The journal has many entries, some of them go like this:
 
Year 130
Month of Futility
Day 30
 
Ah, the flame grew ever brighter today, consuming me as it always has 
before, in desire for it.  How I yearn to become one with its blazing 
purity, to leave behind this shell and be free!  Perhaps one day I shall 
be blessed so.
 
[The entries continue like this, the only change occurs on "day.12":]


Year 136
Month of the Great Struggle
Day 12
 
Today some foul fiend tried to extinguish me while I was tending the 
flame.  He attacked me with some evil weapon, but I quickly vanquished 
the villain.  I placed the wicked weapon inside a protected vault in the 
weapon's room, but while I did so a bunch of the scoundrals came and 
stole my own sword from me!  I would avenge myself of this, but that 
would mean leaving the flame. . .