Lord El-Melloi II Case Files

[Bureno]

wait, you don't need circuit to use chinese magecraft? Is that it?

[Reign]

No you do. Byegod is saying they think it's weird since the origin of circuits are tied to Solomon (I think?). But we've had Japanese mages using magic circuits since mages were introduced, so it's not like only Europeans have them.

[Comun]

Magic circuits were never mentioned to be Solomon-related, and as far as I can remember, the only beings explicitly stated not to have them are completely disconnected from humanity (True devils and Elementals).

[Byegod]

It just feels weird to me, if that makes sense, was hoping it owuld be more breathing and walking or that type of thing, or cultivating or whatever.

[Dullahan]

ah yes, just what TM needs

PILLS

[SpoonyViking]

Magic circuits were never mentioned to be Solomon-related, [...]

In fact, if I recall it correctly, Circe is explicitly stated to have Magic Circuits, and she's much older than Solomon.
That said, I can understand the objection: having all forms of magic without a divine origin ultimately derive from King Solomon is extremely reductive, to say the least.

[AAM1232]

It just feels weird to me, if that makes sense, was hoping it owuld be more breathing and walking or that type of thing, or cultivating or whatever.

You're better off looking into Peperoncino for that.

[You]

Spoiler:

We headed for the passageway that only staff used. There was barely anyone else around us. "Professor, this place isn't..."
"It's fine," saying so, my professor raised his hand.
Not next to the staff door. He was next to it, an ordinary wall.
With a muffled murmuring, my professor's body was swallowed.
"Eh?"
"The Mass Rapid Transit Singapore's so proud of. They've been preparing it ever since it was made, several decades ago. As I said, the land's character is closely connected to Feng Shui so it's easy to make something like this. No matter the country, the leylines and the subway system mutually influence each other. Like King's Cross Station's Platform 9 and 3/4."
Rin continued without hesitation, Ergo was also sucked in, and I finally nervously closed my eyes are walked inside the wall.
For a moment, I felt cold and clammy.
When I opened my eyes, the view was of a long passageway.

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[Dullahan]

"lol"

[SirGauoftheSquareTable]

Wow, how transparent.

[madarra]

Feels weird to make chinese magic apart of circuits when its so heavily tied to solomon stuff now

but thats just me

Chen Gong uses Xia dynasty magic he inherited and though it was shit cuz it needed circuits, he then found Lu Bu and his suicide soldier tactics began. And Xia dynasty is supposed to be placed in like 2000 BC cuz its fictitious, (probably a texture in nasuverse) , so these chinese mages were playing with magic circuits long before Solomon was a twinkle in David's eye..

[asterism42]

Aren't magic circuits basically an organ? Isn't that like saying you're using a different kind of breathing that doesn't involve lungs?

[Altima of the Gates]

Just when I thought nu-TM couldn't hurt me anymore, they bring back the timeline from Mimic Rin and Van-Fem's first appearance will come in a glorified Wattpad story. Well played.

Considering that has been here since 2005, it wouldn't really be "new" and just business as usual. Antics and levity among the story is the staple.

Spoiler:

I want more future dere Rin. She had the right amount of lovestruckness and smug I like.

[All fictions]

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I'm half convinced you're shitposting.

[Rafflesiac]

It's just another LN reference, is it really such a big deal

[Reign]

Does this mean Rowling is a mage and by sharing mage secrets in her books she is a threat to Mystery who should be eliminated?

[SirGauoftheSquareTable]

It's just another LN reference, is it really such a big deal

Fair. I'm just sore about the TERF stuff.

[Leftovers]

Does this mean Rowling is a mage and by sharing mage secrets in her books she is a threat to Mystery who should be eliminated?

You can think of it as an attempt to answer a certain question which becomes fairly obvious and pressing in almost all urban fantasy settings which take the """real world""" as a starting-point and posit an obscured realm of the supernatural. The real world, as we know it today, is positively overflowing with ideas of the supernatural, from the dreamcatchers and pyramid-shaped crystals your aunt buys to Aum Shinrikyo to the Baphomet-worshipping pedophile sex cults which run the global financial system. The question becomes: what relation do these phenomena bear to the sphere of Actual Real Supernatural Stuff posited by your urban fantasy setting? Most of the time these settings like to awkwardly ignore this question - when was the last time a character in TM read a fantasy novel, for instance? (or any novel at all for that matter) - but we've sort of bitten the bullet on it and drawn a firm conclusion: that if there's a supernatural thing that you (a normie) know about, then it's part of the veil of maya set up by a bunch of clock-punching demiurges in London.

because imagine thinking JK Rowling isn't a PSYOP lol

　

[All fictions]

It's just another LN reference, is it really such a big deal

>Harry Potter is a LN

Aaaaargh

[Rafflesiac]

Most successful magic high school story of all time.