A Guide to the Isle of Fire

A Guide to the Isle of Fire is a book written by Erethian, in order to educate the reader on the wonders of the Isle of Fire while encased in a breathing enchantment on the very island of which he wrote deep below the sea. In real-life, Andrew P. Morris and Ken Demarest wrote the book. It was included with Forge of Virtue.

Book Content
Erethian writes about the following topics:


 * Introduction
 * History of the Isle of Fire
 * Traveler's Guide
 * The Bestiary
 * Helpful Observations
 * Conclusion

Other Editions
The book did get translated into German and French for the European release of the expansion. The Spanish version was only released as a PDF on CD-ROM. There also exists a Chinese version for Taiwan, which has an actual cover. On all later budget editions, the book is included as a PDF file.

The foreign language titles are as follows:


 * "Ein Wegweiser für die Feuerinsel" (German)
 * "Guide de L'isle du Feu" (French)

Fan Versions
For Ultima VII auf Deutsch Sir John again translated A Guide to the Isle of Fire to German, since the original German translation at times was not exactly up to today's standards. However, the layout of that first new translation was somewhat bland and not optimal, while still containing errors of the original. In 2019, a second new translation was done, this time Tribun Dragon helped spotting the errors while also providing all the illustrations and page borders in high quality to re-create the original layout. This version actually holds more illustrations to compensate for the sometimes lacking original and the book got a new cover - Guide never having one in the first place.

The books coming with the patch have the lowest quality due to size issues. Sir John offers higher quality downloads on his page.