The journal of Cogra Lisle
One of the most inconspicuous items in the Treskkant Museum of Marsh Findings, is the journal of Cogra Lisle. As is, it is merely someone's travel journal, and very little is known about Cogra Lisle. All that is certain, is that she was a halfling, and that she perished in the Maashen marshlands. Even the cause of her death is unknown. However, it is the contents of the journal that make it special, and all the more mysterious.
The journal was discovered 159 AFF. Exploration of the west of the Corundes mountain range proceeded with difficulty. Scouts regularly went missing, often for months on end. Wall builders and their guards were regularly accosted with strange storms and aggressive abberrations. The Everlight guild, the Keepers, and the Owlketeers banded together in an attempt to investigate these strange phenomena, hopefully discover the cause, and possibly rescue any missing people. One of the few things this expedition uncovered was a campsite with one corpse, that of Cogra Lisle. She was found with no clear signs as to the cause of her death, but she was clutching her journal.
In the latest entries of her journal, she described a transcendent experience, having uncovered something that would forever change her life. However, she neglected (or refused) to describe in full detail what she encountered. All that was left in the end of the journal was a map, showing a route towards the glacier in the northwest. It is speculated that she met an entity, or a small group of entities, which could bestow gifts of magic in exchange for services. Although the clues she wrote down were scarce, these entities didn't match in description to anything well-known, like fey or fiends. A specialized team of Owlketeers set out to investigate this glacier. Some did not return, but those that did claimed there was nothing there but ice.
For many centuries, the journal was left in an Owlketeer archive centre, deemed the ravings of a delirious woman close to her death. However, fifty years ago, when jungle reclamation efforts reached the part of the mountain range that housed the glacier mentioned in Cogra's journal, explorers were baffled to find that it had vanished. Almost the entire glacier was gone, leaving not a lake of meltwater, but a nearly empty valley. At the ground level, all that remained were structures of a strange stone material, pre-dating the Fey Fall, that seemed to have been foundations or slots of something that had disappeared together with the glacier.
Many thrill-seekers now visit the valley of the glacier, and because of popular demand, the Owlketeers have donated the journal to the TMMF. There it is on display for all to see, in an exhibit that also shows excerpts of the final pages, and an enlarged version of Cogra Lisle's map, including notes of the few investigators that followed in her footsteps, and are all shrouded in a mystery of their own.
The journal was discovered 159 AFF. Exploration of the west of the Corundes mountain range proceeded with difficulty. Scouts regularly went missing, often for months on end. Wall builders and their guards were regularly accosted with strange storms and aggressive abberrations. The Everlight guild, the Keepers, and the Owlketeers banded together in an attempt to investigate these strange phenomena, hopefully discover the cause, and possibly rescue any missing people. One of the few things this expedition uncovered was a campsite with one corpse, that of Cogra Lisle. She was found with no clear signs as to the cause of her death, but she was clutching her journal.
In the latest entries of her journal, she described a transcendent experience, having uncovered something that would forever change her life. However, she neglected (or refused) to describe in full detail what she encountered. All that was left in the end of the journal was a map, showing a route towards the glacier in the northwest. It is speculated that she met an entity, or a small group of entities, which could bestow gifts of magic in exchange for services. Although the clues she wrote down were scarce, these entities didn't match in description to anything well-known, like fey or fiends. A specialized team of Owlketeers set out to investigate this glacier. Some did not return, but those that did claimed there was nothing there but ice.
For many centuries, the journal was left in an Owlketeer archive centre, deemed the ravings of a delirious woman close to her death. However, fifty years ago, when jungle reclamation efforts reached the part of the mountain range that housed the glacier mentioned in Cogra's journal, explorers were baffled to find that it had vanished. Almost the entire glacier was gone, leaving not a lake of meltwater, but a nearly empty valley. At the ground level, all that remained were structures of a strange stone material, pre-dating the Fey Fall, that seemed to have been foundations or slots of something that had disappeared together with the glacier.
Many thrill-seekers now visit the valley of the glacier, and because of popular demand, the Owlketeers have donated the journal to the TMMF. There it is on display for all to see, in an exhibit that also shows excerpts of the final pages, and an enlarged version of Cogra Lisle's map, including notes of the few investigators that followed in her footsteps, and are all shrouded in a mystery of their own.