Courtesy of Pix and Natreg Dragon, Ultima Aiera is pleased to present over 120 images of the pages for the manual, quickstart guide, reference guide, and maps shipped with the Ultima Trilogy, a compilation of the first three Ultima games released for DOS.

The Ultima 1 portion of the documentation, not unlike…say…the Compendium that shipped with Ultima 6, does not delve into the actual mechanics of playing the game at all; it is entirely comprised of descriptions of the game world and what inhabits it (friend and foe alike). All of the artwork therein is hand-drawn (probably by Denis Loubet; it looks like his work).

The Ultima 2 and Ultima 3 manuals, meanwhile, have a similar look and feel to the Ultima 1 manual, but balance the descriptions of in-game things and hand-drawn art with gameplay screenshots and information about how to actually play the games.

Anyhow, enjoy! Pull up the images, download the documents, and pore over them. Search out every little detail. Ultima Aiera is indebted to Pix for collecting all these documents, to Richard Garriott and Mary Taylor Rollo, and to anyone else who worked on the original documents at Origin Systems.