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.

Description
Dictated by Sir Cabirus to Corby many years before the events of Ultima Underworld, his memoirs were designed to portray the Abyss colony in a positive light. The book does read a bit like an advertisement brochure where Cabirus waxes about the positives, but neglects to mention the negatives the Avatar later learns about. The final pages of the work, written by Joye the Librarian, suggest 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.

One the cover, the runic in the border lists the Eight Virtues, though on the bottom the writing still goes left to right, while the letters are correctly flipped vertically. Strangely, Honesty, Compassion and Valor are repeated, instead of listing the principles of Truth, Love and Courage.

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

Other Editions
The European editions of the book are in a somewhat smaller format and the paper is more glossy. The Polish translation of the book was included in that country'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 German translation of the book is seen as very poor, as it manages to get many of the facts and terms of the Ultima-universe wrong. The translation of all later manuals would have much higher quality.

The book also was fully translated to Korean and Chinese (Taiwan), but the covers are totally different. The books for the various Japanese versions got fully translated and also have the correct cover, though with paler colors.

For the PSX-Port of Ultima Underworld, the book got heavily reduced into a booklet. Besides being written in Japanese, it now only contained the most important facts and little more than that.

Trivia

 * In the manual, when discussing Reapers, a picture of a Greer Plant is shown instead. This error was repeaed in The Book of Fellowship.