The Blue Book is a lost, blue-bound book that teaches time travel, lends intelligence and wisdom to its readers, and answers questions. It is counted among the four colored books in which the laws are written, and it is “potentially dangerous”.
| Type | Artifact (book) |
| Status | Lost; “to be captured” |
| Known handlers | Old Q (Master Q); Philip |
| Spanish entry | El Libro Azul |
Description
Only its color is recorded. Old Q (Master Q) carries it when following the thread; Philip was caught “browsing the blue book”.
Properties
- Reading: in sittings of fifteen minutes to two days; while it lasts, the book grants Intelligence and Wisdom, shared among readers, and withdraws them afterward.
- Consultation: it answers through a fixed form of seven keys: who, what, why or for what, where, when, in what manner, with what element. It gives names, and a name it gives is binding.
- Time: it teaches time travel; it “traveled to the past and settled time too” and “brought all these things”, the changes and ascents of the present world. The libraries of Paris were restocked with “the books of time”. A company worked “to get the book”.
The four books of law
The world has “a green book, a blue book, a red book and a white book”, and the gnomes “are the green, red, blue and white laws”. Each color names the law the volume contains.
Other books of authority
- The Book of the Dead, also called the Necronomicon: apocryphal sermons to the dead, with prophetic power.
- The Forbidden Book: read in full, it reveals the makeup of the universe and traps whoever reaches the end.
- The Book of Enoch of the Ethiopian Bibles, with authority over the watchers.
- The Book of 1155, brought by the companions, with writings on cosmology.
- A Book of the Past, delivered as a commission after the event, for its recipient or his son.
- An unidentified book found as loot in the Ivory Labyrinth.
Books in this world are objects of power able to summon entities.
Conflicting accounts
- One account speaks of “a large book that was supposedly lost”, on cosmography, written by a scribe of Alexandria; nothing establishes that it is the Blue Book.
Open questions
- Whether the lost Blue Book and the blue book of the laws are the same object.
- Whether it relates to the books of time in Paris or the Labyrinth book; who lost it, and where it is.
- Whether reading it to the end has the Forbidden Book’s effect, and what makes it dangerous.
- How many readers can share its gifts.
- Whether the company seeks the Blue Book or the Book of 1155.