This section attempts to list and describe all the spells and spell-like effects seen in the pages of the Silent Möbius manga. Most powers demonstrated by Lucifer Folk are not listed, as these seem to be 'innate' powers as opposed to actual castable spells. Each spell will have the following items of information:
Page Number: The page number the spell appears on. This number will be the page number of the Japanese volume (or Side). If there is a Viz-translated trade paperback that also shows the spell, then that page number will be given in parentheses.
Who: The person casting the spell.
Spell Name: The name of the spell as given in Silent Möbius. If none is given, the name might be that of the spells most obvious feature (for example, if the spell is clearly a barrier, then the spell name will be "Barrier Spell"). If there is no given name and the spell's purpose is unknown, then the name will be listed as "Unknown".
Incantations: Incantations given while casting the spell. In general, these will be taken from various sources, not just the Viz-translated version.
Description: What the spell is seen to do in the pages of the manga. Naturally, some of this will be guess work. In general, I will describe exactly what is shown.
Game Effects: An attempt to define the spell and it effects using the HERO System. Some spells will get actually write ups, others will only be guessed at and given suggestions. Due to the nature of the manga, very few spells will be fully written up. Any spells that are written up will usually use a base of 60 active points.
Page Number: 51-53
Who: Lum Cheng
Spell Name: Unknown (Fire Formation?)
Incantations: None
Description:
Trapped by several Lucifer Folk, and wrapped up in their limbs, Lum Cheng states "I want to try something." A moment later, the various Entities around her explode into a spray of goo. The power seems to have come from Jesso, which is wreathed in what look to be flames.
Game Effects:
Although I'm not certain what the power is, it looks like Lum has directly tapped into Jesso's fire formation and used it to burn away her attacker. This is probably a Ranged Killing Attack, with the advantages of "Personal Immunity", "One Hex Area" and the limitation of "No Range".
Page Number: 58
Who: Ganossa Maximilian
Spell Name: Teleport
Incantations: None
Description:
Ganossa steps of a building and vanishes.
Game Effects:
This is another example of Teleportation in Silent Möbius.
Page Number: 64
Who: NA
Spell Name: NA
Incantations: NA
Description:
Katsumi Liqueur tells Ganossa: "Ganossa, you've contracted with Goddess Nemesis to increase your powers one more step. That accursed power can only be taken away by Lady Nemesis."
Game Effects:
This line seems to indicate that one's magic power can be governed by outside forces. Note that Rosa had a spell fail when 'Lady Nemesis' took her magic powers away. Apparently, one can contract with Nemesis itself to gain more power, but this power is subject to the whims of Nemesis. One can still cast spells and not be contracted to Nemesis, but odds are these spells are weaker.
Page Number: 79
Who: Ganossa Maximilian
Spell Name: Unknown
Incantations: Unknown
Description:
Having lured Rally Cheyenne to the ruined Tokyo Dome, Ganossa casts some sort of containment spell. A ring of spherical objects encased in what looks to be some fleshy material surround Rally, and she is trapped in a brilliant beam of light. Ganossa states: "I've sealed your powers."
Game Effects:
This light could be an Entangle or a Force Wall. As Rally can still move while inside the field it might be a Force Wall. This could also be a very large Suppress versus all of Rally's powers, but this seems unlikely, as the field does seem to keep her from moving. It might be a combination of powers, such as a linked Entangle and Suppress. Note that 10 pages later, Rosa tires to kill Rally while she is trapped, which seems to make the Force wall idea invalid (Rosa would have to break the Force Wall in order to hurt her sister). This seems to indicated that a Transparent Entangle is a good way to model the desired effect.
Note: After this point, Rosa and Rally engage is a seriously powerful 'duel'. Some of these spells are very powerful in scope and would be a very large number of Active Points in HERO System terms.
Page Number: 86
Who: Rosa Cheyenne
Spell Name: Unknown
Incantations: None
Description:
Rosa throws her cloak aside and powers up to kill her sister. Thrusting her hands forward, she launches a pair of long tentacle- (or snake) like objects at Rally. These objects have mouths filled with teeth. They slam into where Rally is confined and there is a fairly large explosion of smoke.
Game Effects: Based on the appearance of the objects, they seem to be some form of Ranged Killing Attack. Since the actual effect (if any) is obscured by smoke, any further details is unknown. A possible suggestion is "Continuous" to simulate the idea that the 'worms' will chew their way into their target after being cast.
Note that Rally is pretty much unharmed by this spell. She is staggered, but physically looks untouched. It should also be noted that the confinement circle looks to be gone by this point.
Page Number: 88-89
Who: Rally and Rosa Cheyenne
Spell Name: Unknown
Incantations: None
Description:
Due to the complexity of this scene, I'm presenting a series of events. It stats when Rosa points her fist and fires off a blast of energy at Rally. We see a closeup of Rally's forehead and see a series of glowing markings appear. There is an huge explosion and Rosa comes striding out of the smoke. Rosa then comments that Ganossa's holding cell is "... gone.", at which point Rally states: "That was nothing to me."
Game Effects: Rosa initial attack is probably an Energy Blast or Ranged Killing Attack. The marking on Rally's forehead (which also appeared in Silent Möbius the Movie II) might indicate that Rally is creating a Force Wall of some sort. Rally's getting rid of the 'holding cell' depends on how the cell is written up to begin with. This could be an Energy Blast, a Ranged Killing Attack or a Dispel. Note that Rally's comment ("That was nothing to me.") gives on an idea of how powerful Rally is.
Page Number: 96-98
Who: Rally and Rosa Cheyenne
Spell Name: Unknown
Incantations: Unknown
Description:
A big explosion tears up the landscape and Rally either jumps or is thrown clear. Rosa steps out of the smoke with her hand glowing with power. Rosa's hands keep glowing on page 99 as she gets ready to fire off another spell.
Game Effects: As most of this happened 'off-camera' it is hard to say exactly what is going on. Obviously both Rosa and Rally are physically tough and capable of resisting incoming spell attacks.
Page Number: 100-101
Who: Rosa Cheyenne
Spell Name: Fire of Solus (taken from incantations)
Incantations: Solus, burn Rally with your fire! Engulf her in your golden light!
Description: Rosa points both of her hands at her target (Rally) and launches a massive blast of flame.
Game Effects: This looks to be a very large Ranged Killing Attack.
Page Number: 102
Who: Rosa Cheyenne
Spell Name: Unknown
Incantations: Tafuserusa. Seal your enemy with your quicksilver. Mercury's planet spirit, by that name, do your work without stinting.
Description:
There appear to be a number of bright streaks of energy launched at Rally as Rosa utters the incantations. They then explode on impact.
Game Effects: "Seal your enemy with your quicksilver." sounds like an Entangle, but Rosa wants to kill Rally at this point. It could be a Ranged Killing Attack with the "Autofire" advantage and the 'quicksilver' refers to the speed and color of the energy bolts. Also note that Mercury is a very hot planet, so this might be some sort of fire effect as well.
Page Number: 102
Who: Rosa Cheyenne
Spell Name: Unknown
Incantations: Jupiter's planet spirit Ismael. Mar's planet spirit Barutsubel. Red and blue powers blow out the lamp of life.
Description: There is a lot of swirling clouds and and flames but no real visible effect of this spell.
Game Effects: Without a visual reference it is hard to determine the effects (especially the game effects) of these spells. Red and blue powers could be fire and water, or fire and lightning, since Jupiter was (indirectly) the god of thunder and lightning.
Page Number: 104
Who: Rosa Cheyenne
Spell Name: Prachina's Cloud (taken from incantations)
Incantations: Toru! Prachina's cloud vaporize everything.
Description:
Rosa leaps into the air and flies at her sister. She then summons up a huge amount of energy, which manifests as a large glowing saucer-shaped object in front of her. At this point Rosa unleashes a massive discharge of energy, which takes the form of (what looks like) bolts of lightning. The bolts arc all over the place creating a cloud of arcing electricity.
Game Effects: The electrical arcs could either be Energy Blasts or Ranged Killing Attacks. The spell probably has the "Area of Effect: Radius" advantage and everything within the 'cloud' is hit by the spell. Note that Rosa launches this spell while flying, showing that it is possible to maintain more than one spell at once in Silent Möbius.
Page Number: 110
Who: Rally Cheyenne
Spell Name: NA
Incantations: NA
Description: After Rosa's spell assault ends, Rally is revealed standing pretty much unharmed. Her clothing is a bit ragged and Rally's jacket has vanished.
Game Effects: It would be my guess that Rally has a very powerful barrier (Force Wall) and that she used it to good effect in this sequence of attacks. She has shown this power before, starting all the way back in Side 2.
Page Number: 112
Who: Rally and Rosa Cheyenne
Spell Name: Unknown
Incantations: None
Description: Rosa, who is really furious, lunges at Rally, firing off another blast of electrical energy. The bolt arcs around a shield in front of Rally.
Game Effects: Rosa's attack could be a Hand Killing Attack, as she looks to be trying to physically hit her sister with her hands. Rally's shield is another Force Wall.
Page Number: 132
Who: Rosa Cheyenne
Spell Name: Unknown
Incantations: None
Description:
Rosa fires off a burst of brilliant white projectiles at Rally. These looks to be bolts of pure energy.
Game Effects: This is probably an Energy Blast or Ranged Killing Attack with "Autofire".
Page Number: 133-136
Who: Rally Cheyenne
Spell Name: Unknown
Incantations: None
Description: After surviving the assault from Rosa, Rally looks up into the sky. A huge glowing ball appears and bright light shines through the clouds. A moment later, a whole horde of fireballs drop out o the clouds and slam into the ground. When the smoke clears, Rally is looking out over the Tokyo Dome field, which now seems to be made of molten rock. Rosa comes staggering out of this ruin, crying that she hurts and is 'burning up'.
Game Effects: As with the 'Prachina's Cloud' spell, this is probably a Ranged Killing Attack with the "Area of Effect: Radius" advantage. It might also be "Indirect" as it comes down from the sky. Note that Rosa seems physically unharmed by this attack, although her costume is damaged.
Page Number: 139
Who: Ganossa Maximilian
Spell Name: Unknown
Incantations: None
Description: Rally and Rosa end up in each other's arms as Rosa suffers an emotional breakdown. Ganossa then hurls a sword (possibly an enchanted sword) through both of them, punching through Rally's lower torso (right below the sternum and breasts) and right above Rosa's breasts (and right under the collar bone). This looks to kill Rosa at this point.
Game Effects: This is probably just a Hand Killing Attack, although the sword may have other powers.
Page Number: 145-146
Who: Katsumi Liqueur
Spell Name: NA
Incantations: NA
Description:
Lum Cheng encounters Katsumi in the halls of the AMP. She has single-handedly slaughtered a unit of mobile police, and is currently holding up one man by his throat and strangling him.
Game Effects: It would seem that Medium has given Katsumi enhanced physical strength on top of everything else.
Page Number: 148-151, 159-160
Who: Katsumi Liqueur
Spell Name: Spiritual Attack
Incantations: None
Description:
Okay... Katsumi points a glowing Medium at Lum. A huge mystic sygil appears (multiple interconnected magic circles and six-pointed stars) and a beam of light lances out at Lum. A moment later Lum is standing in a field of grass and flowers with large crystal formations sticking up out of the ground. As Lum wanders around, she sights an 'angel' and drops her spear. Side 10 ends before we can see any more.
Game Effects:
Katsumi says that this is a " Spiritual Attack" and says it was used in the past. Based just on what we see, at least part of this spell is made up of Mental Illusions. This also looks to be a very powerful spell, as Lum's world view is totally skewed and she is no longer interacting with the 'real' world. Note that there is the possibility that Lum has been sent somewhere and that this spell is a form of Extradimensional Movement.
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