Ayaka says it's the only thing she can pull off because she's a loser, but she also clearly has circuits so some normie off the street couldn't do Formalcraft.
Ayaka says it's the only thing she can pull off because she's a loser, but she also clearly has circuits so some normie off the street couldn't do Formalcraft.
If real spells could be done without circuits, Shinji wouldn't be complaining nearly as much as he is.
He gets a book, so presumably there is still stuff you can do. Alchemists exist, too.
Formalcraft often confuses people because well its talked about in a confusing way.
There isMagecraft form, or what I will dub "Formalcraft F" which is what Rin describes in FSN.フォーマルクラフト魔術形式
More commonly there isElement conversion, or "Formalcraft C" which is what Ayaka is good at and what Darnic teaches in the Clocktower.フォーマルクラフト元素変換
Formalcraft F sounds like a method of performing magecraft. That is using magical energy inherent in an object or ritual, instead of converting your od or sucking mana from the air.
Formalcraft C is a school of magecraft like runes or witchcraft. This school seems like the "elemental magic" of most RPGs, where you shoot fireballs or windballs.
How F and C relate to each other or even if they are related is unknown at this moment.
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He can make magical potions.
One has to ask if magic potions and formulas are inherently magical, or if you also need to connect those to foundations as well in some manner.
Like I don't think if you mix certain herbs in a certain way you get a magic potion if you're just a random person doing it. I imagine you have to refine it and finish it through a magical process.
Isn't Kohaku/Jinan's deal also regular cooking with magical ingrendients?
Yeah sure if a Magus gave you a magic item and said 'the activation word is x' you might be able to use it, but that doesn't make you a spellcaster, it makes you a dude with a magic item.
it makes you a guy who probably has seconds to live
if gilgamesh can be a "caster" by just operating mystic codes without having circuits I don't see why other people couldn't qualify via the same means
Isn't he two thirds god already?
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But, the object had too bizarre a silhouette to be called a simple dagger. It looked very similar to Gilgamesh’s summoning catalyst used by the magus that Tiné had eliminated earlier.
“A key… sword?” Tiné murmured without thinking.
Gilgamesh haughtily replied, “Do not speak of this in the same terms as the key in the hands of that clown.”
Grasping the key-sword, Gilgamesh turned its tip skyward.
“This is something like a contract I bound myself, given form.”
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GOB sure sounds like "divine" magecraft. I think he established it using his status/authority(lowercase) as a king and his 2/3rds divine. But those powers are still from the gods when you think about it.
When one thinks about it Nigel even uses his origin to help with his potions no? I imagine unless you’re working with high mystery special ingredients making magic items and potions is definitely a process of using magecraft. Even if you may say that the ritual is just mixing things and brewing it the magus is what makes the tradition work rather than just be some goop.