Editing Shroud of the Avatar (section)

== Ultimate RPG ==
Richard Garriott announced the start of the Ultimate RPG and his vision of ''"Ultimate" Role Playing Game'' on his Facebook page on November 9, 2011:<ref name="Facebook_RG" />

::''"Today, with my new company [[Portalarium]], and with the talents and skills of many who made Ultima an Ultimate RPG, we set forth to forge a "New Britannia," a new world from scratch, internally self-consistent, deep and refined. We have lofty goals as an Ultimate RPG. An Ultimate RPG does not fear going where others fear or have failed."''


::''"[H]ere is what I feel is safe to say: Lord British's Ultimate Role Playing Game, which may be called "Akalabeth" or may be called "New Britannia" or may be called "a name I cannot yet say as it describes the setting I am considering and think I should keep secret at least until I know if it's likely true," will be an Ultimate RPG. You will have customized Avatar homesteads and real roles to play in a deep, beautifully realized highly interactive virtual world. It will have virtues and the hero's journey reflected back to the player. It will have the best of synchronous and asynchronous features in use. Fiction will support your arrival from earth into this new world. I even hope to make maps, coins and other trinkets available to players of the game.(...)"''


::''"[C]ome play with us in the brave new world. Help us grow it. Teach us about what you have learned in your years of playing. Invite in your new friends who are new to gaming. They will be a new spirit and provide new ideas about what to do. They will likely not tolerate bad instructions, bad interface or huge upfront fees, which is a good thing! We will teach and learn from them as well."''


Ultimate RPG fan page was launched on Facebook on December 6, 2011, inviting fans to sign up for beta.<ref name="Facebook_URPG" /> On that page, a teaser message is posted on February 28, 2013:

::''Exciting stuff coming soon! Stay tuned...''


A week long countdown was set up on ''lordbritishpresents.com'' on the first day of March 2013, revealing information and puzzle map pieces every other day until finally the Kickstarter campaign was announced on March 8, 2013, revealing the name of the game as ''Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues''.<ref name="Kickstarter" />