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    Magician


    Shorthand for [Magic Skills Expert]. A generic term for persons capable of using practical-level magic. Whether the magic used is Modern Magic or Ancient Magic, all are [Magic Skills Experts]. However users of Ancient Magic prefer traditional terms like [Sorcerer], [Medium], [Ascetic], or [Ninja] when introducing themselves. It is said that 1 in 1000 teenagers have magical talent and this bes 1 in 10000 for adults after power loss due to stresses during growth phases, but this is entirely for [practical-level magic]; persons possessing bat-level magic] are even rarer.


    Magic Sequence


    Information bodies meant to temporarily manipte phenomenon-rted information. These are constructed from a magician''s stock psions. Phenomenon-rted information are also psion information bodies, so magic sequences alter them like whatputer viruses do. The [World] has the recovery strength to maintain temporal continuity, hence a magic sequence''s effectiveness is only temporary. Given that fact, if sufficiently prolonged magic- induced [alteration] is kept up, it can be [established] as [reality] to the [World]. Magical therapy exploits this principle.


    Output processes of magic sequences


    Outputting magic sequences obey the following processes.


    1.One receives the activation sequence from a CAD. This is called [activation sequence loading].


    2.Variables are added to the activation sequence, then both are sent to the magic calction zone.


    3.The magic sequence is constructed from the activation sequence and the variables. This is automatically executed in the magic calction zone, a ck box process even to magicians themselves.


    4.The constructed magic sequences are forwarded through the [Route] (it serves as the bottomyer of the conscious and the topyer of the unconscious), and outputted from the [Gate] (the threshold that exists in both conscious and unconscious mind) on to the [Idea].


    5.The magic sequences being outputted to the [Idea] alter the Eidos at the specified coordinates, and so rewrite it.


    In each magic system and magic process,pleting these five processes in 0.5 second is the benchmark for a [practical-level] magician.


    Magic systems


    Traditional magic ssifies the techniques by applying symbolic elements to the phenomenon being activated. Model ssifications include the major four elements ([earth], [water], [fire], [air]), the five rings ([sky] is added to the major four elements), and the wu xing ([wood], [fire], [earth], [metal], [water]). There are even cases when elements such as [light], [dark], [void], [nothingness], [divine], [lunar], [lightning], [mountain], and [valley] were added. Modern magic, with its roots from ESP research, are ssified not from the perceived property but from its functionality.


    Namely,


    (eleration and Gravitation) (Movement and Oscition)


    (Convergence and Dispersion) (Absorption and Emission)


    The above-mentioned is the four-system, eight-type magic taxonomic schema.


    Of course it is known that there are always exceptions, magics that cannot be ssified under modern magic''s four-system eight-type schema. So for example, since the four-system eight-type is focused on functionality, ESP (aka parapsychology, extra-sensory perception) is ssified as [Perception magic], separate from the the four-system eight type magics; in this division parapsycholgic approaches are still strong. In terms of schstic research, the magic systems are finely ssified; still [rewriting information that are attached to reality and reflecting those alterations back to reality] is magic''s only truth, and this applies to both ssified and unssified magics.


    Magic processes


    In modern magic the term "magic processes" carry two meanings: one, the very processes to activate magic, and two, thebined singr and multiple magic processing for the purpose of performing the target alterations to reality. For thetter meaning, taking for example magic to relocate an egg from the kitchen to the table, the required processes would be eleration, movement, eleration, then movement. Movement magic rewrites an object''s velocity and linear coordinates, and omitting the eleration processes means an increase in eleration that ignores a target object''s inertia (this means one shattered egg). Omitting the movement processing and using only eleration and deceleration processes means the egg will follow a parabolic trajectory, and this requires extremely fine deceleration control. Even with repeated deceleration processing, using movement magic to zero out the velocity is far easier. With these four processes, it bes the magic of [relocating an egg from the kitchen to the table]. Prevailing view says civilian-use magics requires more processing stages than military-use magics.


    Magic evaluation standards (magic strength)


    Magic throughput (how fast one can construct psion information bodies), magic capacity (how big one can construct psion information bodies), and interference strength (how strong one''s magic sequences can rewrite the Eidos). These three together define magic strength. Other main factors like stock psion capacity (limits how many times one can activate magic) or multi-variable processing capability (influences the degrees of freedom for magic) are not counted towards magic strength. Magicians are controlled through a licensing system, and it is the norm for them to be assessed from A-rank to E-rank.


    Magic calction zone


    The mental zone when magic sequences are constructed. The wellspring for the ability called magic. It exists in a magician''s unconscious mind, and while magicians are normally aware and make use of it they cannot sense the actual processes that are being performed there. The magic calction zone is said to be a sealed ck box even among magicians.