number of colorful characters could be found lurking amidst Vesper's dark alleyways. Surrounded by the green and fertile eastern plains of this age, Vesper offered a safe haven for travelers, and appeared to be home to a number of refugees from the destroyed Magincia. Presumably founded in the early days of Lord British's renaissance, Vesper was but a small fortified village during its first appearance in Ultima IV. A major site of the Britannian Mining Company in its second incarnation, exploiting the Vesper mine, the town became a contentious site of gargish immigration during the early Age of Armageddon, making it a crucial avenue toward the attempted integration of the otherworldly race and a hotbed of sectarian rhetoric. The town has been settled twice, and twice either been abandoned or destroyed. ![]()
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