Hrimr, the pendant does not register as magical, nor does anything else in the room.
Kirio, the book is written in Elven. It appears to be a log book and journal written by a cleric who manned the tower and who had taken the name Bhurisrava (you know that this is not an Elven word or name). The book covers Bhurisrava's last few weeks in the tower, mixed with musings on the nature of faith. It appears that the priest underwent a conflict of faith as he faced death, and that he wished to convert to a healing religion before he died, but did not know how. He also recounts the tales of many refugees who spoke of fires that simply would not go out. The elves of Innenotdar tried to save their home, but not even magic could put out the flames.
Of particular interest to the group is his final passage, which reads:
"I tire of spending my days rescuing the burning bodies of survivors and tending to them to no effect. The last survivor I found was a woman who still believed that the Living Wood of Innenotdar could not be abandoned. She asked my help looking for her boyfriend. We found him in a hidden basement under the Shrine of Anyariel, where he had gone to curse the Anyariel name, along with a dozen other of the townsfolk. The fire had somehow burned in from the roots of the shrine, and they had long since been claimed. Though not dead, they are despairing, and their curses haunt me. The woman saw her beloved and fled me into the woods, seeking an impossible death.
I found myself hoping something ate her. I never learned her name.
I can do this no longer. To whatever god hears the prayers of the doubting, please give me the strength for the task ahead of me. I am going to deliver the despairing to the mouth of the White River upstream, where at least
they can have some reprieve from the fire. May someone find what I have hidden. It would help bring to justice Shahalesti for the destruction of my beautiful homeland, for which otherwise none shall shed tears."
