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Originally Posted by dkellis
I guess, without any evidence whatsoever, that magical ability is a bit like physical or mental ability.
There will always be someone who is extremely talented or naturally strong or smart or whatever. However, a normal person, if they desire, can possibly train themselves up to whatever level they wish, provided they are willing to put in the hours of training.
Imagine it as something like a skinny bookworm training to bodybuilder proportions. It's possible, just not easy. Also, it may require special equipment; for physical training, it's weights and such, for mental training, it's textbooks, and for magical training, it's focusing devices.
Of course, again, this is based on No Evidence Whatsoever, so I could very well be completely wrong.
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In this case, I believe you are wrong, at least in a fundimental sense. It's been established in canon that what makes a person a mage is for them to be one of the rare few that have, in their bodies, a "Linker Core" which produces magical energy. It's apparently one of the reasons the TSAB allows people who are so young (9-10 years old) to be active field agents - because there are so few people who have Linker Cores that they are constantly short handed on the mages that the Bureau is built around. There's been nothing to indicate that someone who didn't have a Linker Core to start with can create one through training.
Now, we have seen people get around this "limitation", obviously. The Gadgets are machines that use Jewel Seeds as a power source in place of having an actual Linker Core, so presumably there could be a way for a person to do something vaguely similar. For example, instead of being a mage oneself, you might be able to get a device that has a preset list of spells it can cast and load it up with a Velka cartridge system to power it. (Which is why the Bureau would outlaw such devices, just as it's illegal for non-government or -military personnel to possess really powerful weapon types here.)
Frankly, I've been hoping to see some opponent of Nanoha's pull the, "You have defied me; now, your vulnerable family will pay the price!" routine, only to find that her siblings were given simpler cartridge-powered devices that are designed only to make one momentary opening in standard mage-type barriers... that moment being all those two would need to get in one of their sword school's "Finishing Moves" .
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