If you can believe it, it has been nearly a quarter-century since the release of Ultima IX: Ascension, the ninth (and final) entry in the single-player Ultima series.

Unfortunately, no new trove of Ultima 9-related content has come to light to help mark the occasion, but why not take a look at the various bits of development documentation, storyboarding, illustrations, and box art graphics available on the Origin Gallery? Not unlike the game itself – which tends to reward repeated playthroughs with new discoveries and new appreciation for just how forward-thinking, innovative, and lovingly-crafted a game it truly was – there’s all sorts of fascinating details there to be teased out of the hastily-scribbled notes, rough sketches, typed presentations, and screenshots that have happily survived to this day.