Memoirs of Sir Cabirus

Memoirs of Sir Cabirus comes with Ultima Underworld I. It is 30 pages long. In-game, Corby, the scribe of Sir Cabirus, is the author of the book. In real-life, W.G. Armintrout has written the book.

Dictated by Sir Cabirus many years before the events of Ultima Underworld, his memoirs were designed to portray the Abyss colony in a positive light. The final pages of the work, written by Joye the Librarian, suggests that the colony had broken down after Sir Cabirus's death, and warns travellers to avoid the dungeon, for communication had been lost many years ago.

The European editions of the book are in a somewhat smaller format and the paper was more glossy. The Polish translation of the book was included in that countrie's package. The translations to French and German were only done for the Underworld Series, and only in PDF format, thus no hardcopy versions of the book in these languages exist. The book also was fully translated to Korean and Chinese (Taiwan), but the covers were totally different.

Book Content
The following topics are part of the book:


 * The proclamation
 * History of Britannia
 * Inhabitants of The Abyss
 * The classes
 * Runic Magic
 * Bestiary
 * Afterword

Trivia

 * The German translation of the book is actually outright laughable. It gets so many of the facts and terms of the Ultima-universe wrong, that it does create the question who Origin found to do the job. The translation of all later manuals show much higher quality.