Courtesy of Dungy from the Codex of Ultima Wisdom, Ultima Aiera is pleased to present 17 images from the Ultima 4 cluebook, The Way of the Avatar. As Dungy notes: “Since everyone is talking about Ultima IV these days, I thought I’d get around to scanning some of the images from my old copy of the Ultima IV Clue Book for the codex. As far as I’m aware, scans of this quality aren’t available anywhere else. Back in the day, Origin made some of the coolest cluebooks, and the quality of these city maps shows it.”
Now, a few disclaimers.
These images are PNG originals, line art scans from the cluebook.
The images are medium-scale in terms of resolution, and small in terms of file size. As such, they should load quickly, but may take a while once clicked on. Once you click on them, they will appear in a lightbox formatted to fit your monitor resolution; right-clicking on the lightbox and selecting “View Image” (a feature not available in all browsers) will take you to the full-resolution image.
Finally, enjoy. Pull up the images. Pore over them. Print them or use them as desktop art. This is Ultima history at its finest, and Aiera is indebted to Dungy and everyone who worked at Origin for it.
