Stiyl Magnus
Stiyl Magnus is a male anime and manga character who features in A Certain Magical Index.
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Biography
Stiyl Magnus (Japanese: ステイル＝マグヌス, Hepburn: Suteiru Magunusu)
At some point, he came to join the ranks of Necessarius where he specialised in rune magic. During this time, he came to be close friends with Index Librorum Prohibitorum and Kaori Kanzaki. Around 2 years ago, he was assigned as a partner to Index where the two began to work together on missions.
Before Index's memories were erased; he, Index and Kanzaki were close friends, as indicated by their interactions when they are altogether. Stiyl traveled around the world next to Index's side, to copy the original grimoires in her mind, he also accompanied Index to the Vatican as so another book can be implanted into her mind. However, both Stiyl and Kanzaki received terrible news, that Index will die if her memories are not erased once a year. The church explains that since most of Index's mind was already used to contain the 103,000 grimoires and as such there was not enough space left in the brain for it to contain new memories, and since Index had photographic memory she wouldn't forget any unnecessary memory at all. This will kill her since she would use the remaining part of her brain for necessary functions, according to the church. Even then, both Stiyl and Kanzaki asked if there was any other alternative, though obviously they were told there was not. Both of them witnessed the deterioration of Index's body and were forced to erase her memories, weeping by her side. After her memories were erased, both of them tried to make new memories with Index and become her friends, though, the burden of doing the process annually, and then forcibly erasing her memories again was too much for them to handle, and they had given up. Because of this, it created a misunderstanding with Index, where she concluded that Stiyl and Kanzaki were after her and the grimoires inside her head and were enemies. Though they disliked the thought that she believed of them as her enemies, they allowed it to occur as it would detach Index from them, and giving her no reason to worry about losing the memories of her friends
Afterwards, Index fled to Academy City in Japan with Magnus and Kanzaki both sent to recover her. Stiyl promised that he will always protect Index whatever it takes, though it is unknown at which point in time he made this promise. Stiyl also received his trademark barcode tattoo, ear piercing and rings after Index had her memories erased. He was sent from England along with Kanzaki to retrieve Index and reset her memory. He's the first magician Touma fights in the series. He encounters Touma as he stood before an injured Index. He attempts to kill him but his spells at first seemed ineffective due to Touma's Imagine Breaker. He summons Innocentius who proves to be a tough fight for Touma. But he later finds a way to defeat his fire monster and punches him out cold. He was later seen with Kanzaki observing Index and Touma's current condition, here he takes note on how happy Index is, and tells his dismay to Kanzaki on how they always take it away from her. Later, it is revealed that he has upgraded the runes he used on Touma, and now uses runic cards instead of printing paper with rune written on it with ink. Kanzaki utilizes his runic cards to trap Touma, and persuade him to hand over Index - even though she could have easily killed him and take her. Touma is defeated by Kanzaki, but not before he states their cowardice on giving up on Index, to make themselves look like enemies to her instead of explaining to her about her situation and to always be by her side when her memories are erased, and encourage her that there will always be happy memories that would await Index. Stiyl later shows up after his defeat and dispels the barrier that he set-up for Kanzaki's usage.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Stiyl Magnus appeared as a handsome young man with shoulder-length blond hair that was dyed red and styled on either side. Typically, he was seen wearing a black priest robe and had a silver ring on each of his ten fingers, earrings on both ears, and a barcode tattooed under his right eye. His sorcery name was Fortis931, "I prove why my name is the strongest here" (我が名が最強である理由をここに証明する Waga Na ga Saikyō de aru Riyū o Koko ni Shōmei suru).
Stiyl has a short temper, but is actually kind as he cares about Index and is hinted to have affections for her; promising to protect her at all costs.
One of his greatest regrets was the failure to save Index's life without her losing her memories.
He did not like Touma very much and often enjoys causing him discomfort when they are together, but still respects his abilities and the fact that Index can be happy with her current partner.
Stiyl has to deal with the antics of Laura Stuart, even though she is his superior, when she is not performing her duties and is shown to punish her without a thought when she gets out of hand.
Powers and abilities
Stiyl uses runes placed on cards to activate various things such as create a field that no one can enter or summoning Innocentius. He states that he has completely analyzed the current twenty-four character runes and created a new power using six character runes. It was said that he has created a rune after studying the pre-existing runes. However, the runes he uses in episode 2 stand for 'torch' and 'Aesir' when translated, which could roughly be translated as 'torch god.'
He came to be a formidable magician that used runes and fire magic. Stiyl uses Fire Magic based on runes primarily and is very skilled in it, able to manipulate fire and heal burns. He was also capable of burning the face off people and recreate it to a new face, shown when he changed the physical appearance of Aureolus to prevent Izzard being captured. This was linked to his ability to heal burns. Kanzaki Kaori pointed out that Stiyl also has the ability of detecting someone who is hiding thanks to the person's body heat.
Stiyl was capable of using his fire base magic to manipulate heat, changing where the light gets refracted and create visual illusions to trick the enemy's sight. Stiyl can create up to three dummy layers to trick opponents that might be able to track his magic to pierce his normal illusions: the first is the actual mirage illusion of them fleeing within the back alley, the second is creating an artificial presence to trick the enemy that realizes the visual illusion and tries to track his magic by activating one of his rune cards; and the third is activating it all such that the original magic power that activated the spell is disguised.
Among the spells known to him included:
- Squeamish Bloody Rood (吸血殺しの紅十字 Kyūketsu Goroshi no Kurenai Jūji?, lit. "Crimson Cross for Vampire Killing") :
- Flame Sword (炎剣 Enken?, lit. "Flame Sword") :
- Innocentius (魔女狩りの王イノケンティウス Majogari no Ō (Inokentiusu)?, lit. "King of Witch Hunters") :
Stiyl was a magician who came to work for the Church of Necessary Evil that was also known as the Necessarius. (必要悪の教会ネセサリウス Hitsuyōaku no Kyōkai (Nesesariusu)?, lit. "Church of Necessary Evil")
Notes
- Stiyl Magnus was created by Kazuma Kamachi where he featured in the setting of the A Certain Magical Index universe.
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Appearances
- A Certain Magical Index:
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