Displacement (置換, Chikan?) Magecraft, also called Flash Air (フラッシュ・エア, Furasshu Ea?), is a practice of substituting something with something else.
Mechanics[]
Derived from Alchemy, the system has a fundamental rule that the replacement will always suffer from degradation, thought of as basic and low-level, there are very few who use this Magecraft.
Giving the target an arbitrary directivity and changing it physically or conceptually by something close in an instant is the ordinary Displacement Magecraft. In short, it’s a mana shortcut for chemical and conceptual changes of the target. But in the process of Displacement, a degradation in the target will definitely occur. For example if a spoon is continuously replaced by a fork, and a fork by a spoon, its shape will become more and more like an ambiguous spork, and in the end it will become a warped metallic spatula.[1]
One of the basics of Displacement Magecraft is "Shape Replacement", which is replacing the shape of an object into another shape, such as a spoon into a fork or a detailed rose flower.[2]
In Proper Human History, the mechanics of Displacement Magecraft are being researched by an old lineage that doesn't affiliate with the Clock Tower.[3]
Practitioners[]
Displacement (Ainsworth)[]
The personal variation of Flash Air that the Ainsworth family specializes on, differing from normal Displacement, this version used by the Ainsworth allows them to switch a multitude of things, and the scope, accuracy, and application range of their displacement deviates from the common sense of magecraft. It’s not hard to imagine that they are using some trickery.[1]
Darius Ainsworth invented his own style of Flash Air over a thousand years ago. He created it in order to record and store dozens of years of his life, the concept of "Darius", within Pandora's Box, as it contains a place that is not bound by the same rules of the World and so the record of his soul won't suffer decay inside it. Because of this, every version after him is but a copy of the back-up stored in the Pithos, and every time he dies a record of him in his prime is used to make a near-perfect replica. This has the side-effect of making Darius unable to die unless the Pithos is opened, making him immortal. Tanaka explains that his Flash Air is, in actuality, an application of "Transfer Magecraft" that uses the entire imaginary world inside the Pithos as a back-up.[4]
It allows the Ainsworths to displace the Soul and consciousness of others into stuffed animals and other objects, replacing them with pseudo-personalities like those used in their Dolls. Pandora has been subject to it for over 1000 years, as Darius states that although her body is immortal, her soul gets worn down by the passage of time. So Darius uses it to have Pandora "spit out all her soul" as a pool of black mud or "pus", getting rid of the "intellect" of her broken mind and "resetting" her personality and memories, reverting her physically and mentally into the body of a "ignorant and innocent child" so she would not suffer suicidal despair at her undying condition. Darius then stores the data of her memories and body within the Pithos, and will reset her again the next time she gets to this point of begging for death and uselessly trying to kill herself.[5]
Darius Ainsworth himself has made the circuits of his descendants capable of "[giving] birth to the concept of Darius", allowing Darius to conceptual replace the next head of the Ainsworth, or any of his descendants, with himself; allowing his mind, his appearance, his whole existence, to exist continuously for millennia. It is also through Flash Air that Class Cards are created.
They can change the relations of doors and windows in a building, regardless of actual geographical location, allowing for them to be changed or have one connect to another in an instant to confuse enemies. They can displace an entire mountain with buildings, such as their own castle. They can launch and redirect any attack, be it their own or their enemies, from any direction or angle, displacing a portion of space to place hostile projectiles behind the enemy, allow for their own projectiles to change trajectory by shifting space, increase the velocity of projectiles to become faster and harder-hitting, allow for them to have their limbs appear anywhere, and make their enemy's own sword swings hit them from behind. They can block sword strikes from even a Holy Sword by inverting the coordinates of the attack's surface area, causing the sword to be deflected by itself, and do so subtly enough that it seems like they are blocking it with their bare skin.
They can shift space to teleport or become intangible, displace light and sound to become invisible, create illusionary copies, make the space around the illusions intangible to trick opponents, project their voice to be heard from places they're not or to become completely soundless, and can also change their appearance to that of another person. They can also make places invisible and inaccessible, like their castle, and can also create a Bounded Field specialized in Displacement Magecraft to achieve this effect without them having to do it themselves. With such a bounded field, not only are such places invisible, but trying to enter it will warp a person so they immediately exit on the other side of the field. They can also grab at a person's heart by displacing their body around their hand, create portals by displacing space to reach out to someone or something, and move their whole body through them.
Through enough skill and power, by utilising the basic Flash Air Ability of "Shape Replacement", one can give even massive objects powerful shape-shifting ability, and with precision to only affect selected sections instead of needed to transform the whole object, such growing massive spine-covered, spike-launching tendrils from parts of the Ainsworths' Cube, which is larger than a castle.[2]
An Gal Ta Kigal Šè[]
Ishtar's Noble Phantasm An Gal Ta Kigal Šè also utilizes Displacement Magecraft, in order to warp the bullet made from the concept of the Age of Gods' Venus, and fired from the same Age of Gods period, into the modern age to hit its target.[6]
CHALDEAS[]
Through a form of Displacement Magecraft, the surface of CHALDEAS replaces the World. Due to the fact that CHALDEAS is an identical copy of the World's soul, it and the World are identical up to 99% accuracy. Because of being identical from a third-person's point of view, they are able to instantly swap places no matter how far away they are from each other and without anyone realising they had been swapped; in the correct circumstances, not even the swapped targets will realise it. Although theoretically possible, the process gets more difficult the larger the object is; however, as long as the information content and makeup of their souls are the same, then swapping is possible. As the planet is not actually harmed and merely had the surfaces swapped with CHALDEAS, the process is able to avoid triggering a response from the Counter Force as the Earth is still unhurt. Functions known as the Alien World and Alien God are utilized to facilitate the process.[3]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1
[] PRISMA material/pre - Encyclopedia: Displacement Magecraft [Magecraft], p.34 Displacement Magecraft [Magecraft]
Flash Air.
Basic magecraft that replaces something with something. It derives from a primitive alchemy that aimed to transform metals into gold.
Giving the target an arbitrary directivity and changing it physical or conceptually by something close in an instant is the ordinary displacement magecraft. In short, it’s a mana shortcut for chemical and conceptual changes of the target. But in the process of displacement, a degradation in the target will definitely occur. For example if a spoon is continuously replaced by a fork, and a fork by a spoon, its shape will become more and more like an ambiguous spork, and in the end it will become a warped metallic spatula.
The scope, accuracy, and application range of the displacement magecraft used by the Ainsworths deviate from the common sense of magecraft. It’s not hard to imagine that they are using some trickery.置換魔術【魔術】
フラッシュ・エア。
何かを何かに置き換える基礎魔術。金属を黄金に変えることを目指した原始的な錬金術より派生した。
対象物に任意の指向性を与え、物質的、あるいは概念的に近いものに一瞬で変化させるというのが通常の置換魔術。要は対象の化学的、概念的な変化を魔力でショートカットさせるものである。だが置換の過程で、対象物には必ず劣化が生じる。たとえばスプーンをフォークに、フォークをスプーンにと置換を続けていくと、だんだんと形が曖昧な先割れスプーンのようになっていき、最後には歪な金属のヘラになってしまう。
エインズワースが行使する置換魔術は規模や精度、応用範囲が魔術の常識を逸脱している。何らかのインチキをしていることは想像に難くない。 - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA 3rei!! - Chapter 56.1: "Unextractable Thorn (1)"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Fate/Grand Order - Ordeal Call - Prologue
- ↑ Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA 3rei!!- Chapter 65.2: "Tactility Of The Planet"
- ↑ Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA 3rei!! - Chapter 56.2: "Unextractable Thorn (2)"
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order material IV - Ishtar, p.296-309, translated by Clyton at Beast's Lair.