Byte-Sized Virtue S06E04 – Humble Like an NPC
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Humility, as defined within Ultima lore, is “about perceiving one’s place in the world, not according to one’s own accomplishments, but according to the intrinsic value of all individuals. It is the recognition of the worthiness of all beings, and the perception of one’s own place among them, regardless of one’s own personal accomplishments or mistakes in the world.” Which is a bit of a longer way of saying what St. Teresa of Ávila had to say about humility: that it is “living in the truth.”
And if humility is these things, then wouldn’t that make pride — its opposite — living in falsehood?
In a certain way, the NPCs of the Ultima games demonstrate these opposites.
Music
New Magincia, from the Ultima 9 Soundtrack
A bit of comparison between the NPCs of Ultima 6 and those of Ultima 7.