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INTRODUCTION .............. poralis
The Nature of Magickal Energies.....I3 (Temporal Engine) .. 67
Ingenium Integrita
The Theory of Harnessing Magick ....14 (Integrity Engine) ..................
Magick Through Mechanical Ingenium Sustentaculus (Li
Contrivance ....................... .I6 I
Sustenance Engine)
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Miscellany and Addenda ............I8 Ingenium Curareus
BOOK ONE: 1495 ...............20 (Healing Engine) .. .............74
Infundibulum Potentia Ingenium Phlogiston
(Draining Engine) ................. .21 (Levitation Engine)
Imagum Illusorius BOOK SIX: 1500 . I
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(Optical Illusion Engine) ............25 I

Via Peregreus I

Imagum Melos (Dimensional Engine) I

(Auditorial Illusion Engine) .........28 Ingenium Perplexus I
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Ingenum Infernus (Inferno Engine) .30. (Cipher Engin
Ingenium Frigidus (Glacial Engine) . .32 Ingenium Ma i
BOOK TWO: 1496 ..............36 (Magnetic Force Engine 1
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Ingenium Fascium Censurum Veraceus
(Imprisonment Engine) .............
Ingenium Gnocereus (Intellect Ingenium Confunderus
Embodiment Engine) .............. .39
Ingenium Auditorius
(Clairaudience Engine) ..............41 Ingenium Tulmultuosus
Ingenium Vedereum (Earthshaker Engine) .......
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(ClairvoyanceEngine) .............-43 Dissolventum Universalis ,I
BOOK THREE: 1497 ............47 i
Ingenium Meteoricus Testudo ElementaIis
(Weather Engine). ..................48 (Elemental Engine) ........
Ingenium Alchymia I
(Alchemical Engine) .......
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Ingenium Deflexus (E thereal

Interference Engine) ............... -52 SORCEROUS AUTOMATA IN
BOOK FOUR: 1498 .............55 THE GREAT GAME .. .. I

Imagum Somnus (Dream Engine) .56 ... MAKING A SORCEROUS I

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Ingenium Insanus (Madness Engine) .58
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Ingenum Vaderus (Imparted
Motion Engine) ....................61 TIONS & GAME STATISTICS ......i i 8
BOOKFIVE: 1499 ..............66 STAR IRO
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colla strema punta de la sottile acucchia, e que1 post0 quasi a toccaw I'occhio),
tu vedrai esse stelle a s e r e tanto minime, &e nulla wsu pare -sere minore.
veramente la lunga distanzia d A low ragionevole dimunizione, ancora &e
molte vi sono, che son moltissime volte maggiore che la stella cV&l a terra col-
I'acqua. Ora pensa que1 che parrebbe qfiessa no* stella in tanta distanzia, e
considera poi quante delle s i me+terebbe'e per longitudine e latitudime inpa
seminate per esso spazio tenebvoso.

mondo, B dato per penetevuia &e lor medesimi sivazino essa vita, e che MOM
possegghino la utilitb e bellezzza del wondo.

case has at last arrived, a n d just as the world about is in.fwed wi

are my puvsuits, as my benefactor has increased his benevolence.
Fov with g w t a-d
pageantvs Ill\aximilian I, now the tIoly Roman &peror/ with the passing of
Frederick 11, may he rest in peace, has indeed invested o u r g r a n d Lodovico
Sforza with the Duchy of milano, gracious city of the Alps. At last, a duke,
and no longer a regent, to give Milano the place among the cities of the
1mora, though born but a
world as she s o richly d e s e r v e s . And 3
g r a n d s o n of a lowly condottiere, is how royalty, a n d 3 find that his
p a t r o n a g e i s now greater, and also that J have acquired greater
renown for my work among this Jtaly, for 3 a m seen as one wo&y of being
retained by the illustvious House ofsforza, which is as it should be, as there
i s not o n e whom 3find excels m e in any manner of avt or architecture, let
alone industdous invention a n d such puvswits.

(2must also m a k e mention that he, that is, /2/la,ximilian 4 has faken for a bride
B i a n c a maria Sforza. may fheir marriage be f;MiifuI a n d a joy to all. A n d
speaking ofmarriages, &e sforza family has fltrher expanded their connec-

yet fail to fitlfill the intent for which 3 developed them, which, inescapablB indi-
cates that my observations or deductions are at times found wanting.This 3
find most appalling, a n d thoroughly inexcusable. Fovtunately, the Duke is a
patient man with my dabblings.

h e covered chariot w a s the d e v i c e which most a p p e a l e d to the

Duke, a n d the one upon which 3 e m b a r k e d most enthusiastically.
hen at last J had completed construction of the first example of this

o p e n i n g s which allow the opera-

o M t s i d e world. J
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must be organized in this mannev of investigation, more so, J a d m i t ,
&an is my usual wont, for J too readily allow my enthusiasm to overrun
a n d stampede down my deliberation, a n d as a result my work can suffer
f k m oversights a n d ineficiency, as J have learned anew with my invention

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ofthe armored chariot. J s h a l l here, then, apply to myself an unaccustomed
oPganization, that, while pursuing &is heretfore unexplored s c i e n e , J might
avoid the glaring e r w r ofoverlooking significa in my haste to reach the ends.
Tshusly shall my newest Codex be o r d e

The j v a h r e
t The Theory o f f l a m e s s i n
/Mechanical

ny and Addenda
Tshere.POW
J a m ovganized.

shall have to conduct m y researches careful great circum-

spection, for His Holiness the Pope JnnocentV a papal bull
Summis Desiderantes condemning non-Church witchcraft a n d sorcery only
ten years ago, a n d Stalians have a long memory, esp 11y &e pious ones, Jt
is tragic to see fear of the unknown impede the explo n of same.Or pel.-
haps i t i s the abuses of s o m e self-styled practitiomers of black a&, the like of
which abound in this superstitious 1 a n d . t h e s e unhallowed few bring unwar-
ranted disgrace upon those of us who, with scientific reasonimg, a c M t e percep-
tion, a n d a clear conscience, seek to shed light upon
Mnivevsal Force.2

F o h n a t e l % the old goat was called ngregate Direct Superior a

few years ago at the ripe old age of too long, so pevhaps this bull will not be
prosecuted with as much energy as perhaps it would have befow. Jndeed J
have hopes that filexandervl will be a more curious a n d forgiving Pope.
Mnfoviunatels old Rodrigo Borgia-no, he no longer exists, indeed c\e is now
the pevfect filexandevVI-hhas already revised his Jnter cetera divina within
by a n d large
two months of i t s original pevfect incarnation, a n d i t w a s
ignored a n y w a y . t h i s Pope may not have a significant impact o n history,
despite appointing family membevs like his son Cesare to impovtant clergical
posts. fit l e a s t so 3 hope, for 3find that those who impact histo
in a n injurious manner.

e that as it may, 3find 3have attr some atkention

the woman reputed to be a witch, a n d hen 11 have to shelve these
inspections for the nonceu3 shall resume them wh
m a d o n n a of the Rocks, a n d can move fL1l-y d
3 have finished the madonna ofthe Rocks, a n d find now that the world i s at
wa*tl?eTurkmen have invaded Hungary a n d Dalmatia.l%is they did long
since, although wordtook some time to arrive in these places. J n a similar
mannev CharlesVI11 of F r a n c e has sent his h o p s against ztalia, a n d taken
Rrenza a n d Roma.

ttte Pope is said to have d to Castel Sant'Angelo. J a m glad for it/ for J
wodd not see the head ofthe church thhreatened.

TtE jVATURE OFjWAGJCK$IL E . E R G 3 E S

udicious eFamination, a n d no small part of surreptitious and secre-

3 tive meetings with the woman from the village, who at last, with
s o m e plying of wine a M d gold, has condescended to share with m e
some of her insights, although she has a tendency to stray +m the
swbject at hand, has demonstrated to my satisfaction that here are
indeed four facets of the magickal powers which permeate the Gav&.Tlqis
as 3 had surmised, for the effervescence which these powers eFude can b e
is

be offour slightly differingaspects, that i s color and vibrancy, and, for

s e e n to
lack of a better word, taste, indicating that they indeed are separate manifes-
tations ofthis unknown a n d

3t is m y belief, a n d by w a t c e method with which these energies interact

with the world abowt, that the best naming of these facets is &at they are
hea~enl.2r,spiritual, natural, a n d mundane, this being the best eFplanation of
the method by which God might cause these powers to b e apportioned
among His creation.4

Mmxw&ly Power of t k c a w e w l y Delights

0,
eavenly power is that which flows from Heaven, borne upon the wings
tL angels, a n d connects the ea& to the divine. J a m uncertain whether
or not the heavenly power may also be u s e d by the Deceiver a n d his minions,
trapped between Heaven and Hell as though the poles of a magnet, o r
whether the Lord smote S a t a n such that he and his angels m y no longer
touch the heavenly powevs. tleavenly powers may be what divine spark
remains within these paltry a n d sinfMl human shells. With the heavenly powers
might one s u p e r s e d e &e limitations placed upon us by God as w e live within
His Creation, a n d perhaps even +avel to sit at +tis feet.

Spiritual magicks are those which impinge directly upon the human spirit,
that eternal and inviolate part of all of us, granted to us for our eternal salva-
tion by our Creator.'tt.\ehealth a n d state of our spirit i s of paramount import
to the health of o u r bodies, as c a n be demonstrated by the dilapidated posi-
tion of hose most sinf..l a n d corrupt people, who then succumb to leprosy a n d
other ailments. With spiritual magicks might one influence o r dominate the
activities of the pevson.6
OMS effovts of human o r
mechanical will u p o h
~e
magickal enevgies, pre-
venting them from wnvav-
eling, as is their wont.
Since hamans ate pc~
sessed of weukness

mechanical contvol of
magickal energies .

]MEctlfiJvJCfiL CON
have studied ca~~?fLlly
the manners in whi

mt e+*, a s i t is most of the manner in which Mzechanical

illclsh.ative
devices might c w t e s w c k aberrations in the lines of magi&l fovce.

-these ave some methods by which J believe we might be able to entangle &e
magickal ene-ies such that they shall pvoduce unusual resulf~,for the w n t o r -
tion of natural lines ofmagickal energy shall itself cause a contohaonofthe
C m t i o n about tfieentanglement, and hence what might be termed an abnormal
situation, al&ough magick is, itsel5 natwral. /Much as credting a n alchemical $re
causes an abnormal heat, yet all is perfectly natural.

SOMI, nor COn-

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that the tireless appliccltion of the machine to the task shall be balanced
discrimination, a n d that the result shall b e as efficacious as
b e obtained by human will a l o n e . A n d 3 have no training in
a n y as might
magick thvough the application ofthe will besides.

3do not believe that the magickal energies ave infinite in nature,
in a given time. For although they may gvow, does the grass, there is never
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a n infinite supply of gwss for the harvesting, either. CJt is unfortunate that the
mechanical devices shall consume the magickal energies in the i y i m g of&
bindings, or knots, o r what have you, and therefore that it shall be impossible
to create a permanent magickal effect,for to have a building suppov+edaloft
o n ai5 by means of a magickal contrivance, would be most impressive to all,
a n d a sure construction to d r a w the curious from across the continent, and
bolster trade. A n d intewst in my works shall be widespvead indeed. 11

jA~otherCovMlnissioM
to paint a vendition of The Last Supper.
monastery of S a n t a maria delle G r a z i e has asked, a n d the sum he
has ofered is most wo.thY, especially in the service of these men ofGod. J
find it somewhat amusing that they wish for me to pla painting in &e
dining hall of their monasteT. Perhaps hey wish the that they dine
with O u r Savior, o r pedqaps some of them prefer to think of their bvethven as
3udas. J a m certainly merely jed’ng, here. J p n d the monks most pious indi-
viduals, quite unlike h e i r spiritual leader, filexander VI. J look forward gveat-
ly io this task, for J s h a l l endeavor to exceed all my works gone before with
this one, for their benept a n d approbation. they a r e suvely most intelligent to
turn to me for such a decoration, as none is my compare.

d that the methods of powering the magickal mechanisms which

all design a r e few indeed, especially when 3 co
esirable that the method of power rely upon living creatures,
like men, o r mules, o r the like. J have at my disposal water wheels,
a n d clockwork springs, a n d muscular effovt as from a team of ho-es. And 3
have counterweights as well, which, with severe gearing and &e assistance
of a clocksmith, J might be able to g e n e r a t e a steady, though small, amount
of f o r e for a lengthy period of time. Of these, only the clockspring is particu-
larly suited to being moved abotct, a n d the water wh-I not at all.

3 shall have to create new methods of powering these m a c

therance of my testing a n d experimentation.

3 visit from U M old f r i e m d

icardo Del Cantone, the philosophe9 is in T=i
home in Milano. Good old reliable Ricardo! How often w e sat upon the
cout+yard a n d practiced o u r perception of the huma pipit bz) scrutinizing
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c r e a t i o n of many knots of m a g i c k a l force, tying
mechanical means, in a n e n d l e s s s u p p l y . T h e s e knots
them together by
shall b e tied to
have n o p a r t i c u l a r effects;at least 3 know not yet how to e n g a g e them
with effect, however, by their creation, they shall deplete the magickal
potential of the region, cofisuming the m a g i c k a l e n e r g i e s in a M s e l e s s
fashion, much as a fire in the d a y t i m e burns scrap wood to n o use other
than for its disposal.
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iven that J h a v e been able to create an 3ngenium Solaris,
although indeed a faulty a n d short-lived version, for my own
metallccrgical skills, despite m y learnings, are less than expert,
it should be possible, to create an ingenium which shall create
an entire image. Comprised of a series of Jngenia Solarii, e a c h of which
contvibutes one portion ofthe image, a shape and projecting a certain color
of light, each of which pieces is seen to provide a portion of the whole
i m a g e . t h a t is, by carefLI arrangement of patches of light a n d color, a n entire
illt-tstration might be made.
-temptation has arisen, that J make my rendering of The Last Supper of
such ingenia, instead of a standard painting. t h i s will ceriainly Cause the
rendering to be more detailed, to have a more smoky aspect, &an &e normal
fresco painting method. find, since the vision so created shall be of three-
dimensional nature, i t shall better appear that O u r L o r d w e r e seated with his
twelve in the very dining hall, which shall be most pvofowndly moving, J a m
sure.
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the entirety of the image shall require a

um, far beeer than J c a n possibly create here, a n d wouldtake much time.
Furthermore, i t i s doubtful that the monks, being disposed to follow the writs
of the Pope, will tolerate such a piece of artwovk, being magickally created.
J a m instead working with a new a n d experimental compound, of my o w n
invention, a paint which shall allow me to take my time, a n d render t h e L a s t
S u p p e r in g r e a t detail a n d realism, a n d with &e smoky pavor which others
have found so appealing in my work. Fresco is

Of &kxgikaI r i e s o ~ u ~ c e
i s my belief that the flare of light, or iIIum eratea by the
3 unraveling of one of these magickal knots, is c a u s e d by the magickal
r e s o n a n c e of friction as the magickal lines of force pu a g a i n s t e a c h other,
much as among mundane ropes, s u c h friction produ
to my best observations, the color of light so disposed
a knot shall d e p e n d upon its shape, which is to say what additional
shapes are bound into the knot, beyond the basic form which produces
light. A n d the aspect of paleness or deepness of the light so produced
. shall d e p e n d on how much extra of the lines is pulle
which is to say, how much slack is afforded the kno
or intensiv, or translucence of the light so created s
the tightness of the magickal knot so bound. 3
3 had originally believed that it would be n e c e s s a
J n g e n i a S o l a r i i to c a u s e a detailed image to b e created, linked together
a n d carefully a r r a n g e d . B u t MOW 3 see that is a single device, an J m a g u m
Jllusorius c a n be built to perform the work of many 3 n g e n i a Solarii, by the
addition to the Jvlgeniam Solaris of several adjustments, e a c h of which shall
affect the c r e a t i o n of the knots which the Jngenium produces at that
moment, and, which moving, c a u s e their effects to wax a n d w a n e in a peri-
odic f a s h i o n . t h e adjustments ofthis, as Y shall c a l l it, J m a g u m Jllusorius, in
their orbit and rotation a b o w t the central portion wherein the magickal knots
a r e tied, efigender differences between the knots, and h e n c e c a n b e so cal-
ibrated, through careful a n d studious efforts, to c a u s e an image of any sort
which might be imagined, a n d the more conscientious the calibration a n d
alignment of these effectors, the m o r e detailed a n d pleasing the i m a g e shall
be to the eye. Given a sufficient speed of operation of the J m a g u m
Jllusorius, the rapidity with which the knots a r e tied shall b e of such great
moment that the created illusion shall not be s e e n to flicker or pulsate,
much as the wings of a hummingbird proceed with s u c h swiftmess that
a p p e a r to b e a mist, a n d n o t solid. O n c e 3 have found a suitable crafisman
here in Milano, p e r h a p s 3 shall pursue this for the pleasure of the Duke, for
3 could create a statue of his father far greater than a n y 3 could of metal
alone. J n the meantime, 3 shall not build this ingenium, for J find the City
Watch m a k e s frequent passes by my w
 inceJ h a v e d e m o n s t r a t e d to my satisfaction, that a n ingeni-
um which shall create a visual i m a g e is completely feasible,
e v e n within the c u r r e n t limits of technical expertise, although
preferably e n g i n e e r e d by o n e m o r e practiced t h a n 3, it shall
b e likewise possible to create a n ingenium wliich shall manifest a n unre-
ril s o u n d for the h e a r i n g a n d entertainment.

T h i s ingenium J most c e r t a i n l y c a n n o t test, for the presence of disem-

bodied voices or sounds which are not seen to Le c a u s e d by a n y natur-
al resource shall indeed c a u s e me to be s e i z e d by the authorities a n d
burned a s a spiritist, my reputation for invention notwithstanding. t h e
J t a l i a n s a r e a superstitious lot, love them though Jdo, but they are
offen obtuse, especially when i t c o m e s to manifestation of experimen-

tation, which they a r e at a loss to explain. Jt i s certain that the a v e r a g e

peasant w o u l d not understand, nor even wish to a ept, my explanation
of m a g i c k a l ingenia, a n d even w e r e J to m a k e su n undertaking,
they should s e i z e upon the w o r d magickal, a n d the same fate should
befall me a g a i n .

of- this Y ~ g e ~ i c r m
Desig~
he d e s i g n of this ingenium r e q u i r e s a differing s o r t of magickal
knot, which shall b e as illustrated here, with the alignment of the
gears not in right angles, as with the J m a g u m JIIusorius, but instead at
a n a n g l e of sixty degrees, as illustrated here, which shall create the sort
of knot requived.

While the J m a g u m JIIusorius should be a visually leasing device, it is

a necessary that this ingeniwm be of a that is, that i t b e
pleasing sound,
forged of pmrest metals, a n d carefully e n g i n e e r e d that the o p e r a t i o n of
the ingenium shall be pleasing a n d not jarriMg to the ear. Jndeed, it
must b e a well-turned ingenium, the better to s u p p o r t the noises which
shall e m a n a t e from it. For myself, 3 believe that silver b e the best of
materials, or else brass, both of which are m o s t pleasing w h e n formed
into bell shapes, or c a r e f d l y forged to be the stuff of tubular bells or
G e r m a n i c g l o c k e n s p i e l s . t h i s also r e q u i r e s that the pieces of the
J m a g u m /Melos b e of uniform thickness a n d cross-section, a n d b e test-
ed to ring t r u e . Or else that their diminishment in size o v e r the c o u r s e of
- b e a g- a i n d e s i -q n e d for a pleasinq effectto the ear. Glass a n d
their length v I ,

tin should not b e used, neither lead.

the careful attention
erfumer, of great
dedication.5
 such a contrivance is c a r r i e d out, a n d i t is engaged to operate,
tion of
shall cr-eatea great warmth, as though A fire burned in the a i 5 but without
scorching.

t h i s i s d o n e by creating which p r o d u c e heat, and not light, as they

knots
a p e pulled apart. 3t is possible to -use this to c r e a t e a fire, just as plac-
ing a piece of wood o n the top of a very hot f u r n a c e wight c a u s e i t to
ignite, though i t not be in contact with a ~ actual
y flame.

J have in mind a method of pvoving great power, for which purpose i t is

unimportant, which relies upon this Jngenium Jnfernus. J call it my Jnferno

ssary to place a n Jngenium Jnfernus

era1 version of the water wheel. 9 s the Jngenium Jnfernus operates, which
shall have fo be for a lengthy time, a n d hence shall require a very large
a n d powerflrl mainspring, i t shall cause the w a t e r within the sealed contain-

moving against the paddles of the wheel, it shall cause it to rotate. A n d

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been captured at Rapallo, and these prizes which have been captured
might become suitable experiments for Jnferno-empowered vessels, which
shall not then b e forced to rely upon oatrsmen o r the winds for their mobility.
B u t with these prizes tests may b e undertaken without removing a n y ready
warships from commission.The design of s u c h a vessel will m e a n that the
Jnferno jMechanism shall propel a sort of w a t e r wheel, which instead of
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using moving w a t e r to propel an engine, i t shall move the engine along sta-
tionary w a t q propelling the ship forward. J n this m a n n e r might a vessel
run directly into the wind, without tacking, a n d escape pursuit, o r ovevtake
those sailing vessels which i t p u r s u e s . Similavly, while a n enemy oarship
ill be forced to contend with the exhaustion of those pulling strokes, the
' vessel powered by a n Jnferno jMechanism shall find g r e a t e r energy in the
pwtrsuit, for leaving a n area w h e r e its operation had depleted the local
magickal energies shall i n c r e a s e the efficacy of the ingenium.7

to jUaMk;Md
BOOM
be used for the heating of build-

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7? e Znferno M e c h a n i s m c a n also
i n g s . t h e pipings which e m a n a t e from the M e c h a n i s m itself shall be
distributed a b o u t the building, a n d shall convey the s t e a m so p r o d u c e d by
the M e c h a n i s m to the variows rooms. When inside these rooms, the s t e a m
shall be m a d e to pass through a n array of thin pipes, the better with which
to c a u s e the s t e a m to yield M p its heat, a n d c o n d e n s e o n c e m o r e into wate9
whereupon the water shall d r a i n of its o w n accord, a n d gravity, back to the
bottom of the building, there to poMr a g a i n into the ,Mechanism, where it
may be heated o n c e m o r e into s t e a m , in a continuous cycle.

J derive g r e a t enjoyment from the fact that A l e x a n d e r VI i s being &owe to

be ineffective, a n d cannot even control one fiery Firenzan preacher, while
Ferdinand II is w a g i n g a very effective campaign against the French. For if i t
w e r e not for his interference, J should be better able io publish these ft'nd-
ings ofmine, a n d g a i n by the exchange of ideas with other learned men.

J. .S
J a v e nowheard tell that the F r e n c h h a v e been defeated utterlyj
that their a r m y has capitulated at N o v a r a , a n d that CharlesV1II
a n d his soldiers h a v e retreated back into F r a n c e . n i s h a s
shown that Ferdinand I1 has more of God a b o u t him t h a n the
entirety of the self-proclaimed Holy League, for they crumbled in battle,
while Ferdinand's troops enacted the will of God by driving the French
back home, a n d freeing Jtalia from their tyranny.
J have not h e a r d thai the Pope h a s made a n omment o n the matte
 has run its c o u r s e , a n d CJ a m devoid of new a n d interesting ideas at
this moment.this i s met with much a p p r o b a t i o n on my part, as i t will
give my h a n d s a better c h a n c e to heal, that 3 might not only write, but
also continme t h e painting of’the Last Suppet; which J have had to
postpone temporarily, d u e to the incident of which 3 h a v e a l r e a d y m a d e
mention.8

J n a n y event,
the lack of
great and
renowned
inspirations
leads m e to
pursue the
antithesis of
my previous
invention, to
wit: a n

which i s simi-
l a r in relation

the J w a g u m i\;l
Jllusorius is to
the Jmagum
/MelOS. ‘that
is, it is a simi-
lar concept, but a differing knot. J n this case, as the knots are driven
into dissolution, they radiate coldness, which c a u s e s the area a b o u t the
Jngenium to i n c r e a s e in the a m o u n t of c o l d n e s s i t possesses.-this is
done b e c a u s e although the knot is virtually identical to t h a t of those
which emit heat, these knots a r e tied in a mannev which, stepwise, i s the
opposite of t h e other; a n d thcts, they emit c o l d n e s s which infuses the s u r -
roctndings, e v e n to t h e point of smmmoning frost. Or so is my theory.

Jt is to the g r e a t c r e d i t of Duke Lodovico S f o r z a , of o u r city, that

t h e r e is peace o n c e more in fair Jtalia. P e r h a p sJ shall e n d e a v o r to
build o n e o f t h e s e for the Duke, which eforts w o u l d m a k e him the most
r e n o w n e d host in all the Coniinent, for J a m c e r t a i n h e w o u l d put this

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is J n g e n i u m F r i g i d u s is perhaps the most serviceable a

i l e of the magickal inventions which 3 have yet created, and per-
haps as well of those 3 have yet to create, for the more 3 think upon it,
the more it becomes obvious, that this accomplishes a n effect which
could aught but be carried out by magickal influence.that is, we have
mundane, or non-magickal, inventions and methods, by which we can
readily produce light, or heat. Or paintings and sculptures. OPbeautiful
music. And perhaps each of these methods is more easily accomplished
than the design and engineering and assemblag of a magickal ingeni-
urn, and some have the benefits of social interaction in their accomplish-
ment, as well. But here, with the J n g e o i u m Frigidus, 3 have created an
effect which is most difficult to obtain, and is far the lighter for the effort,
which is involved in the creation.

hut) in the midst of the city, SAY in Roma,

w h e r e i t i s large a n d thick, a n d dusty with
the passage of many people, and, with the
J n g e n i u m Frigidus engaged, in mid-3uly or
August, charge to the passers-by admission
for the opportunity to relax, however briefly)
and a cool b r e e z e AS from early spring. J
c o u l d also sell from the other side of the hut
beverages of a n y sort) a n d a l l as cold as
from A mountain stream. Gven including hot
tea, although i t w o u l d be as if iced.
t h e Jngenium Frigidus can also be used in
fa cold voom, which 3 hereby term a"fbigidatou;"as illustrated

best to isolate it from the heat of the outside, and surrounded by thick stone
or wood, and tlTe walls covered with fmrs. 3 n h i s frigidator might wine and
other foodstuffs be safely stored, and for a great length of time. As no
spoilage will occur when the corruption of the heat is done away with.

fi smaller ingenium) but well powered, might also be used to properly

chill a bottle of wine, when events unforeseen necessitate the immediate
replenishment of same when none i s to be had. Which would be a great
embarrassment to any host.

of a n y t o r c h or lantern which i s b r o u g h t withi

 irolamo Savonavola is again the talk ofthe town, even this far
from where he preaches. And, all tliings being taken into con-
sideration, 3 a m most pleased, a n d shower my kudos upon his
name, although J a m cautious to whom 3 divulge my preferc
en-. Friar S a v o n a t b l a has been quite n o t e w o h y these past months, a n d his
sermons are always well-attended. 3 myself would attend him speaking
whenever possible, were 3 back in Ptrenze, howeve6 here in jUiIano, m y sta-
tion is comfovtable, a n d the kip to Grenze for a S a b b a t h s e w o n is too difficult.
fi s h a m e i t is, for word has finally reached here that SavonarOla was actual-
ly oideved to Roma, by the Pope, a n d =fused to go. tte has stated that, “3t is
not the will of God that 3 leave Ptrenze,”or so it is said.The P o p e is apparent-
ly most anxious to hear of his divine revelation, with which the friar predicted
dire punishment of the R o m a n Cutholic ChMrch, a n d in fact all Ztalia, for the
immorality of P o p e AlexanderVI, which effects,in fact, are already being
felt, in my opinion, for the corruption spreads.
For me, 3 think the presence of highwaymen is more to the tvuth, both in remoti
pa& of3talia a n d in theVatican itself, but cevtainly obedience to filexander
the Borgia cannot b e said to be the will of God, not fvom what 3 have s e e n
a n d heard. Other stories have been related to m e as well, but 3find them less
credible. For altlqomgh 3 have it upon reliable resource that S a v o n a w l a ’ s
language is at times colorfLl,there are stories attvibmted to him which 3 sin-
cerely doubt that such a good-hearted and noble gentleman preacher
would ever convey to his pious audience. 3 believe some of these stories
might be deliberate slandevs engendered by those who suppovt the Pope
filexanderV1, whom S a ~ o n a ~is~most
l a vehement in denouncing.

these matters, 3 have imagined a new a n d cre-

ut in contemplating
ative magickal ingenium/ which could be m s e d to retain S a v o n a w l a
within Firenze, Papal edicts to the contvary.this ingeniam sc\all use t h e
powers of the magickal forces to prevent a person +om cwssing a certain
barrieq which is erected by the power of the ingenimm, for the imprison-
ment. J t shall function not by creating a great steel wall, for although 3 a m
certain it i s possible, 3 have m o t yet developed my theories enough to admit
s u c h an invention, but instead by the impressing of a state of mind upon
those subject to its influence, that they s t o m t l y a n d without reserve believe
that they may not cross the barrier so presented. F r a n c e s c a is always fond
of saying that only that which one believes is impossible truly is impossible,
therefore this ingenium shall m a k e those people within its g r a s p believe exit
is so, and it shall be so.
mation to thirteen.'there shall be a gvouping of numerical arrangement plates
as is necessary for the calculations expected fvom the Jngenium.
tl?e method of operation ofthe Jngenium upon the numbevs given is enacted
by the dial set to the right ofthe nccmerical plate, which can b e set for addi-
tion, subtraction, multiplication, division, &c.

AMd iM Wutbevs mostL m p o r a l

ope Alexander VI forbade Friar Savonarola from the pulpit earlier
13 this year, well before Gaster. J wonder if i t might be possible to
design a more complicated Jngenium Gnocereus, which shall be pos-
sessed of a capacity more akin to personal intellect. J n this fashion, might
Savonarola speak with the Jngenium, and give the device homiletic
coaching and explanation, and then let the Jngenium itself speak from the
pdpit in his stead. no,
while i t may be possible, J do not believe that
Firenzan churchgoers will consent to being lectured by a machine, espe-
cially affer their lengthy exposure to the passionate and theatrical
Savonarola. Jt is a pity, however, for the Jngenium would have no fear of
excommunication, execution, or the like. Jt may, however, be said that
Savonarola likewise evinces no such feaps.4
Jn a similar this Jngenium, it should be possible to create a n
manner to
Jngenium Fatidicus, which, by means of a variety of protrusions, not unlike
the antennae of insects, shall detect the present weather conditions about,
and calculate the future weather conditions which shall occur. 'these cal-
culations shall be based upon what the surroundings are currently like, for
i t is evident that there is a cause for all weather. And this Jngenium shall
be able to make those calculations, and predict, for example, that here
shall be rain, which a human being canno6 at least not until the rain has
begun to fall. 5

AhDnoRJus
J~~~~~~~
( C L f i m U D 3 E j V E EjWGYjWG)
is now the S u n d a y afterGaster, a n d while attending services this

that the Fiar Savonavola has continued to cause grief t o the Pope.
the story i s that Savonarola, despite being enjoined from preach-
to do so all thvough Lent, and with more passion a n d fervor
ing, c o n t i n ~ e d
than before, as he is now quite fiwly considered to be a leading figure in the
city. Why, i t appeaw that the entire city of Rrewze shall rally unto him a n d
back upon this Pope, a n d not a moment too soon, for my opinion, for
tmrn i t s
this Alexander i s so vile, that to tmrn a w a y from him is to e m b r a c e God. 3t is
time that these protestevs sought to reform the church. Bcct 3 wonder what

for very much longer.

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no o n e knows), h a s been w e d to j u a n a of Castile.t h a t is, the d a u g h t e r

of King F e r d i n a n d and Queen Jsabella of Spain.
find this so shortly after the discovery of the flew World by the S p a n i s h
expedition, 3 would not be s u r p r i s e d if i t i s j u s t f o r this V~ASOM that
l\/taximilian a r r a n g e d the m a r r i a g e , for it is well known that he, a
tlabsburg, s e e k s to expand his family's power. tlabsburgs h a v e ruled
the tIo1y R o m a n E m p i r e since, 3 believe, 1438, a n d h a v e held t h r o n e s
about the continent f o r nigh O M 300 yLars. Z J f j u a n a is to b e a r to him a
son, then i t shall be'cevtain that a t l a b s b u r g shall also s i t upom the
t h r o n e of S p a i n . J a m not c e r t a i n that 3 a p p r e c i a t e this effort, for c e r -
tainly the m o r e p o w e r the family holds the m o r e g r a v e the situation for
the e n t i r e continent. For in m y opinion, no squabbles a r e so grand or
vicious as those within one family, a n d a family s q u le of this nature
would b e so broad in scope as could embroil all of us.

hopes that t h e e n t i r e new d i s c o v e r i e s of

P r h a p s jVIaximilian
Columbus, &c.,shall b e the sole purview of S p a i n , the J n t e r
C e t e r a Divina notwithstanding, nor e v e n paid heed, a n d t h a t t h e r e f o r e
the power of the t l a b s b u r g family will t h e n c e b e e x t e n d e d across the
h t l a n t e a n Ocean.
J h a v e a l s o noted that Frederick 111 i s now c ing of jVaples.
may he h a v e a long a n d glorious reign well into the next millennium.

Whatever the c a u s e of the a r r a n g e m e n t of t h e m a r r i a g e , i t is c e r t a i n that

is was a splendid affaiu;a n d o n e which 3 had hoped to see, for the
p a g e a n t r y . Perhaps 3 shall s p e n d s o m e time, MOW, as i t is raining out-
side, and q u i t e heavily, to p o s t u l a t e a n J n g e n i u m Vedereus, which could
do j u s t that, by c r e a t i n g a funnel for visions which may b e piped back
from a f a q as though they w e r e water.
Akl Yklgekliclm most Pleasiklg
these pages, althoctgh the materials
t e r e it is, as illustrated upon
thereof m u s t be of a most pleasing m a n n e r to the eye, which is to say
a n y gold present, a n d all metals used in the construction should b e of
gold, must be most highly polished, and smooth of s u r f a c e . And that the
wood, which is used in a r e a s , must needs b e carefully s a n d e d as though
to a mirror, a n d layered with s e v e r a l applications of lacquer, that i t b e
smooth and glossy, as well as d e e p and lusterful to the eye.T&e operation
a w d aiming of the Jngenium shall b e done in a m a n n e r much similar to
that of the Jngenium jE\udiforius. Howevev) as the funnel brings back visu-
al images, and not those of sound, the aiming shall be much facilitated,
wi& visctal r e f e r e n c e s for assistance.t h i s also m e a n s that for those O M
one side of the ingenium, they shall see in one direction, while those upon
the o t h e r shall see from the opposite side. S o that it may b e n e c e s s a r y for
all attending to the i m a g e s d i r e c t e d hereto by the magickal effectsshall
set themselves upon the s a m e side of the inqenium, for viewinu.
 o much has happened this yea5 it is indeed trouble-
already
some. Worst of all calamities, is the news +m Firenze a n d the
-Vatican, w h e r e the spiritual struggle has raged, since the
L,Dominican GiroIamo S a v o n a r o l a first b e g a n to speak, in a
notewovthy fashion, for the last five o r ten years. find now: Rodrigo Borgia,
who poses to b e n e Pope fileyanderV1, has struck a blow a g a i n s t him,
that is, Savonarola, a n d all those who attend his church, a n d 3 a m certain
a t t e n d a n c e has never been b e t t q n o r more regulaq than of late.n\e Pope
h a s ordered S a v o n a r o l a to s u r r e n d e r to his autlqori% to a n s w e r for his
continued preaching, in spite of the fact of his excommunication.
Worst upon this, i s that the Pope has leveled a threat against all Firenze,
which, as 3 witmess is this: that the e n t i r e city of Firenze, or p e r h a p s it i s
the e n t i r e Republic, for the sins of their capital, shall b e placed a n d held
under interdiction, until s M c h time as they yield up S a v o n a r o l a to b e sacri-
ficed. fis this n e w s w a s old when i t reached my ears, i t is certain that he
has already suwevxdered,1
J h a v e nowheard that h e h a s indeed given himself u p to the civil authorities
in Firenze, a n d they h a v e dutifully, though 3 a m certain with great regret,
turned him over to the a u s p i c e s of the R o m a n Catholic Church. 3 have
heard that h e h a s been s e n t back to Roma, to face t h e old holy hog himself.
M t o n top of everyihing else, 3 hnve heard that there i s also a famine in

I3 Firemze! How c a n this be? 3s there no God? Cuuld He actually invoke

His wrath a g a i n s t Firenze at the behest of o n e like Rodrigo Borgia, Pope
' though he be? J t c a n n o t be so!B u t a famine there is, a n d all those 3 know in
1 Firenze are reported to b e going hungry, a n d suffering for it. find 3 know
I
that many f e a r the Wrath of God for the supposed sins of that Dominican.
h a v e had no reliable reports on the climate in firenze, nor the wenth-
3 e* Perhaps i t has been unseasonably dry, o r hot, o r the rain has
trampled down the c v o p s . Or p e r h a p s there h a v e been floods, which have
killed the grains. 3 do not know, and the information 3 h a v e garmered
+om travelers whom 3 h a v e met in the taverns and public shops are dif-
ferent stories, all sworn t r m e .
Perhaps it is that the Pope has also quietly ordered merchants to avoid
selling foodstuffs to Firenze under pain of eternal damnation, or perhaps
they have enacted this oftheir own accord, having themselves witnessed
the impending threat of interdiction, and thence avoiding the city at all
i
costs, so save their own sorry hides, in such case as interdiction might
come. t h i s is a logical conclusion, that the Firenzen countryside has not
d, but has instead been robbed of its food by th
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I
 A m 3 m g e m ; u W L Perma~utlAs
stead, 3 shall consider a lesser version of this, a n J n g e ~ i u m
rmuiaftts, which shall not alter the substance of the mattev; but merely
its manifestation.-this i s a different matter entirels a n d may be accomplished
with this constvuction, where the plate which is inserted into the i ~ g e ~ i ushall
m
c a u s e the material, whatever it may be, to be altered in shape to &e new fom,
according to the carving ofthe plate.ne material to be altered must be
placed in the center ofthe spherical chambe3 using a support to hold it there,
if such is ~CXESSAVY for small or limpid objects. With this, might a bmken sword
be m a d e as new, a l a r g e block of cheese evenly divided into pevfect cubes, or
s c r a p s of wood be m a d e into the best of tvays. 3 is possible, as well, 3
believe, kat a bowl ofgraiw and yeast and water be m a d e into a loa$ w d y
for the baking, or possibly that a small cat b e m a d e into a large rat, though
for what pctrpose 3 cannot imagine. P e r h a p s &e reverse woctld be bettecz6
v e just had word back from Ricardo Del Cantone, in Firenze.
as, the philosopheu; although persuasive in his arguments a n d vig-
orous in his presentation, w a s unable to s w a y the city coctncil of Firenze.
t h e y h a v e had enough of trouble with the Holy R o m a n Catholic Church,
and although 3 a m there revered, t h e final decision was that, the ingeMium
i s said to work through the t r a n s f e r e n c e a n d manipalation of magickal
powers, which, they believe, is sorcery, which i t is not, for s o r c e r y is a black
magic.yet sorcery, by p a p a l bull, has been condemned, and the city shall
not avail itself of this technology for t h e mitigation of their famine, for they
wish not to run afoul of the Pope again, a n d risk interdiction o n c e more..
R i c a r d o has said im his m e s s a g e that s o m e present tkoctght to fuvther
appease the P o p e by revealing to him my dabblings in these experiments,
blnt that he was able to d i s c o u r a g e s u c h a C O L W S of
~ action. 3 a m glad to
h a v e s u c h a friend as Del Cantone.

T
OntinMe to be a w a z e d at the a r r o g a n c e of our AIexaHderVI.
No,he i s not ours really, he i s a S p a n i a r d , for no Jtalian that 3
know could act with shch an unashamed abandon, and so fla-
grantly violate the laws of ethics. Here 3 h a v e had news that the
Pope has annulled the m a r r i a g e of Lctcrezia of the Borgias, to Giovanni
S f o r z a . t h a t which the Pope himself a r r a n g e d is now annulled! H e has,
with a Pick of his ringed hand, declared that all that has h a p p e n e d
between Ciiovanni a n d Lucrezia has never occurred! As if he had the
power to rewrite history.
-they w e r e only married fow years ago.3 witnessed the c e r e m o n y . t h e y
e n t e r e d togethev t h e bridal suite, after much E.,,elry of course, a n d have
been together since. And MOW the Pope is going to pretend for all time that
these events never occurred. 3 must wondeu; what of their consummation?
Does this annulment of the marriage make Lucrezia into a n adulteress? O r
has that been swept away by divine license as well? Perhaps she is a virgin
anew. Next, the Pope may annul the fact that the wind blows. What then?

And at all this, he still has the audacity to have Savonarola arrested. 3
hear he is to stand trial, but 3 have no hopes that right will win out, for he
is indeed a devilish Pope. 3t may be blasphemy to say it, for the Pope is
held to be infallible'by the grace of God, but it is true, and 3 shall say it. 3
shall not, however; repeat it to others.

Ah' now the plot is s e e n to thicken, and the plans of the Pope to bear
fruit. For no s o o n e r is Lctcrezia's marriage annulled, than she is
betrothed to Alfonso of Napoli. Her father and brothers kick her about like
a ball on the street! And with as much concern for her happiness, or well-
being. Or her respect, for J a m certain that in the upper circle of society
she is now looked upon as a doing o r a prize horse, to be had for favors to
the Pope. Ah, 3 am incensed.
Of the F'mi-e figaim
have been wondering of late ofthis famine in Firenze.Therehas been a
3 papal bull against sovcery, which is now in its thirteenth offourteenth
year. And who better to know about sorcery than the Pope, who is the great
leader in the war against deviltry? And they say a man must know his enemy
All of this has caused m e to wonder at the fortuitous timing of this famine
which tortures my people. Jt cannot be the will of God, and the possibility of
a coincidence of this sort is far to remote. 3 believe, then, that it is the Pope
himself, who has caused &ere to be a famine, by exercise of black arts.
Small indeed the chance he would be caught, when all other practicing
sorcerers have abandoned their craft or fled across the Mediterranean.
find none would dare question him, at least not in the publ'IC square.

3- eHgiure f i g a i m s t S o r c e ~ y
o contest this, 3 shall here illwstrate the construction of an
T which
its protective encirclement.The diffcul*
ingenium
shall detect and destroy any such evil spells which are cast into
of this creation is that it must be of
the aspects of magick, that is, a fundamental
a different construction of
ingevrimm cannot be designed, for both the aspect of magick against which
one seeks protection must by its very nature be itself employed in the
defense, and because the knots which are produced of the ingevrimm must
be constrmcted of a manner in which best to employ the auspices of each
aspect in the withstanding of assaults. For example, the knots prodmced by
the forces of nature must be stout and inflexible, while those which seek to
mitigate the magicks of the mind are more slippery, like unto slipknots, and
malleable.therefore, you need to build a different ingevrium to defend
against each different sphere of magick.7
 h a v e not b e e n a b l e to apply much effortto this Codex, in
recent weeks, as J h a v e b e e n embroiled in the completion of
The Last Supper in the monastety, and a mighiy task i t is.
G q x x i a l l y s i n c e 3 a m assailed by the most effervescent a n d
odors o f t h e monks’culinary skills all the day, while J a m at
work. J a m most definitively f a v o r e d of plain a n d simple cookery. t h e
monks h e r e a r e most kind a n d g r a c i o u s hosts, a n d Godly men, a n d 3
believe 3 h a v e put o n a hearty girth in the months,
which J h a v e b e e n at w o r k upon this project.
At last J c a n see the completion of he pai-tin shall fake m e but
a month more or so to see it throccgh, so 3sha a n d other works
aside to finish this employment. 3t is cx bea
have ever done. 3 am most pavticularly praud efthe composition of he entire
assemblage of disciples. A n d of O u r Lord Himself, J a m most pleased.
J humbly believe hat even H e would find the vended
J t is finished. J a m going back out to the plaza, for Giovanni, bless his
doughty heart, i s relieved to see me completed at %e m o n a s t e r 3 that J
might design fuvther buildings, in jVIilano, for to challenge his skills, a n d has
vowed to drink me u n d e r the table this evening, in celebration.

a m cursed a b o v e all people. t h i s is a h o r r e n d o u s o c c u r r e n c e . no

J s o o n e r h a v e J completed my m a s t e r p i e c e at the monastery, t h a n 3
discover that my most inventive experimental compound, that with which
J coated the walls of the monastevy, the beiter to hold the paiat, a n d
allow m e to w o r k in light a n d shadow, in m y smoky technique, which i s
MOW famous, for the betterment of realism, that this compound is a fail-

ure! Ah! maria incarnate! What ignominy! z

t has b e g u n to peel itself
a w a y from the walls, curling itself up into flakes as a d a m a g e d insect,
a n d c a r r y i n g a w a y my w o r k of these past three years upon its feckless
b a c k to the floor.Why, dear God in Heaven, why?
3t worsens, every day, 3 c a n see it. Others cannot, they tain that 3
am envisioning the worst, that i t i s but the slightest bit worse, a n d shall
s o o n stop, for certain, but J c a n see it. 3 see students of art, a n d monks,
s t a n d about, a n d r e n d e r my w o r k for themselves, for their own experi-
e n c e and stwdy, and 3 know that s o o n theirs &a e only executions
of my m a s t e r p i e c e left upon this E a r t h . J a m torn e e n a s k i n g them to
hurry, to complete their studies of my art, befor
instead asking them to b e patient, a n d copy i t
preserve the i m a g e a n d color for postdty. 3
 ~ eye poked asunder, for carelessness. J n m y b r o w n
moods, J a m likely to be careless.

ing to the labels given, of durationj pace o r swiftness of

' color o r in shades ofgrayj and t e m p o r a l basis, or w h e n in

including fear, love, a n d enjoyment, a n d

' J have not the funds at this tim e patience, to cre-

potentially, neither shall w o r k .

( j V W D f l E S S EflGYNE)
at 3 were not forced to endure all that has transpired! J
h a v e just now l e a r n e d of the fate which h a s befallen the
Dominican friar GiroIamo S a v o n a r o l a , a n d 3 am outraged! 3t

of Pope A l e x a n d e r VI, a n d to f o r e v e r s i l e n c e the voice, of S a u o n a r o l a ,

which called him to t a s k for his
e)ccesses, a n d his sins! 3 a m
c e r t a i n that this ecclesiastical
court, which has convicted
S a u o n a r o l a , must to a m a n be
poisoned of the mind by the
Borgia Pope, OIL else b e
w r a c k e d with guilt for having

m a n as S a u o n a r o l a . But, no,
they shall surely mollify their
c o n s c i e n c e s with the fact that lie
did i n d e e d preach, despite beiwg
b a n n e d from so d o i n g by the
Jt shall render the subject with incoheent thought, in compensation for which,
the brain will be forced to rely upon those instinctive behaviors, which, given
the sinful naiiire of man, a n d &e Pope especially, shall be akin to madness.
3f the operator of the d e v i c e w e r e to mount it upon a c e n t r a l axle,
which should spin t h e ingenimm a b o u t as it operated, t h e n the ingenium
shall h a v e effectsupon all who s t a n d about it, s u c h that it might s t r i k e
a n e n t i r e c r o w d with the frenzy. P e r h a p s 3 should build many of these,
a n d secret them inside crates a n d wagons a b o u t Roma, a n d d r i v e the
e n t i r e city into the m a d n e s s which lives i n c a r n a t e in t h e v a t i c a n . 3
J am
if3
erhaps being too cruel. Better still, instead of inflicting chaos
upon the recipient, to implant more coherent though$ by means of
controlling the subject. t h e n J c o u l d have the Pope fall upon his o w n
sword.
t h e settings be m a d e
must rehand, or else carefully a l i g n e d d u r i n g
operation. t h i s J do not recommend, for if the alignment i s careless, the
subject may be able to c a s t off the efects. no,
this shall never work, for
the Pope does not c a r r y a sword, c u r s e d be his c l e r i c a l restrictions.4

( Y j W P A R t E D ]\/207JOjVEjVGYjVE)
o w many months now, has it been, s i n c e 3 h a v e b r o w s e d
through this Codex? 3 a m not certain, for 3 a m n o t in the
habit of d a t i n g my thoughts, but i n s t e a d of returning to past
pages a n d inscribing additional ideas or illustrations as
od. 3 do not therefore know. J t has i n d e e d b e e n a long
time, however., judging by the last e n t r i e s which 3 m a d e upon these
p a g e s , a n d by the dust which h a s accumulated, upon these pages,
betwixt that d a r k time a n d now. 3 h a v e healed myself of my grief, and
despaiu; a n d self-reproach for the loss of t h e L a s t S u p p e r , for lose it 3
shall, eventually, but for the nonce, it s t a n d s still, a n d elicits much inter-
est a n d excitement, a m o n g the peoples of&lilano, and all those w h o
travel to view it. 3 t is a very good painting, a n d m o r e poignant still that
it fades, e v e n before o u r eyes. 3 t i s in that fashion, much like a summer.,
which w e shall never se ain, as i t fades to autumn.
A11 m u s t eventually p a s this C a r t h , and it i s simply my i l l fortune,
that 3 shall s e e this p a s s , or at least begin to do so.f l o w 3 c a n better
u n d e r s t a n d the grief of those who, t h r o u g h calamitous accident, lose
o n e of their children, b e f o r e they a r e g r o w n .

JRnew Conazption
shall ahead these theories, and build new ingenia, with
3 move
which to h a r n e s s
upon
1 forces which envelop the globe in
with spikes, for the impaling of
 m a d e of a s i z e large enough to s c a l e city w a l l s without assistance of
l a d d e r s o r siege towers, a n d w o u l d be stout enough to resist everything
s h o r t of a direct s t r i k e with a cannonball, a n d then only if the artillerists
used a n increased charge of p o w d e r . 6

be able to move

properly a r r a n g e d , the
b a r r e l of the c a n n o n
ould be elevated to angles far higher

p r o p e l explosive shells, as rain,

over the battlements a n d d o w n upon
the heads of the enemy.
U p o n the defensive, in the resistance
of a siege, the J n g e n i u m V a d e r u s c a n
be used to deceive the enemy, a s to
the strength of the city g a r r i s o n . t h e
ingenium shall be connected by tortuous linkages, to a plethora of spears
a n d pikes a n d other arms, placed a b o u t the w a l l s for the city, a n d set to
w a v i n g in the sun by the action
the ingenium.of
n this fashion shall the garrison a p p e a r to b e doable o r more its si
and the enemy, set to inaction for f e a r of the g r e a t garrison which
appears apon the walls, may b e s e t ctpon by sarprise by the trcte garrison
of the city, and destroyed.
' t h e r e a r e less s a v a g e applications of this J n g e n i u m Vaderus, as well.
Jt may be set to a n y task r e q u i r e d . Jt m a y be used inthe p l o w i n g of
land, for example, when applied t9 a n automaton similar to this design:
 (TejU-POTIJ\LEjVG3jVE)
c o u r s e of r e c e n t events. Relations between the Duchy of
M i l a n o a n d F r a n c e are strained, a n d J fear that Lodovico El
Moro, despite all that h e h a s d o n e for his people, will head into
yet a n o t h e r fruitless w a r much to the dilapidation of the Duchy in g e n e r a l .
3 h a v e taken my leave, to p u r s u e a sabbatical in my home city of Firenze,

Most JIIustrious D u k e himself, to r e n d e r his wife, Jsabella d’Este, for

the purpose of posterity, a n d presumably so that h e might be a b l e to rem-

all the pyramids, though they s t a n d yet, s h o w

b e n e a t h its feet, for even
the deleterious effectsof time, as does t h e most r e g a l profile of the

along with it, as though d o w n a stream, o r instead a n a q u e d u c t , which

cor\struct a n ingenium which shall o v e r c o m e t h e n a t u r a l c u r r e n t of time,

which is to s a y s t a n d fast a g a i n s t i t s flow, s u c h that it might be s e e n to
c a u s e time within its effectto s t a n d s t i l l . 3

O f c o u r s e , it i s obvious that a n ingenium which is to be used for the

stoppage of the flow of time must of c o u r s e constrain the operator with-
o u t exception, for i t shaN encompass all a r o u n d . However, it is also
r e a d i l y seen that the interior of the ingenium i t s e l f m a y n o t be affected
by the rnagickal bindings upon the times, but instead be allowed to
operate freely, for if the ingenium d o e s not experience the passage of
time, i t may not operate, hence time will n o t be stopped, a n d a conun-
d r u m or paradox becomes evident. t h e w o r k i n g s of the interior mecha-
nism ofthe ingenium must thus be shielded a g a i n s t the m a g i c k a l
 t
-.
.
sure, and the magickal re nts thereunto would be c e r t a i n to pre-
clude the employment of my 3 n f e r n o mechanism to the g e n e r a t i o n of sucl
strengths, as the J n f e r n o mechanism itself has n e e d of magickal p o w e r
s u c h as shall b e consumed in the reversal of time.
3 find 3 h a v e n o theoretical or observational basis upon which to
d e d u c e the effectsof s u c h a temporal treversal, except p e r h a p s to
believe that the i m a g e s s e e n through s u c h a portal would themselves b e
m e r e images, the stuff of d r e a m s , in much t h e same m a n n e r that when
w e r e m e m b e r events, the people whom are seen to o c c u p y o u r memo-
ries are not the true flesh a n d blood relations w e know. J n a like man-
ner, J hope that by reversing time, w e do not c a u s e p e o p l e to exist in
a n y real m a n n e r within the field, for s u c h would be a n impossibility, they
being e x t a n t elsewhere, a n d very much alive.
the J n g e n i u m t e m p o r a l i s
0 ne conceivable u s e for
c r e a t i o n of a means of preserving the life of one
w o u l d be in the
ill o r mortally
w o u n d e d until such time a s a c h i r u r g e o n might be found to administer a
remedy. J n this fashion, the patient is lain upon a table, beneath which
the ingenium processes its m a g i c k a l knots. Then, when the c h i r u r g e o n
appears, a n d all is in readiness, the J n g e n i u m may be halted, a n d the
healing commence.

Jt becomes obvious that for this ingenium, a t i m e d method of empower-

ing the unit else that a shielded line of c o n t r o l from
is r e q u i ~ e d ,o r the
o p e r a t o r of the J n g e n i u m , be extended through the time-stopping
efects, a n d to the fundamental s o u r c e of operation. d s e w i s e , i t will be
impossible to c o n t r o l the function of the machine, but merely to allow i t
to run its course, until at last i t w i n d s down, spent of power, fop any
who e n d e a v o r e d to penetrate the m a g i c k a l restraints w o u l d f i n d their
time, too, had been halted in its flow, a n d they w o u l d be unable to halt
the 3ngenium's progress. 5

(3IVTGGR3Ty C N G Y N E )
am now visiting Venezia, the city of the canals, a n d have passed

3 many a n enjoyable hour tomring at the whim of t h e gondoliers,

the ballets. 3t is a beautifml city, and 3 enjoy my
a n d attending
recreation here greatly, but the days are soured with the talk of
the w a r which has broken out between theturkmen of the Ottoman
Empire a n d fairvenezia.
t h i s darkening of my relaxation i s doubled by word the defeat of the
of
fleetat S a p i e n z a , although 3 h a v e h e a r d so m a n y varied stories that 3 ai
u n s u r e which are true. Verily do these common J t a l i a n s embellish every
story, for J h a v e heard the s a m e person inflate the d r a m a of his discoutrst
over the short s p a n of one day, and he s w o r e that
fleet at S a p i e n z a ! A4ayhap h e w a s t h e r e indeed, w a s struck upon the
head, that h e has gone silly.
J t i s painful to m e to hear of the defeat of the fleet, with so
being upon the coast, w h e r e any barbarous i n may put ashore. With
this concern in mind, 3 went to the shipyard to speak with the shipwrights,
a n d to e n d e a v o r to find the truth of the matter. As it befell, when 3 arrived,
they were in the process of keeling a vessel for th ke of repairing her,
a n d they were putting about the task in a most un ly a n d inefficient
manner, that 3 had to exclaim, as though to children, my astonishment.
to which exclamation, m o r e t h a n one of the w o r k e r s at the d
great offense, and brandished a boathook with which
extort a n apology out of me, or blood, or p e r h a p s bot
by a learned man, who c
nately recognized
3 must remind myself to hold to my tongue
the future with seamen, for they are roguish rapscall'
After speaking with the shipwright, for such my defender turned out to be,
J designed for them a system of lines a n d pulleys will m o r e effective-
ly tvansfer the forces of their strength against the s
which effovtsthey w e r e most gratefi.1, a n d tveated inner, at the most
rancid establishment 3 have ever had the displeas
b r e a d was quite coa-ely ground, a n d the beef wa
though i t had been hacked off the cow with a halberd. And the wine is best
left without description, especially the way 3 feel this morn.

hile inspecting the damage to the vessel, of which 3 knew little, as 3

have m a d e no serious study of n a ~ t i c a sciences,
l i t occ
thut a magickal ingenium emplaced upon a vessel could be used to e n h a n c e
its durability in battle, most specifically against the power of an enemy ves-
sel stviking i t in the side, below the waterline, with a vam. A different ingeni-
um would have to b e used to protect the vessel, a g a i n s t attack by Greek
fire, o r other pyrotechnical assaults, b m t J shall here work upon an
Jngenium Jfitegritas, which will b e employed in the d e f e n s e a g a i n s t raws,
collisions, and bombardments, a n d would also b e useful w e r e the vessel to
b e plying t w c h e r o u s waters, w h e r e t h e r e might be rocky s
sctrface of the water, invisible reefs, 8tc.
t h e method by which the ingenium sC\all work will
into a webwork, l i k e undoing a net or fabric, the
gleaned by watch those skilled at knitting, a n d in
webworks, one contained completely within the
(of which 3 h a v e one h e r e before me) has a n inn
glass, and i s hollow, yet the inner a n d outer SM

like manner shall the webworks of magickal

the otheu; yet be separ the hull of the vessel, which they in turn shall
press upon, the better with which it shall keep its shape, as a n y a t t a c k by
bombardment or ram shall have to overcome the durability of the magickal
net as well as the stvength of the hull of the ship.

Agaiurst the 'timkmeur

this by m e a n s be very well powered,
T o afford any efect,
as to protect a vessel against
sistibiliiy of a n underwater
ingenimm must

rock,
the hostiliiy of theTurkmen or
be woefully inadeqmate.
half-measures will
the irve-

any vessel upon which this ingenimm might be employed, is neces-

sarily a larger vessel, and therefore may admit to a larger s o u r c e of power
for this ingenicrm, for its increased efects, of which 3 believe a mundane
revision of my previous Jvlferno mechanism for empowerment might well be
adequate, for although s u c h a motivator is unforgiving of damages inflicted
upon it, i t shall be protected within the interio9 below decks, of a magickally
reinforced hull of a n Jtalian-built warship, a n d there is no place more safe
than that. Previous incidents at S a p i e n z a notwithstanding.
This will require that a f i v e or s o m e alchemical s o u r c e of heat b e employed
below decks, but as 3 understand that fire is likewise used by a ship's cook,
3 cannot see that here would be a n y objection to such an e q u i p p a g e . t h e
only difficulty arises in that if it w e r e necessary, d M e to the great length of a
protvacted naval battle, to buvn for consumption unimpovtant portions of the
ship itself, the stvength of the ingen;crm's magick would prevent even hardy
sai1ov.s+om prying ornamental planks or woodwork from the hull to b e
burned. Mpon the other hand, i t should be noted that should the ingenium run
completely out of fuel a n d cease to function, i t is likely that the vessel in
sHch a g r a v e position shall take d a m a g e from the enemy,
shall c a u s e
which
here to be an immediate supply of scrap a n d flammable woodstmffs.6

c
( L X E SMS'tEflllr\lVCE E f l G Z f l E )
per 3 had completed the design of my Jngeniuwr Jmtegritas, 3
r e t ~ ~ n etodthe docks to display m y invention to the shipwright
who favowd my c a u s e when J fret visit& that place. Sad13 he
w a s not receptive to my ideas fov the impmvement ofthe
s, a n d in fact was appalled at the idea of employing a five-pow-
ered version of my Jnferno mechanism below decks of a warship e n g a g e d in
battle. H e could not see that the Jngenimm Jntegritas would protect itself,
a n d with itself also &e c w w a m d the ship herself, +om enemy activities as
well as the mechanism's fire. J t i s perhaps as well; here are significantly
fewervenezian warships now, a n d a given one which were to employ my
Jmgenimm JMtegritas has a greater chance of being caphtred by theTurkmen,
at which time w e should see all &e vessels of the Ottoman &+re invincible.

The Lost
734s ingenium = l i e s upon the technique of infising additional lifeenergies into he
subject even as these energies ave extinguished by whatever means.The heat+
being the mmcle which pumps these enevgies abomt the bo& it is most necessavy
that the ingenium be held within close pvoximify to the heat+,or else that the inge-
nium b e of lavge design.7

Swll ingenia be safely opemted by clockwork, with a mainspring of

exceedingly stiff steel, and pvotected against water o r whatever elements might
impede i t s fCcnction.So made, the ingenium shall allow the weclrev being the peec
son affeded by i t s mgickal infctsions, to opemte in places under water, o r wheve
there m a i n s but only bad ai9 as in a mine shap OF in a building ablaze. tIew 3
must tell that the ingenium only pvotecis the vital ovgans from beiy destv0ye.d by
suffocation or poisons; it shall not provide any pvotection against the inferno, which
hall dive+ axme the weaver's flesh to be roasted until it no longer fctnctions,
althowh the weare? by the g r a c e of my ingenium, shall not be ovecow\e by the
smoke before the fire.
a larger version, this ingenium might be dto power a ship which would
h ~ v e under
l the waves as do whales and &er fish.Pockets of air must be
m i n t a i d in cases ofmevgen- and to allow forthe maintenance ofthe
ingeuium itself,as well as any smaller ingenia which might be used for
personal depavtuves from the vessel for explomtion, &c. Such a ves-

the C W o m a n Empire, and thence sewe to launch mines,

which shall goat up, a d ax- brecldes to the keel

'this undersea vessel has a n

advantage ovev my pevious
design for a non-magickal
submersible cr~lfi,
wheve-
&is vessel is not vul-
erable to having its

WCkSOPother
yfthe sea, as its m a g i c k a l effects p r e c l u d e ti$
inside the c r a f f . 8

S t a t i o n a r y edifices m a y a Is0 be constmcted, ne vepc

sion of the w i n d m i l l common in the lowlands
/vetherlands, which mill, by using the force
upon it, m i g h t afford a comfortable living environment without unduly
depleting the area of m a g i c k a l potential, and ing the occupants in
IuXury. 9

ith this ingenium, it might also b e pos

great heights, where the air become
normal human endt-trance, and thence to e
inventions. This modification of my previous JngeniMm
Sustentaculus, which, by inuerting the ratios a n d realigning the mecha-
nisms to w o r k in the r e v e r s e o r d e q would from those surrounding, c a u s e
the vital force to be depleted, instead of held buoyant. J n this fashion, tlqe
c r o w d s would g r o w w e a r y before they colnld bombard m e with their
praise, a n d 3 should h a v e a moment’s peace. 10

New Work to C o m m e m c e
is a better day, now, a n d my t e m p e r a m e n t is less stormy t h a n i t
w a s in the previous days, for surely MOW 3 reap the benefits of my
f a m e inthis town. F i r e n z e is building a new hall to h o u s e her city council,
a n d the government has retained m e to decorate the walls of the new
edifice with my works, representing the many F i r e n z e n victories on the
field of battle. 3 n light of r e c e n t events, 3 c a n n o t resist but to b a s e my
first work upon the Battle of Anghiari, wherein F i r e n z e n f o r c e s defeated
the M i l a n e s e a r m y s o m e sixty y e a r s previous. 3 h a v e c a r t o o n e d this
pleased by my initial resfilts, of t e n s e a n d fervent soldiers,
work, a n d a m
hovses rampant, a n d c l o u d s ofdlnst kicked u p by the tumult. 3 shall h a v e
to revise the plans, howeveu; a n d find a Letter method of working t h a n
fresco. 3 h a v e in mind a new paint which should s u f f i c e my n e e d s .
/My high repute has also attracted the attentions of several young and
aspiring gentlemen, each of whom hopes to paint as J do. Raffaelo Santi
shows promise, but J find that Andrea del Sarto is yet too young. J
have a/% that one ,Michelangelo Buonarroti is interested in my
I

heard complimentary reports a b o u t his statues of Bacchus, a n d Pie+&at

St. P e t e r ’ s . J myself shall withhold j u d g m e n t until J c a n see his work
personally, which J shall be able to do, since J a m told he also has
been commissioned to help to d e c o r a t e the hall of the city council.

u t my w o r k o n this painting has led m e to think of warfare, a n d what

J c a n perhaps accomplish for the betterment of the welfare of the
soldiers of Firenze, a n d J h a v e devised a n o t h e r variation upon the t h e m e
elucidated by my Jngenium Sustentaculus, which, by infusion of vital enev-
gies into the body of one wounded or ill, as from battle or plague, a n d
focused in the m a n n e r by which the Jngenium J n t e g r i t a s effectsits
works, shall c a u s e the d e c r e p i t u d e to b e flushed from the patient’s sys-
tem, that they might spring whole a n d hale from their beds anew.
J t is J fear a most difficult ifigenium to d e s i g n a n d calibrate, for insuf-
ficient infusion of vitality will not h a v e the desired effect, while J
believe a n e x c e s s i v e infusion will c a u s e the i l l p e r s o n to evoke s u c h a
f e v e r as might p r o v e fatal, or else to feel c u r e d of all i l l s while yet
uuhealthy, that that he arise from
is, a w o u n d e d man might feel so vital
the chirurgical table a n d walk away, with his arm yet d a n g l i n g from the
socket, a n d bleeding, which would b e most unseemly.
r the most accurate imparting of the effectsinto the ailing person, the
effectsof the ingenium must b e conveyed with a wrapping woven skill-
fully of gold a n d silken threads, which may c o v e r the patient all around, as
though a cocoon or a s h r o u d . t h e silk should b e of the brightest a n d most
cheerful colors available, that the patient may not believe a shroud it i s
indeed, a n d thereby p a n i c a n d d a m a g e the ingenium, which is very delicate
by n a t u r e a n d design, a n d poorly-disposed to a b r u p t shocks or motions.
t h i s is b e c a u s e of the fact that the ingenium itself must b e blown of
glass, so as to afford itself to b e perfectly unreceptive of the e n e r g i e s it
produces, for a n y build-up, w h e t h e r in the ivrgenium or of the surround-
ings themselves, c a n c a u s e a wave, which, suddenly imparted upon the
patient by w h a t e v e r circumstance, c a n b e deleterious in effects.6 s yet
J know of no J t a l i a n s so well-versed in the art of glass blowi-g that 3
d e e m them skilled e n o u g h to u n d e r t a k e t h e prodcrction of e c c e n t r i c
gears a n d precision-cast meclqanicat contrivances. Perhaps J c a n per-
suade the government to a n n o u n c e a reward for whichever a r t i s t c a n
p r o d u c e the best blown-glass clockworks, a n d t h e n employ that p e r s o n
in the production of this most merciful J n g e n i u m C u r a r e ~ s11
.

O n e final w o r d of warning: t he m a c h i n e itself must not only b e of glass,

but it m M s t also necessarily b e k e p t fastidiously c l e a n . t h i s cleanliness i s
not for the p l e a s u r e of the patient, for certainly his a w a r e n e s s will likely
not proceed past the w r a p p i n g s in which he is laid, but for the prevention
of a n y build-up of m a g i c k a l potential upon the e n g i n e itself 12
invention, a n

enced and skilled in a r t i f i c e . t h e r e was q u i t e s o m e a r g u m e n t a m o n g

those p r e s e n t upon which of these worthies stood i n d e e d a b o v e t h e oth-
ers, a n d while the debate gvew m o r e heated, J quietly e x c u s e d myself
a n d paid a call u p o n o n e of the gentlemen whose n a m e h a d a r i s e n fre-

e p p o n e 3 fouiZd a most interesting a n d e n e r g e t i c character., a n d he

73 a g r e e d at o n c e to build a m a c h i n e to my specifications. H e s e e m e d
a most curious man, a n d neverceased moving t h e e n t i r e time w e spoke,
not even to partake of wine, which h e did while working ~ p o his n lathe,
a custom which J found mildly alarming. 3 g a v e him a n a d v a n c e sum,

h a v e n o d o u b t s but that he shall c o m p l e t e the project in the stated time.

this is the evening of the d a y M p o n which h e b e g a n his labors, s o 3 shall

m y hands.

the combination to bear a great rock aloft. T h e kite shall cause the
assemblage to drift in a downwind direction, while t h e J n g e n i u m shall
hold the missile aloft. B y manipulating the kite from the ground, i t shall
be possible to aim the rock most accurately. B y a calculation employing
the triangle formed by the string of the kite, the elevation of the kite,
and the angle of elevation of the kite string itsel5 the true distance from
the holder of the string to the city may be readily calculated, and the
rock sighted along the string to drop where i t will.
Great calamity Befulls
has resmlted from Camillo’s engi-
3 is a most calamitous effect which
neering my ingenium. t h e technician has taken the presumption of
testing his skills by powering the ingenium, befove informing m e of the
completion of his labors. 3 c a n only a s s u m e that he had the device
switched to maximum effect, s i n c e that w a s the position in which J
a n d o n l y two ofeach kind, each with a f o r w a r d s a n d b a c k w a r d s mech-
anism, J c a n ensure that rival inventors shall not be able to steal each
ofhers' letters, saving only by theft of the competitor's J n g e n i u m
P e r p l e x us. 2

shall be equipped with s e v e r a l quills, e a c h well-

't" e Jngenium
e q u i p p e d with ink, a c c o r d i n g t o t h e d e s i g n for a n improved quill,
which J h a v e in a n o t h e r C o d e x around, though 3 c a n n o t find i t at this
moment.3 t h e s e quills shall b e set in a free-floating manne9 b a l a n c e d as
illustrated here, to be manipulated by the magickal e n e r g i e s c a u s e d by
the written p a r c h m e n t passing into the c e n t e r of the ingenium. t h e s e
quills must b e most finely balanced, as to r e a c t to the slightest pressure,
for surely the pressLtres e n g e n d e r e d by the magickal field of the ingenium
shall b e delicate indeed. A n d the ingenium must b e operated o n a solid
s t o n e flooq in a sealed room free from drafts, o r insects, a n d the o p e r a t o r
mtmt remain perfectly still, lest h e also reduce the ingenium's w o r k to

nonsense by j a r r i n g o n e o r m o r e of the quills. A n d a n Jngenium S o l a i r s

must be built inside, to illuminate the pages as they are encrypted.
Jt is also possible to send d r a w i n g s encoded, as the m a g i c k a l opera-
tion of the J n g e n i u m o n l y encodes the pvesence of lines; the J n g e n i u m
Perplexus k n o w s n o t a line of a letter from a line of a d r a w i n g , hence
d r a w i n g s a n d illustrations shall likewise be r e d u c e d to nonsense.

c
 t h e sheets of p a r c h m e n t upon which the e n c i p h e r e d m a r k s shall be
m a d e must b e fed individually, however. For items which are of utmost
importance, s u c h as m e s s a g e s s e n t to c l e v e r a g e n t s o p e r a t i n g in for-
e i g n cities, there b e attached s e v e r a l thin blades, which shall
can
reduce the original p a r c h m e n t to ribbons. B u t 3 n e e d not this m e
of security, for 3 intend to m a k e several copies of my Codex, twenty or
more, for the selling, although e a c h shall also be given with a n
J n g e n i ~ mPerplexMs, which shall at o n c e pro a n d p r o v e my work.
No, this 3 c a n n o t do, for i t would break me, o e the fees which 3
would b e forced to levy upon those, w h o are interested in my book, to
pay, would d r i v e them away, a n d again 3 shall h a
to s h a r e my enthusiasm. 3 shall h a v e to publish thi
course, c e r t a i n comments edited out, to avoid the
f i n d also, 3 shall l e a v e c e r t a i n ingenia o u t of thi
the Viu P e r e g r e u s . t h e copies shall be ready in

the effectsof magnetic axes o f f o v c

h a v e thought a g a i n upon
curved across the l a n d s c a p e from one e n d of the earth to
other. ;In this 3 recalled my visit t o v e n e z i a , w h e r e the ca
are plied by boatsmen, a n d where 3 saw gondoliers at work,
a n d also provided technical aid in the shipwrights in keeling a vessel for
repairs. 3 n this, the magnetic forces J believe a r e as invisible a n d
unbreakable ropes, bmt deformed not by stresses in a down
but actually buoyed in a graceful a r c a b o v e the l a n d s from
Earth to the other, w h e r e each line of magnetic force is rooted or attached.
fi g o n d o l i e r pulling a boat with a pole propels his craft forward, a n d in
a likewise manner, do men pull at a boat with ropes. W e v e the ropes to
be g r o u n d e d miles away, it would m a k e no difference to the work of the
shipwrights, a n d w e r e t h e gondolier’s pole to e x t e n d from the e n d of the
earth to the e n d of the earth, h e could still ply his craft by pulling his
body a l o n g its length. J n this manner, i t c a n be readily s e e n that the
lines of m a g n e t i c force, being of themselves inviolate a n d permanent,
1 may b e used, with a n ingenium d e s i g n e d for s u c h a purpose, to propel
a craft across the smrface of the p l a n e t in much
gears c a n be u s e d to propel links o f a chain.
n essence, the ingenium will act as though i t were a
3 system, which, using lines of m a g n e t i c force hi& a r e intangible
a n d invisible, yet a p p r o a c h i n g t h e infinite in number a n d of exquisite fin-
e r y of detail, m a y b e passed t h r o u g h its system repeatedly a n d without
loss of efficacy, e x c e p t i n g by which the ingeni
t h e orientation of the d e v i c e is most easily accomplished, being mere-
ly the d i r e c t i o n of the pulleys with respect to the ingenium, that is, the
ingenium will be d r a w n irresistibly t o w a r d s the magnetic pulleys a s they
perform the eforts o n the magnetic lines. J\s designed here, the ingeni-
um c a n n o t be w o r k e d in reverse, for the pulleys rely upon the tension of
the magnetic lines to d r a w themselves t o w a r d s them, a n d in reversed
effect, by pushing a g a i n s t the ethereal rope, the magnetic lines w o u l d
become hopelessly snarled, magnetizing the ingenium beyond u s e .
5

Arise, 0 , M e c k a w i s m !
uch a n ingenium would necessarily the
S require u s e of some sort of
elevating mechanism, in a v o i d a n c e of having to ovel*come t h e
forces of friction that which is to be t r a n s p o r t e d . J t i s far easier to
M p o n

propel a craft t h r o u g h the ai5 which is frictionless, t h a n t h r o u g h the

ground, which i s filled with r e s i s t a n c e . t h u s , employing the J a g e n i u m
jMagneticLts into a s u s p e n s i b l e craft of my o w n design, we find A vehicle
suited to the comveyance of people rapidly over g r e a t d i s t a n c e s .
 that the
3 ind
such a m a n n e r
b a l a n c e of su d e v i c e is no+ in ordeq
J might rotate forward, a n d
that used in
be thrust into the grounc
by t h e rocket as t h e Jngemium /\/lagneticMs pulls m e f o r w a r d . Truly
walking the earth should be far easier on the constitution t h a n
it. P e r h a p s this shall b e m o r e b a l a n c e d .

No,this would be a most undignified m a n n e r of transport. J shall have

to counterweight a n d b a l a n c e the initial d e s i g n . fib, but i f 3 w e r e to7

C
(COflFG5SYOflGflGYflG)
ve had plenty e n o u g h of the B o r g i a family! 3 a m furious!
h e s e v a l e n c i a n nobles-they are mothing of the s o r t - h a v e
m a d e a c o m p l e t e m o c k e r y of all that is tloly, let a l o n e all that
is Jtalian. We h a v e heard tell that the h u s b a n d of L u c r e z i a
Borgia, a n d this is her first hwsband, s i n c e the other m a r r i a g e s w e r e
annulled, a n d h e n c e never existed, h a s died. P r e s u m a b l y he died of a
w e a k e n i n g of the heart, hearts h a v e
which is n o t a s u r p r i s e s i n c e m a n y
b e e n w e a k e n e d w h e n Cesare s k e w e r s them with a stiletto. With
Cesare’s bloody hands, he should t a k e the n a m e C a r d i n a l S i n . tt a m
fuvious!
Of course, Cesare being a Cardinal, it is c e r t a i n that he shall d e M y any
w r o n g doing, a n d a s h e is a n ordained m e m b e r of the clergy, he is inca-
pable of lying, thus w e shall all h a v e to accept his i n n o c e n c e in the mat-
ter. tle is as innocent as a mongrel dog, or a plague-ridden rat! What
this country needs, in fact w h a t the e n t i r e Catholic Church a r o u n d th
gears being the ratio of five to seven, this being according to my calcula-
tion that which will r i m g from the imperative field the opportunity for
untruth, without the loss of the imperative to speak, for it does no good
to force someone to speak the truth, if he will not answer the questions
put to them.

Of course, tr is as pure a ma r as possible, so it is required that

the ingenium be created of the purest materials possible, however sil-
ver shall be of n o use. Better much that it be made of beaten gold or
perhaps platinum, and lubricated with pure oil or perhaps holy water, if
significamt amount can be had withoHt complaimt from the local

t o make thi geniuw powevful in aspect and irresistible in dominance,

it is my intention to imstall it in a room o f a tower built among the banks
of a fast-flowing stream, therewith to build a water wheel with which to
provide the i n g e d u w a constant and unwavering source of motivation,
which shall be seen to invest most thoroughly the area with the impera-
tive for veracity. 3t will be necessary to admit a disengagement mecha-
nism to allow the imgenium to rest while the magickal energies of the
area are being restored.

Anotlqer Ydea 0
OM must know, of course, &at to interrogate a n y of the Borgia fam-
ing ingenium would c a u s e
g r e a t c a l a m i t y to befall all who dertook the pursuit of the L o r d ’ s truth
in the matter. E s p e c i a l l y if those who questioned the B o r g i a (whichever
o n e i t w a s ) w e r e themselves u n d e r the influence of my Censurum
Veraceus, a n d thence s p o k e freely a n d honestly of their o w n disposi-
tions towards this most powerful a n d c o r r u p t family. To that end, i t is
but a simple endeavor to m a k e a s e c o n d a r y ingenium which shall w o r k
at the same time as the C e n s u r u m V e r a c e u s , a n d which shall have a
similar i m p a c t upon the person’s psyche, by using a different construc-
t i o n of wagickal enkrgies to influence the mental processes o f t h e per-
son. T h i s 3 n g e n i u m O b f u s c a r u s w o u l d c a u s e those so affected to forget
all which had occurred while the mechanism of the engine were
e n g a g e d . Jt w o u l d be r e q u i r e d to be of smaller i m p a c t in radius, so a s
n o t to cause the police to forget the confession as well, although the
inclusion of a l a r g e g l a s s lens w o u l d be ea) assistance in causing
the effect to be focused in nature. 8

-day 3 a m d i s m a y e d by the slow pace with which bad n e w s

c a n sometimes travel through
- Jtalia. J t i s suvprising
- to me, as
well, for J t a l i a n s are fain to talk at great a n d exhausting
length about all m a n n e r of subjects, and to g e s t i c u l a t e with
s u c h force that they cause your inkwell to spill upon yomr p a p e r s . 3t is in
just s u c h a m a n n e r that 3 h a v e received this latest a n d most ~ n w e l c o m e
bit of tidings.
3 h a v e b e e n given word that the F r e n c h have r e t a k e n the City ofIl/\ilano
from t h e forces of the Duke Sforza of Milano, my f o r m e r p a t r o n , J t is
said that Lodovico now languishes in prison, awaiting the pleasture of
L o u i s FII. S u c h are the forttunes of w a r a n d politicking, but 3 had better
hopes for 3 1 Moro, a n d n o w i t is a p p a r e n t that 3 shall n e v e r be g r a n t e d
the p l e a s u r e of completing the s t a t u e he wished of his father. A n d a
magnificent statue it would be, with not its e q u a l in all the world! 3 will
not return to that city of M i l a n o a g a i n , for 3 a m c e r t a i n that should 3
appear, the F r e n c h will force m e into making s o m e a r c h w a y commemo-
rating their trimmph at the city gates, a n d 3 h a v e no desire to bring their
t r e a c h e r y to qlory. Or p e r h a p s they would press me into devisinq a new
m e a n s of interrogating the Duke. Bah!
cannot bear t h e thought of the S r z a s imprisoned by the French. 3 t
h a s s o u r e d m y stomach, a n d now 3 must a b s t a i n from w i n e a n d
spicy dishes, a n d r e s t r a i n myself to p a s t a s . J shall h a v e to find a means
of purging myself of this phlegmatism, a n d so shall p u r s u e the invention
shall affect but a small portion o f t
can arrange for the effects of the i M g e M i u m to b
of metallic cords, so as to erase more evenly t
which distribution was designed and tested by constructing a man-
m e q u i n of cantaloupes, Necessarily, large people might r e q u i v e a differ-
ent distribution. Fdditionally, a n independent sot,wce of motivation i s not
feasible, as a n escapee cann pe-d on the blowing of the wind,
especially o n a dark Nedite ium shall have to
be empowered by a*small but vigor
ith the distribution of the tra s shown in drawing
Z, shown here, the small effects of the imgefiium will be distrib-
uted in a n arrangement such that it shall conceal the entirety of the
 hile meeting with Albert0 Rizzutto again, over dinner this

A day, he c h a n c e d to bring to m e s o m e ill tidings, which is

that thetmrkmen have at last wrested the city of D u r a z z o
f r o m v e n e z i a n presence, therewith robbing their army of
its strongest hold upon the lands of Asia Mino9 south of Dalmatia, which
could b e said to be m o r e o f t h e B a l k a n s than Asia M i n o r propenthis
a l a r m s m e greatly, for i t is a possibility now that t h e t u r k m e n will launch a
great fleet, with the intent and purpose of landing upon t h e v e n e z i a n coast,
striking at that fair city, a n d conquering her at once for subjugation into
the Ottoman Empire. Or else that they may m a r c h along the Adriatic
Coast, moving a g a i n s t Zara, a n d dismemberVenezian holdings piece-
meal for consumption by Constantinople.this is worrisome to me, for the
effectsof the M o h a m m e d a n zealots linger s t i l l in S p a i n , a n d J wodd ill
see that h a p p e n to f a i r v e n e z i a .

E w g q i w e to Smite
v
the earth!
n preparation for such a n event, 3 must c a l c m l a t e &e n e c e s s a r y engi-
neering of a device of magnificent destructive capabilities, with which 3
might b e a b l e to bring to a s u d d e n demise any Ottoman aspirations to J t a l i a n
lands, whether by invasion of fleeto v m a r c h of army. t h e brightest inspiva-
tion J have had is to create a n engine which acts upon the ground as does
the wind itself,that is, a n
a g a i n s t ao ill-rigged sail, which c a u s e s it to whip
ingenium which shall, by its nature, c a u s e a great trembling among the ele-
mental forces of the earth, a n d thereby the tangible earth propeu; for the dis-
array a n d disruption of the enemy. Also for the destruction of his fortifica-
tions a n d siege engines. J n w i h e s s of which, the terror of his people would
b e g r e a t s u c h that they would b r e a k at the sight of the approach of the
Venezian army, a n d the new magickal engines of w a r employed by same.
J n this manneu; i t is n e c e s s a r y to c a u s e oscillations among the lines of ele-
mental force. Or perhaps random vacillations would be better. yes, that i s
the solution, for although cyclic forces c a n indeed create l a r g e disruptions,
as evidenced by the method by which children disrupt a piece of rope in a
regular fashion to play at jumping it (3can see them doing so outside my
window, a n d 3 hope that they will cease their squealing, the better to help
m e concentrate), but in a similar fashion, it is possible that s u c h a disruption
will result in a minou; o r even a pleasing effect,much as a violin string is set
to vibrating for o u r ammsement. Furthermore, r e g u l a r disrmptions depend in
large p a r t on the regularity of the medium of the grounds
transmission, a n d
tyss
&& of a battlefield a r e likely to be very poorly homogenous, - a mix of stone and
dirt a n d s a n d . 3 r r e g u l a r stimulation i t must be.
inner suvface of the ingenum. J cCZose s e v e n t e e n g r a p n e l s , s i n c e s e v e n -
t e e n is a p r i m e numbeq a n d n o t divisible by a n y other. A n d the gearing
of the m a n y c a m s is s u c h that the g r a p n e l s will not a l i g n themselves in
the s a m e s e q u e n c e for some several thousand revolutions of the main drive
shaft, which shall require several houvs of continuous effort, o n &e part of he
ivlgeniuuur. the beatings ofthe grapnels causes the sphere to vibrate (these
vibrations also facilitatethe continuing revolutions of the cams). Fu&emore,
the engine is not created to be stable in aspect, a n d in fact is detachable from
i t s stand.O n c e the correct vibratory fequency is acheived, &e b r a c e s holding
the ingenum in place are =leased, a n d the sphere set f&e to bounce about
the landsdcape, transmitting its vibrations into the very ground, a n d causing
it to convulse with tremovs AS the suvface of the sea i s convcllsed with waves,
until s u c h time as its c a m s cease mtating. j+er the compete cycle of
s e q u e n c e s is played out, i t is impossible that the ingenium shall be seen to be
standing in the s a m e position as when i t w a s fbst begun to operate, and his
shall continue to cause the machine to have a n irregular effect. as
when a violinist bows the s a m e notes but holds his wrists at a different angle,
he plays a different string, so shall the Jngenium-tumuliuosus provide a
nevev-ending s e q u e n c e of random a n d a b e r r a n t pluckings of he elemental
forces. A n d m u s i n g tvemovs as a result.

fter great thought a n d meditation upon the ect, J find +ha+J now
a m unable to s e c u r e a suitable testing location for my J n g e n i u m
Ifuosus. Jts effectwould b e so great, that a n y n e a r b y would suffer
needlessly, a n d doubtless c a u s e the full force of the law to fall upon my
balding head. Furthermore, after great concentration, J a m Mnable to elu-
cidate the m a n n e r in which 3 might t r a n s p o r t the effectof my ingenium to a
location m o r e r e m o t e than that of the device, for it would be a n ill-advised
e n d e a v o r to c a u s e a t r e m o r of the
eav-th at a n y location within twenty miles
of the ingenium, to s a y nothing of the ingenium being the very c e n t e r of the
trembling. 3 shall h a v e to shelve this d e s i g n Mntil J have a better patron,
funding, a n d s o m e o n e m o r e reliable than Camillo to do my engineering. 1

-
r -a
DYSSOLUTYOJV EJVG
ince 3 a m unable to test m y Jngenium tt,tmulfuosus, 3 have
instead decided to undevtake a different approach to creating AM
effective ingenium for making w a r upon theTurkmen.n\is device,
properly deployed a n d employed byVene2ian or Firenzan tvoops
Id, will hold inviolate J t a l i a n fvontievs against &e most ingenious inven-
tions a n d stvongest forces which &e m o m a n E m p i r e array agaiMst
thing that theturkmen have so as to bring them to a peaceable and favor-
able resolution of this war With that 3 thought of endeavoring to create
the direct destruction of their fortifications, instead of employing the indi-
rect method of shaking their uery foundations through a quaking earth.
Of course, poor Rizwtto may have been taken somewhat aback, as he did
not understand whereof J ejaculated my excitement of inspivation, and 3
left him abandoned in the plaza without explanation. Jt is unfortunate, at
times, that 3 must write my inspirations immediately, lest 3 forget them.
Perhaps the remainder of my biscotti and the bottle of wine which 3 fov-
got by the side of the table both will have served to solace my effrontevy.

this device has a smaller radius of invocation, and is thereby consum-

mately easier to aim and set off without Mndue effects upon the user of the
device or the device mechanism pvoper For its effect itself, it is best
described, that it imparts to the affected material an acute lack of cohesion
ofthe stuffs of which it is made, causing it to fall into disarray, or powdeu;
as though eaten by termites or rusted through completely, although even if
the item affected were not iron or wood, even were it stone or glass.'the
Greeks might say the targeted material were rendered into atoms.

t h e dewice is a i m e d by the dishes mounted o n top of the contraption,

which, being g e a r e d together that they a l w a y s move in tandem, a n d by
e q u a l a m o u n t of tlqe radius, a n d being properly a l i g n e d a s to be syn-
 I-

chronous, p r o d u c e a n isosceles t r i a n g l e of projection, which point, being

the focus of aiiack, is r e n d e r e d dissolute.

X’ime Pvesses
ince the days are pressing upon the w e l f a r e o f v e n e z i a , 3 h a v e
determined that J must m a k e every effort to create and d e m o n s t r a t e
this d e v i c e for the benefit of the city, a n d theveby a l l Jtalia. For the p u r p o s e
of the demonstration, i t would b e most seemly were the d e v i c e to be self-
motivated, to which e n d 3 shall u s e a tightly wound spring of metal, as a
mainspring, the tensile power of which shall be e n o u g h to motivate the
m . Of course, for the winding of the spring, 3 shall h a v e to u s e a
<
lever a r m of sufficient moment, but J believe 3 c a n borrow a w r e n c h to
suit my n e e d s from Ciniffa, w h o m a k e s carriages outside of town.
Despite the r e c e n t results o b t a i n e d by that c a r e l e s s Camillo, J have
been able to r e t a i n the services of o n e flernani Bellizzi, a very excel-
lent m e t a l smith a n d m a k e r of clocks. Jt is most important that the
entire a s s e m b l a g e of this Dissolventum Universalis be m a d e entirely of
closely- fitted a n d studiously c a l i b r a t e d metals, for the d e v i c e itself is
t o l e r a n t of nothing in the line of deviation; e v e n the flexibility of w o o d e n
boxes is too g r e a t for its admission.2

O n c e the d e v i c e i s tightly w o u n d upon the mains

set u p iM a s u i t a b l e location, it is only n e c e s s a r y to a i m the dishes and
engage t h e m e c h a n i s m into o p e r a t i o n . T h e aiming of the dishes involves
determining tiie d i s t a n c e of the height of the t r i a n g l e f o r m e d by their foci,
the estimation of which is difficult for e v e n experienced artillerists.
H e n c e 3 h a v e also desigMed A s y s t e m of reflecting m i r r o r s a n d lenses,
which l e n s e s are mounted a b o v e the dishes, but s o close in aspect to
their position as to be nearly identical, a n d which t r a n s m i t the f o c u s of
the dishes to their v a r i o u s reflecting mirrors, which g u i d e the light to a
single plate, thusly g e n e r a t i n g a d o u b l e image, which c a n therefore be
the device. For w h e n t h e i m a g e o n the viewing plate i s
u s e d for aiming
least distorted by the twin images, then the operator of the Dissolventum
a
Universalis knows that the d e v i c e is properly a i m e d upon that spot.

E ~ o r t iRobbery!
~ ~ !
y mother! t h e p r i c e s which that t l e r n a n i Bellizzi has levied
a g a i n s t m e for this project are exorbitant! Gvidently h e has had a
m that r a s c a l Camillo, who J c a n only a s s u m e g a v e him a heavily-
e m b r o i d e r e d version of the incident, and though being disposed of a b a n -
doning the job thromgh Camillo’s detractions, nonetheless found himself
unable to r e n e g e upon his word, a n d in p u r p o s e of forcing m e to a b a n d o n
his services, raised his prices to levels which he thought J w a s unable to
afford. He has underestimated me, howeve6 for 3 h a v e s e q u e s t e r e d quite
a fair r e s e r v e in my years, a n d paid his inflated prices, in surprise of which
he vowed to perform for m e his finest craftsmanship.
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bloody hands. Perhaps h e thinks Louis will n o t remember his resistance to

his cousin Charles. 3 do not pretend to understaMd tlqat man's mind.There
is no telling to what depths A l e x a n d e r the Borgia will MOW stoop.
/Michelangelo Buoncxrroti confides to me that he aspires to paint a fresco
next to those of Botticelli, Signorelli, et al; in the S i s t i n e Chapel. tle is a
dreamer, and J myself w o u l d distance my work from that ofthe church.

t h e n e e d for this Testudo €lementalis is now greater than eve5 for w e find
omvselves SurroMnded with enemies, from thetctrkmen to the French to &e
Church. With B i a n c a maria Sforza's m a r r i a g e to &Iaximilian I, the tIoly
R o m a n E m p i r e i s s t i l l on o u r side, although even h e i r valme is qmestioned
at this time, with S w i t z e r l a n d MOW standing in sovereign testimony to the
tloly R o m a n Gmpire's ineffectuality in enforcing their will t h m u g h military
means. With these notifications in mind h a v e 3 constructed the design for

Yur Fmurctiour
s illustrated in drawing a, the transmission pod of the

surround my invention. J n this, the circumscription of the rod must Ly its

 the c r e a t i v e
that through lication of a tvammel o r other such e l a b o r a t e

impediments io the motion of the rod, that a n elliptical perimeter to the

t e s t u d o €lementalis c a n be derived, the b e i t e v io protect a line of men
without needless w a s t e of m a g i c k a l enevgy a n d abrogating the e x p a n -
sion of the protection to incorporate empty space in front of the soldiers,
into which a body of b r a v e enemies might breach a n d cause havoc.3

t h e central mechanism of this ingenium is, as illustrated here, the cru-

cible, which c o n t a i n s the material to be c o n s u m e d by the ingenium, which
in turn, shall be sekn to affectthe elemental manifestation of the output of
the device, thereby determining w h a t m a n n e r of wall shall be erected, for
the protection. 3 must consult with those v e r s e d in the alchemical arts to
u n d e r s t a n d exactly which materials a r e best suited to the c o n s e c r a t i o n of
the ingenium to c e r t a i n elements, although from conversations with a
chirurgeon, 3 a m led to believe that bile, blood, phlegm, a n d urine are the ~

materials associated most efficaciously.4

3ts Msuges
e ingenium, being designed foe a n d e m i n e d y suited to, the pvotection of
T k a body of soldievy, in maneuvevs against the foe, i t shall be obvious that i t is
best powered by manual eyevtions,which are most readily obtained by soldiery.
J n this fashion, the ingenium MM be carried upon the back of one of the soldievs
to allow for maXimal povtability, or else, should the size afthe device be prohibi-
tive, as might be the case for a device large enough to protect a fLll regiment, it
a n be povted about in a small wagon designed for that purpose, with a modi-
fied c r a n k m a d e expressly fov the use by two or four men, or possibly mules.
A n d now 3 have indeed o n c e more, at great personal expense a n d consid-
erable diff;culty, obtained the materials needed for the constvuction of this
ingenium, for with it 3 c a n prove o n c e a n d for all time that indeed my
designs are sound. No more will the craftsmen here build of these engines in
their completeness, but instead 3 w a s forced to dispevse the pieces of the
ingenium among several craftsmen,a n d undevtake the completion of the
the a s s e m b l a g e of the ingenium myself. 3t appeavs that word of
parts a n d
GmiIIo’s roof a n d Bellizzi’s workshop has spvead rapidly about the city, a n d
none othevs will risk their o w n houses.

jh&er Fu;!mve. ..
e experiment is a failure. After cranking the handle ofthe ingenium until
T ‘ 3 m ya r m s ached, no ctwtain of fire arose in testament to my labors. 3
moved about a n d felt the g r a s s at the radius ofthe t e s t u d o Elementalis
which should h a v e arisen, according to my calcuIations, a n d felt about w i h
my hands.-e grass was most cevtainly parched a n d withered, a n d a rev-
fect ring of browned grass stood about me, but unfovtunately this is not
enomgl/tto forestall a n enemy. J endeavored to w a k e another s h n g e r spring
with wlqiclq to wind the inaeMium, but durinq the crankinq the linchpin split d u e
v L v

to inferior constvuction.
 received word this day that JV(aximiIian I, the E s t e e m e d Holy
o m a n €mperor, has, in w h a t is now known as the Peace of
Trent, r e c o g n i z e d the F r e n c h o c c u p a t i o n of her c o n q u e s t s in
our f a i r 3talia as legitimate. 3 t i s now obvious that tttalia is a
b r o k e n and d i v i d e d - l a n d , which both a n g e r s a n d s a d d e n s me, a n d m o r e
so that s h e shall not h a v e the b e n e f i t o f f o r e i g a s s i s t a n c e to d e f e a t
F r a n c e . Jtalia shall h a v e to d r i v e out the Fre h herself, e v e n if i t t a k e s
twenty y e a r s , but d r i v e t h e m out w e shall!
Ordinarily 3 do not like to lose my temper,
the n e w s f r o m Ciiovanni while b r e a k i n g fa
er, e v e n as 3 did so, 3 was able to draw
explosion of rage a n d that w h i c h indeed shall b e most p r o d u c t i v e in
routing the F r e n ch from the field.
3 t is s u c h a s i m p l e variation of my o w n previo
a n d less d e s t r u c t i v e to h o m e s t h a n the J n g e M i that
y y I ~ I ~ ~ . L ( o s ~ s ,3

wonder that 3 had not previously invented its mechanism. However, 3

find that my t h o u g h t s a n d s u c c e s s e s both flow m o r e readily w h e n J am
OMthe contemplation of m a t t e r s martial in nature. 5
e ingenium should b e c o n s t r u c t e d of p u r e s t iron, the better to focus
and amplik the destructive forces which this shall unleash, a n d aim-
ing may be effected through the manipulation of the scope mounted O M top
of the device. 3 12 keeping with the necessity of military ingenia to be

p o r t a b l e a n d i n d e p e n d e n t of water, wind, &c, a n d other s o u r c e s of exte

n a l power, it is n e c e s s a r y to turn the c e n t r a l axle of the ingenium manuallyj
however, wiih a proper series of gears, this method of empowering the
d e v i c e c a n b e calibrated to a n y s t r e n g t h or rapidity of fire desired. J esti-
m a t e that in o r d e r to bombard a n d destroy a city wall, with a series of
fiery projectiles like unto a storm, that a t e a m of twenty horses or m o r e
might be required, but although a lesser a m o u n t might not strike d o w n t h e
rock, the conflagration would cause great fear a n d c o n sion a m o n g +he
d e f e n d e r s . J m u s t also someday test this device, however, to e n s w e that
i t does not heat u p as a result of g e n e r a t i n g s u c h temperatures itself.6

t last the w o r s t e v e n t which 3 h a v e feared has c o m e

s t a n d i n g only that of being b
as c r u e l a n d unseemly a f a s h i o n a
A l e x a n d e r VI, that vile s c h e m i n g uswper of the
noble of mortal m a n and the C h u r c h , h a s now ordered, by papal bull, for
all books which are said to b e set a g a i n s
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the C h u r c h , t h r o u g h fiat of his o w n p e r s o n a l distastes J a m c e r t a i n , to be
burned, as t h o u g h in the fires of Hell itself. F o r e m o s t of these books
which a r e to b e c o n s u m e d by flamesa r e the m e r e two dozen copies of
my o w n latest n o t e b o o k which J have published, a n d at my o w n e x p e n s e
a n d great t r a v a i 1 . t h e offense which
book h a s c a u s e d is so great,
my
a n d e n g e n d e r s s u c h tremulous feelings in t h e hearts of the c h u r c h , that
the pope has o r d e r e d , as well, with g r e a t solemnity of p u r p o s e , that no
written r e c o r d of my n o t e b o o k s having existed is to be m a d e , and all
kr\owledge of this Cudex having been created is to b e smitten from the
minds of m e n for all time, u n d e r penalty of excommunication, e t e r n a l
damnation, purgatory, &c. my Cudex is to be struck from the pages of
history, destroyed utterly as w e r e the untold volumes of the Library of
A l e x a n d r i a . A l t h o u g h J myself face charges of heresy, this 3 c a n n o t
the
allow to h a p p e n , for J h a v e s p e n t my y e a r s in a tireless q u e s t for
uncovering of m u c h k n o w l e d g e to the b e t t e r m e n t a n d enjoyment of the
common man, a n d to tMrn my b a c k so upon my own d i s c o v e r i e s into this
most mystical of p o w e r s i s a b u r d e n m o r e heinous and w e a r y i n g to m e
than any other. 3 c a n n o t let it b e so.

h a v e items of s u c h great p o w e r as this ingeMium of f i r e a n d

brimstone inthe h a n d s of the u n s c r u p ~ l o u sBorgias would
c a u s e g r e a t calamity, upon the rest of Jtalia, a n d perhaps all of E u r o p e .
A g a i n s t those w h o would c o n s i g n k n o w l e d g e to oblivion, as though i t
tion.

The objective is to s n a v e a line of magickal force and

r a w it towards the iMgeMiMm itself, but without consmming
in the act of capturing it, much a s a fish is captured and
drawn in to the fisher’s vessel, by m e a n s of a barbed hook
 line itself, p r e s e n t i n g a t a n g e n t i a l line to the ingeni-
urn, with a great amount of additional power d u e to
the stresses i m p a r t e d upon the elasticity of the
force, a n d h e r e shall b e illustrated that i n g e ~ i u m .
which c a n d r a w m a g i c k a l p o w e r s into the area
f r o m l a n d s far beyond.

o f a s FUMCtiOM UMd Jvu.tcrwe

ne b e g i n s with s n a r e s , w h i c h shall b e as
hooks, but f o r m e d in c o m p l e t e circles, a n d
turned o n c e around back upon t h e m s e l v e s a n d fashioned of purest
gold, to afford the greatest protection to the u s e r . t h e s e are w o u n d in
the m a n n e r s o illustrated, in d r a w i n g s b t h r o u g h e, for the making of the
s p o o l -itself is intricate, a l t h o u g h s c h e m a t i c a l l y i t is difficult to illumi-

lawdl so,3 jUUSt Close

v e n thowgh my burning of wy notebook was seen, a l t h o u g h
rough papal edict not r e c o r d e d , a n d even deliberately remem-
bered to b e f o r g o t t e n by t h e m o s t f e a r i n g of the pious, i n d e e d the suspi-
c i o u s a n d untrfisting m a n n e r of the Pope a n d his a i n e d h e n c h m e n is
e v i d e n t s t i l l . 3 r e t u r n e d to my domicile last w e e k , a n d upon entering,
found that the s a n c t i t y of m y d o m a i n had i n d e e d b e e n violated, a n d many
of my w o r k s in p r o g r e s s had b e e n t a k e n a n d r e m o v e d . Fortunately, J
practiced foresight, for i n d e e d 3 had o b s e r v e d that s u c h a n e v e n t might
t a k e place, a n d had taken
care to hide this manu-
s c r i p t b e n e a t h the a s h e s in
the fireplace, which is
a b o v e all the last place
one might expect A stu-
* dious a n d careful man
s u c h as 3 to s e q u e s t e r
invaluable d o c u m e n t s . my
stolefi w o r k s h a v e bee@n o w r e t u r n e d to me, peremptorily, by a n
u n n a m e d priest, but as the v a n d a l s acted upon the g u i d a n c e of the most
obnoxiofis Pope, they offered, a-d in fact r e q u i r e d , no e x p l a n a t i o n of
their activities.
3 c a n n o t a b i d e this t y p e of hounding, to be trea Without respect, a n d
to h a v e my p r o p r i e t y a n d p r i v a c y violated, a n d with s u c h a c a s u a l dis-
regard for m o r a l i t y . t r u l y n o w do 3 u n d e r s t a n d better the w o r d s of the
Christ w h e n +le s p o k e to the P h a r i s e e s of his time, althowgh 3 c a n n o t
r e m e m b e r exactly w h a t they w e r e , a n d 3 do n o t wish to m i s q u o t e Him in
these p a g e s , s o 3 shall h a v e to look u p the passage in qmestion this
evening. But s u f f i c e i t to s a y that J agree with t l i m that the holy men of
 the day were, a n d for
m e yet are, c o r r u p t
individuals w h o hold
not God sacred, but
instead revere more
their poweq a n d their
privilege, and their
position. Why, the word is that the P o p e has s i r e d a n o t h e r child. B y
i m m a c u l a t e conception, 3 a m s w r e , s i n c e h e is u n w a r r i e d . 3 c a n only
p r a y t h a t this Pope A l e x a n d e r V I and his s c h e m i n g offspring r e c e i v e
their j u s t rewards both in this world a n d in the I~ereafteu; for the sooner
they r e a p the t r e a c h e r y a n d c o r r u p t i o n they h a v e sown, the sooner 3
shall b e a b l e to c o n t i n u e these studies. J n fact, w e r e the Pope to die next
y e a 6 3 couldn’t b e m o r e elated.
m a y perhaps know why these illegal and affronting s e a r c h e s w e r e
J m a d e upon my house. J h a v e had w o r d that a n f i r a b m e r c h a n t h a s
c a u s e d one copy of my m a n u s c r i p t to d i s a p p e a r . H e c l a i m s to h a v e
burned the papers u p o n h e a r i n g of the edict, bat the c h u r c h a u t h o r i t i e s
d o u b t his word as he is merely A h e a t h e n and not at all a C h r i s t i a n . T h e y
s e a r c h e d his h o u s e a n d those items which he w a s shipping back to his
homelands, but they found not my book. H e c l a i m s that it c a n n o t b e
r e c l a i m e d from the fires which c o n s u m e d it, a n d so is held in prison at
this time at the Pope’s 1eiswre.There are those w h o s a y he c o n s o r t s with
supernatwral forces, a n d m a y h a v e u s e d d a r k arts to secrete my Codex

hatever the trath of that sfory,

3 will l e a v e these m a g i c k a l
researches to l i e fallow for t h e p r e s e n t time, until the Papal f i r e s
nation are cooled. p e r h a p s 3 c a n d i v e r t my o w n attention from

3 g h i a r i yet awaits m y brush. 3 have also r e c e i v e d n o t i c e from the mer-

c h a n t Ciiacondo that he would like m e to r e n d e r his wife, Lisa, for pos-
terity. 3 hope this will help d i v e r t me, although t h e f a s h i o n of s h a v i n g
one’s eyebrows does not e n d e a r f i r e n z a n w o m e n to m e . P e r h a p s w e r e
3 to include m o r e of her in the d r a w i n g , this farcical depilation will not
b e as noticeable, a n d the painting will also look less like a d e c a p i t a t i o n
as do so many portraits. B u t these are t h o u g h t s for a n o t h e r day. 3 m u s t
MOLL, sequester this Codex among my m o s t p e r s o n a l belongings, a n d
think a g a i n upon i t no more. 10
 e),, Mike. You’re probably there, though not many. 1 ended up malung a
wondering all this stuff is bunch of little slips of paper, each with the name
stLlcli at the back ofthis book. of one engine, and sorting the list that way, and
well, there’s two reasons. then copving it over by hand again. Sigh. Well,

stuff to write down all the game mechanics Have fun-

for these things, wondrous as they are.
Second, when you’re playing a role-playing
HOW SORCEROUS EflCiJflES
game, especially the Great Game (which is WORK Jfl REAL LXE
really getting popular over here), you real- npredictably No, wait, that’s not what I
ly shouldn’t worry about petty things like meant to say. Actually, sorcerous engines
difficulty numbers. are pretty predictable,
~

We don’t in real life, although I can tell you that

right? We just make a 8 they are not all alike. Not
reckoning of the odds Wheo +he 1
even the engines we use for
1 our aerodreadnoughts, all
So, when someone PVOPeV e M e V - ! made to the same plans, are
in the Great Game I alike. That’s because of the
wants to make a mag- q
v
i e s are used, way they are built and
tuned and maintained; har-
ickal engine, o r if he
finds a copy of the +he mechanical monics can be different for
each one. Furthermore,
Codex, or just a page,
or whatever, you can utkenfions there is some unpredictabil-
hand him the book, f ity in a magickal engine,
and use a heavy-duty 1create E because the energies it con-
clip to hold these [, sumes to do its work can
pages shut. That way, peu.fectjy bOMnd 1 cause some strange effects.
he’ll deal with the info
8
1 Unlike gasoline
- back there,
as he would in real I which is pretty much uni-
energies I t
life, without suits and 1 form, magickal power varies
feat difficulty num- greatly.
bers and required Anyway, there are two
skills. It’ll make suspension of disbelief eas- types of sorcerous automata: spontaneous and
ier, role-playing more realistic, and what continuous. Spontaneous engines gather up
the heck, it lets you, the Host, fiidge all the enough power to fire off an instant spell, and
numbers if you have to for the sake of dra- when they have it, the spell gets cast. An exam-
matic interest. Speaking of dramatic inter- ple of a spontaneous magickal engine is the
est, I have a dinner date with Marianne destruction engine o n page 104: Crank it up,
tonight, and-well, never mind. and a few moments later a blazing fireball vom-
I’ve taken the time to alphabetize the its forth to smite the enemy, as Morrolan would
list of engines described in this book, and put it. I<eep the destruction engine running,
reference them all by the page number and fireballs will continue to be spit Out at
lvhere they appear. And let me tell JTOU, slightly irregular intervals, depending on the
enough power to create a temporary change in
conditions, enact that change, and then they’re
done. They act just like wizards do, drawing up
power and using it-except they cannot selec-
tivelv eliminate unwanted power. The brainless
things just use it all.
Continuous engines are different. They
weave a complex and long-lasting spell, creating
all these subethric ltnots which can redefine the
reality around the machine. Since these Imots try
to unravel themselves, the magickal engine has
to hold them together, which it does by contin-
uing to run. It keeps the tension off the knots so
they won’t untie, if you want to think of it that
way So what they do is gather up large quanti-
ties of energy, larger quantities than the sponta-
neous engines do, and use them to alter the
qualities of the world immediately around them.
The reason they need to usc so much energy is
that the spells must be able to last for a lot
longer.
The curious thing is that the engine itself is
what does the work, not the magickal power.
The engine uses thc magicli as a catalyst, but
when it is shut off, it releases the magicltd ener-
gy back into its surroundings. This means that
when a continuous sorcerous automata starts up,
it gathers up a bunch of power, depleting the
area. When it’s shut off, the power returns pret-
ty rapidly. However, if you moire the magiclcal
engine, the power it has accumulated goes with
it, held by its mechanical arms. If it’s shut down
somewhere else, that place will have more power
than normal.
We haven’t done much experimenting on
what happens when a place has more than a nor-
mal amount of magickal energy. Mer all, we’ve
only had these aerodreadnoughts a short while,
and we’re keeping the few other engines we’ve
built securely under guard back at Falkenstein.
So what happens when an area is ovcrstoclted
on magick? It could be that anyone casicing a
spell in the area gathers more power than
intended. You could simulate this in the game, if
you like. Take your normal sorcerv deck, and
shuffle in extra cards from another deck. When
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someone draws a card from the sorcery deck, have to wait for the normal regenerative proper-
and the top card on the deck after they draw is ties to generate enough extra magick before we
a card from the extra deck, they automatically can leave. Not a terribly great situation, espe-
draw that card too, and add it to their hand. If cially since this means that our magnetic force
the top card after that is also an extra card, they engine is a sitting duck for the capture. I’ve
draw that one too, and so on, until the top card brought this problem to the attention of the
is a normal sorcery deck card. Perhaps the wiz- king, and suggested we install auxiliary pro-
ard has the option of discarding these extra pellers on the front of our aerobattleships as an
cards forced upon him or her, or perhaps not. emergency propulsion system.
Not is definitely more fun., and I think it’s more
realistic. Casting a spell in an area supersaturat- HOW SORCGROMS EflCiJflCS
ed with magick would seem to be as risky as WORU J f l GfijMGtERNS
lighting a torch in a fireworks warehouse. very sorcerous automaton has an associated
Especially if there’s another joker or two in the activation level, which is the amount of
extra cards. magiclcal energy the engine needs to cast the
You could take a simi- spell it’s designed for. If you
lar approach when some- look over the list at the end
one fires up a magickal of these pages, you’ll notice
engine in an area where
tinfo v e s e e n that continuous engines
there’s a lot of magickal
power. magickal require
mani- activatea lot more energy to
than do sponta-

as
You can imagine that
magickal engines
festations may neous engines. This is due
to the effects I described
become more common,
whatever wizards are in
come into being above. However, there are
spontaneous magickal
the area are going to get engines which require more
peeved. The things will power than a mage would to
suck up the energy and do the same thing with a
keep it, perhaps-if they’re spell. For example, the
a magnetic force engine or transformation engine takes
somethin g-even carry 16 points of power to acti-
that energy away. This vate, while a Templar can
might be incidental to the change the shape of an item
engine operator’s purpos- with a 12-point spell. This is
es, or the user of the because the effects of the
engine might even do it Templar’s spell will fade, but
deliberatelv, to disarm the the spontaneous engine’s -
local mages. Let me tell you, when we launched effects are permanent! Once a transformation
the airships from Bayern, we were magickally engine changes the shape of an item, it will for-
destitute back in Munchen. It was bad. ever be that new shape-that’s its new natural
This also means that continuous magickal condition.
engines can be used to trap or disable other con- When a magiclcal engine is switched on, the
tinuous magickal engines. For example, imagine Host begins to draw cards for it from the sor-
one of our aerobattleships resting at anchor. cery deck, one card per round (or at whatever
Someone comes in with another magickal frequency the Host deems suited for dramatic
engine and sucks LIPall the power in the area for effect). All cards are added to the engine’s pile;
its effect. Now our aerobattleship can’t gather the engine cannot refuse any card. Once the
up enough power to get out of there; there sim- value of the cards in the engine’s pile equals or
plv isn’t enough power left around, and we’ll exceeds the engine’s activation level, the mag-
 pull the Star Iron-laced control arm back to nor-

automaton and apply any harmonics that are For spontaneous engines, backlash is a popu-
called for. These harmonics will affect the indi- lar approach to take-the destruction engine
vidual casting of the spell for spontaneous fires off such a powerful fireball that it also melts
engines, and they will be- sustained with the itself in the process, that sort of thing.
effects of a continuous engine for as long as it’s
operating. Magiclral engines are designed to use AJMJflCi 14
SORCEROMS

engine exhibits no harmonics at that time.

associated with them, depending on how well
they were put together and calibrated. This
craftsmanship value is added to the number of
cards Of the appropriate Suit that were drawn for
the purposes of determining harmonics. Thus, if
an engine draws two cards of the appropriate
suit, and three cards Of another suit, it would
normally exhibit the harmonics of that second
suit. However, if the engine had a craftsmanship
of two, it would have effectively drawn four
it’s best if these fireballs hit the target.
Therefore, you have to aim them.
Aiming an engine is different from calibrat-
ing it (calibrating an engine is covered under
Making a Sorcerous Automaton). Consider aim-
ing the magickal engine to be like steering a car,
while calibrating it is like tuning h e engine and
aligning the wheels. This is an especially appro-
priate simile for things lilre magnetic force
engines, which are used to move and steer the

harmonics. netic force, you need to be able to do it in a con-

deck as do human mages. Continuous engines
deplete the deck temporarily; when a continuous
engine is shut down, all of its cards are returned
to the deck at whatever rate the Host deems
appropriate (usually, unless the characters are
~mbroiledin combat, We just dump the whole
slew back into the deck)
Aiming a magckal engine requires that the
operator undertake a Tinkering feat, and the
more difficult the job ofaiming, the tougher the
feat becomes. Also, the more important it is that
the magickal engine not affect anything else
nearby, the more difficult the task becomes. For
example, it’s easy to aim a destruction engine to

impact on the engine itself. The second time we
launched the Vakyrie, one of the knots of mag-
ickal energy got itself caught around the control
arm for the magnetic force engine and Pulled it
to maximum. Suddenly We found ourselves
hurtling at an impossible speed out over the
North Sea headed straight for the Arctic in win-
orphanage on the other.
I haven’t bothered to note which engines
need to be aimed; it’s pretty obvious which Ones
they are. Besides, players are so clever, they
might think of a new way around such restric-
tions.

r skim a Madckal En&,
” is not as
J
Y v
easy as it might seem. This is because
the technology, the knowledge of
.how to create one, is not known to
the world at large. Unlike malung a new-fangled
device with Tdiering, which relies on commonly
held knowledge, the possibility of creating magick-
al engines is an idea unknown to many. It’s sort of
like trying to make an atomic bomb in 1950; you
can only get the technology &om the Soviets or the
American-British Manhattan Project. Yeah, right,
and good luck to you.
This means the dramatic characters have to
gain access to the knowledge of how to build mag-
ickal engines through their own activities. That’s
right: This isn’t invention by feats, this is Creation
Through Adventure.
Creation Through Adventure requires that the
dramatic characters jump through five hoops:
1) Get the Plans
2) Get the Materials
3) Build the Engine
4) Tune the Engine
5) Determine Its Efficiency
I’ll explain each of these in order. There may be
one or two things you don’t understand at the
moment I explain it, but all shall be made clear, so
stick it out.
GETTtlE PLANS
bviouslv, you ain’t a-goin’ nowhere untd you
do this. You can obtain copies of the plans
fi-om my copy of Leo’s Codex, or discover a long-
lost page of Leo’s original notebooks in some
widow’s attic in Genoa, or acquire the plans from
someone else who, by hook, crook, or genius, has
a copy of his own. Or, hardest of all, you can
design your own magiclial engine (don’t even try
untd you’re Excellent at Sorcerous Engineering).
Getting the plans must be played through in
the game. We of the Inner Circle are loathe to give
up our secrets, as would be anyone else the Host
decides has a plan for a magickal engine. Unless the
dramatic characters have ingratiated themselves to
W
c
no end with the leaders of Bayern, they’ll have to
come up with a darned interesting scheme to get
hold of the plans.
flEW SKJLL: S O R C E R O ~ S
ENGJNEERJflG (e)
his is the ability to design and tune sorcer-
ous automata (building them in and of
itself is a Tinkering feat). A Poor Sorcerous
Engineering skill means you are technically illit-
erate with magiclial engines; you don’t know
how to operate them, and if you tried to design
or tune one, others nearby would run for very
solid cover from the impending blast. Good
Sorcerous Engineering is still not particularly
good; you can probably adjust very simple
devices, but your designs are only the most
basic, and are still unreliable at best. Tuning
complex magickal engines is still a nervous
undertaking. Great Sorcerous Engineering
ability allows you to readily design very simple
engines, and even undertake some more com-
plex ones. Tuning engines is something which
you perform with confidence. Those with
Exceptional Sorcerous Engineering skills can
design a wide variety of engines, and tune them
quickly and efficiently. Characters with an
Extraordinary ability at Sorcerous Engineering
can create any magickal engine imaginable, and
tune even the most temperamental and explo-
sive engine without a fuss. Those with such
skills are on par with Leo himself, and are prob-
ably bent on global domination besides.
Designing an engine from scratch involves a
Sorcerous Engineering feat. Use the complexi-
ty of the engine as the difficulty of designing it,
i.e., the harder it is to build, the harder it is to
design as well, right? If the engine being devel-
oped is a new one, use our complexities as
guidelines. If it’s a combination of engines
given in this book, you might want to take the
higher difficulty and add half the lower to
determine how tough a feat it is.
There are several restrictions on the use of
Sorcerous Engineering. First, anyone with the
skill must also have Sorcery at a level equal to or
greater than didn’t work well, but that was after Bellizzi lost h s
Engineering. You have to be able to see the disintegration engine-and, presumably, swept up
subethric knots to be able to adjust the way the his Star Iron and threw it away.)
engine Produrn them, and YOU can Only adjust The amount of ron you must have to build
the engine as Well as YOU can S e e the knots. (well, the magickal engine depends on its size and the base
O b 5 SOrneone with a @ magician for a men- complexity of its construction. This chart shows the
tor might be able to deign an engine to tie spe- sizes of engine which can be created, how much
CifiC bo@, but he YC - COuldn’t tune the Star Iron is required for each one, and the increase
engine Once it’s built-) second, dramatic CharaC- in the engine’s base cost given as a result of its size.
cannot take &mxmus Enginering as their Big engines get very, very expensive.
mandatory Poor skill without the permission of
the Host. Third, dramatic characters cannot have Engine Comparison Complexity Range Cost
a Sorcerous Engineering skill greater than Good Size Guide S
- M Y Increase
without having a great background story (feasi- Tiny Toy 1/2 oz. 2 oz. 40z. x0.5
Small Chest xl
ble, or at least interesting and fun) which the Medium Desk x1.5
Host accepts. Generally, characters should only Large Carriage 8oz. 1Ib. 2Ib. x3
be able to improve their Sorcerous Engineering Locomotive 1lb. 2 lb. 4 lb. x8
skill beyond Good through game play-and 2Ib. 4 Ib. 8 Ib. x20
extraordinaryactivities, as well. The only method Key:
we know of in New Europa to leam this skill is S Simple (Difficulty1-20).
M Moderately Complex (Difficulty21-50).
by being a member of the Bayernese Inner Circle,
V: Very Complex (Difficulty51+).
which is composed of Ludwig, Rhyme,
Morrolan, Auberon, and myself. We don’t even Obviously, this is just a guidehe. For better
let Or in On the saeq at suspension of disbelief, the Host should adjust the
least not much. The fewer who the better* numbers for engines at the edges of the complexi-
to the a character must either join ty range, and promote or inhbit the development
Opefullythe former* of those engines which are deemed dangerous.
Also, remember that the character building the
engine can subtract 100 times his Tinkering ability
whatever other materials fie or glass that fi-om the base cost of the sorcerous automaton
COSt by the engine’s price
the engine requires. A lot oftJGs can be done with before mdtiplfing
a flick of the Host’s wrist, as role-playing a shop- increase due to size*
ping expedition to the hardware store usually isn’t
that exciting. The persons involved in the creation
of the engine must part with a lot of cash at this
time, in all likelihood. B uilding a sorcerous autom
building a steamtech invention, as I covered in
the basic game rules I sent last year.
Aside &om the mundane materials, it’s also
First you have to figure out how difficult the 1

necessary to have some St

big secret of sorcerous engme is to b d d . Take the complexity of the mag- 1
some amount of Star Iron to work, otherwise the iclcal engine as gven under Sorcerous Automaton ’
mechanical assembly will be unable to actually seize Definitions at the end of thls section. This is the
and control the magickal power around it. (As an base difficulty. This base difficultv might be
aside, it seems that Leo was lucky enough to have increased by the duration of its power source, and 1
had some Star Iron in whatever iron he used in his the reliability..of the power source, as shown in the
devices. Considering they were all small engnes, a following tabies:
very little bit would have been enough. Perhaps he
also recycled his iron from his previous efforts,
which would explain why his engines generally
 Tinkering Description of
Power Source
~~

LevelCostPeat the Craftsmanship

Gross 0 10 Within a mile or two,
ponderous control, a
lot of interfeknce
Poor 1 8 Within a thousand
yards, sluggish
control, high
background
source the magiclial engine uses, although one
Good 2 6 Within a hundred
must be chosen. You never know when some cir- yards, reasonable
cumstance might make it impossible to power the control, some slop
engine. Pick any of the ones you \vmt from the Fine 3 4 Within ten yards,
base rules [that’s Cnstle Fmlhenstein page 210- room-by-room
Mike]. The Cost increase is added to the base cost control, a little
of the engine after all other adjustments have been static or noise
Exact 4 2 Perfect aim, precise
made-after subtracting for the slull of the builder, control, no
multiplying by the engine size, etc. interference at all

Thus London-bombing destruction

engines can have gross control, because even
if they miss the Tower of London by a few

his kitchen well done by a magickal howitzer,

Reliability is not defined here. Pretty much,
it’s up to the Host to determine how unreliable
a n unreliable power source is. Generally,
though, unreliable means that the engine’s
operation can be interrupted relatively easilv;
the steam pressure must be kept h g h , so the
boiler is very susceptible to rupture, for esam-
ple, or the hand crank has a tendency to slip off
the main camshaft. Escellent means that the
power source is very difficult for an enemy to
disable; perhaps it is very simple or well
armored. An indestructible power source is just
that; perhaps the magickal engine runs off a
radium pile or a giant well-armored battery or
geothermal power or something.
Next we must talk about craftsmanship. This
determines how easily the engine can be direct-
ed or aimed, or how tight the controls are. The
actual mechanics of the control device are not
and the desired effect of terror will be
achieved. Our Bayernese aerobattleships have
good controls on their magnetic engines:
Thev can maneuver effectively on the battle-
field, but their ability to drop bombs on
Prussian Landfestungen is marginal (thank
God for our excellent pilots!). Victorian
medicine would love to have an exacting
clairvoyance device to allow for internal
exams.
It is Possible to upgrade Craftsmanship
by one level. YOU Cannot go more than that,
because YOU can only improve on bad en€$-
neering by SO much before You’re already
rebuilding the thing from scratch with all
new parts. To upgrade, calculate cost and
time as if you were making the thing from
scratch, but cut the time involved to one half
normal and the cost to one tenth normal.
 Key:
Engine Size Complexi SE: Superefficient E: Efficient
WP. Works Fine RE RunsPoorly
Immense 1 DW: Doesn’t Work BU: BlowsUp

Yes, immense magickal engines get very

The result of the draw of a joker is entirelv up
to the Host.
expensive. What would you expect from an
engine that could melt New York when fired Once the machine is running, and with any luck
from some mad scientist’s secret base in hasn’t blown vou to pieces, the magician must make
Antarctica? a Sorcerous Engineering feat equal in difficulty to
the activation ofthe spell to bring it into good run-
Subtract the character’s Tinkering slull from
ning form.
this final value, and that number is the time in
weeks it will take to manufacture the parts and DGTERjMJjw n s
assemble the engine.
PAl?jIjwtERS
t u j w ttE EjVGJflE ow that it’s built and running, we need to take
nce the magicltal engine is all put together, note of exactly how it works, its activation
no one’s going to guarantee it’s gonna level, range, etc.. Every magiclial engine has an acti-
work right the first time. Lord knows when vation level noted for it under Sorcerous
Rhyme flipped on his first engine, we thought Automaton Definitions. T h s activation level is how
the castle was a goner. After an engine is built,
you’ve still got to tune it. This requires a sorcer-
er. Well, it could be done by the guy ~ l 1 0built it,
assuming he was also magiclially inclined, but
such people are rare.
But before you can tune it, you’ve got to flip
it on. Put the controls u.here you think they
ought to be and power it up. And hope for the
best.
Magiclial engines are very temperamental
things, and even after the best engineering and
pre calibration, things can still go wrong. So,
when first powering up an engine, add together
the values of the building character’s Tinkering
ability and the calibrating mage’s Sorcerous
Engineering. The players can add 1/5 the value
of any cards they wish to play at this time to this
total (ix., diamond face cards are worth a little
over two points). Once the players have played
whatever cards they want, the Host turns over
the top card of the Fortune Deck and compares
the draw to this table:

Quality Tinkering t Sorcerous Engineering

Result -0-8 9-12 13-16 17-20 21-24 &
SE A K-A
E A A Q-K 10-Q
WF A K-A 10-K 9-K 6-J 3-9
RP I< J-Q 8-9 6-8 4-5 2
DW 9-Q 7-10 5-7 4-5 3
BU 2-8 2-6 2-4 2-3 2
 Effect is what exactly the magickal engine
does. If the engine can be adjusted in effect, it odd materials. After an engine is calibrated, it
will be noted here. These effects are based upon will only alter the substance for which it is pre-
the illustrations Leo gave’in this Codex. With a pared; if you calibrate the engine to change lead
little bit of ingenuity, you can engineer the sor- to gold, and put steel into the conversion cham-
cerous automaton differently to alter the effect it
has-you know, customize it.

of the spell, which is the amount of power it

goes off. Finally, I give the suit aligned to the

engine’s spell. Engines require aligned energy
just like human mages do; when drawing from EflGJflG (Pgn 28)
the sorcery deck for an engine, non-aligned Effect: This creates sounds-

Making a Sorcerous Automaton, above. simple toot is easy, but a good rendition of a

crowns. The cost covers materials and costs asso- Operation: Continuous, 16 points (Y)
ciated with crafting the device. If the dramatic Investment: Difficulty 20, Gost 1500
characters farm out the job to a contractor dwarf
or something, or else hire a wizard to d o the

Effect: This engine transforms the material put ed in this fashion

Operation: Spontaneous, 16 points (e) truth, no matter what, and n o matter how trivial
Investment: Difficulty 60, Cost 6000 c or pithy the remark. “Gee, that’s a terrible coat
you have. You should really have it tailored. And
C L f i m h D J E f l C EEflGJflE (pg, 41) you nicked yourself shaving again, you maladroit,
Effect: This engine creates a magickal pipeline but I should have guessed by the stumbling way
of extradimensional nature, which carries the you m7altz.” “I shall ignore your contemptible
sounds made at a distant location back to the babbling. You’re always cutting me down, old
engine so that the operator can hear it. It does chap, because you’re so conceited, and insulting
so without eliminating the sound at the source. someone as much more handsome than you as I
The area of effect determines how much sound am makes 370u feel better.” Oooh. Trouble.
is pulled out; a large area of effect might trans- Operation: Continuous, 20 points (Y)
port every conversation in a large ball room, Investment: Difficulty 60, Cost 7000 c
while a small engine will eavesdrop on just one
corner of it. Also, the amount of energy used by DeTTRMCTJOfl GflGJflG (139,104)
the engine determines the quality of the sound: Effect: This unleashes blazing wads of doom,
volume, static, distortion, minimum audible much akin to explosives or fireballs. It’s not
sound, etc. exactly either, because it’s magickal in nature-it
Operation: Continuous, 18 points (4) just tears stuff apart in a kmd of photon-torpedo
Investment: Difficulty 30, Cost 3500 c mix of all the elements. Like maybe it engenders
a molecular-level steam explosion like the one
CL~mvOyfiflcE
EflGJflE (Pg, 43) that took St. Helens apart up in Washington in
Effect: This creates an extradimensional gate, 1980. The amount of damage the shot causes is
the location of which may be moved around. equal to the amount of energy used in the cre-
This gate is paired to another gate a t the engine ation of the fireball. It is possible to build this
by an ethereal tunnel which transcends normal engine with a higher or lower activation level,
space. This gate allows people at the engine to and in fact, it’s recommended that smaller
look through the gate and see what’s on the engines have very small activation levels. You
other side as if they were there. This means that don’t want to hold onto something when it
people on opposite sides of the engine will be unleashes a fireball that’d take apart the World
loolung in different directions of the target area, Trade Center.
and will see opposite walls of the place the far Operation: Spontaneous, 16 points (e)
gate is placed. This gate allows only for the Investment: Difficulty 35, Cost 3500 c
transmission of light, yet it does not diminish the
light present at the location being spied upon. D J f l E f l S J O f l f i L GflGJflE ( 1 3 ~ ~ 8 2 )
Operation: Continuous, 20 points (4) Effect: This creates a dimensional gate between
Investment: Difficulty 3 5 , Cost 4000 c the engine and whatever plane it is built for.
Although it can be aimed at any place in the tar-
cofll=EssJ~fl EflGJflE {pg. 89) get plane, a dimensional engine, once built, can
Effect: This causes all persons within the field of only access that particular plane. It is possible to
its effect to want to speak the truth, no more design the engine to create a different gate
and no less. They may endeavor to lie, but the which will access a different plane, but frankly,
difficulty of the task is the power drawn by the we’re not going to play hunt-and-peck with a
engine to start the spell, modified by the Host if transdimensional doorway. You never know; the
the lie is particularly large. Evasions and half- way things run around here, I’d expect to open
truths can result in a slight decrease in the diff- a gate on Cthulhu himself? Whatever the case,
culty. Obviously, then, a large and powerful when you draw a joker while operating this gate,
engine will be nigh irresistible in its sodium pen- expect company.
tatholic effect. Jokers make everyone speak the Operation: Continuous, 24 points (4)
truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the Investment: Difficulty 25, Cost 2000 c
DJSSOLUtJOfl EflGJflE (Pg. 98) EjYlTttlStlfi

targets can resist the effects, both by force of which is dependent upon the amount of mag-

solution). The dissolution engine requires a I’d recommend that an exceptional Athletics
variable amount of power, depending on the feat be required to shut one down before it runs

from there. The amount of power required also you want it, for example

into component atoms.

Investment: Difficulty 70, Cost 7000 c

DRAJflJflG GflGJflG (Pg. 24)

leech, used to disarm those sorcerers and wiz-
ards who might oppose you. With a joker, you
might consider having the magickal knot get
tangled in the engine, growing bigger and big-
ger until something has to happen ...
Operation: Spontaneous, 1 point (any suit)
Investment: Difficulty 15, Cost 1000 c
DRGAjM GflGJflG (139.56)
is, the more difficult the engine is to build and
calibrate (the stats I give here are for a circular
wall). The strength of the wall is equal to the
power put into it by the engine, though the
exact effects depend on the elemental manifesta-
tion. Earthen walls take damage equal to the
power before they are temporarily breached,
while walls of fire will burn anything that tries to

to fill the person’s sleep. This can be used in psy-

choanalysis, to help someone resurrect suppressed
memories. It can be used as a punishment or GflGJflG (pg. 52)

Operation: Continuous, 16 points (Y)

against any person or place inside tlEJ\LJjVCi EflCiJjVC (Pg. 74)
radius of effect is increased by the amount of
Effect: This causes all wounds and illnesses to be
power the engine has accumulated to trigger the
removed from the person wrapped in the gold
spell. If a joker is drawn, perhaps the area
and silk shroud of the engine. The amount of
acquires a permanent deflection against that type
power the engine requires depends on how
of spell, or perhaps the engine draws in a11 the
badly injured the person is. It takes one point of
power of its aspect in the area.
power per wound incurred to heal someone,
Operation: Continuous, 14 points (any suit, by plus extra power as determined by the Host to
design) compensate for illness or poison. Once the acti-
Investment: Difficulty 35, Cost 3500 c vation energy is acquired, the actual healing
process is impossibly fast. If a person is healed
CEjVERJC JLLMSJOjV EjVGJjVE with a joker, he gets hyperactive for a long while,
and demands immediate action in all situations.
Effect: The engine is a vehicle for casting illu- Operation: Spontaneous, variable points (+)
sions. The actual illusion created depends on Investment: Difficulty 70, Cost 7000 c
what module is attached to the engine, because
it’s the module that contains the mechanisms JLLUjKJflfiTJOfl EflGJjW (Pg. 23)
that actually tie the subethric knots. Each mod- Effect: When activated, this engine creates light
ule is a little easier and cheaper to build than a all around it. It does not glow of itself; it causes
hll-fledged engine of that type, but the cost and all itcms within its radius of effect to be illumi-
complexity of the generic illusion engine more nated, in essence to reflect a magickal light. The
than makes up for the difference. light has no source, so there are no shadows
Operation: Continuous, 16 points ( 0 ) within its area of effect. The magick causes items
Investment: Difficulty 40, Cost 2500 c outside its radius to be lit as well, simply because
Difficulty 15, Cost 1200 c for an illusion mod- there is some reflected light from items within
the engine’s radius. However, this reflected light
ule (any type) is scant at best. By the way, you’ll notice that this
Difficulty 20, Cost 1500 c for a moving illusion is a hearts spell; it’s psychic magick. I think this
module (any q p e ) is because the engine doesn’t actually cause real
light, just the illusion of it. I’m not sure why it
works that way, and Morrolan is tired of trying
Effect: This causes everything \;rrithin the area of to explain it to me, so just accept the fact.
effect of the engine to decrease in temperature,
starting with the hottest items, &e torches, lamps, Operation: Continuous, 14 points ( 0 )
etc. Given enough time and magickal power, Investment: Difficulty 15, Cost 1500 c
everythmg in the icy grip of a glacial engine will
freeze solid. The lowest temperature to which the
glacial engine cools the surroundmgs can be set
with a control lever. As illustrated here in the Effect: This causes whatever device to which it is
Codex, the lever runs from about 4O0 F to a good attached to move in a manner determined by the
step below zero. Humans inside its effect wdl like- operator of the engine. This engine cannot be used
wise decrease in temperature, although their spirit’s on its own, but must be mechanically connected to
force acts as a bit of a buffer. Stay inside a glacial whatever it is that the operator wants to move. In
engine’s radius too long, though, and you’ll die h s sense, the imparted motion engine is much like
from hypothermia. Here’s a clue: When you no a magickal internal combustion engine. And when
longer feel the cold, run like hell and don’t stop a joker is drawn, your accelerator gets stuck on 111
until you’re sweating like a pig. power! The difficulty of the Tinkering feat required
Operation: Continuous, 14 points (e) to control the engine’s effects depends on what
Investment: Difficulty 20, Cost 2000 c kind of mechanism is being moved. A go-cart is
easy, but a giant robot battle suit is very difficult.
Operation: Continuous, 14 points (+)
Investment: Difficulty 40, Cost 4000 c
J~MIJSolVlM@J~
E f l G J W (Pga 37)
Effect: O n further discussion between Auberon
and Morrolan, it was decided that Leo was
wrong about the action ofthis engine. It actual-
ly creates a sort of dimensional barrier, an invis-
ible, intangible, but nonetheless very real wall,
which is all but impossible to pass through.
That’s how it’s possible to weave it with spikes;
the spikes are there, and the person feels them,
well, actually a sphere, which traps intelligent
to the amount of power drawn by the engine.
Operation: Continuous, 16 points (4)
Investment: Difficulty 35, Cost 3500 c
Effect: This causes all within its grasp to forget
everything that occurs while the engine is oper-
ating. I mean everything. It’s as if those affected
by the engine are in a continuous state of com-
plete confusion. Memories and training which
occurred before the engine was switched on may
still apply, so someone would probably remern-
ber that he is facing his arch-enemy, although
the moment someone turns his face away from
his long-hated nemesis, he’d forget that person
was there. While under this engine’s effects, acts
engine’s spell’s power. Yeah, use Courage for
this, because it represents the difficulty in forc-
ing your brain to work against all the effects of
Operation: Continuous, 16 points ( Y )
Investment: Difficulty 50, Cost 5000 c
JjvFGRflO GNGJjVG (Pg. 30)
Colder items are the first to be affected. Allowed
to increase enough, and lacking any means of
dissipating that heat, eventually something
under the influence of an inferno engine w ill
melt or burn or whatever. The mc&num tern-
perature to which the inferno engine heats the
surroundings can be set with a control lever. As
Leo designed it, the lever runs from about 200’
F (boiling water) to just Over 450O (burning
wood). Humans inside its effect will likewise
increase in temperature, and although their
willpower and the body’s natural mechanisms
deep yogurt.
J N t G G R W GflGJflE (Pg. 69)
Effect: This engine reinforces the natural
, like the walls of a
tower or the hull
forms of attack. Add the energy accumulated by
the integrity engine to the natural strength of
whatever structure is reinforced. For example, if
you’ve determined that a particular wall is
strength 15, so that it’ll take a strength 16 blast
from a destruction engine to breach it, and
someone fires up an integrity engine which gath-
ers ten points of power before it activates, then
the new wall strength will be 25, and the attack-
er will have to come up with a 26-point fireball
from the destruction engine to put a hole in the
defenses.
GNGJflc (Pg. 39)
Europa’s answer to the TI-59. It’s a calculator,
pure and simple, and gives very accurate answers
very quickly, even if the operators don’t exactly
know the math involved. To generate an answer
to any equation, no matter how difficult, the

Calculating the escape velocity of the planet is
very easy; the result is easy to explain and obtain-
ing the gravitational contestant is simple.
Calculating th ickness of steel necessary to
withstand vac and provide protection
against asteroi nearly impossible, since no
one here really knows what's involved.
Remember, the intellect embodiment engine
isn't intimidated by math, just defi
Operation: Spontaneous, 6 points
Investment: Difficulty 35, Cost 3500 c
JflTELLJGEflT GflGJflE (Pgm41)
Effect: This creates an artificial human Dersona.
the personality of which depends
- o n how the
engine was tuned. You might ge n antisocial
pacifist chauvinist schizo, or a de ly religious
gluttonous child. Impossible blends are possible
with poorly tuned engines, and in fact it is con-
ceivable that with an abject failure of tuning, you
might get a personality that deliberately lies to
you. In any event, the persona is intelligent and
can communicate with the operator. I suggested
ach a Morse code key to make things eas-
ier. All information gathered from an intelligent
engine should b gathered through role-play,
not through fea and cards. It is, after all,
another intelligence.
Operation: Conti
Investment: Difficulty 80, Cost 8000 c
J f l V J S m J L m ERIGJflE (Pg-
Effect: This engine causes the light to flow
about it at the periphery of its effect, though not
uite all light, o r else the person made invisible
would never be able As Leo
mentioned in his expi to those to
the invisibility field, t en through the
field seems to warble bout, as it coa-
lesces back into a natural state. Kind of like it did
in Predator, although in that movie the light
seemed less fluid and more like it was refracted
through crystal. At longer distances, it will
appear to an observer that the invisible field is a
light smudge or shadow or dim spot, because
some of the light which strikes the field is held
within it so that those inside can see. To spot an
invisible person, add the power of the engine to
the Perception feat. [i
Other senses are not affected; it's every bit as
easy to hear an invisible person as a normal guy.
This makes it very important to calibrate an
invisibility engine properly. Finally, lower the
feat difficulty for someone close at hand. And
with a joker, it might be fun to have the invisi-
bility field deflect all light, making the persons
within perfectly invisible, no chance to be seen at
all, but also blind as a bat.
Operation: Continuous, 20 points (e)
Investment: Difficulty 25, Cost 2500 c
I
LeVTtj4tJOfl EflGJjW (Pg. 77)
Effect: This engine causes itself and evervthina
v
attached to it to rise up in the air, or else to grind
-
itself firmly into the ground. The amount an
individual engine can rise up depends on its area
of effect; if all of the vehicle can't fit into the area
of effect, it probably can't be held up. The more
energy the engine gathers to activate the spell,
the more rapidly it can cause its vehicle to rise
and fall. Yeah, these are loose definitions, but I
don't want to bog the Host down with all sorts
of strict and exacting definitions about vehicles,
size, shape, mass, and stuff like that. Even if I
did, the players would just find a loophole and
pilot an aerobattleship through it.
Operation: Continuous, 18 point
Investment: Difficulty 45, Cost 4500 c
Effect: This engine turns all environments it '
encounters to c'np n1;t.lhlp fn,- hiirnan hqhita-
tion. other v v
that's fatal to something that's non-fatal. As I
understand the engine, it will only affect that
which might poicon nr drown o r ~ ~ ~ nee- f f & - ~ ~ ~
ple; don't coun, -__
-__-_- J -- -ZY------
---I--
the inside of a volcano, because you'll burn like
a flare as as you ht the lava. But against
smolte and water and poison gas, it's great. T~
defend against smoke and thin ai
must gather 20 points
nerve gas require 3 ints of power to be gath-
ered for activation.
Operation: cor+:-,7n,,o ,A, p p p ~~y~
Investment: Difficulty 50, Cost 5000 c
MADNESS EflGJflE (Pgu58) ]\/1ESjVERENGJflE (139.61)
Effect: This causes the basest measures of a man Effect: This is a variant of the madness engine,
to come out to play. Essentially, it instills a sort of
but instead of creating random chaos in the vic-
immediate mob mentality on people, where tim’s brain, it imposes commands instead, and
human ethics and social mores are suddenly no allows the operator to control the victim. The
longer a consideration. The way each person engine must be calibrated for each command or
reacts to this will vary from autism to cavorting to
set of commands, but it is a flexible enough
mayhem or murder. It’s up to the Host to decide design that it can deliver almost any type of con-
what exactly shall happen. A person may resist the trol the owner wants. Despite its name, the mes-
effects by making a Courage or Charisma feat mer engine does not allow for post-hypnotic
which beats the strength of the spell. But if the suggestion. When its effects are ended, the vic-
engine draws a joker from the deck ... tim returns to normal. The only after-effect is
Operation: Continuous, 20 points ( V ) that it might be possible to cause the victim to
immediately forget all events while under the
Investment: Difficulty 60, Cost 6000 c
control of the engine, although that’s doubtful,
NfiGflctJC FoRCc EflGJflE (pg,86) because then he’d also immediately forget the
Effect: When fired up, this engine causes itself commands the operator had given to him.
and the vehicle in which it’s installed t o move Operation: Continuous, 22 poi
about, pulling itself along the magnetic force Investment: Difficulty 70, Cost 7000 c
lines of the Earth. The amount an individual
engine can push around depends on its size; the OLFjlCtQRy JLltZSJOfl
bigger the engine, the bigger the vehicle that EflGJflE (Pg. 29)
can be hauled about. Yes, you can use under- Effect: This creates smells for the amusement of
sized engines in a vehicle, if you want something all. Obviously, some will choose to flood their
that moves ponderously slowly. The more ener- apartments with nice smells; others, to flood the
gy the engine gathers to activate the spell, the apartments of their enemies with foul stinks.
more rapidly it can move itself about. Yeah, as Since it is the illusion of smell, and not the real
with the levitation engine, these are loose defin- smell itself, the bouquet (be it fair or foul)
itions, and for much the same reasons. Just use remains as fiesh with every breath as it was for
your common sense. the first. One of the worst tortures I can imag-
Operation: Continuous, 16 points (+) ine would be to have an ever-changing foul
Investment: Difficulty 45, Cost 4500 c stench illusion gagging some hapless prisoner
for hours on end. This way, the foul bouquet is
MGGAPtlQNE G f l G J W (Pg 42) ever-fresh and ever-new. Yeaugh.
Effect: This engine creates a magickal pipeline Operation: Continuous, 16 points (0)
of extradimensional nature which carries the Investment: 20, Cost 1500
sounds made at the in8eniztm to a distant loca-
tion. The area of effect and the amount of ener- Difficulty 25, Cost 2500 c for a moving illusion
g y used by the engine determine the quality of QptJcfiL JLLMSJQfl EflGJflE
the sound: volume, static, distortion, minimum
audible sound, etc. If a joker is drawn, tlie (Pg. 25)
megaphone engine might dl sound awa), Effect: This creates an optical illusion, a mag-
from the source, leaving the operator unable to ickal hologram sort of thing. The exact illusion
communicate with those close at hand. Plus generated depends upon how the engine is cali-
there’s the difficulty of speaking when you can’t brated more than on its engineering, although
hear yourself do it-your volume and tone may certain engines might not have enough flexibil-
ity in their controls to allow them to create any
take on weird characteristics.
illusion one might imagine. Ordinarily, the illu-
Operation: Continuous, 18 points (a) sion will not move. With extra effort, though, a
Investment: Difficulty 30, Cost 3000 c moving illusion can be created.
Operation: Continuous, 16 points ( Y ) within the engine’s effects, as ~7ellas to those
Investment: Difficulty 20, Cost 1500 c outside trying to hear what’s going on inside.
Difficulty 25, Cost 2500 c for a moving illusion Operation: Continuous, 16 points (+)
Investment: Difficulty 20, Cost 2000 c
RCCORDJflCi EflCiJflE (Pg. 45)
Effect: This combines the effects of the clairau- TEjUPO&ilL EflCiJflE (Pg. 67)
dience and clairvoyance engines, and directs Effect: Wlien activated, this engine dramatically
their output into a derivation of the cipher slows the passage of time for all within its grasp.
engine, thereby recording all events that the The amount that time is slowed depends o n how
engine perceives for future .playback. When the much power the engine gathers to do its work; for
engine plays a recording back, it creates an opti- each point, time slows by a factor of one. Thus, if
cal and auditorial illusion of sorts, but it is actu- a temporal engine activates with 30 points of
ally the delayed imparting of the images of the power, then for each 30 minutes of real time, one
actual event. perspective minute will pass within the grip of the
Operation: Continuous, 24 points (4) engine. It’s possible (at least in theory) to make a
Investment: Difficulty 50, Cost 5500 c personal harness which will protect you from the
engine’s effects. This lets you move through the
REPMEOR EflCiJflE (Pg. 39) engine’s field normally. Thus, in the above exam-
Effect: The inversion of the imprisonment ple, you’d be able to move thirty times as fast as
engine, this one is designed to keep people out the people who were trapped in the temporal
of its radius of effect. Since it’s a magicltal barri- amber.
er, people may pass f?om the inside to the out- Operation: Continuous, 28 points (4)
side freely, but they may not reenter. If 1under- Investment: Difficulty 90, Cost 12,500 c
stand my magick, even a person half in and half Difficulty 40, Cost 5000 c for a protective harness
out of the barrier will be unable to get back in-
the thing ~ o r l t sort
s of like those tire spikes they WflSFOR&lj4tJOjV EflCiJfiE
used to have at drive-ins. To overcome the
strength of the wall, the persons who wish to
(Pge 52)
Effect: This takes any item and alters it in shape
cross must make a Courage or Etherealness feat
to something else. It does not make any chemi-
equal in difficulty to the amount of power drawn
cal changes to the item; something which starts
by the engine. There is apparently some benefit
as wood ends as wood. The shape of the item to
to trying to rush the cvall en masse, but not a
be made is determined by a carved plate which is
great one, so we’ll leave it to the Host to deter-
inserted into the machine (this also requires cal-
mine, especially since “en masse” carries very
ibration of the engine), but once the shapc to be
different meanings for a small engine as com-
made is determined, anything can be trans-
pared to a huge one.
formed. Given the shape of a sword, you could
Operation: Continuous, 16 points (4) put sawdust and make a wooden sword, a book
Investment: Difficulty 35, Cost 3500 c to make a paper sword, or a chandelier to make
a glass sword. It works this may because the
S J l E f l C E GjVCiJjVE (Pg, 42) engine doesn’t actually change the molecules, it
Effect: This engine dampens sound within its just rearranges them. It doesn’t even break mat-
area of effect. This means that sounds inside the ter down to the molecular level, I don’t think,
engine’s area of effect are made much quieter, just to small chunks.
and also that those within the sphere of influ- Operation: Spontaneous, 16 points (4)
ence will be less able to hear sounds made out-
Investment: Difficulty 45, Cost 4500 c
side the engine’s reach. To simulate this in game
terms, add the amount of energy the engine has LtLtJjVj4tE EjVciJNE (Pg, 106)
accumulated to the difficulty of any Perception Effect: Although this was not completely
task involving sound. This is applied to those described in the Codex, I thought I’d indude it
S t A R ZfRoIV:W t l A t JS Jt?
tar Iron, also l a o w n as Cold Iron, is the
key ingredient for a magickal engine-
without its effects, a magickal engine
cannot manipulate the raw power of sor-
cery. But what is Star Iron? I mean, to me, iron
is iron is iron, right? Chemical symbol Fe, and
that’s about all I remembered from my chem-
istry class. It rusts, it melts, is presses clothes
when heated, and you’re supposed to take some
_-
every day with your vitamins. Iron.
But no, I was very wron as Auberon took
great pains to demonstrate
to me. See, over here, Mike,
there’s two types of iron:
the normal stuff, and Star
Iron. Yeah, always spelled CI gveat
with caps. Normal iron is
what the Prussians are beat-
ing into sabers and bayo-
nets and land fortresses
even as we speak. Normal
iron has some negative
effects on magick, too. The
iron railways the Prussians
and English Steam Lords
are building are hampering
the normal flow of magicli
ivon,
about the land. But Star
Iron, well, that’s something different.
OF n s jvAtLRG
A s its name implies, Star Iron is extraterrestri-
1 in origin (I had to explain that word to
the gang when I first used it, but now it’s
become very chic among the salons). And Star
Iron has a great effect upon magicli, far more so
than normal iron. To hear Auberon explain it,
Star Iron is a lot like plutonium to the Faerie.
Yeesh. Star Iron’s effect is so pronounced that
the Faerie can actually die just by being too close
to it-they don’t even have to touch the stuff!
And we’re talking the True Death here!
No one knows why Star Iron has these effects.
Grey Morrolan believes that is it because other
planets out there do not have magick. That may
or may not be, but it’s almost certain that there is
no magick in deep space. Since the iron here has
been exposed to the Earth’s magick for thou-
sands of years, its suppressive effect on magick has
been reduced over time. It’s been denatured. But
Star Iron, Morrolan thinks, has never been
exposed to a magickal field, and so has a very seri-
ous effect on magick. Over a few hundred thou-
sand years or so, he thinks Star Iron will be indw
tinguishable from normal iron. This sounds pret-
ty reasonable to me; I mean, the planet is sup-
Dosed to have been made by a whole bunch of
iron-nickel asteroids mushing
together, right? So, in theory, all
the iron on the planet is Star Iron
if you go back far enough. And
since it doesn’t act that way, that
indicates that maybe Star Iron can
be denatured by chronic exposure
to magickal energies.
Whatever the case, Star Iron is
needed, so Star Iron the characters
must get. As you might figure, you
just can’t go trot on down to
Fred’s Convenience Store on the
corner and pick up half a pound of
Star Iron. While it is possible to
buy it fi-om time to time horn col-
lectors and governments, it is a
rare instance indeed, and very very
expensive besides. Instead, the dramatic charac-
ters must find a way to go where some Star Iron
may be found, and get it themselves.
t o w t o CiGt J-t
Y ou have to go somewhere to get the Star
Iron. This can either be a meteorite crater
or a museum which has a meteor on display.
Whichever the case, the dramatic characters
must first figure out where the stuff is. This can
be accomplished through interviews, research,
spying, or whatever, depending on what sort of
Star Iron source they’re trying to pursue. For
example, it might be easy to determine that the
Smithsonian Museum has a few meteors on &s-
play. But crossing the Atlantan to the New
 er-the better the character’s sorcery, the easier
it is to identify the subethric changes Star Iron
& Amount _ _ _to k t It
How
Ari7~naCrater 50 Ibs. Prospecting a lot of causes.
small rocks, but the The easy way to tell if a chunk of ore has Star
stuff is only 1/4
effective Iron in it is to walk up and bonk a Faerie with
Hudson Bay unknown If the Bay is really a it. If the Faerie vaporizes, it’s Star Iron. Then
crater, go diving a t the
center and look it’s time to run like Hell before the rest of the
Bedinkhe Faerie roast your body alive.
Stadtvwseurn 10 lbs. Grand theft, defying
the impeccable Prussian
security
Gwects OF S t f i R rrriofl
Smythe Estatej
South Africa

Festung Falkenstein
2-4 OZ.
3 lb.
Pay a lot of money for
his meteor
Have a good reason,
S tar Iron has a nasty effect on Faerie, Seelie
and Unseelie alike. This table shows what
kind of effects Star Iron has on them. The effect
work for the Bayern depends on the amount of Star Iron present, and
Inner Circle
Siberia Unknown? Wait for the meteor (?) the Faerie’s range from the Star Iron. Star Iron
to hit in 1908 which has been denatured over time (very old
Chateau Mousseau 7 oz. Break into Mousseau’s Star Iron, in other words) should be treated as a
private estate
Tokyo 2 Ibs. Steal the Emperor’s lesser amount, in proportion to its effectiveness.
katana, rumored to be d
forged of a meteor
Amount Disturbing Painful Deadly
0 - 4 oz. 2ft lft touch
Add your own ideas, and change these listed 4 - 8 oz. 5ft 2ft lft
here so your players can’t get an unfair advantage. 8 - 16 OZ. 10 ft 5ft 2ft
1 - 2 Ib. 25 ft 10 f3 5fi
There is no known way to refine iron ore or 2 - 4 lb. 50 ft 25 ft 10 ft
steel to extract the Star Iron which mav be 4 lb. and up 100 ft 50 ft 25 ft
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