Maintain your quest. Finding a treasure that is lost is not easy. Finding a treasure that is hidden less so. I will leave you with this. Do not let the sands of time confuse your search.|.A what?! This is foolishness. There's no treasure buried here in Tristram. Let me see that!! Ah, Look these drawings are inaccurate. They don't match our town at all. I'd keep my mind on what lies below the cathedral and not what lies below our topsoil.|....I really don't have time to discuss some map you are looking for. I have many sick people that require my help and yours as well.|.....The once proud Iswall is trapped deep beneath the surface of this world. His honor stripped and his visage altered. He is trapped in immortal torment. Charged to conceal the very thing that could free him.|.......I'll bet that Wirt saw you coming and put on an act just so he could laugh at you later when you were running around the town with your nose in the dirt. I'd ignore it.|......There was a time when this town was a frequent stop for travelers from far and wide. Much has changed since then. But hidden caves and buried treasure are common fantasies of any child. Wirt seldom indulges in youthful games. So it may just be his imagination.|.......Listen here. Come close. I don't know if you know what I know, but you've have really got something here. That's a map.|.....My grandmother often tells me stories about the strange forces that inhabit the graveyard outside of the church. And it may well interest you to hear one of them. She said that if you were to leave the proper offering in the cemetary, enter the cathedral to pray for the dead, and then return, the offering would be altered in some strange way. I don't know if this is just the talk of an old sick woman, but anything seems possible these days.|........Hmmm. A vast and mysterious treasure you say. Mmmm. Maybe I could be interested in picking up a few things from you. Or better yet, don't you need some rare and expensive supplies to get you through this ordeal?|........Moo.|...I said, Moo.|...Look I'm just a cow, OK?|.......All right, all right. I'm not really a cow. I don't normally go around like this; but, I was sitting at home minding my own business and all of a sudden these bugs & vines & bulbs & stuff started coming out of the floor... it was horrible! If only I had something normal to wear, it wouldn't be so bad. Hey! Could you go back to my place and get my suit for me? The brown one, not the gray one, that's for evening wear. I'd do it myself, but I don't want anyone seeing me like this. Here, take this, you might need it... to kill those things that have overgrown everything. You can't miss my house, it's just south of the fork in the river... you know... the one with the overgrown vegetable garden.|...All right, I'll cut the bull. I didn't mean to steer you wrong. I was sitting at home, feeling moo-dy, when things got really un-stable; a whole stampede of monsters came out of the floor! I just cowed. I just happened to be wearing this Jersey when I ran out the door, and now I look udderly ridiculous. If only I had something normal to wear, it wouldn't be so bad. Hey! Can you go back to my place and get my suit for me? The brown one, not the gray one, that's for evening wear. I'd do it myself, but I don't want anyone seeing me like this. Here, take this, you might need it... to kill those things that have overgrown everything. You can't miss my house, it's just south of the fork in the river... you know... the one with the overgrown vegetable garden.|..What are you wasting time for? Go get my suit! And hurry! That Holstein over there keeps winking at me! |....Hey, have you got my suit there? Quick, pass it over! These ears itch like you wouldn't believe!|.....No no no no! This is my GRAY suit! It's for evening wear! Formal occasions! I can't wear THIS. What are you, some kind of weirdo? I need the BROWN suit.|.Ahh, that's MUCH better. Whew! At last, some dignity! Are my antlers on straight? Good. Look, thanks a lot for helping me out. Here, take this as a gift; and, you know... a little fashion tip... you could use a little... you could use a new... yknowwhatImean? The whole adventurer motif is just so... retro. Just a word of advice, eh? Ciao.|..Look. I'm a cow. And you, you're monster bait. Get some experience under your belt! We'll talk...|...Me, I'm a self-made cow. Make something of yourself, and... then we'll talk.|..I don't have to explain myself to every tourist that walks by! Don't you have some monsters to kill? Maybe we'll talk later. If you live...|.Quit bugging me. I'm looking for someone really heroic. And you're not it. I can't trust you, you're going to get eaten by monsters any day now... I need someone who's an experienced hero.|........And in the year of the Golden Light, it was so decreed that a great Cathedral be raised. The cornerstone of this holy place was to be carved from the translucent stone Antyrael, named for the Angel who shared his power with the Horadrim. . .In the Year of Drawing Shadows, the ground shook and the Cathedral shattered and fell. As the building of catacombs and castles began and man stood against the ravages of the Sin War, the ruins were scavenged for their stones. And so it was that the cornerstone vanished from the eyes of man. . .The stone was of this world -- and of all worlds -- as the Light is both within all things and beyond all things. Light and unity are the products of this holy foundation, a unity of purpose and a unity of possession.|.Waaaah! (sniff) Waaaah! (sniff)|........I lost Theo! I lost my best friend! We were playing over by the river, and Theo said he wanted to go look at the big green thing. I said we shouldn't, but we snuck over there, and then suddenly this BUG came out! We ran away but Theo fell down and the bug GRABBED him and took him away!|.....Didja find him? You gotta find Theodore, please! He's just little. He can't take care of himself! Please!|..You found him! You found him! Thank you! Oh Theo, did those nasty bugs scare you? Hey! Ugh! There's something stuck to your fur! Ick! Come on, Theo, let's go home! Thanks again, hero person!|........So, you're the hero everyone's been talking about. Perhaps you could help a poor, simple farmer out of a terrible mess? At the edge of my orchard, just south of here, there's a horrible thing swelling out of the ground! I can't get to my crops or my bales of hay, and my poor cows will starve. The witch gave this to me and said that it would blast that thing out of my field. If you could destroy it, I would be forever grateful. I'd do it myself, but someone has to stay here with the cows...|.I knew that it couldn't be as simple as that witch made it sound. It's a sad world when you can't even trust your neighbors.|...It must truly be a fearsome task I've set before you. If there was just some way that I could... would a flagon of some nice, fresh milk help?|.Is it gone? Did you send it back to the dark recesses of Hades that spawned it? You what? Oh, don't tell me you lost it! Those things don't come cheap, you know. You've got to find it, and then blast that horror out of our town.|...I heard the explosion from here! Many thanks to you, kind stranger. What with all these things comin' out of the ground, monsters taking over the church, and so forth, these are trying times. I am but a poor farmer, but here -- take this with my great thanks.|....Oh, such a trouble I have...maybe...No, I couldn't impose on you, what with all the other troubles. Maybe after you've cleansed the church of some of those creatures you could come back... and spare a little time to help a poor farmer?|....Oh, I could use your help, but perhaps after you've saved the catacombs from the desecration of those beasts.|..I need something done, but I couldn't impose on a perfect stranger. Perhaps after you've been here a while I might feel more comfortable asking a favor.|.......I see in you the potential for greatness. Perhaps sometime while you are fulfilling your destiny, you could stop by and do a little favor for me?|.....I think you could probably help me, but perhaps after you've gotten a little more powerful. I wouldn't want to injure the village's only chance to destroy the menace in the church!|...Cloudy and cooler today. Casting the nets of necromancy across the void landed two new subspecies of flying horror; a good day's work. Must remember to order some more bat guano and black candles from Adria; I'm running a bit low.|.......I have tried spells, threats, abjuration and bargaining with this foul creature -- to no avail. My methods of enslaving lesser demons seem to have no effect on this fearsome beast.|..My home is slowly becoming corrupted by the vileness of this unwanted prisoner. The crypts are.full of shadows that move just beyond the corners of my vision. The faint scrabble of claws dances at the edges of my hearing. They are searching, I think, for this journal.|.In its ranting, the creature has let slip its name -- Na-Krul. I have attempted to research the name, but the smaller demons have somehow destroyed my library. Na-Krul... The name fills me with a cold dread. I prefer to think of it only as The Creature rather than ponder its true name.|......The entrapped creature's howls of fury keep me from gaining much needed sleep. It rages against the one who sent it to the Void, and it calls foul curses upon me for trapping it here. Its words fill my heart with terror, and yet I cannot block out its voice.|...My time is quickly running out. I must record the ways to weaken the demon, and then conceal that text, lest his minions find some way to use my knowledge to free their lord. I hope that whoever finds this journal will seek the knowledge.|.......Whoever finds this scroll is charged with stopping the demonic creature that lies within these walls. My time is over. Even now, its hellish minions claw at the frail door behind which I hide. . .I have hobbled the demon with arcane magic and encased it within great walls, but I fear that will not be enough. . .The spells found in my three grimoires will provide you protected entrance to his domain, but only if cast in their proper sequence. The levers at the entryway will remove the barriers and free the demon; touch them not! Use only these spells to gain entry or his power may be too great for you to defeat.|.Ahh, mammal, welcome. Such a... tasty planet you have. My Nest shall spread across this land, and you and your species shall serve as food for our colony. I'm sure our meeting will be quite... delicious. |........Have you been enjoying yourself, little mammal? How pathetic. Your little world will be no challenge at all.|..Come closer, morsel...come find me, the Defiler. I have waited thousands of years...do not try my patience any further. |.......Ah, I can smell you...you are close! Close! Ssss...the scent of blood and fear...how enticing...|.......We have long lain dormant, and the time to awaken has come. After our long sleep, we are filled with great hunger. Soon, now, we shall feed...|.......These lands shall be defiled, and our brood shall overrun the fields that men call home. Our tendrils shall envelop this world, and we will feast on the flesh of its denizens. Man shall become our chattel and sustenance.|.Come closer, morsel! I smell your terror, and I hunger.|...|...In Spiritu Sanctum. |...Praedictum Otium. |.....Efficio Obitus Ut Inimicus. |