Death Note (Sidoh's Notebook)

Item from Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba

The notebook that started everything — stolen by a bored shinigami, dropped into a high school courtyard, and picked up by the smartest teenager in Japan.

Also known as: The Death Note, Kira's Notebook, The Notebook

What They Know

• CORE RULE: Write a human's name while picturing their face → death within 40 seconds (default: heart attack)
• Cause of death can be specified; if written within 6 minutes 40 seconds, circumstances of death can also be controlled
• The Death Note will not affect anyone under 780 days old, and it cannot kill with a cause that is physically impossible
• A person whose name is written can be controlled for up to 23 days before dying
• If a cause of death is specified but the circumstances are impossible, the victim dies of a heart attack instead
• Only someone who has touched the Death Note can see the shinigami bound to it
• Contains two FAKE rules added by Light: the 13-day rule and the 'destroy notebook = all users die' rule
• Ownership can be transferred, and relinquishing ownership erases all memories of using the notebook
• The human who uses this notebook can go to neither Heaven nor Hell (this applies to all humans regardless)
• Originally belongs to Sidoh — was stolen by Ryuk who tricked the Shinigami King

Connections

• stolen_by — ryuk
• owned_by — light
• temporarily_owned_by — higuchi
• belongs_to — sidoh

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