The power to utilize practices that are informational in nature. Variation of Supernatural Arts. Not to be confused with Scientific or Magic Arts.
Also Called[]
- Cognizance/Ken Arts/Techniques
- Information/Informational/Knowledgeable Arts/Techniques
Capabilities[]
The user can utilize the Knowledge Arts, a specialized system of techniques based around informational power. Knowledge refers to the awareness of information or possession of skills and talents based on experiences or education. While there are fundamental facts that define aspects of existence, the broader scope of knowledge can often take on more subjective characteristics. It can be derived from various sources such as external perception (observing one’s surroundings), introspection (comprehending one’s internal nature), memory (recollection of experiences and learned data) and even testimony (hearing authentic material from other people). Knowledge can then define how one understands and interacts with the world, granting an abstract sense of control over one’s environment. Training enables knowledge, which can conceptually be transformed into something new and powerful under the right circumstances.
One can wield special techniques related to information. One of the most basic involves copying or even stealing learned facts from others, allowing one to wield specific skills normally unavailable to them. Individuals may be able to possess enhanced intelligence or learn to augment/modify their IQ based on their needs. Users can learn to analyze specific intelligence about a target, giving them stats about strengths, weaknesses and overall natures. In an abstract practice, one can even control the very essence of the information presented, altering aspects of a target from size to shape to whether it is real or not. They can change the factual into the fantastical and vice versa. Reality itself, a source of knowledge, can then be altered according to one’s wishes. Potentially, they can access the Akashic Plane, the metaphysical realm of all existential information. It becomes a literal expression of the idiom, knowledge is power.
Applications[]
- All/Various Cognitive Powers
- Superanatural Condition
- Training Regimen
Techniques[]
Variations[]
Associations[]
- Comprehension Manipulation
- Intelligent Mode
- Logic Manipulation
- Self-Power Augmentation
- Supernatural Arts
Limitations[]
- Fact Manipulation/Information Trapping/Knowledge Absorption/Erasure/Truth Manipulation
- Lack of proper knowledge could lead to power loss or dangerous effects.
- May only be able to use power of specific form of information.
- May be unintentionally overwhelmed and/or possessed thanks to techniques.
- May be limited to types of techniques (existence alteration, information creation, perception manipulation, etc.).
Known Users[]
- Energybenders (Avatar: The Last Airbender/The Legend of Korra)
- Sigma (Bungo Stray Dogs)
- Quantum Ray (Cosmic Quantum Ray)
- Bernard Venton/Headcase (DC Comics)
- River Baldwin (DC/Wildstorm Comics)
- Crux (Fairy Tail)
- Archive Users (Fairy Tail)
- Crawford Seam (Fairy Tail)
- Elefseria (Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest)
- Archmage (Gargoyles)
- Asuka R♯ (Guilty Gear)
- The Original (Guilty Gear)
- That Man/Gear Maker (Guilty Gear)
- Rohan Kishibe (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part IV: Diamond is Unbreakable); via Heaven's Door
- David Alleyne/Prodigy (Marvel Comics)
- Anna Marie Lebeau/Rogue (Marvel Comics)
- Cheon Yeo Woon (Nano Machine)
- Invasion Users (Nanatsu no Taizai/The Seven Deadly Sins)
- Trafalgar D. Water Law (One Piece); via Ope Ope no Mi/Op-Op Fruit
- Malchior (Teen Titans)
- Rachel Roth/Raven (Teen Titans)
- Rimuru Tempest (Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken/That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime)
- Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Toaru Majutsu no Index/A Certain Magical Index)
- Patchouli Knowledge (Touhou Project)
- Akashic Record (Valkyrie Crusade)
- Metis (Valkyrie Crusade)
- Kogarashi Fuyuzora (Yuragi-sou no Yuuna-san/Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs)
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