Chains of Sand - The Binding Practices of the Pharaoh-Wizards

Description

A heavy tome bound in cracked papyrus and linen, its spine stamped with faded hieroglyphs. Found in The Hidden Library.

Target: Otto Noxley

The book details how ancient Egyptian wizards perfected the first known enslavement enchantments — not for humans, but for magical beings. It describes a ritual called the Servant's Covenant, in which a magical creature's free will was bound to a bloodline through a golden ankh pressed to the creature's chest. The author notes with clinical detachment that these techniques were later adapted by European wizards in the Middle Ages to create what are now known as house-elf binding contracts. A chapter titled "The Noxley Acquisitions" appears near the end, documenting a British family's expedition to a tomb near Luxor in the 1700s, where they recovered several ankhs and "modernized the process for commercial application." The final page is a handwritten annotation in Seylon's hand: "Abomination dressed as tradition. I should have destroyed this when I had the chance."