Kranon's Ancient Journal (2024)

Kranon's Ancient Journal
Release25 February 2019 (Update)
MembersYes
Quest itemNo
Properties
TradeableNo
EquipableNo
StackableNo
DisassemblyNo
DestroyYou can claim this book back from your bookcase.
ExamineThis is very old, but may provide insight.
Options [?]
BackpackRead, Destroy
Values
Value19 coins
AlchemyNot alchemisable
On deathAlways kept outside dangerous area
Weight0.5kg
Advanced data
Item ID47469
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Kranon's Ancient Journal is a book that details the thoughts of The Ambassador, and can be obtained as a drop from Taraket the Necromancer inside The Shadow Reef.

Contents

  • 1 Drop mechanics
  • 2 Book info
  • 3 Drop sources
  • 4 Transcript
  • 5 Achievements
  • 6 Update history

Drop mechanics[edit | edit source]

The drop rate for this book is higher in story mode with a base rate estimated at 1/10 using the following formula:

  • (10+X)/100 where X is the amount of group and solo kills

This would guarantee the player will receive the book as a drop if running the dungeon in story mode with 90 kills or more recorded outside of story mode.

This rate can be further increased by 10% by wearing a Dungeoneering master cape. It is currently unknown if a perfect juju dungeoneering potion contributes in a similar way, despite having similar effects to the cape's perk.

Despite being a lore drop, odds of receiving the book are unaffected by the Lorehound pet's Lore Helper perk.

Book info[edit | edit source]

Kranon's Ancient Journal
AuthorKranon
ReadableKranon's Ancient Journal (3)
BookcaseKranon's Ancient Journal (4)
DescriptionAn old diary detailling the thoughts of Kranon the Ambassador. Found in the Shadow Reef.

Drop sources[edit | edit source]

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

SourceLevelQuantityRarity
Taraket the Necromancer1,000 1Rare

Transcript[edit | edit source]

The following text is transcluded from Transcript:Kranon's Ancient Journal.

There is a solution.

An answer to our predicament. Kerapac denies it. The council denies it. But it is there. An answer hidden away in the ancient texts. The old religions that we have so sadly forgotten. There is an old story of the great heroes, Sethirak and Vokun, and the Gauntlet of Flame. We all know that story. We were told it as children, back before the curse was laid.

I remember my grandmother. She sat me down and she told me the story. It goes something like this.Sethirak and Vokun had left their village to seek adventure. Along the journey they encountered an old dragonkin who told them that there was a great treasure hidden within the kingdom of Shadow, a stone that would grant them wondrous powers. So the two heroes, ready for adventure, headed into the kingdom. They crossed the normal trials, the haunted forests, the unclimbable mountains, and flew through raging storms, before finally arriving in the kingdom of Shadow. A cold and sinister place, full of strangeness and dark sorceries. They found themselves drawn to an old cathedral, crafted from the stone ages prior by a long dead people. In it they found an old man huddled in front of an altar on which sat a glistening jewel.

'Greetings, old man!' cried out Sethirak, for he was a gregarious sort and greeted each person as a friend in waiting. 'We have come to take the great gemstone, so that we might use its magic to bring wonder to our people.'But the old man said nothing. Instead he drew out his hand in which he held a dull, black pebble covered in dirt.

Sethirak ignored him and took the gemstone from the altar. It glistened and shone like the noonday sun and Sethirak felt himself overcome with joy. He returned to the people and there was much rejoicing.

I've always felt it was an odd tale.

I remember asking 'Grandma, what of Vokun?'and Grandma would just smile and say 'He had a different story.'

I have studied that story for decades now and I can find only one answer to my question.

He took the pebble.That's the real lesson. That's the story that we need to remember. You see, we rejoice at Sethirak because he followed the author's story. He got the stone and he returned to the village to tell them his tales. He became our puppet, our toy, and we told his story. He was ours. But Vokun took the pebble.

Vokun found a way out of our story and into his own. We don't tell his story because it is now indisputably his.

He is free.

The stone. That black pebble. That is the answer, and while the scientists and alchemists look to the future to find a solution, I look to the past. I look to our old religions, to our old stories, and I know the answer is there.

...I am looking for pebbles.The others ignore me. They tell me that I'm a foolish old priest obsessed with old forgotten stories. They tell me that the answer lies in new discoveries. In alchemy and magic. They believe that they can break the chains by pouring molten metal over children. Or by tearing off the limbs of criminals and test subjects.

But there is a truth in the old stories, in the old prayers and wisdom of the old gods.

Let them have their science, as always. I have my faith and faith overcomes all obstacles...

[The writing is illegible for several pages]It was always there, begging for us to discover it. I can't believe how easy it was to put it all together. If you take the old stories, the old parables, you can see the bigger picture, the real story. It's all there, hidden in the stories that are not told.

It is there in the tale of Vokun, who took a pebble and was no longer part of the legend. It is there in the hidden story of Thelthass who stepped into shadows never to be spoken of again. All of the stories, every last one, has a piece of the story left untold. A great network of forgotten and empty takes.

I pieced them all together and there it was. A hidden story. A story of possibilities. The hole in the whole that leads to a bigger truth.When I found them all, I found the words and the symbols I needed to reach out. It's strange, like music that is waiting to be played. But I am not the composer, merely the conductor.

It's truly beautiful.

I shall bring my notes to the other members of the priesthood. With their backing, perhaps the council will finally see reason. We can end this curse and the evils that come with it.

Achievements[edit | edit source]

  • Of Kraken Ink ( 20) – Collect the following lore books from bosses inside the Shadow Reef.

Update history[edit | edit source]

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included – see here for how to help out!

  • update 25 February 2019(Update):
    • Added to game.

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The Shadow Reef

Location within the Eastern Sea
  • Bryll Thoksdottir
Enemies
Bosses
  • Crassian Leviathan
  • Taraket the Necromancer (Bloated monstrosity Corpse carrier Rift of undeath)
  • The Ambassador (Black hand Crassian ritual keeper Sinister fragment Unstable black hole Seiryu the Azure Serpent)
Mini-bosses
  • Black Stone Scuttler
  • Boggoth
  • Bossy McBossFace
  • Cooper
  • Eye of Cythan
  • Hand of Dagnath
  • Hanto
  • Lady Himiko
  • Masuta the Descended
  • Maw of Kolthregar
  • Oreb, the Magister
  • Quetzathog
  • Shrine Maiden Elei
  • Tombi, Khan of Thalassia
  • Ulthven Keith
  • Yor'Ger the Deceiver
Enemies
  • Armoured zombie
  • Bossy McBossFace's First mate
  • Cloaked zealot
  • Crassian scout
  • Crassian scuttler
  • Crassian warrior
  • Death Lotus rogue
  • Enlightened Sotapanna
  • Huge skeleton
  • Kal'gerion demon
  • Sea horror
  • Skeleton Archer
  • Summoned armoured zombie
  • Summoned skeleton
  • Summoned skeleton archer
  • Summoned Zombie
  • Ulthven necromancer
  • Undead Witch
  • Warped skeleton
  • Zombie
Rewards
Reef relics
  • Common
  • Uncommon
  • Rare
Books and pages
Title and feat
  • The Ambassador
  • The Shadow Thief
Eldritch crossbow
  • Eldritch crossbow (Augmented)
  • Eldritch crossbow stock
  • Eldritch crossbow mechanism
  • Eldritch crossbow limb
Other
  • Black stone arrow tips
  • Black stone heart
  • Darting shadow
  • Onyx dust
  • Demonic title scroll (the deceiver) (Title)
  • Swordy McSwordFace
  • Shadowy egg (Squoggoth)
  • Umbral urn (Ambi)
Scenery
  • Anchor
  • Black stone artefact
  • Heroes of the Shadow Reef
  • Portal
Music
  • Abyssopelagic
  • Bathypelagic
  • Beast of the Undercurrents
  • Blackstone Summons
  • Dracopelagic
  • Epipelagic
  • Hadopelagic
  • Hydrothanatic
  • Mesopelagic
Related
  • Council of Seven
  • Ulthven Kreath

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