The ability to gain control over the targets by speaking their name. Sub-power of Magic and Incantation. Variation of True Name Manipulation.
Also Called
- Name Magic
Capabilities
User can gain control over the targets (living or unliving) by using names or phrases to manipulate a person or the universe itself, their words provides them with control over who and what they desire to manipulate.
Applications
- Access and Occlusion
- Activation & Deactivation
- Command Inducement
- Disease Manipulation
- Magic
- Paralysis Inducement
- Subordination Manipulation
- True Name Manipulation
Limitations
- The user must know the name of the subject that he wishes to affect; otherwise he has no power over the user.
- The user may need to visualize subject/need more details, if there are many with similar names.
- Names used must be true names (even if the person is known or referred to by another name).
- Beings from other universes or timelines are somewhat protected from this power.
- Low-lever users are limited on how many subjects they can control, mainly one at a time.
- Disabling one's ability to speak can neutralize the spell, as they cannot speak out the person's name.
Known Users
- Megicula (Black Clover)
- Kido users (Bleach)
- Chi Wizards (Jackie Chan Adventures)
- Mages (Fairy Tail)
- Wizards (Harry Potter)
- The Charmed' Ones (Charmed)
- Light Yagami (Death Note); via Shinigami's Death Note
- Amane (Her Majesty's Dog)
- Wizard/Sorceror/Any magical class (Dungeons and Dragons); through Power Word spells.
- Carrionites (Doctor Who)
- William Shakespeare (Doctor Who)
- The Doctor (Doctor Who)
- Dr. Strange (Marvel)
- Preacher Jesse Custer (Vertigo); uses the word of god to command anyone and everyone with whatever he says.
- Ben and Sarah Ravencroft (Scooby Doo and the Witches Ghost)
- Elphaba (Wicked)
- Magicians (Bartimaeus) hide their true names from the world
- The Warlock (Warlock films) wishes to end the world by speaking God's name backwards
- Arcanists and Faen (The Kingkiller Chronicle); can bend matter and people to their will by discovering their true Names and then speaking them.
- Arya (Inheritance Cycle)
- Eragon (Inheritance Cycle)
- Galbatorix (Inheritance Cycle)
- Margaret Isobel Thoreaux (Smallville)
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