The Book of Lore

The Book of Lore comes with Ultima V. It is 54 pages long. In-game, many sources are provided as authors, and the book is mentioned throughout the heroe's adventures in Britannia. In real-life, Richard Garriott, Mark Hamner, Paul Isaac, Stuart Marks, Steve Meuse, John Miles, Toshi Morita, Chris Roberts and Dallas Snell are credited for the book.

The Book of Lore, it presented as an in-character guide to the land of Britannia. It touches upon many topics that were not discussed in previous or subsequent game manuals. The last page holds the Ethics of Blackthorn, which were enacted during Blackthorn's reign just days before the book would go into printing, and thus are a late addition.

For the port to the PC-9801 in Japan, the entire book was translated - including the title itself. Content-wise however, it stayed the same.

Book Content
The following topics are part of the book:


 * History of Britannia
 * Terrain
 * Government
 * Shops
 * Travelling guide
 * The classes
 * Transportation
 * Cosmology
 * Runescript
 * Music
 * Combat
 * Weapons and armour
 * Bestiary
 * The Eight Virtues
 * Magic and all its topics
 * Ethics of Blackthorn