The writing is very faded, torn, and parts of the book are missing. The pages that you can read seem to jump from topic to topic. This seemed to be a journal from someone working on creating magical artifacts, spells, rituals, and a whole lot more. 

....My work on the shard of Alara is nearing completion. The backlog from before we landed here should also be recorded from what I remember. If the shard were to ever leave Northrend though, its internal, immediate stores can be easily corrupted by creatures of louder thought, or by anyone who tinkers with it. Thankfully, I have found a way to store all of our knowledge into the mana codex. The liquid mana that flow throughout here serve as living backup banks, for if writing and oral tradition were to fade, or us to die...

...The mana codex has been a blessing to us all, giving us everflowing source of magic, and being a bank of information as well. The free flowing mana will lead us to glory...

...The shard of Alara will be kept here in my lab for safe keeping, lest it be the envy of prying eyes. Once obtained from the chest, dropping it into the main basin should show what important memories are set in priority...

...This place...this continent... is bursting at the seams with magic. The Shadowmoon clan right now is hard at work extracting what they can from these ley lines, and the mana that is being pulled can give a mere mortal the power of the infinite...

...The study of this fog wall perplexes me. Time seems to move differently in and out of it. Inside here, tens of thousands of years have passed already, but from the spirits say, they have only seen this place here for a few decades. Out scouts that try to sail out almost never make it back. The ones that do, report the fog wall acting as a tempest, destroying anything that dare come to it. Something is keeping this place closed off, and for a good reason....

...With the volatile state that the land is in, this place is still in its formative stages. From the Quantum readings in the Arcane lenses, the matter is being held to this spot in spacetime by unnaturally occurring chronotons. If I can make some advancements in superposition stabilization of a tesseract, or some advancements in the observation of Isoparticledynamics, I can pinpoint the axiom of their origin, given Ephemeral reading. But, I have not time for such side quests....

...My rituals to it is almost complete. Soon, the power from the far realm shall be mine...