Originally taught to Roderigo Melanzanno bani Bonisagus, by his mentor, this Rote found use by the old man as a handy substitute for a scribe and a useful tool for self-examination. By keying a blank book to oneself, a mage can enchant it for a time, causing the very substance of its pages to manifest he surface thoughts verbatim. Needless to say, Melanzanno made himself famous by using the book for less studious pursuits.  Keying such books to others by inscribing their names upon the covers,  Melanzanno became a rather successful blackmailer. Thus, while the discovery of his body floating in a Venetian canal came as no real surprise to his contemporaries, the secret combinations of pentacles in which he wrote his subject's names found great favor among other Order mages more capable of balancing ambition with wisdom.

System: Mind 2 reads the surface thoughts of those without mental shielding, Matter 3 transforms the substance of the pages into words corresponding to those thoughts, and Time creates a duration of Effect (thus allowing the mage to perform other tasks, even use other magic, while the Rote maintains itself). The book must be within the subject's immediate vicinity to be effective, but it need not be obvious (one of a few books tucked under a mage's arm, for example, or one of the hundreds on the nearby shelves in a library). As the Rote does leave that telltale echo of willworking obvious to those with Awareness, it is best used on the Awakened in places like Chantries, where there are likely to be several magical Effects in place at any given time, serving as a sort of "magical cover."