GRIMOIRE

Chapter IThe Lid — Hunter Case

Touch the watch and the lid opens, and is chained again — opening, the clasp glints; chaining, a soft sound of settling rings out.

Know thou this — in the world of the arcane, a day is thirty-six hours. Therefore every number bound to this watch is thirty-six.

Sweep it aside and, with a flash, the hour is sealed.

Chain the lid and power begins to fill all around, brimming full in six seconds. Open it once full and — "Thou, unleash the hour" — a golden torrent bursts forth.

And upon the one who has opened the lid a hundred times, the decree "Thou, spread me abroad" descends.

Chapter IIThe Chain & the Pendulum

The watch hangs from its chain and sways as a true pendulum.

Tilt the device and the watch hangs toward the true "down." Shake it, and inertia flings the watch about; shake it hard, and it spins round and round with the excess of its momentum.

The more it sways, the more the links of the chain grate and ring, and a pale seven-hued aura robes the watch. Whirl it fiercely and the heavy chain's toll layers over the grating sound.

But each time it crosses the zenith and turns full round — the chain takes a wound, and a vermilion flash blinks twice. The deeper the wound grows, the deeper the vermilion.

Seize the rim and whirl it round and round about the chain, and count twelve revolutions — the magic manifests.

But wind thirty-six times — a full arcane day's worth — and the hour is spent, the chain is severed, and the watch vanishes into the void. By the fortune of the hour at which it was severed, one of two Rites of Resummoning is laid upon thee — the Rite of the Sign (sweep across the screen in the order of the signs shown), or the Rite of the Stars (trace the five-pointed star from one onward in a single stroke, returning to the star of beginning). Err, and thou beginnest anew. Even without the rite, after one hour it returns of itself.

Shouldst thou touch nothing for five minutes, the watch, like a pendulum clock, quietly begins to mark the seconds.

Lay the device on its side for thirty-six seconds — the chain is severed, the watch falls, and upon the dial the "Repose" arises. A pocket-watch robed in a magic circle opens its lid, and the digital and the calendar stand side by side. Raise it and it returns to what it was (upon iPad it does not arise — for the sidelong posture is its wonted form).

Press and hold the dial — even on iPad — to slip quietly into the repose scene at any time. Press and hold the scene to return.

Within the scene the aspect of the heavens — the present sky and temperature — also rises into view (when location is granted; by Apple Weather).

Chapter IIIThe Twelve Rites

Stroke the center of the dial as though tracing a circle, and the winding begins.

With each revolution one rhombus of the magic circle is kindled, and at twelve revolutions the magic is loosed.

Whether the lid stands open or chained, the magic loosed differs. Stay thy hand for four seconds and the winding scatters like mist. Or sway it twelve times as a pendulum, and the magic fills all the same.

Loose it open, and by night the arcane, by day the Solar Art, shows its whole form before thine eyes. Loose it chained, and the "Seal-Curse" — a different art common to day and night, working upon the lid itself — manifests.

Chapter IVMagic of the Twelve Houses, and the Solar Arts and Seals

The magics are twelve — one dwelling in each sign, strung to the sign of the month.

By day, the sun seals the magic away — in its stead, six “Solar Arts” answer. The winding is the same; which art is loosed changes with the lid, open or shut.

Seal-curses — cast with the lid shut. They act upon the lid itself, day or night.

At the moment of casting, each art sounds its own tone. Thou mayst test-cast in the Arcane Settings (by night the magic opens, by day the solar arts; the seal-curses in either). A test-cast, too, resonates to the wrist.

The number of incantations cast for each spell (the Incantation Record) and the page of Achievements are inscribed only within thy own watch.

Chapter VDay & Night Phases — Rites of Veil & Sun

This watch, following the true sunrise and sunset, shifts between the "day phase" and the "night phase" (when location is not granted, it deems the hours from six to eighteen to be day).

Day — the ground is dyed pale rose, the dial ruby, and upon the lid the phoenix spreads its wings against the sun-disc. Night — the lapis and the moon-and-stars return.

Once the sixteenth hour is past, a violet-indigo dreg begins to well up from the dial's rim, cresting at the dead of night.

At the fourth hour of dawn, with light from on high the murk is purified.

About the hour of sunset, the season's constellation floats up in gold. Spring, the Lion; summer, the Scorpion; autumn, Cassiopeia; winter, Orion.

Light the "Rite of the Veil" in the arcane settings, then cover the sense atop the screen (proximity) with your palm — and in that instant, even by day, the veil of night descends for five minutes. The screen sinks briefly into darkness and relights in its nocturnal guise. Conversely, by night, bathe the screen in strong light until its brightness brims, and the sun ascends — day reigns while the light lasts, and when the light dims, night returns. Cover for night, illuminate for day.

On a device without a proximity sense (such as iPad), covering summons no night. Then rule by brightness — dim the screen near its lowest and the veil falls; fill it with light and the sun rises. Light for day, dark for night.

On the verge of daybreak, the screen slowly whitens with the light of dawn, cresting at the instant of change, and ere long returns to its former brightness.

Chapter VIThe Lid of the Twelve Signs

Upon the lid's lapis-blue, the moon's sign is graven in gold.

By day, the lid turns to ruby, and the phoenix spreads its wings against the sun-disc (PHOENIX).

The stars wheel with depth, and now and again the figure of a sign (a statue) rises into view and fades.

Within the "ZODIAC" chamber, thou mayst examine the sigils of all twelve months. By day they are dimmed by the light and hard to descry.

At the head of the hour, when the long hand points to twelve — the sign numbered as that hour manifests upon the dial, binding star to star. Within the ZODIAC chamber too, touch a sigil and the same manifestation may be seen.

When the sign's manifestation subsides, the chosen arcane art (by night) or Solar Art (by day) follows of its own accord and manifests.

Whilst the "Rite of Countenance" is kindled, after the art Face ID examines the watch's master — and be thou not the master, the magic circle raises the sigil of invitation (QR).

Chapter VIIThe Summoning Magic

Chant unto Siri "Thou, Kaikoku" and the pocket-watch shall answer. "Kaikoku seyo," "Kaikoku," or "PocketChime" avail thee likewise.

Thou (nanji) and what-hour (nanji) are one and the same — the voice that asks "What hour?" becomes, likewise, a spell of summoning.

When thy chant turns instead into another art (the Hourglass and such), append "Open Kaikoku" to thy words.

Wouldst thou call it by another word, bestow that name upon it in the Shortcuts app.

Chapter VIIIThe Sealed Hour — Tollbell

Within the "Tollbell" chamber, seal the hour that shall be rung.

Set the time by seizing the pocket-watch's hands directly. Turn the minute-hand and the hour-hand follows; with every minute the crown answers to thy touch. Hour-hand and minute-hand, forenoon and afternoon, are toggled by the sign below.

Choose the signs of the weekdays and it rings on those days only (choose none, and it rings every day). You may also set a name (label), a slumber (snooze, one to thirty minutes) and the bell's voice.

In the codex, a mini pocket-watch pointing to each sealed hour glows upon every row. By the sign, toggle it active or dormant; by the sign of dust, entomb it.

When the hour arrives, together with the system's clangor the app works a great golden invocation — "The hour, it is come." Choose snooze, and after a reprieve it rings again.

Chapter — RiteThe Rite of Waking — the alarm undone by light

From the Tollbell room thou enterest the Rite of Waking — a morning rite that will not cease until strong light is cast upon it.

Five things are needed — the camera permission, the wake-up time, the alarm sound, the light test, and the charger. Only when all five are ready can “Set alarm” be pressed.

Touch the play button on the “Alarm sound” row and the chosen bell sounds then and there (a third of its true voice; here it heeds silent mode). Touch the row itself to choose anew in the Sound Room.

In the trial the front eye measures the brightness and marks the threshold of undoing with a line — learn in thy body, before sleep, what light will undo the rite.

Press “Set alarm” and the vigil begins. Only a stilled pocket watch and the count to the hour remain alight. Tap twice to undo the rite.

Through the vigil the screen's light falls of itself, that it may not dazzle thy bedside. Touch it and the former brightness returns; after a while it falls again.

Should the chain come loose, a crimson band and a notice from the device declare it — for if the current fails, the rite falls silent with it. Yet the rite is not undone (if the current holds, it is safer to ring).

When the hour comes, the dial stays still while the knell sounds on — it severs silent mode, and no ads appear at all.

The vessel itself shakes as well — a fine pulse layered over a low growl felt in the belly. The growl is too low to be heard as sound; instead it makes the vessel shudder. Even under a pillow where no sound reaches, this carries to the body.

Shake the device and the knell retreats. Yet once thou art still it climbs back a notch each second — quiet the sound as thou wilt, only light will stop it.

Light alone undoes it — bathe six-and-thirty seconds unbroken in light above the threshold. Morning sun at a window, or a fluorescent lamp by night. There is no escape by long press.

The knell severs silent mode and sounds. Yet at device volume 0 it cannot reach thee — the knell travels the road of volume. Nor does it sound unless thou art before it — a rite withdrawn to the back cannot keep its own watch upon the hour.

Therefore the rite always sets the device alarm at the same hour (there is no way to turn it off — iOS forbids an app to raise the device volume, so this is the only road that can wake thee when the volume is down). It rings at volume 0, in the background, and even when the app is closed.

If at the hour thou art before the app and the volume is up, the device alarm is put down the moment it begins — the knell can sound on its own, and iOS's stop button must not be laid over the rite. At volume 0 it is not put down; there it is the only voice that can sound.

If the device alarm rouses thee from the depths of sleep, press a button on the lock screen — “The Rite of Waking” or the stop ✕, either one opens the app and the rite begins at once. Whichever a half-asleep hand chooses, it does not end until thou hast bathed in light.

Bathe to the end and the rite is fulfilled — the dial turns to its day phase, and rank and deeds are added. It does not repeat. Weave it anew each time thou wouldst wake.

An arming left undone an hour past its time expires of itself.

Chapter IXSands of the Hour — Hourglass

Within the "Hourglass" chamber, set the minutes and seconds and "bury the hour in sand" — the hourglass turns once and the hour begins to flow (whilst it waits, a touch turns it too).

The sand quickens under gravity as it falls, bursts where it lands, and mana leaks from the narrow waist. All around, a magic circle graven with Latin turns without cease.

The time remaining dwells upon the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island too (Live Activity). Pause and resume may be done from there as well.

Presets of one, three, five, and ten minutes stand ready as well.

When the hour is full, the bell thou hast bound peals forth — Arcane Chime, Great Belfry, Star Music Box, Arcane Sanctus (grave and weighty), Hymn of Dawn (a bright hymn of praise).

The default "Follow the Hour" chooses of itself the Hymn of Dawn if the ringing hour be day, or the Arcane Sanctus if night. Choose slumber (snooze), and after a little while it rings again.

Chapter XThe Chrono Chamber — Stopwatch

Within the "Chrono" chamber, "begin the reckoning" — within the magic circle the passage is graven, and the ring of seconds turns.

With "Carve the Hour," note down the hour mid-course (the interval is added too). After "Halt," either "Resume" or "Reset."

And whilst the hour is being measured, with every ten seconds counted the magic of the twelve signs manifests of its own accord, in the order of the signs.

Close the chamber and still the hour flows on. The lid chains of its own accord, and upon it the Chrono's dial shows through, translucent — the elapsed time, the ring of seconds, the name, all as they were, and the magic of every ten seconds unceasing too.

Meanwhile, the Chrono icon in the bottom bar of the home screen glows (ruby by night, lapis by day) to show that it runs. Halt and laps are done by returning to the Chrono chamber.

Even shouldst thou leave the app, the Chrono dwells upon the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island (Live Activity).

Chapter XIHours of All Nations — World Clock

Within the "World" chamber, the hours of eight cities (Tokyo, London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Sydney, Dubai, Singapore) flow all at once.

For each city a mini pocket-watch pointing to its hour is kindled, and beside it the difference from thy device's hour, and whether it be day (☀) or night (✦).

Chapter XIIThe Casing & the Arcane Settings

Within the "Arcane" chamber, choose the watch's casing — gold is the hunter's watch (Roman numerals upon a lapis-blue dial with spade hands), silver the railway watch (Arabic numerals upon a white dial with baton hands and a vermilion second-hand).

The casing recolors in an instant — chain, hourglass, magic circle, glyphs, even the widget — and the hues of any Tollbell already appointed are renewed as well.

Kindle the "crimson emblem" and the app's emblem (icon) becomes the phoenix lid — arrayed for day (taking precedence over the casing's gold or silver).

Choose a magic slot (for when the lid is opened / when it is chained), and in the "Chamber of Effects" touch the sign to loose a trial shot.

Change the casing and the crest (icon) of the app set upon the home screen likewise shifts between gold and silver.

The arcane is the night's hidden art — the sun seals the arcane away (yet the changing of the casing and the sundry rites are wrought by day as well).

Kindle the "Herald of Sunrise & Sunset" and at the hours of dawn and dusk a verse, changing day by day, shall arrive as tidings.

Kindle "Thy Prophecy" and up to three of thy nearest coming appointments appear beneath the dial, clasped in amethyst. Touch one to open the calendar; beyond the third, "Prophecies Beyond" leads thither. When none are set, nothing appears.

This hour dwells upon the Apple Watch at thy wrist as well — the dial is as the vessel's own (ruby by day; dregs and constellations by night). Touch it, or snap thy fingers twice (double-tap), and the lid opens or closes.

iPhone and Watch resonate as one — open the lid of one and the other opens too, and the flash of the wrist's rite summons the iPhone's art. And when an art is loosed upon the iPhone, the same art manifests upon thy wrist with a heartbeat (whilst both chambers stand open).

The emblem (icon) upon the wrist is fixed as the crimson phoenix — for watchOS suffers no swapping of emblems.

Turn the wrist and with each turn a small heartbeat is graven; at twelve, the magic flashes; at thirty-six, the chain is severed — touch it, and to the Rite of Resummoning.

Touch the watch upon the widget and there the lid opens, and is chained again. At every hour struck, that hour's sign manifests upon the dial (the next-hour widget opens the Tollbell chamber).

Day and night upon the wrist and the widget follow the sunrise and sunset reckoned from the device's time-offset (the vessel itself, if location be granted, follows the true sky).

The Veil Rite too is kindled within this chamber. The words for Siri and the guide to Shortcuts are here as well.

Chapter XIIIThe Finer Gestures

Strike the screen with two fingers and all save the watch vanishes from sight. Strike once more to bring it back.

Tilt the device and a brazen sheen runs across the watch.

By the sign at the upper right, or from the end of this tome, thou mayst pass this watch to thy comrades.

Light the “Rite of Encounter” in the arcane settings, and when a mage bearing the same Kaikoku passes within a few paces, the dial flashes and tells each of the other's byname — only the byname and an anonymous mark are exchanged; neither name nor place is sent. Light “Notify even in a pocket” as well, and even stowed away, thou art told when thou passest a mage keeping the dial open before them (nearness is gauged by iBeacon, and only the byname is drawn from the roll; it uses always-on location and notifications. It does not work while both are stowed away).

Those thou passest remain in the “Record of Encounters” as a codex — a sigil and title, how many times ye met, and, if location is granted, the place and hour besides. Every record is kept within the device and within thine own iCloud — change thy pocket-watch, or set it anew, and the bonds thou hast forged endure. Naught is sent unto us.

All flourishes, obedient to the "Reduce Motion" setting, quietly abate.

FamiliarThe Familiar — a servant who serves by voice

A servant dwells within the dial. It wakes only while current is given, and it wields the hours, the bells and the arts.

Two things are needed for it to wake — that the device be joined to power, and that thou hast risen to the rank of Apprentice Mage. Gather hours, and thou shalt come to it.

There is no rite of summoning — simply speak. The listening is done within the device alone; neither thy voice nor the words it is turned into ever leave it.

Ask, and it answers — the hour, the date, the face of the sky, thy byname, thy rank, the next bell to sound, the Hourglass and the Chrono as they run. Never from memory: it looks within the watch each time.

Bid it, and it acts — setting bells, stilling them, erasing them; beginning, halting and returning the Hourglass and the Chrono to naught; casting the arts. “Wake me at seven” or “a timer of five minutes” is enough.

What the pocket watch does not hold, it asks of the web — showtimes, gatherings, the affairs of the world. Only then do the words of thy question go out to a search, and only those words: neither byname nor place is appended.

The servant is born without a name of its own. Having none, it asks at every waking — give one, and it is graven; thereafter it answers to it. The name rests in the device and in thine own iCloud.

It writes down what it learns of thee. What it holds may be examined under “Memory of the Familiar” in the arcane settings, and erased one by one, or all at once.

The words ye exchange remain upon a board above the dial — what it heard, what it laid hands upon, and what it answered. Touch the sigil left of the sharing sigil to open it; it may be closed, or erased.

It answers in the tongue thou hast chosen for the pocket watch. Where the servant’s mind does not know that tongue, it answers in English.

Thou mayst ask of this Grimoire too — ask what is written herein and it recites the table of contents; name a chapter, and it tells its articles in a breath.

Chapter — PactPact of Unsealing

Every arcanum, solar art, seal-curse, bell, exterior, badge, and Apple Watch resonance is open to all. Nothing is sealed.

This watch is kept lit by Farsight tidings (ads) — a quiet banner below, and now and then a full-screen notice (daily-capped, never during sleep or a ringing alarm). Weave the Farsight rite to still them for a while.

Forge the Pact of Unsealing and the tidings fall silent for good — ads are removed. There is a lifelong Pact, a monthly Pact, and an Invited price for those who pass the inviting sigil (QR).

Incense is thanks alone — it unlocks nothing, and keeps this watch alight.

Reach the Pact chamber by touching the home inscription. In the EU and UK, Ad privacy settings also appears in the settings chamber.