Tersh's journal is a large, heavy, hard-bound book with red and black leather cover, iron bindings, and a lock with a grisly design. Its front is etched and painted in gold an emblem of a roaring horned lion with fiery mane and a pointed-down pentagram in his mouth. The inside looks as much a journal as it does a songbook and a grimoire, scattered with grisly runes, lyrics, poems, and musical notations. Tersh's font alternates between Gothic and cursive, but it is always bold and flushed with heavy ink.