Apprentice Kasandra's Diary
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Apprentice Kasandra's Diary
- Item type
- Gizmo
- Collection
Conspiracy of Dunces- Rarity
- Basic
- Binding
- Account Bound
- Game link
“Double-click to read.
— In-game description
Acquisition[edit]
  Apprentice Kasandra's Notebook
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Out of the Shadows | 4
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Find the scattered pages in Bloodstone Fen.
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Collected 1 Notebook Pages | 1
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| Collected 7 Notebook Pages | 1
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| Collected 15 Notebook Pages | 2
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Text[edit]
- Apprentice Kasandra's Notebook
1325 EA Entries
- 1325 AE Entries
- 12 Phoenix, 1325 AE
- I have arrived at the bloodstone to begin my apprenticeship under Valis. It's an honor to work on a project so critical to the Order, though I must admit my mentor seems a bit... eccentric.
- Continue reading.
- Genuises are often a little odd, so I go into the project with great enthusiasm and optimism!
Back.
- 16 Phoenix, 1325 AE
- I'd be lying if I said I didn't expect my assignment to be a bit more, let's just say, scientific.
- Continue reading.
- Instead of assisting on actual research, I've been given menial tasks like serving tea, delivering mail, and helping prepare lunch for the garrison.
- Continue reading.
- I'm starting to think I'll need to come in after hours if I want to accomplish any research of my own and get that "real-world work experience" I was promised.
- Back.
- 26 Phoenix, 1325 AE
- If I'm asked to carry another dusty tome to those bickering poseurs, I swear to the Unseen Ones, I will burn the garrison down!
- Continue reading.
- While they argue over whether the false gods, the Seers, or King Adelbern's great-granduncle's cat forged the stone, I've been coming in at night to do my own research.
- Continue reading.
- Of course they won't listen to me even if I do make a discovery, so I've begun mixing my notes in with the notes of the research team.
- Continue reading.
- I have no doubt they won't hesitate to take credit for someone else's discoveries. Insufferable hacks!
- Back.
- 42 Phoenix, 1325 AE
- As anticipated, that brownnoser Phill was quick to take credit for my discovery regarding the spirits that are attracted to it, who can't seem to leave it behind and pass on.
- Continue reading.
- Hard to imagine that anyone killed on the bloodstone could still be nearby, tethered for eternity to the bloodstone's magic. The Chosen must've returned when they were freed at the Door of Komalie.
- Continue reading.
- What confusion or purpose would compel them to return to the place of their sacrifice? What binds them here? Bloodstone must be as much a drug for them as it is for the living.
- Continue reading.
- Their energy adds to the vortex of magic surrounding the bloodstone. Their deaths are a necessary sacrifice for the glory of the Unseen Ones, but a shame nevertheless.
- Back.
- 2 Scion, 1325 AE
- I fear there could be a catastrophic event if Valis continues with his plan to break through the shell of the bloodstone.
- Continue reading.
- Everything I've read about the bloodstone suggests that it holds an unimaginable amount of magic.
- Continue reading.
- Up to now, it has held strong... for millennia even. But if the shell is broken?
- Continue reading.
- Let's just hope the entire continent isn't blown up the second we crack the shell.
- Back.
- 7 Scion, 1325 AE
- Justiciar Bauer executed another research-team leader today for "displaying a lack of progress."
- Continue reading.
- He even had him killed atop the bloodstone since there was "no sense in wasting the power of a perfectly good soul." This is blasphemy!
- Continue reading.
- No faithful servant of the Unseen Ones deserves to be leashed to a stone for eternity just because they have unreachable goals and an unrealistic schedule!
- Back.
- 63 Scion, 1325 AE
- Well, we didn't blow up Tyria, but as I feared, the bloodstone is no longer able to contain its power.
- Continue reading.
- Bloodstone crystals have sprouted outside the core stone, and you can feel the magic seeping from the hole those idiots carved into the stone's shell.
- Continue reading.
- The fool Valis thinks this is valuable since it makes harvesting the shards easier, but I think he is toying with a power he neither understands nor respects.
- Back.
- Back.
- 1326 AE to 1327 AE Entries
- 1326 AE to 1327 AE Entries
- 27 Phoenix, 1326 AE
- I couldn't keep my concerns about the leaking bloodstone magic to myself any longer, so I revealed to Valis that I had been working after hours.
- Continue reading.
- This nearly cost me my head, but when I proved to Valis that Phill's self-claimed discoveries were actually mine, it cost Phill his head instead.
- Continue reading.
- As a result, I've been permitted to join the research team proper. You can get your own tea now, you hacks!
- Continue reading.
- Despite this good news, my warnings continue to fall on deaf ears.
- Back.
- 65 Scion, 1326 AE
- This is too much! Some slave came in and fell upon a shard. He bled all over my workstation!
- Continue reading.
- If that weren't bad enough, the wound reacted oddly to the shard, and this has led Valis down a dark path.
- Continue reading.
- He hopes to embed bloodstone shards in human test subjects to power them from within.
- Continue reading.
- This is both unethical and exceptionally dangerous! I can't believe the higher-ups are permitting this!
- Back.
- 52 Phoenix, 1327 AE
- I hate to admit it, but Savant Valis seems to have finally gotten something right.
- Continue reading.
- The artifacts we liberated from the Durmand Priory were, in fact, the key required to draw the magic back out of the bloodstone shards.
- Continue reading.
- The Seers must have anticipated our need to tap the magic within the bloodstone, and this device may be what they used to do so.
- Continue reading.
- I had hoped this would abort Valis's plan with Matthias, but it seems to have instead accelerated the timetable of that disgusting experiment.
- Continue reading.
- May the Unseen Ones at least give him a quick release should the process warp his mind as I anticipate.
- Back.
- 12 Colossus, 1327 AE
- I've performed more calculations on the bloodstone.
- Continue reading.
- The crack where the fools drilled continues to expand at a rate of a quarter of a meter per day, despite the halting of further violation of the core stone itself.
- Continue reading.
- At this rate, the crack will encircle the entire bloodstone in a matter of months.
- Continue reading.
- I anticipate that, at that time, the stone will cease to be strong enough to contain it's magic, and it will rupture.
- Continue reading.
- I have calculated numerous projections on the fallout of catastrophic failure of the bloodstone, and needless to say, they are all bad.
- Back.
- Back.
- 1328 AE to 1329 AE Entries
- 1328 AE to 1329 AE Entries
- 83 Zephyr, 1328 AE
- Mordremoth's death has greatly accelerated the growth of the crack in the bloodstone. It's no longer a matter of months until it ruptures, but a matter of days.
- Continue reading.
- Every simulation I have run indicates that catastophic failure of the stone will create a blast large enough to engulf Kryta in magical fallout.
- Continue reading.
- What good are jade constructs and bloodstone-empowered freaks of nature if the homeland we plan to reclaim with them is a wasteland?
- Continue reading.
- Despite my impeccable calculations and tireless research, Valis refuses to look at my report! We're running out of time and options!
- Back.
- 73 Phoenix, 1328 AE
- Every slave we've attempted to embed with bloodstone shards has seen only a moderate power increase, and the ensuing madness that overtook them forced us to put them down.
- Continue reading.
- Despite this, Matthias has agreed to undergo the procedure once a harvesting process is discovered.
- Continue reading.
- The others are hailing him as some sort of grand martyr, but to me he is simply another fool craving power he doesn't fully comprehend.
- Back.
- 13 Zephyr, 1329 AE
- I was delivering mail today, and a letter addressed to Justiciar Bauer may have "accidentally" opened on its own.
- Continue reading.
- It spoke about a mining operation nearby that leads directly under the bloodstone, and about some sort of ritual they plan to perform.
- Continue reading.
- The letter was vague, so I don't know what they are planning, but with the bloodstone barely held together, I can only assume whatever it is may be the straw that breaks the dolyak's back.
- Continue reading.
- Valis has given me no other option, and I am forced to go to Justiciar Bauer directly. I only hope he is more reasonable than "Grand Savant Valis the Learned."
- Back.
Close the book.
Notes[edit]
- If you don't want to read it, the item can safely be destroyed after acquiring it.
