Magic

**Magic** is the ability to manipulate Immaterial Essence, and thus the ability to change physical reality using your own internal power. Magic is present in every reality where liver characters are present, but is not present in our world.

Any supernatural occurrence or character power is due to magic. A humanoid being who can use magic is referred to as a mage.

## Mechanism

The source of all magic and magical abilities are the Celestials, who are the gods within the Nijisanji multiverse. All magical beings derive their power in one way or another back to a celestial. Magic works by sentient beings with enough or surplus immaterial essence (from the Celestial, called their Internal Power) using this surplus to interface with other immaterial essence around it and control it like a computer controls the flow of information.

The essence needs to be unassociated (surplus) so it can be associated in any way possible given your amount. In some cases manipulating the immaterial essence also allows the physical matter tied to the immaterial essence to also be controlled, so magic can be used to control both spiritual (immaterial essence of other people and objects) and physical matters.

## Types of Magic

There are three primary kinds of magic: material manipulation, spiritual manipulation, and temporal manipulation.

### Material Manipulation

Material manipulation is a kind of magic where one alters the Immaterial Essence within an object with the intent of also changing the physical structure of the object tied to that Immaterial Essence in a desired way.

There are many examples of this including augmenting physical characteristics. This is including super-durability, the ability to manipulate the atoms of your body to stop them from splitting from each other during an attack. It also includes super strength, the ability to manipulate the atoms in your muscles to augment the power of your muscles.

Another example is natural manipulation, such as water manipulation, earth manipulation, and more general elemental control. The most powerful of material manipulation are reality warping, where materials can be freely transmuted under the user's sheer power, and Creation, where disparate matter is forced together to create an entirely new object.

### Spiritual Manipulation

Spiritual manipulation is the ability to alter a person's Immaterial Essence in an effort to alter their Soul.

Many spells of this kind include manipulation spells, which try to mind-trick people into doing something you want them to do. It also includes dream manipulation as well as imagination manipulation, which involves controlling what other people see, perceive, or think.

The most basic form of Spiritual Manipulation is telepathy, the ability to mold your thoughts into another's brain, and the ability to detect the motion of Immaterial Essence in another's brain in a way you can reinterpret as language, allowing you to read minds.

### Temporal Manipulation

Temporal manipulation involves altering the Flow of Reality itself using magic and is usually the most powerful kind of magic. The most basic forms usually consist of the ability to generate Timeflow Bubbles.

In some cases, some powerful magic users can time travel, in the process creating new realities, by altering the oscillation of their Immaterial Essence to go backwards rather than forwards. Isekai, or travel between realities, is incredibly difficult and usually requires a reference point in another reality, which is why the heart of reality itself, the Heart's Melody, is usually required in some way to perform this kind of magic.