The Author

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== Journal Entries ==
The Author's journal, a plain leather bound book with mostly blank pages have been discovered throughout the Dungeon. This book is one of a few items to not disappear as time has passed during the dungeon. The first time it was discovered, it has had only one entry. The second time it was discovered, the first page was torn and the first remaining page had an entry.
* 1st Entry: I've arrived. Fleeing a broken and oppressive homeland with the dream of peace and the promise of a fresh start, I find myself on new soil. A beautiful new land. But one shouldn't admire a book by its cover; I fear I've given up one dystopia for another. This land is ruled by a great dragon who controls a nation, commands its armies for conquest, and enslaves its people with fear, demanding what little they have or forfeit their lives. What is a world to do against a threat that holds domain over the skies and land. Not even a great nation that they march upon can stand against this beast. When all the steel and magic in the world won't slay the dragon that rules a continent, what weapon can we use to fight?
* 2nd Entry: Stories let us imagine the possibilities. To see impossible events and worlds even. How many stories have we written my dear diary? How many years of my life have we used to perfect our craft, to wield mastery of imagination aided in magic? And yet, with our skill and magic, we cannot conceive a scenario where the nations of Arcadia come together to defeat the great red dragon. Forged alliances, marshalled armies, conclaves of clerics and wizards. We've tried it all; on your pages played out every possible permutation, every scenario we can conceive! And still her grip on the world crushes it all in its infancy. Scoria's done well to break the world such that it may not be repaired and wielded against her. We will find neither inspiration nor solution in the nations of this continent. Let us consider instead heroic actors of fiction and how they might tackle the impossible. Suffer them through different and new adversity, see the kind of people, strength, and skills it takes to overcome insurmountable odds. I beckon you, my insightful tome, take these stories, these settings, these characters. Perhaps we will find what we need in stories.