At this point, I am now able to exert a noticeable level of control over the emotions I receive from the people. Really all I can do so far is mildly increase or decrease the intensity, but I get the feeling that soon I will be able to manipulate the type of emotions I receive. Although I'm not yet sure how exactly all of that will work.

We got word from Par again today, he's met a rather large army of enemy forces in battle. He's pretty sure that they are mercenaries as they are quite a bit different from everyone else that they have fought, though the specifics of how their organization was different wasn't really interesting.

What is interesting is that these guys are really good at their job, which is a bit of a mixed bag as it means that we will take heavy losses from this while it is likely costing our enemy a lot of money. I'm not sure how much money they have available, but it can't possibly be more than us.

I have no doubts that Par will pull through on this battle, I just hope that the troops survive. They are still pretty green going up against veterans. Every dead soldier of our is an edge the enemy gains on us.

In other news, I came across a large, inhabited, island in the ocean. According to the scholars the island had never been recorded on any maps before. Due to some natural formations on the island, it shapes the ambient mana into a very crude invisibility spell, making it appear as just another patch of the sea when viewed from afar or from above, or at least that's what I was told. The really interesting part of this is the fact that these creatures that live here have never been exposed to anything beyond it. They have developed their own culture and society in complete isolation from the rest of the world. They have their own customs, their own history, their own language. An entire language! I wasn't even aware that there were any languages besides the one I'm writing in now. Luckily thoughts are able to bypass language so communication wasn't too difficult, but this find is huge if only because of how much sway it will give me over the scholars. many of them would kill to study a place like this, and me and my people are the only ones capable of getting there reliably.

I ended up spending all day just exploring the island. There were many species of previously unknown plants, though most of them were mundane. I did find something very similar to White Foot there, definitely a different plant but it functions in much the same way. I wonder how they have developed things like healing, necromancy, plant manipulation, and alchemy, if at all. Their population isn't very big, relatively speaking, but it is still enough to fill a small city.

I wish I could read their language, they have so many scrolls filled with what I'm assuming are words. Their characters look nothing like our own, a lot more fluid and wavy. I'm looking forward to learning more about these people in the near future.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.