A Certain Magical Index / Scientific Railgun / Scientific Accelerator character index
Main Characters
Touma Kamijou | Accelerator | Railgun's Main Cast (Mikoto Misaka)
Science Side
The Level 5s | The Teachers and Students of Academy City | Academy City Founders, Researchers and Law Enforcement
Academy City's Dark Side | The Sisters | Other Science Side Characters
Magic Side
England and its Allies | The Roman Catholic Church | GREMLIN | True GREMLIN | Golden Dawn | Bridge Builders Cabal | Other Magic Side Characters
Other Characters
Other Light Novel, Manga, and Anime Characters | Audio Drama, Video Game, and Movie Characters
Main Characters
Touma Kamijou | Accelerator | Railgun's Main Cast (Mikoto Misaka)
Science Side
The Level 5s | The Teachers and Students of Academy City | Academy City Founders, Researchers and Law Enforcement
Academy City's Dark Side | The Sisters | Other Science Side Characters
Magic Side
England and its Allies | The Roman Catholic Church | GREMLIN | True GREMLIN | Golden Dawn | Bridge Builders Cabal | Other Magic Side Characters
Other Characters
Other Light Novel, Manga, and Anime Characters | Audio Drama, Video Game, and Movie Characters
At the end of New Testament Vol. 20, its members would mysteriously be brought back to life and would once again shake up the world of magic.
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Golden Dawn as a whole
Tropes common to the group:
- Breaking the Fellowship: Constant internal strifes would eventually culminate in the Battle of Blythe Road in 1900, after which the cabal would be broken up for good.
- Hermetic Magic: Hermeticism was their speciality and essentially the foundation of the cabal, being a field of magic derived from mixing different mythological formats, including Classical Mythology, Egyptian Mythology, and Kabbalah among others. However, this fusion has for effects of bringing the phases involved closer together and increasing the collisions between them, creating more "sparks" of misfortune for humans.
- Historical Domain Character: Every member was an actual historical person, with some heavy Artistic License in play.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: As more is revealed about it, it becomes clear that the cabal was a gathering of eccentrics and weirdoes just as bad as Crowley.
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
A famous British magician and one of the three founders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the largest magic cabal in the United Kingdom and a world-renowned cabal. Mathers was also the man who recruited Aleister Crowley into the Golden Dawn and acted as one of his mentors, though their relationship ultimately turned sour.
- The Archmage: One of the most powerful magician of his time, and the head of the world's most powerful cabal.
- Elemental Powers: Has mastery over all four elements, as well as their Aristotelian qualities.
- Esoteric Motifs: Mathers' primary weapons are his four Symbolic Weapons, spiritual items taking the form of the four objects of Western ceremonial magic from this trope.
- Fake Aristocrat: Believed himself to have Scottish noble blood and sought to restore The House of Stuart.
- Foolish Husband, Responsible Wife: He was unemployed but was more preoccupied with esoteric matters, much to his wife Mina's chagrin.
- Our Founder: Of the Golden Dawn, and by association one of the originators of modern Western magic. In the present-day, he is as famous as Aleister Crowley among magicians.
- Happily Married: Despite their financial situation, his marriage with Mina was solid. Aleister admits this is one of the things he was jealous about.
- Historical Domain Character: Like every member of Golden Dawn, Mathers
was a Real Life occultist and did found the Order. However, his fictional counterpart died way earlier and differently than he did in history, being killed during the Battle of Blythe Road in 1900 while the actual Mathers died in 1918. - Last-Name Basis: Mostly referred to as Mathers.
- Summon Magic: Extremely profficient in summoning magic, fitting for a man called "evoker of spirits" in Real Life. He was the one who summoned Coronzon to destroy Aleister after all.
- Tarot Motifs: Is actually a grimoire made up of Tarot cards. His Symbolic Weapons are also the symbols used for the Minor Arcana deck of the Tarot.
- Virtual Ghost: The Mathers who actually appears in the story is actually a perfect reproduction of the man using Tarot cards to create living grimoires.
Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley
Dion Fortune
Dion Fortune
Voiced by: Rika Tachibana
Dion Fortune is a late member of the Golden Dawn, only joining in the early 20th century long after it fell into disrepair. After a series of incidents, she has become the current Archbishop of Church of England and leader of Necessarius.
- Absurd Phobia: Because Mina Mathers once attacked her using cats, she has a crippling fear of her and cats.
- Historical Domain Character: Like every member of Golden Dawn, Dion Fortune really existed and was a famous Real Life British occultist. "Dion Fortune" was actually her Meaningful Rename (it is derived from the Pretentious Latin Motto "Deo, non Fortuna", meaning "God, not fortune"), she was born under the name Violet Mary Firth.
- Large Ham: Calls herself "the great Dion Fortune".
- Pimped-Out Dress: Wears a frilly white ballerina-style dress.
- Power Floats: Can lift herself and her box.
- Random Effect Spell: Her speciality. The black box she carries everywhere, called Archetype Processor, is essentially her magical version of Schrödinger's box, where she never knows what kind of magic will come out of it.
- Virtual Ghost: She is a perfect reproduction of the dead person using Tarot cards to create living grimoires.
"Anna Sprengel" (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
Madame Horos
"Anna Sprengel"
Not technically a member of the Golden Dawn, but its mysterious founder, an alleged member of a German magic cabal who supposedly gave William Wynn Westcott permission to start his own cabal in a series of letters. She resurfaces during the Coronzon to propose her help to Takitsubo in helping Hamazura now that he's pursued for allying with Coronzon.
In reality, she is a fraud who posed as Anna Sprengel, which Mathers believed for a time, before she brought ruins to the Golden Dawn and made off with crucial cabal documents.
- Con Man: Madame Horos is a professional fraud and swindler.
- Crystal Ball: She uses one as a grimoire and a "combat module" that can generate Beam Spam. She lends it to Takitsubo on the pretext that it allows an esper to use magic, but it actually allows her to Mind Control her.
- Flower Motifs: Roses, in her role as Anna Sprengel and a Rosicrucian magician.
- Hijacking Cthulhu: She somehow managed to possess the body of the real Anna Sprengel, one of the most powerful people in the setting.
- Historical Domain Character: She was a real person, who went by Swami Laura Horos as well as many other aliases, the most common of which was Ann O'Delia Diss Debar. Her reputation as a Con Man and Phony Psychic was even known to Harry Houdini, who called her "one of the most extraordinary fake mediums and mystery swindlers the world has ever known".
- Manipulative Bastard: She pretends to offer help to Takitsubo, but is actually planning to kill Hamazura while using her.
- Symbol Motif Clothing: Roses and crosses are all over her clothing.
Anna Kingsford
Anna Kingsford
A brilliant magician and the mentor of Golden Dawn founders Mathers and Westcott. She passed away a century ago, shortly before the cabal was founded.
- And I Must Scream: Anna possesses a film can filled with parchment charms that she fills with planetary power and works based on the link between the microcosm and the macrocosm (the foundational theory that lets esper abilities and magic to work). Activating the spell allows Anna to separate the target's organs and limbs from their body and seal each of them in a charm inside the film can, keeping the victim alive and conscious but completely unable to move or escape.
- Afterlife Angst: Being already dead and belonging in the world of the dead, Anna can visit the afterlife world anytime she wishes to, she did this in order to visit Kamijou Touma who is now dead, she has a secret technique called Hell Tour that she believed will allow Touma to make a comeback.
- Astrologer: GT 10 reveals that Anna can read the stars, she did this to determine Kamijou Touma approaching death. Later when she was fighting Alice strongest familiar Dinah, Anna used symbols representing the water constellations (including Cancer, Pisces and Scorpio) as she drew them in the sky to amplify the power of her water spells.
- The Archmage: She was the mentor of two of the founders of Golden Dawn before her death, of which Mathers is already recognized as one of the most powerful magicians in the world. She can battle the likes of Aiwass to a standstill and is described as a "goddess" of magical knowledge. Even Anna Sprengel is terrified to face her in combat. As the narration puts it:"Trying to outdo Anna Kingsford in the field of magic was a mistake in and of itself. If you could not sense that, you were best off staying silent and doing as little as possible for as long as it took for you to understand."
- Back from the Dead: She died shortly before the founding of Golden Dawn but is resurrected by Aleister Crowley to face Anna Sprengel.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Anna is a kind woman who believes that magic should be open to everyone and used for the benefit of mankind. But she also holds magicians to absurdly high standards because of her ideals and will take down anyone who uses magic for ill. She became so well known for this that the thought of facing her wrath sends chills down Anna Sprengel's spine. When Kingsford is resurrected to take down Sprengel, the resulting fight is a complete Curb-Stomp Battle in Kingsford's favor.
- Brought Down to Badass: Anna notes that her body is too fragile to withstand her full magical powers following her resurrection. She's still a frighteningly powerful magician, to the point that Anna Sprengel, who is as powerful as the entire Magic Side and can easily defeat Level 5 espers like Mikoto, is curb-stomped by Kingsford.
- The Faceless: She's alluded to but not seen until she's reanimated by Crowley to face Anna Sprengel.
- Historical Domain Character: She's based on a real-life person and occultist who also campaigned for women's rights.
- Human Weapon: When she's brought Back from the Dead, Aleister gives her an "off switch", reducing her back to an inert body until she's turned back "on". This effectively puts her on the leash and makes her an autonomous weapon under Aleister's control. She lets this slide in the present; but threatens to turn against the person who resuscitated her if she's deployed in a manner that harms the common people.
- Mentor Archetype: She was the mentor to Westcott and Mathers, the two founders of the most powerful magical cabal in the United Kingdom.
- Older Than They Look: She died a century ago, but when she's resurrected she looks like a woman in her thirties at most. This is attributed to the lipids and hyaluronan injected into her body during the resurrection process.
- Say It with Hearts: While speaking to others, she somehow includes emojis and stars in her dialogue.Anna: I simply wish to aid the 🙂 around me☆
- Scary Shiny Glasses: Upon her resurrection, she's introduced with opaque glasses reflecting the light as she approaches a terrified Anna Sprengel,.
- Simple, yet Awesome: She eschews the elaborate rituals utilized by magicians like Fiamma and Anna Sprengel, instead sticking to common spells and simple ceremonies that anyone can learn. But she's honed them to the point that each one of her spells can be considered a special move that can quickly overwhelm mere magical "experts". In addition, the simplicity of her magic means that she doesn't need special items or preconditions to use it, eliminating the conditional weaknesses that plague many magicians. She can also attack suddenly and without warning, casting her simple spells without even using an incantation. She halts one of Anna Sprengel's attacks in mid-air with ease and isolates her in space before sealing Sprengel inside of a film can.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: Anna believes that magic should be a tool that everyone can use and that magicians are obligated to help those in need, a far cry from the political grappling and acts of terror inflicted by magicians more than a century after her death. She's incensed by the thought of magicians inflicting malicious harm or causing more damage than necessary, enforcing her "absurdly high" standards by going after wrongdoers. Anna goes so far as to say that she simply wishes to aid the smiles of the people around her.
