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* DoingInTheWizard: "Magic" is eventually revealed to be [[spoiler:[[ClarkesThirdLaw sufficiently advanced technology]] powered by the titular Ra, a solar-powered AI constructed in the far future to grant humanity's every desire, and invisible nanomachines that act as "listeners". After this went catastrophically wrong, the Wheel Group created "magic" as a layer of abstraction to put more limits on using Ra.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Holy shit, Laura. Her actions directly result in Ra coming awake and ''the world being destroyed''.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** [[spoiler:Holy shit, Laura. Her actions directly result in Ra coming awake and ''the world being destroyed''.]]]]
** [[spoiler:Rachel saving the seven astronauts on the ''Atlantis'']] is the catalyst which pushes [[spoiler:Laura]] to make the fatal mistake listed above. Hope it was worth it, [[spoiler:Rachel]]!
** [[spoiler:Holy shit, Laura. Her actions directly result in Ra coming awake and ''the world being destroyed''.
** [[spoiler:Rachel saving the seven astronauts on the ''Atlantis'']] is the catalyst which pushes [[spoiler:Laura]] to make the fatal mistake listed above. Hope it was worth it, [[spoiler:Rachel]]!
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* DreamPeople: The things in Tanako's World might be. Ra apparently is, as well.
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* FunctionalMagic: of the Rule Magic and Force Magic varieties.
* GeometricMagic: REALLY BIG circles.
* GeometricMagic: REALLY BIG circles.
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* MagicAIsMagicA: Yes. Magic obeys very strict rules. This does not prevent characters from doing apparently impossible feats every so often because the rules are not completely understood.
** It is later revealed that [[spoiler:the rules are strict because "magic" is an artificial construct. To prevent a second Abstract War, the survivors created a system of restrictions where no one had access to Ra's unfettered power, but it could still be invoked in a limited way.]]
** It is later revealed that [[spoiler:the rules are strict because "magic" is an artificial construct. To prevent a second Abstract War, the survivors created a system of restrictions where no one had access to Ra's unfettered power, but it could still be invoked in a limited way.]]
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* MagicAIsMagicA: Yes. Magic obeys very strict rules. This does not prevent characters from doing apparently impossible feats every so often because the rules are not completely understood.
**understood. It is later revealed that [[spoiler:the rules are strict because "magic" is an artificial construct. To prevent a second Abstract War, the survivors created a system of restrictions where no one had access to Ra's unfettered power, but it could still be invoked in a limited way.]]
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This is Just For Fun and not a trope
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* SuperWeight
** Despite having supernatural powers, the vast majority of mages are in the same category as Muggles. At the start of the story, Natalie Ferno doesn't carry any special equipment, works on pure theory, and mentions once that she doesn't know how to cast ''uum''. It's explained that magic is difficult to use and impossible to improvise; any given spell will only do one thing and takes hours to weeks to write.
** Laura [[MuggingTheMonster fights off muggers in her first scene]], [[TeenGenius makes several breakthroughs in magical research]], and survives [[spoiler: a volcanic eruption]] among other things.
** And then there are people like Rachel Ferno, the Wheel Group, and presumably some other groups not yet introduced, who use magic [[SufficientlyAdvancedTechnology so far beyond the cutting edge]] it might as well be... [[AnalogyBackfire whatever comes next]].
** Despite having supernatural powers, the vast majority of mages are in the same category as Muggles. At the start of the story, Natalie Ferno doesn't carry any special equipment, works on pure theory, and mentions once that she doesn't know how to cast ''uum''. It's explained that magic is difficult to use and impossible to improvise; any given spell will only do one thing and takes hours to weeks to write.
** Laura [[MuggingTheMonster fights off muggers in her first scene]], [[TeenGenius makes several breakthroughs in magical research]], and survives [[spoiler: a volcanic eruption]] among other things.
** And then there are people like Rachel Ferno, the Wheel Group, and presumably some other groups not yet introduced, who use magic [[SufficientlyAdvancedTechnology so far beyond the cutting edge]] it might as well be... [[AnalogyBackfire whatever comes next]].
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* MagicIsMental: Part of a mage's daily routine is meditation for this reason.
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* MagicIsMental: Using magic requires more than just [[MagicalIncantation saying the words of the spell]], you have to ''think'' your way through them as well. This is likened to performing advanced mental arithmetic. Part of a mage's daily routine is meditation for this reason.
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Re-added And I Must Scream example. (I accidentally overwrote it when I added the Applied Phlebotinum example.)
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* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Benj Clarke, Nick Laughon, and by implication possibly Kazuya Tanako are trapped in Tanako's World, an active nightmare, while (in the former two cases) Ra puppets their bodies.]]
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* YearInsideHourOutside: Time flows differently in Tanako's World. You could spend an arbitary amount of time in it during a fraction of a second in real time.
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* YearInsideHourOutside: YearInsideHourOutside:
** Time flows differently in Tanako's World. You could spend an arbitary amount of time in it during a fraction of a second in realtime.time.
** In the backstory, [[spoiler:Virtual Humanity lived in simulations that moved much faster than the real world. This made it extremely difficult for the Virtuals and the Actuals to communicate, furthering the schism between them.]]
** Time flows differently in Tanako's World. You could spend an arbitary amount of time in it during a fraction of a second in real
** In the backstory, [[spoiler:Virtual Humanity lived in simulations that moved much faster than the real world. This made it extremely difficult for the Virtuals and the Actuals to communicate, furthering the schism between them.]]
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* TranshumanTreachery: [[spoiler:The cause of Abstract War. Virtual Humanity wanted to convert the physical solar system into a bigger, better computer to run themselves on, and they were willing to wipe out Actual Humanity to get what they wanted.]]
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'''Some of the trope names below may be spoilers in and of themselves. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.'''
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* AppliedPhlebotinum: [[spoiler:"Nonlocality technology", which somehow allows "arbitrary quantities of mass, energy, momentum, spin and electrical charge" to be transferred from any location to any other at the speed of light. This underpins all of Ra's functions and gives it (and its users) godlike powers.]]
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* AppliedPhlebotinum: [[spoiler:"Nonlocality technology", which [[spoiler:{{Nanomachines}} and "nonlocality technology". The latter somehow allows "arbitrary quantities of mass, energy, momentum, spin and electrical charge" to be [[{{Teleportation}} transferred from any location to any other other]] at the speed of light. This underpins all of Ra's functions and gives it These technologies give Ra (and its users) godlike powers.]]
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* MagicFromTechnology: [[spoiler:All of it. "Magic" is basically a fake field of physics that is being simulated in real time by an unimaginably powerful supercomputer with a lot of {{Nanomachines}} and really, really good {{Teleportation}} technology.]]
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* [[spoiler: DemonicPossession: Natalie Ferno describes Ra's puppeting of Nick Laughon as this.]]
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* [[spoiler: DemonicPossession: Natalie [[spoiler:Natalie Ferno describes Ra's puppeting of Nick Laughon as this.]]
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* [[spoiler: WetwareBody: Benj Clarke and Nick Laughon are bodily taken over by Ra.]]
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* [[spoiler: WetwareBody: Benj [[spoiler:Benj Clarke and Nick Laughon are bodily taken over by Ra.]]
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* MagicAIsMagicA: Yes. Magic obeys very strict and carefully designed rules. This does not prevent characters from doing apparently impossible feats every so often because the rules are not completely understood.
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* MagicAIsMagicA: Yes. Magic obeys very strict and carefully designed rules. This does not prevent characters from doing apparently impossible feats every so often because the rules are not completely understood.understood.
** It is later revealed that [[spoiler:the rules are strict because "magic" is an artificial construct. To prevent a second Abstract War, the survivors created a system of restrictions where no one had access to Ra's unfettered power, but it could still be invoked in a limited way.]]
** It is later revealed that [[spoiler:the rules are strict because "magic" is an artificial construct. To prevent a second Abstract War, the survivors created a system of restrictions where no one had access to Ra's unfettered power, but it could still be invoked in a limited way.]]
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* [[spoiler: AndIMustScream: Benj Clarke, Nick Laughon, AppliedPhlebotinum: [[spoiler:"Nonlocality technology", which somehow allows "arbitrary quantities of mass, energy, momentum, spin and by implication possibly Kazuya Tanako are trapped in Tanako's World, an active nightmare, while (in electrical charge" to be transferred from any location to any other at the former two cases) Ra puppets their bodies.speed of light. This underpins all of Ra's functions and gives it (and its users) godlike powers.]]
