3. Swen somehow managed to convince EA to sell him the Ultima IP and got Richard Garriott to license him Lord British.
A Larian Ultima would intrigue me. Ultima has been dead to me since IX, but prying it away from Garriot and giving it to Larian might make it sing again.
Ultima would have the additional benefit of the fact that the original dev killed it dead 25 years ago, so nobody would stress out over Larian screwing over the IP (it having been screwed over already).
Downside: nobody younger than gen-x (or maybe the oldest millenials) gives a shit about Ultima now.
