Entry 2/008

Dear self,

I’ve been figuring out the glamour recipe for the journal I’m using. The way I designed the workings it won’t be too hard to add everything else I have planned that isn’t included yet. I might make a simplified version of this for sale. Mother will no doubt have a few pointers in how I can give the book more protections, how to infuse it with anamnestic workings, and what the best way would be to bond it to myself. I might be a little presumptuous, but I have decided to name it Aprocryphal Ink.

*Aprocryphal Ink:

A loop of Mercury

A vial of unhardened Amberglass

A glum of Marrowdrim blood

A drop of Mournjoy

One loop of Stargleam

Enchanted water, must be purified

Any text equivalent to the intended manuscript

A swath of Blitterleaf(glamour)

One loop of Nightgloom essence

A mote of Nurn , if available

The intended manuscript

A small bottle of Absinthe

The first issue is hiding the manuscript behind the image of another text, for which I have used my herbology book. This will deflect suspicion from the text, and a method I much prefer over making the book seem simply empty. In order to achieve this I needed to transform the original text into a spell construct I could use in glamours.

You must first consecrate the text with enchanted water to create a sympathetic bond with its contents. The consecration ensures that the image of the texts become infused into the released vapour and ash. The book must then be immolated in a smokeless fire beneath a charm made from a vial of unhardened Amberglass to capture the simulacrum from the book.

Combine the Marrowdrim blood, which is a red sap-like substance, with Absinthe at equal proportions. Sip a mouthful from the mixture and hold it in your mouth while meditating on a symoathetic charm with yourself. Blood magic might be used alternatively. Spit the mixture back out and then mix in the Mournjoy and the Stargleam. The intent of this is to create a bond attuned between yourself and the ink, so that it might recognise you without adding advanced identifying spells. Ideally this is aided with a mote of Nurn siphoned from you. The identity stored within your fate is the most immutably tied to your recognisable self as far as I know.

The Marrowdrim recognises your blood, which might include your descendants or siblings. The Mournjoy resonates with your empathetic self, meaning someone who might strongly emphasise with you might be resonant as well, which happens with some romantic partners especially. The Stargleam is simply used to exclude anyone who wasn’t born beneath the same stars as you were.

To make the ink, crush the Blitterleaf into dust and mix it with the Nightgloom. The Blitterleaf acts as the base of the glamours which contain the hidden manuscript as well as the text used to obscure the contents. The Nightgloom helps to ensure secrecy from attempts at divination and various senses.

You must now admixture the Blitterleaf and Marrowdrim compounds, the unhardened Amberglass, and add the remaining ash from the text while chanting minor glamour charms to structure the imagery. The bowl of prepared compounds must then be placed within a grounding circle and have the mercury added while charmed with a working for etherealization. This process transmutes the potion into the glamoured ink by purifying the physical compound and transforming the material into ethereal constructs. This has the visible effect of turning the solution completely transparent. I suspect it is colourless, but I have not yet had the opportunity to show it to anyone and ask. It also etherealizes the physical material, which means volume is constant regardless of mass. It also seems to be near weightless. I believe the Opus is stable so replenishing the ink only requires adding more of the Blitterleaf compound and infusing it with power.

The final step is to take the intended manuscript and tip the bottle of ink over it until it is completely covered. The ink will visibly glamour the manuscript until it is identical in appearance with the original book. Your personal manuscript will only become visible when the book is opened and you focus your mind on the sympathetic connection you have towards it. Writing requires the original ink but is otherwise as normal.

Hope we fare well.

Regards,

Me.

~*M*~