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Al`Kabor's Analysis
Earron Huntlan, After many grueling hours of attempting to restore the ruined page of the diary that you did give to me for research, I was unable to return the penmanship to a more legible standard or to interpret the writing to any large degree. As unfortunate that may be, I was however able to brush away most of the fluids that stained the page to see a quite remarkable and rather curious symbol stained into the parchment itself. I furthered my studies in regards to the symbol and found that it was an ancient Rune that has since fallen beneath the ways of our modern magical practices. Despite the Rune's disappearance from our arcane methods, I myself was still able to translate the Rune and find exactly its purpose if used within a spell or research. This Rune in particular dates back to the Heretic Revolt and the forming of the first Paineel, which I am sure you know has since fallen into rubble beneath the hands of Master Yael. I have had brief introductions to ancient lore in the evolution of our magic and after some further research, I was able to pinpoint the exact creation and original purpose of this rune's creation. One known as Dartain created the rune. An ancient Heretic who should be nothing more than dust within his grave, he somehow remains alive and well. His time shall soon come, but that is not the tale that we are discussing. Dartain created this rune and two others that would assist him in one of his many studies and experiments with death and life in attempts to create a spell that would summon a rather powerful undead servant. The project fell away as the Necromancer found an easier way to forge the spell, which to this day is used by those Necromancers who have the power within them to conjure such a powerful Servant of Bones. Due to this research, I am quite determined to think that the diary itself is one of the many that Dartain did keep before his exile to the Plane of Underfoot. With the Runes no longer able to assist Dartain's research, he returned them to the pages of his diary where he is famed for holding most of his meaningless ramblings. If the diary were to be recovered one would notice that there are failed attempts to inscribe these runes upon pages 19, 23, 29, and 37 of the diary. It is rumored that if these runes are combined with the words of the same context, a flawless incantation would be created and thus the effect which Dartain was striving to obtain with his original creation of the Runes. Due to the more powerful nature of these incantations, I would assume the effect to be on a larger scale than that of a simple pet. I would have liked to take a look at the diary in full to perhaps find the other Runes and further my study. Despite the absence of the other runes, I was able to discover the names of three inscribed upon the pages of that ancient diary... The first Rune that was created was that of Servility; the second Rune, the one that I held for some time in my possession, is that of Entreaty; and the third and final rune is that of Dominion. For each of these Runes there are a set of words that compliments the meaning and purpose of the Rune's names, unfortunately I can not provide the exact names of these words as they were a well kept secret from the likes of "goodly" scholars. How this could possibly relate to the problems you have observed within your tavern and city are beyond me. This diary is meaningless as a whole and the runes inscribed upon these ancient illegible pages are useless without the words, which have been lost for centuries. With what has been evident within these past few days in regards to these disturbances, we can clearly eliminate the possibility of the heretic's involvement. This display is much too sloppy for their style in oppression, and they are currently too tied up with the Council at Erudin to attempt to control such a city as this. There is one thing, however, that has disturbed me and has led me to believe that your thoughts of conspiracy are correct, but I still do not know what the diary or the runes have to do with any of this outbreak of petty street crimes. Last night as I was preparing myself to retire for the evening, a rather polite knock came to my door. To my surprise, an elderly erudite, as you had described to me when pleading for my assistance with the diary page, appeared at my door asking for the diary page to be returned to him. Immediately, as instinct would have, I dismissed him without the object of his desire and he turned away without another word. When I awoke this morn I found that the page was no longer in my possession, which leads me to think that it has some importance to this man. Never the less, I shall handle the situation on my own, if of course he has not retreated back into Paineel. Al`Kabor
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