This expansion will add a dark, new world where you can encounter over thirty exotic characters created by Spawn creator Todd McFarlane. The central character will be Lord Blackthorn, who has been transformed into an evil half-human. The game will include better artificial intelligence, a new virtue system, thirty novel items, better character creation, and an intuitive help feature. The Blackthorne plot and McFarlane creatures will sound familiar to people that were following the now cancelled Ultima Worlds Online: Origin.