In 1956, Cuthbert Sinclair created the Werther Box, a device intended to protect Nadia's Codex. The Werther Box could only be disarmed by all the blood of a Man of Letters or one of their legacies, but Cuthbert refused to share this with the Men of Letters and was expelled for it. One of the other Men of Letters, while trying to figure out how to disarm the Werther Box apparently figured this out or came close as he slit his own wrists and Cuthbert mentioned that he was close with his method.