Jude does not care much for authority. So when he was instructed not snoop in his families library, particularly the forbidden section, he found himself a tome that spoke to him of power that it could easily provide. He doesn't really understand how serious this interaction has changed him, but he is still figuring things out as he goes. Eventually he found a mysterious stone off the side of a road on his way to see an old friend. The stone flashed with a bright light and suddenly he disappeared in that very instant.