Magic Tools

Magic Tools (魔術具, Majutsugu) are tools with magical properties made by nobles. They can be created either by embedding feystones in other constructs, or by blending the magical materials together in a mixing pot.

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

Magic Tools can be made to either work only for a single person, with multiple people being 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 efficient 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.

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 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 ink could be misused, Ferdinand and Rozemyne decided to keep their discovery a secret, lest its 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 its misuse could have wide-spread effects that might even overturn entire duchies.

In order to protect the secret, Ferdinand swore Rozemyne and those of her guard knights 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 going 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 circles directly into cloaks for example.

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

''The name of the tools written in italics have not yet been mentioned and thus are just descriptors of what they do. Tool names in regular text have been used as such in the source material.''

These are wearable magic tools that assist the wearer in using enhancement magic, designed to help beginners to learn the magic. They have to be in direct contact with the user's skin to work. Infusing extra mana into them will increase the effect.

The Book of Laws is a one-of-a-kind magic tool that is kept in the Sovereignty. In it the king and his predecessors have written down the national-level laws of the country. Regardless of whether the king who instated a law is still alive or not, these laws are binding to every citizen of the country, including royalty and remain so until they are removed. Removing a law once written in the book however is a lengthy and difficult issue.

For this reason, as well as political considerations the vast majority of laws are worded in an ambiguous way that basically boils down to the potential crimes requiring arbitration at the next archduke conference.

The Book of Laws itself must remain in the Sovereignty at all times, but the transcription of copies are made for certain purposes, like providing learning material for the Royal Academy.

For more details on current and past laws see Laws and Rules.

These medals are proof of citizenship for nobles of a duchy. During the baptism ceremony, children use a magical stick to imprint their mana onto the medal, which makes it shine in the colours of their mana affinities.

At the current point it isn't entirely clear whether there are any differences between a commoner's citizenship medal and those used for nobles, but considering how there was no mention of Myne's citizenship medal lighting up in multi-coloured light at her baptism, but her noble medal did light up in her noble's baptism , it is likely that the medals for commoners and nobles are made differently.

This magic tools allows the user to view buildings under their protection from afar. It can only view buildings fitted with a protection feystone that contains the mana of the user.

The tool looks like a shallow bowl with elaborate carvings and four yellow feystones embedded into its corner. When one of the feystones is charged with mana, the carvings and other feystones light up as the mana is spread around, revealing the magic circle worked into it. This causes the bowl to fill with a dark liquid.

By using the spell spiegeln the user can then connect the bowl with the building they wish to observe, at which point images of the buildings can be displayed in the pool, much like a monitor displays images of security cameras.

This egg-shaped magic tool works in many ways like a roomba vacuum robot on Earth, except faster. Upon activation it will clean the entire floor. It cannot differentiate between dirt, garbage and potentially useful objects, so it is highly advisable to make sure that anything the user intends to keep is put on top or inside of furniture, beforehand. Once the tool is activated it will near instantly swallow all the detritus on the floor, thus it is customary among the nobility and their servants to only personally clean the furniture and throw any dirt to the floor, where the magic tool will get rid of it.

It was not explained what exactly happens with the stuff the tool swallows and whether any object can be retrieved if it was accidentally cleaned away by the tool.

This magic tool serves as a contract that could be activated by rubbing blood on it. It looks like a pendant with a black feystone in the middle. Upon activation, the magic tool would glow and it appears that the other contract party would be notified in some way.

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 necessarily 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 contact 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 its own right or if its merely regular mana-dyed cloth and its 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 make duplicates of other objects that from the outside appear indistinguishable from the original. It was however unable to copy the insides of Ehrenfest's high bishop's bible. It is currently unknown whether being unable to copy the inside is due to the magic tool only copying the outward appearance, or if it was due to the enchantments that hide the text of the bible to those without permission.

Feystone Bodysuits are created in and shaped in a similar way to feybeasts, though they can be imbued with various protective properties. Even in it's most basic form it is like the magical equivalent of a bulletproof vest. It is so light it can be worn even under ballroom dresses. Even knights that appear to be entirely unarmored are usually wearing them under their clothes to protect them from surprise attacks.

Unlike the more specialized and complex Knight Armours, the creation of this bodysuit is taught to all nobles, regardless of course during the second year at the Royal Academy.

In Dunkelfelger, creation of such bodysuits is taught to all noble children before their second year at the academy and they tend to wear them at all times.

Currently nothing is known about these magic tool, beyond them being built directly into the royal academy's library building and that they keep the floors clean in some unspecified way.

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.

This magic tools looks like a regular knife from the outside, but the user can greatly enhance its cutting power by pouring mana into it. This effect is strong enough that even someone as lacking in physical strength was able to cut through a ruelle branch like a hot knife through butter.

It works similar to Messer, but is also usable by nobles who have yet to acquire their own Schtappe.

See Knight Equipment.

While magic tools that outright create light out of mana do exist in the form of light-creating magic tools, it is far more common to find these devices in Ehrenfest noble's mansions. These magic tools take the light of natural sources like candles and oil-lamps and amplify them to make the rooms much brighter than the natural light-source ever could.

This magic tool creates light when supplied with mana, much like Earth's lightbulbs do.

This magic tool also sometimes called "Light Shining Magic Tool" emits a light or a sequence of lights to alert people of a trigger.

It is very commonly incorporated into noble's hidden rooms. When someone touches the feystone on the outside, the light magic tool lights up to inform the noble inside that someone wishes to contact them. Since hidden rooms are sound-proof this is the only way to get the attention of those inside without using an ordonnanz.

The Royal Academy Library uses a scaled-up version of this magic tool. Instead of being activated by touch, this version automatically activates at certain times of the day. Shortly before each bell the magic tool bathes the entire library in multi-coloured lights to alerts all students about the upcoming time. This was installed so that even students that get too engrossed into their reading to notice the bells still won't be late for their lessons.

Manablades are enchanted swords. Their size can either be increased by slaying feybeasts with mana aspects one intends to strengthen in a painstaking and relatively slow process, or by having Mana given to it.

See Manablade.

This magical item works in most ways like a regular pen, but uses mana to put writing on the surface, instead of utilizing ink. Since the text is written directly in the mana of the wielder, this also obviates the need to infuse contract magic signatures with mana by putting blood on them after being written out.



These rings are magic tools that enable a noble to focus their mana into blessings and spells. Due to being less efficient than a schtappe, they are usually only utilized for the minor blessings that are part of noble greetings, but in a pinch can also be used to cast other kinds of magic.

Every noble gets one of these rings as a gift at their baptism. Traditionally it appears to be worn on the middle finger of the left hand.

From the outside this veil appears like a regular piece of completely opaque cloth, leaving the wearer blind. The inside however is inscribed with magic circles that allow the wearer to see unimpeded, while still hiding their face completely.

This magic tool is used for mana compression lessons at the Royal Academy. It consists of an armband and a round display area on top that contains a pointer. The moment the tool is put on, the current level of mana density in the persons body is locked in as the 0 position. When a student compresses their mana, the pointer moves to the right and if a student decompresses their mana it moves to the left.

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 stunt their growth, while stockpiling the mana-filled feystones for their Royal Academy education. Each magic tool comes with two parts: a bracelet that drains mana, and a container that stores the drained mana into feystones.

These magic tools are essential for every noble child, from the lowest laynoble to the royal family. If a family can not afford such a tool, they are forced to either send their children to the temple to become blue priests, or make them servants that supply magic tools at home with mana.

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 is estimated to be around five small gold.

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 its center is a round metallic plate 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 ingredients 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 imprecise 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 furthermore 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. Its 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 transferred 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 visual similarity is also the reason why most nobles just called them ordonnanz feystones, despite this technically being a wrong designation.

With ordonnanz being such an imporant tool for communications, it is taught very early in the royal academy's curriculum with the spell itself being taught in the first year and the creation of this stone in the second year as part of the schtappe fundamentals and Basic Brewing and Crafting respectively.

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.

Protective charms are mana-powered charms that block attacks from external source and launch counter attacks against the attacker. Usually a charm reflects a single attack at a time, but it is possible to create a charm that reflects multiple attacks at the same time, albeit at a significant mana cost. There are two types of charms: anti-physical attack and anti-magical attack types. The magnitude of the counter attack is proportionate to the power of the incoming attack.

Schtappe-sealing handcuffs are handcuffs that prevent a noble from manifesting and using his/her schtappe when worn. It is usually used against incarcerated criminals, like Veronica when she is imprisoned in the Ivory Tower.

Schwartz (シュバルツ, Shubarutsu) and Weiss (ヴァイス, Waisu) are a pair of autonomous magic tools modeled to look like Shumil. Their purpose is to assist the librarians of the Royal Academy's Library.

See Schwartz and Weiss

Sound amplifying magic tools work in a similar fashion to the technology-based equivalents on Earth. They come as a set with one receiver, used to pick up speech or music, linked with one or multiple output tools that will simultaneously play the sound picked up by the receiver at their location, allowing people far away from the receiver to hear the sounds as clearly as if they were standing right next to the source.

During Ferdinand's harspiel concert, output tools were spread all over a large hall, but there was no mention of the maximum range of transmission. But from Ordonnanz being used as the primary means of communicating, even within a single large building, it is unlikely that sound amplifying magic tools have a range beyond at most a couple of rooms over. It is also unclear whether there is a limit to how many output devices can be linked with a single receiver.

These tools were created to protect important conversations from being eavesdropped on. They come in two variants: 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 variant created a sound-blocking shield. Since 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 in high-level business discussions with merchants, for example, who don't have the required mana to use the hand-held variant.

This magic kind of tool is used to reduce the volume of specific sources of noise without entirely blocking them.

Among other things such tools are employed for the commoner baptisms in the temple, where they are set up to reduce the level of the spoken words and screams of the mass of children to the level of a whisper. The specific tool used in the Temple of Ehrenfest has the shape of a wind chime-esque bell fitted with a feystone.

Magic tools of this kind are also built into the royal academy library's structure, though at the moment it is unknown what kind of noise they affect and to which degree, since they are currently not being charged due to a lack of mana.

This magic tool protects books and scrolls from being damaged 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 parchment) and fueled 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.

During a teleportation black and golden lights swirl around the circles, making it very likely that prayers to the King and Queen of the Gods are involved. Some individuals experience a moment of vertigo during the teleportation.

In addition to these obvious teleportation circles, there are also more subtle variant employed in the Sovereignty. Unlike their more common counterparts they do not release any motes of light upon being used and cause no vertigo. They are so seamlessly built into archways that people without the appropriate knowledge might not even be aware they went through a teleporter and think they just went through a regular door into a corridor right behind it.

Something that all these teleportation circles have in common is a rather high mana cost for activation.

Recently as part of his tasks for his mentor Ferdinand, the Ahrensbach student Raimund created an improved version of the teleportation circle, optimized for transportation of small objects with minimal mana cost. This version allows even laynobles to teleport an object the size of a thick book about ten times before running low on mana.

For a teleportation circle to be able to cross barriers, it requires the consent of the person in control of the barrier. This means that teleportation circles crossing the border between duchies can only be established with the permission and cooperation of the King and both involved Archdukes.

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 its brought back into an upright position.

This magic tool takes the shape of a container. Anything placed inside is completely frozen in time and will not age or decay, as long as the container is supplied with mana. Even ingredients and entire finished meals can be kept completely fresh in it. It does however have a very high mana consumption to the point that even archnobles need to be selective with what and how much they store in it.

The size can vary greatly, with the one brought to Ehrenfest by Aurelia having the size of a large fridge and being easily able to fit an adult person inside of it. It also is heavy enough to require multiple adult men to carry when filled.

It is possible to hold living beings and even people in statis with this magic tool, albeit since it has so far only been used on animals and feybeasts to be slaughtered for food and on a criminal who is almost asured to be executed after interrogation, it is currently unclear whether this has any negative short- or longterm effects on a person put into it.

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

It was invented by scholars from Drewanchel about 80 years ago and has since spread all over Yurgenschmidt.

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 both recording and replaying consume so much mana, that it is impractical for the vast majority of nobles in its current form.

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.

This magic tool is used to communicate over long distances. Unlike Ordonnanz, Water Mirrors can be used to communicate beyond a duchy's border barrier. They are exclusively used by Aubs.

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


 * In the Light Novel the wide-range variant of the sound-blocking magic tool requires four feystones to be set down at the corners of the area that is to be shielded to work. In the anime, only the tool itself is required.