Otomne Bosch

We have been on this journey with the Tortle and human nomads for about 3 days now. I have taken to learning more about the people and helping with their daily responsibilities, as well as offering some fighting lessons for the curious kiddos. Gargax has been trying to impart leadership skills upon the people while Misht has shown quite an interest in the lives of the people we're traveling with. We're taking them towards the dry lands of Gusharia, which may be a welcome contrast to the sticky and buggy Sagemarsh.
 
This evening, we received some shocking news from Misht. He asked for the ghost ship's manifest, which I can't seem to be rid of, and points to the mysterious name that is scribbled above my own. Otomne Bosch. This is Misht's true name.
 
But it wasn't just this that shocked me, it was how open he was. He told us about the life he left behind, the home he ruined, the sister he abandoned. His book, the one he's obsessed with, it found him, it consumed him; and most unsettling to me, it talks BACK to him. He claims that this book is a connection between him and his "friend". A warlock's benefactor, if you will, that provides him with his incredible power. Gargax stopped listening after "I left behind my sister". He called Misht crazy (which isn't a hard deduction) and became angry and disappointed in Misht for leaving behind his family.

Our clan has always meant everything to us; family means everything to us, so it was difficult to describe to Gargax that not everything is as black and white as he believes it to be. Misht and his past are not things for us to judge off of the little he has told us. I ask Gargax to leave so I might talk more with Misht. Now I know Misht's lies, that he never even meant to become a Master in the first place. What he had been leading us towards was collecting a series of books, similar to his own. When he asked me to write in his book, I was almost panicked. And then as I wrote in that book, I grew angry.
 
What are you
"A Source"
"I require the others"
Who are you
"I cannot remember"
Morals
It gave me a very detailed definition of the word "Moral"
Do you have morals
"I am unsure"
Why do you need the other books
"I will remember"
What do you remember
"Only the power given to me"
 
I don't even know where to begin. One book, a source of immense power, requiring two more of the same, is only a recipe for disaster. A book has no morals, magical power has no morals, they had to have been split up for a reason! And in the hands of Misht, who knows what will happen. I tell him that if this journey becomes a danger to us, or even to the world, that I will stop him. He tries to make me believe that he understands, but now it is easy for me to catch his lies. I can see his blind devotion to this thing, I even saw his surprise when I asked such common sense questions, as if he had never thought of prying the book for such information. He knows nothing of this book, and yet he maintains that it has given him purpose and will lead him down the right path. After consuming him and causing him to destroy his life back home, he insists that the book will also fix all that he had done.
 
Despite my anger, who am I to tell Misht of what to do with his book? He'll never consider us over his book, but it means something that he is telling us his truth and trying to help us understand. It's becoming difficult for me in this current state, to have little trust in the judgement of both of my companions. All I have are questions now. I our goal to go to Shidon and find a book truly so that we may add to Misht's unpredictable collection of magic tomes? Then how to we become involved with the Masters? Why and how do we end up recruiting Trevor?
 
Misht assures me and Gargax that he would never willingly lead us towards danger; he trusts his life and ours with the book. And that's all we can hope for now, I suppose. Blind faith.