Withered Diary

The Withered Diary is a lore scrap, located north-east at the bottom of the Bleakfields Valley ridge heading into the Lake of Lost Souls.

Location

Withered Diary

Journal

The following text is transcribed from the Journal.

I am still here. I am still here.

I am still me. I am still me.

I am withering and I cannot hold it back.

It begins with silence behind the eyes, as if there's nothing there but the most basic of needs – the need to feed. More and more of us, ever since Imaru's defeat and death at Kuldra's claws, feels part of ourselves slipping away. I am dragged outside my being, I am drawn beyond my skull, my skin, myself.

And the world changes the more I am pulled away.

I see things that were not there before. Flickers, out of the corner of my eye. Doors that were not doors before. I see a great river undulating and flowing but rising and flooding as though something is blocked within it and forcing it to overflow.

But the worst is that feeling, of eyes upon me. As if something is not just watching me but focused on me. A predator waiting to strike.

I've seen what happens to those consumed by it. They walk still, but there is no life there, only hunger. A need to grab, claw and rend the living, desperate for a piece of the soul that seems lost.

In my bones I feel a tug, a current, drawing the part of me that's… me… away.

I don't want to become one of those monsters.

I am still here. I am still here.

I am still me. I am still me.