There have been times I have done the turn in to the historian and have had time to run to his location and kill him.
There have been other times I have done the turn in, seen him spawn on track, and then despawn before I ever got to him.
The aloted time he is up seems to be random or bugged. Since noticing this I have my shaman do the book turn in while I await for him at his spawn location so he doesn't despawn.
Historian Baenek says 'You found one of our lost tomes! A lost volume of the Book of Grudges, quite a find. Oh dear Brell! This evidence proves that the legend of Burdael is true! Thank you Metopious. And now I suppose you wish to meet his ghostly form. I have snesed him from time to time. I will call to him now. Go and wait for him in the lower halls. His spirit sometimes calls to me from where the fearsome Stalag Terrors lair. Be warry though, unlife may have twisted his mind beyond reason."
Your faction standing with the CitizensOfFroststone got better.
He(Burdael) spawned in the back corner of the stalagterror area, blue to 60 weilding a dwarven axe and with SK pet.. spoke phrases in an unknown tongue, but when repeatedly hailed, replied with exactly the same text, meaning its not a normally randomly scrambled language. the two bracketed words were "Yiond" which triggered more gibberish, and "furysve" which he didnt respond to. despawned at about 5 mins. I'm excellent in Dwarven, Dragon and Elder Dragon fyi, likely its just rantings of a madman, but Yiond was mysteriously capitallized, likely thats our next lead.
ok, so.. I waited an hour for the historian to respawn and killed the ghost, he dropped a sword, nothing special, but when ID'd..
IDs as : Remember, Garzicor.
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he does i was hunting and i saw him but i did not want him :/ i was hunting orc's are exp and money and he poped and killed me but i went there again but he wouldn't pop i waited and waited but he wasn't poping. i was done waiting for the dumb little guy so i casted lev and puff he was there but didn't killed me this time i was too high and too fast but i think it is weird he did show till i was leving anyone esle had this happen to them??
He is a triggered spawn for a quest. It requires basically GM smithing skills, for a decent set of items based on class.. since most GM smiths can now make better than decent weapons for themselves or sell those weapons to buy better gear, very few people choose to do this quest.