Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle - The Silver Seed/DeathWatch Keep

The Silver Seed adds many new and incredibly powerful weapons to the game world, but you will need to solve each puzzle to get them.

After you've died for the first time with the expansion installed Karnax will give you the Amulet of Balance; double-click this when on or near any Serpent Gate. The first time you go through you will see a lengthy teleportation sequence, but after the first time you'll skip this scene. Upon your arrival you will discover that you have travelled back in time some thousands of years to the time of the great War of Imbalance, and are now within the grounds of DeathWatch Keep, an Order stronghold keeping watch over the forces of Chaos.

Note that it takes a whole week for the Amulet of Balance to recharge, so if you want to pop in and grab an item or two before continuing your quest you'll need to repeatedly sleep in order to leave once more. Once you've planted the Silver Seed the Amulet no longer needs charging and can be used at will.

Arrival
Upon your arrival, head north into the Banquet Hall and talk to the cloaked automaton. He proclaims you the Champion of Balance. Be sure to use all the conversation options he offers, and eventually he'll give you a magic keyring.

This is a very useful device. It makes hunting for the right key obselete. Once you have it simply press "K" and click on a door or chest, if you've added that same key to the keyring the lock will open! What's more it will never become heavier or take up more space as you add keys to it. To add a new key merely drop it onto either the Avatar or his HUD icon and it will be absorbed into the keyring. Sometimes keys refuse to be absorbed automatically, which means you'll need to double-click them and then use them on the keyring. The only keys that will never fuse with the keyring are the Keys of Fire and Ice, because they instead fuse with each other. After they have done so, however, you can then put the resulting Blackrock Key onto the keyring.

Isstanar will also tell you that to prove yourself as the Champion of Balance you will need to acquire four magic Orbs from the surrounding dungeons. However legions of Chaos monsters lie between you and the Orbs, not to mention an array of puzzles. For the duration of your stay in the past Surok the healer will resurrect you when you die. You can also choose to kill him in order to become permanently immortal. See Secrets for more on this.

From here you can go to one of several locations:


 * Abandoned Outpost and the Red Orb
 * Issik's Maze and the Purple Orb
 * Aram-Dol's Lair and the Blue Orb
 * The Fiend's Lair and the Golden Orb

Once you have all four Orbs, you can finally retrieve the Seed.