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The diary is ordinary, even boring, for more than the first three quarters. That space covers more than thirty years, something you could not glean were not seven Holy days marked for each year. Most of the entries in this time record births, deaths, and marriages, but there are a few notes that mention names you've heard before.

Some twenty-two years ago, the Bugomaster Kolyan Indirovich found a child, maybe two years of age, crying on the edge of Svalich Woods. He took her in and raised her as his own, giving her the name Ireena.

Ten years before that, a girl from the village, named Amalie, was pursued by Count Strahd. She spurned him and became engaged to a boy from the village, but on their wedding night the boy was found dead—his throat torn out by wolves—and she disappeared. Some months later her corpse was found on the grounds of Castle Ravenloft, her back broken and her skull smashed from a fall from the parapet.

From this point the priest mentions Strahd often nearly every year, frequently expressing the desire to overthrow the "monster." A few years ago he apparently learned of a book—which he calls the tome of Strahd—containing notes written by the count over a period of generations. Hoping it might contain information about his weaknesses, the priest sought it out, and traced it to the library at the castle. He crept into the library but couldn't find the Tome before being forced to flee. He later sought the advice of a Madam Eva, but was frustrated by her vague prophesy.

The tenor of the diary changes abruptly one year ago. At this point he records the death of Doru, his son. After this he wrote daily, and daily his handwriting—and his sanity—quickly erode. He begins by grossly misspelling simple words, and then trailing off mid sentence or mid word. He replaces words with scribblings, and occasionally a single word will fill an entire page.

In a rare moment of lucidity, he describes finding in the library of Castle Ravenloft the Liber Blastheme, a book of unholy rites. Among others, one rite offers the chance to return a fallen loved one to life. The priest spent months acquiring the required unguents and ritual instruments. Some he acquired from traders, while others he created himself, melting down holy statues and symbols to provide the raw materials.

He performed the ritual at midnight a week before the fall equinox, and it functioned as expected, but appears to have weakened the priest's sanity further. He describes visions of demons—in particular, a gaunt one smelling of blood and gravedirt—and of spirits of the land alternately causing and blessing him and his son, and of dead rising from their graves and performing perverse sexual acts with each other and him. (Since the corpses you've seen have only been interested in killing and eating flesh, you feel fairly certain these visions were in fact merely visions.)

The last entry describes the appearance of a demon who approached him during his nightly prayers in the chapel. It pronounced a doom on him before he was able to flee, and once it left he snuck out tof the church to seek help from the burgomaster and his daughter to protect the church from the demon.