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This journal gives clues to the whereabouts of the fighting artifact, Underlight. It is found in a hidden cave related to a fishing world quest

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Heyman's Journal - Transcript

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<The majority of the prior pages are illegible as are many of the subsequent ones. Not due to age or damage, just really awful handwriting. What can be made out reads as follows.>

...having made it safely off the Isle of Thunder, I requistioned a new boat and a new crew and set sail again. While my benefactor seems to have an inexhaustible amount of wealth to fund this expedition, I often find myself running low on patience. Perhaps our new destination will merit some clue as to where this " Underlight " relic exists.

Day 492:

I've followed all the clues, I've read all the texts and I believe I've finally found its resting place. I bet that old sea witch never thought to look so close to the Tomb. Nevertheless, there's an island on the horizon that we're quickly approaching, and some larger mass of land beyond it. We shall weigh anchor fairly soon and then get set to start exploring.

Day 493:

Typical. Just typical. We approached the island and we were immediately attacked by what I can only describe as the largest Light-forsaken murloc I've ever seen in my life. Had a huge dingly-dangly thing extruding from it's head with the most glorious light on it I've ever seen.

I quickly grabbed my things and as I plunged into the watery depths, the light from his dingle-dangle illuminated a nearby cave. I swam as fast as my body would allow and luckily made it inside. However, I fear fate has decided this will be my final resting place as the entrance has collapsed. Probably due to that demon murloc rampaging about.

Goodbye cruel world...

General Notes

Access to Heyman's End where Heymans Tagebuch is found, is only possible while the fishing world quest In den Strudel is available. Given that these quests rotate randomly, it can take some time for this to occur.
The journal itself is a small brown, bound book. It is located to the left side of a makeshift camp (presumably erected by Heyman), lent up against a small rock. It is quite hard to see but there is a screenshot with a location circle on this page for reference.
If you log out in the cave during the world fishing quest In den Strudel and log back in after it has finished, you will be inside the cave still but without the whirlpool portal. The Tiefenlichtbittsteller continue to spawn but there are no fishing pools and the Heymans Tagebuch itself is not spawned.

Notes

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The text refers to the hunt for an " Underlight " relic, presumably the Tiefenlichtangler, an artifact fishing pole introduced in Legion.
Heyman's Journal is directly linked in the entries to Heyman's Hubris, a shipwreck (75,88) with it's own sub-zone, found off the southeast coast of the Insel des Donners.
There are currently no known NPCs in the game with that name.
Heyman's Hubris may be a reference to a journal article entitled Signs of Hubris: The Shaping of Wind Technology Styles in Germany, Denmark, and the United States, 1940-1990 by Matthias Heymann.
It, along with both Heyman's End and the associated Heymans Tagebuch may also be a reference to Matthew Heyman, a 3D Artist at Blizzard Entertainment (involved with both Mists of Pandaria and Legion content).
The journal refers to a wealthy benefactor with an inexhaustible amount of wealth, however no name is mentioned. It implies that the benefactor had been trying to find this relic for some time before the events now underway in the Broken Isles.
There is mention of a new destination which is presumably the Broken Isles.
It states that he made it off the Insel des Donners the shipwreck and then obtained a new boat and a new crew and set sail again. No mention of the previous crew who were presumed lost with the original ship. Also no mention as to where the new ship and crew came from, presumably Pandaria.
Apparently Heyman had awful handwriting.

The journal log entry is for Day 492 which would indicate the sea journey from Pandaria to the Broken Isles took around 16 months.
Heyman mentions having read all the texts which implies some written records of the relic, together with other non specific clues. No further reference or location for these are mentioned.
The old sea witch in this context probably refers to either Athissa who has been sent to retrieve the Tidestone of Golganneth, or even Queen Azshara herself. The Tomb most likely refers to the Tomb of Sargeras which is indeed nearby.
In describing their imminent landfall it describes the island on the horizon which is most likely to be the Gloaming Reef with the mainland Broken Isles behind it, as they approached from the west.

The largest Light-forsaken murloc I've ever seen in my life must refer to Mglrrp, the large murloc the player faces at the end of the artifact fishing pole quest, Fischraserei, in the Das Dämmernde Riff Scenario.
Describing the huge murloc he draws specific attention to it's huge dingly-dangly thing extruding from it's head with the most glorious light on it I've ever seen.. This fits perfectly in the Underlight name (see below for details on this) and is a main element of the story, event and subsequent creation of the Tiefenlichtangler.
The last part of the page retells the desperate flight away from the ship into the sea and discovering an underwater cave illuminated by the mulocs 'dingly dangly', only to become entombed within the cave as the entrance is blocked.
This cave is in-game, being appropriately named Heyman's End and within, Heymans Tagebuch itself. It can only be entered during the fishing world quest as described above but the blocked off giant clam shaped entrance can be viewed underwater (23,56) by a small island north from Glooming Reef.
Heyman refers to the monster as a demon murloc. It is unclear if it is implied that the murloc is indeed a Demon or simply describing it as such. It is clearly much larger than normal murloc species but remains identified as Humanoid in the game files.
The ironic retort at the end, Goodbye cruel world..., has a number of cultural references and probably originated in Victorian times or possibly earlier still, in the Age of Enlightenment. . . . It was a phrase popularised by Victorian Romantic Artists, Poets and Writers as the; "Famous Last Words" cliche.

Note on the name Underlight

The term Underlight has existed in the game since at least Patch 2.0.1. For example, Grubenlichterz from the Underlight Mines in Ghostlands, whose tooltip states:

"This stuff gives off a faint aura in the dark."

Or from Abyssische Tiefen the Tiefenlichtknabberer. The quest text from Hierher, Fischlein Fischlein!;

Here, I got you this hat. It has a light on it, and it will make fish follow you. Just like the murlocs!

And the tooltip text:

"Still mesmerized by your glowing antenna."

In-game we now have a lot of Underlight murloc species inhabiting the nearby Gloaming Reef island, such as the Tiefenlichtfresser, including in the Das Dämmernde Riff Scenario for the Tiefenlichtangler artifact quest line.

It seems clear that Underlight is used to refer to an underground or underwater light source, possibly with magical properties. In this case specifically the antennae some murlocs have protruding from their forehead used to attract their prey (as indeed do actual fish species like the Anglerfish)

Final Thoughts

It's interesting how they have drawn together a fairly obscure location and reference back from Mists of Pandaria, into the current Legion content and provided some interesting (also tantalising) lore and background to the new Tiefenlichtangler artifact fishing pole.
Just who was/ is this very wealthy and mysterious benefactor? And what use did they intend for the relic itself?
When the enter says I bet that old sea witch never thought to look so close to the Tomb., it seems to suggest that Queen Azshara herself was looking for it, as well as the retrieval of the Tidestone of Golganneth.
Given that the journal talks about the search for a relic it varies from the actual game, where at the end of the artifact quest, The player takes Mglrrp's dingly dangly to Marcia Balzer as suggested by Nat Pagle who says that she can make a great fishing pole with this wonderful object you have taken as a trophy, which she does., the item doesn't actually exist until now.
Although there are a few bones and what seems a giant fossil claw to the left on entering the cave, tantalisingly there is no telltale skeleton! Did Heyman manage to fashion an escape after all? I really hope so, or they find some other way to continue the adventures of Heyman in the same mysterious vein.

Kommentar von dasbaum

There is a second Ship in BFA "Heyman's Hideaway"

It has Heyman's Hearthstone (Heymans Ruhestein / Heymans Ruhestein object not yet in database). It can be found in Heyman's Hideaway (a broken ship under water) off the northern coast of Vol'Dun at 40,1. It's hidden behind the bar next to Coto between the back wall and a vase.

Use Schriftrolle der Erzählkunst to see the path towards the ship. It's in a fatigue zone but there is anon fatigue pathway to the ship from the shore.

Using it will take you to Heyman's Hubris at the Isle of Thunder 75,88.

Extensive comment about Heyman's History in Pandaria and Legion

Other references:

Heymans Tagebuch
Heymanhoof slope is a small subzone, a hard to reach cave in Highmountain @55,38 (part of the Kosumoth secret in Legion)

Heymans Tagebuch

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