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The Twenty Second Object is a shallow bowl, eight inches wide, and just over two inches high. It is made from ceramic, but covered in a white glaze. Scratches into this glaze do not seem to affect the Objects resistance to Hermetic magic. The Object first came to the Order’s attention after a member of…

The Twenty-First Object is a flat dish of a metal that is presumed to be bronze.  It is slightly over six and a half feet in diameter, and is painted in a deep red colour. On what, for convenience, we may call the outer side, there is a further design. It was discovered in Naples in 1241,…

The Twentieth Object is a curious device placed within a locket.  The locket itself is golden, and has the Hermetic symbol for Vim on its upper side. It is circular in cross-section, as it would appear to the viewer if the assumption that it is to be worn on a chain about the neck is…

The Nineteenth Object is a mirror, made using a process unknown in Europe. It appears to include a plate of glass, over a perfect film of silver, surrounded by a frame of interlaced wood, part of winter oak, the other part cerulea. The mirrored surface of the Object is three and one-third feet high, and just over one foot…

The Eighteenth Object is unique, in that it manifested in a covenant. This allowed Hermetic magic to observe the process by which the Object appeared in the world. It appeared on the Eighteenth day of November, in 1238, in the covenant of Magvillus. The Object seemed to fade into reality, appearing initially in a ghostly,…

The Seventeenth Object has the form of a granite ball, exactly nine inches across, with a single word chiseled about the surface. It was discovered in the hands of a priest in Normandy, who claimed it had been given to the keepers of his Church by an angel in 1237. The angel, which did not give its name, commanded that the…

The Sixteenth Object is the only one to regularly be named in discussion with something other than its place in the Revised Clementine Sequence, so for the convenience of the reader, I will call it by its imprecise but popular name: the Toscaria Codex. The Toscaria Codex is famous, of course, for the shadowy intrigues eventually won by…

The Fifteenth Object appears to be a wooden sphere, but this is deceptive. Careful pressure allows a small segment of the sphere to fall away, and then another, and so on, until the entire Object is disassembled. The sphere is constructed of three hundred and sixty-five pieces. Other Criamon magi have noted that the signs on the pieces make the process…

The Fourteenth Object is a small brass box, six inches long, four wide, and two deep. It has a lock on its front surface, but fortunately is not locked. It may be opened by lifting an ornamental latch which covers the keyhole. As the lid is lifted, a cunning mechanical device is activated, and music is…

The Twelfth and Thirteenth Objects were recovered together. Their enumeration is not entirely random: it is a historic artefact. The Twelfth Object, under our present enumeration, caused a sensation when first described, while its companion has relatively subtle powers and was, initially, considered to be a part of the Twelfth. One was wrapped within the other. The Twelfth and…