I'm guessing that these bookshelves are stocked by a random loot list and that the journal just happens to be on it.

 

Regardless, the tome is definitely out of place here

 

Attempts to attach screenshot keep failing and I only try 3 times before I give up. It'll be around if you need it.

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I've found three of those journals meanwhile. One in the tower of Dyrford Village. Two more in the dungeon. There should only be one!

Edited April 14, 201510 yr by Merina

Yeah, I found three of those in the Skaen dungeon and one somewhere else entirely (can't remember where).

I brought this up during the beta but it was confirmed by a dev that it is actually a book that is, well, a real book from the Skaenites that they distribute. So it's not a personal item so to speak.

Ah, good to know. 

A real book? ... Hard to believe.

 

According to its contents, it is a small, personal diary written by someone called Jonas, left behind by him before sacrifying himself. It reads like a private letter from Jonas for his son ... or his family ... but it also reads much like Jonas didn't have any way to send it to his son other than leaving it behind.

 

If that is not true, the developers should give some background somewhere ... a villager could talk about that journal or offer one to the party.

Well, aside from the titles, all "books" in the game contain just a few short passages of text and could be considered merely letters or short treatises.

I was assuming that it's indeed a personal diary at first, too, but when I found several of them I suspected that it's more like a religious text/piece of propaganda.

Edited April 14, 201510 yr by El Zoido

@ Merina; Heard about a girl called Anne Frank?

Don't be silly...

 

In a role-playing game ... I need a better description of what I hold in my hands. It's an item with a graphical representation that is the same as "Wymunds Notebook" found in the same temple. Keep it? Show it a person later? Read in it later to complete the missing details of a puzzle?

 

Is it the original diary? Or a transcript? ... Probably impossible to tell, because my heroes don't know, ... if there's no info on who is the publisher. Unlike Anne Frank's diary, which in its sold form is easy to tell apart from the original.

 

Is it a complete book or just an excerpt? ... The description should tell me. It does that for other books ... up to the detail of mentioning whether the single section is considered the only important one of many pages. An example is Wymund's notebook. There are other examples in the game.