9th Lunar Cycle: 2-Day Old Moon
Late today we found it! This place is truly a great spectacle that should be seen by the whole of mankind. We have never seen anything like it. Huge and a wonder to behold, and to think that the whole structure is filled with nothing but scrolls, knowledge, thoughts and ideas, all here in this one place! Levels upon levels filled with shelves stacked high with arcane secrets. A fantastic place to be sure. This place must contain all of the knowledge of man, if not more, the perfect place to find what I seek.
And indeed, I did find it. Once we arrived in the library's great atrium, higher than the heavens themselves, a great spirit greeted us. The spirit introduced himself as Wan Shi Tong, and he was a fearsome sight to behold, giant as glaciers and noble as the sea. Again, I found myself explaining our purpose in detail, leaving out nothing. He was…intrigued, if one can call it that. His eyes gleamed when he heard I was disregarding the commands of the Avatar. He, in fact, did know of a scroll, which may help us in our endeavor. With that he disappeared only to reappear before we had fully realized that he had been gone. He stretched out his great hand, if one can call it that, and laying in, on?, it was an old tattered scroll. As I reached for it, he quickly put it away again in one great sweeping motion. He spake once more saying that the story of one who so openly defies the Avatar is one worth reading, and eyeing the scrolls in the my pack, suggested that a deal should be arranged. He would give me what I sought, but in exchange, once my journal was completed, that I should return here and place it in his care. Though disappointed as the prospects of loosing my diary, I readily agreed. At this he allowed me to take the text, but as he did he reminded that I should be exacting in my record of events, as he did not want to read an incomplete story.
Kazete and I shall spend the night here, in this great bastion of knowledge, and tomorrow setout south so that I may reunite with my Tribesmen before being our great work.
(Editor's note: A note on the cloud scroll mentioned here. This scroll the "Treatise on the Manipulations of Water in its Airborne Gaseous Form," was actually included in the satchel of texts that I received. However, it was in abysmal condition. Most, if not all, of the forms pictured in the scroll are completely indecipherable, and this appears to have been done with intent. The forms are obscured in a verity of ways, some have simply been marked out with a brush, others seem to be smeared with blood, and still others have been seemly slashed to tatters. Considering the fact that it has also been crumpled, creased, stained, and burnt in several places it is truly amazing that the text has remained whole at all. This scroll is in such a terrible state that I have entrusted it to the Archive without the costmary presentation to the Earth King. Though I doubt it can ever be restored, there at least I can assure that it will not come to any further harm. I question why it was even included with the other scrolls at all considering its state and that it is nearly unreadable. Its purpose is indeed an intriguing mystery.)
