In order to understand the metaphysics of the Mage setting, it is important to remember that many of the terms used to describe magic and Magi e. g., Avatar, Quintessence, the Umbra, and Paradox, Resonance, as well as the game mechanics a player uses to describe the areas of magic in which his character is proficient — the Spheres, look, mean, and are understood very differently depending on the paradigm of the Mage in question, even though they are often, in the texts of the game, described from particular paradigmatic points-of-view.

Originally, the player character was referred to as " the Stranger ", but by the end of Ultima IV he becomes universally known as the Avatar.

* a term used when referring to a user of the popular forum Gaia Online, or spoken in reference to the Avatar character used to represent oneself in the forum.

Other landmark examples include a character made up of broken pieces of a stained-glass window in Young Sherlock Holmes, a shapeshifting character in Willow, a tentacle of water in The Abyss, the T-1000 Terminator in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, hordes of armies of robots and fantastic creatures in the Star Wars prequel trilogy and The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the planet Pandora in Avatar.

* Naga, a hybrid polar bear-dog character and Avatar Korra's animal guide in The Legend of Korra

In the Ultima series, Lord British rules from his throne inside Castle Britannia, and continuously provides healing, resurrection and other miscellaneous help for the Avatar ( the main character ) and his adventuring party.

The Avatar is the main player character and protagonist in the Ultima series of video games by Origin Systems.

While in later games the player character follows a set of ethic guidelines called the Virtues, in the first three games the player is not bound by any moral guidelines, leaving the future Avatar free to steal and murder, with only the easily avoided town guards to stop them.

Beginning with Ultima IV, the player could choose the gender of the Avatar character, but in most later games several different character portraits with different skin and hair colors are available.

Ultima X: Odyssey promised to return to the character development of achieving Avatar status, but the project was ultimately cancelled.

" GameSpot listed Avatar among the ten best heroes in video gaming, commenting: " In the minds of many longtime Ultima fans, identifying this timeless character by a face-and removing your ability to imagine his visage, or project yourself into the role-was a careless mistake on Origin's behalf.

Since the games in the series focus on spiritual growth and seek share virtuous ideas with the players as well, the implication behind the Avatar character is that it is representative of the actual player in the " real world ".

The Avatar concept also pioneered a role-playing game ( RPG ) video game design where the player has control over a single character and subsequently builds a party of followers from pre-existing non-player characters.

The Avatar character makes a cameo appearance as the last heroic adversary in Dungeon Keeper ( also released by Electronic Arts but developed by a different subsidiary, Bullfrog Productions ) and is humorously included in the last cutscene as being locked in a wall for knife-throwing target practice.

* In the 2010 film The Last Airbender, Appa the flying bison, which is a CGI character based on a character of the same name in the television series, Avatar: The Last Airbender, has been called " uncanny ".

In later games in the series, Chuckles is notorious for taunting the series ' main character, the Avatar, with silly riddles and games.

He has given a human character to Rama, the Hindu Avatar of Vishnu, portraying him as an ideal son, husband, brother and king.

* Aang, main character of Avatar: The Last Airbender, an animated television series on Nickelodeon

In Jerry Beck's Animated Movie Guide, Andrew Leal writes that " The central figure, Avatar [...] sounds a great deal like Peter Falk, and clearly owes much to cartoonist Vaughn Bodé's Cheech Wizard character.

* Pandora ( comics ), a comic book character from Avatar Press

* The Avatar, a character in the Ōban Star-Racers universe

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants ( AICPA ) defines accountancy as " the art of recording, classifying, and summarizing in a significant manner and in terms of money, transactions and events which are, in part at least, of financial character, and interpreting the results thereof.

A collation algorithm such as the Unicode collation algorithm defines an order through the process of comparing two given character strings and deciding which should come before the other.

In Gone with the Wind, Mitchell is blind to racial oppression and " the inseparability of race and gender " that defines the southern belle character of Scarlett.

At least since the days of Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson, analysis of the play has centred on the question of Macbeth's ambition, commonly seen as so dominant a trait that it defines the character.

MIME defines a collection of email headers for specifying additional attributes of a message including content type, and defines a set of transfer encodings which can be used to represent 8-bit binary data using characters from the 7-bit ASCII character set.

Music defines each character.

Key to the relationship between Unicode and HTML is the relationship between the " document character set " which defines the set of characters that may be present in a HTML document and assigns numbers to them and the " external character encoding " or " charset " used to encode a given document as a sequence of bytes.

* Basic ( dance move ), the dance move that defines the character of a particular dance

The first signs of the particular artistic character that defines Ancient Greek architecture are to be seen in the pottery of the Dorian Greeks from the 10th century BC.

The ISO / IEC 10646 ( Unicode ) International Standard defines character, or abstract character as " a member of a set of elements used for the organisation, control, or representation of data ".

POSIX defines " character " as a sequence of one or more bytes representing a single graphic symbol or control code, and attempts to use " byte " when referring to char data ..

The point of climax is the turning point of the story, where the main character makes the single big decision that defines the outcome of their story and who they are as a person.

He defines character as " that which reveals decision, of whatever sort " ( 1450b8 ).

The choice of miso paste for the miso soup defines a great deal of its character and flavor.

" The limited number of character points generally defines how powerful the character will be.

If is a Dirichlet character, one defines its Dirichlet L-series by

The original ISO 10646 standard defines a 31-bit encoding form called UCS-4, in which each encoded character in the Universal Character Set ( UCS ) is represented by a 32-bit friendly code value in the code space of integers between 0 and hexadecimal 7FFFFFFF.

Bad faith ( or " self-deception ") can be understood as the guise of existing as a character, individual, or person who defines himself through the social categorization of his formal identity.

Often mentioned as one of Barks ' strongest stories, it largely defines Scrooge's character, and the themes introduced here are now considered part of a tradition.

POSIX defines printable file as a text file that whose character are printable or space or backspace according to regional rules.