Book - Hamuna's Journal

Mirtul 8, 1489 DR

Arrived at the Well. No one has been here for decades! Should be a good place to find historical artefacts, and maybe learn about the place. Set up tent outside ruins of the tower. The team is working well together – this should be a good dig.

Mirtul 12, 1489 DR

Ready to start the dig within the tower. Fed up with getting fresh water from the stream – looks like the well itself still has fresh water, so I’ll put some of the team on to repairing the well head to save all our trips to the stream!

Mirtul 15, 1489 DR

First find in the dig – some notes written by a Wizard, obviously staying here en route to the old Forge of Spells. Implies this place had some sort of inn or resting house as part of, or alongside, the tower. The notes are very fragile. I’ll transcribe their contents later.

Mirtul 20, 1489 DR

Finished repairing the well head, so I can now get fresh water when I want it. That’ll save my energies for the dig. Found a few more coins, but nothing unusual.

Mirtul 22, 1489 DR

Wow! A great find! An ancient axe, engraved with Dwarvish runes – I’ll have to get those translated later. Axe looks a bit rusted though. A good amount of coin too, though none of them particularly special – should fund a few more months of the dig though. What is most unusual is a strange bronze seal of some sort, inlaid with coloured glass, and etched around the outside with a weird phrase. I’ll make a copy here, for records:

The text says: “Dispel the guardian by saying the line, in all Pact voices at the same time; ‘Begone loyal servant thy job is done, the war is over, the battle’s won.’

I wonder what this is? Could the Pact refer to the Pact of Phandelver? “All Pact voices” – maybe the 4 Pact languages? Will have to research this more thoroughly

Mirtul 28, 1489 DR

A few more coins found, and some more texts indicating more people staying at this place as a stopover point either to or from the Forge of Spells. Well, that’s something not in the documented histories of this place, so it’s all interesting!

Mirtul 30, 1489 DR

Excellent. Some silver goblets inset with moonstones. I don’t think these are unique, but they have a maker’s mark, so I should be able to trace their place and date of manufacture.

Kythorn 3, 1489 DR

Not good. All our finds lost. Gone. Stolen. That bloody Green Dragon must have spotted our campfire from above and come to see what he could find. We battled the beast as best we could, but one by one we fell. I lost the entire team, and I myself was close to death. The dragon traded my life for all the treasure we had. That included all our finds so far. This dig has definitely not been worth it. All my team lost, and now all our finds gone too. Nothing to show for our efforts.

Kythorn 8, 1489 DR

There’s nothing for it. I’m going to stick it out here and continue the dig. I’ve decided I need some protection though. If the dragon returns, there’s not much I can do about it, but there have been orcs wandering quite close by recently and I need to put people off visiting. It’s a little gruesome, I know, but I’ve used my powers to raise my past team to work as protectors for the dig. I know the team, every one of them, and I know this is what they would have wanted. I know I’d want the same.

Kythorn 25, 1489 DR

Some good finds recently, though nothing on the scale of what was stolen by the dragon. A nice ring – could be magic, I’ll have to check that out one day. No rush. Some papers, and an interesting ‘poem’ (in the loosest sense of the word!) about some weapon that was being enchanted in the old Forge. I wonder if they managed to recover it before the orcs invaded? Ha! Shame no one knows where the Forge is. Maybe if I keep digging, I’ll find clues as to the whereabouts of that too!

Flamerule 2, 1489 DR

Well I’m glad I decided to hide my finds in my tent! More visitors yesterday! At least not a dragon this time – some ruffians arrived – bandits, by the look of them, threatened my team (who obviously ignored their threats, but I called them off, just to see what the louts wanted). They were after some sort of “seal”. I wonder if they meant that bronze item I found? Anyway, I told them the dragon had stolen all my finds and sent them on their way, threatening to set my zombies on them if they came back again. I’ll increase patrols at night from now on, just in case.

Flamerule 10, 1489 DR

Some more interesting finds – a strange book which seems to refer to some big event centuries ago, that I for one have never heard of! “The Corruption” or “The Cleansing”? If it’s a real event, I’m surprised it isn’t more widely known about. Very interesting. Written in ancient Elvish though, and only bits of the book have survived the rages of time, so I’m finding the text difficult to fully translate. Also, an old dagger. Looks very clean and unused. Will have to investigate further. Will add the book and the dagger to my hidden stash!

Flamerule 15, 1489 DR

Not much more found on this dig. Maybe I should try elsewhere in the area? My team are looking a little ragged. Don’t smell too good either, if I’m honest. At least that dragon hasn’t been back, though.