Vade Maecum Infernal

The **Vade Maecum Infernal** is a magical book and the most powerful Incantation ever created. It is the owner of unlimited power.

## Overview

The Vade Maecum is a parchment book with Latin writings.

It was created centuries ago, being able to confer on whoever possessed its absolute control over magic, without sacrifices, potions or requirements. The Vade Maecum is an unlimited power that can only be accessed by a contract. This consists of the practitioner performing a series of Incantation in the presence of a designated witness, to become one with the book, losing his humanity in the process. One of these sacrifices is the finger of the practitioner, and the final sacrifice is the life of his firstborn son. The contract must be completed in three days, otherwise, the practitioner is trapped forever within the book.

Due to the danger it represented, some practitioners of antiquity decided to divide it into four parts and hide them so that no one would use it. However, this did not prevent people throughout history from looking for it equally..

## History

The original Knights of the Blue Rose once served The Order protecting the Vade Maecum for their Grand Magus. But when they saw how the Vade Maecum twisted and corrupted him, they took it away and tried to destroy it, but they couldn't.

The Vade Maecum was sought by many practitioners over the centuries, but all ended up missing or suffering a horrible death. The first to gather all the parts in centuries was Jurgen Sawyer during the 50s, however, he was stopped before carrying out the sacrifice of his firstborn and therefore he ended up trapped in the book. His former Hide, Silverback, was imbued with one part of the Vade Maecum as a result.

70 years later, Edward Coventry develops the ambition to obtain the power of the Vade Maecum to remake the world in his image. For this, he resorts to the help of one of his proteges, Alyssa Drake, to help him gather two of the parts of the Vade Maecum. The first part is hidden inside an obsidian rock, protected with an Echo Incantation that repels any magical attack. However, Alyssa was able to reveal it using submission magic instead. The second part had been hidden inside the oneiric realm of Sir Richard De Payne, one of the original practitioners who hid the Vade Maecum and was placed under a curse of eternal sleep. Using a spell to enter his dream realm, Alyssa was able to find the second part of the Vade Maecum and remove it from his subconscious.

The third part was found by Vera Stone in a deposit box in Washington. She decides to give it to Edward hoping his plan will eventually fail.

The fourth part was imbued in Silverback, the Hide of Jack Morton. The natural attraction between the parts of the book caused Silverback to begin to kill Jack after having come in contact with the other parts. This is why the other Knights were forced to extract it. However, Silverback is summoned to the temple of The Order to finally complete the Vade Maecum.

To complete the contract with the book, Edward intended to sacrifice his son Maddox. However, when it is revealed that Jack is his true firstborn, Edward decides to sacrifice him with Alyssa as a witness. Jack, however, manages to trick him into sacrificing the golem, Clay, instead. With incomplete sacrifice, Edward is trapped inside the Vade Maecum. Vera Stone then uses a potion to remove the magic of the Vade Maecum and thus burn it for good.

However, it is later revealed that Vera secretly kept the book in her office.

In Season 2, Alyssa discovers that the Vade Maecum must have survived and that her bond with it caused her magic to become uncontrollable. She then breaks into Vera's house where she finds the Vade Meacum held by Salvador Grant. After using a Glamour Incantation to disguise various things around the house as the Vade Meacum, Alyssa confronts Vera about it, stating that she no longer has her loyalty. Vera decides that the Vade Maecum should be hidden as it was before or would end up being corrupted by it. However, the Vade Meacum is revealed as a disguised magazine, Alyssa kept the real one and thus decides to ally herself with Salvador. The two then make a ritual to break Alyssa's pact with the Vade Maecum and thus fix her magic.

## Owners

* Sir Richard De Payne (formerly)
* Jurgen Sawyer † (formerly: trapped inside the book) / Silverback (formerly bonded with the book)
* Edward Coventry † (formerly)
* Vera Stone
* Alyssa Drake

## Gallery

The first partThe second partThe third partThe fourth part