Garrett walked to an oddly forsaken corner of the room and kicked a floorboard, uncovering a secret compartment filled with an alarming amount of heartflow, dreamlilly, and blue dragonblood, as well as several syringes and a vaporizer with an alarming number of straps and buckles on the mask.  It was the perfect set of drugs to addict and exploit a sorcerer.  The compartment with the drugs itself had a secret compartment, filled with an intensely poisonous fungus wrapped around a dusty, empty indentation.  The dust around the indentation suggested that the area had once contained a holy symbol of the Blood of Vol; a rather big and heavy one.<br/><br/>Count Omik's journal appeared at first to be the usual mad wizard's journal; lots of oblique references to "her" bringing "her" back, swearing revenge on detractors, the usual thing.  Apparently the count had been experimenting with lichdom to cure a terminal disease his wife was suffering from, and decided to attempt the ritual on his wife first.  The result left her comatose, and her angry spirit plagued him.  Driven to the brink of madness, the count used all of his art to impregnate his wife, then trapped her spirit.  Upon the birth of his daughter, he attempted to force his wife's spirit into the newborn child, but instead produced a particularly dangerous and powerful vampire.  Driven to a particularly exquisite form of madness by all this, Omik raised his daughter as best he could, giving her fresh prisoners of the last war every day to eat.  It was at this time that the count became obsessed with his distant cousin Vladimar Kronen, who had accidentally turned an entire region into a place where nobody could ever die completely by carrying out various blasphemous rituals.<br/><br/>The remainder of the journal chronicles Omik's increasingly grotesque sexual fascination with his own daughter, and his revivification of Karrnath's greatest military heroes to be her servants.  The most notable he revived included Korja Salof, the crusader who fought in a thousand battles before his death, Pana Lords, a humble sergeant who was at Thronehold the day the war started, and Kain Massa ir'Devoran, an eccentric telepath and member of the path of Inspiration.  Apparently the three of them were to work together with Nergassa ir'Omik to open up a large rift to the plane of Mabar, then start shoving large numbers of artificially created corpses into the rift to hasten the plane's upcoming conjunction with Eberron.  At that point, there were nothing but vague references to mass sacrifices, fallen angels, goats, and notes in the Vernis Myteriis.<br/><br/>Behind the genealogy chart was a safe, which Garret already knew the combination of, having surmised it was the birthdate of Count Omik's daughter.  The safe was almost completely cleaned out, but contained a number of object of bondage in a wooden box, and an adamantine key hanging from a mithril chain; almost certainly the key to the self destruct system.