Create-a-Magus 2

[Kamera]

Papilio Magia's foundation is mainly closer to the Butterfly Effect phenomena than metamorphosis. In any case, I don't see how this connects to cultural or religious syncretism.

[Castellan]

Yeah, again, I'm still not seeing what you're asking. Are you asking for a syncretic foundation for a metamorphosis story, are you asking because you have a Magecraft idea but can't make it fit, or are you asking because you need inspiration for one or the other? It's really kind of confusing.

[Gl4re]

I did not know Papilio Magia was a thing. That's pretty badass

[Kamera]

Case Files has tons of seemingly cool concepts like these, perpetually stuck to unfathomably lame characters.

[Sandman]

I was sort of asking for inspiration, but I kind of abandoned the idea of using a syncretic foundation in my last post. What I'm gonna do now is make something somewhat inspired by Papilio Magia

[Axe]

Probably not that helpful to all the usuals here, but I found this document, and its pretty helpful for beginners like me who have no idea what they're doing.

[DelRey]

Do mages actually have doctors among their midst? Like not those who spiritually tinker with crests, but actual treatments of the body?

[Random]

Sure. Magecraft and medicine are historically very intertwined, although medical Magecraft almost certainly declined over the past 200 years.

[RoydGolden]

Do mages actually have doctors among their midst? Like not those who spiritually tinker with crests, but actual treatments of the body?

I don't see why not. But Touko references Magecraft involving the human body has gotten weaker because it's so well understood now, so that might affect medical Magecraft too. I did imagine a Mage once who exploits the connection between the Eye of Horus (associated with healing because it was restored after his previous eye was injured) and the modern pharmacist's symbol ℞.

[Kamera]

Nawfal Haythami al-Baseer



"It is not something you can ever perceive, pay it no mind."

Alias:	The Solar Sentinel, The Intercontinental Sniper	Magecraft:	Thought Partition, Spatial Folding, Artificial Mystic Eyes
Age:	38	Origin:	Vigilance
Height/Weight:	182cm/66kg	Element:	Wind
Country of origin:	Morocco	Circuit Quantity:	D
Affiliation:	Atlas Institute	Circuit Quality:	B+
Sorcery Trait:	God’s Holder (False)	Rank:	-

Background

An enigmatic bureaucrat who currently serves as the Chairman of the Custodial Committee within the Atlas Institute.

Born somewhere in the Atlas mountains of Morocco, Mr. Nawfal comes not from the lineage of a particularly notable family, but was scouted and taken in as an apprentice by a high-ranking alchemist of the Atlas Institute. This alchemist belongs to the Haythami Workshop, one of many specialized workshops built within the underground city of the Titan’s Pit, and their research involves the development of Artificial Mystic Eyes. To this end, they are operating and developing a device called Meketaten Solar Obscura.

Outside of the families of the Six Sources, lineage and bloodline matters very little to the associates of Atlas, making it possible for Nawfal to eventually inherit the research of his master alchemist. In addition, he also obtained a set of Artificial Mystic Eyes, Wadjet Replica and the Hathor Replica, passed down by the head of the Workshop through a method similar but also opposite to what the Clock Tower refers to as “Tradition Carriers”, with emphasis on teaching rather than bloodline. This is possible because Atlas alchemists can simply transplant the Mystery-carrying pathogen into the non-blood related heir.

With the Haythami Workshop under his management, Nawfal managed to refine and expand the capabilities of the Meketaten Solar Obscura, making it one the greatest surveillance tools developed within the Atlas Institute. For this reason, he was expected to occasionally lend its utility to Atlas by taking jobs and assignments outside the Temple.

It was through these assignments that he became involved with the Custodial Committee, the Atlas equivalent to the Enforcers of the Clock Tower. Similar to these Enforcers whose primary targets are those granted “Sealing Designation”, the Custodial Committee are specialized individuals whose main mission is to neutralize or secure individuals who are deemed “Eschatological Hazard”, those who possess the capability to destroy the world. Nonetheless, when such rare cases are not available, they generally just act as the local law-enforcing body that handles those who violate the rules of Atlas or cause major trouble for the members of the Institute.

Over time, he has come to take this custodial duty just as seriously as he took his alchemical research, if not even more so, and he ultimately was recruited into the Custodial Committee himself. Through sheer diligence and a respectable record of resolving troublesome cases that even his predecessors gave up on, he gradually climbed up the ranks of the Committee.

In about fifteen years since joining the Custodial Committee, Mr. Nawfal now serves as its Chairman, a position which confines him more to an enormous amount of paperwork and data analysis than actual action.

Personality

Likes:	Clean office, wide empty space, carrot juice
Dislikes:	Too many possibilities, oil companies, close quarter combat
Talents:	Criminal profiling, reconnaissance mission, paperwork
Natural Enemy:	Ekaterina Pythia
Alignment:	Lawful Evil

Confident and somewhat arrogant, Mr. Nawfal boasts comprehension and analytical ability beyond that of ordinary humans. This includes social understanding, which even the average Atlas alchemist lacks. He doesn’t trust ordinary people easily, but once one gets to know him, one will realize that he likes to chatter like a nagging old lady. He is very knowledgeable and responsive, but he only replies to what one asks him, never saying more than necessary.

How to question him effectively to dig out more information from him is considered by some within Atlas to be a research topic on its own.

Magecraft

Khamsa Hathor / Khamsa Wadjet
Fivefold Solar Oculus Crystallization.
Fivefold Lunar Oculus Sublimation.

A method Nawfal inherited as the head of the Haythami Workshop, first developed by a certain medieval alchemist, their eponymous founder. It is built upon the alchemical process that uses eyeballs as ingredients, which generally involves the extraction, modification, production and even consumption of Mystic Eyes.

The reproduction of this alchemical process consisted of three main ingredients. One is the Middle Eastern concept of Hamsa, a type of magecraft often reproduced as amulets, commonly used as a type of Mystic Eye Killer. The second and third are the Eye of Ra and the Eye of Horus, symbolizing the Sun and the Moon, of creation and rebirth, of vigilance and obsession.

In essence, by embedding the Eyes of Ra and Horus into each palm of one’s hands, Nawfal can integrate his sense of sight and sense of touch into a single sensory device, allowing him to “wield his own vision” and to “perceive what he grasps”, meaning that “something he can see” now becomes “something that he has already reached”.

A human cannot know everything. Clearly, even with these Mystic Eyes that can inspect everything, what this alchemist sees is not much more than others. Is it because the power of these Mystic Eyes are not complete enough, or is it because this world is just too small? —So the Mind of God thought, before closing its eyes.

Meketaten Solar Obscura
A circular disc-shaped Mystic Code the size of a small building. In its current iteration, it uses concentrated solar power as a catalyst to power the true Eye of Horus stored within it. Functioning as a Pseudo-Shrine to Horus, it allows one to utilize sunlight as means of future observation and real time surveillance, while also possessing a secret function as a highly destructive solar-ray cannon.

Annually, when the Eye of Horus manages to reach full charge, it will produce a side product, something called the Grape of Osiris—It is only through ingesting this “grape” that the consecutive heads of the Haythami Workshop can prevent their frenzied eyes from being burned in agony.

[Dreamerless]

I like this.

[Kamera]

late creator's note; Atlas alchemists are kind of a bitch to write because their method of using magecraft and setting circumstance follows much stricter and often counter-intuitive set of rules than the garden variety mages. Because of this I had to trim quite a bit from the draft I posted awhile back (his Zabaniya for example).

[Salt Pillar]

The magecraft is problematic on many levels.
1. Foundations aren't just concepts, they're schools of thought (religion, mysticism, philosophy, myth).
2. How would it contain all information about magecraft exactly? How does it get this kind of information? Where does it store this information? How does it store this information? What counts as eligible information, what's gibberish? Why? How is this supposed to be difficult? How did this kind of magecraft not take over the entire magecraft world? Why isn't everyone practicing only this if it can give one access to just about all information? Who constructed this "library"? Why do they have a section on True Magic in the first place? Why is Jean prohibited from delving into that section?
3. True Magic?????????????? Why???? How???? Whence????

[Kamera]

why are you posting something unfinished only to edit in little details every two minutes?

[Dreamerless]

The magecraft is problematic on many levels.
1. Foundations aren't just concepts, they're schools of thought (religion, mysticism, philosophy, myth).
2. How would it contain all information about magecraft exactly? How does it get this kind of information? Where does it store this information? How does it store this information? What counts as eligible information, what's gibberish? Why? How is this supposed to be difficult? How did this kind of magecraft not take over the entire magecraft world? Why isn't everyone practicing only this if it can give one access to just about all information? Who constructed this "library"? Why do they have a section on True Magic in the first place? Why is Jean prohibited from delving into that section?
3. True Magic?????????????? Why???? How???? Whence????

1. Foundations … are weird
2. The library of babel was a hypothetical library that contained every organization of letters of a certain length. As written about in a famous story.A lot of this is gibberish that has no meaning that he personally can find. The magecraft is searching through this hypothetical library to find things he wants
3. He can’t get true magic at all. That was that point. Even if he could hypothetically isolate the book in the library about true magic, he couldn’t use it without getting the root.

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why are you posting something unfinished only to edit in little details every two minutes?

I tend to be a fiddler with things

If the mage is that bad, I’ll delete it

[DelRey]

finally
Googlemancy

[Salt Pillar]

Magi don't work on the same axioms as servants; short stories don't contribute to magecraft systems. This is just the Akashic Records, but without the foundational support of Theosophy. You can't just create a magecraft that boils down to "I can find out just about anything on everything" without elaborating further

[Dreamerless]

Magi don't work on the same axioms as servants; short stories don't contribute to magecraft systems. This is just the Akashic Records, but without the foundational support of Theosophy. You can't just create a magecraft that boils down to "I can find out just about anything on everything" without elaborating further

It’s much much worse on multiple levels as I said. Once again, if the idea is too bad I’ll delete it.

[Salt Pillar]

I wouldn't advocate deleting anything

[Dreamerless]

I wouldn't advocate deleting anything

I personally believe that this works as a magecraft, but if it doesn’t then idk. Random, as resident expert, I’m asking you. Does that concept work?

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finally
Googlemancy

Yeah, kinda