Magicians

**Magicians** (魔法使い *Mahōtsukai*) are humans who can turn magoi into other forms without the help of any Magic Tools. This is called using magic. They can cause natural phenomena by giving orders to the rukh. According to the genius magician Yamraiha, magicians are closest to the Great Flow.

To magicians of all time periods and walks of life, researching magic and learning more about it and the world has been a great passion.

## Abilities

Because magicians are better at controlling magoi than fighting physically, they usually have weaker bodies than normal humans. To make up for this, all magicians have a natural ability to use a protective spell called Borg that protects them from physical attacks, as well as some mental magic attacks. However, because casting magic places a physical burden on the user, their body's rukh act to regulate magoi output. For this reason, magicians who have trained their bodies physically have access to more magoi and can, therefore, cast more powerful spells.

In Alma Torran, magicians learned to stop aging by preventing their cells from dying, making them near immortals. The stongest magicians could live for centuries. Alma Torran magicians were stronger, as they could use the rukh created by Ill Ilah from their surroundings. When Solomon's will took over Ill Ilah's, he made it so that only magis had this unlimited access to rukh. Ordinary magicians can only use the rukh within their own bodies.

## Discrimination

### In Musta'sim

About 70 years earlier, in the Kingdom of Musta'sim, some magicians were forced to work for the royal family to do tasks such as irrigating dry fields. Although the ordinary people were grateful to the magicians, the magicians were treated poorly by soldiers and had a poor social status. In the time period when the use of magic was more inefficient, some died after being forced to work until they ran out of magoi.

Eventually, the magicians were able to gain the right to use magic freely to better the lives of the citizens. This gained them popularity and a better position in society as aristrocrats, which angered goi (non-magician) aristrocratic bureaucrats. Three years after gaining the title of aristrocracy, a disease spread in Musta'sim, and the magicians were blamed for it. The masses started fearing and hating magicians, and the king imprisoned and tortured them for false charges, some of which resulted in the magician's death. Some magicians left their official positions and managed to obtain a small school building for magic research.

30 years after that, the Parthevian—Musta'sim War broke out. Many magicians were forcibly recruited to the war against the powerful, expanding Parthevian Empire. Due to the magicians' borg ability, they became shields for the goi soldiers. The magicians hadn't invented spells for war usage but more to help with eveyday life, and once again many died by running out of magoi. After the war was won, the nobles considered the magicians nothing more than a useful species and good scapegoats.

After years of oppression, a magician called Matal Mogamett had grown to see the goi as nothing more than power-hungry beasts who could build a civilized and progressing world. Therefore, he set out to turn Musta'sim into the country of magicians instead. The following years, magicians kept developing their magic in the academy. They started spoiling the people and nobles, turning them lazy as they didn't have to work for their food, now grown to them easily with magic. The popularity and influence of the magicians kept increasing. After that, the magicians helped one faction of nobles who desired to keep their political power, resulting in strife and power struggle that ended up in the dethroning of the King of Musta'sim. Eventually, the people supported for Mogamett – the chancellor of the magician's academy – to take the duties of a king, officially ending the Kingdom of Musta'sim and turning it into Magnostadt.

In Magnostadt, 200,000 goi were kept underground to produce magoi. Mogamett came to see the magicians as a superior species to the goi, turning the power position and oppression on its head compared to the days of Musta'sim.

### Elsewhere

Mogamett has pointed out that the rulers of the world have always been gois, no matter what great empire in history.

In Heliohapt, the medical magicians of the Carmen clan were used by the royal family for absurd power struggles, such as poisoning political rivals. Those who didn't agree to this were exiled from the court, such as Sphintus Carmen's grandfather.

In the east, the understanding of magic was immature. The parents of a magician child often thought that that child was gross. However, within the imperial family of the Kou Empire, magic and its potentials are more respected.

## Categorizing magicians

### According to rukh type

Magnostadt Academy categorizes magic and magicians into eight different categories using the Eight Magic Color Selection Crystal. The Crystal can tell what type of magic is easy to learn for an individual based on the type of rukh they attract. In addition to their own type, it is easier to learn the magic type opposite to your main type on the eight magic types circle.

* **Red magicians**: Their speciality is Heat Magic.
* **Blue magicians**: Their speciality is Water Magic.
* **Orange magicians**: Their speciality is Light Magic.
* **Yellow magicians**: Their speciality is Thunder Magic.
* **White magicians**: Their speciality is Wind Magic.
* **Green magicians**: Their speciality is Sound Magic.
* **Black magicians**: Their speciality is Strength Magic.
* **Purple magicians**: Their speciality is Life Magic.

### According to magoi usage

According to Yamraiha, magicians can be divided based on how much magoi they can take from the rukh.

* **Magis** (マギ *Magi*): Magis are top-tier magicians, "beloved by the rukh". They are the only ones who can use magoi from their surroundings in addition the magoi in their bodies, making them more powerful than other magicians. When the magi system disappeared, the magi became ordinary magicians ("sorcerers").
	+ Aladdin (red magician)
	+ Judar (blue magician)
	+ Yunan
	+ Scheherazade (deceased)
	+ Titus Alexius
	+ Arba
	+ Uraltugo Noi Nueph (deceased)
	+ Sheba (deceased)
* **Sorcerers** (魔導士 *Madōshi*): Ordinary magicians with a lot of magoi in their bodies, capable of many kinds of magic.
	+ Aran
	+ Ceres
	+ Choppo (red magician)
	+ Clemens
	+ Connie
	+ David Jehoahaz Abraham
	+ Doron (purple magician)
	+ Falan
	+ Huey
	+ Ian
	+ Irene Smirnoff
	+ Ithnan
	+ Jinjin
	+ Junjun
	+ Ling Li
	+ Markkio
	+ Matal Mogamett
	+ Mohja
	+ Muharaja (yellow magician)
	+ Myers (yellow magician)
	+ Nashime
	+ Nefti
	+ Nero (blue magician)
	+ Pinocchio
	+ Reirei
	+ Sai Lin (white magician)
	+ Sahel (white magician)
	+ Sana
	+ Setta
	+ Solomon Jehoahaz Abraham
	+ Sphintus Carmen (purple magician)
	+ Tess
	+ Wahid
	+ Yamraiha (blue magician)
* **Witch Doctors, Fortune tellers, etc.** (まじない師, 占い師 *Majinaishi, Uranaishi*): Witch Doctors, Fortune tellers etc. are magicians with very little magoi. They cannot do any major spells.
	+ Baba

## References

1. ↑ Night 159, Page 14.
2. ↑ Night 160, Page 7.
3. ↑ Vol 14 Night 138, Page 175.
4. ↑ Night 159, Pages 8–14.
5. ↑ Night 160, Page 1.
6. ↑ Night 160, Pages 8–9.
7. ↑ Night 160, Pages 9–11.
8. ↑ Night 160, Pages 12–13.
9. ↑ Night 160, Pages 15–18.
10. ↑ Night 161, Pages 3–6.
11. ↑ Night 161, Page 12.
12. ↑ Night 159, Pages 5–7.
13. ↑ Night 161, 14–15.
14. ↑ Night 161, Page 15.
15. ↑ Night 78.