Iserbius's personal diary

Locations:

 * Ylside Bunker (Iserbius's quarters, Room 20).

Description:
This book tells Iserbius's intimate life, some past events, how he met Lord Long and his obsession with Akbaa in addition to some lore details about the Cult of Akbaa order.

Content:
It is important for me to leave the story of my life in these pages, for if something happens to me, it will help my successor to serve the Order's cause well.

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I have decided to devote my entire life to my beloved Akbaa. From the moment I learned of his existence until I draw my final breath, I will worship him.

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Akbaa has given me what no man could ever dream of.

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I still remember the blessed day I met Lord Long.

It was in the year 240.

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Immediately we met each other's eyes, a powerful affinity between us became apparent. He was like a second father to me, and I am sure that for him, I was the son he never had.

Some time after, when I made my first real entrance to the cult, he made it known to me that I should be his successor.

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When I was still a novice, he told me everything about the cult and about Akbaa himself.

He told me that the ultimate goal of the cult was to invoke Akbaa into our dimension, that he had laid the foundations to make this invocation ritual happen, but that, unfortunately, he would not live to see the day of its completion.

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Thanks to his powerful clairvoyance, he had already seen the hour of his death.*He begged me to continue the preparations needed to fulfill Akbaa's grand design.

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When he died the following year, just as he had predicted, his prophetic words resounded in my mind and, when I had only just been accepted as a full member of the cult, I was made its High Priest. This day marked my greatest grief and my greatest joy. The immeasurable grief of losing my mentor and father, and the unspeakable joy of knowing that our Lord's coming was imminent.

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A long period of research started for me then.

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I became closer and closer to Akbaa; as close as a mere mortal can be to a god. I saw what cannot be seen, heard things that made no sound and felt things that no man could ever hope to feel. Akbaa gave me more and more power, some physical power, of course, but also a great mastery of the magic arts.

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Akbaa is more than a god to me, he is my sun, my air and my nourishment; he is everything to me. Thanks to his supernatural inspiration, I took the reins of his cult with an iron hand.

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I began by purging the cult of members that no longer served a useful purpose. Unsatisfactory results now proved as dangerous to these individuals as their shoddiness was to ourselves.

After this essential task had been complete, I had time to plan every aspect of Akbaa's arrival, right down to the finest detail. It was essential that our Order remain completely covert until it was too late to do anything to stop us.

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This is when I learned that Falan Orbiplanax had guessed my true purpose and had desired to oppose Akbaa's coming with the help of the Noden.

To stop the Noden from getting involved, I made some important decisions: first, I sent an assassin to kill Orbiplanax, who had become too great a danger.

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Second, I brought forward the date of Akbaa's coming. However, we did not have everything in place to invoke him, therefore I ordered that we step up the frequency of sacrificing non-believers by rounding them up in large numbers.

Women and even children would do, I had no time to discriminate...

Further, I stepped up the intensity of our prayers, encouraging more and more members of the cult to give themselves in sacrifice so that Akbaa would finally hear our prayers.

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Day after day, I marvelled at the sum of knowledge and power that Akbaa made available to me. To my amazement, Akbaa promised to give me even more upon his arrival, and that he would leave the destiny of Arx in my hands.

Trivia:

 * This is probably the first book created/added in the game files ever.
 * This is one of the books that mention Lord Long