Nasuverse Metaphysics

The Nasuverse, a masterful creation by Kinoko Nasu, is a vast and intricate fictional cosmos that weaves together enchanting narratives across notable titles such as "Tsukihime," "Fate/stay night," "Mahou Tsukai no Yoru (Mahoyo)," and "Kara no Kyōkai." This expansive universe explores the complexities of magecraft, a sophisticated and mystical art of magic passed down through generations. Magecraft involves elaborate rituals and spells that are intricately tied to specific bloodlines, adding to the universe's allure and complexity.

One of the main features of this magical realm is the Holy Grail War, a ritualistic conflict where Masters summon heroic spirits, known as Servants, to compete for the Holy Grail—a powerful artifact capable of granting wishes. This battlefield introduces strategic nuances and moral dilemmas, enhancing the storytelling experience.

The Nasuverse also introduces additional layers of complexity through works like "Mahoyo" and "Kara no Kyōkai," which offer unique perspectives and delve into the rich history and metaphysics of this expansive universe. "Mahoyo" explores the origins of magecraft, providing insights into its intricacies, while "Kara no Kyōkai" investigates the supernatural, blending mystery and fantasy seamlessly.

As the Nasuverse grows, it becomes even more complex for people to understand its aspects properly, such as the world building, the multiverse and even magecraft. This page aims to clarify all of that (hopefully).

## Magecraft

*A general term representing activities that artificially reenact Mysteries/Miracles. Although there were some differences depending on traditions and schools, the basic principle was still “the transformation of the magical energy that exists within the practitioner or the environment.” The practitioner would issue Commands according to the Foundation (System) of his school, and this would cause the execution of a predetermined Program.*

***Magical energy** was the electrical current required to deliver the command.*

*Although Magecraft gave the impression of omnipotence, it fundamentally produced Mystery through the principle of equivalent exchange. It was possible to transform one thing into another, but it was impossible to produce something from nothing.*

*However, the essence of Magecraft as a discipline was to challenge that “Nothingness,” and endeavor towards the impossible. Large-scale spells such as the so-called Grand Sorceries, Grand Rituals were really purposeless if not for attempting to reach “ ” (kara) or True Magic.*

*Kara no Kyoukai was a story of one magus’ attempt at challenging “Nothingness.”*

### **Resistances**

#### **Mystery and magical circuits**

There are different types of ways to resist magecraft within the nasuverse

First is through authority ways in which only gods and divine spirits do. Second is through magic circuits people with magic circuits inherently gain resistance to magecraft unless it's of a higher level than them. Third is through using the layered concepts ideation that I explained in origin through mystery of which we'll talk about later on same for the authority that but let's look into the first two ways.

As seen here people with magical circuits automatically gain resistance to magecraft unless is imbued with greater mystery then theirs, which is responsible for powering magecraft, we've seen this further demonstrated with a magus resisting Curse Manipulation through their far powerful magic circuits.

Furthermore, having magical circuits as a magus allows for you to resist effects of bounded fields, as magical circuits run throughout the body containing magical energy. They can negate effects of bounded fields if the current/circuit contains more magical energy than the other. Next is through mystery people who use magecraft with greater overpower people using magecraft of lower mystery and example is arcueid who has so much mystery that not even modern magecraft can do harm to her or servants being spirits possessing divine mystery that normal magecraft of the modern Era is incapable of touching them and they're invulnerable to it in fact.

Or seen here a magus using greater mystery then another ends up punching through even resistance of air.

As its very consistent for greater mystery to overpower lower mystery which is why authority is superior to magecraft due to its mystery being that of a deeper level from the age of gods.

Mystery resistance is cross-dimensional, that is to say it takes precedence over ontological status of things, it works regardless of whether or not you're a higher dimensional being for example. It

allows for even a resistance that infers with higher infinities in this instance the higher infinity being the higher dimension from a lower one even if something is of a lower order of Dimension with a necessary amount of mystery it can even damage a higher dimensional object allowing for a complex number of layers some for other people even reachiny layers/represented with it piercing even gaps in dimensions.

Alignment determines orientation of magic the magus is skilled in; Attribute are factors determining the effect of one's magic (like Shirou's reinforcement attribute).

Examples of alignments and attributes and the correlation to both.

There are types of sources of magecraft.

##### **Greater Source**

the air while similar to the lesser source the amount is distinct from the lesser source as the greater source has many more digits than that of the lesser source however the limitations come from a magus because magical circuits can only use a limited amount of magical power so you can't really use this source without limits.

##### **Lesser Source**

This one doesn't come from the life force of the planet but from the life force of the magus because it exists in the inner World you can absorb similar to the greater source many magi prefer the lesser source because it's easy to handle since it comes from the Magis life force using it too much has negative effects on the Magis body, so they prefer to generate small magical power.

Information on both

The greater the magi the greater the amount that can be accumulated

#### **Authority**

You can't resist no deal with a god's authority that's superior to your gods with a superior authority to another gods gains resistance to all authority based hax of another God,and God's with greater authority resist resistance of another God's resistance who has lower authority.

An example is ereshkigal who has the power to negate authority of other gods but couldn't negate tiamats due to the God in question having greater authority in comparison to hers additional she was able to completely overpower her authority by using authority of her own.

Granting anyone within the nasuverse Resistance Negation.

And resistance to every hax within the nasuverse a rough estimation of such hax is in this shiki ryougi profile I posted and.

#### **Magical circuits, Higher Dimensional Hax and The Soul**

Magical circuits are a fundamental thing which form basis for magecraft, magic circuits are the basis for magical power and the usage of od/magical energy , the latter which powers magecraft itself allows for magi to create miracles

Magical circuits exist within the soul, the soul exist in higher dimensions and act as the "source" and very concept of that person, but when a soul disperses, it is sent to the root If not it remains in those higher dimensions.

This allows for magi to interact with higher dimensions, magi such as Ritsuka Fujimaru perceiving higher dimensional beings like Goetia shouldn't come out as a neither should it be treated as a contradiction to nasuverse higher dimensions like I've seen people do so.

The souls true essence exists in a plane beyond the material world, which the material world is regarded as corrupted and illusionary. We'll come back to that later. The mind exists in the soul and the mind exist beyond the material world as such the soul in it's true essence exists in this "immaterial, objective reality". Which the one we know of only is the great akasha.

It is thoroughly explained in the Swirl of the root page and in the cosmology blog. The material world is composed of anything material, it even includes dimensions. As a result of the material world being Bi-Conditional with things that can continuously change as a result of the existence of the temporal dimension.

While the akasha

The record of all thing's existence, it is also regarded as an unchangeable omniscient recorder of everything in existence. The 3rd (even tho technically she's the first personality) who refers to herself as the great akasha and states because she is not only connected to it, but she is it. She knows all that has happened and will happen (the future deterministically so). This is obviously as a result of the akasha containing these records.

It is unclear as whether or not the soul that is spoken off as containing magical circuits is referring to the former or latter or if they are just the same. If they are the same "higher-dimensional" is likened to "higher plane of existence" as a result of the plane itself being immaterial.

It is eerily similar to how the throne of heroes is taken to be aspatial, atemporal (multiple times), said to be beyond space-time and was once still referred to as a "higher-dimensional spaces". It is clear that it is not likened to the term "Higher-Dimensional Space" in a geometrical sense because it would be contradictory to assume such an interpretation.

In the case files it was said the soul was divided into two parts, the "ethereal soul", which supported the mind and consciousness and the "corporeal", which supported the body and its functions. It is unclear whether or not this is actually how it works in the nasuverse but it can be used in conjunction with the statements beforehand as supporting evidence for them. However, it is still unclear as ever.

#### Now what is meant by the material world?

**In philosophy, the material world refers to nature, or the parts of existence that are made up of matter. This is in contrast to the ideal world, which refers to objects that exist in the mind.**

The material world is the world that is composed of anything material in the nasuverse, anything nomological to say the least. Anything that can be explained by solely materialistic explanations. It is said the material world is not immutable and will crumble one day, it is constantly changing dissimilar to the great akasha that remains as an immutable and unchangeable record of creation which the akasha is an aspect of the true GodHead the Swirl of the root.

It has often been depicted as being less real than the Godhead or even as a dream/illusionary, as the 3rd personality (technically again the first personality) that which is connected to the root so deeply to the point where it's almost impossible to say she's not the root itself given physical form. She speaks about how if she were to exercise her power it would be meaningless, it is no different from dreaming; The way in which she observes it. It is said that the mind is corrupted by the fallen material world.

Reaching the root is the equivalent of leaving this false material world, as the Swirl of the root is immaterial and fundamentally unchangeable. It is the ultimate truth, it is where origins (well in the great akasha are cycled there).

#### **What is meant by origin?**

###### **Origin**

*The direction of everything that arose from fundamental cause. The α that enabled the existence of α, the absolute order that existed at the very core.*

*For instance, something with the Origin of “taboo, ” regardless of being born as a human, animal, or plant, would always exist to go against the morals established by the collective.*

*It was the idea that, independent of the process of reincarnation, humans acquired bodies and wisdom from the directional force at the point of origin, and acquired personalities that were only slightly different from their prior lives.*

*Individuals who awakened their Origins would be consumed. This was due to “personality ” being something merely on the magnitude of one hundred years; it would be overwritten by the directional force born from the origin. However, humans (human bodies) who were overwritten by their Origins would acquire great powers.*

*Araya Souren learned the technique to awaken Origins during his research into the root of humanity.*

*Of course, he only awakened the Origin of one person.*

The origins themselves being platonic, following all attributes of the forms from the theory of forms. That is to say aspects of reality say humans if they awaken it, they are driven by this force by metaphysical necessity. It is an immutable concept that is likened to a platonic ideal, it lives outside of reality and dictates what it should directly beyond the material world in the great akasha, an unchangeable and real reality as opposed to the illusionary or dream-like material world.

It is symbolic of the theosophical notion of neoplatonism, which takes the demiurge (Which they have also referred to the great akasha as the demiurge; Satsuki Kurogiri can access the akasha Unconsciously, this was likened to communicating to all man, a channel through which that demiurgic force a reference to the akasha, the ultimate origin passes through) to shape the illusionary material world with archetype that are immutable.

#### **What of true magic? What is magic?**

“Magic” is that which makes the impossible into the possible, for a given era.
In the past, when civilization was young, most magi were also magicians.
However, in the present era where almost anything has become possible (so long as you disregard the capital and time required to realize it, and focus only on whether or not a thing is “possible” in the purest sense), the number of things that can be called “magic” has been reduced to a mere five.
Consequently, there are only five existing magicians.
Because the ultimate goal of magi is to arrive at magic, there is a possibility that this number may increase, but probably it will just keep dropping even more from here on out.

#### Detail on the five known types of true magic

**First Magic**

One of the oldest True Magics but the details about it are unknown. What it involves appears to be common knowledge to some magi of privileged rank. The user of the First has already passed away, but it is said that the person that would be his heir is still alive, barely.

**Second Magic**

The True Magic that observes the infinite parallel worlds and travels between alternative worlds. Its user is Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg. With this magic, this man was able to create a jewel sword to absorb mana from the other worlds and a box that could store an immense amount of objects.

**Third Magic**

Materialization of the soul, in other words, the magic that realizes true immortality. When accomplished, the practitioner will acquire an unlimited source of magical energy due to the soul becoming analogous to a perpetual motion machine. This is the Magic of the Einzbern lineage, and the Holy Grail War was established to acquire this Magic.

**Fourth Magic**

Like the First True Magic, the details about it are unknown. What it involves hasn't been heard of either. But, the currently existing wizards, when pointing out to the Fourth True Magic, they'll all say, "it is there for sure", and will agree that it exists. Also, they don't know the name of the user either.

**Fifth Magic**

The True Magic that the Traveling Magician Aozaki Aoko inherited from her grandfather. Its nickname is "Magic Blue." The user Aozaki Aoko is average as a magus but displays transcendence with destruction. Because of this trait, there is a rumor that "Magic Blue" is also a True Magic involving destruction.

#### **More Details**

True magic/magic and sometimes rarely referred as pure magic is a byproduct of True Gnosis (a reference to how it stem from knowledge on the Swirl of the root), true magic directly derives from the root.*.*

Although it's specified one doesn't touch the root, it is as touko those who touch never return to the material world. The proper reason for it is unknown, some theorize your soul is absorbed back into the Swirl of the root (not that great akasha that records events but the transcendent force that is responsible for the beginning and end of everything). That is why mages only stand close to it to only stabilize their magecraft.

True magic is gained by standing next to the root after you find a path to it. As you stand next to it you stabilize your magecraft. True magic or sorcery is regarded was mystery beyond magecraft, it can create miracles and make the impossible possible.

It is symbolic, in a sense that it comes from the root and can make the impossible possible, while the unfathomable status of the root makes even the impossible possible.

## Physiologies

### God/divine spirit

Acausality (Type 1 and 4, God's exist in the reverse side of the world in higher dimensions with laws incompatible with that of regular laws including that of physics; which humans are bound by), Immortality (Type 8, God's can't die until those who know them are gone)

Regeneration (High-Godly, God's can regenerate from having their soul and body destroyed any time they want, the soul contains fundamental information for one's existence and its equivalent to the very "source" of one's existence in the nasuverse)

Regeneration Negation (High-Godly), Immortality Negation (Type 8, God's can permanently kill each other)

Higher Dimensional Existence (God's exists in higher dimensions in comparison to the humanities texture, its stated that humans are entire dimensions below gods and no matter how many times you ascend a servant they can never reach the same scale as that of a god)

Abstract Existence (Type 1, Divine spirits have no physical bodies and are manifestations of concepts, also a divine spirits existence is largely dependent on humans' belief, for example Kama/Mara the abstract embodiment of love and lust, planned to wipe out the conventional abstract ideation of love to grant every human unlimited love in the universe herself)

Reality Warping, Probability Manipulation, Time Manipulation, Law Manipulation, Fate Manipulation, Axiom Manipulation (Via Authority, Authority can influence the laws of nature), Resistance Negation, Power Nullification (Greater Authority can resist and overpower the resistance of power authority even going as far as to nullify weaker authority; An example is Ereshkigal who has the power to negate authority of other gods but couldn't negate Tiamat's due to the God in question having greater authority to her additional she was able to completely overpower her authority by using authority of her own)

#### True Ancestors Physiology

Matter manipulation,Reality Warping,Subjective Reality, Probability Manipulation, Organic Manipulation and Earth Manipulation

True ancestors possess the ability to manifest marble Phantasm which is the ability to rewrite the world, Rearrange the planets constituent atoms and manifest their own universe they imagine within they use can manifest whatever they can imagine through probability alteration.

Reality Warping (True Ancestors can rewrite reality to their liking; just as Arcueid. she was passively warping reality in each step she took, Ciel then elaborates as to how True Ancestors can change the reality in a way that which suits them, to their liking; with event storage she can take everything within a set texture all the way down to bacteria), Incorporeal (True ancestors exist as spirits), Reactive Power Level (When she restricts herself she can consistently reactively existentially put herself one rank above all of her opponents and anybody she fights), Plant Manipulation (She can manipulate plants like ivy's and use them to attack or restrain her opponents), Organic Manipulation, Earth Manipulation, Fire Manipulation, Weather Manipulation, Lightning Manipulation, Biological Manipulation, Causality Manipulation, Space-Time Manipulation, Metaphysics Manipulation (Type 2) and Physics Manipulation (The entire earth is regarded as territory of a true ancestor And they can manipulate everything and create everything that derives from nature; she has authority over all of creation and can rewrite physical phenomenon), Axiom Manipulation (Has abilities of A-Reis, the latter can enforce their own truths within reality and reshape it using those truths), BFR and Dimensional Storage (those taken my Arcueid's event storage never return to the material world and only exist as within the shadows of Arcueid herself), Regeneration (Low-Godly, True Ancestors like Arcueid can come back from Tohno Shiki killing her with the mystic eyes by remaking her body), Cosmic Awareness (She holds a complete view of the world, she can observe everything that happens in it and around her), Dimensional Manipulation, Ontological Property Manipulation (Type 1 and 2, True ancestors like Arcueid can turn anything in the textures or perhaps even the texture itself into lower dimensional equivalents, she was flattening everything into 2 dimensional making it not experience time and depriving it of mass an ability called 2 dimensionalization. It's the equivalent of anything being turned into nothing but a sheet of paper and being stored in her event storage. Furthermore, she can deprive anything on earth of its essence using event storage, she deprived the entire surface texture of its essence and peeled it off sending it somewhere else to replace it with a world she wants.), Status Effect Inducement and Damage Boost (Powerful vampires like true ancestors can use her mystic eyes to place several movement restrictions on her opponents and simultaneously boost her attack power)

Memory Manipulation (Mystic Eyes of powerful Vampires like dead apostles (only exclusive to the powerful ones) and true ancestors can erase your memories or brain wash you, With only eye contact), Body Control and Matter Manipulation (High class vampires can scatter the particles that make up their bodies to turn into mist or something similar), Duplication (for some they can make clones and imbue their consciousness and magical energy to pilot them around)

Servant/Heroic Spirit Physiology

Acausality (Type 1 and 2)

Heroic spirits are unbound from the concept of time, it's their nature of existence to be unbound from time and separated from the time axis and are rendered immune from changes in the past and future and only exist and are summoned in the present.

Invulnerability

Servants are divine mysteries that are invulnerable to modern weapons like guns and knives and because their spirits only a servant can hurt another servant with a gun or weapons (except for like people who possess mystery that's enough to harm a servant, such as a servant against a servant)

Immortality (Type 9)

Servants are mere copies of of heroic spirits, the true form of them exist inside the throne of heroes.

Soul Manipulation, Information Manipulation (Type 1), Conceptual Manipulation and Power Absorption

Servants can eat souls to rejuvenate their magical energy, which makes them tougher or whatnot.

Incorporeality

Servants normally exist as spirits; they can transition between material bodies and spirit form. The latter turns them into spirits.

#### **Dead Apostle Physiology**

Statistics Amplification, Immortality (Type 1 and 3) and Power Absorption

(The more victims dead apostles have (in blood sucking) the more powerful they get; they also prolong their life's by drinking blood.)

Memory Manipulation

Mystic Eyes of powerful Vampires like dead apostles (only exclusive to the powerful ones) and true ancestors (all of them) can erase your memories and brain wash you, With only eye contact.

Body Control and Matter Manipulation

(They can scatter the particles that make up their bodies to turn into mist or something similar)

Duplication

(for some they can make clones and imbue their consciousness and magical energy to pilot them around)

Possession

Dead apostles can possess familiars to compensate for their body reaching their limits.

## Miscellaneous

### **Counter Force**

The Counter force is a safety mechanic created from the collective unconsciousness

Alaya responds to unconscious desire of humanity it is responsible for preserving humans existence.

Gaia is the collective unconsciousness of the planets will survive it is responsible for the protection of planet earth and responds to anything that's regarded as a threat to the planet.

Collective unconsciousness which manifests in a form of the counter-force and unlike Gaia which preserves the planet and protects the planet and is the will of the planet to survive

Alaya is where all of archetypes of humanity's collective history and ideas reside protects the humanity and preserves it and is humanities collective unconscious will to survive, Alaya aka the ⁠collective-unconsciousness which has become a metaphysical rule of the world and every extension of humanity, it is viewed as humanities greatest ally and a magus greatest enemy. It takes mankind's collective will and turns into a consensual paradigm shift which can restore or warp reality into stable state as per mankind's will.

Because magus reenact mystery and supernatural phenomenon which shouldn't exist logically, they are in consistent danger of being a target of elimination by Alaya, it has no apparent emotions or feelings and doesn't really take into consideration a human's happiness it just simply follows humanities Consensus and takes action. By either enacting coincidence which saves humanity or sending guardians to eliminate people who are a threat to humanity or eliminate paradoxes of the world including a mage along with his experiments with illogical art.

Because it's unconscious its formless and doesn't draw any apparent attention.

It takes mankind's collective will and turns into a consensual paradigm shift which can restore or warp reality into stable state as per mankind's will.

Because magus renanct mystery and super natural phenomenons which shouldn't exist logically they are in consistent danger of being a target of elimination by Alaya.

It has no apparent emotions or feelings and doesn't really take into consideration a humans happiness it just simply follows humanities Consensus and takes action.

By either enacting coincidences which saves humanity or sending guardians to eliminate people who are a threat to humanity or eliminate paradoxes of the world including a mage along with his experiments with illogical art.

If a person as deemed a threat to humanity Alaya will respond to that threat formed from collective unconsciousness of humans desires to exist and would effectively execute that person

The counter force would send heroes known as counter guardians as a way to complete their roles as protector of humanity and the planet itself

The counter force can either guide fate by random occurrences to stop that threat from destroying either the planet or humanity

Or

Can send heroes like counter guardians as the counter force possess immense power and grants those heroes just enough power to take down the threat without fail and doesn't grant that guardian too much power as they might become the same threat A that they were supposed to execute so counter force only gives power in response to the threat itself

Heroes like okitan alter are part of the counter guardians and are sent to execute threads to either humanity or planet

People like enkidu  can use the power of the counter force by manifesting it in their noble Phantasms,as enkidus noble Phantasm enuma elish gets stronger in response to the amount of thread the attack his facing holds on the planet itselt that's how he was able to clash equally with gilgamesh 's enuma elish as his ea was threatening to destroy the planet

So essentially it's impossible to destroy planet earth because of the multiple "safety mechanisms" /counter force

Unless you cut the planet from history and time or gain enough authority to override the counter force authority which would be the less likely case as the counter force possess immense authority.

Additionally, the counter force holds nigh-limitless energy and authority, it allows for beings like Arcueid to sustain their status as perfect beings and grands true ancestors limitless power; furthermore, it is the only known force that can summon true heroic spirits and not just servants. Arcueid utilizing the power of counter force was even capable of accessing the akashic records (Refer to the Arcueid page) with marble phantasm and despite being the will of the planet itself. The immense power of the counter is such that it can remake the entire planet itself, as seen with arcueid who was utilizing the power of the counter force and wielded enough energy to re-create the planet itself. The luminous body of Arcueid gets its power directly from the counter force itself.

It is even said that the power Arcueid uses in luminary is too much for a vessel of the true ancestor in her base form (not archetype earth), despite being blessed with planet status (a rank beyond God's, servants and true heroic spirits) granting true ancestors full authority over earth and its extension such as human history and the throne of heroes alike. The true ancestors can't handle the full planetary scale power and full overflow of it's near limitless energy for their own ends; it's too much for their vessel and as such they will self-destruct if they abuse it. It even nullifies her perfection and she becomes a being capable of death if she keeps using for her own needs extensively.

1. ↑ [1] Fate/complete material III
2. ↑ [2] Kara No Kyoukai -Light Novel Volume 2
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 [3] Kara No Kyoukai - Light Novel Volume 3
4. ↑ [4] The Lord El-Melloi Case Files Volume 1
5. ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Ooku: Tokugawa's World-Changing Labyrinth - Act 10: Ooku
6. ↑ [5] Tsukihime Remake [ENG] Ciel Route - Day 14 TRUE END
7. ↑ [6] Tsukihime Remake [ENG] Ciel Route - Day 14 TRUE END