- "You're a singular multidimensional messiah. You're going to rewrite the rules of magic and all the implications of that decision are going to echo forward and backwards across all realities. It's no biggie."
- ― Loki describing Wiccan's future self (Young Avengers)
The ability to transcend the rules of magic. Sub-power of Almighty Magic. Combination of Magic and Causality Manipulation. Not to be confused with Magic Ascendancy. Opposite to Meta Science.
Also Called
- Magical Causality Manipulation
- Magical Laws/Rules Ascendancy/Transcendence
Capabilities
User has magical powers which transcends the rules under which they operate, making them either the exceptions to those rules or beyond them all together and granting them total dominion over the cause and effects to the rules of magic by their source. They are able to make/modify the rules, allowing them to alter or ignore the conditions and limitations of the magical systems, which can lead them down the path beyond magic itself.
Applications
- Adaptation Manipulation
- Magic Creation/Spell Creation
- Magic Detection/Energy Detection
- Magical Energy Manipulation
- Supernatural Law Manipulation
- Alternate magical forces to unify ancient chaotic energies without danger.
- Become the source of your mana and create others.
- Cause magic spells to happen instantly.
- Create and remove magical defenses, Immunities and etc against any power rendering them useless.
- Cheat/bend rules of magic.
- Construct and enchant any item.
- Customize the properties of magical items.
- Customize the properties of spells.
- Customize the outcomes of magic.
- Generate/possess an infinite amount of mana/energy.
- Harness/Balance vast cosmological and esoteric forces.
- Immune to Anti-Magic and detrimental side-effects.
- Impervious to power-altering.
- Make any magic/spell transcend it's normal power.
- Operate normally in non-magical contexts.
- Penetrate any/every form of blocker temporal, mental or otherwise.
- Remove spells' requirements/limitations.
- Remove the cost and limits of anything magical.
- User has an unbreakable bond with the very source of magic.
Associations
- Almighty Magic
- Magic Ascendancy
- Magic Lordship
- Mythic Lord Physiology
- Mystic Derivation
- Mystic Lock
- Omni-Magic
- Primordial Mage Physiology
- Science-Magic Mixture
- Subjective Reality
- Transcendent Mage Physiology
Limitations
- The power only applies to magic itself, so users may still need to rely on spells.
- Users of Mystic Lock may be immune.
Known Users
Comics
- Scarlet Witch (Marvel Comics)
- Wiccan (Marvel Comics)
Literature
- Coin the Sourcerer (Discworld)
- Argeddion (Skulduggery Pleasant)
- Darquesse (Skulduggery Pleasant)
Live Television
- Amara (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland)
- Jafar (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland)
- King Nikolaus (Witches of East End)
Anime/Manga
- Index Librorum Prohibitorum (A Certain Magical Index)
- Rufus Lore (Fairy Tail)
- Erza Scarlet (Fairy Tail)
- Zeref Dragneel (Fairy Tail)
- Jack Rakan (Negima)
- Lei Magnus (Slayers)
- Zaha Torte (Sorcerer Hunters); via the Astral Grid
- Featherine Augustus Aurora (Umineko no Naku Koro ni)
- Ruin Iskar (UQ Holder)
Tabletop Games
- Mystra (Dungeons & Dragons)
- Users of Epic-Level Spells (Dungeons & Dragons)
TCG
- Imaskari (Forgotten Realms)
- Planeswalkers (Magic: The Gathering)
Video Games
- Grand Caster (Fate/Grand Order)
- Faeries (TYPE-MOON)
- The Five Magicians (TYPE-MOON)
- Shirou Kotomine (TYPE-MOON)
- Scathach (Valkyrie Crusade)
- Parace L'Sia (Arcana Hearts)
Known Objects
- Eternity Magic: Fairy Heart (Fairy Tail)
- The One Magic (Fairy Tail)
- High Magic (Forgotten Realms)
- Avalon (TYPE-MOON)
Gallery
As the Goddess of Magic, Mystra (Dungeons & Dragons) can redefine its principles and how it affects the world.
Faced with impossible odds, Erza Scarlet (Fairy Tail) pulls a never seen before armor that "breaks the rules of magic" and an "invincible" sword.
After absorbing the Fairy Heart, Zeref Dragneel (Fairy Tail) gained absolute control over the laws of magic, allowing him to perform Space-Time manipulation as well as magic spells which are normally impossible to perform.
Planeswalkers (Magic: The Gathering) ascended mages on the way to transcendence.
(from left to right) Chandra Nalaar, Liliana Vess and Jace Beleren, three examples of Planeswalkers (Magic: The Gathering).
The Scarlet Witch's (Marvel Comics) magical abilities defy limitations and understanding, puzzling even the Sorcerer Supreme himself.
After casting a complex spell, Jafar (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland) becomes one of the most powerful sorcerers in all the realms, being unhindered by the rules of magic.
Lei Magnus (Slayers) is the only mage in slayers universe capable of breaking the rules of magic and casting the Blast Bomb spell without having to increase his magic capacity.
As the original source of the spell Thousand Thunderbolts, Ruin Iskar (UQ Holder) can bypass the necessary incantation and cast the spell instantly.
King Nikolaus (Witches of East End)
Scathach (Valkyrie Crusade) the goddess of magic and melee.