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	It seems to me that there is one question posed by U8 that really
_must_ be answered in U9.  In the intro, we see the Guardian holding the 
Avatar in the palm of his hand.  Why doesn't he just crush the Avatar right
there?  Or, alternatively, drop him onto a planet with no atmosphere?
Obviously, the designers didn't want the Avatar to die; the sales of U8 would
have been truly pathetic.  But I feel that they, if this will be the 
Guardian's final appearance, must settle this once and for all.
	
	To understand this, we must also find out who the Guardian 
really is.  While he seems bent on conquering worlds, why is he doing it?
I read an interview with Richard Garriot in Ultima: The Avatar Adventures 
suggesting that the Guardian was some member of a race of superbeings from 
another dimension.  As a story element, not only is this out of tune with 
the series, but it isn't even very good, IMHO.

	Also, I have heard that U9 or U10 will be the last of the series.
If this is true, it would seem fitting to return to the series' origin.
Why not make the Guardian the reincarnated form of Mondain?  Gives the 
character a fitting history, suppplies his motives, and could possibly
explain (drawing from U6) his reluctance to kill the Avatar.  As has been
pointed out before, fallout from U1 has permeated the entire series.  I think
that this could make for a better conclusion than "go out and kill the big
evil superbeing".  It would be interesting if you could achieve the final
victory in a way befitting the Avatar.   

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