“Ultima Online servers have been referred to as “shards” for a long time. The reason for this was the lore behind the original Ultima Online. In that game, the wizard Mondain bound the world of Sosaria into a crystal orb in order to magically control its destiny. When the Avatar defeated Mondain, the orb was shattered into “shards”, each of which contained a perfect copy of Sosaria that continued to exist in parallel. These shards represented the individual servers of the game world.” –UO Trivia

UO Freeshard News

The Ultima Online Freeshard News Feed displays current shard posts from the news section of your shard forums

• Planned Downtime on Sept 14
  Source: UO Evolution NewsPublished on 2018-09-13
• Shard Disruptions
  Source: UO Evolution NewsPublished on 2018-06-01
• Re: Unexpected downtime
  Source: UO Evolution NewsPublished on 2018-04-29
• Re: Unexpected downtime
  Source: UO Evolution NewsPublished on 2018-04-29
• Upcoming routine upstream maintenance (Telia)
  Source: UO Evolution NewsPublished on 2018-04-12

• Monster of the Day Update
  Source: UO Lost Lands NewsPublished on 2018-11-10
• Shard News • Re: Thank you Derrick and UOSA Players for a decade+ of fun
  Source: UO Second Age NewsPublished on 2018-11-05By Safir
• ARTICLE WRITING
  Source: UO Lost Lands NewsPublished on 2018-10-30
• COMPUTER/IT ASSIGNMENT WRITING
  Source: UO Lost Lands NewsPublished on 2018-10-30
• Town Rare Spawns Opening – Nov 14th 9pm CST
  Source: UO Renaissance NewsPublished on 2018-10-21
• Cupid Returns! A Valentines Event – Feb 13th – Feb 24th
  Source: UO Renaissance NewsPublished on 2018-10-20
• Happy 6th Anniversary Renaissance | Global Event Starting August 31st
  Source: UO Renaissance NewsPublished on 2018-10-16
• Anti Afk Gather/Sell System
  Source: UO Renaissance NewsPublished on 2018-10-14
• Server Status, Connection Issues, Denial of Service Attacks
  Source: UO Renaissance NewsPublished on 2018-09-29
• Shard News • Re: Thank you Derrick and UOSA Players for a decade+ of fun
  Source: UO Second Age NewsPublished on 2018-09-23By Happy Gilmore
• Shard News • Re: Thank you Derrick and UOSA Players for a decade+ of fun
  Source: UO Second Age NewsPublished on 2018-09-22By Binky III
• Shard News • Re: Thank you Derrick and UOSA Players for a decade+ of fun
  Source: UO Second Age NewsPublished on 2018-09-22By Fox
• Shard News • Re: Thank you Derrick and UOSA Players for a decade+ of fun
  Source: UO Second Age NewsPublished on 2018-09-19By SirEricKain
• Planned Downtime on Sept 14
  Source: UO Evolution NewsPublished on 2018-09-13
• Shard Disruptions
  Source: UO Evolution NewsPublished on 2018-06-01