Worn Note in Strange Language

The writing on this page is written in a kind of code or some kind of language you've never seen before. It is lines of odd shapes and dashes strung together line after line. Whoever wrote it seems skilled in its writing, with no hesitation or distortions in the peculiar, sharp-edged symbols that fill the page.
Deciphering the language requires several referenced texts to cobble together enough material to translate the words. The books seem to postulate the language is some ancient form of Gnomish, though it's possible it predates even them.
The experiments show promise--limited. The flesh-machines (dwarves? terms are ambiguous...) have no understanding of their own biological processes--(unknown symbols. A curse, maybe?). No knowledge to be drawn from there. Alternate paths must be taken.

Negotiations with goblins progressing--success. They are of one mind which eases the task. Single failure point--they refuse to present me with Safeguard (this symbol has noted emphasis. A proper name? An object of significance?). Failure to recovery--Safeguard might have greater insight than they, which might have proven problematic for negotiations.

I draw closer. Fragments from dreams form a greater picture (Map?). I must push deeper into complex--persistance. The arch gave me the (ambiguous symbol. Words? Understanding? Numbers?) that I use here. There has to be more. The monks found their (revelation? annihilation? Truth?) I will succeed where they failed.

I am close. Close enough I that I can (Taste? Embody? Inhabit? Connotations seem to be lewd...)