Dr. Ludmoore is an evil alchemist from Meridian, at the service of Phobos, who ordered him to weaken the Veil by opening portals to be able to travel between the two dimensions. He discovered that Heatherfield lies in a place where the five elements meet, and tried to suppress them. When he failed he disappeared into his magic book of the five elements. When Cedric found the book, Ludmoore used him as an instrument to gather the five missing stones representing the parts of the elements (their positive parts) he could not suppress, in which they flew away the day he was imprisoned in the book. When it was finished, he trapped the Guardians, Orube and Cedric into the book where Matt had already been imprisoned in. The Guardins are forced to find their way through the book's chapters, discov