Gravekeeper's Journal

Gravekeeper's Journal is a diary kept by Valmorba.

This book is redolent with the enticing smell of paper and ink.

Properties

•  Books
• Author: Valmorba
• Rarity: Common
•  Weight: 0.5 kg / 1 lb
• Price: 14 gp
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  UID

  BOOK_LOW_Graveyard_ValmorbasJournal
  UUID

  800c7bb7-a3ed-4d23-a14a-800199a2d06a

Where to find

• Found high up on a shelf on the second floor of the Mortuary in the Lower City.

Text

[A diary written in a beautiful, archaic script. Drawings of flowers detail every page.]

Today was difficult - but then again, what day hasn't been lately?

It was a child this time. She was young, and beautiful - her face peaceful despite the brutality of her death. Her parents had only coppers, but I waived my fee. I know I shouldn't - my savings are perilously low these days. But considering how she must have suffered, it was the least I could do for her family.

I asked her parents if she had any favourite scents. They told me she loved the sea - a 'water baby', they called her. I prepared the body with weavemoss, styling her hair with chuttler's oil.

They cried when they saw her, hugging me. Thanking me.

I've never felt a deep connection to the gods - that is the Mortarch's purview, not mine. But moments like today give me purpose. As a gravekeeper, I provide comfort in grief. Beauty in death. Peace in sorrow.

I only wish I did not have to do it so often.