Mage of the Beginning
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Twenty years ago, the Mage of the Beginning escaped from her seal under the World Tree of Mahora. She is said to have brought the world to the brink of extinction, to the point that the mere mention of her could cause a global panic, and was as such made taboo. Shion Nagumo tried to face her but was overwhelmed by her armies of demon-constructs and only owed his life to Negi, Fate, Mana Tatsumiya and Zazie Rainyday. Negi destroyed the Life-Maker, killing his father who was her vessel, and disappeared. | Twenty years ago, the Mage of the Beginning escaped from her seal under the World Tree of Mahora. She is said to have brought the world to the brink of extinction, to the point that the mere mention of her could cause a global panic, and was as such made taboo. Shion Nagumo tried to face her but was overwhelmed by her armies of demon-constructs and only owed his life to Negi, Fate, Mana Tatsumiya and Zazie Rainyday. Negi destroyed the Life-Maker, killing his father who was her vessel, and disappeared. | ||
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| + | After Fate admits defeat and agrees to help Negi in his alternate plan to save the Mundus Magicus, they are both pierced by a dark beam, just like Primum and Nagi before them, and the Life-Maker’s ominous figure appears. Apparently, with both worlds merging and with Cosmo Entelecheia's hideout with Asuna's captive appearing over her prison enabled the Mage to awake, and she created a projection of herself onto the battlefield. The Life-Maker restores every fallen members of Fate's (former) team and resurrects all her deceased followers, who then prepare to finish off the Ala Alba, starting with Negi and Fate. As everything seems doomed, Evangeline A.K. McDowell (who has become Negi's teacher) uses the connection between Mahora Academy and the Mundus Magicus to barge in, soon followed by the Dean of Mahora and every surviving member of the Ala Rubra. Evangeline encases them all in everlasting ice with a powerful spell she especially devised for such enemies, but it has no effect on the Life-Maker who enters the fray. She paralyzes Evangeline and Rakan, swats away the Ala Rubra like nothing and grabs Negi by the neck. Asuna, who has just been freed by all of Negi's comrades, jumps to the rescue and slices the archmage's projection nearly in half with her Pactio Artifact, a huge, demon-banishing Claymore sword. Negi and Asuna then combine their White of Mars power into the Claymore, dispelling her onslaught of dark beams and destroying her projection. | ||
Later, Touta learns more about her from Dana Ananga Jagannatha and then from Negi's former students. Since he was the only one who can destroy the Life-Maker for good, and since her possession of Negi was imminent, Touta resolved to defeat her and save his 'grandfather'. | Later, Touta learns more about her from Dana Ananga Jagannatha and then from Negi's former students. Since he was the only one who can destroy the Life-Maker for good, and since her possession of Negi was imminent, Touta resolved to defeat her and save his 'grandfather'. | ||
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| + | As Touta is about to finish the hydrofoil race along with Shinobu Yuuki, Mizore Yukihiro and Kirie Sakurame, he is attacked by Cutlass. Negi then appears, with Albireo Imma, Jack Rakan, Nodoka Miyazaki and Yue Ayase, all under the Mage of the Beginning's control. Touta and Evangeline end up trapped in the Mage's Phantasmagoria, in which the Mage herself appears, revealing her true name and introducing herself as their enemy. They resolve to defeat her, but they stand no chance and end up overwhelmed. She uses the image of Negi and Nagi to toy with Evangeline's feelings and break her resolve before reducing her to dust, musing that for as powerful and experienced as she is she remains a little girl. She then creates replicas of her Apostles to overwhelm Touta, and brings his friends in the Phantasmagoria under her control to shatter his spirit. As he is struggling against the Life-Maker's mental attack, they are all saved by Asuna Kagurazaka's miraculous intervention. Some time later, Dana shows Touta and his friends a recording of the "Time of the Happy Ending", the timeline in which Asuna returned and in which they could defeat the Life-Maker once and for all and save Nagi, revealing the way they can defeat her in this timeline, prompting Touta to declare that they will build their own happy ending. | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
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===Powers and abilities=== | ===Powers and abilities=== | ||
| + | Ialda is in essence a spiritual life-form, which Negi compares to a vengeful spirit who feeds off both the suffering and resentment of all living beings magnifying her magic power as a result. In addition to this, she also has the Revenge-Type Possession, which allow her to possess the person who killed her making her virtually invincible. As such, she could possess Nagi Springfield who defeated her the first time, then merged with him to the point of completely merging with him and later did the same to Negi after defeating her. | ||
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Ialda Baoth has displayed absolute magic mastery, being able to create perfect mage constructs such as the Averruncus Series who each wields perfect mastery in Elemental Magic such as Fate being capable of performing powerful Earth Magic. She has proven capable of performing numerous god-like feats ranging from creating an entire world, powerful magics, and lifeforms. Ialda is also an unbelievable necromancer, being able to animate and control the living dead on a different level than Sayoko Minase, summoning countless skeletons that Santa described as 10,000 times more than the latter who almost destroyed humankind implying she has a total billions of malevolent spirits. | Ialda Baoth has displayed absolute magic mastery, being able to create perfect mage constructs such as the Averruncus Series who each wields perfect mastery in Elemental Magic such as Fate being capable of performing powerful Earth Magic. She has proven capable of performing numerous god-like feats ranging from creating an entire world, powerful magics, and lifeforms. Ialda is also an unbelievable necromancer, being able to animate and control the living dead on a different level than Sayoko Minase, summoning countless skeletons that Santa described as 10,000 times more than the latter who almost destroyed humankind implying she has a total billions of malevolent spirits. | ||
One of her noted abilities was '''Resonance''' that was the power of infinite empathy. It allowed and forced the wielder to feel the emotions of everyone and everything. This was said to be so powerful as to reduce those with the ability to madness in a short time. | One of her noted abilities was '''Resonance''' that was the power of infinite empathy. It allowed and forced the wielder to feel the emotions of everyone and everything. This was said to be so powerful as to reduce those with the ability to madness in a short time. | ||
| − | + | A divine power of creation based off the Force of Light, which has been passed down to all her descendants, in addition to it ironically being the only thing that could destroy her once and for all without rearing her possession. Ialda once used this to create an entire world filled with fauna, flora, and population; in addition to even an entire dimension where everyone lives the happiest life possible. This power also enables them to cancel any magic or warp reality, bending time, space and dimensions and affecting magical artifacts. A divine power of destruction based off the Force of Darkness, which is later revealed the basis of Magia Erebea, who based it all her immortal body. It is a power fueled by all negative emotions and feelings capable of engulfing and assimilating everything, enabling the cast to absorb spells into themselves boosting their might and abilities. In addition to Ialda being capable of creating darkness and shaping that into solid forms, using darkness attacks, which could shatter even the mightiest protections. | |
She was able to conduct powerful mind attacks on others causing them to experience guilt and despair. | She was able to conduct powerful mind attacks on others causing them to experience guilt and despair. | ||
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| + | Among the techniques known to her included: | ||
| + | *'''Jovis Tempestas Fulguriens''' (雷の暴風ヨウィス・テンペスタース・フルグリエンス, Yowisu Tenpesutāsu Furuguriensu) : an attack spell combining both wind and lightning into a directed storm teeming with lightning. Used against Negi and Fate while in Nagi's body. | ||
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| + | If killed, she was able to take over the body of the person destroying her thus making them her new host body. In some cases, the possession was quick but stronger willed hosts were able to fight her control of a time before she completely subsumed their personality. | ||
One of her abilities was the power to create a '''Phantasmagoria''' that were fantasy world created from her mind which she was able to rule. Within it, anything she desired was created as the world created within it was entirely subject to her will. | One of her abilities was the power to create a '''Phantasmagoria''' that were fantasy world created from her mind which she was able to rule. Within it, anything she desired was created as the world created within it was entirely subject to her will. | ||
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==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
*The Mage of the Beginning was created by Ken Akamatsu and featured in the setting of Negima! Magister Negi Magi and UQ Holder!. | *The Mage of the Beginning was created by Ken Akamatsu and featured in the setting of Negima! Magister Negi Magi and UQ Holder!. | ||
| + | *The real name of the Mage of the Beginning, Ialda Baoth, is a reference to the philosophical concept of the Demiurge. | ||
==In other media== | ==In other media== | ||
Latest revision as of 05:57, 13 March 2025
The Mage of the Beginning is a manga and anime villain who features in Negima!.
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Biography
Ialda Baoth (Japanese: ヨルダ・バオト, Hepburn: Yoruda Baoto)
Twenty years ago, the Mage of the Beginning escaped from her seal under the World Tree of Mahora. She is said to have brought the world to the brink of extinction, to the point that the mere mention of her could cause a global panic, and was as such made taboo. Shion Nagumo tried to face her but was overwhelmed by her armies of demon-constructs and only owed his life to Negi, Fate, Mana Tatsumiya and Zazie Rainyday. Negi destroyed the Life-Maker, killing his father who was her vessel, and disappeared.
After Fate admits defeat and agrees to help Negi in his alternate plan to save the Mundus Magicus, they are both pierced by a dark beam, just like Primum and Nagi before them, and the Life-Maker’s ominous figure appears. Apparently, with both worlds merging and with Cosmo Entelecheia's hideout with Asuna's captive appearing over her prison enabled the Mage to awake, and she created a projection of herself onto the battlefield. The Life-Maker restores every fallen members of Fate's (former) team and resurrects all her deceased followers, who then prepare to finish off the Ala Alba, starting with Negi and Fate. As everything seems doomed, Evangeline A.K. McDowell (who has become Negi's teacher) uses the connection between Mahora Academy and the Mundus Magicus to barge in, soon followed by the Dean of Mahora and every surviving member of the Ala Rubra. Evangeline encases them all in everlasting ice with a powerful spell she especially devised for such enemies, but it has no effect on the Life-Maker who enters the fray. She paralyzes Evangeline and Rakan, swats away the Ala Rubra like nothing and grabs Negi by the neck. Asuna, who has just been freed by all of Negi's comrades, jumps to the rescue and slices the archmage's projection nearly in half with her Pactio Artifact, a huge, demon-banishing Claymore sword. Negi and Asuna then combine their White of Mars power into the Claymore, dispelling her onslaught of dark beams and destroying her projection.
Later, Touta learns more about her from Dana Ananga Jagannatha and then from Negi's former students. Since he was the only one who can destroy the Life-Maker for good, and since her possession of Negi was imminent, Touta resolved to defeat her and save his 'grandfather'.
As Touta is about to finish the hydrofoil race along with Shinobu Yuuki, Mizore Yukihiro and Kirie Sakurame, he is attacked by Cutlass. Negi then appears, with Albireo Imma, Jack Rakan, Nodoka Miyazaki and Yue Ayase, all under the Mage of the Beginning's control. Touta and Evangeline end up trapped in the Mage's Phantasmagoria, in which the Mage herself appears, revealing her true name and introducing herself as their enemy. They resolve to defeat her, but they stand no chance and end up overwhelmed. She uses the image of Negi and Nagi to toy with Evangeline's feelings and break her resolve before reducing her to dust, musing that for as powerful and experienced as she is she remains a little girl. She then creates replicas of her Apostles to overwhelm Touta, and brings his friends in the Phantasmagoria under her control to shatter his spirit. As he is struggling against the Life-Maker's mental attack, they are all saved by Asuna Kagurazaka's miraculous intervention. Some time later, Dana shows Touta and his friends a recording of the "Time of the Happy Ending", the timeline in which Asuna returned and in which they could defeat the Life-Maker once and for all and save Nagi, revealing the way they can defeat her in this timeline, prompting Touta to declare that they will build their own happy ending.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, the Mage of the Beginning was a very tall and threatening figure, clad in long dark robes and cloaks, with her cloak torn to shreds floating around her like wings. Her real aspect was that of a youthful-looking, timeless woman with long hair worn in plaits that frame the back of the head. Others depictions show her with large bat-like wings at hip levelShe was also known as the Mage of the Beginning and as the Life-Maker.
Because her unique skill, the Resonance, constantly connects her to all pain of every living being, the Mage of the Beginning is, as stated by Fate, "broken". She wants to free herself from it by ending suffering for good, but she would not hesitate to take drastic measures such as banishing all life in a paradise dimension, like she attempted several times in the Magical World.
Powers and abilities
Ialda is in essence a spiritual life-form, which Negi compares to a vengeful spirit who feeds off both the suffering and resentment of all living beings magnifying her magic power as a result. In addition to this, she also has the Revenge-Type Possession, which allow her to possess the person who killed her making her virtually invincible. As such, she could possess Nagi Springfield who defeated her the first time, then merged with him to the point of completely merging with him and later did the same to Negi after defeating her.
Ialda Baoth has displayed absolute magic mastery, being able to create perfect mage constructs such as the Averruncus Series who each wields perfect mastery in Elemental Magic such as Fate being capable of performing powerful Earth Magic. She has proven capable of performing numerous god-like feats ranging from creating an entire world, powerful magics, and lifeforms. Ialda is also an unbelievable necromancer, being able to animate and control the living dead on a different level than Sayoko Minase, summoning countless skeletons that Santa described as 10,000 times more than the latter who almost destroyed humankind implying she has a total billions of malevolent spirits.
One of her noted abilities was Resonance that was the power of infinite empathy. It allowed and forced the wielder to feel the emotions of everyone and everything. This was said to be so powerful as to reduce those with the ability to madness in a short time.
A divine power of creation based off the Force of Light, which has been passed down to all her descendants, in addition to it ironically being the only thing that could destroy her once and for all without rearing her possession. Ialda once used this to create an entire world filled with fauna, flora, and population; in addition to even an entire dimension where everyone lives the happiest life possible. This power also enables them to cancel any magic or warp reality, bending time, space and dimensions and affecting magical artifacts. A divine power of destruction based off the Force of Darkness, which is later revealed the basis of Magia Erebea, who based it all her immortal body. It is a power fueled by all negative emotions and feelings capable of engulfing and assimilating everything, enabling the cast to absorb spells into themselves boosting their might and abilities. In addition to Ialda being capable of creating darkness and shaping that into solid forms, using darkness attacks, which could shatter even the mightiest protections.
She was able to conduct powerful mind attacks on others causing them to experience guilt and despair.
Among the techniques known to her included:
- Jovis Tempestas Fulguriens (雷の暴風ヨウィス・テンペスタース・フルグリエンス, Yowisu Tenpesutāsu Furuguriensu) : an attack spell combining both wind and lightning into a directed storm teeming with lightning. Used against Negi and Fate while in Nagi's body.
If killed, she was able to take over the body of the person destroying her thus making them her new host body. In some cases, the possession was quick but stronger willed hosts were able to fight her control of a time before she completely subsumed their personality.
One of her abilities was the power to create a Phantasmagoria that were fantasy world created from her mind which she was able to rule. Within it, anything she desired was created as the world created within it was entirely subject to her will.
Notes
- The Mage of the Beginning was created by Ken Akamatsu and featured in the setting of Negima! Magister Negi Magi and UQ Holder!.
- The real name of the Mage of the Beginning, Ialda Baoth, is a reference to the philosophical concept of the Demiurge.
In other media
Television
Appearances
- Negima! Magister Negi Magi:
- UQ Holder!:
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