Journals

This article is about Judge's journal. For other journals, see Journal.

Journals

Location

Forced Entry
(Bava Nisos, Mistburned Barrens)

Type

Book

Interact

Yes

Destructible

No

Journals can be found in the Mantle's Arrival during Forced Entry.

Story involvement

Janthir Wilds

• Absolution
  • Forced Entry

Text

Judge's Diary Page 1

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At last, we’ve settled in Bava Nisos. Though the journey here proved a test of tenacity, I welcome the change in scenery and revere these hallowed grounds upon which Saul himself stood.

Ulrich and Tatyanna, on the other hand, seem preoccupied only with corporal cravings, fearing food scarcity. I am no stranger to hunger, having spent long stretches of my youth plagued by hunger pangs. Even after joining the White Mantle, I continued the act of fasting as an exercise in self-discipline. A practice I am now especially grateful for.

Going without is a lesson that many of our own could stand to learn, our current “leader” included. Though he dared not say it to my face, I sensed Caudecus’s irritation at my reticence to prepare meals of animal fare. He mistook principle as weakness, a “weak stomach” for hunting, as he put it. I would accuse him of the same, with one amendment: his stomach is hardly where his weakness ends.

But that ceases to be of bother for as long as Caudecus ceases to return. Knowing his history of cowardice, I do not know why the others expect a reply to their letters, let alone his prodigal return. And for what does it matter? It is we who have the weathered the pilgrimage, who truly walk Saul’s path. A glory Caudecus knows not, and one I suspect is just as destiny has written it. Regardless, Ulrich has taken our discovery of Bava Nisos as proof of Caudecus’s righteous authority.

I begin the newest chapter of this journey with a prayer of my own creation. When faced with earthly strife, may it remind me of my vow to know what cannot be unknown and to see what cannot be Unseen:

—

To the Bringers of Wisdom,

Bestow upon me your eternal flame

of light Unseen,

that I may sheath it

against the hollow breath of dissent,

and carry its glow

to those few chosen

to bear it witness.

The tithe to bask in its gift

be not the burning of the flesh,

but the illumination of the soul.

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