Book: The Diary of Ernen Kebble
Ernen Kebble appears to have been a pre-disaster wizard or sorcerer who became an oddly prepared mummy. His remains were found in 1412 in a pre-disaster lighthouse which was discovered in the mountains east of ["Wolsnium"] in ["Jorlinum"]. The diary was is in poor condition when found, but described some of Kebble's work into what he called the Von Valden effect, after one of the magical masters he was studying under.
The book is a leather-bound notebook, about 14 inches tall and 8 inches wide. Inside there may have been fifty or sixty pages, but the process by Kebble was embalmed seems to have glued many of the pages together. This yellowish bile extends to all of the paper in the book, but the last few pages are not stuck, and some of the writing can be read. The book also has an odd aroma, whether it is the bile or something used in the ink, or even the paper used in the book is impossible to tell.
The contents of the diary use a calendar which is no longer recognised in the post-Disaster world, this makes it difficult to provide a clear time line to Kebble's work.
Perhaps there are experts who could free up the stuck pages and gain a greater insight into the magic user's work? Here are the contents of the diary that can be deciphered:
... from the dates in Von Valden's notes. We had a hard time decoding the number sequences but Aldric, ever the mathematician, came to our aid again. It turned out (as I'd suspected and I'd told Aldric privately) to be a way that the energy sources could be held open, but the whole thing is theoretical anyway. I think Walter and I need to spend some time in the lab investigating that. Aldric, is going to be busy for the next few days working out some other sequences. The energy calculations do not match what we had for the other channels we'd opened last month, and it's all very confusing. At times I'd have really wish that Master Otmar and I had spent more time looking at this while he was still with us.