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* In ''Manga/BlackClover'' certain magics have been shown to have stronger forms, which are expressed in their different naming. When at his limits, Vetto's Beast Magic becomes Mythical Beast Magic, which breaks magical rules and copies unknown animals. [[spoiler:At the moment of his death, Rades's rage and hatred transforms his Wraith Magic into True Wraith Magic, allowing him to recall souls and fully resurrect the dead.]]

* The ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' series does this with both spells and weapons, by dividing them up into Weapon Levels dictating when a character is skilled to use stronger weapons. Ranks E-S or in some games E-SS. The typical progression for weapons is Iron, Steel, Silver. Magic was further standardized in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius Radiant Dawn]]'' giving basic magic, 'El' magic, 'Arc' magic, a named long range attack, named high level, and then 'Rex' for the ultimate (e.g. Wind, Elwind, Arcwind, Blizzard, Tornado, Rexcalibur).

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' has all spells divided into five difficulty levels (Novice, Apprentice, Journeyman, Expert, and Master), and you can only learn higher-level spells after raising your skill in the corresponding magical school to a certain level.
* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' keeps the tiers (although Journeyman is renamed to Adept), but the magic system is slightly different. Since skills are no longer tiered, theoretically, any character can cast any spell at any time. In practice, your spells are still limited by several factors:
** If you're low-level and/or haven't bothered to level up your magicka, you simply won't have enough magicka to cast the spell. Yeah, that 298 MP Expert-level fire spell may be cool, but it's not going to do you any good if your max magicka is 100.
** You may find spell tomes in random loot, but they're level-locked; for example, Apprentice-level spell tomes only begin to show up at level 11, and Adept-level tomes show up at level 23. This applies to your character level, not your skill levels; you can play a warrior who has a skill level of 15 (the minimum) in every school of magic and you'll still find high-level spell tomes as you advance in overall level.
** Merchants who sell spell tomes will only sell Adept- and Expert-level tomes when the PC's skill level in the relevant school of magic is above a certain level (40 and 65, respectively).
** In order to use Master-level magic, you first have to level up your skill in the relevant school of magic to 100 (the {{cap}}) and then complete a {{sidequest}} for that school's trainer at the College of Winterhold. You'll get one Master-level spell tome free for completing the quest, and then you'll be able to buy the other Master-level tomes at the College. No other merchants sell them, and they don't appear in loot.

* In ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'', magic is organized into Tiers 0 to 9, plus "[[BrokeTheRatingScale Super-Tier]]" magic above that. The RPGMechanicsVerse of the New World recognizes 6[[superscript:th]] Tier spells as the pinnacle of human potential, with 7[[superscript:th]] Tier the realm of God-gifted artifacts and 8[[superscript:th]] Tier purely mythical. They get a humbling lesson in RankInflation when a Player of YGGDRASIL, the RPG the 'Verse was created from, shows up [[TheArchmage with Super-Tier spells at his fingertips]].

** In early editions, arcane (wizard) and [[ReligionIsMagic divine (cleric) spells]] are split into nine and seven tiers, respectively, with characters of certain level getting only so many spells of certain levels to [[VancianMagic memorize]].
** 3[[superscript:rd]] Edition clerics, druids, sorcerers, and wizards have ten spell levels (0-9); bards have Levels 0-6; and MagicKnight [[ThePaladin paladins]] and rangers have Levels 1-4. The highest spell level a spellcasting character can use is determined by their CharacterLevel in the class.

** The "Flare" spells have a different form of progression using decimal unit prefixes, starting with Flare, then Megaflare, Gigaflare, Teraflare, then skipping over Peta- and going for the most powerful variant seen in the series so far, Exaflare. [[spoiler: Though ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' and '''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'' has an even more powerful Flare move used, which follows this progression. Zettaflare/Zeta Flare.]]

** In 3[[superscript:rd]] Edition clerics, druids, sorcerers, and wizards have ten spell levels (0-9); bards have Levels 0-6,; and MagicKnight [[ThePaladin paladins]] and rangers have Levels 1-4. The highest spell level a spellcasting character can use is determined by their CharacterLevel in the class.

* In ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'', the PointBuildSystem divides magic into ten "Arcana" of influence and five levels of power from "Initiate" to "Master", so each spell requires a minimum score in one or more Arcana. Characters with higher scores can cast the spell with additional modifiers, like affecting a wider area or targeting it via SympatheticMagic.

** In 3[[superscript:rd]] Edition clerics, druids, sorcerers, and wizards have ten spell levels (0-9); bards have six; and MagicKnight [[ThePaladin paladins]] and rangers have four. The highest spell level a spellcasting character can use is determined by their CharacterLevel.

* In [[VideoGame/MOTHER1 the]] ''[[Videogame/EarthBound Mother]]'' [[Videogame/MOTHER3 series]], the tiers for PSI powers are given by the Greek letters alpha, beta, gamma, and omega.
** Sometimes, sigma is used as well, generally with two-tiered support powers as 'use alpha-level of this power on all of one side', for example, the Shield powers.

** The "Flare" spells have a different form of progression using decimal unit prefixes, starting with Flare, then Megaflare, Gigaflare, Teraflare, then skipping over Peta- and going for the most powerful variant seen in the series so far, Exaflare. [[spoiler: Though ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' has an even more powerful Flare move used, which follows this progression. Zettaflare.]]

** The four elemental damage spells follow this format: root (weak tier) < root followed by an extra consonant-vowel formation (medium tier) < root followed by ''-dyne'' (strong tier) < completely different name (severe tier, if it exists in a given game). The "Ma-" prefix indicates that the spell targets all enemies.

* ''Franchise/{{Grandia}}'' games have three tiers of magic, each with their own sets of magic points.

-->--"Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick

"L-E-V-E-L-S."

Huh?

"[[Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick I spelled 'levels'.]]"

No, ''[[WhosOnFirst spell levels]]'' - as in, different levels of magic.

An attribute of FunctionalMagic, where each known spell is assigned to a category roughly reflecting its power. Particularly popular in {{RPG}}s, where it is used in conjunction with a CharacterLevel system to restrict the usage of powerful spells (as in, a level N mage can only use spells up to level M, etc.).

** In 3[[superscript:rd]] Edition clerics, druids, sorcerers, and wizards have ten spell levels (0-9); bards have six; and paladins and rangers have four. The highest spell level a spellcasting character can use is determined by their CharacterLevel.

* In ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'', the PointBuildSystem divides magic into ten "Arcana" of influence and five levels of power from "Initiate" to "Master". Each spell requires a minimum score in one or more Arcana, and characters with higher scores can modify lower-level spells with additional effects.

ExperiencePoints get involved when its used to measure how far along you are, from the next level of ability.

** In 3[[superscript:rd]] Edition clerics, druids, sorcerers, and wizards have ten spell levels (0-9); bards have six; and paladins and rangers have four.

* The TropeCodifier is probably ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', where both arcane (wizard) and divine (cleric) spells were split into nine and seven tiers, respectively, with characters of certain level getting only so many spells of certain levels to [[VancianMagic memorize]].
** In 3rd Edition clerics, druids, sorcerers, and wizards had ten spell levels (0-9); bards had six, and paladins and rangers had four.
** 4th Edition did away with the concept, instead simply listing the minimum class level to gain a "power" in the description. There are still instances of 'Lesser' and 'Greater' which were lesser and greater powered version of the spell, respectively.
** The 5th Edition is similar to the 3rd; while spells have ten levels (0-9), most classes have no access to spells beyond a certain level.