Summary: <h4>Ultima doesn't adequately represent all of the opposition that exists to each Virtue. Not that it handles anti-virtue badly...it just handles it incompletely.</h4> <br> <p><a href="https://goo.gl/app/playmusic?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&isi=691797987&ius=googleplaymusic&link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Itjcimdmayfwry5u3sq6cw3ro3u?t%3DSpam_Spam_Spam_Humbug">Now Available on Google Play Music</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/id978223252">Subscribe on iTunes</a> | <a href="http://subscribeonandroid.com/podcast.ultimacodex.com/feed/">Subscribe on Android</a> | <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/spam-spam-spam-humbug">Subscribe on Stitcher</a> | <a href="http://spamspamspamhumbug.podbean.com/">Subscribe on Podbean</a></p><a id="more-6203588"></a><h4>Podcast Topic(s)</h4> <br> <p>As this second <strong>season </strong>of <em>Byte-Sized Virtue</em> moves from the Lenten season into the Easter season, we will be switching the focus of episodes back to topics that relate, in some way, to the Eight Virtues (and Three Principles) of <em>Ultima</em> lore. Specifically, we'll be talking about the Virtue of Compassion and the Principle of Love, joined this time by <strong>Chlorthos Dragon</strong>.</p> <br> <p>In this episode, we discuss the real-world concepts of <strong>mercy</strong> and <strong>compassion</strong>, and how these are exalted as the prime examples of love. We also discuss the <strong>corporal works of mercy</strong>, actions of charity and care for others that the Catholic Church puts forth as being...well, essentially obligatory for those who profess that particular faith.</p> <br> <p>The discussion also touches on how charity and works of mercy are depicted in games, including the<em>Ultima</em> series (e.g. the old woman in <em>Ultima 4</em>, Ybarra in <em>Ultima 6</em>) and <em>Divinity: Original Sin</em>. We talk about poverty, and about how the <em>Ultima</em> series doesn't do a very thorough job of depicting <strong>anti-virtues</strong>. Not that it does a bad job with the anti-virtues it does depict...but it doesn't depict enough of them. Which gets us back to Aristotelian philosophy, and the concept of virtue as a golden mean between equal, but opposite, vices.</p> <br> <p>Finally, we ask: how do we pass our values on to others, especially our children?</p><h4>Music</h4> <br> <p><em>Britain Positive</em>, from the <em>Ultima 9</em> soundtrack</p>
