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INTRODUCTION ..............

por lis

The Nature of Magickal Energies

.... I3

Temporal Engine) .

. 67

Ingenium Integrita

Integrity Engine)

..................

Ingenium Sustentaculus

L i

Sustenance Engine)

...........

The Theory

of

Harnessing Magick

...

14

Magick Through Mechanical

Contrivance

.......................

I6

.

...........

Ingenium Curareus

iscellany and Addenda

I8

BOOK ONE: 1495 ..............20 Healing Engine)

.. ............

74

Infundibulum Poten tia Ingenium Phlogiston

Draining Engine)

.................

21 Levitation Engine)

Imagum Illusorius

BOOK SIX: 1500 .

Optical Illusion Engine)

...........25

Via Peregreus

Imagum Melos Dimensional Engine)

Ingenium Perplexus

Ingenum Infernus Inferno Engine)

. 30

Cipher Engin

Ingenium Frigidus Glacial Engine)

. 32

Ingenium

Ma

Magnetic Force Engine

BOOK TWO: 1496 ............. 36

Censurum Veraceus

Ingenium Fascium

Imprisonment Engine)

. . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ingenium Confunderus

Ingenium Gnocereus Intellect

Embodiment Engine)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

39

Ingenium Auditorius

Clairaudience Engine)

.............41

Ingenium Vedereum

Clairvoyance Engine) .............

43

BOOK THREE: 1497 ........... 47

Ingenium Meteoricus

Weather Engine ). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

48

Ingenium Alchymia

Alchemical Engine)

.......

Ingenium Deflexus E thereal

Interference Engine) ...............

52

BOOK FOUR: 1498 ............ 55

Imagum Somnus Dream Engine)

. . .

56

Ingenium Insanus Madness Engine) .58

Ingenum Vaderus Imparted

Auditorial Illusion Engine)

........

28

Ingenium Tulmultuosus

Dissolventum Universalis

Testudo ElementaIis

Earthshaker Engine) .......

Elemental Engine)

........

SORCEROUS AUTOMATA IN

THE GREAT GAME . .

MAKING A SORCERO US

Motion Engine)

...................

61

TIONS GAME STATISTICS ...... i 8

BOOKF IVE:

1499

.............

66

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(come i fa vederle

per

un

piccolo

fovo

fatto

colla strema punta de la

sottile

acucchia, que1

post0

quasi

a occaw

I'occhio),

u vedrai

esse

stelle a s e r e an to minime, e nulla wsu

pare -sere

minore.

veramente la lunga distanzia

d A

low ragio nevole dimunizione, ancora e

moltevi sono, c h e son moltissime volte m ag gio re che a stella cV

la

terra

col-

I'acqua.

Ora

pensa que1 c h e parrebbe qfiessa no stella in tanta distanzia,

considera poi q u a n t e delle s i me+terebbe'e per ongitudine latitudime in pa

seminate

per

e s so

spazio

tenebvoso.

mondo, dato

per

penetevuia

e

lor medesimi sivazino

essa

vita,

e

che MOM

possegghino la utilitb

e

bellezzza del

wondo.

case h a s at

last

arrived , an d ust as he world about

is

in.fwed wi

are

my

puvsuits,

as my

benefactor has ncreased his benevolence.



with g w t a-d

ge an tv s Ill\aximilian I now the

Ioly

R o m a n &peror/ with the passing

of

11 may

he

rest in peace, has ndeed invested our gra nd Lodovico

with theD uchy of milano, gracious city

of

the

Alps.

At last a duke,

no

onger a regent, to give Milano the place a m o n g the

cities

of

the

as she so richly d e s e r v e s . And 31

mora,

t hough bo rn bu t a

of a owly condo tt iere ,

is

how

royalty,

a n d i n d that his

i s n o w greater, and also that h a v e a c q u i r e d g r e a t e r

for my work among this Jtaly, for am

seen

as

onewo&y of being

by

the illustviousHouse ofsforza,which is as it should

be,

as here

s not on e whom 3 ind excels m e in any manner of

avt

or architecture,

let

ndustd ous invention an d

such

puvswits.

2 ust

also

m ak e men t ion

that

he that is /2/la,ximil ian has f aken

for a br ide

m aria Sforza. may fheir mar r iage be f;MiifuI a n d

a

oy to a l l . A n d

k i n g o f m a r r i ag e s , &e s fo rza

family

has f l t r he r e x p a n d e d their connec-

f a i l

to itl ill

the intent for which developed them, which, ine sca pa blB indi-

that

my observations

or

deductions a re at

times

ound wanting.This

most appalling, a n d thoroughly inexcusable. Fovtunately, theDuke

is

a

ent man with my dabblin gs.

h e

covered chariot w a s

t h e

d e v i c e w h ic h m o s t a p p e a l e d to

the

D u k e , a n d the one upon w h ich em bar ked mos t en thusi a s ti c a lly .

hen at

last had comple ted cons t ruc t ion of t h e first example of this

open in gs w h ich a l low the opera-

o t s i d e world . J



my method

o f

Orga

must be org an ize d in this mannev

of

investigation, more so, J a d m i t ,

3

an

is my usual wont,

for

J

oo

readi ly

allow

my enthusiasm

to

overrun

a nd s tampede dow n my de libe ra tion , a nd as

a

resul t my work c a n suffer

f k m overs ights an d inefic iency , as J ave l ea rned anew

with

my invention

of

the

a r m o r e d chariot. J s h a l l here, then, apply

to

myself an unaccustomed

oPganization,

that

while

pursuing

is

heret fore unexplored sc ie ne ,

J

might

avo id the glar ing e r w r o fover look ing s ign if ica in my haste to reach

the

ends.

Tshusly shal l my newest

Codex

be o r d e

I

The v a h r e

The Theory

o f f l a m e s s i n

/ M e c h a n i c a l

ny and Addenda

Tshere.POWa m ovganized.

shall have to conduc t m y researches careful

spection, for His Holiness the

Pope JnnocentV

great circum-

a

papal bull

Sum mis Deside rantes condemning non-Church

witchcraft

a n d

sorcery only

ten years ago, an d S ta l i an s have a ong memory esp

11y

e pious

ones ,

Jt

is tragic to

see

ea r of

the

unknown imp ede

the explo

n of same.Or pel.-

h a p s

i t i s the

abuses

of

s o m e self-styled practitiomers of black

a ,

the like of

which abo und in

this

superstitious 1a nd .t h es e unhallowed few bring unwar-

ran ted disgrace upon

those

of

us

who, with scientific reasonimg,

a c M t e

percep-

tion a n d a clear conscience, s e e k to shed light upon

Mnivevsal

Force.

F o h n a t e l %

the old

goat

w a s

called ngrega te Direct S upe r io r a

few

years

ago at

the

ripe old age of

too

long,

so

pevhaps this bull will not be

prosec uted with as much energy as pe rhaps it would have befow.

Jndeed

h a v e hopes

t ha t filexandervl will be a more curious a n d forgiving Pope.

Mnfoviunatels

old

Rodrigo Borgia-no, h e no onger exists, indeed c\e is now

the pevfectfilexandevVI-hhas already revised

his

Jnte r cetera d iv ina within

two

months of

i t s

original pevfect incarnation, and

i t

w a s

by

a n d large

ignored any wa y. th is Pope may not have a ignificant imp act on history,

despite

appointing family membevs like his son Cesare

to

impovtant clergical

posts. f i t

l e a s t so3hope, for3

ind that those

who

impact

histo

in an njurious

manner.

e

hat

as t

may 3

ind 3 ave

attr

some atkention

the woman reputed to be a witch, a n d hen

11

have

to

shelve these

inspections for the nonceu

3

hall resume them wh

m a d o n n a

of

the

Rocks,

a n d

can

move

fL1l-y

d



av e finished

the

m adon na of the Rocks, an d f ind now that theworld i s

at

hav e invaded Hu ngary an d Dalmat ia .l%is they did long

word took some time o arriv e in theseplaces. J n a imilar

CharlesVI11

of F r a n c e h a s sen t his h o p s a ga i ns t ztalia, a n d t ak e n

a n d

Roma.

t t t e Pope

is

said to have

not

see

he

he d

o ft h e c hurch thhreatened.

d to

Castel San t 'Ang elo .

a m

g lad for it/ for J

VATURE

OFjWAGJCK$ILE.ERG3ES

udicious eFamination, a n d n o

small

part of surreptitious and

secre-

tive meetings with

the

w om a n f r om the village, who at last, with

so m e plying of wine a M d gold, ha s c onde s c e nde d to s h a r e with

me

some of

her insights, although she has a endency to stray +m t h e

wbject at

hand

has demonstra ted to my satisfaction that

here

are

facets

of

the

magickal

powers

which pe rmea te

the

Gav&.Tlqis

is

3had surmised, for the e f fe rvescencewhich

these

powers e Fude can be

to

be of f ou r slightly

differing

aspects,

that

i s

color

and vibrancy, and ,

for

of

a better w ord,

taste,

indicating that they

indeed

are separate manifes-

ofthis unknown a n d

t i s

m y

belief, a n d by w a t c

theworld abowt, that the best naming of

these

acets is

at

they

are

piritual, natural, a n d mundan e, this being

the best

eFplanation

of

method by which

God

might cause these pow e r s to be appor t ioned

His creation.

e

method

with

which these energ ies inte rac t

4

mxw ly Power

of

k c a w e w l y Delights

eavenly pow er is

that

which flows

f rom

Heaven, borne upon the wings

L nge ls , a n d connec t s

the

ea to the divine. J a m uncer tain w hether

r not

the

heavenly

power may also

be u s ed

by

the

D e c ei v er a n d

his

minions,

be tween Heaven and Hell as though he poles of

a

magnet, o r

theLord smote S a t a n s uc h that he and his a nge l s m y o onger

the heavenly powevs . t leavenly p ow ers m ay

be

wh at divine spark

ains within

these

paltry a n d sinfMl

human

shells.

With

the

heavenly powe rs

one u p e r s e d e

e

limitations placed upon us by God as w e live within

Creation a n d p e rh a p s even +avel to

sit

at

t is feet.

ual m agicks are

those which

impinge directly upon the

human

spirit,

e terna l and inviolate pa rt of all

of

us granted to us or our e terna l sa lva-

by ourCreator.'tt.\e

health a n d state of ou r spirit i s of param oun t import

the health of o u r

bodies,

as

c a n

be demonstra ted by the dilapid ated posi-

of

hos e

mo st sinf..l a n d corrupt people, wh o then succumb

to

l eprosy an d

ailments.

With

spiritual mag ick s might

one

nfluence

o r

domina te the

activities

of the

pevson.6



OMS

effovts

ofhuman o r

mechanical will

u p o ~

e

magickal enevgies, pre-

venting them from wnvav-

eling, s

is

their wont.

S in c e hamans ate

pc~

sessed of

weukness

mechanical

contvol

of

magi

ckal

energies

]MEctlfiJvJCfiL CON

have

studied

ca~~?fLllyhe manners in whi

t

e+*,

a s

i t is most illclsh.ative of the manner in which

Mzechanical

devices might c w t e w k aberrations n

the

lines

of

magi&l

fovce.

-these ave some methods by which believe we might be able to entangle &e

magickal ene-ies such that they shall pvoduce unusual resulf~ ,or the

w n t o r -

tion

of natural l ines ofm ag icka l energy shall itself cause

a

contohaon f the

C m t i o n about tfieentanglement, and hence what might be

termed a n

abnormal

situation, al ough

magick

is,

itsel5 natwral. /Much as credting

a n

alchemical re

cause s

an

abnormal heat, yet

all

is

perfectly natural.

SOMI

nor COn-



that the

ireless appliccltion of the machine to the ask shall be balanced

discrimination, and

that

the result shall be as efficacious as

a n y as might be obtained

by

hu m an will a l o n e . A n d 3 have

no

raining in

mag ick thvough

the

application

ofthe

will

besides.

3

do not believe that the magickal energie s ave infinite in nature,

in given

time. For

although

they

m ay gvow,

A S doesthe

grass,

there

is never

a n infinite supply of gwss for

the

harvesting, either.CJt is unfortunate

that the

mechanical devices shall c ons um e the magickal en erg ies in the i y i m g o f

bindings,

or

knots,

o r

what ha ve you, and herefore that it shall be impossible

to

create

a

perm anen t magickal

effect, or

to h a v e

a

building suppov+ed

aloft

o n

ai5 by

m e a n s of

a

magickal contrivance, would

be

most impressive

to all,

a n d

sure

construction to d r a w

the

curious

f rom across the

continent,

and

bolster

trade.

A n d intewst in my works

shall be

widespvead indeed.11

jA ~oth er

ovMln iss ioM

to pa in t a vendit ion

of The

Last S uppe r .

monastery

of

S a n t a

maria

de ll e G r az ie has as ked , an d

the

sum

he

has ofered is most

wo.thY,

especial ly in the serv ice

of

these men ofGod.J

f ind it some what amus ing that they wish for me to pla

din ing hall of the ir monas teT. Perhaps

h e y

wis h

the

with

O u r Sav io r, o r pedqaps some of

them

prefer to think of their bvethven as

3 u d a s . J a m cer ta in ly mere ly jed ’ng , here. J p n d the mon ks m ost pious indi-

v iduals , q u i te un l ike h e i r sp i r itua l leader , f ilex an de r

VI.

J

ook

forwa rd gveat-

ly io this task, for J s h a l l e nd e av o r to exceed all my w ork s gone before with

this one, for their benept a n d approbat ion. they a r e suvely most intel ligent to

turn

to

m e for such

a

decorat ion,

as

none

is

my compare .

paint ing in &e

that they d ine

d that the

methods of

powering the magickal mechanisms which

all des ign a r e ew indeed , especially when 3 o

esirable

that themethod

of power rely

upon iving creat ure s,

like men, or mules, o r the

like.

J ha ve

at

my disposal water wheels,

an d c lockwork springs , a n d muscula r effovt as rom

a

t eam of ho-es. A n d 3

hav e counterweights as well, which, with

severe

gea r ing and &e ass i s tance

of

a

clocksmith, might

be

able

to

g e n e r a t e

a

steady,

though

small, amo un t

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 h a v e to create new

methods

of powering these m a c

therance

of my testing an d experimentation.

3

visit from

UM old f r i e m d

icardo Del Cantone ,

t h e

philosophe9

is

in

T i

home

in Milan o. Good old reliable Ricardo How

often

w e

sat

upon the

cout+yard a n d prac ticed

o u r

percept ion

of

t h e

huma

pipit

bz

scrutinizing



e irst

metho

It

r e a t i o n

of

many kno t s

of

m a g i c k a l

force,

tying them together

by

mechanica l means , in an e n d l e s s s u p p l y . T h e s e k n ot s shal l

be

tied to

have n o p a r t i c u l a r effects;

at least

3 know no t

yet

how

to

e n g a g e t he m

with effect,however , by the i r crea t ion ,

they

shall deplete

the

magicka l

po ten t ia l of t he region, cofisuming t h e 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 f ire in t h e d a y t i m e b u r n s s c ra p wood to n o use o the r

than for its disposal.



( O F t Y C f i L Y UWYO f l EJVG3flG)

iven that ha v e be en able to create an 3ngenium S olar is ,

a l though indeed

a

faulty a n d short- l ived version, for my o w n

metallccrgical

skills,

despite

m y

earnings,

a r e

less

than

expert,

it

should

be

possible,

to

create

an ngenium which

shall

create

n

ent i re image . Com prised

of

a

series of

J ngen i a Solarii,

e a c h

ofwhich

one

portion ofthe image, a s h a p e and projecting a ce r ta in color

light,

e a c h of which

pieces

is

seen o provide

a

portion of

the

whole

is, by carefLI a r r a nge m e n t of patches

of

light and color, a n ent i re

t-tstration m igh t be made .

has arisen, that

J

ma ke my render ing of The Last S u p p e r

of

a, instead

of

a s tanda rd pa in ting. t h i s will ceria in ly Cause the

to

be mo re

detailed,

to

have

a

more smoky aspect , &an

&e

norma l

paint ing method. f ind, s ince the vision so

created

shal l be

of

three-

nsiona l nature,

i t

shal l bet ter ap pe ar

that

O u r L o r d w e r e se ate d with his

in the

very

din ing

hall which

shal l be most pvofowndly mov ing, J a m

sure.



the

en t i r e t y

of the

i m a g e s h a l l r e q u i r e

a

um, f a r beeer t han J a n p o s s ib l y c r e a t e here, a n d w o u l d

t a k e

much t i m e .

Fur thermore, i t i s doubt fu l that the monks , bei ng d i sp osed to follow

the

w r i t s

of

the Pope, will tolerate

such

a

piece

of

a r t w o v k , b e i n g m a g i c k a l l y c r e a t e d .

J m i n s te ad w o r k i n g with a n e w a n d e x p e r i m e n t al c o m p o u n d , of m y o w n

invent ion, a p a i n t which sha l l allow m e

to

t a k e m y t i m e, a n d r e n d e r t h e L a s t

S u p p e r i n g r e a t

detail

a n d r ea li sm , a n d

with &e

s m o k y pavor

which

o t h e r s

h a v e f o u nd s o a p p e a l i n g i n m y work. F r e s c o is

Of &kxgikaI

r i e s o ~ u ~ c e

i s my belief

t h a t the

flare of light, o r iIIum

eratea by the

nraveling of one

of

these ma gick al knots, is c a u s e d by

t he

magickal

r e s o n a n c e of friction as he magickal l ines of force p u

much as a m o n g m u n d a n e

ropes,

su ch f rict ion p rod u

to my best observations, t h e color of light so disposed

a

knot shall d e p e n d

upon ts

shape, which is

to say

wh a t additional

shapes

a r e

bound into

the

knot, beyond

the

basic

form w hich

produces

light. A n d

the

aspect

of

pa l e ne s s

or

deepness

of the light so

pr oduc e d

a g a i n s t

e a c h

other,

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

t he kno

or intensiv, o r t r a ns l uc e nc e of t he light

so

created

s

the t ightness of the magickal knot so bound.3

3

ad originally believed t h a t 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

i m a ge to

b e

created, linked

together

a n d c are fu ll y a r r a n g e d . B u t

MOW 3

ee that is

a

s ing le

device,

an

m a g u m

J l lusor ius

c a n

be

built

to

perform

the

w or k

of

m a ny 3nge n i a

Solarii,

by

the

addi t ion to

the Jv lgen iam

S o l a r i s of several adjustments, e a c h of

which

shall

affect

t h e c r e a t i o n of the knots which t h e

J n g e n i u m

pr oduc e s at tha t

moment, and ,

which

moving, cause

their

effectsto

wax a n d w a n e in

a

peri-

odic

f a s h i on . t he a d jus tm e n ts ofthis,

as Y

shall c a l l

it, J m a g u m Jl lusorius,

in

the ir

orbit and rotation a b o w t the centra l por tion where in the magickal knots

a r e tied, ef igend er di f fe rences be tween

t he

knots, and h e n ce c a n b e

so

cal-

ibrated,

through careful a n d s tudious e ffor ts , to c a u s e an m a g e of any sor t

which might

be

imagined, and the mo re consc ien t ious the ca l ibra t ion an d

al ignment

of

t h e s e

effectors,

t he

m o r e

detailed

a n d p l ea s ing

the

i m a g e

shal l

be to t h e eye. Given a sufficient

speed

of opera t ion of

the

J m a g u m

J l lusor ius , the

rapidity

with which the k no ts a r e

tied shall b e

of

such

great

moment that he created illusion shall

not be

s e e n

to

f l icker o r

pulsate,

much

as h e

wings

of

a hummingbird proceed

with

s u c h

swiftmess

that

a p p e a r to

be a

mist, a n d

n o t solid.

O n c e

3

h a v e found

a

suitable crafisman

h e r e in Milano, pe rh ap s 3shall pur s ue this for the

pleasure

of the Duke, for

3 ould create a statueof his father

far

greater than a n y

3

ould of metal

a lone .

J n he

meantime,

3

hall no t build

this

ingenium,

forJ

ind the

City

Watch

m a k e s f r e que n t

passes

by

my w



i n c e h a v e d e m o n s t r a te d to my sa t is fac t ion ,

t h a t a n ingeni-

u m which sha l l create a v i s ua l i m a ge is comple te ly

feasible,

ev en within

the

cu rr en t l imits

of

t e c hn i c a l

expertise,

a l t h o u g h

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 i ngenium

wliich

sha l l

m a ni f e s t a n un r e-

ril s o u n d

fo r the

h e a r i n g a n d e n te r ta i nm e n t .

T h i s i ngen ium J most ce r ta in l y ca nn o t test, fo r the p res enc e of disem-

bod i ed voices

o r

sounds

wh ich a r e

no t seen

to

Le c a u s e d

by

an y na tu r -

al r es ou rc e shall i n d e e d c a u s e m e to be s e i z e d by t he au tho r i ti e s a n d

b u rn e d a s a sp i ri ti st , my repu ta t ion fo r i nven t ion no tw i ths tand ing . t h e

J t a l i a n s a r e a supers t i t ious lot, l ove them thoug h Jdo, but they a r e

offe n obtuse,

especially

w h e n

i t

c o m e s

to

mani fes ta t ion

of

exper imen-

tat ion, which they a r e at a loss to exp la in . J t

i s

c e r t a i n tha t the a v e r a g e

ept, my ex p l ana t i on

eas an t w ou l d no t unde rs tand , no r ev en wish

to

a

of

m a g i c k a l in ge nia , a n d e v e n w e r e J o m a k e su

n unde r tak ing ,

they s h o u ld s e i z e u p o n the w o r d m a g ic ka l, a n d the s a m e fate shou ld

befall m e a g a i n .

D e s i g ~

f- this Y ~ g e ~ i c r m

h e d e s i g n

of

this i ngen ium r e q u i r e s a di f fer ing so r t

of

m a gi c ka l

knot, which sha l l

be

as l lus t ra ted here , wi th the a l i gnm e n t of t h e

gea r s not

in right a ng l e s ,

as

with t h e

J m a g u m J I Iusor ius ,

but ins tead

at

a n a n g le of sixty degrees,

as llustrated here,

which

shall create

t h e

sor t

of

knot r equived .

While the J m a g u m J I I u s o r i u s s h o u l d

be

a visually

n e c e s s a r y

that th is

ingeniwm

be

of

a p l e a s i ng s ound , that is, that i t b e

forged of pm re st m e ta l s, a n d c a r e f u ll y e ng i n e e r e d t h a t the o p e r a t i o n

of

the i ngenium sha l l

be

p l e a s i ng a n d no t ja rriMg to the ear. Jndeed, it

m us t b e a well-turned

ingenium,

t h e

better

to s u p p o r t the no i s e s which

shall

e m a n a t e f r om

it. For

myself,

3

bel ieve

that

si lver

b e

t h e

best

of

mate r ia l s , o r

else

brass, both of w hi c h re m o s t p l e a si n g w h e n f o r m e d

into

bell shapes,

o r c a re fd l y

forged

to

be

the stuff

of

t ubu l a r bells

o r

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

t h e

J m a g u m /M e lo s

b e

of un if or m t h i c kne s s a n d c ros s - s ec t i on , a n d b e

test-

ed to r ing t rue . Or else that their diminishm ent in size o v e r t h e c o u r s e of

the i r l ength

b e

a g a i n d e s iq n e d for a p l e a s i nq

effect

o the ear.

Glass

a n d

leas ing device , it is

-

I

-

tin should no t

b e

used, ne i the r lead.



the

c a r e f u l

a t ten t i on

e r f u m e r ,

o f g rea t

dedication.

5



tion

of

such a cont r ivance is c a r r i e d out, a n d i t i s engaged

to

ope r a t e ,

cr-eatea great

warmth,

as

hough

A

f i r e burned in

t h e

a i 5

but

without

i s d o n e by c rea t ing knots

which

p r o d u c e

heat, and not

light,

as

hey

pulled

apar t .

3 t

is

possible

to

-use

this

to

c r e a t e

a

ire,

just

as

plac-

a piece of wood

o n

the

top of

a

very

hot

f u r n a c e w ig h t c a u s e i t

to

though i t

not

be

in contact with a ~ yc tua l f lame.

ave in mind a method of pvoving great power, for

which

purpose i t is

which re l ies upo n this Jng en ium Jnfernus. J

call

i t

my

Jn fe rno

ssary to place an J ngen i um J n fe rnus

vers ion of the water wheel.9 s he Jngen ium Jn fe rnus

operates, which

have fo

be

for a l engthy t ime, a n d hence shall r equ i re

a

v e ry large

d pow er f lr l ma inspr ing , i t sha l l cause

the

wa te r w i t h in the sealed conta in-

the padd les of

the wheel, it

sha l l cause i t

to

rotate. A n d



Ir

been cap tu red at

Rapallo,

and these pr izes which have been cap tured

might become suitable experiments for Jnferno-empowered vessels , which

shall

n o t

then

be forced

to rely upon oatrsmen o r he winds for th ei r mobility.

B u t

with

these

prizes

tests may

be

underta ken without removing a ny

ready

warsh ips f rom commiss ion .The des ign

of

s u c h a ve ss el will m e a n

tha t

the

J n f e r n o j M ec h a n i s m

shall propel a

sor t of

wa ter wheel, which instead of

using moving w at er to propel an engine, i t

shall

move the engine a long

sta-

t ionary w a t q propelling the ship forward.J n his m a n n e r might a vessel

run

directly

into the wind, without tacking, an d escape pursuit,

o r

ovevtake

those sailing

vessels

which i t p u r s u e s .

Similavly, while an enemy oarship

i l l be forced to contend

with

the exhaustion of

t h o s e

pulling strokes, the

vessel

powered

by an n f e r n o j M ec h a n i s m shall f ind g rea t e r energy n the

?

pwtrsuit, for leaving an area w h e r e its opera t ion had depleted

t h e

local

magicka l energ ies

shall

i n c r e a s e

t h e

efficacy

of t h e

i ngen ium.

7

BOOMo

jUaMk;Md

e

Z n fe rn o M e c h a n i s m c a n

also

be

used

for

the

hea t ing

of

build-

?

n g s . t h e p ip in g s w h ic h

e m a n a t e

f rom the M e c h a n i s m itself

shall

be

distributed a b o u t the building, an d shal l convey t h e s t e a m so p r o d u c e d by

t h e

M e c h a n i s m

to t h e

variows

r o o m s .

When ins ide

these

rooms, the s t e a m

shal l be

m a d e to

pass

th rough an

a r r a y of

thin pipes, the be t te r 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

w ate9

w hereupon

t h e

water shal l 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 ag a in into the ,Mechanism, where it

m a y

be heated

o n c e m o r e in to s t e a m , in a continuous

cycle.

J

e r i v e g r e a t e n jo y m e n t f ro m

the

fact

t ha t

A l e x a n d e r

VI

i s

be ing

owe

to

be i nef fec t iv e, a n d c a n n o t e v e n c o n t r o l o n e f i e r y F i r e n z a n p r e a c h e r ,

while

F e r d i n a n d is w a g i n g a v e r y e ff ec t iv e c a m p a i g n a g a i n s t the French .

For

i f i t

w er e no t fo r h is in ter fe rence, J hou ld be bet ter a b l e

io

pub li sh t h es e ft'nd-

i n gs o f m i n e, a n d g a i n

by the

e x c h a n g e of i d e a s

with

o t h e r l e a r n e d m e n .

J.

.S

Jave now heard tell

that t h e

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 t h a t

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

s h o w n

t h a t

Ferd inand

I1 has m o r e

ofGod abo ut h im than

t h e

entirety of the self-proclaimed Holy League, for they cru m bled in battle,

while Ferdinand's

troops

enacted

t h e will

of God by driving t h e French

back home, a n d f ree ing Jtalia from their tyranny.

J

have

n o t h e a r d

t h a i t he Pope

h a s m a d e a n o m m en t o n

t h e

m a t t e



has

run its c o u r s e , a n d CJ a m d ev o id of n e w a n d i n te r es ti n g ideas at

m o m e n t . t h i s i s m e t with m u c h a p p r o b a t i o n on my part , as i t will

m y ha nd s a be t t e r c h a n c e to

heal,

t h a t might

not

only write , but

continme t h e paint ing of’the Last

Suppet;

w hi c h J have had to

e m por ar il y , d u e

to

the

inc ident

of

w hi ch

3

h a v e a l r ea d y m a d e

8

n

ny event,

lack

of

m e

to

t h e

of

previous

to

an

i s simi-

re la t ion

dissolution, they

radiate

c o l d n e s s, w h i c h c a u s e s the

a r e a about t h e

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

b e c a u s e a l t h o u g h

the

knot i s vir tua l ly ident ic a l

to

t h a t

of t h o s e

heat,

t h e s e knots a r e

tied

in

a

m a n n e v which, stepwise, i s

the

of t h e

other;

a n d

thcts,

they e m i t c o l dn e s s w h i c h i n f us e s the s u r -

to t h e

point

of smmmoning f ro s t . O r

so

is my theory.

t is to t h e g r e a t c r ed i t o f Duke L o d o v i c o S f o r z a , of o u r

ci ty,

t h a t

is peace

o n c e

m o r e

i n fa i r

Jtal ia.

P e r h a p s

J

h a l l e n d e a v o r to

d o n e o f t h e s e f o r t he Duke w h i c h ef o rt s w o u l d m a k e him t he m o s t

n e d h o s t i n a l l t h e C o n i i n e n t , f o r J a m c e r ta in h e w o u l d p u t t hi s

J w a g u m i\;l

is

to

J m a g u m

‘ t h a t

it

is

a simi-

concept , but a di f fe r ing knot.J n his

case, as

the knots a r e dr iven



is J n g e n i u m F r i g id u s is perhap s the most serv iceab le a

i l e

of the m ag ickal invent ions w hich

3

have yet created, and p er-

haps

as

we ll of those

3

have yet to create, for the m ore think upon it,

the more it becom es obvious, tha t

this

accompl ishes an effect wh ich

could augh t but be ca r r ied out by magicka l in f luence. that is, we have

mundane, o r non-m ag ickal, inventions an d methods,

by

which we can

readi ly produce

light,

or heat .

Or

pa int ing s and scu lptures.

O P

beautiful

music.And perhap s each of these m ethods is m ore eas i ly accom plished

than the des ign an d eng ineer ing and assemblag of a magicka l

i ngeni -

urn, an d some have the benefits of soc ial intera ct ion in the ir accom plish-

ment,

as

we l l. B u t here, w i th the

J ng eo i u m F r ig idus , 3

have c rea ted an

ef fect w hich

is

m ost difficult to obtain, an d is fa r the lig h te r for the effort,

wh ich is involved in the creat ion.

hut) in

the

mi ds t

of

the

city,

SAY

i n Roma,

w h e r e i t i s large a n d

thick,

a n d d u st y wi th

t he passage of ma ny people , and , with the

J ng en i um F r i g i dus engaged , in m i d -3u l y

o r

A ugus t ,

charge

to t he passers -by admiss ion

for the

oppo r t un i t y to re lax , however

briefly

a n d a cool b r e e z e

AS

f rom

early

spr ing . J

c o u l d also se l l f rom the o ther s ide

of

the hu t

bev e rages of a n y s o r t) a n d a l l s cold s

f r om

A

mounta in s t ream. Gve n inc lud ing

hot

tea, a l t hough i t w o u l d be a s if iced.

t h e Jngen ium Fr ig idus

can

also

be used in

f a

cold

voom,

which

3

hereby term a"fbigidatou;"as i l lustrated

best to iso late it rom the he at of the outside, an d surrou nd ed by thick stone

o r wood, an d tlTe w alls cov ere d w ith fmrs. 3 n h i s r igida tor m ight wine and

othe r foodstuffs be safely stored, and for a gre at len gth of t ime .

As

no

spoi lage w i ll occ ur w hen the c orrup t ion of the he at i s done

away

with.

fi smaller i ngenium) but w el l powered, m ight

lso

be used

to

proper ly

chi l l a bottle of wine, wh en events unforeseen nece ssitate the imm ed iate

replenishm ent of same when none

i s to

be had. W hich would be

a

grea t

em barrassm ent to any h ost.

of

a n y t o r c h or l an te rn which i s b r o u g h t with i



irolamo Savon avola is a ga i n the talk ofthe own, even

this

fa r

f rom wh ere h e preaches. And, all tliings being tak en into con-

sideration,

a m

most pleased, an d shower

my

kudos

upon

his

name,

although J a m

cautious

o whom divulge my preferc

Friar

S a v o n a t b l a h a s been

qui te

n o t e w o h y these past

months,

a n d

his

are

always

well-attended. 3myself would attend him speaking

en eve r possible, were

back

in

Ptrenze,

howeve6 here in jUiIano , m y sta-

is comfovtable, and the kip to

Grenze

for a Sabbath s e w o n is too difficult.

i s h a m e i t

is,

for word has inally reached h e r e t h a t Sa vona r O l a w a s ac tua l-

oideved to Roma, by theP o p e, a n d =fused to go. tte has sta ted that ,

“3t

is

the will

of

God tha t 3 ea ve P trenze,”or

so

t

is

said.The P o p e is a ppa r e n t -

most anxious

to

h e a r

of

his

divine revelation,

with

which

t h e

friar

predic ted

punishment

of

the R o m a n Cutholic

ChMrch,

an d in fact all

Ztalia,

for

the

of

P op e AlexanderVI , which effects, n fact, are already being

in my opinion, for

t h e

corruption

spreads.

me,

hink

the

pr e s e nc e

of

highwaymen is more to the tvuth, both

in

remoti

of3talia a n d in theVatican itself, but cevtainly obedience to

filexander

Borgia

c a nno t be

said

to be

the

will of God, not

fvom

w h a t

3

h a v e

s e e n

heard. O t h e r

s tor ie s have been related

to

m e

as well, but 3

ind them less

For altlqomgh

3

h a v e it upon reliable resource tha t S a v o n a w l a ’ s

is

at

times

colorfLl,

there

are

stories

attvibmted

to

him whic h

sin-

doubt

that

s u c h

a good-hear ted and noble gentleman p reache r

d e ver convey to

his

pious aud ience. believe so m e

of

these stories

be deliberate

s landevs engende red by those w h o suppovt t he

Pope

ilexanderV1, whom S a ~ o n a ~ ~ l a

s

most vehement in denouncing.

ut

in contemplating these matters , 3

have

imagined a n ew a n d cre-

a t ive magickal ingenium/ which could be

m s e d to

r et ai n S a v o n a w l a

Firenze, Papal edicts to t h e c on t va r y . t h i s i ngen iam

sc\all

use h e

of t he magicka l

fo rces

to prevent

a

person om

cwssing

a ce r ta in

is

erected

by the p o w e r

of

the ingenimm, for the imprison-

ent. J t

shall

function n ot by c rea t ing

a great

steel wall, for

al though a m

it i s

possible , have

m o t yet

deve loped

my

theories e n o u g h

to

admi t

an nvention, but ins tead by t h e impressing of a state of mind upon

subjec t

to

its influence,

that they s t o m t l y

a n d wi thout r e se rve be lieve

they may

not

cross the

ba r r i e r so pr e s en t e d . F r a nc e s c a is a lway s fond

saying that only that which one believes is impossible truly is impossible,

this i n g e n i u m shall m a k e

those

people within its g ra sp be lieve exit

s so,

and it shall

be

so.



to thir teen. ' there

shall b e a

gvouping of numerica l a r rangement plates

s ne c e s s a r y for the calculations expected fvom the Jngenium.

method

of opera t ion ofthe

Jngenium

upon the numbevs given

is

e na c t e d

the dial set to the right ofthe nccmerical plate, which can be set for addi-

c.

M d

M Wutbevs

most

L m p o r a l

ope

A l e x a n d e r

VI

forbade

Friar

Savonarola

f rom

the

pulpit

ear l ier

3 his

year,

we ll before Gaste r .J wonder if

i t

mig ht be possible

to

a

more compl icated Jn g e n iu m

Gnocereus,

which shal l

be

pos-

of a

capacity m o r e

a k i n

to

personal intel lect.

J n

this fashion, m igh t

von aro la speak w i th the Jngenium, and give the device homilet ic

and explanation,

and

then let the J n g e n i u m itself speak f rom the

in

his

stead.

no,

hi le i t may be possible,

J

do not believe that

churchgoers w i l l

consen t

to being lectured by a

machine,

espe-

af fer their lengthy

exposure

to the passionate and theatr ical

t

is

a

pity,

however,

for

the

Jngen ium

w o u l d

have

no

fear

of

execution,

or

the l ike.

t

may, however, be said that

von aro la l ikew ise evinces n o such feaps.4

J n

a

simi lar

manner

to this Jngenium, i t should be possible to create a n

Fatidicus, which, by means of a variety of protrusions, n o t unl ike

antennae

of insects, shal l

detect

the present weather conditions about,

calculate the future weather conditions which shal l occur . these ca l -

be

based upon w h a t t he surroundings

are currently

like,

for

t

is

evident that there

is

a

c a u s e

for

a l l

weather. And this J n g e n i u m shal l

to

m ak e

those

calculat ions,

and

predict,

for

example,

that here

rain, which a human being canno6

a t

least not

until

the

ra in

has

to fal l .5

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C L f i m U D 3 E j V E

EjWGYjWG)

is

now the S u n d a y after

Gaster,

an d whi le at tending services

this

that the

Fiar

Sa vona vo l a h a s continued to cause grief t o the Pope.

the story i s that Savon aro la , desp i te being enjoined f r om preach-

c o n t i n ~ e d

o

do

so all

thvough Lent,

and

with

more

pa s si on a nd fervor

before, as he is now qu i t e f iwly considered to

be

a eading figure in

the

Why, i t appeaw tha t the ent i re city of

Rrewze shall

rally unto him a n d

i t s back

upon

this

Pope, a n d no t a moment

too soon

or my opinion, for

A l e xa nde r i s so vile, tha t to

tmrn

a w a y f rom him is to e m b r a c e God.3 t is

that these protestevs

sought

to reform the church. Bcct 3 w onde r

what

very

mu ch longer.



no o n e

knows),

h a s been

w e d

to juana

of

Castile. h a t i s , t h e

d a u g h t e r

of

King F e r d i n a n d

and Q u e e n Jsabel la

of

S p a i n .

f i n d

th is so

shor t ly

af ter t h e discovery of the f l ew

World

by the Span ish

expedi t ion , would

not

b e s u r p r i s e d

if

i t

i s

jus t

f o r

th is V ~ A S O M

t h a t

l \/ taximi li an a r r an g ed

t h e

m a r r i a ge , for it is well known that he, a

t l a b s b u r g , seeks to e x p a n d

his family's

power .

t l absburgs

ha v e r u l ed

the

tIo1y

R o m a n

E m p i r e s i n c e ,

3 believe,

1438,

a n d h a v e

held

t h r one s

about

the co n t i n en t

f o r

nigh

O M 300

y L a rs . Z J f j u a n a

is to

b e a r

to

him

a

son,

t he n

i t shal l

be ' cev ta in

t h a t 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 .

a m

n o t c e r t a i n

t h a t

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

t h e

family

holds t h e

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 o r

vic ious as

h o s e

within one amily, an d a

family s q u

le of this nature

would be

so broad in

scope as could

embroil all of

us.

P

olumbus,

c.,

ha l l b e

the

sole

purv iew

of

S p a i n ,

t h e

J n t e r

C e t e r a

Divina notwithstanding,

no r

e v e n

paid heed,

a n d t h a t t h e re f o re

rh a p s jVIaximilian hopes t h a t t he e n t i r e ne w d i s c o ve r i e s

of

the

power of

the t l a bs bu rg family will the nc e be e x t e n d e d

across the

kl

Yklgekliclm

most Pleasiklg

e r e it

is, as

l lustrated upon t h e s e pages,

althoctgh t h e

mater ia ls

t hereof

m u s t

be of a most

p l e as i ng m a nn e r

to

the

eye,

which

is to say

a n y

gold

pr e se n t , a n d

all

meta ls

used

in

the

cons t ruc t ion

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 , m us t

needs

be ca re fu lly sa nd ed

as

though

to

a

mirror , an d laye red wi th seve r a l appl ica t ions

of

lacquer ,

t h a t

i t

be

smooth

and glossy, as

well as d e e p and lusterful to t h e eye.T&e opera t ion

a w d a iming

of

the J n g e n i u m

shall

be

done

in a m a n n e r

much s imilar

to

that of the J n g e n i u m jE\udiforius.

Howevev) as t h e funnel brings

back

visu-

h t l a n t e a n Ocean.

J

h a v e

a l s o

noted

t h a t

F r e d e r i c k i s n o w

c

i n g of jVaples.

may

he

h a v e

a long a n d g l o r i ou s re ign w e l l i n to t h e nex t m i l l enn ium.

W h a t e v e r

the c a u s e of t h e

a r r a n g e m e n t

of t h e

m a r r i a ge , i t

is

c e r t a i n

t h a t

is

was

a

splendid

affaiu; n d

o n e

which

3

had hoped

to see,

for

the

p a g e a n t r y .

Perhaps sha l l

s p e n d

s o m e time, MOW, as t is

ra ining

out-

side,

and

qu ite heavily,

to

p o s tu l a te 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 vis ions

which

m a y

b e

piped

back

f ro m a f a q

as

hough t hey

w e r e w a te r.

al

images , and

not those of

sound,

t h e a iming shal l be

much

facilitated,

wi& visctal re fe re nc es for

assistance. h i s

also m e a n s that for those

O M

one side of t h e ingenium,

they

shall see in one

direction, while

those

u p o n

t h e o t he r shall

see

f rom

the

oppos i t e

side.

S o that it may

b e

ne c e s s a r y

fo r

all

a t tending

to

t h e i m a g e s

d i r e c t e d he r e t o

by

t h e

magickal effects

hal l

set

themselves

upon

the

s a m e

side

of

the

i n q e n iu m ,

for

viewinu.



o

much

has

ha ppe ne d a l r e a dy

this yea5 it is

indeed

trouble-

some.

Worst

of

all

calamities,

is

t he

news

+m

Firenze

a n d

the

-Vatican, w h e r e

t he

spiritual

struggle

h a s

raged,

s ince

the

L

ominican Gi roIamo Sa vo na ro l a

first

b e g a n to

speak,

in

a

who poses to

b e n e Pope ileyanderV1, h a s

struck a blow

ag ain st him,

that

is,

S a v o n a ro l a , a n d all t hos e who a t tend

his

c hurc h , a n d a m c e rt a in

a t t e n d a n c e

h a s

never been

b e t t q

n o r

more

regulaq than

of

late.n\e Pope

notewovthy fashion,

for t he last

f ive

o r

en

years.

f ind now: Rod r igo

Borgia,

h a s ordered S a v o n a r o l a

to

s u r r e nde r to his autlqori%

to

a n s w e r for

his

continued preaching, in spite of t h e fact of his excommunication.

Worst upon

this, i s

that

the Pope has eveled a t h rea t against all Firenze,

which,

as

3

witmess

is

th is : tha t the

e n t i r e

city

of

Firenze,

o r

p e r h a p s

it

i s

the

e n t i r e Republic , for t h e s ins of their capital, shall

be

p l a ce d a n d

held

under interdiction, until

s M c h t ime as

hey yield up S a v o n a r o l a to be sacri-

ficed.

fis this

n e w s w a s old w he n i t reached my ears t is ce r ta in

that

h e

h a s already

suwevxdered,

1

ha ve now

heard tha t h e h a s

ind eed given himself up

to

the

civil auth oritie s

in Firenze , a n d

they

h a v e

dutifully,

though

a m certa in

with great regret,

turned him over to t he a us p i c e s of t he R o m a n Catholic Church .

3

ha ve

heard t h at 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

nve

heard

that

there

i s also

fam ine in

I3

iremze

H o w c a n

this be?3s t he r e

no God? Cuuld

He

actually invoke

His

w r a t h a ga i ns t

Firenze at the behest of one ike Rodrigo

Borgia,

Pope

though

he

be?

J t

c a n n o t be

so

u t

a

famine

there is,

a n d

all

t h o s e kno w in

1 Firenze

a r e reported to

be

going hungry, an d suffer ing for i t . f i nd know

tha t

m a ny f e a r

t h e Wrath

of

God for

the

suppo sed s ins

of that

Dominican.

3

* Perhaps i t

h a s

been unseasonably

dry,

o r hot, o r he ra in has

t r am pl e d dow n t h e c v o p s .

Or

p e r h a p s

the re

ha ve be e n floods, which have

killed the gra ins .3do

not know,

and the

information

3

hav e ga rmered

+om

t r a ve le r s w hom ha ve

m et

in

t h e

t ave rns

and

public

shops are dif-

fe ren t

stories,

all

s w or n

t r m e .

Perhaps it is that the Pope has also quietly ord ered merchants to avoid

selling foods tuffs to Firen ze und er pain of etern al damnation, o r perhaps

they have enacted this of t heir own accord ,

hav ing

themselves witnessed

the imp ending th reat of interdict ion, and thence avoiding the city a t all

costs,

s o

save their own

sor ry

hides, in

s u c h

cas e as interdict ion might

come.

t h i s

is a logical

c o n c lu s io n ,

that the Firenzen countryside has not

d,

but has instead been robbed of its food by th

I

h a v e

had

no

reliable repor ts

on t h e climate in

f i renze, n o r

t h e wenth-

i



A m

m g e m ; u W L

Perma~utlAs

stead, 3 hall

consider

a

esser

version

of this,

a n

J n g e ~ i u m

rmuiaftts, which shall not alter

the

subs tance ofthemattev; 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

~ g e ~ i u m

hall

c a u s e the material, whatever

it may be,

to

be

altered in shapeto&e new fom,

accord ing

to

the

carving

of the

plate .ne

material

to

be

altered

must

be

placed

in

the center ofthe

spherical cha mbe3 using

a

suppor t

to hold it

there,

if

s uc h is

~ C X E S S A V Y

for small

o r

limpid

objects.With this,

might

a

bm ke n

sword

be

m a d e

as

new,

a

a r g e

block of

c h e e s e evenly divid ed into pevfect

cubes, o r

s c r a p s

of

wood

be

m a d e

into

the best

of

tvays.3 s possible,

as

well, 3

believe, kat

a

bowl ofg ra iw

and yeast and

water

be

m ad e into

a loa w d y

for the

baking,

o r

possibly

that a small cat be

m ad e in to

a arge

rat,

though

for

what pctrpose cannot magine . Pe rha ps e reverse woctld be

bettecz

6

v e

jus t had word

back

f r o m Ricardo

Del Can tone , in

Firenze.

as

the

philosopheu;

a l though pers uas iv e in

his

a r g u m en t s a n d

vig-

o r o u s

in

his presentat ion , w as unable

to

s w a y the

city

coctncil of Firenze .

t h e y

h a v e had e nough

of trouble

with the Holy R o m a n

Catholic

Church,

and although 3 a m there

revered, the final decis ion w a s that,

t h e

ingeMium

i s said

to

work through

t h e

t r ans fe ren ce an d manipa la tion

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 .ye t sorcery,

by

p ap al bull,

has

been condemned,

and

the

city shall

not

avail itself of

this

technology for th e mitigation of thei r famine, for

they

wish

not to run afoul of the Pope

a g ai n , a n d

risk

interdiction o n c e more. .

R i c a r d o

h a s said im

his m e s s a g e that

s o m e

present tkoctght

to

fuvther

appease

t h e

P o p e

by

revealing

to

him my dabblin gs

in

t h e s e

experiments,

blnt tha t he wa s able to

d i s c o u r a g e s u c h

a

C O L W S ~

f

action.

3

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

t h e

a r r o g a n c e of ou r

AIexaHderVI.

No,

e

i s not ours really,

h e

i s

a

S p a n i a r d , for no

Jtalian

tha t

3

know

could act with shch

an

una s ha m e d a ba ndon , and

so fla-

grantly violate

the l aws

of

ethics.

He re

3

a v e

had

new s

t h a t t h e

P o p e

has

annul led

the

m a r r i a g e

of

Lctcrezia

of the

Borgia s ,

to

Giovanni

Sf o r za . tha t which the Pope

himself a r ranged is now annulled

H e has

with

a

Pick of

his

r inged hand,

declared t ha t all t h a t h a s

h a p p e n e d

between

Ciiovanni a n d L ucrez ia h a s neve r occur red

As if

he

had

the

power

to rew rite history.

- they

w e r e

only

marr ied

f o w years

ago.3

witnessed

t h e

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

m uch E.,,elry

of

c o ur se , a n d h a v e



n together since. A n d M OW the Pope is going

to

pretend for

all

time

that

events never oc cu rred. must wondeu; w ha t

of

their consumm ation?

this annulment

of the m arr iage make Lucre z ia into an adulteress? O r

hat

been swept awa y

by

divine license

as

we ll? Perhaps she

s a

virgin

Next, the

Po pe may annul

the

fact

that the

w ind blows.

What then?

at all this, he

stil l

has he audacity

to

have Sa von arola arrested.

h e

is

to

stand trial, but have

no

hopes

that

right

will

w in out, for

h e

indeed

a

de vilish Pope .

3 t may

be blasphemy

to say it

for

the

Pope

is

to be infallible'by the gra ce of God, bu t it s true, and

3

shall say it.3

not, however; repe at it

to

others.

ruit. For no

s o o n e r i s

Lctcrezia's m arr iag e annulled,

than s h e

is

to Alfonso of N ap ol i . Her father a nd brothers k ick

her

about like

ba l l on the s treet An d with as much con cern for her happiness, or well-

Or

her respect,

for J

a m ce rtain tha t in the u ppe r circle of society

is

now looke d upon

as a

doing

o r a

pr ize

horse, to

be h ad for favors

to

Pope.

Ah 3 am

ncensed.

now

the

plot i s

s e e n

to thicken, and the plans o f

the Pope o

bear

f the F m i-e f i g a i m

have been wo nde ring

of

late

of th is

famine

inFirenze.Therehas

been

a

ap al bull against sovcery, w hich i s now in

its

thirteenth offourteenth

And who better

to

know about sorcery than the

Pope

who is the great

in the w ar aga inst dev iltry?And

they

say a man must know

his

enemy

of this has caused m e o wonder at the fortuitous timing of this famine

hich tortures my people.Jt cannot be

the

w ill of God, an d the possibility of

coincidence of

this

sort

is

far to

remote.

3

believe,

then,

that

it

s

the

Pope

has caused &ere to be a amine,

by

exercise of b lac k arts.

indeed the chance he would

be

caught, when all other pract ic ing

have abandoned their cra ft

or fled

across the M ed iterrane an .

none wou ld d are question him, at least not in the publ'C square.

e giure f i g a i m s t S o r c e ~ y

o

contest

this, 3 hall

here illwstrate the con struction of

an

ngen ium

hich shall de tect an d des troy any such evil spells which ar e cas t into

protective enc irclem ent.The diffcul* of this crea tion i s that

itmust

be

of

different construction of the aspects of magick,

that

is, a undamental

can no t be designed, for both the aspect of m agick against wh ich

seeks protection

must by its

very

nature

be itself em ployed

in

he

ense, a nd because the

knots

which a re produced of the ingevrimm

must

a

manner

in

w hich best

to

employ the auspices of each

the

w iths tand ing of assaults.

For

example,

the

kno ts prodmced

by

forces of na ture must be

stout

and inflexible, w hile

those

which

seek

to

the m ag icks of the mind are more slippery, like unto slipknots, and

allea ble.there fore, you need to bui ld a different

ingevrium

to defend

e a c h

differen t sphere of m agick.

7



h a v e n ot b e e n a b l e to apply m u c h

effortto

this

Codex,

in

r e c e n t weeks,

as

h a v e b e e n e m b r o i le d

in

the complet ion of

Th e Last Supper in the m o n a s te t y, a n d a mighiy t a s k i t

is.

Gqxx ia l ly

s i n c e

3 a m assailed by the most

e f f er v e s ce n t a n d

odors

o f t h e

monks’cul inary skills all the day, w h ile a m

at

w o r k .

J

a m mos t defini tively fa vo re d of p l ai n a n d s i m p l e

cookery.

h e

m o n ks h e r e a r e m o s t k in d a n d g r a c i o u s

hosts

a n d

Godly

m en , a n d 3

believe 3 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 u p o n this project.

At

l as t c a n

see

he completion

of

he pai-tin

a

month mo re or so

to

see t

throccgh,

so3 ha

aside to

finish

this employment. 3t

is

x 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 umbly believe

hat

even H e would find the vended

shall

fake

m e

but

a n d

other

works

a m most pleased.

J t is finished. J a m going back out o

t h e

plaza, for Giovanni , b l es s his

dough ty heart

i s relieved to

see

me completed at %e m o n a s t e r 3 that J

might de si gn fuvther buildings,

in

jVIilano, for to c h a l l e n g e his skills, a n d

has

v o w e d to dr ink me u n d e r t h e table this evening,

in

celebra t ion .

a m

cursed

a b o v e

all

people.

t h i s

is

h o r r e n d o u s o c c u r r e n c e .

no

J

o o n e r h a v e J c o m p l e t e d my m a s t e r p i e c e a t

the

m o n a s t e ry , t h a n 3

d i s c o v e r

t h a t

my most i nvent ive exp er imen ta l co mpound , tha t

with

which

coated the walls

of

the monastevy, the beiter to hold

the

paiat, a n d

allow m e

to

wo rk in light a n d

shadow,

in m y s m o k y t e c h ni q u e , w h i c h i s

M OW

famous, for

t h e

be t t e rmen t of real ism, that this c o m p o u n d is

a

fail-

ure

Ah maria

i n c a r n a t e What ignominy zt

has

b e g u n to

peel

itself

a w a y f rom t h e walls, cur l ing itself

up

into f l a k e s as a d a m a g e d insect ,

a n d c a r r y in g a w a y m y w o r k

of

t h e s e

past

three years u p o n

i ts

f e c k l e s s

b a c k

to

t h e

floor.

Why,

dea r God

in Heaven,

why?

3 t worsens , eve ry day, 3c a n see i t .

Others

cannot , they

am envisioning

the

worst , that i t i s but the

slightest

bit

worse,

a n d shal l

s o o n stop, for cer ta in , but

J

c a n see t .3see s t u d e n t s of art, a n d m o nk s,

s t a n d about, a n d r e n d e r my w o r k for themselves, for

the i r

o w n experi-

e n c e a n d

s t w d y ,

a n d k n o w that s o o n theirs

a e

only execut ions

of m y m a s t e r p i e c e left u p o n this E a r t h . J a m t or n

e e n a s k i n g t h em to

hurry, to comple te the i r s tud ies

of

my art, befor

i n s t ead asking t h e m

to be

patient , a n d copy

i t

p r e s e r v e

t h e

i m a ge a n d color for pos td ty .

3

tain that 3



~

eye

poked a s u n d e r , fo r c a re le s s n es s . J n m y b r o w n

moods, J a m

i k e l y

to b e c a r e l e s s .

ing

to

the labels given, of dur a t i on j pa c e o r swi f tness of

'

color o r n shades o f g r ay j and t e m p o r a l basis, o r wh en in

inc luding fear, love, a n d en jo ym en t, a n d

J a v e n o t the f u n d s at t h i s t i m

e p a t i e n c e , to c re -

p o t e n t i al l y , n e it h e r s h a l l w o r k .

j VWDf lESS

Ef lGYNE)

at 3 w e r e not forced

to endure all that

has

t r ansp i red

h a v e ju s t n o w l e a r n e d

of the

fate which h a s befa l len the

D om i n i c a n

f r ia r

G i ro Ia m o S a v o n a r o l a , a n d

3am

o u t r a g e d

3 t

of

Pope

A l e x a n d e r

VI

a n d to f o r e ve r s i l e nc e

the voice,

of S a u o n a r o l a ,

which

called

him

to

task f o r his

e)ccesses,

a n d his s ins

3

m

c e r t a i n t h a t this

ecclesiastical

co u r t ,

which

h a s

c onv i c t e d

S a u o n a r o l a , m u s t

to

a

m a n

be

po i s one d of t h e mind

by

t h e

Borgia Pope, OILelse be

w r a c k e d w ith guil t

for

having

m a n

as

S a u o n a r o l a .

But, no

they sha l l su re ly mollify the i r

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 f r o m

so

d o i n g

by

t h e



tshal l render the subject with inc oh ee nt thought, in compensation for which,

brain

will

be forced

to

re ly upon those instinctive behaviors, which, given

sinful naii ire

of

man, an d &e Pope especially, shal l be ak in to madness.

f t h e operator of t h e d e v i c e w e r e to mount

it

upon a c e n t r a l axle,

t h e ingenimm a b o u t as it operated, t h e n the i ngen ium

h a v e

effects

upon all w h o s t a n d

about

it, s u c h t h a t it might s t r ik e

n e n t i r e c r o w d w ith

the

f r enzy . P e r h ap s shou ld build many

of

these

secret t hem in s ide

cr tes

a n d wagons a b o u t Roma n d d r i v e the

city

in to t he

m a d n e s s

which

l ives inca rna te in the va t i c an .

3

e r h a p s J am be ing

too

c rue l . Better st i l l , instead of inf l ic t ing chaos

if3 pon the rec ip ient , to imp lan t more c ohe ren t though by means of

the su bje ct. t h e n J c o u l d h av e the Pope fall u p o n his o w n

set t ings must be m a d e

t h i s J do no t recommend, for if the a l i gnmen t

i s

care less , the

t ma y

be

able

to

c a s t

off

the

efects.

no,

his sha l l never

work

for

rehand, o r e ls e c a re fu ll y a l i gne d du r i ng

Pope

d o e s n ot c a r r y a

sword,

c u r s e d be h is c le r i ca l res t ri c ti ons .4

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]\/207JOjV

EjVGYjVE

o w m any m onths now,

h a s it

been, s ince 3 h a v e b r o w s e d

t h r o u g h th is Codex? a m not ce r ta in , for

a m

n o t in t he

habit

of

da t in g my thoughts, bu t ins te ad

of

re tu rn ing

to

pas t

pages a n d in sc r ib ing add i t iona l ideas o r i l lustrations as

od. do no t

therefore

know. J t has i n d e e d b e e n a long

me, however., jud gi ng by the last e n t r i e s w h i ch m a d e u p o n

these

e s , a n d

by

the dust which h a s accumula ted , upon t h e s e

pages,

t h a t

d a r k t im e a n d n ow . 3h a v e

healed

myself of my grief, and

pa iu ; 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

eventually, but for t he nonce, it s t a n d s still, a n d elicits much in te r-

a n d e x ci te m e nt , a m o n g the

peoples

of&li lano, and all

t hos e

w h o

to view it. 3t

is

a ve ry

good

paint ing, a n d mo re po ignan t

still

t h a t

fades, e v e n before o u r eyes . 3 t i s in t h a t fashion, much like a summer.,

w e

sha l l

neve r

se

11

m u s t

eventual ly p a s th is Car th ,

and

it i s simp ly my i l l for tune,

3 shall

see

his p a s s , o r at

least

begin to do so. l o w 3 c a n b e t te r

t h e

grief

of those

w ho , th rou gh ca l ami tous acc iden t , lose

of

the i r ch i ld ren , before

they

a r e g r o w n .

ain, as t fades to au tumn .

ew Conazption

shall

move ahead upon these theories, and build new

ingenia, with

hich

to

h a r n e s s

1

forces

which enve lop

the

globe

in



with spikes, for the impal ing

of



m a d e of a s i z e

large

enough to s c a l e c i ty w a l l s w i t hou t as s is t anc e of

l a d d e r s o r s ie g e to w er s, a n d w o u l d

be

s tou t enoug h to res i s t every th ing

s h o r t

of

a direct s t r i k e with a c annonba l l, a n d then on l y

if

t he a r t i l le r i s t s

u s e d a n i n cr e a s e d

charge

of p o w d e r .

6

be

able

to m o v e

properly

a r r a n g e d , the

b a r r e l

of

the c a n n o n

o u l d be e l ev a ted

to

ang l es far

higher

pr op e l ex p los i ve she lls ,

as

rain,

o v e r the b a ttle m e n ts a n d d o w n u p o n

the

heads

of

t he enemy .

U p o n

the

defensive, in

the

res i s tance

of

a siege, the J n g e n iu m V a d e r u s c a n

be

u s e d

to

dec e i v e the enemy, as to

the

s t reng th of t he city g a r r i s o n .

t h e

i ngen ium sha l l be conn ec ted by t o r tuous l inkages , to a

plethora of

s pea rs

a n d p ik e s a n d o th e r a r m s , placed a b o u t the w a l l s f o r the city, a n d s et to

w a v i n g i n

the

sun

by

the

ac t i on

of

the

i ngenium.

n this fashion

shall

the garr ison app ear to

b e

doable o r more i ts s i

and the enemy,

set

to inaction for fe ar

of

the gre at 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 le ss s a v a g e a p p l ic a t io n s

of

t h is J ng en i um V ade rus , a s well.

t

m a y be se t to a n y t a sk r e q u i r e d . t m a y be used in t he p l o w i n g of

land, for example , when

applied t9

an au toma ton s i m i l a r to

this

des i gn :



(TejU-POTIJ\L

EjVG3jVE)

c o u r s e of rece n t even ts . Re la t ions be tw een the Du c h y of

M i l an o a n d F r a n c e are strained, a n d fear

t ha t

Lodovico

El

Moro,

despite all

that

h e

h a s d o n e for

his

people, will

head

into

a n o th e r f rui tl es s w a r mu c h

to the

dilapidat ion of t h e Duchy in gen era l .

a v e taken my leave,

to p u r s u e

a sabbatical in my home city

of

Firenze,

JIIustr ious D u k e himself, to r e n d e r his wife, Jsabella d’Este, fo r

purpose

of posterity, a n d p r es u m a bl y so hat h e might be

able

to rem-

b e n e a t h

its

feet, fo r even

h e

pyramids , though

they

s t a n d yet, s h o w

d e le t e r io u s effectsof time, as does

t h e

m o s t r e g a l

profile

of the

with

it,

as

h o u gh d o w n a s t r e a m,

o r

n s te a d an a q u e d u c t , wh ic h

a n ngen ium 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,

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 t h a t

it

might be s e e n to

u se t ime within its effect o s t a n d

s t i l l .

3

i t

i s

obv ious

that

a n

ingenium

w h i c h is to

be

u s e d for

the

of t he f low of t im e m us t of c o u r s e c o n s t ra i n t h e

operator

with-

t excep t ion , f o r

i t

shaN e n c o m p a s s all a r o u n d . H o w e v e r , i t is

also

i l y s e en

that the

i n te r io r of the ingenium i t s e lf m a y n o t

be

affected

t he rnagickal b ind ings upo n the times , bu t ins tead be allowed to

f reely, for if

the ingenium

d o e s n o t e x p e r i e n c e

the

p a s s a g e of

i t m a y no t ope ra t e , henc e t im e

will

n o t be s to p p e d , a n d a c onun -

o r paradox bec om es ev iden t . t h e w o r k i n g s of t he i n t e r io r m ec ha -

o f t h e ingenium must t hus be s h i e l d e d a g a i n s t

the

m a g i c k a l



a n d the ma g ic k a l

r e

nts the reun to would be c e r t a in to pre-

the

e mp lo y me n t

of

my 3 n f e r n o m e c h a n is m to t h e g e n e r a t i o n of suc l

as

he J n f e r n o m e c h a n is m itself

has

n e e d

of

m a g i c k a l p o w e r

as

shal l b e

consum ed in t h e r e v e r sa l of t ime.

ind 3h a v e n o

theoretical

o r o b se rv a t io n a l

basis

upon which to

the

effectsof s u c h a temporal treversal,

excep t

p e r h a p s

to

t h a t

the i m a g e s s e e n

through

s u c h a portal wo u ld th e mse lv e s

be

e r e i m a ge s , the

s tu f f of

d re a ms , in mu c h t h e

same

m a n n e r t h a t w h e n

e r e m e m b e r

events,

t h e people w h o m a re

seen

o o c c u p y o u r m e m o-

are

n o t t h e t rue

f le sh

a n d blood r el at io ns w e k no w. J n a like

m a n -

hope that by reve rs in g t ime,

w e do

not

c a u s e

p e o p l e to exist in

real m an ne r wi th in the

field,

for s u c h w o u l d

be an

mpossibility,

they

n g e x t a n t e ls e wh e re , a n d v e ry mu c h a l ive .

r e a t i o n of a m eans of pres erv in g the life of o n e

ill

o r m o r t a ll y

u n d e d u n ti l s u c h t i m e a s a c h i r u r g e o n m i g h t be f ound to adm in i s t e r a

J n t h i s fas hion , the pa t i en t i s l a i n upon a table, beneath which

i ngen ium p r oc es s es i t s m ag i c k a l k no ts . T hen , whe n

the

c h i r u r g e o n

s , a n d

al l

i s in readiness, the J n g e n i u m m a y be h a lte d , a n d the

t bec om es obv ious that for th is ingenium, a t i m e d m e t h od of e m p o w e r -

the

u n i t is r e q u i ~ e d , r else

that a

sh ie lded l i ne of c o n t r o l f rom t he

of the J n g e n i u m ,

be

ex t end ed t h r ou gh t he t im e - s topp ing

ec ts , a n d

to the

f u n d a m e n t a l s o u r c e of o p e ra t i on . d s e w i s e ,

i t

will

be

to

c o n t r o l

the

funct ion

of

t he mach ine , bu t me re ly

to

allow

i t

run i t s course , un t i l a t l a s t i t w i n d s d o w n , s p e n t of p o w e r , f o p a n y

e n d e a v o r e d to p e n e t r a t e

the

m a g i c k a l r e s tr a in t s w o u l d f i n d t h e ir

too, had been halted in i ts flow, a n d they w o u l d be u n a b l e to hal t

n e c o n c e i v a b l e u s e for the J n g e n i u m t e m p o r a l i s w o u l d be i n t he

3 n g e n iu m ' s p r o g r e s s .

5

(3IVTGGR3Ty

CNGYNE)

am no w visiting Ven ezia, t h e city of t he c a n a ls , a n d h a v e passed

many a n en joyab le

hour

tomring

at the

whim

of

th e gondoliers ,

a n d a tt e nd i ng the

ballets. 3 t

is a beautifml city, and 3 njoy

my

e c re a t io n here

greatly,

but the days re so u re d with

t h e

talk of

w a r w h ic h has broken ou t be tween theturkmen

of

the O t t o m a n

n d f a ir v e n e zi a .

d a rk e n in g of my relaxat ion i s doubled by w o r d of t h e

defeat of

the

at

S a p i e n z a , a l t ho u g h 3h a v e h e a r d

so

many v a r i e d

stories

t h a t

3

ai

which

a re

t rue .

Verily

do

these

common J t a l i a n s embell ish every

for J h a v e heard

t h e

sa m e p e r so n in f la te the d r a m a

of

his

discoutrst



o v e r

t h e short

s p a n of one

day, and he

s w o r e t ha t

fleetat S a p i e n z a A4ayhap h e w a s t h e r e i n d e ed ,

head,

that

h e has g o n e silly.

J t s painful to m e to hear of

the defeat

of

the

fleet, with

so

w a s

s t ruck upon the

being upon t h e

coast,

w h e r e any ba r ba r ous

i n

may put as ho r e .

With

this

co nc er n in mind, 3w en t

to t h e

sh ipyard

to speak

with

t he

shipwrights,

a n d to e n d e a v o r to f ind the t ruth of the matter. As

t

befell, when 3 rr ived,

they were in the p r o c e s s of keeling a vessel for th

a n d they were putting about

the

task in a mos t un

k e of repairing her,

ly a n d inefficient

manner , t ha t 3 h a d to exclaim, as though to children, my astonishment.

t 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

extor t an po l ogy ou t

of me,

o r

blood,

o r p e r h a p s

bot

nate ly r ecog nized

by

a ea r ned man, w ho

c

3must remind myself

to

hold to my tongue

the fu ture with seamen, for

they

are roguish

rapscall'

A f t e r s peak i ng with

the

shipwright, for s u c h my defe nd er turned ou t

to

be,

des igned for them a sys tem of

l ines

a n d

pulleys

ly tvansfer t he f o r ces of thei r s t rength against the s

will

m o r e effective-

which

effovts they

w e r e

m o s t

gratefi.1, a n d tveated

r anc id establishment3

h ve

eve r

had t h e displeas

b r e a d w a s qui te coa-ely gr ound , and t h e

beef wa

though i t h a d

been

h a c k e d

off the cow with a ha l be r d . And

the

wine is

b e s t

leftwithout description, especially

the way

3 feel this morn.

inner, at

the m o s t

hile

inspecting t he

damage

to the vessel, of which 3 knew l i t t le , as3

h a v e

m a d e

no

s e r i o u s study

of n a ~ t i c a l

ciences ,

i t

occ

thut

a magickal ingenium empl aced upon a vessel could be used to e n h a n c e

its

durability

in battle, most

specifically against

the

p o w e r of

an

nemy ves-

sel stviking

i t

in the

side, below

the waterline,

with a

vam.

A

different

ngeni -

u m would

h a v e to

be used to

pro tec t

t h e vessel, a g a i n s t attack by Greek

fire,

o r

other pyrotechnical assaul ts , b m t shall

here

work upon

an

J n g e n i u m Jf i tegri tas, which

will

be employed

in the

d e f e n s e a g a i n s t raws,

collisions,

and

bombardments,

a nd would

also

be

useful

w e r e

the

vessel

to

b e

plying

t w c h e r o u s w at er s, w h e r e t h e re m ight

be rocky s

sctrface

oft he

wa ter, invisible reefs, 8tc.

t h e

method

by

which the ingenium sC\allw or k will

into a

webwork, l i k e undoing a net

o r

fabric,

the

gleaned by w at ch

those

skilled at knitting, a n d in

webworks,

one contained completely

within the

(of which 3h a v e one he r e be f o r e me) has a n nn

glass, and

i s hollow,

yet t h e inner

a n d o u te r

SM

like

m a n n e r

shall

the

w ebw or ks

of

magickal



otheu;

yet

be

separ

the hull of the vessel, which

they

in tur shall

upon,

he better with

which it

shall keep its

shape , as a n y a t t a c k by

o r

r am

shall have to ove r come the durability of

t h e

magicka l

as well as he stvength of the hull of t h e ship.

the 'timkmeur

o afford

any

efect, this ingenimm must

by

m e a n s be very well powered,

s

o

protect

a

vesse l aga ins t

the

hostiliiy

of

theTurkmen

o r

the r v e -

of

an

underwater

rock,

half-measures

will be

woefully inadeqm ate.

any

vessel upon which this

ingenimm

might be employed, is

neces-

a larger vessel, and therefore may admit to a larger s o u r c e

of

pow er

this ingenicrm, for

its

increased

efects,

of which 3 elieve a mundane

of my previous Jv l ferno mechan ism for em pow erm ent might well be

for a l though s uch a motivator

is

unforgiving of damages inflicted

it,

i t shall be protected within t h e interio9 below decks, of a magickal ly

rced hull of a n J talian-buil t warship, a n d there is

no

place more

safe

that .

Prev ious incidents at Sa pi en za no twi ths tanding .

will req ui re that

a

f i v e o r s o m e a lchemical sou rce of h e a t

b e

employed

decks, but as3unders tand that fire

is

l ikewise used by

a

ship's

cook,

anno t see

hat

h e r e would be an y object ion

to

s u c h

an

q u i p p a g e . t h e

difficultyarises in that

if

it w e r e necess a ry ,

d M e to t he great

length

of a

naval battle, to buvn for consum ption unimpovtant portions of t h e

itself, the stvength of

the ingen;crm's

magick would prevent even hard y

+om

prying ornam ental planks o r woodwork f rom t h e hull

to

be

Mpon the o the r hand, i t

should be

noted tha t should the n g e n i u m run

of

fuel

a n d

cease

to

function,

i t

is

likely

tha t

the

vesse l in

a gr av e posi tion shall take d a m a g e f rom the enemy, which

shall

c a u s e

to be an mmediate supply of scrap a n d flam ma ble woodstmffs.

6

L X ESMS tEflllr\lVCE E f lGZ f l E )

per

3 had completed the des ign of my Jngeniuwr Jmtegr i tas,

3

r e t ~ ~ n e d

o the docks to display

my

nvention to

the

shipwright

w ho f avow d my cau s e

when

J ret visit& that

place.

Sad13 h e

w a s

not

receptive to my

ideas

f o v the impmvement

ofthe

s, an d in factwas appal led at the idea

of

employing

a

five-pow-

version of my

J n f e r n o mechan ism

below decks

of

a

warship

eng age d in

He

could

not see hat the J n g e n im m

J n t e g r i t a s

would protect itself,

with itselfalso e

c w w

a m d the

ship herself om ene my activities

as

as the mechanism's fire.

J t

s perhaps as well; h e r e are significantly

warships now, and a given one which were to emp loy my

JMtegritas

has

a

greater c h a n c e of being caphtre d

by

theTurkmen,

t which

t ime w e should

see all

e vessels ofthe Ottoman

+re

invincible.

The

Lost



ingenium = l i e s upon the

technique

of infising additional

life

ene rgie s into he

even as

these

energies

ave extinguished

bywhatever

means.The

heat

the

m m c l e which pumps these enevgies

abomt

thebo it is

most

necessavy

the

ngenium

be held within close pvoximify to the heat ,or else

that

the inge-

be

of

lavge design.7

ingenia

sti steel,

and pvotected against water o r whatever elements might

i t s

fCcnction.So

made, the ingenium

shall allow the weclrev being the peec

affeded by i t s mgickal infctsions,

to

op em te in places under water, o r wheve

m a i n s but only

bad

a i9 as

n

a

mine shap

OF in

a

building

ablaze.

tIew3

tell that he ingenium only pvotecis the vital ovgans from beiy destv0ye.d by

or

poisons; it shall

not provide any

pvotectionagainst the inferno, which

be

safely

opemted

by

clockwork, with

a

mainspring

of

hall dive+

axme

theweaver's flesh to be roasted until it

no

onger fctnctions,

the weare?

by

the g r a c e of my

ingenium,

shall not be ovecow\e bythe

beforethe

ire.

a

arger

version, this ingenium might

be

o power

a

hip which would

h ~ v e l nder the

waves as do whales

and er

fish.Pockets

of

air must be

m i n t a i d in cases ofmevgen- and o 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 CWoman Empire, and thence ewe to laun ch mines,

which shall goat

up,

a d x- brecldes to the keel

' t h i s und ersea vessel

has

a n

advantage

ovev my pevious

design for a

non-magickal

submersible cr~lf i heve-

is

vessel

is

not

vul-

erable to having its

W C k S O P o t h e r



yf

the sea, as ts m a g i c k a l e ffe c ts p r e c l u d e ti

i n s i de

the

c r a f f .

S t a t i o n a r y e d if ic e s m a y a Is0 be c o n s t m c t e d ,

s i on of the w i n d m i l l c o m m o n in

the

l o w l a n d s

/vether lands, which mill,

by

us ing the force

u p o n it, m i g h t

afford a

c om f o r t ab le l iv i ng env ir onm en t w i t hou t unduly

dep le t i ng

the area

of m a g i c k a l p o te n tia l, a n d

n e vepc

i ng the o c c u p a n t s in

IuXury.

9

ith this ingenium, it might

also b e

pos

grea t he ights , w here the a ir becom e

normal human endt-trance, and t hen ce

to e



This

modification of my previous JngeniMm

which,

by

inuerting

t h e

ratios a n d

real igning

t he mecha-

to w ork in the r e v e r se o r d e q wo uld f ro m

those

su rro un d in g , c a u se

vital fo rce to

be

depleted, ins tead of held buoyant. J n

his

fashion,

tlqe

s w ou ld g r o w w e a r y b e f o r e they colnld b o mb a rd me with their

3 hould have a moment’s peace.10

New

Work

to

C o m m e m c e

i s a better

day, now, a n d my t e mp e ra m e n t is less s to rmy th a n

i t

w a s

in t h e

prev ious days,

for

su re ly

MOW 3

r eap

t h e

benefi ts

of

my

in this t o w n. F i r e n z e i s building a n e w hall to h o u s e h e r

city

council,

t h e g o v e rn me n t has r e t ai n e d m e to decorate the walls of the n e w

with my works, r e p re se n t in g

the

ma n y F i r e n z e n v i c to r i es on

h e

of battle. 3 n light of rec en t even ts,

3

a n n o t

resist

but

to ba s e my

work

upon t h e Battle of An g h ia r i , wh e re in F i r e n z e n fo rc e s defeated

M i l a n e se 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

rk, a n d a m

pleased

by

my initial

resfilts, of

t e n se a n d f e rv e n t sold ie r s,

r am p a n t, a n d c l o u d s ofdlnst

kicked

u p by the tumult. 3

shall

h a v e

re v i se t h e plans, howeveu; a n d f ind a Letter m ethod of wo rk in g th a n

3

ha ve in mind a n e w p a in t wh ic h sh o uld su f f i c emy needs.

high

repute has a lso at t r acted the at tent ions of sev era l young and

emen, each of whom hopes to pa in t as J do . Ra f fae lo San t i

ise, but J ind t h at A n d r e a d e l S a r t o is yet too youn g. J

a/ that one ,Mich elang elo B uo narro t i i s interested in my



heard

c o m p l i m e n t a r y r ep o r t s a b o u t

h is

s t a t u e s

of

B a cc h u s , a n d Pie+ t

St.

P e t e r ’ s . J m y s e l f

sh l l

w i t h h o l d j u d g m e n t u n t il J a n s e e h i s

w o r k

p e r s o n a l l y , w h i c h

J

h a l l b e

a b l e to do,

s i n c e

J

m

told he

also h a s

b e en c o m m i s s i o n e d to

help to

d e c o r a t e

the h a l l

of

the

city c o u n c i l .

u t my work on his painting

has

led m e to think of w a r f a re , a n d

w h a t

c a n

perhaps

a c c o mp l i sh

for

the

betterment

of

the

we l fa re

of

the

soldiers

of F i re n z e , a n d

J

hav e dev ised an o the r va ria tion upon t h e t h e m e

e lu c id a t e d

by

my

J n g e n i u m S u s t en t a c u l u s ,

which

by

infusion

of

vital

enev-

gies

i n to t h e

body of one w o u n d e d o r i l l as rom battle o r p la g u e , a n d

foc used in t h e m a n n e r

by which

t h e

J n g e n i u m J n t e g r i t as effects ts

works,

shal l

c a u s e the d e c r e p i t u d e to

be

flushed from the patient’s

sys-

tem,

that they

mig ht sp r in g wh o le a n d

h a l e

f ro m their

beds

a n e w.

J t is J f e a r a mo st diff icul t f i g e n i u m to d e si g n a n d calibrate, for insuf-

ficient infusion of vitality will no t h a v e t he desired effect, while

believe

a n

ex ce ss i ve infus ion

will

c a u s e

t h e

i l l

p e r s o n

to

evoke

s u c h

a

f e v e r as might p ro ve fatal,

or

else to

feel

c u r e d of

all

i l l s while yet

uuhealthy,

that is,

a w o u n d e d

man

might feel so

vital

t h a t

he arise

f ro m

the c h i ru rg i c a l table a n d

walk

away, with

h is a r m

yet d a n g l i n g f r o m the

socket,

a n d b l e ed ing , wh ic h wo u ld be most unseemly .

r

t h e

most accura te imparting of the effects n to t h e ailing person, the

effectsof

the

i ngen ium must be conveyed with a wrap ping woven skill-

fully

of

gold a n d s i lken th reads , which m a y c o v e r the pa t ien t all around , as

though a cocoon o r a s h r o u d . t h e silk should be of

t h e

brightest a n d mo s t

cheerful

colors

available,

that the

patient ma y not bel ieve

a

sh ro u d

it

i s

i nd ee d , a n d

thereby

p an ic a n d d a m a g e

the i ngen ium, which

is very delicate

by n a tu re a n d d es ig n , a n d poorly-disposed to a b r u p t shocks o r motions.

t h i s is b e c a u s e

of

the fact that the i n g e n i u m itself mu s t be blown

of

glass,

so

as o afford

itself

to b e

perfectly

u n re c e p t iv e of the e n e r g i e s it

p ro d u c e s , for an y build-up, w he the r in the i v rgenium o r

of

t h e

su r ro u n d -

ings themselves , c a n c a u s e a wave , which, su d d e n ly imp a r t e d u p o n t he

p a t i e n t by w h a t e v e r c i r cu m s t a n c e , c a n b e deleterious in effects s

yet

k n o w

of no

J t a l i a n s

so

well-versed in t h e ar t

of

glass blowi-g t h a t 3

d e e m t h em

skilled

e n o u g h

to

un de r ta ke t he p rodcrct ion

of

e c c e n t r i c

gea r s

a n d prec is ion -cas t m ec lqan ica t con t r ivan ces . Perhaps c a n per-

s u a d e t h e g o v e rn me n t to a n n o u n c e a

reward for

w h i ch e v er a r t is t c a n

p r o d u c e the

best

b lo wn -g la s s c lo c k wo rk s , a n d th e n e mp lo y that p e r s o n

in the p ro d u c t io n of this mo st merciful

J n g e n i u m

C u r a r e ~ s .

1

O n e

final

w o r d of wa rn in g : t h e m a c h i n e itself mu s t n o t only b e

of glass,

but

it

m M s t also necessar i ly

be

ke pt fas tid ious ly c lea n . t h i s c le a n l in e s s i s

not

for

the p l e a s u r e

of t h e

patient ,

for

c e r t a in ly his a w a r e n e s s will likely

not proceed

pas t the

wr a p p in g s in wh ic h

h e

is laid,

but

for

the

prevention

of

an y build-up

of

ma gick a l po ten tia l upon

the

e n g i n e

itself

12



vention , a n

d a n d skilled in

a r t i f i c e . t he r e

w a s q u i t e

s om e

a r g u m e n t a m o n g

p r e s e n t

upon

which

of

t h e s e w or t h i e s stood i n d ee d a b o v e t h e oth-

a n d

while

t h e debate gvew m o r e

heated,

quie t ly exc us ed mysel f

paid a call u p o n o n e of the g e n t l e m e n whose n a m e had a r i s e n fre-

e p p o n e

3

ouiZd

a

m o s t i n te r es ti n g a n d e n e r g e t i c character. , a n d

h e

3 g r e e d a t

o n c e

to build a m a c h i n e

to

my

specifications. H e

e e m e d

mos t c u r i o u s m a n, a n d n e v e r ceased moving t h e e n t i re t im e w e s p o k e,

to

partake

of

wine,

which

h e

did

w hile w ork in g ~ p o n is lathe,

c u s t o m which J ound mildly alarming. 3 a v e him a n a d v a n c e sum,

n o d o u b t s but that h e shal l c o m p l e t e t h e

project

in the

stated

t ime.

is t h e

even i ng

of the day

M p o n

which

h e b e g a n

his

labors ,

so 3

sha l l

y h a n d s .

i n a ti o n

to

b e a r

a

g rea t r o c k aloft.

T h e

k i t e s ha l l c aus e t h e

to dr i f t

in

a downwind

direct ion,

w h i l e

t h e

J n g e n i u m s h a l l



h o l d the

missile

alof t . B y manipu la t ing the k i t e

f r o m

the

ground, i t

s h a l l

be poss ib le

to a im

t h e r o c k

m o s t

ac c u ra t e l y .

B y a

ca lcu la t ion employ ing

t he t r i ang le

formed

by the

st r ing of

the k ite the eleva t ion

of

the kite

and

t he ang le

of elevation of

t he k i t e

s t r ing

i tsel5

the t r ue distance

f r om

t he ho lder of t h e

st r ing

to the

city

may be

readily

calcu la ted

and

the

roc k s i gh ted a lon g t he str ing to drop w h e r e

i t

wi l l .

Great

calamity

Befulls

is m os t cala mi tous effect wh ich ha s resmlted from Camillo’s en gi-

3eering my ingenium. t h e echnician ha s ta k e n the presumption

of

testing

i s

ski l ls by powering the

ingenium,

be f o v e informing

m e

of the

complet ion of

his

labors. 3 c a n o n ly a s su m e tha t he had th e d e v ic e

switched to maximum effect, si nc e that w a s the position in whic h



o n l y two of each k ind,

each with a

f o r w a r d s a n d b a c k w a r d s m e ch -

J

a n e n s u re tha t rival i n v en t o r s s ha l l no t be

able

to s t ea l each

l e tt e rs , sa v ing on ly by t he f t of

the

c om pe t i to r s J n g e n i u m

us .

2

e J n g e n i u m

sha l l be

equipped with sev era l quil ls ,

e a c h

well-

t

q u ip p e d wi th

ink,

a c c o r d i n g t o t h e d e s i gn

for

an mproved quill,

J h a v e in a n o th e r C o d e x around , though 3 a n n o t f in d i t

at

this

t h e s e

quills shal l b e

set

in a ree-floating m a n n e 9 b a l a n c e d as

here, to

be

manipulated by the m a g ic k a l e n e r g i e s c a u s e d by

wri tten parc hm ent pass ing into

the c e n t e r of the

ingenium.

t h e s e

must

be mos t f inely balance d, as o r e a c t to the slightest pressure ,

sure ly

the

pressLtres

e n g e n d e r e d

by

the

magicka l

field

of

t h e

i ngen ium

b e

delicate i n de e d . A n d

t h e

ingenium m ust

be

operated o n a solid

f looq in a sealed ro o m

f r ee

f ro m drafts, o r in se ct s, a n d the o p e r a t o r

r e ma i n

perfectly still, lest

h e

also

reduce

the

ingenium s

w o r k to

by

j a r r in g one r m o r e of the quil ls . A n d a n J n g e n iu m S o l a i r s

be built inside, to illuminate the pages as hey are e n c ry p te d .

t is

also

poss ib le to s e n d d r a w i n g s e n c o d e d , a s the m a g i c k a l opera

of

the

J n g e n i u m o n l y e n c o d e s t h e p v es e nc e of lines; t he J n ge n iu m

k n o w s n o t a l ine of

a

l e t te r f rom

a

l ine of a d r a w i n g , h e n c e

a w i n g s a n d il lu s tr a ti o n s s h a l l l ik e w i s e

be

r e d u c e d

to

nonsense .

c



t h e s h e e t s

of

p a r c h m e n t u p o n w h ic h t h e e n c i p h e r e d m a r k s sha l l be

m a d e m u st

be fed

individually, however.

For

i tems which

a r e of

utmos t

i m p o rt a n ce , 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 in g in for-

e i g n cities, there c a n be

attached

s eve r a l t hi n blades, w hi ch shall

reduce the o r ig i n al p a r c h m e n t to r ibbons . B u t

3

n e e d not

his

m e

of secur i ty , for3 ntend to m a k e severa l copies

of

my Codex, twenty o r

more , for

t h e

se ll ing , a l tho ugh each shall

also be

g i ven with an

J n g e n i ~ m erplexMs,

which

shal l a t o n c e pro

No, this

3

a n n o t

do, for i t would

break

me, o

a n d p r o v e my work.

e h e fees

which

3

would b e

forced to

levy upon those, w h o

a r e

in te res t ed in my book,

to

pay, would d r i v e t h em a w a y , a n d a g a i n 3 shall ha

to share my enthus iasm. 3 shall h a v e to publish thi

c o u r s e , c e r t a i n c o m m e n t s

edited

out,

to avoid

t h e

f i n d also, 3 hall l e a v e c e r t a i n i n g e n i a o u t

of

thi

the Viu P e r e g r e u s . t h e copies shal l

be ready

in

h a v e t h o ug h t a g a i n u p on

the effects

of magne t i c axes

o f f o v c

c u r v e d

across t h e

l a n d s c a p e fr om one e n d of t h e earth to

other. ;In

his

3 ecalled

my vis it tov en ez i a , w he re

t h e ca

a r e plied by boa t s men , and where3 aw gondol ie r s at work,

a n d

also

provided t echnica l aid in the shipw rights in keel ing a vesse l for

r epa i r s . 3 n

his,

the

m a g n e t i c forces J believe a r e as invisible an d

u n b r e a k a b l e

ropes, bmt

de f o r med not

by

stresses in a d o w n

but actua l ly buoyed in

a

gr ace f u l

a r c

a b o v e t h e l an ds f rom

E a r t h to

t h e

other, w h e r e e a c h line of m a g n e t i c

force

is rooted o r

attached.

i go nd ol ie r pu ll ing

a

boat with

a pole

propels his craf t forward, a n d in

a l ikewise manner ,

do

m e n pull

at a boat

with

ropes.

W e v e

t h e

ropes

to

b e g r o u n d e d m i le s away, itw o ul d m a k e

no

d i f f e r ence to t h e work of

t h e

s h ip w ri gh ts , a n d w e r e

t h e

gondol ie r ’ s pole to e x t e n d f r o m

t h e

e n d

of

t h e

e a r t h

to

t h e

e n d of the earth,

h e

c o u l d still ply

his

craf t by pulling

his

body a l o n g its length. J n his manner , i t c a n be readily s e e n that the

l ines of m a g n e t i c force, being

of

t hems e l ve s i nv io l at e a n d pe r manen t ,

m a y

b e

used ,

with

a n i ngen ium d e s i g n e d for s u c h a pur pos e , to pr ope l

a

craf t

ac r o s s the s mr f ace of

t h e

p l ane t in much

g ea r s

c a n be u s e d to

propel

l inks o f a c h a i n .

3ystem, which, us ing l ines of m a g n e t i c fo rce

hi

a r e in tangib le

a n d invisible, yet a p p r o a c h i n g t h e infinite in n u m b e r a n d of exq uis i te f in-

e r y of detail, m a y b e passed t h r o u g h its s y s t e m

repeatedly

a n d w i th o u t

n e s s e n c e , the i n g e n i u m will

act

as

t h o u g h i t w e r e

a

loss

of efficacy,e x c e p t i n g

by

which

the

i ngen i



o r i en t a t i on of

the

d e v i c e is m os t eas i ly ac c om p l is hed , be ing m er e -

the d i r e c t i o n of the pu l leys

wi th

r es pec t to t he ingenium, tha t

is,

the

will

be d r a w n i rr e s is t ib l y t o w a r d s th e m a g n e t ic p u l le y s a s they

the e f o r t s on the m agne t i c l ines . J\s des igned here , the ingeni -

be

w o r k e d in r ev e rs e , f o r t he pu l l ey s rely upon t he t ens ion of

m a gne t i c l ines to d r a w t h em s e lv e s t o w a r d s th em , a n d in r e v e r s e d

by p u s h in g a g a i n s t t he e t h e r e a l rope, t he m a g n e t i c l in e s w o u l d

es s ly s na r led , m a gne t i z ing

the

ingenium b e y o n d u s e .

M e c k a w i s m

uch a n i ngen ium would n e c e s sa r i ly r e q u i r e t h e u s e of some sort of

l e v a tin g me c ha n i sm, in a v o i d a n c e of having

to

ovel*come t h e

of friction

p o n t h a t

which

is to

b e t r a n s p o r t e d .

J t

i s far

easier to

a craft

t h r o u g h the a i5

which is

f r ic t ion less , than t h ro ugh

the

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

in to a s u s p e n s i b l e craf t of my ow n des ign ,

w e

find A vehic le

to

the

comveyance

of

people

rapidly

over

g r e a t d i s t an c e s .



ind

t h a t

t h e b a l a n c e of su

d e v i c e is no n

ordeq

that used in

uch

a m a n n e r m i g h t rotate f o rw a r d , a n d

be

th rus t

in to

t h e grounc

t h e rocket as

h e

J n g e m i u m

/ \ / l agne t i cMs

pulls

m e

f o r w a r d .Truly

t h e

e a r t h sh o u ld be f a r easier on

he

consti tu tion tha n

P e r h a p s this sha l l b e m o r e b a l a n c e d .

his

would

be

a most undigni fied ma nn er

of transport.

shall h a v e

c o u nt e rw e i gh t a n d b a l a n c e

t h e

initial design. fib, but i f 3 w e r e to7

C

COf lFG5SYOf lGflGYflG)

v e had p len ty e n o u g h of the B o rg i a f amily 3 m fu rio us

h e s e v a l e n c i a n n o bl es -t he y a re 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 t h a t

is tloly, let

a l o n e

all t h a t

is

Jtal ian.

We h a v e

heard tell that

t h e h u s b a n d of L u c r e z i a

i a, a n d this is her f i r s t hwsband , s in ce

t h e

other m a r r i a g e s w e r e

n u ll ed , a n d h e n c e n e v e r existed, h a s

died.

P r e s u m a b l y he died of

a

of the heart, which is

n o t

a s u r p r i s e s i n c e many h e a r t s h a v e

w e a k e n e d w h e n Cesare s k e w e r s t h em with a stiletto. With

bloody hands h e should

t ake

the n a m e C a r d in a l S i n . a m

f course,

Cesare

be ing a

Cardinal,

it is c e r t a in

t h a t

he shall d e M y any

i ng , a n d a s h e is an ordained m e m b e r of t h e

clergy,

he is inca-

of

lying, thus w e shall

all

h a v e to a c c e p t

his

inno cen ce in

t h e

mat-

t le is as nnocen t as

a

mongre l

dog,

o r a p la g u e - r id d e n ra t What

cou ntry needs, in factw h a t t h e e n t i r e

Catholic

Church a r o u n d th



rs being the ra t io of five to seven,

this

being acco rding to my calcula-

t which w i l l

uth, witho ut the loss of the im pe rative to speak, fo r it does

no

good

someone to s pe ak the truth, i he w i l l not an swe r the quest ions

t to them.

f

course,

tr

r

as

possible, so it is requ i red that

i n g e n i u m

be create d of the pu rest ma terials possible, h owe ver sil-

shall be of no use. B ette r m uch that it be made of beaten gold o r

platinum, an d lubr icated w i th pure o i l o r pe rhaps holy water, if

r i m g f rom the im pera t ive f ield the opp ortunity for

is

as pure a m a

significamt amoun t can be h ad withoHt complaimt from the loca l

m ak e

thi

i s

my inte ntion to imstall

it

in

a

room o fa tower bu i lt among the banks

a ast-flowing stream, the rew ith to bu ild a water w heel w i th which to

the

i n g e d u w

a cons tant and unwaver ing source

of

motivation,

shall be

seen

to

invest most tho roug hly the

area

w ith the impera-

for ve racity. 3t w i l l be necessary to a dm it

a

disengagem ent m echa-

sm to al low the

imgen ium to

rest whi le the m agickal ene rgies of

the

are being restored.

g e n i u w

powevful in aspect and i rres is t ib le indominance,

Ydea

OM

m u s t

know, of

course , & a t

to

i n t e r r o g a t e a n y

of t he

Borgia f a m -

i n g ingenium wou ld c a u s e



g r e a t c a l a m i ty

to

befall a l l wh o d e r t o o k the pu r s u i t of the L o r d ’ s t r u th

in

t he

m a t te r . E s p e c i a l l y if t hos e

w h o

q u e s ti o n e d t h e B o r g i a ( w h i c h e v e r

o n e i t w a s ) w e r e t he m s e lv e s u n d e r t h e i n fl u e n ce of m y C e n s u r u m

Veraceus , a n d t h e n ce s p o k e f re e ly a n d h o n es tly of their o w n d i s p o s i-

t i ons towards t hi s m o s t p o w e r f u l a n d c o r r u p t f a m il y . To hat end, i t is

bu t

a

s im p l e e n d e a v o r

to

m a k e

a

s e c o n d a r y in g e n iu m wh ich s h a ll w o r k

a t the

s a m e t i m e

as

t he

C e n s u r u m V e r a c e u s ,

a n d which s ha l l hav e

a

s i m i la r i m p a c t u p o n the person’s psyche,

by

u s i n g

a

d i f f e ren t cons t ruc -

t i o n of

wagickal

e n k r g i e s to in f luence the m e n t a l p r o c e ss e s o f t h e

per-

s o n. T h i s 3 n g e n iu m O b f u s c a r u s w o u l d c a u s e th o se so affected

to

f o r ge t

all wh ich

had o c c u r r e d while t he m ec han i s m of the e n g in e w e r e

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 s m a l l e r im pa c t in r ad ius, so a s

n o t to c a u s e the

police

to forget the c on f es s ion as well, a l t h o u g h the

inc lus ion of

a

l a r g e g l a s s le n s w o u l d be

e a ) ass is tance in caus ing

the effect to be f oc us ed in na t u r e .8

-day 3 a m d i s m a y e d by the s lo w p a c e with

which

bad n e w s

c a n s o m e t i m e s tr a v e l t h r o u g h

Jtalia.

J t i s suvpris ing to me,

as

- -

well, for J t a l i a n s a re fa in to talk at great a n d e x ha u st in g

leng th about

all

m a n n e r of subjects , and to g e s t i c u l a t e w i th

s u c h force t h a t t hey

cau s e your

inkwell to

spill

upon yomr pa pe rs . 3 t is in

j u s t s u c h a

m a n n e r

that

3 h a v e received

this

latest a n d

mo s t

~ n w e l c o m

bit of t idings.

3

h a v e b e e n g i v e n word

that

t h e F r e n c h

h a v e

r e t a k e n

the City

ofIl/\ilano

f rom t h e forces of the

Duke

Sfo rza of Milano , my form er pa t ro n , J t is

said that Lodo vico now languish es in p r i son , awai t ing the

pleasture

of

L o u i s

FII.

S u c h

a r e t h e

forttunes of

w a r

a n d poli ticking,

but 3 had

better

hopes

for

31

Mo r o , a n d n ow

i t

i s

a p p a r e n t t h a t

3

shall n e v e r

be

g r a n t e d

t h e p l e a s u r e

of

comple t ing

the

s t a t u e h e

wished of his

father. A n d

a

magnif icen t statue it would

be,

with not

its

e q u a l in all t h e world 3will

n o t re tu rn to

t h a t 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

Fr en ch will force m e into ma k in g

s om e

a r c h w a y c om m e m o -

ra t in g their trimmph

a t

the

city

gates, a n d 3 h a v e

no

desire

to

bring thei

t r e a c h e r y to qlory. Or p e r h a p s t he y would press

me

nto devis inq

a

n e w

m e a n s

of in te r roga t ing

the

Duke . Bah

c a n n o t be r

t h e

t h o u g h t of the S

h a s s o u r e d m y t o m ac h , a n d now 3 m u st a b s t a i n f ro m w i n e a n d

r z a s impr isoned

by

t h e F re nc h . 3 t

spicy

dishes,

a n d r e s t r a in my sel f to p a s t a s .

shall

h a v e to find a means

of

p u rg in g

myself

of

this

phlegmatism,

a n d

so

shall

p u r s u e

the

invention



shall

affect but

a smal l port ion o t

can arrange for the

effects

of the i M g e M i u m to

b

of metal l ic cords,

so as o

erase m o r e evenly t

which

distribution

was designed and

tested

by

construct ing

a

man-

m e q u i n of

cantaloupes,

Necessari ly,

large people might r e q u i v e a

differ-

e nt distribution.Fdditionally,

a n

ndependentsot,wce

of

motivation i s

not

feasible,

as

an escapee

cann

especially

on a dark Nedite

be empowered by a mal l but vigor

ith the

distribution

of the tra

Z,

shown here,

the

smal l

effects of

the

imgef i ium wil l be distrib-

pe-d on

he blowing

of the wind,

i um shall have to

s

shown

in drawing

uted in an

arrangement such

that it

shall

conceal the en tirety of

the



hile meeting with

Albert0

R iz z u t to

a g a i n ,

over d inner this

day,

h e c h a n c e d to bring to m e

s o m e

i l l tidings, which is

t ha t

t h e tmrk me n h a v e

at

last

wre s t e d

the

city

of

D u r a z z o

f r o m v e n e z i a n p r e s en c e , therewith robbing their a r m y of

its

s t ro n g e s t hold upon the l a n d s of

Asia

M i n o 9

south

of Dalmatia , which

could

be

said to

be

m o r e o f t h e B a l k a n s t h a n Asia M i n o r propen th i s

a la r ms m e g re at ly , for i t

is

a

possibility

now that th e t u r km en 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 t h a t fair

city,

a n d c o n qu e ri n g

her

at

once

or

subjug ation into

the Ot to ma n E mp i re . Or else that they m a y m a r c h along the

Adriatic

Coast,

moving aga ins t

Zara,

a n d d ismemberV enez ian hold ings piece-

meal

for

consumption

by

C o n s ta n t in o p le . th i s is worr isome

to

me,

for

the

effects

f the M o h a m m e d a n zealots l inger s t i l l in S p a in , a n d wodd i l l

see

t h a t 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 Sm i t e the earth

n

p re p a ra t io n

for s u c h

an event, 3 must c a l c m l a t e enec essa ry engi -

neering

of

a device

of

magnificent destructiv e

capabilities,

with which

3

might b e a b l e to bring to a su d d e n d e m ise a n y Ot to ma n a sp i r a t io n s to

J t a l i a n

lands, whethe r by invasion of fleeto v m a r c h of army. h e

brightest

inspiva-

t ion have

had

is to create a n n g in e

which

acts

upon

the ground as

does

t h e

wind aga ins t ao

ll-rigged

sail, w h ic h c a u s e s

it

to whip

itself,that

s,

an

i ngen ium which shall, by its n a tu re , c a u se a

great

t rembling am ong

the ele-

mental forces

of

the earth, a n d

thereby

the tangible e a r t h propeu;

for

the

dis-

a r r a y a n d d isrupt ion oft h e enemy. Also

for

the destruct ion of

his fortifica-

t ions

a n d siege engines . J n w i h e s s of which, t h e

terror

of

his people

would

b e g r e a t s u ch that they would b reak at the sight of the approach

of

t h e

Venez ian a rmy, a n d

the

new m agickal eng ines of w a r e mp lo y ed by

s a m e .

J n his 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

ran do m vacillations would be better.

yes, t h a t

i s

the

solution,

for

al though

cyclic

forces

c a n

indeed

create

la rg e disruptions,

as ev idenced

by

t h e method

by

which children disrupt a piece of rope in a

regu la r fash ion to play at jumping

it

3

an

see them doing

so

outs ide my

window, and3 hope t h a t they will

cease

their squealing, the better to help

m e concentra te) , but in a similar fashion, it is

possible tha t

s u c h a disruption

will resu lt in

a

minou;

o r

even a pleasing effect,much

as

a violin strin g

is

set

to

vibrating

for

o u r ammsement. Furthe rmo re, r eg ul ar disrmptions dep en d in

large p a r t on he regularity of t h e medium of t ransmission, and the g ro u n d s

tyss

of

a

battlefield

a r e

ikely to be very

poor ly

homogenous,

a

mix of s to n e and

dirt

an d san d . 3 r r eg u la r s timulat ion

i t

must

be.



inner suvfac e

of t h e i n g e n u m .

J cCZose s e v e n t e e n g r a p n e ls , s i n c e s e v e n -

t e e n is a p r i m e n u m b e q a n d n o t d i vi s ib l e by a n y other. A n d t he g e a r i n g

of t h e m a ny c a m s is s u c h

t h a t the

g r a p n e l s w ill

not

a l ign them se lves in

the

s a m e s e q u e n c e for s o m e sev eral thou san d revolut ions

ofthe

main dr ive

shaft which shall r equ i r e severa l houvs of continuous

effort, o n

e part of

he

ivlgeniuuur.the eat ings ofthe g r a p n e l s causes he sphere to vibra te

these

vibrations also facilitatethe continuing revolutions of the cams) . Fu emore,

the

e n g i n e

is

not

created

to

be

stable

in

aspect,

an d in fact

is

detachable

from

i t s stand. n c e the correct

vibratory

f equency is acheived,

e

bra ce s ho ld ing

the

ngenum

in place

are

=leased, a n d t he sphere set f e to bounce abou t

the

landsdcape, t ransmit t ing

its

vibrations into

the

very g round, a nd caus ing

it to convulse with t removs A S

the suvface

of the

sea

i s convcllsed

with

waves,

until such t ime as ts c a m s cease mtat ing . 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

o be

stan ding in the s a m e position

as

w h e n

i t

w a s fbst begun

to operate, and

his

shall

continue

to cause

he mach ine to h a v e

an

r regular

effect.

w h e n

a

violinist

bows

t he

s a m e

notes but

holds

his

wrists

at

a

different

angle,

he

plays different string,

so

shall the Jngenium-tumuliuosus provide a

nevev-ending sequence of r a n d o m a n d a b e r r a n t pl uc k in g s

of

he lemental

as

fo rc es . A n d m u s i n g tvemovs as a result.

fter great t h o u g h t a n d m e d i ta t io n

upon

h e

a m u n a b l e to s e c u r e a su i t ab le t e s t ing loca t ion for my J n g e n i u m

ect, J ind +ha+ now

I fuosus. Jts effectwould b e

so

great, tha t an y nea rby wou ld su f fe r

n ee dle ss ly , a n d d o u b t l e s s c a u s e t h e full forc e of t h e law to fall upon my

balding

head.

Furthermore, after

great

concen t r a t ion , J a m Mnable to elu-

cidate t h e

m a n n e r in which 3 migh t t r ans por t t h e effectof my

ingenium to a

locat ion m o r e r e m o t e than that of the dev ice , f o r it w o u l d

be

an l l-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 loca t ion within

twenty

miles

of

t h e

ingenium, to

s a y

nothing

of

the ingenium being

the

v e r y c e n t e r

of t h e

t rembl ing .3 hal l h a v e to s h e l v e this d e s i g n Mntil

J

have a be t t e r

patron,

fund ing , and

s o m e o n e

m o r e

reliable t h a n

Cami l lo

to

do my engine er ing .

1

DYSSOLUTYOJV

EJVG

-

nce

a m

unable to

test m y n g e n i u m

t t , tmulfuosus, h a v e

r

-a

ins tead decided to undevtake a different approach to c rea t ing A M

effect ive ngenium for making wa r upon theTurkm en.n\ i s device ,

properly

deployed an d employed byVene2ian or Fi renzan tvoops

Id,

will hold inviolate Jt al ia n fvontievs a g a i n s t e

most

ingen ious inven-

tions

a n d

stvongest

forces

which

e

m o m a n

E m p i r e

array

agaiMst



ng that thetu rkm en have so as o bring them to a peaceable and favor-

on of this w a r

With

tha t hought of end eavoring to create

irec t des truction of the ir fort if ications, instead of em ploying the indi-

ct method of shak ing their ue r y foundations through a qua king e arth.

f course, poor Rizw tto may have been take n somew hat aback, as he did

and w hereof

J

ejaculated my excitem en t of inspivation, an d 3

him a band oned in he plaza without e xplanat ion.Jt

is

unfortunate, a t

3

m ust w rite my insp irations imm ediately, lest org et them.

the rem ainder

of

my biscott i an d the b ott le of w ine

which 3

fov-

by the side of the table bo th will have served to solace my e ffrontevy.

device has a sm aller rad ius of invocation, a nd i s thereby consum-

ately easier to aim an d set off without Mndue effects

upon

the user of the

o r the dev ice mechanism pvoper For

i ts

effect itself, it

is

best

it imparts to the a ffected m aterial a n acute la ck of cohesion

e stuffs of w hich it i s made, causing it to fall into disarray, o r powdeu;

hough eaten by termites o r rusted throu gh completely, altho ug h even if

tem affected w ere not iron or wood, even w ere itstone o r g lass. the

reeks might say the targeted m aterial we re rendered into atoms.

dewice

is a i m e d

by

t he d i s h es m o u n t e d o n t o p

of

the c o n t r a p t i o n ,

, b ei n g g e a r e d

together

t h a t t hey a l w a y s m o v e in t a nd e m , a n d by

of t lqe

r ad i u s, a n d b ei n g p r o p e r l y a l i g n e d a s

to b e

s y n -



c h ro n o u s , p r o d u c e a n i s o s c el es t r i a n g l e of p r o j e c t i o n , w h i c h p o i n t , b e i n g

t he f o c u s

of

a i i a c k , is r e n d e r e d d i s s o l u t e.

X’ime

Pvesses

i n c e

t h e

days a r e press ing upon the w e l f a r e o f v e n e z i a , 3 a v e

d e t e r m i n e d

that

J m u s t m a k e e v e r y e f fo r t

to create

and d e m o n s t r a t e

this d e v i c e for

the

benef i t of

the

city, a n d theveby a l l Jtalia. For

the

p u r p o s e

of

t h e

demons t r a t ion ,

i t

would

b e

most s e e m l y

were

the

d e v i c e

to

be

self

motivated, to which e n d

3 hall

u s e

a ightly

w o u n d s p r i n g of metal, as

a

mainspr ing ,

t he

tensi le power of

which shall

be e n o u g h to motivate the

m .

Of

c o u r s e ,

for

the winding

of

the spring,

3

hall h a v e to u s e a

<

l ev e r a r m of suff icient moment, but J believe

3

a n borrow a w r e n c h to

sui t my ne ed s from Ciniffa , w ho m ak es car r iages o u t s i d e of town.

D e s p i t e t he r e c e n t r e s u l ts o b t a i n e d by

t h a t

c a r e l e s s C a m i l l o , J

have

b e e n

a b l e

to r e t a i n the s e r v i c e s o f o n e f l e r n a n i Bellizzi,

a

v e r y

excel-

l en t m e t a l s m it h a n d m a k e r o f c l o c k s . Jt i s m o s t i m p o r t a n t tha t the

e n t i r e as s e m b l a g e

o f

t h is D is s o l v e n t u m U n i v e r s a l i s

be

m a d e e n t ir e ly

o f

c l o s e l y -

fitted

a n d s tu d i ou s l y c a l i b r a t e d m e t al s , f o r t he d e v i c e i ts el f s

t o l e r a n t

of

n o t h i n g i n t he l i ne

of

d e v i a t i o n ; e v e n the f lexib i l i ty o f w o o d e n

b o x e s i s too g r e a t fo r i ts a d m i s s i o n .

2

O n c e the d e v i c e i s tightly w o u n d u p o n t h e m a i n s

set u p i M

a

su i t a b le loca tion , it

is

o nly n e c e s s a r y to a i m

the

dishes

and

e n g a g e t h e m e c h a n i s m i nt o o p e r a t i o n .

T h e

a i m i n g of t h e dishes involves

d e t e r m i n i n g tiie d i s t a n c e

of

the height of

t h e

t r i a n g l e f o r m e d

by

the i r

foci,

t h e

e s t i m a t i o n of w h i c h 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

r e fl ec t in g m i r r o r s a n d lenses ,

w h i c h l e n s e s are m o u nt ed a b o v e the dishes,

b u t

so

close

in aspect to

the i r posi t ion

as o

be near ly i d e n t i c a l , a n d which t r a n s m i t the f o c u s of

the

dishes to their var io us r e f l ec t ing mi r ro r s , which g u i d e the

light

to a

s i n g l e

plate,

t hu sl y g e n e r a t i n g a d o u b l e i m ag e , w h i ch c a n

therefore

b e

u s e d

for

a iming

t h e device. For

w h e n t h e i m a g e

on h e

viewing

plate

i s

least

distorted by

the

tw in image s , t hen t he operator

of

the

D i s s o l v e n t u m

U n i v e r s a l i s k n o w s t ha t t h e d e v i c e

is

properly a i m e d u p o n tha t spot.

E ~ o r t i ~ ~obbery

y

mother

t h e

p r i c e s w h i c h

t h a t

t l e r n a n i Bellizzi

has

levied

a g a i n s t m e fo r this project are exorbi tant Gvident ly h e has had a

m that ra sc al Camillo, who J c a n o nly a s s u m e g a v e h im a heavily-

e m b r o i d e r e d v e r s io n of the incident,

and

t hough be ing disposed of a b a n -

d o n i n g

t h e job

thromgh Camil lo’s detractions, non ethe less found h imself

u n a b l e

to

r e n e g e u p o n his w o r d, a n d in p u r p o s e of fo rc ing

m e

to a b a n d o n

his serv ices , raised his

prices

to levels w hich h e t h o u g h t J w a s u n a b l e to

afford.

He h a s unde res t ima ted me, howeve6

for

3 a v e s e q u e s t e r e d q u i t e

a fair re se rv e in my years, a n d paid his inflated prices , in

surpr ise

of which

h e

v o w e d

to

p e r fo r m fo r m e

his

f ines t c r a f t sm ansh ip .



L .l .ll

c

__cI_

.

- I .̂

bloody hands.

Perhaps

h e thinks Louis will n o t r e m e m b e r his resis tance to

his cous in

Charles.3

do not p r e t e n d to understaMd

tlqat

m a n ' s m i n d .T h e r e

is no elling to

what

depths

A l e x a n d e r

the

Borgia

will MOW stoop.

/Michelangelo

Buoncxrroti

confides

to me

tha t he aspires to

paint a

f resco

next to those of Botticelli, Signo relli , e t al; in t he S i s t i n e Chapel. tle

is a

dreamer

and J myself would distance my work f r om that o f the church.

t h e

n e e d

for

this

Testudo

€lementalis is now greater than e v e 5 for w e fin d

omvselves SurroMnded with enem ies, f rom th etc trk m en to the F r e n c h 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 il l on o u r

side,

a l th o u g h e v e n h e i r v alm e is qmestioned

at

this

time, wi th Sw i tz er l an d

MOW

s t a n d i n g in sove re ign tes timony to t he

tloly R o m a n Gm pire 's ineffectuali ty in enf orc ing thei r will th m u g h military

means . With

these notif ications in mind ha ve con stru cted t h e d e s i g n for

Yur F m u r c t i o u r

s

illustrated

in

drawing

a, he

t ransmission pod of

the

sur round my invention. J n this, the

ci rcumscr ip t ion

of

the

rod

must Ly its



t h r o u g h the c r e a t i v e

io the m o t i o n o f the r od ,

that

a n elliptical p e r i m e t e r

to

t h e

u d o € lem e n ta li s c a n

b e

d e r i v e d , the

b e i t e v io

p r o t e c t

a

l i ne

o f

m e n

n e e d l es s w a s t e of m a g i c k a l en ev g y a n d ab r o g a t i n g t he e x p a n -

o f

t h e p r o t e c t i o n

to

i n c o r p o r a t e em p t y s p a c e i n f ro n t

of the

so ld ie rs ,

wh i c h a body

of

b r a v e e n em i e s m ig h t b r e ac h a n d c a u s e h a v o c .

e n t r a l m e c ha n i s m

of

this

i n g e n i u m

is,

as

i l lus t ra ted h ere ,

the

c r u -

w h i c h c on t a i n s

t h e

mater ia l

to be

c o n s u m e d by

t h e i ngen ium, which

shall be sekn o ffect he

e lemen ta l mani fe s ta tion

of the

output

of

device ,

thereby

d e te rm i n in g w h a t m a n n e r

of

wall

shall

be

erected, for

pro tec t ion .

3

must consul t w i th

t hose

vers ed in

the

a l c he m i c a l

ar ts to

exactly which

mate r ia l s a r e

best

su i ted

to the

c o n s e c r a t i o n

of

i n g e n i u m

to

ce r ta in e lements , a l thou gh f rom conve rsa t ion s with

a

3

a m

ed

to believe t ha t bile, blood,

phlegm, an d ur ine

a r e the

l i c a t i o n

of a

t v am m e l o r o t h e r su c h e l a b o r a t e

3

~

associated mo st e f f icac ious ly.4

s

Msuges

e

ingenium,

being des ig ned

foe

a n d e m i n e d y s u ite d

to, the

pvotection

of

a ody

of

soldievy,

in maneuvevs ag ain st

the foe,

i t

shall be

obvious

that i t

is

powered

by manual

eyevtions,

which

a r e

most r e ad i l y

obtained

by soldiery.

his

fashion,

the ngen ium

MM

be

ca r r ied

upon the back

of

one ofthe

soldievs

allow

fo r maXimal povtability, or

else, should the

size

afthe

device be

prohibi-

asmight be

the

case or

a device large

e nough

to protect

a fLllregiment, it

n

e

povted

a bou t in

a small

w a gon de s igne d for

that

purpo se, with

a

modi-

c r an k m a d e

expressly f o v the

use

by two or

four

men,

or

possibly

mules.

now

3have indeed on ce more , at great personal expense an d consid-

diff;culty, ob tai ne d the mate ria ls n eeded for

the

constvuction of this

for with it

3

a n p ro v e o n c e a n d for

all

t ime that indeed my

are

sound.

No

m or e will

the

craf tsmen

here

build of

these

engines in

completeness, but instead

3

w a s

forced to

dispevse

the

pieces

of the

among several craftsmen,

n d undevtake

the

completion of

the

s a n d

the

a s s e m b l a g e

of

the

i ngen ium

myself.

3 t appeavs that

w or d

of

roof

a n d

Bellizzi’s

w or ks hop

has

spvead

rapidly

a bou t

the city,

a n d

othevs

will risk their

o w n houses .

F u ; m v e .

..

e

exper iment

is a

ailure.

After

c ranking

the

handle

ofthe ngen ium until

3 m y r m s

ached, no

ctwtain

of

fire

a r o s e

in testament

to

my

labors.

3

ved abo ut a n d

felt the

g r a s s

at

the rad ius

ofthe t e s t u d o E l e m en t al i s

h should hav e ar isen, ac cord ing

to

my calcuIations, an d

felt

a bou t

w i h

hands.-e

grass

was

mo st cevtainly parched an d withe red , an d

a rev

ring

of

browned

grass stood

a bou t me

but

unfovtunately

this is not

o forestall an

enemy.

J

e nde a vor e d

to

w a k e a n oth er s h n g e r s prin g

wlqiclq

to wind

the

inaeMium, bu t du rin q

the

c rankinq

the

linchpin

split

d u e

inferior constvuction.

v



r e c e iv e d w o r d th is day that JV(aximiIian I

t h e

E s t e e m e d Holy

o m a n

€mperor,

has , i n w h a t i s n o w k n o w n

as

h e 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

h e r

c o n q u e s t s in

our a i r 3talia

as

egi t imate . 3 t i s n o w o b v i o u s that tttalia

is

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 t h e b e n e f it o f f o r e i g

F r a n c e . Jtalia shal l h a v e to d r i v e out

h e

Fre

a s s i s t a n c e

to

d e f e a t

h

hers elf , e ve n if i t t akes

twenty y e a r s , b u t d r i v e t h e m out w e s h al l

Ordinarily

3

do

not like

to

lose my temp er ,

rou t ing t h e F r e n c

the n e w s f r o m C iio va nn i w h i le b r e a k i n g

fa

er,

e v e n

as

3did so,

3 w a s able

to

draw

e x p l o s i o n

of

r ag e

a n d

that

w h i c h i n d e e d

shall

b e

most

prod uc t iv e in

h f r o m the field.

3 t is s u c h a s i m p l e v a r i a t io n of my o w n p r e v i o

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

t h e

J n g e M i y y I ~ I~ ~ . L o s ~ s ,h a t 3

w o n d e r

that

had not prev ious ly inven ted its m e c h a n i s m . H o w e v e r , 3

f ind t h a t my th o u gh 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

OM the c o n t e m p l a t i o n of m a t t e r s m a r t i a l in na t u r e . 5

e i ngen ium shou ld

b e

c o n s t r u c t e d

of

pu res t i ron,

t h e better

to f o c u s

a n d a m p l ik

t h e

d e s t r u c t i v e forces w h i c h

this

sha l l u n le a s h, a n d a im -

ing

may

be

effected

h r o u g h

t h e

manipu la t ion

of

the

scope

m o u n t e d

OM

top

of t h e d e v i c e . 3 2 keep ing wi th t h e necess i ty

of

military i ngen ia to be

p o r t ab l e a n d i n d e p e nd e n t of wate r , w ind , &c, a n d o t h e r 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

t h e

ingenium

manual ly

however , w i ih a proper

series

of gears, this m e t h o d of e m p o w e r i n g

t h e

d e v ic e c a n be calibrated to a n y s t r e n g t h

o r

rapidity of fire desired. J esti-

m a t e that in o r d e r to b o m ba rd a n d destroy a city wall, with a series

of

fiery project i les

like

unto a

storm, t h a t

a e a m of

twenty horses o r

m o r e

might

be

r e q u i r e d ,

but

a l t h o u g h lesser a m o u n t m i gh t

not

strike d o w n t h e

rock,

the

conf l ag ra t ion wou ld

cause

great fea r

a n d c o n s io n 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 t h a t

i t does no t

heat

u p

as a

resul t of g e n e r at i n g s u c h

temperatures

itself.6

t

last

t h e

w o r s t e v e n t w h i ch h a v e

feared

has c o m e

s t a n d i n g only

t h a t

of being b

as

c r u e l a n d u n s e e m ly

a

f a s h i o n

A l e x a n d e r VI, that v ile s c h e m i n g u s w p e r of

the

n o b l e of m o r t a l m a n

and

the C h u r c h , h a s now ordered, by papal bull, for

all

books

w h i c h

a r e

said

to

b e

set

a g a i n s



-----

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 b e

burned ,

as

hough in the

f i r e s of Hell

itself. F o r e m o s t

of

these books

w hic h a r e to

b e

c o n s u m e d

by

flames r e

t h e

m e r e two

dozen copies

of

m y o w n latest n o t e b o o k w h i c h J

h a v e

p u b l i s h e d , a n d a t 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 o ff en s e

which

my book h a s c a u s e d is so great,

a n d e n g e n d e r s s u c h tr em u lo u s fee l ings

in

t h e

hearts

of

the

c h u r c h ,

t h a t

t h e pope

has

o r d e r e d ,

as

well, with g r e a t s ol em n it y of p u r p o s e , that

no

w r i t t e n r e c o r d of m y n o t e b o o k s h a v i n g

existed

is to

be

m a d e ,

and

all

k r \ o w l e d g e of th is Cudex h a v i n g been created is to b e smi t t en from the

m i n d s

of

m e n for all t ime , un de r pena l ty of e x c o m m u n i c a ti o n , e t e r n a l

d a m n a t i o n , p u r g a t o r y , c.

my Cudex

is to b e

struck

f r o m t h e 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 gh J myself facecharges of

heresy, this 3

a n n o t

a l l o w

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 t ir e le s s q u e s t

for t h e

u n c o v e r i n g

of

m u c h k n o w l e d g e

to

the

b e t te r m e n t a n d e n jo y m e n t

of

the

c o m m o n man, a n d to tMrn my back so upon my own d i s c o v e r i e s i nt o this

most myst i ca l of p o w e r s i s

a

b u r d e n m o r e h e i n o us and w e a r y i n g to m e

t h a n a n y other. 3 c a n n o t let

it

b e so.

h a v e i t em s of s u c h

grea t

p o w e r as his i ngeM ium of f i r e a n d

br ims to ne in

the

h a n d s of t h e u n s c r u p ~ l o u s orgias w o u l d

c a u s e g r e a t c a la m it y, u p o n 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 w o u ld c o n s ig n k n o w l e d g e

to

oblivion,

as

hough

i t



The

ob jec t ive is to

s n a v e a

l in e o f m a g i c k a l fo r c e

and

r a w

i t

t o w a r d s t h e

i M g e M i M m

i t sel f , but w i tho ut consmming

i n t he ac t o f c ap tu r i ng it , muc h

a s a fish

i s

c a p t u r e d a n d

d r a w n in

to

the

f ish er’s vessel,

by

m e a n s

o f

a

b a r b e d h o o k



l ine itself, p r e s e n t i n g a t ang en t i a l li ne to t h e ingeni -

urn,

with grea t

amount of

additional power d u e to

the

stresses

i m p a r t e d u p on t h e elasticity of the

force,

a n d

h e r e shall be

i l lus t ra ted

t h a t i n g e ~ i u m

w h ic h c a n d r a w m a g i c k al p o w e r s in to t h e

area

f r o m l a n d s f a r beyond .

.

o f a s

F U M C t i O M

UMd

Jvu.tcrwe

ne

b e g i n s w it h s n a r e s , w h i c h shall b e as

hooks, b u t f o r m e d in c o m p l e t e c i rc l e s , a n d

t u rn e d o n c e a r o u n d b a c k u p o n th e m s e l v e s a n d fashioned of p u r e s t

gold, to afford t h e

greatest

p r o t e c t i o n to t h e u s e r . t h e s e are w o u n d i n

t h e

m a n n e r so llustrated, in d r a w i n g s b t h r o u g h

e,

or the m a k i n g of

t h e

s p o o l -tself is i n tr ic a te , a l t h o u g h s c h e m a t i c a l l y

i t

i s difficult to illumi-

l w d l so,

U U S t

Close

ven thowgh my burn ing of w y n o t e b o o k w a s s e e n , a l t h o u g h

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 p io u s, i n d e e d the s u s p i -

rough

papal

edict not r e co r de d , a n d

even

deliberately r e m e m -

c i o u s a n d u ntr fis tin g m a n n e r of t h e Pope a n d his

e v i d e n t s t i l l . r e t u r n e d to my

domicile

last w e e k , a n d u p o n e n t er in g ,

f o u n d

t h a t t h e

s a nc t i t y of m y d o m a i n

had

i n d e e d b e e n v i ol at ed , a n d m a n y

of m y w o r k s in p r o g r e s s h a d b e e n t a k e n a n d r e m o v e d . F or tu na te ly , J

practiced

foresight, for i n d e e d

3

had o b s e r v e d t h a t s u c h

an

e v e n t m i g h t

t ake

place, a n d had

taken

care

to

hide

this

m a n u -

s c r i p t b e n e a t h t h e a s h e s in

t h e

fireplace,

w hi ch

is

a b o v e all the

last

place

one might expect A

stu-

* d i o u s a n d c a r e fu l m a n

s u c h

as

3

o

s e q u e s t e r

i n v a lu a b l e d o c u m e n t s . my

a i n e d h e n c h m e n

is

stolefi w o r k s h a v e bee@ o w r e t u r n e d to me, peremptor i ly ,

by

an

u n n a m e d p r i es t,

but

as

he

v a n d a l s

acted

u p o n

the

g u i d a n c e

of

t h e

most

obnox io f i s Pope,

hey

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

the i r

act ivi t ies.

c a n n o t a b i d e t hi s t y p e of hound ing , to

be

t rea

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 vi ol at ed , a n d w i th s u c h

a

c a s u a l dis-

regard for m o r a l i t y . t ru l y n o w

do

u n d e r s t a n d better t h e w o r d s of the

Christ w h e n

+le

s p o k e to the Phar i sees

of

his time, althowgh 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 w i s h to m isqu o te Him in

these p a g e s , so

3

ha l l h a v e to

look

u p the pas s age in qmestion this

e v e n i n g .

But

s u f f i c e

t

to

s a y

t h a t

J

agree

w i th t l i m

t h a t

t h e

holy

m e n

of

Without respect, a n d



t h e

day w e re , a n d for

m e

yet are,

c o r r u p t

i nd i v idua l s w ho hold

not God

s a c r e d ,

but

i n s t e a d r e v e r e m o r e

their

p o w eq a n d

t he i r

privilege,

and their

Why, the word i s that

the P o p e

has

s i r e d a n o t h e r

child. B y

a c u l a t e conc e p t i on , 3a m w r e , s i n c e he

is

u n w a r r i e d .

c a n

only

this Pope

A l e x a n d e r V I and

his

s c he m i ng o ff s p ri ng r e c e i ve

r j u s t

r ew ar d s

both in

this

w o r l d a n d in

the I~ereafteu;o r the s o o n e r

r e a p the t r e a c h e r y a n d c o rr u pt io n they h a v e s o w n , the sooner

3

be a b l e

to

c o n t i n u e

t h e s e

studies.

J n act,

w e r e

t h e P o p e to die next

be

m o r e elated.

m a y

perhaps

k n o w w h y

t h e s e

illegal

and

a f f ront ing s e a r c h e s w e r e

a d e

upon

my

h o u s e . J

h a v e had w o r d

t h a t a n i r a b

m e r c h a n t

h a s

one

copy of

m y m a n us c r i p t to d i s a p p e a r .

H e

l a i m s to h a v e

t he p a p e r s 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 ie s

his word

as he is

m e r e l y 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

his

h o u se a n d

t h o s e

i t ems

which he

w a s s h ip p in g

back to his

bu t they f o u n d not my

book.

H e l a i m s t h a t it c a n n o t b e

f r o m t h e

fires

w h i ch c o n s u m e d

it,

a n d

so is held

in pr ison

at

t i m e

a t the Pope’s

1e i s w r e . T he r e

a r e t h o s e

w h o

s a y

he c o n s o r t s w i t h

forces,

a n d m a y h av e us ed d a r k

arts

to secrete

my

Codex

h a t e v e r

t he t ra th of that sfory, will

l e a v e

t h e s e

m a g i c k a l

researches to

l i e

fa l low

for t h e

p re se n t t ime, until

t he Papal

f i r e s

na t ion

are

cooled. p e r h a p s 3 c a n d i v e r t my o w n a t t e n t io n f r om

i a r i y e t aw ai t s m y

br us h .

have also

r e c e i v e d

n o t i c e

f r om t h e

m e r -

a n t C ii a co n d o that h e w oul d

like m e

to r e n d e r

his wife, Lisa,

for

pos-

hope this

will

h e lp

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

eyebrows does

not

e n d e a r f i r e n z a n w o m en

to m e .

P e r h a p s w e r e

o

i nc l ude

m o r e of h e r in the

d r a w i n g ,

this farcical

dep i la t io n will

not

e as

n o t i ce a b l e, a n d

the

pa in t ing

will also look less like a

d e c a p i t a t i o n

do so

m a n y

portraits. B u t t h e s e are

t h o u g h t s

for

a n o t h e r

day. 3

m u s t

sequester this

Codex

among

my

m o s t

p e r s o n a l b el o n gi n gs , a n d

10

in k a g a i n u p o n

i t no more .



~ are pretty predictable,

although

I

can tell you that

they are not all alike. Not

1

even the engines we use for

our aerodreadnoughts, all

made to the same plans, are

I

alike. That’s because of the

way they are built and

W h e o

+he

PVOPeV e M e V -

q i e s are used,

e),, Mike. You’re probably

wondering all this stuff is

stLlcli at the back ofthi s book.

well, there’s two reasons.

there, though not many.

1

ended up malung a

bunch of little slips of paper, each with the name

of one engine,

and

sorting the list that way, and

then copving it over by hand again. Sigh. Well,

stuff to write down all the game mechanics

for these things, wondrous as they are.

Second, when you’re playing a role-playing

really

getting popular over here), you real-

ly shouldn’t worry about petty things like

difficulty numbers.

We don’t in real life,

right?

We

just make

a

reckoning of the odds

So, when someone

in the Great Game

wants to make a mag-

ickal engine, o r if he

finds a copy of the

Codex, o r just

a

page,

or whatever, you can

hand him the book,

and use a heavy-duty

clip to hold these

pages shut. That

way,

he’ll deal with the info

as he would in real

life, without suits and

feat difficulty num-

bers and required

skills. It’ll make suspension of disbelief

eas-

ier, role-playing more realistic, and what

the heck, it lets you, the Host, fiidge

all

the

numbers if you have to for the sake of dra-

matic interest. Speaking of dramatic inter-

est, I have

a

dinner date with Marianne

tonight, and-well, never mind.

I’ve taken the time to alphabetize the

list of engines described in this book, and

reference them all by the page number

lvhere they appear. And let me tell JTOU,

Have fun-

HOW

SORCEROUS Ef lCiJ f lES

game, especially the Great Game (which is WORK

Jfl R E A L

LXE

npredictably No, wait, that’s not what I

meant to say. Actually, sorcerous engines

types of sorcerous automata: spontaneous and

continuous. Spontaneous engines gather up

enough power to fire off an instant spell, and

when they have it, the spell gets cast.

An

exam-

ple of

a

spontaneous magickal engine is the

destruction engine on page 104: Crank it up,

and a few moments later a blazing fireball vom-

its forth to smite the enemy,

as

Morrolan would

put it. I<eep the destruction engine running,

and fireballs will continue to be spit Out

at

slightly irregular intervals, depending on the

tuned and maintained; har-

monics can be different for

each one. Furthermore,

utkenfions there is some unpredictabil-

f

ity in

a

magickal engine,

E

because the energies it con-

[

sumes

to

do its work can

peu.fectjy bOMnd

cause some strange effects.

1

Unlike gasoline back there,

+he mechanical

create

-

which is pretty much uni-

form, magickal power varies

Anyway, there are two

energ ies

t

greatly.



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

w a y

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 s o

much energy is

that the spells must be able

to

last for a lot

longer.

The curious thing is t h a t the engine itself is

what does the work, not the magickal power.

The engine uses thc magicli

as a

catalyst, but

when i t 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. Me r 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 a t 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



someone draws a card from the sorcery deck,

and the top card on the deck after they draw

is

a

card from the extra deck, they automatically

draw that card too, and add

i t

to their hand. If

the top card after that is

also

an extra card, they

draw that one too, and so on, until the top card

is a normal sorcery deck card. Perhaps the wiz-

ard has the option of discarding these extra

cards forced upon him or her, or perhaps not.

Not is definitely more fun., and

I

think

it’s

more

realistic. Casting

a

spell in an area supersaturat-

ed with magick would seem

to

be as risky as

lighting

a

torch in a fireworks warehouse.

Especially if there’s another joker or

two

in

the

extra cards.

You could take

a

simi-

lar approach when some-

one fires up a magickal

engine in an area where

there’s a lot of magickal

power.

You can imagine that

as magickal engines

become more common,

whatever wizards are in

the area are going to get

peeved. The things will

suck

up

the energy and

keep it, perhaps-if they’re

a

magnetic force engine or

some hin g-even carry

that energy away. This

might be incidental

to

the

engine operator’s purpos-

es, or the user of the

engine might even

do

it

deliberatelv,

to

disarm the

have to wait for the normal regenerative proper-

ties

to

generate enough extra magick before we

can leave. Not a terribly great situation, espe-

cially since this means that our magnetic force

engine is a sitting duck for the capture. I’ve

brought this problem to the attention

of

the

king, and suggested we install auxiliary pro-

pellers on the front of our aerobattleships as an

emergency propulsion system.

HOW SORCGROMS

EflCiJflCS

WORU

J f l

GfijMGtERNS

very sorcerous automaton has an associated

activation level, which is the amount

of

magiclcal energy the engine needs

to

cast the

t i n fo

v e s e e n

magickal mani-

festations may

c o m e

into

being

spell it’s designed for. If you

look over the list at the end

of these pages, you’ll notice

that continuous engines

require

a

lot more energy to

activate than do sponta-

neous engines. This is due

to

the effects

I

described

above. However, there are

spontaneous magickal

engines which require more

power than a mage would

to

do the same thing with

a

spell. For example, the

transformation engine takes

16

points of power to acti-

vate, while a Templar can

change the shape of an item

with a 12-point spell. This is

because the effects of the

Templar’s spell will fade, but

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

a t

whatever

Someone comes in with another magickal frequency the Host deems suited for dramatic

engine

and

sucks

LIP

all 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-

aton and apply any harmonics that are For spontaneous engines, backlash is

a

popu-

the

indi- lar approach

to

take-the destruction engine

al casting of the spell for spontaneous fires off such a powerful fireball that i t also melts

and they will be- sustained with the itself in the process, that sort of thing.

to use

AJMJflCi 4SORCEROMS

bits no harmonics at

t ha t

time.

ociated with them, depending on how well it’s best if these fireballs hit the target.

Therefore, you have to aim them.

to the number of Aiming an engine is different from calibrat-

Of the appropriate Suit that were drawn for ing it (calibrating an engine is covered under

purposes

of

determining harmonics. Thus, if Making a Sorcerous Automaton). Consider aim-

two

cards of the appropriate ing the magickal engine

to be

like steering a car,

t, and three cards Of another suit, it would while calibrating it is like tuning h e engine and

hibit the harmonics of that second aligning the wheels. This is an especially appro-

t. However, if the engine had a craftsmanship priate simile for things lilre magnetic force

two,

it would have effectively drawn four engines, which are used

to

move and steer the

netic force, you need

to

be able

to do

it in

a

con-

do human mages. Continuous engines

e deck temporarily; when a continuous

broi led n combat, We just dump the whole

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

ct on the engine itself. The second time we

Vakyrie, one of the knots of mag-

l energy got itself caught around

the

control

maximum. Suddenly We found ourselves

rth 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.



c

r skim a

Madckal En&, is not

as

”

easy

as

it might seem.

This

is because

J 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

al

shall be made clear, so

stick it out.

G E T T t l E

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 t ry

untd you’re Excellent

a t

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

no end with the leaders

of

Bayern, they’ll have

to

come up with a darned interesting scheme to get

hold

of

the plans.

f l EW

SKJLL:

SORCERO~S

E N G J N E E R J f l G

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.

Designingan 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



than

didn’t work well, but that was after Bellizzi lost h s

You have to

be

able to

see

the disintegration engine-and, presumably, swept up

knots

to

be

able to adjust the way the

his Star Iron and threw it away.)

YOU can

Only adjust

ron you must have to build

ngine as Well

as YOU can

e e the

knots.

(well, the magickal engine depends on its size and the base

SOrneone

with

a @magician for a men-

complexity of its construction. This chart shows the

be able to deign an engine to tie spe- sizes of engine which can be created, how much

b o @ ,

but he

C

COuldn’t tune the

Star Iron is required for each one,

and

the increase

ce 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.

Poor

skill

without the permission

of

The amount of

Third, dramatic characters cannot have

ous Engineering

skill

greater than

Good

ut having a great background story (feasi-

, or at least interesting and fun) which the

st accepts. Generally, characters should only

to improve their Sorcerous Engineering

beyond Good through game play-and

aordinary activities,

as

well. The only method

of

in New Europa to

leam

this skill is

g a member of the Bayernese Inner Circle,

is

composed

of

Ludwig, Rhyme,

rrolan, Auberon, and myself. We don’t even

Engine Comparison Complexity Range Cost

ize Guide - Y Increase

Tiny Toy

1/2

oz.

2

oz. 40z.

x0.5

Small Chest

xl

Medium Desk

x1.5

Large Carriage 8oz.

1Ib. 2Ib.

x3

Locomotive 1 b.

2

lb. 4 lb.

x8

2Ib. 4 Ib. 8 Ib.

x20

Key:

S

Simple Difficulty

-20).

M Moderately Complex Difficulty

1-50).

V: Very Complex Difficulty 1+).

Obviously,

this

is just a guidehe. For better

suspension of disbelief, the Host should adjust the

the better* numbers for engines at the edges of the complexi-

a character must either

join

ty

range, and promote or inhbit the development

of

those engines which are deemed dangerous.

Also, remember that the character building the

engine can subtract 100 times

his

Tinkering ability

or

glass that fi-om the base cost of the sorcerous automaton

a shop- increase

due

to size*

expedition to the hardware store usually isn’t

exciting. The persons involved in the creation

wth

a lot of cash at this

all

likelihood.

Aside &om the mundane materials, it’s also

to work, otherwise the

l assembly will be unable to actually seize

(As

an

Leo was lucky enough

to

have

his

from his previous efforts,

his

engines generally

Or

in

On the

saeq at

not much. The fewer who

to the

Opefullythe former*

whatever

other

materials

fie

lot oftJGs can be donewt

before mdtiplfing

COSt by the engine’s price

uilding a sorcerous autom

B

uilding a steamtech invention, as I covered in

the basic game rules I sent last year.

First you have to figure out how difficult the

engme is

to

b d d . Take the complexity of the mag-

iclcal engine as gven under Sorcerous Automaton

Definitions at the end of thls section. This is the

’

base difficulty. This base difficultv might be

increased by the duration of its power source, and

the reliability of the power source, as shown in the

following tabies:

.



~~Power Source

source the magiclial engine

uses,

although one

must be chosen. You never know when some cir-

cumstance might make

it

impossible to power the

engine. Pick any of the ones you \vmt from the

base rules [that’s

Cnstle Fmlhenstein

page

210-

Mike]. The Cost increase is added

to the

base cost

of the engine after all other adjustments have been

made-after subtracting for the slull of the builder,

multiplying

by

the engine size, etc.

Tinkering Description

of

L e v e l C o s t P e a t

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

Good

2 6 Within a hundred

yards reasonable

control, some slop

Fine 3

4

Within ten yards,

room-by-room

control, a little

static or noise

control, no

interference at

all

Exact 4 2 Perfect aim, precise

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,

and the desired effect of terror will be

it’s up to the Host

to

determine how unreliable

achieved. Our Bayernese aerobattleships have

a n unreliable power source is. Generally,

good controls on their magnetic engines

Thev can maneuver effectively on the battle

though, unreliable means that the engine’s

operation can be interrupted relatively easilv;

field, but their ability

to

drop bombs on

Prussian Landfestungen is marginal (thank

the steam pressure must be kept hgh,

so

the

God for our excellent pilots ). Victorian

boiler

is

very susceptible to rupture, for esam-

medicine would love to have

an

exactin

ple, or the hand crank has a tendency to slip off

clairvoyance device to allow for interna

the main camshaft. Escellent means that the

exams.

power source is very difficult for an enemy to

disable; perhaps it is very simple or well

It

is Possible to upgrade Craftsmanshi

armored. An indestructible power source is just by one level.

YOU

Cannot g o more than that

that; perhaps the magickal engine runs off a because

YOU

can only improve on bad en€$-

radium pile or a giant well-armored battery or neering by

SO

much before You’re alread

geothermal power or something.

rebuilding the thing from scratch with al

new parts.

To

upgrade, calculate cost and

Next we must talk about craftsmanship. This

time

as

if you were making the thing from

determines how easily the engine can be direct-

scratch, but cut the time involved to one hal

ed or aimed, or how tight the controls are. The

normal and the cost to one tenth normal.

actual mechanics

of

the control device are not



Engine

ize

Complexi

Immense

Yes,

immense magickal engines get very

New

York when fired

Subtract the character’s Tinkering slull from

it

will take to manufacture the parts and

ttE EjVGJflE

nce the magicltal engine is all put together,

no one’s going

to

guarantee it’s gonna

on

his first engine, we thought

a

goner. After an engine is built,

got

to tune it. This requires

a

sorcer-

i t could be done by the guy ~ l 1 0uilt it,

But before

you

can tune

it,

you’ve got

to flip

to be and power it up. And hope for the

Magiclial engines are very temperamental

So

add

1/5

the value

to play at this time to this

two

points). Once the players have played

top card

of

the Fortune Deck and compares

to

this table:

F

U

Tinkering

t Sorcerous Engineering

0-8 9-12 13-16 17-20

21-24

A

K-A

A A Q-K 10-Q

A K-A

10-K

9-K

6-J 3-9

I<

J-Q

8-9

6-8 4-5

2

9-Q 7-10 5-7

4-5

3

2-8 2-6

2-4 2-3 2

Key:

SE: Superefficient

E:

Efficient

WP. Works

Fine

R E

RunsPoorly

1

DW: Doesn’tWork BU: BlowsUp

The result of the draw of

a

joker is entirelv

up

to the Host.

Once the machine is running, and wth any luck

hasn’t blown

vou

to pieces, the magician must make

a Sorcerous Engineering feat equal in difficulty

to

the activation ofthe spell to bring it into good run-

ning form.

DGTERjMJjw n s

PAl?jIjwtERS

ow that it’s built and running, we need

to

take

note of exactly how it works,

its

activation

level, range, etc.. Every magiclial engine has

an

acti-

vation level noted for it under Sorcerous

Automaton Definitions. Ths activation level

is

how



Effect

is what exactly the magickal engine

does. If the engine can be adjusted in effect, it

will be noted here. These effects are based upon

the illustrations Leo gave’in this Codex.With a

little bit of ingenuity, you can engineer the sor-

cerous automaton differently to alter the effect it

has-you know, customize it.

odd materials. After an engine is calibrated, i

will only alter the substance for which it is pre-

pared; if you calibrate the engine to change lead

to gold, and put steel into the conversion cham

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

wt

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 do the

Effect: This engine transforms the material put

ed in

this fashion



Spontaneous,

16

points

e)

Difficulty 60, Cost 6000 c

E f l G J f l E (pg,41)

This engine creates a magickal pipeline

a t

a distant location back

to

the

so that the operator can hear it.

It

does

without eliminating the sound

a t

the source.

a

large ball room,

a small engine will eavesdrop on just one

so, the amount of energy used by

Continuous,

18

points

(4)

Difficulty

30

Cost

3500

c

f lGJ f lE (Pg, 43)

This creates an extradimensional gate,

to

another gate

a t

the engine

allows

people at the engine to

see

opposite walls of the place the far

of light, yet it does not diminish the

at

the location being spied upon.

Continuous, 20 points

(4)

Difficulty 3 5 , Cost 4000 c

flGJflE {pg.89

This causes all persons within the field

of

to

want

to

speak the truth, no more

to start the spell, modified by the Host if

is

particularly large. Evasions and half-

a

slight decrease in the diff-

a

large and powerful

l be nigh irresistible in its sodium pen-

truth, no matter what, and n o matter how trivial

or pithy the remark. “Gee, that’s

a

terrible coat

you have. You should really have it tailored. And

you nicked yourself shaving again, you maladroit,

but

I

should have guessed by the stumbling way

you m7altz.” “I shall ignore your contemptible

babbling. You’re always cutting me down, old

chap, because you’re so conceited, and insulting

someone as much more handsome than you as

I

am makes 370u feel better.”

Oooh.

Trouble.

Operation:

Continuous,

20

points

Y )

Investment:

Difficulty

60,

Cost

7000

c

DeTTRMCTJOfl

G f l G J f l G (139,104)

Effect:

This unleashes blazing wads of doom,

much akin to explosives or fireballs. It’s not

exactly either, because it’s magickal in nature-it

just tears stuff apart in

a

kmd of photon-torpedo

mix of all the elements. Like maybe it engenders

a molecular-level steam explosion like the one

that took St. Helens apart up in Washington in

1980. The amount of damage the shot causes is

equal

to

the amount of energy used in the cre-

ation of the fireball.

It

is possible to build this

engine with a higher

or

lower activation level,

and in fact, it’s recommended that smaller

engines have very small activation levels. You

don’t want to hold onto something when it

unleashes

a

fireball that’d take apart the World

Trade Center.

Operation: Spontaneous, 16 points e)

Investment:

Difficulty

35,

Cost

3500

c

D J f l E f l S J O f l f i L

G f l G J f l E

1 3 ~ ~ 8 2 )

Effect:

This creates

a

dimensional gate between

the engine and whatever plane

it

is built for.

Although it can be aimed

a t

any place in the tar-

get plane,

a

dimensional engine, once built, can

only access that particular plane.

It

is possible

to

design the engine to create a different gate

which will access a different plane, but frankly,

we’re not going

to

play hunt-and-peck with a

transdimensional doorway. You never know; the

way things run around here, I’d expect

to

open

a gate

on

Cthulhu himself? Whatever the case,

when you draw a joker while operating this gate,

expect company.

Operation: Continuous, 24 points (4)

Investment: Difficulty 25, Cost 2000 c



DJSSOLUtJOfl Ef lGJ f lE 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

DRAJf lJ f lG

GflGJflG (Pg. 24)

leech, used

to

disarm those sorcerers and wiz- is, the more difficult the engine is to build and

ards who might oppose you. With a joker, you calibrate (the stats I give here are for

a

circular

might consider having the magickal knot get wall). The strength of the wall is equal

to

the

tangled in the engine, growing bigger and big- power put into it

by

the engine, though the

ger until something has to happen ... exact effects depend on the elemental manifesta-

Operation: Spontaneous,

1

point (any suit) tion. Earthen walls take damage equal to the

power before they are temporarily breached,


while walls of fire will burn anything that tries to

DRGAjM GflGJflG (139.56)

to

ill

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 )



by the amount of

e engine has accumulated to trigger the

a joker is drawn, perhaps the area

a permanent deflection against that type

l, or perhaps the engine draws in a11 the

Continuous,

14

points (any suit, by

Difficulty

3 5 ,

Cost

3500

c

JLLMSJOjV EjVGJjVE

The engine is

a

vehicle for casting illu-

to

the engine, because

mechanisms

to build than a

of

that type, but the cost and

Continuous, 16 points 0)

Difficulty

40,

Cost

2500

c

15,

Cost

1200

c for an illusion mod-

20,

Cost

1500

c for a moving illusion

ule (any q p e )

(any type)

This causes everything \;rrithin the area of

in temperature,

ng with the hottest items, &e torches, lamps,

in the icy grip of a glacial engine

will

to

which

the

As

illustrated here

in

the

the lever runs from about 4O0 F to a good

se decrease in temperature, although their spirit’s

as

a bit of a buffer. Stay inside a glacial

too long, though, and you’ll die

a clue: When you no

il you’re sweating like a pig.

Continuous, 14 points e)

Difficulty

20,

Cost 2000

c

tlEJ\LJjVCi EflCiJjVC

(Pg.

74)

Effect: This causes all wounds and illnesses to be

removed from the person wrapped in the gold

and silk shroud of the engine. The amount of

power the engine requires depends o n how

badly injured the person is. It takes one point of

power per wound incurred to heal someone,

plus extra power as determined by the Host

to

compensate for illness or poison. Once the acti-

vation energy is acquired, the actual healing

process is impossibly fast. If a person is healed

with a joker, he gets hyperactive for a long while,

and demands immediate action in all situations.

Operation:

Spontaneous, variable points

(+)


JLLUjKJflfiTJOfl E f l G J j W

(Pg.

23)

Effect: When activated, this engine creates light

all around it. It does not glow of itself;

i t

causes

all itcms within its radius of effect to be illumi-

nated, in essence to reflect a magickal light. The

light has no source, so there are no shadows

within its area of effect. The magick causes items

outside its radius to be lit as well, simply because

there is some reflected light from items within

the engine’s radius. However, this reflected light

is scant a t best. By the way, you’ll notice that this

is

a

hearts spell; it’s psychic magick.

I

think this

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

to

explain it to me, s o just accept the fact.

Operation:

Continuous,

14

points 0 )

Investment:

Difficulty

15,

Cost

1500

c

Effect: This causes whatever device to which

it

is

attached to move in

a

manner determined

by

the

operator of the engine. This engine cannot be used

on its own, but must be mechanically connected to

whatever it is that the operator wants to move. In

h s ense, the imparted motion engine is much like

a magickal internal combustion engine.

And

when

a joker is drawn, your accelerator gets stuck on 111

power The difficulty of the Tinkering feat required

to

control the engine’s effects depends on what

kind of mechanism

is

being moved. A go-cart

is

easy, but

a

giant robot battle suit is very difficult.



Operation:

Continuous,

14

points

(+)


J ~M I J S o l V lM@J~

f l G J W (Pga

37)

Effect:

On further discussion between Auberon

and Morrolan, it was decided that Leo was

wrong about the action of th is 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,

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 wll

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

well, actually a sphere, which traps intelligent

deep yogurt.

to the amount of power drawn by the engine.

Operation: Continuous, 16 points (4) Effect: This engine reinforces the natural

Investment:

Difficulty

35,

Cost

3500

c

,

like the walls of a

J N t G G R W GflGJflE (Pg.6 9

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.

Effect: This causes all within its grasp to forget

everything

t h a t

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 GNGJf l c (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

Operation: Continuous, 16 points

Y )


JjvFGRflO GNGJjVG (Pg.

30 )



the Perception feat. [i

Other senses are not affected; it's every bit as

to explain and obtain-

easy to hear an invisible person as a normal guy.

gravitational contestant is simple. This makes it very important to calibrate an

th ickness

of

steel necessary to invisibility engine properly. Finally, lower the

nd vac and provide protection feat difficulty for someone close at hand. And

nearly impossible, since no with a joker, it might be fun to have the invisi-

e here really knows what's involved. bility field deflect all light, making the persons

the intellect embodiment engine within perfectly invisible, no chance to be seen at

all, but also blind as a bat.

Spontaneous, 6 points Operation: Continuous, 20 points e)

Difficulty

35,

Cost

3500

c

Investment:

Difficulty 25, Cost

2500 c

I

G f l G J f l E Pgm

1)

This creates an artificial human Dersona.

LeVTtj4tJOfl EflGJjW (Pg.77)

Effect:

This engine causes itself and evervthina

onality of which depends on how the attached to it to rise

up

in the

air,

o r

else to

grind

-

-

was tuned. You might ge n antisocial

ly

religious

able that with an abject failure

of

tuning, you

to

I suggested

ach

a

Morse code key to make things eas-

All information gathered from an intelligent

should b gathered through role-play,

through fea and cards. It is, after all,

r intelligence.

Conti

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

Difficulty 80, Cost

8000

c

ERIGJflE

(Pg-

This engine causes the light to flow

about i t at the periphery of its effect, though not

uite all light, or

else

the person made invisible

never

be able

As

Leo

invisibility field,

t

en through the which might poicon

nr

drown or ~ ~ ~ f f - ~ee-

to warble bout, as it coa- ple; don't coun,

__

__-- I

sces back into a natural state. Kind of like it did the inside of a volcano, because you'll burn like

Predator, although in that movie the light

a

fl re

as

as

you

ht the lava. But against

seemed less fluid and more like it was refracted smolte and water and poison gas, it's great.

T~

through crystal. At longer distances, it will defend against smoke and thin ai

ppear to an observer that the invisible field is

a

must gather

20

points

or shadow or dim spot, because nerve gas require 3

ome of the light which strikes the field is held ered

for

activation.

o that those inside can see. To spot an Operation:

cor+:-,7n,,o

to

Investment:

Di

Effect:

This engine turns all environments it

encounters

to

c n p

n1;t.lhlp

n,- hiirnan

hqhita-

tion. other

that's fatal to

something that's non-fatal.

As

I

to

those to

understand the engine, it

will

only affect that

J

-- -ZY------

ints of power to be gath-

A ~~y~

fficulty 50, Cost 5000

c



M A D N E S S

EflGJflE ( P g u 8 ]\/1ESjVER NGJf lE

(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 n o t 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:


V )


that it might be possible to cause the victim

to

immediately forget all events while under the

control of the engine, although that’s doubtful,

NfiGflctJC FoRCc Ef lGJ f lE (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 to 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

bigger the engine, the bigger the vehicle that

can be hauled about. Yes, you can use under-

sized engines in

a

vehicle, if you want something

that moves ponderously slowly. The more ener-

gy the engine gathers to activate the spell, the

more rapidly it can move itself about. Yeah, as

wth

the levitation engine, these are loose defin-

itions, and for much the same reasons. Just use

your common sense.

Operation:

Continuous,

16

points

(+)

OLFjlCtQRy JLltZSJOfl

EflGJflE (Pg . 29

Effect:

This creates smells for the amusement of

all. Obviously, some

will

choose to flood their

apartments with nice smells; others, to flood the

apartments of their enemies with foul stinks.

Since it is the illusion of smell, and not the real

smell itself, the bouquet (be it fair or foul)

remains as fiesh with every breath as it was for

the first. One of the worst tortures I can imag-

ine would be to have an ever-changing foul

Investment:

Difficulty

45,

Cost 4500 c

MGGAPtlQNE G f l G JW (Pg 42)

Effect: This engine creates a magickal pipeline

of extradimensional nature which carries the

Investment: 20, Cost 1500

sounds made

a t

the in8eniztm to a distant loca-

tion. The area of effect and the amount of ener-

g y used by the engine determine the quality of Q p t J c f i L J L LM S J Q fl E f l G J f l E

the sound: volume, static, distortion, minimum

audible sound, etc. If

a

joker is drawn, tlie

megaphone engine might

dl

sound awa),

from the source, leaving the operator unable to

communicate with those close at hand. Plus

there’s the difficulty of speaking when you can’t

hear yourself do it-your volume and tone may

take on weird characteristics.

Operation: Continuous,

18

points

a)


stench illusion gagging some hapless prisoner

for hours on end. This way, the foul bouquet is

ever-fresh and ever-new. Yeaugh.

Operation:

Continuous,

16

points (0)

Difficulty 25, Cost 2500 c for a moving illusion

(Pg .

25)

Effect:

This creates an optical illusion, a mag-

ickal hologram sort of thing. The exact illusion

enerated depends upon how the engine is cali-

g

brated more than on its engineering, although

certain engines might not have enough flexibil-

ity in their controls to allow them to create any

illusion one might imagine. Ordinarily, the illu-

sion will not move. With extra effort, though,

a

moving illusion can be created.




Y )


25,

Cost 2500 c for a moving illusion

EflCiJflE (Pg. 45)

This combines the effects of the clairau-

a

derivation of the cipher

perceives for future .playback. When the

a

recording back, it creates an opti-

the delayed imparting of the images

of

the

Continuous,

24

points

4)


EflCiJflE

(Pg .

39

The inversion of the imprisonment

to keep people out

a magicltal barri-

to

the out-

eely, but they may not reenter. If

1

under-

a person half in and half

t of the barrier will be unable to get back in-

e thing ~ o r l t sort of like those tire spikes they

to have at drive-ins. To overcome the

wall,

the persons who wish to

s must make a Courage or Etherealness feat

difficulty to the amount of power drawn

trying to rush the cvall en masse, but not a

so we’ll leave i t to the Host to deter-

a small engine

as

com-

to a huge one.

Continuous, 16 points (4)

Difficulty

35,

Cost

3500

c

GjVCiJjVE

( P g ,

42)

This engine dampens sound within its

also

that those within the sphere of influ-

be

less able

to

hear sounds made out-

To simulate this in game

s, add the amount of energy the engine has

to

the difficulty of any Perception

within the engine’s effects, as ~7ell

s to

those

outside trying to hear what’s going on inside.

Operation:

Continuous,

16

points (+)


TEjUPO&ilL

E f lC iJ f lE (Pg. 67)

Effect: Wlien activated, this engine dramatically

slows

the passage of time for

all

within

its

grasp.

The amount that time is slowed depends

on

how

much power the engine gathers to do its work; for

each point, time slows by

a

factor of one. Thus, if

a temporal engine activates with 30 points of

power, then for each

30

minutes of real time, one

perspective minute will pass within the grip of the

engine. It’s possible (a t least in theory) to make

a

personal harness which will protect you from the

engine’s effects. This lets you move through the

engine’s field normally. Thus, in the above exam-

ple, you’d be able to move thirty times

as

fast

as

the people who were trapped in the temporal

amber.

Operation:


(4)

Investment: Difficulty 90,

Cost

12,500 c

Difficulty 40, Cost 5000 c for

a

protective harness

WflSFOR&lj4tJOjV EflCiJfiE

(Pge52)

Effect:

This

takes any item and alters

it

in shape

to

something else.

It

does no t make any chemi-

cal changes to the item; something which starts

as

wood ends as wood. The shape of the item to

be made is determined by a carved plate which is

inserted into the machine (this also requires cal-

ibration of the engine), but once the shapc to

be

made is determined, anything can be trans-

formed. Given the shape of

a

sword, you could

put sawdust and make

a

wooden sword,

a

book

to

make

a

paper sword, or a chandelier to make

a

glass sword.

It

works this may because the

engine doesn’t actually change the molecules, it

just rearranges them.

It

doesn’t even break mat-

ter down

to

the molecular level, I don’t think,

just

to

small chunks.

Operation: Spontaneous, 16 points 4 )

Investment: Difficulty

45,

Cost 4500 c

LtLtJjVj4tE EjVciJNE

( P g ,106)

Effect: Although this

w a s

not completely

described in the Codex, I thought I’d indude it



ZfRoIV:

W t l A t

JS J t

tar Iron, also la ow 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-

to me, iron

iron is iron, right? Chemical symbol Fe, and

I remembered from my chem-

It rusts, it melts, is presses clothes

to take some

_ -

But no, I was very wron

to demonstrate

me. See, over here, Mike,

two

types of iron:

as we speak. Normal

cts on magick, too. The

as Auberon took

C I gveat

ivon,

well, that’s something different.

n s vAtLRG

s its name implies, Star Iron is extraterrestri-

in origin (I had to explain that word to

I first used it, but now it’s

c among the salons). And Star

a great effect upon magicli, far more

so

To hear Auberon explain it,

a

lot like plutonium to the Faerie.

Faerie can actually die j u s t by being too close

o it-they don’t even have to touch the stuff

No

one knows why Star Iron has these effects.

nets out there d o 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 ofyears, 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, i t

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

o C i G t J-t

ou have

to

go

somewhere

to

get the Star

Y

ron. 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 ou t 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 o n &s-

play. But crossing the Atlantan

to

the

New



Amount

Ari7 ~na rater 50 Ibs.

Hudson Bay unknown

e d i n k h e

Stadtvwseurn 10 lbs.

Smythe Estatej

Festung Falkenstein

3

lb.

South

Africa

2-4

OZ.

Siberia Unknown?

Chateau Mousseau 7 oz

Tokyo

2

Ibs.

_ _ _

ow

to k t

t

Prospecting a lo t of

small

rocks, but the

stuff

is only

1/4

effective

If the Bay

is

really a

crater, go diving

a t

the

center and look

Grand theft, defying

the impeccable Prussian

security

Pay a lot of money for

his

meteor

Have a good reason,

work

for the Bayern

Inner Circle

Wait for the meteor (?)

to hit in

1908

Break into Mousseau’s

private estate

Steal the Emperor’s

katana, rumored to

be

forged of a meteor

Add your own ideas, and change

these

listed

here

so

your players can’t get

an

unfair advantage.

There is no known way to refine iron ore or

steel to extract the Star Iron which mav be

er-the better the character’s sorcery, the easier

it

is to

identify the subethric changes Star Iron

causes.

The

easy

way

to

tell if

a

chunk of ore has Star

Iron in it

is to

walk

up

and bonk a Faerie with

it. If the Faerie vaporizes, it’s Star Iron. Then

it’s time to run like Hell before the rest of the

Faerie roast your body alive.

Gwects

OF S t f i R

rrriofl

tar Iron has a nasty effect on Faerie, Seelie

S

nd Unseelie alike. This table shows what

kind of effects Star Iron has

on

them. The effect

depends on the amount of Star Iron present, and

the Faerie’s range from the Star Iron. Star Iron

which

has

been denatured over time (very

old

Star Iron, in other words) should be treated

as

a

lesser amount, in proportion to its effectiveness.

d

Amount

Disturbing

0

-

4

oz. 2 f t

4 -

8 oz. 5 f t

8 - 16 OZ. 10

ft

1 - 2 Ib. 25 ft

- 4 b. 50 t

4

lb. and up

100

ft

Painful

Deadly

l f t

touch

2ft l f t

5ft

2 f t

10 f3 5 f i

25

ft 10 ft

5 0

t

2 5 f t



Y

- - - -

eople

will

k ll fo

them. Wizards will

sell

their

souls

for

hem. Wars could

be

e

wrong hands.

Beyond the Faerie

l

L

mes everyone in

the Secrets con

ained inside this

cf the lost notebooks of leonardo da vinci

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