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Magi Babble
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Like Techno Babble, but about magic, typically Rule Magic. This is usually used in series where Magic A Is Magic A, and the rules are defined enough that you can't get away with invoking them in new ways without having to explain it first. See also Blah, Blah, Blah. | |
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In Triangle Strategy, Corentin wants to create never-melting ice so he can make weapons without needing iron (he hails from Hyzante, which has very little iron of its own). However, when he tries to explain how he made never-melting ice to Erador, it goes way over Erador's head, which forces Corentin to use Layman's Terms. | |
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Eric, the demonology hacker in the book of the same name, uses Magi Babble that sounds suspiciously like computer babble. "You see, if you rewrite the source codex and, this is the difficult bit, you route it through a high-level..." | |
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A common occurrence in Magic for Liars. Non-magic Ivy receives a lot while talking with magic-using Rahul as the latter is a high school teacher who doesn't know she doesn't have the background to understand. | |
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The "Kesandru's Well" arc from Sluggy Freelance positively brims with this trope. Particularly one of the Rayths. | |
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A Certain Magical Index: Touma Kamijou is often frustrated when Index or another magical character starts explaining things this way. In turn, the magical character often complains that Touma must be an idiot for not being able to understand something they have known since childhood. Touma has an advantage over the rest of the Science-side characters, since most of them don't even know magic exists. Whenever a magician tries to explain anything, they're inevitably mistaken for a weird esper who is insisting on using meaningless fantasy terminology for some random reason. Mikoto listens patiently to a burst of Magi Babble and then tries to translate it into scientific terms (causing the magician to just give up), and when Accelerator witnesses a necromancer cast a spell with Instant Runes, he wonders if she's using the historical symbolism to strengthen her Personal Reality. |
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Fate/Gag Order has "FGO Prequel: Gudao's Job Interview for Chaldea" which features how the protagonist was convinced to join Chaldea. The titular interview mostly consisted of Dr. Roman filling his dialogue with magecraft terminology and a partial Title Drop or two. | |
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Naruto features extensive dialogue on how chakra is summoned and how it is used to walk on water, climb trees, increase damage, etc. Similarly anybody using advanced techniques will inevitably dialogue about how they use their powers to create this specific result. There's an entire arc devoted to Naruto learning one such technique in extreme detail. And that's not even getting into the an Elemental nature cycle. | |
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Magic in The Inheritance Cycle has a lot of rules which are explained in a fair amount of detail. It's vitally important for magicians in the series to know them because misuse of magic can easily be harmful or downright fatal. | |
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In Mabinogi if you start playing and then decide to learn magic (instead of starting as an already-trained mage), the first teacher you'll come across is Lassar. Her teaching method involves lectures in mildly mind-numbing detail, book study, homework, and oral quizzes (and trying to get you - and everybody around - into school uniforms). As her lessons go on for a number of in-game days, many players skip over the lectures or take other routes to learning magic just to avoid the whole process. For those who don't, their content is entirely consistent and mostly relevant to an adventurer. Some find it a nice change from the usual MMO approach of just handing your character spells. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist frequently has Magi Babble, on the premise that "alchemy is a precise science, really!" The basic rules being that they can't create matter from nothing, leading to the principle of Equivalent Exchange, but the energy source for rearranging it is unknown to most people (it seems to come from the earth in various ways). If you want more than that, however, you need a Philosopher's Stone. It's essentially a free gift of ludicrous amounts of energy, which would be necessary to create matter from "scratch." Free, that is, in that someone had already paid the terrible price in advance. It required Father with Truth inside to even master nuclear fusion, let alone matter creation. Played for Laughs towards the end, when Edward Elric attempts to use Magi Babble about Equivalent Exchange as the basis for a Wacky Marriage Proposal. It is exactly as dorky as it sounds. Luckily for Ed, Winry is also kind of a dork at heart, and says yes. |
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Fate Revelation Online: More and more players slip into this as they are taught magecraft on a grand-scale. However, since they still think it's all just a game, they tend to mess up minor terms (such as using the term "magic" instead of "magecraft"). The actual mages from the real world are easy to spot because their terminology is always perfect and even the advanced players can rarely keep up with what they're saying. | |
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The Harry Potter books have a fair bit, especially Deathly Hallows. In it, we learn that "food is the first of the five Principal Exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration". When Ron repeats this tidbit later on, others are amazed by his Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. | |
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This is literally Bob's entire purpose in The Dresden Files. He knows the rules better than any mere mortal like Harry could ever know them, being a spirit of intellect centuries, if not millennia, old. Additionally, the Archive, a single human whose purpose is to be the physical containment of the entirety of humankind's body of written knowledge. This includes everything that has been written about the usage of magic. While a normal human with no inherent gifts, she is still probably the most adept magic caster on Earth, knowledge that doubtlessly includes not only how to cast any spell, but how they work, and why they work. Harry's no slouch at either, partly because he's a First-Person Smartass narrator who happens to be a powerful wizard who genuinely knows his stuff - this is shown best in Turn Coat when he discusses magic with Morgan as an equal, despite the other man being around four times his age. He also shows on several occasions that he really does love studying magic, and will do so simply for the sake of it. Butters, once he's introduced to Bob, quickly dives into this trope, mingling Magi Babble with Techno Babble in an epic display of geekiness. |
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Subverted in The Broken Earth Trilogy. The obelisks and other magical artifacts created by the ancient precursor civilization are the product of Sufficiently Analyzed Magic. As such, characters who know a lot about magic describe them in technical terms rather than mystical. | |
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Discworld Ponder Stibbons, a Magitek Geek, uses a combination of Magi Babble and Techno Babble to describe the devices created in the High Energy Magic Building (or more often, to hide the fact he's got no idea how they work, even though he built them). Wizards, and indeed some others, also use the catch all explanation of 'It's probably Quantum' or something being weird "'cos of Quantum" to explain anything significantly baffling. It appears to fullfil the same function as saying 'It's magic' in Real Life, though it is usually incorporated with other Magi Babble. Eric, the demonology hacker in the book of the same name, uses Magi Babble that sounds suspiciously like computer babble. "You see, if you rewrite the source codex and, this is the difficult bit, you route it through a high-level..." Computer babble is also used by the druids of The Light Fantastic, in reference to the ritual and astronomical functions of stone circles. ("It can't be software incompatibility, the Chant of the Trodden Spiral was designed for concentric rings!") |
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This can reach excruciating levels in Final Fantasy XIV. Characters banging on, at length, over aetherial properties and such is frequently either a justification for how the Player Character is to solve the current problem by fighting it, or as an excuse to send the player off on quests to pad for time before the actual plot relevant fight | |
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World of Warcraft has a bit here and there; some young mages wandering around Stormwind chat about their studies in magi-babble terms (and drop some Ghostbusters references in the process — bonus points also for their conversation being randomised, so you can be sure it doesn't mean anything since it can be in any order), while Kalecgos gives us the following during the Dragon Soul raid; what it actually means is unclear, but it's a good excuse for another boss fight: | |
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Computer babble is also used by the druids of The Light Fantastic, in reference to the ritual and astronomical functions of stone circles. ("It can't be software incompatibility, the Chant of the Trodden Spiral was designed for concentric rings!") | |
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TORG has a lot of this in its Aysle setting. It also features a spell design system which is heavily tied in to the in-setting magic concepts, leading to the same effect as for Ars Magica above, that players may find themselves speaking in magi babble. | |
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The Order of the Stick: Used when Thor tries to explain to two of his clerics how divine power works. | |
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The Irregular at Magic High School's manga adaptation had little indexes at the end of each book to explain things like Eidos and decomposition-type magic. | |
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Small example from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, from a mage who has turned a whole village invisible: The same mage's journal also contains a reference to "Galerion's Ninth Law", which is apparently immutable. Liminal Bridges is an in-universe book which consists almost entirely of this. Funnily, if you look at the meanings behind the component words, most of it actually makes perfect sense; it explains why summoning spells are usually only temporary, and how sigil stones and Oblivion gates get around that. |
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The Undertale Fan Fic Visiontale utilizes extensive magibabble to explain how magic works. Monsters created their magibabble so they could discuss magic with equal rigor to humans discussing science on the surface. | |
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Exalted is rife with this whenever the setting's metaphysics are discussed. A lot of it has a sort of internal consistency but it can be so difficult to wrap one's head around that it starts sounding like utter nonsense before too long. The Shinma may be one of the worst examples, as principles/things/concepts that exist/not-exist in the Wyld and define everything by embodying their antithesis. One makes existence possible by embodying non-existence, and is thus technically not even there to do what it does and agggghh. | |
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The Magi Babble in L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s Saga of Recluce is extremely convincing; it almost feels like real physics. | |
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In The Meaning of Harmony Twilight has a tendency to do this, usually when trying to explain how the Forges work. Sunset invokes that tendency at one point, when she name-drops a magical term knowing that Twilight would explain it to the others, so she herself wouldn't have to. | |
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In Fate/strange Fake, whenever anyone speaks this way around Ayaka Sajyou, someone who didn't even know the supernatural was real until she was dragged into the Holy Grail War, she complains that she can't understand what they are saying. | |
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Parodied in Avatar: The Last Airbender, where Aang explains to Toph why he can no longer activate the Avatar state. She listens to his explanation, and the page quote ensues. | |
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Gunnerkrigg Court uses a Powers as Programs / Magitek system mentioned above. We hear some of the explanation, but the more complicated parts are explicitly lampshaded in this strip. | |
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In Opening Dangerous Gates, Levy and Urahara have a discussion on how to take down a forcefield blocking the group's way. The other characters are incredibly confused by their magical terms and think they are talking in another language. | |
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim allows you to have a conversation with Riften's resident court mage Wylandriah about her investigation into a magical construct and a reagent that will allow said construct to maintain a field of permanent harmonic energy. Expressing interest in the topic results in a discussion on theoretical applied harmonics and Ralston's constant of universal inversion and how to apply them to hold magic fields in place while simultaneously counteracting complete universal collapse (and observing the mysterious disappearance of calipers from Tamriel since the beginning of the 4th era)... If that doesn't make much sense to you, but you don't want to admit it, don't worry... you can talk your way out of it... | |
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Among the Chosen has a lot of this with some military jargon and Quantum Physics tossed in. | |
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Journey to Chaos: Annala tries to explain magic theory or monster behavior to her friends, Revas and Oito, but because she always uses technical terms, they don't get it. Instead they rely on Eric for the Layman's Terms. | |
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In the Rupert episode "Rupert In Timeland," Father Time explains to Rupert and Podgy that they weren't frozen when he stopped time because eating peppered pickles and sneezing at the same time as someone else while inside a tent protects you from the time freezing effect. | |
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Taken to the logical extreme in The Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman: the magi babble is literally indistinguishable from Techno Babble and almost makes sense. | |
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A Season 3 episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX features a villain and a hero briefly arguing about what exactly Duel Monsters cards are in relation to the monsters (in-universe, the images that appear during duels are theoretically holograms, but the monsters used in the game are actually real and live in a parallel dimension, with some people gifted with the ability to see and communicate with their spirits in our world). The villain, Giese, believes the cards are basically pokeballs that release the monsters contained in them. The hero, Johan, explains that the cards are actually portals that summon the monster from their world to the field when activated. He's proven right when playing his Sapphire Pegasus' card releases his pegasus from the Extranormal Prison the villain was holding him in. | |
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This comes up quite often in the Sword of Truth series. In the earlier books, the in-world magic system seems fairly standard for a fantasy series; i.e., one uses their "gift" to achieve the desired results. After perhaps the third or fourth book, the author does in the wizard with an ever-increasing amount of magispeech to explain an ever more convoluted system. Earlier, in a scene in Blood of the Fold, a character's Magi Babble is interrupted and it is explained (via more Magi Babble) that the character he's talking to already knew everything he was telling her. |
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Touhou Project official manga Silent Sinner in Blue has a number of the cast using Shinto-Babble to power a three-stage rocket that will take them to the moon. The explanation of the three-stage rocket and its power source are very much in-character for the series: real logic can go take a hike. While a cursory glance at other source material does imply there are certain rules to using magic in the Touhou universe, Clap Your Hands If You Believe and What Do You Mean It's Not Symbolic seem to be the only things that really matter in the long run. | |
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Naruto coins the term "jutsubabble" when he fails to grasp most of Jiraiya's long-winded explanation of a complicated seal in Naruto: the Secret Songs of the Ninja. | |
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In the My Little Pony 'n Friends episode "Bright Lights," victims who have their shadow stolen become weak and sick. As Galaxy explains, "That makes sense. No doubt they feel empty and incomplete — the loss of their shadows being an outward sign of some loss of substance." Good luck trying to understand that last sentence when you're 5-years-old. | |
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The Dark Eye loves to do this, often quite consciously. | |
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Fate/stay night takes Magic A Is Magic A very seriously. The visual novel contains lengthy segments of exposition on how the rules of magic work and how summoning and Noble Phantasms are connected to it. In the end, the rules exist to be twisted, bent and broken. This is underselling it a tad, frankly: if you took all the Magi Babble out, you would be left with a fairly short visual novel. This also extended to the rest of the Nasuverse, like how people gain Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, why Akiha's power makes you feel hot even though it's not fire or heat-based, or why humanity goes extinct in the future if the Six Sisters ritual is done. This is heavily combined with Techno Babble in Fate/Grand Order. Understandable, given the protagonists work for Chaldea Security Organisation, a UN-backed group that makes heavy use of Magitek to summon Servants and save the world through time travel. For example, SHEBA, the machine that they use to watch out for instabilities in the timeline, was created through a combination of King Solomon's magic, as well as the founder's astral magic. However, it's also connected to an impressive computer network manned by a group of Bridge Bunnies. The result is technicians or Mr. Exposition babbling on about magic in a way that sounds vaguely like computer science. In Fate/strange Fake, whenever anyone speaks this way around Ayaka Sajyou, someone who didn't even know the supernatural was real until she was dragged into the Holy Grail War, she complains that she can't understand what they are saying. |
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The spell matrix in Sweetie Belle's notebook in The Sweetie Chronicles: Fragments tends to be a source of large amounts of Magi Babble any time Sweetie Belle or Twilight Sparkle start talking about it. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, Mr. Verres tends to lapse into this as seen here. | |
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In The Laundry Files by Charles Stross, the magic is based on mathematics and computer science—Alan Turing invented the local Magitek—and it reads like a cross between MIT's 6.001 and Abdul Alhazred. | |
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Used in Unsounded by Gadgeteer Genius Vienne here, to demonstrate how she tricks the highly logical Functional Magic system into doing something completely unprecedented. | |
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Used by pony!Twilight in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks to explain how she was able to reopen the portal to the human world ahead of its regular Celestial Deadline. Apparently using Equestrian magic to travel between dimensions requires understanding advanced mathematics. The ponies don't get one letter of it, except for Pinkie Pie who is able to give a layman's explanation. | |
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Child of the Storm: Loki, usually, walks the line between Magi Babble and Techno Babble, and usually has to be reined in by his brother when he gets over-excited and goes into Motor Mouth mode. Harry Dresden also does this - as per canon, he loves studying magic, and while his education was spotty to say the least, he's got a fairly wide if eclectic knowledge base. Wanda frequently discusses magic along these lines with Loki, Albus Dumbledore, and her old mentor, Doctor Strange (who does this from time to time himself, when he actually deigns to explain anything). And Thor, surprisingly, though usually when people least expect it. As he points out, he spent just over twenty years as a wizard in the form of James Potter, and spent the last 1,500 years as the brother of Loki. It's safe to say that he's picked up a few things. |
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Usage of Nen in Hunter × Hunter is very complicated, especially because once an individual chooses a power upon learning Nen basics, they are locked into it permanently, and purposely giving oneself additional rules and drawbacks boosts its potency. There is a story arc revolving mostly around one character's wish-granting powers, with various other characters—good, evil, neutral, and ambiguous—all trying to deduce those powers' rules, limitations, and drawbacks and discussing them with their allies. This arc's dialogue is one of the harder ones to follow. | |
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Guilty Gear 2: Overture is almost entirely this. Bet you never expected that from a Power of Rock fighting game, huh? Mostly spouted by the badass warrior-scientist protagonist to show off what a Genius Bruiser he is. | |
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This also extended to the rest of the Nasuverse, like how people gain Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, why Akiha's power makes you feel hot even though it's not fire or heat-based, or why humanity goes extinct in the future if the Six Sisters ritual is done. | |
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Rick Cook's Wiz Biz books has a computer programmer brought into a fantasy world creating a magical programming language, with a spell compiler and other things. This leads to a lot of programmer-speak being used as Magibabble. It's done well, since the author actually is a computer programmer. It still manages to be mystifying to programmers in a lot of instances, since he also chose a very obscure programming language to base it on. | |
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GURPS: Thaumatology has a perk that allows your character to spout an endless amount of meaningless but authentic sounding nonsense at the drop of a hat. | |
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In Negima! Magister Negi Magi, there are training arcs just to describe the exact mechanic of Mid-Season Upgrade the heroes have to access, what kind of conditions they have to fulfill and drawbacks the techniques/spells will befall to the users, how the techniques are different between the users' elemental affinity or magic cultures, etc. And as if manga panels are not enough, each of the manga's volumes has its author note filled with nothing but pages of real life references of each spell or magic practice used in the manga. | |
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Ars Magica: There are arts, mystery cult initiations, exotically named spells, different types of vis, and a dozen or more exotic traditions to speak about in character. The magic rules are so closely linked to the in-setting magic concepts that it becomes difficult not to talk in magi babble. | |
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Comes up often when Jeff Grubb gets his hands on franchise fiction. Notable works include the Warcraft novel The Last Guardian, and his Magic: The Gathering novels set during The Brothers' War (the Antiquities and Urza's Saga sets) and the Ice Age. Seeing as how Grubb often produces some of the better novels in these franchises, his tendency towards magi babble is either forgivable or awesome, especially since the rules he sets down tend to make magic more consistent in later works by others. | |
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The magical laws of physics on Auldrant are integral to the plot of Tales of the Abyss, so we get a lot of this from Jade and/or Tear as they explain why certain things have to be done a certain way, or can't be done at all. Expect to hear the word "Fonons" a lot. | |
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Dragonlance Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 sourcebooks explain the difference between High Sorcery and Primal Sorcery, and Clerical magic and Mysticism. | |
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BlazBlue uses this on some occasions, especially since it has a tendency to introduce terms early and then explain what they mean later. This does mean that the 'babble' effect decreases over time as the audience starts to get their head around what characters mean when they say certain things. To give an example, saying that the Takamagahara system can perform Phenomena Intervention to travel between the various alternate timelines created by the Continuum Shift event that happened when Noel lost control over her power as the Successor of the Azure, is a very complicated way of saying 'the bad guys can do Reality Warping by exploiting the heroine's Power Incontinence'. | |
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Shows up several times in the Witcher series. It sounds a bit like a professional slang sprinkled with mathematical and scientific terms. | |
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