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Bhurisrava

A name from the celestial word meaning "defeated in no battles" seemingly belonging to an elf from the Innenotdar Fire Forest. A journal was found in the bridge tower within the forest which described his musings and conflict of faith as he faced death during the first days of the forest's burning. It appears the priest wished to convert to a healing faith before he died, but did not know how to do so. The party found his body in a shrine beneath a statue of Anyariel in the elven village within Innenotdar, his face slashed.   The final passage from his journal reads:  
I tire of spending my days rescuing the burning bodies of survivors and tending to them to no effect. The last survivor I found was a woman who still believed that the Living Wood of Innenotdar could not be abandoned. She asked for my help looking for her boyfriend. We found him in a hidden basement under the Shrine of Anyariel, where he had gone to curse the Anyariel name, along with a dozen others of the townsfolk. The fire had somehow burned in from the roots of the shrine, and they had long since been claimed. Though not dead, they are despairing, and their curses haunt me. The woman saw her beloved and fled me into the woods, seeking an impossible death.   I found myself hoping something ate her. I never learned her name.   I can do this no longer. To whatever god hears the prayers of the doubting, please give me the strength for the task ahead of me. I am going to deliver the despairing to the mouth of the White River upstream, where at least they can have some reprieve from the fire. May someone find what I have hidden. It would help bring to justice those responsible for the destruction of my beautiful homeland, for which otherwise none shall shed tears.
  The party believed the item Bhurisrava referenced was a lock of Anyariel's hair. They also believed Gwenvere killed him to retrieve this lock.   Bhurisrava tasked the unicorn Nelle to protect and care for the 19 elves that continued to burn in the forest.   Bhurisrava also wrote notes on the "dream seeds" found by the party. He explained that they were taken from the corpses of goblins who helped set the fires. According to a speak with dead ritual, the seeds are supposed to create prophetic visions of a "dream realm", but Bhurisrava felt no effect when he tried one and he risked not take another. The goblins had been natives to the caves under the forest and were hired by an orc who claimed to be Ragesian. He could find no better information about them.
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