Book of Thoth

As the god of knowledge, Thoth comprehends the totality of magic, science, and all cosmopolitan information. Outside of time, he wrote this down and placed it into the Book of Thoth. Fragments were occasionally taken from the book as allowed by the priests that guarded the tome. The Egyptians stored many such excepts, on a wide range of subjects, in “Houses of Life”, the libraries contained within temples. The Egyptian historian Manetho said that 36,525 different lessons were taken from the book. Among the subjects they cover are hymns, rituals, temple construction, astrology, geography, and medicine, and the Duat, the realm of the dead, which incorporates both the Inner Light and Outer Darkness.

Because of the latter knowledge, it was inherently important for the conjuration of Nuit into the Physical World. Thus, Ivor scoured the world to find it. It was Eleanora that scried the location of Portland, Oregon, in the 1800’s, knowing that the book would eventually make its way there. As ever, the witch’s visions were correct, and once the curator of the Oregon Museum, Doctor Delores Beck, acquired the tome, she placed it on open display, attempting to hide the priceless artifact in plain sight. Ivor knew that the book was there for years as he worked on his plans. Like Delores, he felt it was safer in the museum than in his own possession, where deceit and villainy were all-too-common. In fact, this was why the Countess Elizabeth Báthory hired the Reaper to take the book. The moment she discovered that Brone Lorcan was to retrieve it, she was aghast to find that it had been right there for all these years- for she had once desired to use it in her own ritual.

Once returned to the Shanghai Tunnels by the nosferatu, Ivor gave the tome over to Nuit’s cultists and priests, sealing them into a chamber with Eleanora’s magicks to ensure that they would not flee with the book. They soon unraveled the needed incantations, runes, and pentacles that could be used in conjunction with the Scepter of Osiris, in order to bring the Goddess of Night into the corporeal realm. However, the Night Stalker, Absinthe Van Gothen, and the necromancer, Evelyn Addams, managed to defeat Eleanora. Then Absinthe fought Ivor and he was slain in the process by his own ghoul, Clover Riley. With the tunnels secured, Absinthe retrieved this tome at Brone’s behest in order to keep it safe from the forces of evil.