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Originally Posted by agetreme
New comment about the original Esper ability is still welcome. At the meantime....
Now onward to magic side.
Spoiler for New Mage:
Gendai Madoushi (Modern Mage)
Modern mages symbolize modern age’s religion and belief (which also include Scientology).
They belong to a growing cult of mages whom the “traditionalist” (England Church and Roman Church) tried to hunt down and exterminate.
Reason is simple: Modern mages' belief often clashed with religion's dogma. Since they can't get along and there is a saying that enemy of my enemy is my allies.
They end up siding with Science.
Academy City's stand on Modern Magician is..... neutral. Like I mentioned: They are only on the same side because they have the same enemies. Both wouldn't hesitate to back-stab each other if given the opportunity.
Modern Magician: Urban Magician
Affiliation: Freedom Information (the group is actually technology activists who believed that all information should be free.....hence the reason why they use spreading of information(rumors) as source of their power.)
New Generation of magician who utilize rumors and urban legend as source of their power. Unlike your traditional mages instead of relying on higher power being such as angels, they rely on rumors and urban legend.
The pressure created by the imaginary distinct would not cause them any damages however, they would feel heavy fatigued from using magic in that region which means using magic in imaginary distinct for them would still (albeit eventually) lead to death(due to over-exhaustion) if they keep using their magic in there. Even with that being said....they can't use Esper power because their body is still considered wired to magic rather than science. However, doesn't stop them from pretending to be Level 0 though (to hide from "Traditionalist"). They can do this because Power Curriculum Program has no effect on them. As a trade off of not losing their power, they can't become an Esper. They can only be an Esper if they let go of their magic.
If they need a new power, they just need to spread a rumor using a source as basis (fake photograph...etc). If enough people believed in it, they gain the ability to use the magic. The more people, the more powerful the magic would be. However, inversely if nobody believed in that rumor anymore, they lose the ability to use that power. They also share the same inherent problem with traditional mages. If people discover the source of their magic, they can use that knowledge against them.
Example of what mentioned above:
> Urban Mages is capable of powering up Esper using Level Upper rumor. (New power from rumors)
> However, since the true source of Level Upper is sound, if somebody managed to block out that sound (or play the cure), the targeted Esper lose that powerup. (Knowledge of true source being used against them)
>After Level Upper Arc, due to people stop believing in the rumor, the urban mages could no long use the magic.
The medium which they channel their power is cell phone/ any communication device (symbolizing method of how the rumor is spreaded). They need phone/wifi/internet signals in order to use their magic because in a sense: internet/network IS their version of heaven.
(Meta note: they are similar to Hundred tales Clan from Nurarihyon no Mago).
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Pretty nice.
There is just one thing that I would like to point out: in the Indexverse, the general Japanese term for a mage is
Majutsushi. On the other hand, the term
Madoushi (at times translated as wizard) is used to refer specifically to those who have read and successfully mastered the contents of a grimoire.