The Good Old Games version of Serpent Isle evidently doesn't come with the map or cluebook included as extras. Until such time as I can work with GOG to get these things added to the list of extras for the game, you can find links to both in this article.
There’s not a lot of explanation given in the game’s documentation; the wiki includes most of the relevant quotes.
It’s certainly possible that the U7SI team just flubbed the name. Or perhaps they decided that “Monitor” sounded close enough to the original name (names, really, since there were two cities named Montor) but also was kind of relevant to the role of its people as the guard (monitors) of the lands.
I wonder whence came the idea to rename the Montor from Ultima 1/3 to “Monitor”. It’s an unusual name for a town. They didn’t rename Fawn.
There’s not a lot of explanation given in the game’s documentation; the wiki includes most of the relevant quotes.
It’s certainly possible that the U7SI team just flubbed the name. Or perhaps they decided that “Monitor” sounded close enough to the original name (names, really, since there were two cities named Montor) but also was kind of relevant to the role of its people as the guard (monitors) of the lands.