Feystone

Feystones (魔石, maseki) are gemstones that consist of crystalized mana.

In their natural state, feystones can be used to channel and store mana. Alternatively, they can be processed to create potions and magic tools. Special types of feystones can be used for transportation and communication.

When a being - be it plant or animal - that can wield mana dies, it's mana gathers in a single spot, crystalizes and turns into a gem-like object. Depending on which mana-source was turned into a feystone, their specific characteristics can differ.

Different stones can be used to drain, transfer and store mana, can be turned into magical objects via a spell like a Highbeast or Ordonanz or be used to create magic tools.

By dyeing the feystone with one's own mana, it can be morphed into the shape of an animal, that will move according to the user's will and fly through the air. The changes are according to the user's imagination. Nobles generally change it into a mount reminding of animals like pegasus', griffins or some other animal with wings. A few of the more eccentric individuals also use feybeasts like shumil or Bahelm with wings as their mount. Since the banner animal of Ehrenfest is the Lion, only members of the archduke's family are allowed to model their highbeast after the regal animals. Generally the Archduke's family created winged but otherwise regular lions, with the Aub using a three-headed one.

Despite what many nobles believe, the wings are not actually part of the mechanics that lift a highbeast into the air. Rozemyne was the first person known to create a wingless beast, in her case an automobile with the head and tail of a red panda, often mistaken for the feybeast species Grun. She calls her beast a pandabus and gave it the name Lessy. Apart from being wingless, which allows use in tighter spaces than traditional winged highbeasts, Rozemyne's highbeast was also revolutionary because it could be ridden on the inside, protecting the rider from bad weather and allowing other comforts and the ability to more easily transport other people and luggage. This practicality though does not come entirely free, since such a highbeast requries more mana than a more traditional one. The places where glass would allow the driver and passengers to see out of the vehicle are substituted by a translucent mana membrane.

When Rozemyne showed her pandabus at the Royal Academy, it's practicality and particularly the fact that women could keep wearing their regular clothes rather than having to change into riding gear made professors and students alike very interested in the concept. It was Professor Hirschur who was the first person to successfully change her highbest into a driveable one inspired by Rozemyne's Pandabus, though modelled after a shumil instead of a panda. Since she was already used to the more traditional way of controlling a highbeast, she replaced the steering wheel seen in Lessy with reigns and was able to successfully control her new drivable shumil highbeast with ease.

With several of the female students attempting to create drivable highbeasts of their own, mostly modelled after shumils like the one Hirschur made, there are signs for these kind of highbeasts to become a new trend among those with a suffciently high mana capacity to sustain them. They are however ill suited for knights, who need to use their weapons in airborne combat.

Feystones can be used to store mana and can be used when needed in the future. If you exceed the feystone's capacity, it turns into gold dust. The feystones come in different qualities, which means they can store different amounts of mana; the higher the quality, the more expensive a feystone is.

In the same sense, feystones, usually in the form of a magic tool, are used to drain any overflowing mana from noble children that can not yet contain or compress their mana. This was seen when the overflowing mana from Dirk was drained with a feystone.

Black feystones drain mana of any source they come into contact with. The draining will only stop if the target is completely empty, the contact is severed or the stone is fully saturated, at which point the stone is destroyed. Unlike with other feystones, it is not possible for a mana wielding being to cut off the mana-flow on their own, without severing physical contact with the stone or stopping whichever ranged application of mana they are performing, like the Crushing. Only by incorporating them into a magic tool can black feystone be made to only drain excess mana and thus completely save for use, even by children. Among other things they are used to create the magic tools that drain noble children's excess mana to prevent it from harming their young bodies.

Magic tools can be created either by embedding feystones in other constructs or altering an existing feystone to fulfill a specific task without changing it's outward appearance.

All magic tools require mana to be used. Most are made for nobles and thus work by having the user pour mana into it. There are also magic tools that can be used without pouring mana into it, which require the tool to have a mana-storage capacity built into them. Once they run out of mana, they will cease to funtion until they are recharged. These tools with the ability to store mana can even be used by commoners, though few of them ever get the privilege of handling them, with them usually being reserved for high-ranking officials like Guild Masters or members of the armed forced if the situation calls for it.

see Commoner Magic Utilities

Spoiler for Part 4 Volume 4 Magic Tools can be made to either work only for a single person, multiple people registered to it or anyone with mana. Though even tools specifically created for the use of multiple people still have the highest efficiency when charged by the person who's mana was used to create them. The same holds true for feystones that have been part of a magic tools. It is possible to remove them and re-use them for a new magic tool, but if the new tool is made with the mana of another person, they will be less efficienct in mana capacity and throughput than new stones adapted specifically for their new master.

The properties of magic tools are guided in large part by the kinds of mana that are used to create it. Each of the Gods is associated with a set of effects and properties and to give a magic tool an effect, one needs to create it from mana that is corresponds to the god or goddess that is associated with the effect.


 * Green mana is associated with water from Flutrane the Goddess of Water and Spring. It can give effects that heal, cleanse or change.
 * Blue mana is associated with fire from Leidenschaft the God of Fire and Summer. It can give effects that strengthen, amplify or grow.
 * Yellow mana is associated with wing from Schutzaria the Goddess of Wind and Authumn. It can give effects that defend, speed up or grant knowledge.
 * Red mana is associated with earth from Geduldh the Goddess of Earth and Winter. It can give effects that impart fortitude and resilience and can diffuse.

A magic tool does not have to be made from just one type of mana. Combining multiple types is possible. Generally it is easier to combine different kinds of mana by using components that each already contain parts of all the kinds of mana one wants to combine, rather than trying to mix pure components. This holds especially true for white life-mana, since it is particularly difficult to combine with other kinds, likely due to the strained relation between the God of Life and the other gods.

Spoiler for Part 4 Volume 4

Ink that is created from mana-rich components can be used for various applications. The exact components from which it is made differ on their intended use. The mana affinity of the components has to match up with the intended use of the ink.

A subset of magical ink is the ink for Contract Magic. To make this particular ink, the creator has to purify it of all but the most miniscule traces of all elements and colours at a late stage of production, so it can be receptive to the tiny amount of mana contained in commoners' blood.

Recently Rozemyne attempted to mix just regular magical ink, but the resulting ink displayed unusual characteristics. After some intense research Ferdinand was able to recreate this, leading to the discovery of a new type of magical ink. The key component for this invisible ink is the golden dust left behind from overloading a faystone to such a degree that it doesn't explode, but turns to dust. A very hard to produce and thus very valuable component.

It has the following characteristics:


 * If used by a person with all seven elements, the ink will swell up and stand slightly above the fabric.
 * If the ink is used by the person who made it, it will not bleed out and stay precisely where it was drawn on.
 * If the ink is used by a different person, it will bleed out, with the exact degree depending on the difference in the mana quality and quantity between the user and creator of the ink.
 * A couple of hours after applying the ink, it will become invisible and only become visible again when getting into contact with the mana of the ink's creator.

Due to various ways in which this invisible ink could be misused, Ferdinand and Rozemyne decided to keep their discovery a secret, lest it's production method falls into the wrong hands. While the requirement to have all seven elements drastically reduces the number of potential misusers, that those potential users are all part of the royalty, sovereignty archnobles and a handful of members of archducal families would mean that it's misuse could have wide-spread effects that might even overturn entire duchies.

In order to protect the secret, Ferdinand swore Rozemyen and those of her guardknights who were present at the ink's creation to utter secrecy. Furthermore while he will allow Rozemyne to use the ink to draw the magic circles on the clothes for the library magic tools Schwartz and Weiss, he will make sure that someone will embroider exact copies of the circles in magical thread made from Rozemyne's mana on top of the invisible circles. Usually having someone other than Rozemyne would weaken the effects of the circles, but since the power of the enchantments is goind to mainly come from the invisible ink circles, this is not an issue in this special case.

It is possible to create thread or cloth that act as a conductor for mana. These threads and cloths are used in the creation of cloth-based magic tools, like stitching or weaving magic cicles directly into cloaks for example.

Spoiler for Part 4 Volume 4 They are created by dipping regular non-magical thread or cloth into a special potion that is very similar to magical ink in it's creation. This potion will impart it's features onto the fabric, allowing it to conduct mana and be used as a component for magic tools.

From the outside this piece of cloth looks like a regular red carpet, but has the ability to absorb mana from people who touch it and convey it into the Divine Instruments for the Dedication Ritual.

During the ceremony, the priests do not touch the Divine Instruments directly. The instruments are put on top of the red carpet which extends in front of the altar. It is this carpet that the priests touch to pour their mana into, which then passes it on to the Divine Instruments. Though the pouring of the mana isn't neccesarily done by the person who touches it, since it can also sort of suck mana out of the participants as long as their skin remains in contect with it. This is why it is important to have an experienced person in charge of the ritual, since it is entirely possible to drain a participating priest of so much of their mana that it can negatively impact their health.

This is also the reason why usually only priests of roughly similar mana-capacities perform the ritual together at the same time.

Currently it is unclear whether the carpet is a magic tool in it's own right or if it's merely regular mana-dyed cloth and it's ability to suck mana from the priests and pass it into the divine instruments comes from being in physical contact with the instruments, the prayers or a combination of both.

This magic tool is used to melt snow that is blown into the entry halls by the wind and dry the places it fell to.

This magic tool keeps the humidity of the air at a constant level. The Royal Academy's Library was fitted with such tools to help preserve the stored books and documents.

The armour that members of the Knight's Order wear are magic tools. Like highbeasts these kinds of armour can be turned into feystone for easy storage and quick changing into and out of it. They can contain a variety of wards against different kind of attacks as well as comfort funcitons like enchantments that keep a constant temperature within the armour, regardless of outside conditions or preventing snow from touching the armour. These armours can not just be reverted into feystone-shape, but also manipulated in other ways, like reshaping parts of it or altering the hardness and elasticity of the material. These wards and enchantments can be customized and added to by the wearer in accordance to their personal style, wealth, skill and mana capacity.

Broadly speaking there are three types of armours employed by knights:


 * Heavy Armour: A full-body suit of armour that covers the body from neck to toe in solid plates. Once the acompanying helmet is donned, the only exposed parts of the body are the eyes and mouth. This is the most protective, but also the most ristrictive of the armours, though even this heavy varient is still far lighter than equivalent pieces made out of regular metals.
 * Light Armour: A lighter varient of the magical armour that provides less protection, but has less weights, consumes less mana and allows a wider range of motion than he heavy varient. The light armour is worn when knights do not expect any trouble, for example on guard duty within secured buildings, or on missions where mobility is expected to be more important than protection.
 * Bodyglove: This skintight suit is flexible and can easily be worn underneath any kind of clothing, even ballroom dresses. Knights wear them practically at all waking hours, so to never be completely without protection, even when participating in social events seemingly unarmoured.

Manablades are enchanted swords.

see Manablade

These magic tools are made to drain the excess mana of noble children to prevent their mana building up to levels that damage their bodies and staunt their growth. They are essential for every noble child from the lowest laynoble to the royal family and if a family can not afford such a tool, they are forced to either send their child to the temple to become a priest or watch their child eventually die like a devouring commoner.

Due to how important and costly they are, most nobles would never even consider selling these to a commoner. Only the lowest ranking and poor laynobles might sometimes sell nearly burnt-out or defective tools to trusted and rich merchants at a premium price.

The cost of commissioning a brand new mana draining magic tool are estimated to around five small gold.

Spoiler for Part 4 Volume 4

This tool is used for measuring the strength and elemental make-up of the mana of an object.

Visually it somewhat resembles a dart-board from Earth. At it's center is a metalic circle shining in all seven divine colours like guild cards and citizenship medals. This part can be removed from the rest of the tool for easier cleaning. From the center plate, seven equally sized sections radiate outwards, each one a single divine colour. They are further split into concentric circles of about 3 cm.

When ingrediants are placed in on center plate, the section of the same colour as the contained mana lights up. The further the light goes toward the outer edge of the device, the stronger this particular mana is in the tested object. If the tested object contains different kinds of mana, this function shows the strength of each individual type of mana all at once. If for example an object lights up all of the yellow sections, but only the innermost blue section, it means the object carries very strong wind-mana, just a very small amount of fire-mana and no mana of any other kind.

It is important to thoroughly clean the central plate after each use, since any parts of a previous test subject will interfere with the next measurement and lead in inprecise results. This is most often done by using the waschen spell.

This tool is exceedingly hard to make, since it is necessary to have absolutely pure components for each of the seven types of mana and futhermore those components need to be of precisely the same quality for the end-product to be able to provide precise measurements.

This magic tools is used to look into someone else's memories. Since nobles value their privacy so highly, this tool is usually reserved for only those suspected of the most grave of crimes. It comes in the shape of a paired set of circlets that can change their size to fit the wearer perfectly with big, red feystone at their front.

For use the person to be interrogated is made to drink a potion made with the mana of the interrogator. If the two have very similar mana, the potion tastes sweet, but the more their affinities and capacity diverge, the worse it tastes. Once the potion puts the criminal to sleep, a connection between the two circlets is established and the interrogator synchronizes with the criminal, which allows them to experience the memories and even emotions of the criminal.

The only known case where this tool was used on someone who did not commit a severe crime was when Ferdinand used it to explore Myne's memories due to the exceptionally unusual events surrounding the girl.

This magic tool allows to store monetary value and transfer it to other people with a similar card without having to carry around physical currency. It's function and appearance is the same as the Guild Card made for commoner merchants. It isn't known at this point whether money can be transfered between a noble's money-transfer card and a commoner's guild card, since so far any trade between nobles and commoners seen in the series has been done in physical currency.

While sharing the appearance of a raw feystone, the stones used for Ordonnanz spells are actually magic tools that have been created for this specific task.

This magic tool can read words from a piece of paper and project it onto a piece of cloth. When Professor Hirschur grew frustrated with having to repeat instructions to her students, Ferdinand ended up inventing this tool and gifting several of them to her.

This magic tool can record moving images like Earth's cameras and later display the recorded scenes. It takes some time to reconfigure between recording and display mode, but once it is reset, anyone can easily use it by pouring their mana into it, or alternatively using mana stored in feystones. Recorded scenes are displayed on a smooth metal-board that looks similar to a Guild Card, but is about the size of an A4 sheet. The device can only record visuals and has a somewhat poor resolution.

Unfortunately in it's current form both recording and replaying uses up so much mana that it is inpractical for the vast majority of nobles.

This magic tool is used by nobles to consume Human waste inside of toilets and as part of sewer systems.

Spoiler for Part 4 Volume 4 It was invented by nobles from Drewanchel about 80 years ago and has since spread all over Yurgenschmidt.

see Schwartz and Weiss

These tools were created to protect important conversations from being eavesdropped on. They come in two varients. One is a set of tools that need to be held and supplied with mana, which will make anything spoken by a holder only audible to people holding tools linked into theirs and is widely used among the nobility. Ferdinand at one point also uses such a tool to prevent Myne from saying anything out of turn, by having her hold on to one, but not holding his paired one, thus rendering the girl effectively mute for the duration of the conversation.

The other varient created a sound-blocking shield. Sicne the hand-held sound-blocking tools are more practical and discreet, this area-of-effect version is much rarer and generally only used when communicating with commoners, like high-level business discussions with merchants for example, who don't have the required mana to use the hand-held variant.

This magic tool protects books and scrolls from being damanged by bright light sources. It is employed in the Royal Academy's Library.

There are two kinds of teleportation circles, those constructed in a fixed position with the feystones built into their structure or they can be drawn surfaces (usually parchament) and fuelled by putting the feystones on top at the specified points.

The same kind of circle can teleport living beings and inanimate objects, but the former takes much more mana than the latter.

The magic circles connecting Ehrenfest Castle with the Royal Academy can only transport three people at once. It is unclear whether this is a limitation of only this specific pair of circles, or a limitation of teleportation circles in general.

This pitcher is connected via teleportation circles to a bigger container for liquids. When it is pitched over, it will constantly teleport the contents of the container over and pour them out, until it's brought back into an upright position.

This magic tools is causes coloured lights to stream down the Royal Academy's Library whenever the bells toll. This system was created to make sure that students too emersed in their reading or work would don't just miss the sound of the bells and thus fail to arrive at their respective lessons on time.

These green stones have the appearance of a raw feystone, but are actually magic tools most commonly used for converting mana to water. One of their uses is to put them into the bottom of a pitcher. Once the stone is charged via a Schtappe, the pitcher can endlessly pour out water until the mana in the stone is depleted.

Divine Instruments are powerful items used in the temples of every duchy. It is unclear whether there is any real difference between them and regular magic tools. Even some nobles consider them to be nothing more than regular magic tools, albeit of rare quality.

see Divine Instruments

Feystones can be acquired by slaying feybeasts or feyplants, as well as infusing certain fruits or eggs from these beings with your mana. One such example are Riesefalke eggs, which can be turned into feystones rich in Leidenschaft's blue mana. Even commoners can acquire feystones by slaying weak feybeasts like Shumil. There is a store on the west side in Ehrenfest's lower city which buys feystones. There is also a way to turn mana-wielding Humans into feystones.


 * Rozemyne - when she was given a feystone and started to learn to expand the feystone, makes it into a balloon and as it grows bigger and bigger, she imagines it popping which it does . Ferdinand is quite annoyed as the stone is very valuable but to his surprise she changes what she has in hands in to clay and goes around picking up the bits back together, which shocks him and he calls a halt to the lesson.