The Codex

**The Codex**, also known as the **Book of Shadows**, originally known as the **Hunter Grimoire**, is an extremely powerful mystical ancient tome. It is a hard-covered tome that is the pure embodiment of all space-time. The Codex has existed for thousands of years and it's intention is to simply be a gift, but it must be used responsibly. It is used to store any and all historic data throughout time, whether the past or the future. It can be used to time travel or warp and manipulate time and space.

The book contains various forms of mystical information, that can have multiple uses. The book has an infinite number of and contains thousands of countless spells that can be only cast by the protectors and whoever, one or more of them allow. These spells can do something as little as healing a hurt ankle, to something as powerful as freezing time itself. This tome is extremely powerful, which is why it requires strong and responsible protectors. The Codex can do great harm within the wrong hands. It can tear apart friendships, romances and even family or bring the owners closer together. Protectors help to protect the book from people who want use it to hurt people.

It has been shown that the book is an actual living artifact that possesses both a consciousness (allowing it to retain all of it's memories and have its own "mind" magically read by Theo Hunter) and an awareness (protecting itself with powerful and dangerous magic whenever it senses danger).

## Powers, Abilities & Weaknesses

### Powers

* **Chronokinesis/Space-Time Manipulation**: The Codex's most well known, most powerful, and prominent feature is that it possesses the unique ability to control, manipulate, alter, bend and will the space-time continuum, giving the book powers to manipulate the flow of all time and space, travel through time, people through time and teleport to locations into a light blue/green rift and mist in space.
	+ **Elements of Balance Manipulation**: The Codex has the ability to psychically transport the Elements of Balance, throughout time, allowing a new set of protectors to become a psychically connected to a new manifestation of a pure element and becoming a physical representation of a different virtue, allowing them to use and project powerful magic, throughout the elements.
* **World-crossing**: The Codex has the ability to travel between magical worlds. However, travel to worlds without strong natural magic, (such as the First World), it is possible if the location has strong magic.
* **Auto Translator**: It can translate languages so that everyone can understand each other.
* **Text Alteration**: It can change it's pages text to any language, such as Hieroglyphics, Runes, Mayan and even Latin text.

## List of the Codex Entries

* **Hunter Family** **Tree**: (pg. 543-578) 35 pages which show the entire Hunter family, and some of whom have been protectors in the past and future.
* **Channeling**: On three pages, it details the practice of Channeling, where witches can draw extra power from nature, the elements, celestial events, other witches or different supernatural beings to boost their magic.
* **Abraham Lincoln**: (pg. 256-257) These pages detail the life and protectorship of the legendary Abraham Lincoln. It tells of his incredible powers to use his magic to inspire knowledge across generations. He primarily used his magic in order to transfer and translate knowledge into the minds of others throughout time.
* **The Mystic Square**: (pg. 3) A page where a Protector can type in a specific date to where they want to time travel to.
* **Empathy**: (pg. 788-789) These pages regard the initial entries on empathic powers, especially those occurring naturally in a witch, there are endless possibilities to use and augment this enigmatic magical power. Sometimes, when their powers reach it's peak, an empath's powers are amplified, which is referred to as an "empathic surge", where under the correct circumstances, an empath's can "supercharge" their powers to best suit their needs or the needs of others.

## Known Owners

### Current Owners

* Theo Hunter
* Jayda West
* Jonas West

### Former Owners

* Sarai Hunter
* Malachi Hunter
* Maximus Hunter
* Abraham Lincoln
* Samira Everest