The Aetherium (Codex)

The Aetherium is a book containing the most powerful holy magics, cermonies, and magical knowledge ever written.

Origin and History

Much of the origin of The Aertherium is unknown. It is thought that the codex was written somewhere during the 9th or 10th century, though there have been theories that it is older then that. According to one legend, the grimoire was the product of an unnamed scholar who on learning of the Necronomicon and the secret rites it contained, sought out a way to create it’s opposite equivalent. It is said that in the end they went mad from the knowledge of the purifying power it contained. However, there is no evidence that this is true and is mostly just speculation. The closest acknowledgment of such an idea is borne from a simple writing of the French Mage and Alchemist Duval Petite Francois, who noted on the subject of The Necronomicon, “If that which is borne in shadow is, then that which is borne in light must be”.

The first actual written mention of The Aertherium is in a brief note on a rough attempted commentary on De Vermis Mysteriis, where the unnamed author wrote in a short note “The lines can find their answers and counterparts in the true Aetherium, though debatable of existence.” True academic study of this book only began in the 17th century, when the Reverend P.T. Morrison wrote a Thetis suggesting that the rumors of a grand holy book may have basis in fact. Professor Theodore Andros of Berne further would write what is now considered the definitive study of the grimoire and it’s believed origin and history including its final apparent sighting in the 12th century.. It has now been more or less confirmed that several existing holy and white magic grimoires contain content from the book, but the original text itself is thought to be lost.