Magic Tools

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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.

Properties

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 function 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 use by high-ranking officials like Guild Masters or by members of the armed forces, 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 Autumn. 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.

Components

Feypaper

If mana is poured into a magic circles drawn on paper made from feyplants, the effects of the circle will activate, making such prepared feypaper into a sort of ad hoc magic tool. This allows the user to either modify a spell they cast on the paper, or to use the feypaper to cast spells without an incantation.

One example of such feypaper, inscribed with magic circles, is paper inscribed with magic circles to increase the area of effect of spells cast on it, developed by Clarissa, which allow someone to more easily cast large-scale spells.

If an offensive spell cast through feypaper hits a target protected by defensive charms, the counter attacks will aim for the feypaper, rather than the person who cast the spell.

Magical Ink

Contract Magic Ink

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.

Contract Magic 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.

Disappearing Ink

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 feystone 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 will 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 embroider 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.

Mana-dyed thread and cloth

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.

Known 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.

Automated Magic Tool Assistants

Schwartz and Weiss assisting Rozemyne in the Royal Academy Library

This kind of magic tool is made in the shape of a humanoid or animal and made to assist in certain tasks. The most well known of their kind, are the royal heirloom magic tools Schwartz (シュバルツ, Shubarutsu) and Weiss (ヴァイス, Waisu), which look like large Shumil that walk upright like a Human.

See Schwartz and Weiss

During her fourth year at the Royal Academy, Rozemyne met another magic tool, similar in appearance to Schwartz and Weiss, when transported from the Royal Academy Library, to some unknown location to face a trail by the gods. This golden-furred shumil appeared to have been programmed with only certain pre-recorded messages, rather than being able to interactively interact with visitors.

Later in the same year, Professor Hirschur and Lord Ferdinand managed to create a scaled down version of Schwartz and Weiss, which reduced functionality for the sake of considerably lower mana consumption, which was later named Adrett

See Adrett

Combat Variant

The following spring, Lady Rozemyne used the blue prints of Adrett and the research results from examinations of Schwartz and Weiss to create a triplet of shumil assistants of her own, coloured pink, aqua and cream, however due to pressing events in Ehrenfest at the time, she infused them with the ability to counter both physical and magical attacks, so they can help guard the three entrances to the Ehrenfest Temple against expected intruders from Ahrensbach. She also made a set of feystones, that make the three guard shumils recognize the holder of these stones as a master and thus accept their orders.

Despite the combat capabilities, they still have considerably lower mana consumption than Schwartz and Weiss, to the point that a single archnoble could in theory maintain all three of them for several days, before they require recharge. However with the current mana shortage in Ehrenfest, they still decided to let the guard shumil lie dormant and only activate them for emergencies.

The particular shumil constructed by Rozemyne and her retainers, use golden scythes as weapons. Due to the limited operating time, before they run out of mana, they were tuned to prioritize speed. During Georgine's invasion of Ehrenfest, two of the combat shumil managed to cut down four experienced knights in the blink of an eye, a single swipe from their scythes nearly cutting their target in half.

The magic tools sense their surroundings through mana, which makes them immune to effects that would blind a Human, like flash-bang magic tools, but render them unable to even perceive people fully clad in Lanzenave silver clothes.

Later, when conceiving plans on making similar shumils for her new library in Alexandria, Lady Rozemyne dubbs this type of magic tool Security Shumil. At the suggestion of Clarissa they will however be reworked into something less lethal and more suited to the task, than the original three, which were specifically created to thwart hostile invaders.

Body Enhancement Assist Bracelet

Enhancement Bracelets

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.

Book of Laws

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 process.

For this reason, as well as for 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.

Book Repair Magic Tools

This magic tool was created to repair damaged or partially decayed books. It is currently unclear what degree of damage and rot it is capable of restoring and at which point a book or document becomes unsalvageable. These kinds of magic tools are employed in both the Royal Academy library and Royal Palace library. According to Hortensia, the former second prince Waldifried also had a set of older, bigger, and less efficient book repair magic tools in his private villa to care for his personal books and the documents stored there.

Citizenship Medal

Rozemyne's citizenship medal lighting up

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.

If a citizenship medal is destroyed by an authorized archduke candidate or royal, the person it is linked with will die, if they are within the same duchy. If there is a duchy barrier between them and their medal at the moment of destruction, they will survive, but lose their ability to form their schtappe. It is currently not known, whether they can re-obtain it by being registered again.

Clairvoyance Magic Tool

Clairvoyance Magic Tool

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 corners. 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.

Cleaning Magic Tool

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 personally clean only 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.

Colour-Mixing Magic Tool

The Colour-Mixing Magic Tool is a device made to determin the compatibility between two nobles, who wish to marry, to a much greater degree of confidence, than mana-sensing. It is employed in the Mixing of Colours a three part series of events - part compatibility test, part social event, part ceremony, part public accouncement - that members of the nobility go through as part of their engagment process.

Contract Magic Tool

Myne activating the Contract Magic 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.

Country Gates

The gates between Yurgenschmidt and it's neighboring countries are large scale magic tools in their own right. Rather than a classical door, they achieve their primary function by activating a permanent teleportation tunnel, similar to the teleportation circles between the Royal Academy and the Dormitories and Royal Villas, that are so suble in their workings, that one feels like they are just stepping through a regular door, rather than being teleported. "Closing" the country gate does not close any door-wings, but just deactivates the teleportation tunnel and allowing a view of the white desert wasteland directly outside Yurgenschmidt's country barrier. According to comments made by Ferdinand it would appear that it is impossible to cross even through a closed country gate. But even if someone were able to bypass the barrier, like for example by using silver cloth, they are unlikely to survive their journey, due to the distance and the harsh enviroment of the surrounding desert.

In addition to the primary teleporter to the foreign territory, the country gates also contain a magic circle that allows the user to teleprot to any of the other country gates or a central node in the Sovereignty.

Only people with a Grutrissheit are able to charge the gates with mana or activate any of their functions.

Near the beginning of Yurgenschmidt, when the Aubs still all had their own Grutrissheits, charging the country gates with mana was part of the duties of the Aubs, of the border duchies. Though as fewer and fewer people obtained a Grutrissheit of their own, the mana had to be supplied by the Zent and his family. This change happened so long ago, that this fact has fallen completely out of living memory, even within the current royal family

Dedication Ritual Carpet

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 it is 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, from the prayers, or from a combination of both.

Duplication Magic Tool

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 Bodysuit

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 Royal Academy, and they tend to wear them at all times.

Gewinnen Set

Both the board and the figures of the boardgame Gewinnen are magic tools.
See Gewinnen

Ground Cleaning Magic Tools

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

Heat Producing Magic Tool

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

Highbeast

Ferdinand's Highbeast

Highbeasts are the primary means of transportation used by nobles. By dyeing a specially prepared 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.

See Highbeast

Humidity Management Magic Tool

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.

Knife Magic Tool

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.

Knight's Armour

See Knight Equipment.

Light Amplifying Magic Tool

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.

Light-Creating Magic Tool

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

Light Magic Tool

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.

Magic Face-Veil

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.

Magic Ring

Ferdinand's magic ring lent to Myne

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. The ring is always worn on the middle finger of the left hand, unless it's been severed.

Magic Tool Prothesis

These magic tools are used to replace lost limbs. Due to the dangers of their profession, they are a not too uncommon sight among knights, but appear to be rare among other nobles.

Manablade

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.

Mana Density Meter

Mana Density Meter

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.

Mana Draining Magic Tool

Mana Draining Magic Tool in action

A set of Mana Draining Magic Tool

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 in 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 poorest 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.

Mana Pen

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.

Mana Testing Disc

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.

Memory Searching Magic Tool

This magic tool 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.

If the head of a dead person is left intact the memories of the deceased can also be searched with this tool. However, this needs to be done as quickly as possible, since the memories degrade fast after death. Between this fast degradation and the holder of the memories no longer being able to follow commands of the interrogator, however, it is far less likely that any useful memories will be recovered compared to use on living individuals.

Money-transfer Card

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.

Ordonnanz Feystone

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 important 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.

For more information on the spell see Ordonnanz

Projection Magic Tool

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

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. The magnitude of the counter attack is proportionate to the power of the incoming attack.

Schtappe-Sealing Handcuffs

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.

Signalling Stone

This magic tool consists of connected feystones. When the user of one stone changes it's colour, all the connected other stones go through the same change. This allows for an easily concealed way of signalling, in situations when sending Ordonnanzes would be too conspicious or outright impossible.

Sound Amplifying Magic Tool

A pair of sound amplifying magic tools used during Ferdinand's harspiel concert

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.

Sound-blocking Magic Tool

Myne holding a sound-blocking magic tool

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.

Barrier-type sound-blocking magic tool

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, who don't have the required mana to use the hand-held variant, or such large groups of nobles.

The area of effect tool consists of one main part, put to the center of the area, and several smaller parts, that visually look like raw feystones, than are put at the circumference of the intended area. Upon activation, a translucent, blue-tinged barrier will spring up around the affected area.

Sound-dampening Magic Tool

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.

Sound Recording Magic Tool

Original version of the Magic Tool

This rarely used magic tool is used to record a message and later play it upon activation. It is so big that it can only be held with both hands and can only hold a single message at a time. The trigger to activate the replay of the message is opening the lid. There also exists a version of this tool that will erase the recorded message after it was played once.

Raimund's first improved version

Recently, the Ahrensbach apprentice scholar Raimund was able to make a more mana-efficient and smaller version of this device, small enough to be held in just one hand.

Under the guidance of Ferdinand, Raimund was able to further improve the magic tool. By removing the lid, the size could be further reduced, and additionally, Raimund managed to add the function to hold multiple messages. To activate the replay of the messages, the user has to touch the exposed feystone and pour mana into it, somewhat similar to how a received Ordonnanz is activated.

Stealth Magic Tool

This magic tool reduces the user's body weight and dampens the sounds they make. It is currently not known, whether this is the same as a talisman with Verbergens Concealment or a seperate item.

Sunlight Protection

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

Teleportation Circle

Teleportation circle to the Royal Academy

There are two kinds of teleportation circles, those constructed in a fixed position with the feystones built into their structure or those drawn on 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. This limitation was deliberately built into the circles in and out of the Royal Academy, as a security measure, making it harder to invade the academy by force.

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.

Teleportation Pitcher

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.

Time-Stopping Magic Tool

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 stasis 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 assured to be executed after interrogation, it is currently unclear whether this has any negative short- or long-term effects on a person put into it.

Toilet Slime

Rozemyne scared by the toilet slime

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.

Visual Recording Magic Tool

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.

Water Feystone

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.

Water Mirror

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

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

Trivia

• 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.