Ability Changes: Magic comes either in the form of a familiar such as Grimoire Weiss or being a Shade. [Spoilers] The latter, however, carries significant social stigmas, and it is highly recommended if powers manifest in this fashion to avoid using them anywhere close to a center of civilization. Ability Limitations: Humans by themselves are limited without the assistance of outside elements such as Grimoires or being a Shade. Furthermore, Shades carry a high risk of going feral. Form Restrictions: Human or Shade. [Spoiler]: Social Restrictions: Due to the fear of Shades and the Black Scrawl, Half-Shades tend to be feared. The only magical being which has prompted any response other than fear has been the Grimoire Weiss, apparently due to his place in legend; anybody else would be advised to keep on the lowdown. There are some very distinctive towns; the Aerie, for example, is exceedingly xenophobic and will not deal with anybody not from their town, and the desert town of Facade is a strange place with a strange language and over 120,000 rules to dictate daily living, some of which contradict the other ones. Notes: Warning: OH GOD SIDE QUESTS. Warning: Borderline sociopathic women in lingerie. Warning: Boar drifting. Warning: Trolled by Cavia. Additional Information: To put it bluntly, Nier's world is a dying world. The weather patterns are completely messed up; night never falls, it never seems to rain, and parts of the world that haven't been swallowed by the ocean are instead turning to desert. This is all due to an obscure event over a thousand years ago in which a climactic battle in another, more magical dimension punched itself violently into this one, functioning essentially as a foreign contaminant to a world with no immunity to it. And it's been falling apart ever since.
The following is a massive spoiler, but vital to understanding the world, and must NEVER be revealed to Nier himself until he goes post-canon: Link. (http://dadass.livejournal.com/690.html)
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Ability Changes: Magic comes either in the form of a familiar such as Grimoire Weiss or being a Shade. [Spoilers] The latter, however, carries significant social stigmas, and it is highly recommended if powers manifest in this fashion to avoid using them anywhere close to a center of civilization.
Ability Limitations: Humans by themselves are limited without the assistance of outside elements such as Grimoires or being a Shade. Furthermore, Shades carry a high risk of going feral.
Form Restrictions: Human or Shade. [Spoiler]:
Social Restrictions: Due to the fear of Shades and the Black Scrawl, Half-Shades tend to be feared. The only magical being which has prompted any response other than fear has been the Grimoire Weiss, apparently due to his place in legend; anybody else would be advised to keep on the lowdown. There are some very distinctive towns; the Aerie, for example, is exceedingly xenophobic and will not deal with anybody not from their town, and the desert town of Facade is a strange place with a strange language and over 120,000 rules to dictate daily living, some of which contradict the other ones.
Notes: Warning: OH GOD SIDE QUESTS. Warning: Borderline sociopathic women in lingerie. Warning: Boar drifting. Warning: Trolled by Cavia.
Additional Information: To put it bluntly, Nier's world is a dying world. The weather patterns are completely messed up; night never falls, it never seems to rain, and parts of the world that haven't been swallowed by the ocean are instead turning to desert. This is all due to an obscure event over a thousand years ago in which a climactic battle in another, more magical dimension punched itself violently into this one, functioning essentially as a foreign contaminant to a world with no immunity to it. And it's been falling apart ever since.
The following is a massive spoiler, but vital to understanding the world, and must NEVER be revealed to Nier himself until he goes post-canon: Link. (http://dadass.livejournal.com/690.html)