So this is a pretty awesome thing:

Complete Ultima (or Shroud of the Avatar) & "Report Thy Feat" as requested, & I still send completion certificate via method you report. — Richard Garriott (@RichardGarriott) January 31, 2015

You read that right; Richard Garriott will still issue a completion certificate to you if you follow through with the instruction at the end of most Ultima games and contact him concerning your feat. And he’ll also honour this for Shroud of the Avatar playthroughs.

So, for example, if you reach out to him via Twitter to announce that you’ve finished Ultima 6, he’ll reply to you on Twitter with an official congratulations from Lord British. And there’s more:

@RichardGarriott If you desire a paper certificate, send me/Portalarium a Self Addressed Stamped Envelope, runic requests preferred. — Richard Garriott (@RichardGarriott) January 31, 2015

And because a few people have already asked…here’s where you can send that envelope:

Portalarium Inc.

#275 One Far West

3410 Far West Blvd.

Austin, TX 78731

And hopefully I didn’t just dox Portalarium there.

The First Age of Update: As has been noted in the comments, the certificates will be based on copies of original certificates (sort of like the one I got). But here’s official confirmation of that, anyway:

@UltimaReturn @wtf_dragon Correct! Even I don't have the original blanks. Had to scan and erase. — Richard Garriott (@RichardGarriott) March 5, 2015

That being said…heck, I never did send in for an original Ultima 6 completion certificate, and I’m still floored that I have one now. The fact that it’s printed on card stock, and not on whatever fancy paper Origin used back in the day, matters not at all, in my book.

Revenge of the Update: Sergorn Dragon asked Richard Garriott for a bit of clarification on this, since not every Ultima game had a completion certificate:

@UltimaReturn @wtf_dragon Only paper ones if that game had one. — Richard Garriott (@RichardGarriott) March 5, 2015

So…if you send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Portalarium, Richard Garriott will send you a completion certificate for Ultima 3, Ultima 4, Ultima 5, Ultima 6, Ultima 7 (both The Black Gate and Serpent Isle), Ultima 8, Ultima Underworld (presumably), and the Ultima Trilogy (again, presumably). These certificates will be based on the original certificates for each respective game.

For those Ultima games that never had completion certificates, you will still get…something, perhaps a hand-written note. However, Richard Garriott did have something else to say with respect to this:

@wtf_dragon @UltimaReturn Kenneth, report one that I have no cert for, I will still "sign a thanks note" or if someone drafts a cert great! — Richard Garriott (@RichardGarriott) March 5, 2015

So…are there any enterprising fans who want to try their hand at crafting more ornate and elaborate certificates for those Ultima games that didn’t have completion certificates originally?

@RichardGarriott @wtf_dragon After saying that you know some fan *will* create certificates for every game that's missing one 😛 — Sergorn Dragon (@UltimaReturn) March 5, 2015

If any of you do make the effort to create a completion certificate, my suggestion would be to upload it somewhere — your own website, or to a service like imgur if you don’t have one — and then drop a link to it here; I can then bring it to Richard Garriott’s attention. Unless, of course, you’re on Twitter; then you can engage with him directly.