#twstmagic

Malleus seems to have been using magic from an extremely young age: Malleus says he once froze the entire castle (and all the people in it) back when he had “finally started walking on two legs.”

It is confirmed by Malleus’ grandmother Maleficia that “a dragon’s horns are organs that store and amplify magic. They also function like antennas that gather magical energy from nature. As long as those horns are there, Malleus will keep replenishing his magical reserves and never run dry.”

Idia’s father reiterates, “a dragon’s horns can let them control the weather and elements. It’s not necessarily the same for all dragons, but it holds true for everyone in the Draconia family, we’re told.”

Sebek observes, “That explains why the weather grows rough when Malleus experiences inner turmoil.”

Malleus has hinted that he does not have to worry about his magic reserves ever running dry until Idia traps him in a gacha game in Book 7, when he experiences harm from physical attacks and his magic reserves dwindling for the first time in his life.

Also during Book 7 we learn that the extent of Malleus’ abilities were influenced by a blessing and/or curse, the senate of Briarland/Briar valley having used magic on an infant Malleus after taking him away from Lilia:

Senator A: We shall each bestow a blessing upon you. Mine shall be the power to triumph over all. Like lightning that blasts through everything in its path. None shall ever be able to touch or harm you. Senator B: Like the icy winds that howl through Mount Dread. Mine shall be a voice which commands darkness. Your fearsome voice shall make all who hear it tremble and submit to you. Senator C: Mine shall be time that never expires. In this ever-shifting world, your light shall be a beacon of hope to us all.

We see the effects of these abilities in flashbacks of a child-Malleus involuntary hurting a chambermaid who had been trying to comb his hair and unintentionally making Lilia’s ears bleed with his laughter.

Lilia says that “Sebek’s magic manifested rather late,” but we are not told his exact age at the time.

We see in a flashback that Sebek couldn’t “consciously” use magic until a year and a half after Silver learned how to do so.

And Sebek’s use of the word “consciously” is interesting 👀 Are fae capable of using magic from birth, but Sebek’s magic was smothered by his human half, resulting in magic produced by his fae-half that he could not control until his human-half caught up?

It is most intersting to think about 📝

(And to have such a powerful birthright that was wielded by everyone he knew denied to him by his father’s genes would explain even more about his apparent impatience with his father, but this is all speculation and not mentioned anywhere in the game!)

In a vignette we learn that Sebek has yet to learn cleaning magic. His attempt to do so anyway makes a stain bigger, instead.

Sebek says that color changing magic is learned by human mages learn immediately upon entering magic schools, insinuating that he is capable of using it himself as well (he does not appreciate Ace’s joking insinuation that he can’t).

When Sebek fails to imagine himself in his dorm uniform in the dreamscape of Book 7 Ortho explains that the first-year students have only recently learned how to use magic to change outfits (Silver says he, too, has yet to master what he calls "illusion magic.")

Sebek uses unspecified attack magic during Book 6 in an attempt to defend the campus against CHARON.

He uses fire magic during his fight with Lilia in Book 7, and in a chat we learn that Sebek is capable of conjuring a fire pillar. Sebek credits Lilia’s guidance for this ability.

It is visually insinuated in Sebek’s dorm uniform vignette that he uses lightning magic during a practical magic class, and he threatens to strike campus visitors with lightning outright during Halloween.

Much like Epel, Idia and Jade, Sebek imbues a plushie with magic during the Harveston event.

Sebek says that he does not have enough control over his magic yet to perform tasks like moving chairs. He says, “I must learn how to wield my magic more precisely as well. I constantly practice, and yet…”

Lilia tries and fails to use fire magic in Book 7, but by the end of the story his magic has returned. Idia explains:

Lilia and Malleus both underwent examinations at Styx HQ after the incident. And they found that Lilia had partially regained his magic. The mechanism inside a mage’s body that generates magical power-the magic circuits —never recover once they break down…at least, that’s how it’s supposed to work. But between Malleus’s broken horn and the magestone Silver had, it’s possible that the tremendous reserves of magical power they held flowed into Lilia, and that did something to his magic circuits…or so I’m told. And not to belabor the point, but after taking an attack from Malleus head-on, Lilia’s vitals completely shut down for a short while. Yet now he’s at full physical and magical health. Fit as a fiddle, not a bruise in sight.

Riddle observes, “Patients having recoveries due to factors that can’t be explained solely with medical science. Medical texts occasionally touch on such things,” and Idia says, “…a miraculous bug brought about by the human error of true love.”

Idia says both that Lilia has “partially” regained his magic and that Lilia is at “full magical health,” and we receive more information in Book 7.5:

After undergoing various examinations at STYX, Idia reveals that, despite how “magical wavelengths” are like fingerprints and never identical, even between biological family members, after Book 7 Malleus and Lilia’s wavelengths are so similar that they could be from the same person: Lilia’s magical output having become very close to being Malleus’ own magic.

Idia explains:

Magical energy doesn’t have subdivisions or traits like blood types. That’s why it’s possible to inject magical energy into other people or magical artifacts through brute force. Traits emerge after the energy passes through the wielder’s magic circuits and subsequently gets outputted as magic. That’s not what’s happening with Lilia, though.

Idia says that STYX suspects that, when Lilia was brought back to life via a combination of Malleus’ broken horn and Silver’s ring, there was a reaction that altered Lilia’s magic circuits, with the circuits from Malleus’ horn overwriting Lilia’s own.

Idia puts Malleus and Lilia in a simulation together and asks Malleus to use ice magic at full power but it does not go well, with Malleus saying, “It’s like back when I first took on bipedal form. I can’t regulate my power properly…”

When Lilia goes to his aid, however, Malleus observes, “When you touch me, I can feel my discomfort evaporating,” with STYX confirming that Lilia touching Malleus has successfully brought Malleus’ magical output and fluctuation back under his control, stabilizing him.

Idia has Malleus perform the more complicated feat of magic of removing snow without use of fire or heat or damaging any buildings or plants and, while in physical contact with Lilia, Malleus is able to do so while remaining “extremely stable.”

Holding Lilia’s hand Malleus observes, “I feel no discomfort or pain when using magic. It’s like how it was before my horn broke.”

Lilia summarizes the situation with, “l’ve become your external magical energy regulator.”

More on Lilia's magic, here:

Rook does not say exactly when it was that his magic manifested, but from a story he tells during Spectral Soiree we know he was still magicless by age 6.

In Book 6 he uses magic to create barriers, to dress the prefect in Pomefiore’s dorm uniform and to fight CHARON.

He also uses back to open phantom cages in Tartarus. Both Vil and Rook himself say that he never misses his target.

While simulation-Rook uses fire magic during Book 6 we might not have ever seen Rook himself use fire magic in the game (as of this post).

Much like the rest of the Night Raven College group Rook uses magic to create fireworks during Glorious Masquerade, and in Book 6 he creates an entire island of ice.

Vil says he can conceal himself with magic, which may be fairly high level: he tells Jade about a time before he was capable of doing so when he instead used color-change magic to escape paparazzi.

We see Vil use ice magic in Book 6, as well as unspecified attack magic that he might also use against the Vargas monster.

Ruggie comments on Vil giving the Fairy Gala group “a magical kick in the pants.”

Much like the other kidnapped students Vil uses magic to change into his dorm uniform and summon his magical pen in Book 6. 

He also uses magic to levitate the thunder spear and to eject Magicam Monsters from campus during Halloween, possibly with levitation.

Vil also uses magic to push Ortho to safety during Playfulland, infuses a mandrake with magic during a poison refining class and uses magic to block a snowball during New Years.

Vil uses a flash spell both as a stall tactic and as a signal during Vargas Camp.

Jack says that “Leona’s magic is way more powerful” than his, Deuce’s and Ace’s.

Leona says he “aced (his) protective magic classes in (his) sleep,” possibly insinuating that defensive magic is a particular strength of his.

This may tie in to Book 6, where we see Leona utilize a magic barrier to protect Ruggie from falling glass when CHARON invade the school, and setting up a barricade during Playfulland.

Much like Vil, Rook, Epel, Azul, Riddle and Jamil he uses an unspecified form of attack magic to blast cages open during Book 6.

Leona also levitates Ace to safety during the Playfulland event (tossing him into Cater’s arms), and uses clothes-changing magic at least twice: once during a vignette and again during Book 6.

Leona mentions a magic spell that re-attaches detached buttons to clothing, and while it is possible he did not actually cast any such magic in the vignette where it is mentioned, that might also be something that he is capable of.

Azul says that he has been using basic magic since he was eight years old.

He rigs his contracts to electrocute anyone who touches them in Book 3, which may have been a form of lightning magic.

Floyd says that Azul once used color-change magic to fix a hat that Floyd had hydro-dipped.

We see him use unspecified forms of attack magic during Book 6, Glorious Masquerade and Vargas Camp.

He also uses ice magic multiple times during Book 6, making barricades against Titan Magma, and to attack Jade and Floyd in Book 7.

He uses fire magic to burn a photograph in his dream.

It is possible that Azul uses levitation magic during the Halloween event to eject Magicam Monsters, and he may also magically boil water with Ace during the Stitch event.

Along with the other kidnapped students he uses magic to change into his dorm uniform and to summon his magical pen in Book 6.

He also creates a barrier to protect Riddle from a phantom attack, and uses wind magic during Glorious Masquerade in order to land safely after Rollo drops them through the floor.

Riddle compliments Azul on his targeted strikes in Book 6, and Azul himself tells Malleus that he is fairly certain that he has more magical precision than anyone else.

We also see him clear an entire room of fire lotuses during Glorious Masquerade without harming the structure they are in at the time, earning him a compliment from Malleus.

Ortho says that, while he may have gotten a heart and thus an imagination (a requirement for a mage) he still cannot use magic, explaining, “My abilities are powered by technomantic energy.”

He says that technomantic energy can be described in layman’s terms as “a hybrid of magic and electrical power,” but when Grim comments on a “blue glowy magic beam” that Ortho can produce (his technomantic cannon) Ortho responds, “that wasn’t magic. It was condensed technomantic energy.”

It seems that Ortho cannot produce technomantic energy himself in the way that mages produce magic: he explains that his technomantic abilities come from “a huge rack of servers set up as an arithmetic circuit so that it can handle huge loads of technomantic processing in an instant,” prepared for him by Idia.