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wait, wait, wait - it's the other way around. magic/magecraft is using arcane methods to achieve what can be achieved given enough time, while SORCERY is bringing about miracles that magic/magecraft can't ever bring about. it's explicitly explained at the beginning of fate/stay night. -- Anonymous
 
wait, wait, wait - it's the other way around. magic/magecraft is using arcane methods to achieve what can be achieved given enough time, while SORCERY is bringing about miracles that magic/magecraft can't ever bring about. it's explicitly explained at the beginning of fate/stay night. -- Anonymous
 
 
--- Really, it's just a translation issue. Some people/sites/projects call one 'magic' or 'sorcery' or 'magecraft' and the other a different one. It really would be easier just to refer to them by the original Japanese: 魔法 - mahou and 魔術 - majutsu. Majutsu ('Magecraft' is probably the most accurate if sort of clumsy way to translate it) performs deeds that seem impossible for humans but really aren't. Mahou (for which I prefer the translation 'magic') accomplishes miracles which are absolutely beyond humanity and normal majutsu.
 
 
To expand: 'Mahou' accomplishes miracles. Apparently (though I'm not sure about this, it does seem to fit the Nasuverse's concept of history/time), the very concept of miracles has changed over time, as science has advanced. Long ago, the vast majority of magi were therefore 'mahou' users. Now, science has discovered new things about the world, been able to show more and new things to be true/ to exist, and even do new things. Given 'magecraft' is always reproducible by current science (even if, I suppose, we haven't thought of *how* it's possible), the vast majority of magi are now simply 'magecraft' users. There's also something about 'mahou' creating a link to 'the root', Akasha, but that's rarely brought up.
 
 
'Mahou' is thus currently limited to five miracles and their users. As I recall, the First is 'Denial of Nothingness' (sounds like something out of Kara no Kyoukai, but I haven't read all of those); Zelretch operates the Second, which is manipulation of parallel worlds; the Einzberns (and particularly Justicia) can/are trying to achieve the Third (materialisation/purification/*something* of a human soul) through the Heaven's Feel; and Aozaki Aoko performs the Fifth, which we don't know anything about, other than that she's its user. Her tendency to blow things up may or may not be related. At least one of the 'Mahou' users is dead, according to Shirou in Heaven's Feel, but the 'Mahou' type still exists, so it seems that someone else could learn how to create it. --- Seika
 
   
 
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