Mage's Association (Fate/stay night)

The Mage's Association is an organization that features in TYPE-MOON.

History

The Mage's Association (Japanese: 魔術協会, Hepburn: Majutsu Kyōkai?) was an international organization consisting of mages that looked to control, conceal and develop the magical arts. It was formed around 0 AD by a group of remaining Magi from the Age of Gods, among which were Brishisan and Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg, in order to preserve its knowledge. As True Ether was replaced by Ether in 20 AD, the Magi who chose to go forward with modern Magecraft and Mystery chose to continue with the main Association, but those who refused the new Magecraft decided to close themselves off in Atlas and the Wandering Sea. All three organizations still remaining together as the Association, the Director, Brishisan, and his associates spent the next eighty years spreading Magecraft, causing the energy and morale of the Age of Gods to resurface.

Overview

In appearance, the Mage's Association was a magical organization consisting of magic users around the Earth. It was said to transcend nationality and genre of magecraft. The Association was primarily concerned with the preservation and concealment of Magecraft in criminal aspects. They do not care about hideous crimes committed by Magi so long as they are not a threat that might reveal the existence of Thaumaturgy to the common public, though it generally does not allow research that would harm society. If a mage pulls a civilian into a magical phenomenon, the Association dispatch assassins to kill that mage.

Sealing Designations (封印指定, Fūin Shitei?) were edicts handed down by the Mage's Association to maintain and protect special thaumaturgical abilities which cannot be acquired through study. Granting of the title was deemed the 'greatest honor' and those marked were deemed 'precious', causing the Association to mobilize the greatest effort to secure their flesh and blood, their body's potential. Among magi, few know how Sealing Designated Magi were preserved: the brain, nerves, and Magic Circuits are extracted and pickled in preservation fluid. Depending on if there are any remaining appendages, the jar function as the body, or the exoskeleton.

Leadership of the Association was held by an individual holding the title of Director (院長, Inchō?).

A title within the Association was the Wizard Marshal (魔道元帥, Madō Gensui?) that was given by those who possess a certain degree of military authority within the Association.

Known departments within the Mage's Association included:

• Department of General Fundamentals (全体基礎科ミスティール, Zentai Kiso-kaMisutīru?) : Mystile was the first (I) Department of the Clock Tower branch of the Mage's Association. Acting as the core of the Clock Tower, General Fundamentals is located in the main academic building of the Clock Tower, the building which looks like Big Ben and sits in the heart of London. All students have to register for General Fundamentals when they first enroll in the Clock Tower.
• Department of Individual Fundamentals (個体基礎科ソロネア, Kotai Kiso-kaSoronea?) : Solonea was the second (II) Department of the Clock Tower branch of the Mage's Association. Mythological lore is considered common knowledge among the Clock Tower, spread out through varying Departments, such as Individual Fundamentals, Spiritual Evocation, Astromancy, and Archaeology covering the mythologies of different countries.
• Department of Spiritual Evocation (降霊科ユリフィス, Kōrei-kaYurifisu?) : Eulyphis was the third (III) Department of the Clock Tower branch of the Mage's Association. The Department studies the Magecraft of summoning spiritual beings, be it through Invocation or Evocation, working through a spiritual medium such as Spiritual Surgery (霊媒術, Reibaijutsu?), Necromancy, and Spiritual Possession.
• Department of Mineralogy :
• Department of Zoology :
• Department of Lore :
• Department of Botany :
• Department of Astromancy :
• Department of Creation :
• Department of Curses :
• Department of Archaeology :
• Department of Modern Magecraft Theory :
• Department of Policies :
• Department of Summoning :

The Carillon Observatory, the Secret Judgment Division (秘儀裁示局・天文台カリオン, Higi Saiji Kyoku Tenmondai Karion?) was located in the oldest classroom of the Clock Tower and decided on the Sealing Designation and also the procedure of revocations. A giant bell hanging in the Observatory rings whenever a Sealing Designation is dealt. At the end of the 20th century, they delivered an incredible shock to the entire Clock Tower as multiple Sealing Designations were revoked.

Sealing Designation Enforcers (封印指定執行者, Fūin Shitei Shikkōsha?) or Enforcers (実行者, Jikkōsha?) were magi specialized in hunting down magi marked with Sealing Designations.

Factions within the Association included:

• Prague Association (プラハ協会, Puraha Kyōkai?) : also known as the Central Association of Alchemists (中央協会の錬金術師, Chūō Kyōkai no Renkinjutsu-shi?) that was an organization which researched on Alchemy, its members follow the traditional precepts of alchemists.
• Sponheim Abbey (シュポンハイム修道院, Shuponhaimu Shūdōin?) : an institution that works closely with the Clock Tower.
• Thule Society (トゥーレ協会, Tūre Kyōkai?) : consisting of a group of magi that studied Rune Magecraft and kept the original runic scripts secret with no concern for the decline of Rune Magecraft.

Those magi of the Association who depart the World of Magecraft entirely are considered traitors and enemies of magi, and hunted down by the organization.

The Mage's Association and the Holy Church have a non-aggression agreement between each other for quite a while now, but armed conflict still tends to happen often in an off-the-records fashion. Atlas however, is a case in and of itself.

The Association has deemed the Thaumaturgical Foundation of the Middle East and the philosophies of Magecraft from the Far East incompatible with its teachings, and both schools conversely reject the Association. It has been working towards at least building a stance of neutrality between them. The Magi organizations of Japan also did not join the Association.

The Association was primarily divided amongst its three branches each of which had their own respective headquarters. The main branch headquarters was the Clock Tower (時計塔, Tokeitō?) that was built atop the Spirit Tomb Albion which was the corpse of a mountain sized dragon which did not venture to the Reverse Side of the World in the Age of Man. Another branch was maintained at the Atlas Institute (アトラス院, Atorasu-in?) which was an academy situated in the Atlas Mountains where geniuses were gathered in the study of magic with it predating the Clocktower. It was also known as Titan's Pit (巨人の穴倉, Kyojin no Anagura?) and as the Institute of Aggregation and Analysis (蓄積と計測の院, Chikuseki to Keisoku no In?). The third branch was the Wandering Sea (彷徨海, Hōkō Kai?) that was one of the original two founders of the association along with the Atlas Academy with this headquarters being a mobile mountain range called The Moving Tomb (移動石柩, Idō Sekkyū?) that dated back to the Age of Gods.

It operated many laboratories and research bodies that seek to advance the progress of Thaumaturgy, as well as institutions that transmit their secrets to the next generation.

Magical laboratories were referred to as a Workshop (工房, Kōbō?) which was where a magus performed their researches and experiments. During its construction, the most important procedure is to prevent the magical energy inside of the workshop from leaking out so its presence can be concealed. Magi usually set up Bounded Fields around their workshops to protect them. Stepping into the workshop of a magus without his permission was seen as an act of open hostility.

Members

• Rulfurus Nuada-Re Eulyphis :
• Darnic Prestone Yggdmillennia :
• Zepia Eltnam Oberon :
• Cornelius Alba :
• Bazett Fraga McRemitz :
• Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald :
• Waver Velvet :
• Rin Tohsaka :
• Luviagelita Edelfelt :
• Norikata Emiya :
• Satsuki Kurogiri :

Notes

• The Mage's Association was created by Kinoko Nasu and featured in the setting of TYPE-MOON's Fate universe.

Appearances

• Fate stay/night:
• Fate stay/zero:
• The Case Files of Lord El-Melloi II:

External Links

• TYPE-MOON Wiki Entry

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