Eldar's Journal

Eldar's Journal was discovered by Elpheba, Osiris, Max Blackrock and Valonia at a mysterious crypt. The journal describes Eldar's discovery of the runestone, his deciphering of it, and his discovery the crypt.

Last Entry
“September 30, 1025,

I arrived at amp early this morning, though the sun was barely up I was once again late due to misplacing several of my files. I could have sworn that I had left my archives in my room at the Inn but to my surprise they were missing. Worse yet they are not here at the camp either, if I were a more paranoid man I would suspect someone of meddling with my work. Unfortunately that archive has my notes on the runestone I found in the Tower of Azimuth… hidden in the ancient archives on the third floor. As always I have kept the runestone hidden in my room at the Inn, its existence must be kept a secret. Only the high council was made aware of its existence.

The fact that through deciphering the runestone I was led me here and more specifically to that stone slab is concerning. The runestone is clearly written in ancient elvish, so old that many of the words are lost to us. I am unable to fully decipher it. Yet the slab is written in ancient dwarven. There is something at work here that I do not fully understand. The historical texts do not mention the dwarves and elves interacting in such a way until much later in history. There is or was something buried beneath that slab, something that must be uncovered and studied. I shudder at the thought of an unlicensed mage getting this far.

Back to the matter at hand. I have deciphered some of the writing on the stone slab but unfortunately I am not expert in ancient dwarven. As far as I can tell the slab will open if exposed to a magic of a particular sort. The dwarven word Toor appears there, it is the root word in many of the modern words in Dwarven, more specifically it is the root in the word for element and magic. Therefore the door opens to a certain kind of magic, though I fear taking a shot in the dark… if the wrong type of magic is used I believe that the door or its contents will react violently to it. I am afraid that I will need extra aid in deciphering it, unfortunately it seems that my summons for my apprentice Professor Marenkul to join me were not received… or worse yet intercepted.

I have become more and more distressed here at the camp. I feel as though I am being watched despite the solitude of the area. The other dig members have been acting… worried and seem to jump at the slightest noise. Perhaps it is not just I… perhaps my letter to the high council was somehow intercepted. Perhaps…”