![]() ![]() Often shows up in works by Yoshiyuki Tomino:.In The Ancient Magus' Bride, this is the product of Magus Craft, which uses magical power as a power-source rather than electricity.In Ah! My Goddess, the magical system underlying existence is likened to computer code, and manipulated accordingly.See also Magic Harms Technology and Science Destroys Magic, where magic and science/technology are incompatible and/or interfere with each other. See also Harmony Versus Discipline, Ritual Magic, and Alchemy Is Magic. Contrast with Clarke's Third Law, Magic from Technology, and Post-Modern Magik. Also, Utility Magic, which can sometimes manifest as this. May result from Sufficiently Analyzed Magic. Magitek is one of the hallmarks of Science Fantasy works. Often involves the Science Wizard (not to be confused with the purely technical Techno Wizard). Courtesy of Ted Woolsey's translations, this fantastic science and the inventions using it became known under the blanket term "Magitek." The Trope Namer is Final Fantasy VI, where the Gestahlian Empire had suits of Power Armor, dozens of Humongous Mecha, and fleets of flying Mini Mecha, armed with various lasers and missiles powered by the life essence of enslaved magical creatures. It takes place in a (then) present-day in which, for example, your taxi is a flying carpet, but otherwise the same (cabbie, meter, and so on). With all that said, a sci-fi setting with no supernatural/fantasy elements could readily substitute actual magic with alien phlebotinum in the equation. ![]() In these circumstances the machine would work without the magic, but magic improves it. There is "technomancy", the school of magic that specializes in controlling or improving existing technology with magic. Fantastic Science leads to this because it treats magic as science something to be studied and learned and experimented with. In some works, technology is based on sufficiently advanced magic, which is itself disguised sufficiently advanced technology. When Magitek is combined with gritty realism, we get Dungeon Punk, but magitek is also common in comedic fantasy. Sufficiently Analyzed Magic frequently causes this but isn't necessary, since a Black Box is almost as good if it's reliable and cheap enough. Magitek (or "magitech") often appears to combine magic with modern technology or at least something distinctively mechanical: traditional heat engine or an electrical generator powered by or powering a magic spell, or a giant mecha that can inexplicably shoot ice from an empty hand. They just get in the car and drive away, or pick up the phone and talk - no special talent required, just as if the devices were technological. The car engine might be powered by a fire elemental, and the telephone may work through the principle of contagion, but this doesn't affect the man on the street. Advanced, ubiquitous magic always seems to end up working just like technology. ![]()
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