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The Book of Names contains everyone's three names.

History

The Book of Names was created by the Ancients for unknown reasons. It contains everyone's three names: your True Name, your Given Name and your Taken Name. Your true name is the name that you are born with and it should never be spoken by another person. Your given name is the name that your parents give you and it can be used by mages against you to control you unless you have taken a name for yourself. Your taken name is a pseudonym that you get if you're a mage so that others cannot use you. When you are born, your given and true names are added to the book and the taken name is added later, and states when or if you take one. If you do not take a name, it is not added to the book. The names are then erased when you die.

In the books

Skulduggery Pleasant

When it was found by the Sanctuary the Elders approved of its destruction. However they found no conventional weapons or magic would damage the Book. The Elders finally assumed it was only able to be destroyed by Ancients as it was made by them. The Elders then took it upon themselves to protect it from ill fated hands. They secured it in the Sanctuary where anyone would have to clear the entire area before they can reclaim it. However that was not enough as guards can be killed and obstacles overcome so the Elders protected it with the Will of the Elders, a powerful spell which consists of a very simple defence mechanism: the closer you are to aquiring it the less you want it, protecting it from wrongdoers (such as Serpine) as this book would mean infinite power for the person who owned it. It was held in the Sanctury of Dublin but at the end of the first book, detective Skulduggery Pleasant destroyed it with The Sceptre of the Ancients.

The Faceless Ones

The Book of Names was seen as a pile of dust in a cage at the Irish Sanctuary.

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