 Unlike previous Ultimas, this game is very nonlinear. You can do most quests in any order. The object is to acheive the highest level in the eight virtues: honesty, compassion, valor, justice, sacrifice, honor, spirituality, and humility using the three elements: truth, love, and courage. Once you have went to the shrines of the first seven virtues, you will have acheived near-Avatarhood. You will then travel to the Isle of the Avatar to get to the Shrine of Humility. After you worship at that shrine, you will have acheived Avatarhood. You will then use the bell, book, candle, and skull of Mondain to open the Great Stygian Abyss. You will enter the abyss and fight really tough monsters and answer really hard riddles to reach the end. At the end, you answer a last riddle to win the game.