Dear Diary,

This is probably my last entry. I know I say that kind of regularly, but we're descending into a cursed ruin that is turning everything in the area into monsters. I'm not really optimistic about this one.

I'm strangely comforted by the presence of a new... ally? Hellsteve Woereaper is coming along with us and it's sort of comforting. It's like having most of my family along with me. He's angsty like Axle, shows off like dad, and sets me on fire like Tia. I haven't been set on fire like that in years.

I fought a duel with him. He beat me. No surprise there. Dude nearly killed me, though. Maybe I should be more careful in the future. Well, if that future includes being alive to fight duels, which it probably won't. 

Mauritius, possibly the last Scion of the Panther's Claw, Earl of the increasingly cursed Wending