Compassion is part of a philosophy within Ultima Online known as the Virtues, and is one of eight pursuits within the upcoming Virtue system.

The Virtue of Compassion has been described thusly:

“Compassion is nonjudgmental empathy for one's fellow creatures.”

Players will be able to pursue the Virtue of Compassion by assisting non-player escorts and prisoners.

Gaining Compassion:

• Characters will be able to gain points in Compassion in one of two ways:
  • Successfully completing an NPC escort quest.
    • Haven escorts are an exception; characters will not be able to gain Compassion points from Haven escorts.
  • Successfully completing a NPC prisoner quest.
    • The amount of points gained for completing a prisoner quest will be more than those gained for completing an escort quest.
• Points in Compassion may be earned up to five times in a given day.
• Characters that are [young] will not be able to earn Compassion points.

Virtuous Title & Abilities: When a character has achieved any number of Compassion points, he is considered to have achieved a certain step on the path of Compassion.

• When a player moves his cursor over the Compassion symbol, a title will be displayed, indicating the step currently achieved in Compassion for that character.
  • First step: Seeker of Compassion
  • Second step: Follower of Compassion
  • Third step: Knight of Compassion
• Players who progress any number of steps on the path of Compassion, but do not continue to actively pursue it, may discover that this Virtuous title reduces in steps over time.
• Gaining steps in Compassion will grant a character the ability to improve the results when resurrecting characters other than himself.
  • Characters resurrected in this manner will return to life with a higher number of Hits than which they would normally resurrect.
    • First step: Resurrected character returns to life with 20% of their maximum Hits.
    • Second step: Resurrected character returns to life with 40% of their maximum Hits.
    • Third step: Resurrected character returns to life with 80% of their maximum Hits.
  • This ability may be used as often as the player wishes.
  • Note: you must have the ability to resurrect through the use of spells or Healing skill in order to benefit from the use of this Virtue.