The essence of John Shade then wrote the binding spell for him, a spell he presumably managed to derive from the Book of the White. Unable to perfect the spell on his own, he had to speak to his father and had Tessa Change into him. At this point, Mortmain had already been trying to continue his father's work on the automatons for years. This plot to implicate Tessa, however, was revealed, and the book was retrieved. In 1878, one of the Institute's residents, Jessamine Lovelace, under instructions from Mortmain, hid the book in Tessa Gray's room. As the Nephilim Law dictates that it belongs to them, he was refused this request, and the book was returned to the London Institute. When he and his wife, Anne, were killed in 1815, their adopted mundane son, Axel Mortmain, filed a Reparations plea ten years after and tried to get back his parents' belongings, including the Book of the White, thinking it rightfully belonged to his family. It was later discovered that the warlock John Shade was using it for necromancy in his attempts to perfect his clockwork army. History Automatons Īt one point, the book was placed in the London Institute, until it disappeared "under suspicious circumstances" in 1752. Another spell supposedly found in the book, this time implied or hoped for by Magnus Bane, is one that may possibly cut short ones' immortality. It is also suggested, by Jem Carstairs and the longevity of Axel Mortmain's life, that there is a spell inside it that prolongs life. The only known potion found within the book is one that puts the person into an induced coma, a dream-like state, along with the antidote. Due to its demonic nature, warlocks believe that it belongs to them by right, while the Clave considers it a crime for anyone other than them, specifically warlocks who would be able to apply the information found within, to own the book. The book contains several different recipes for potions, incantations for spells, some of which are black magic, as well as additional information which can be used for research, with the book specializing in binding and unbinding spells, specifically the kind that tie and untie the soul to the body.
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