Magia Erebea
闇の魔法 – yami no mahou
“Even if it comes from hating someone or running away from something, it is still a strength that comes from yourself.”
Dark Magic. Based on the concept of “darkness” as an immense all-encompassing power.
Named for Erebos, the primordial God of Darkness in Greek mythology. A forbidden technique developed – but never perfected – by the Dark Evangel and fueled by negative emotions: fear, malice, anger, hatred.
- Essentials
- ‘Stagnet. Complexio. Supplementum Pro Armationem.’
- Supplementum
- Actus Noctis Erebeae
- Dextra
- Sinistra
- Duplex
- Armationem
- ???
- Agilitas Fulminis
- Sim Fabricatus Ab Incendio
- He Astrape Huper Ouranou Mega Dunamene [Η Αστραπη Υπερ Ουρανου Μεγα Δυναμενη]
- Tastrapa Huper Ouranu Mega Dunamena
- Negica Magia Erebea
- Circuli Absorptionis
- Sinus Magnus
Essentials
‘Stagnet. Complexio. Supplementum Pro Armationem.’
固定。掌握。魔力充填「術式兵装」 – Kotei. Shouaku. Maryoku juuten ‘jutsushiki heisou’.
Fixate. Seize. Mana Charge, ‘Technique Armament’.
The essential commands added at the end of another incantation which allow the caster to absorb the spell. A form of spell delay. However, taking the concept of spell delay one step further, the caster’s “soul” (spiritual existence) contains then actually fuses with the “spirit” of the spell.
Stagnet: the released spell is concentrated into a sphere.
Complexio: the caster uses one hand to ‘hold’ the sphere and absorb it.
With the insanity of absorbing one’s own offensive magic and allowing it to devour the soul and body, the caster gains incredible power many times beyond normal beings.
A failed fusion will result in the spell’s “spirit” rampaging through the caster physically and mentally – more or less as though the spell itself was unleashed inside the body.
Supplementum
装填 – souten
Charge. Keyword to take in and spiritually fuse with the released mana (spell).
Actus Noctis Erebeae
闇き夜の型 – kurakiyoru no kata
Form of the Dark Night, literally “Conduct of the Dark Night”. A training method for Magia Erebea.
Dextra
Commands for the right arm and its ‘loaded’ spell.
Dextra Emittam
右腕解放 – Right Arm Release
Dextra Emissa Stagnet
右腕・解放固定 – Right Arm Release and Fixate
Dextra Stagnans
右腕固定 – Right Arm Fixate
Sinistra
Commands for the left arm and its ‘loaded’ spell.
Sinistra Emittam
左腕解放 – Left Arm Release
Sinistra Emissa Stagnet
左腕・解放固定 – Left Arm Release and Fixate
Sinistra Stagnans
左腕固定 – Left Arm Fixate
Duplex
Commands for both arms and ‘loaded’ spells.
Duplex Complexio
双腕掌握 – Both Hands Seize
Merging with both stored spells at once.
Duabus Emissae
双腕解放 – Both Hands Release
Armationem
術式兵装 – jutsushiki heisou
Technique Armaments. “Supplement for Armament” – loading another spell as a ‘charge’ to power the caster.
The basis of Armationem spells is allowing the caster to take on ‘aspects’ of the absorbed spell – the ‘principe de participation’ according to Lucien Levy-Bruhl: “round like the moon”; “hard like a rock”; “fast like the wind”.
Armaments in order of appearance:
???
Supplementum: Nivis Tempestas Obscurans
Achieved during Negi’s phantasmagoria battle. Effects unknown.
Agilitas Fulminis
疾風迅雷 – shippuu jinrai
Supplementum: Jovis Tempestas Fulguriens
With Lightning Speed. Grants extreme agility in exhange for lower defensive capabilities. Physical strikes have the same lightning (stunning) property, which can disable opponents. Projectile attacks can be deflected via an air-current barrier.
Sim Fabricatus Ab Incendio
獄炎煉我 – gokuen renga
Supplementum: Incendium Gehennae
Tempered by Hellfire. Grants high endurance and heat resistance and a spiritual property that allows the caster to steal mana from living beings. Physical strikes can release black flames.
He Astrape Huper Ouranou Mega Dunamene [Η Αστραπη Υπερ Ουρανου Μεγα Δυναμενη]
雷天大壮 – raiten taisou
Supplementum: Khilipl Astrape
Great Vigour of the Thunderous Sky. Physically transforms the caster’s body into a charged particle mass, granting an instantaneous speed of 150km/s – Lightning Instant Movement (雷速瞬動 raisoku shundou).
However, a major disadvantage exists in that being “lightning”, a positive streamer will always move before the caster, essentially telegraphing the destination of every movement. The speed boost is also limited to the caster’s physical actions.
Da Zhuang (大壮 taisou) is title of the thirty-fourth hexgram in the I Ching, thus named because the hexagram composes of ‘Force’ (‘Heaven’) and ‘Shake’ (‘Thunder’). Da Zhuang itself more or less means ’strongly, intensely, lively’, thus the Greek name: “lightning above the Heavens is extremely powerful”.
Detailed here.
Tastrapa Huper Ouranu Mega Dunamena (?)
雷天双壮 – raiten sousou
Supplementum: Khilipl Astrape + Khilipl Astrape
Twin Vigour of the Thunderous Sky, AKA Mega Dunamene 2. As the caster loads Khilipl Astrape twice, he can maintain a constant speed of 150km/s – Constant Lightning Form 常時雷化 (jouji ikazuchika) – while increasing both physical mobility and mental processing speed, allowing the caster’s mind to keep pace with a body literally made of ‘lightning’.
(Further information pending.)
Negica Magia Erebea
Negi’s personal usage of Dark Magic.
Circuli Absorptionis
敵弾吸収陣 – tekidan kyuushuujin
A magic ritual used to absorb mana. As the drawn circle is connected to Negi physically and spiritually, the absorbed mana (or qi) can directly used for Magia Erebea.
The activation spell:
Agite extractio, Negica Magia Erebea.
術式解凍。ネギ流闇の魔法。
“Technique undraw. Negi self-style dark magic.”
Sinus Magnus
太陰道 – taiindou
“The great sheath”, to put it euphemistically.
The vagina is of course the path by which life arisen in the womb is taken into the world. Thus, ancient tombs around the world, such as the Kikkoubaka of Japan or the Dolmen of Ireland, were designed to resemble the womb and birth canal of the female body. This stems from the belief that with death comes the return to the origin of life, ending one refrain and beginning the next.
Taking in the phenomenon before your eyes like embracing death itself and being born anew; this procession of death and rebirth is the secret behind Magia Erebea.
The ultimate purpose of “dark magic” – not taking in qi or mana, shots or spells, but the enemy’s own ‘power’, making it your own.
