A short update was posted to The World of Sosaria’s website recently, in which lordofsosaria offers up brief details about his planned changes to Ultima 1:

hello,the project continues,no more images for the moment it is thus even continent as the version pc,only one change will be the story one the addition of character in dungeon

One wonders which character this will be? A new character, an NPC invented from scratch? Or perhaps a familiar face from Ultima lore?