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Minax was a fictional evil enchantress in the second Ultima game and one of its main villains. The Avatar slew Minax’s minions and did eventually destroy her as well.

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Showing huge magical potential in her youth, dark wizard Mondain recruits her as an apprentice. The young sorceress later fell in love for Mondain. She survived her paramour's death at the hands of Stranger and went into hiding. Underestimated because of her youth, Minax was furious of the death of her tutor (and lover). Revenge set itself within her dark heart. As her talent for magic and capacity of malevolence far exceeded Mondain's, Minax decided to take control of the evils of the world without the gem.

Ten years later, Minax is now older and very powerful, more than Mondain once was. Minax wants to avenge the death of her lover, thus, after many researches, she learns of the Hero's homeworld. In order to destroy her "bane's homeworld", she uses dimensional and time gates to set up in the Time of Legends, a place located at the Origin of Times. Thus she will be able to attack everybody living "after" this period in that reality, and won't risk to be killed like Mondain, since it is impossible to travel in time before the Origin of Times. In order to assure that the Stranger would not interfere with her plans for vengeance, Minax invaded his homeworld of Earth. Once there, she used her dark powers to disturb the fabric of time, and destroyed the planet. After the Stranger's death she would be able to conquer Sosaria easily. Twenty years after the death of Mondain, Minax invaded Sosaria with her legions of Darkness.

At some point, Minax wrote a love poem for Mondain, shown at the library on Monk Isle in Ultima 7 Part II: Serpent Isle. It is unknown if this poem was written while Mondain was alive.

Lord British called for a hero to crush Minax's evil plans. The Stranger had narrowly escaped the destruction of the Earth, and answered British's call. Minax's castle, named Shadowguard, could only be reached through timegates (similar to moongates in the later games), and even then an enchanted ring was required to pass through the force fields inside. The war against Minax's vile legions was long and hard, but eventually the hero hunted down the sorceress, pursued her as she teleported throughout the castle, and destroyed her life with the quicksword Enilno.

With the dark energies released with the death of Minax in her castle of Shadowguard, the lands of Sosaria changed once again, reforming into two continents: Sosaria proper, and Ambrosia. Unbeknownst to all, Mondain and Minax had produced a progeny, Exodus, an entity that was neither man nor machine.

• Ultima characters
• Fictional witches
• Fictional characters with the power to manipulate time
• Fictional characters with the power to teleport