Memoirs of Sir Cabirus

Memoirs of Sir Cabirus

Memoirs of Sir Cabirus comes with Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss. 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 about which the Avatar later learns. 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 was heavily reduced into a booklet. Besides being written in Japanese, it now only contained the most important facts and little more than that.

Alternate Covers

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  Japanese cover

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  The booklet of the PSX-port

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  Taiwanese cover

Fan Versions

Sir John again translated Memoirs of Sir Cabirus to German. He was forced to translate the book from English, since the original German translation was next to unusable due to countless grammatical and content errors. Doing this correct translation, the names from the translations of Ultima V: Lazarus and The Ultima 6 Project (also done by him) were used for things like locations and people. Also, the gaffe with the reaper picture was fixed as well. The book is available on his page Die Heimstatt des Sir John.

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  Cover of the new Memoirs of Sir Cabrius

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  Section about the Abyss

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  Professions section

Trivia

• In the manual, when discussing reapers, a picture of a greer plant is shown instead. This error was repeated in The Book of Fellowship.

External Links

• Memoirs of Sir Cabirus (PDF)
• Memoirs of Sir Cabirus (PDF or text)
• Memoirs of Sir Cabirus (PDF) – high quality
• Memoirs of Sir Cabirus (PDF) – UK edition
• Die Heimstatt Des Sir John The German fan translation can be found here

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Ultima Game Manuals
Age of Darkness	Akalabeth (manual) ☥ Ultima I (Playbook, manual) ☥ Ultima II (manual) ☥ Ultima III (play guide, cleric guide, wizard guide)
Age of Enlightenment	Ultima IV (History of Britannia, Mystic Wisdom) ☥ Ultima V (Book of Lore, journal) ☥ Ultima VI (Compendium)
Age of Armageddon	Ultima VII (Fellowship, Isle of Fire) ☥ Ultima VII Part Two (Serpent Pillars, Silver Seed) ☥ Ultima VIII (Chronicle) ☥ Ultima IX (Spellbook, journal)
Underworld	Underworld (Memoirs) ☥ Underworld II (Safe Passage)
Worlds of Ultima	Savage Empire (Ultimate Adventures) ☥ Martian Dreams (Red Planet, Time Travel)
Compilations	Ultima Trilogy I (Trilogy manual) ☥ Ultima Trilogy II (The Age of Virtue) ☥ Ultima Collection (Ultima Atlas)
Other	Shroud of the Avatar (Adventurer's Manual)

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Ultima Console Games Manuals
Age of Darkness	Ultima III (manual), (Hint Book)
Age of Enlightenment	Ultima IV (NES) (manual) ☥ Ultima IV (SMS) (History of Britannia, Mystic Wisdom) ☥ Ultima V (manual) ☥ Ultima VI (Japan) (Compendium)
Age of Armageddon	Ultima VII (Japan) (Fellowship)
Others	Runes of Virtue (manual) ☥ Runes of Virtue II (manual) ☥ Underworld (Memoirs) ☥ Savage Empire (Ultimate Adventures)