Episode 105 of Geeks Guide to the Galaxy, a podcast put on by Wired, features Richard Garriott among its guests and interviewees:

Here’s a snippet, provided by Wired:

“We got the project going to not only have [Tracy Hickman] help us internally with the story for Shroud of the Avatar, but also to write a book of the backstory that we’ve been working on together, called Blade of the Avatar,” Garriott says in Episode 105 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast.

Blade of the Avatar tells the story of Aren Bennis, an army officer in service to the sinister Obsidian Empire, whose life changes forever when he stumbles across a magic sword, a relic of a forgotten age. We’re told that this ancient world, in which Avatars walked the earth promoting the Virtues, was destroyed in an epic cataclysm called the Fall. Fans will recognize this ancient world as the golden age of Ultima, and the Fall as Garriott’s disastrous partnership with EA. Fortunately one trace of the beloved franchise remains, Garriott’s alter-ego Lord British.

“The one piece of continuity that we will bring back, that we do own, is Lord British,” says Garriott. “And so Lord British and the virtues which I personally espouse will continue into the new world.”

Give the podcast a listen! It also features James Sutter and Wendy Wagner discussing Dungeons & Dragons.