How could I have been so stupid? So caught up in this whole nightmare that I forgot my work as an Arkhon! My “supposed” lack of progress on the Map Device has given the High Templar cause for suspicion. At noon, as I neared the completion of my work, he and his guards interrupted my tinkering with a furious rage! Tossing my machine to the ground, he destroyed much of my research, demanding to know why I no longer focused on the task given to me. Clapped in irons I was led off to the Theopolis prisons for my insubordination. I write this now, due only to the kindness of a friend in the Templar guard, he knows of my partiality to journaling and so as soon as he heard of my capture, managed to sneak in a diary for me scribble upon. I don’t know what Venarius plans to do with me. I’ve heard whispers of public shaming and lashes, but none of that is certain. What is certain, is that the Elder is coming for us. It’s coming for us all. No matter whether you are High Templar or the lowest of the Karui slaves, the Elder knocks at the threshold. Bringing Decay… I must find my way from these chains at all costs. Only I can save us from this blasphemy that has fallen upon Oriath…