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Gifts (異能, Inō?) refers to innate abilities that individuals are born with, granting them access to one or more supernatural powers (超能力, Chō nōryoku?).
Description[]
The Gift is congenital and a person is either born with it or without it. Nothing could change that.[1]
The most common Gift is Spirit-Sight, the signature power of the Gifted and the most used method to determine if someone is born with the Gift. Spirit-Sight allows the user to see the Grotesqueries, which are invisible to ordinary people.[2] Small children are naturally more sensitive to the otherworldly.[3]
By the age of five it would be clear whether a person possessed the Gift. If they developed Spirit-Sight by then, they might also have other dormant powers.[2]
However, sometimes a baby’s budding awareness of the supernatural would peter out, and they never develop Spirit-Sight. As follows, if they are completely blind to the Grotesqueries when they are very young, it is a strong sign they are Giftless (無能, Munō?).
The few exceptions to this rule are exceedingly rare. Most parents would give up hope at this point and assume their child just doesn't have special abilities.[3]
Gifts can be developed in many different forms of abilities. It could be the ability of telekinesis, conjuring fire, manipulating wind or water, teleporting (瞬間移動?), walking in midair, or clairvoyance, among numerous others. It is also not unusual for a Gifted person to have multiple abilities.[3]
For instance, Kiyoka Kudou is hailed as the best Gift-user of his generation, owing to his ability to activate multiple powers at once without any difficulty.[3]
Information about Gifts are essentially a state secret. It isn't something an ordinary person would casually get their hands on.
Only Gift-user themselves, or a member of a family who possessed the Gift, are able to have a deep understanding of Gifts and able to do Gift research for further understanding of those abilities.[4]
Unlike in the Imperial Capital, knowledge of the supernatural abilities and techniques hadn't yet fallen into obscurity in the old capital, where most of the renowned Gifted families still live.[2]
An unspoken rule among Gift-users is to minimize the use of their abilities, reserving them for emergencies or situations where their powers are absolutely necessary, such as when dealing with Grotesqueries. They avoid showcasing their supernatural abilities in front of ordinary individuals whenever possible.[5]
Known Gifts[]
Names with an asterisk (*) are unofficial
| List of Known Gifts | |
|---|---|
| Image | Description |
| Spirit-Sight (見鬼の才, Kenki no Sai?) | |
Main Page: Spirit-Sight
Notable Users: All Gift-users except those of the Usuba family | |
| Dream-Sight (夢見の才, Yumemi no Sai?) | |
Main Page: Dream-Sight
Notable Users: Miyo Saimori | |
| Divine Revelation (天啓, Tenkei?) | |
| The ability to receive advance warnings about disasters that will befall the nation. This Gift is exclusively passed down the direct imperial line. | |
| Telekinesis* | |
| The ability to move people and objects without touching them. The extent of this power depends on one's natural ability as well as emotional state, as seen when Kouji Tatsuishi was able to lift multiple pieces of furniture despite his weak Gift.
Notable Users: Minoru Tatsuishi, Kazushi Tatsuishi, Kouji Tatsuishi, Yoshito Godou | |
| Pyrokinesis* | |
| The ability to create and manipulate fire, conjuring in various different forms.
Notable Users: Kiyoka Kudou, Minoru Tatsuishi, Yoshito Godou | |
| Electrokinesis* | |
| The ability to create and manipulate electricity.
Notable Users: Kiyoka Kudou, Tadakiyo Kudou | |
| Hallucikinesis* | |
| The ability to create and manipulate illusions. It is one of the Gifts that manifests in the Usuba family.
Notable Users: Arata Usuba | |
| Healing* | |
| The ability to heal wounds and injury. It has no effect on poisons and disease.
Notable Users: Hazuki Kudou, Fuyu Kudou, Jakuji Unan | |
| Telepathy (精神感応, Terepashii?) | |
| The ability to connect a person's heart with another and express one's feelings and thoughts without verbal or bodily communication. It is one of the Gifts found in the Usuba family. For unknown reasons and regardless of the strength of their powers, only women with Telepathy can give birth to a child with Dream-Sight.
Notable Users: Sumi Saimori | |
| Aerokinesis* | |
| The ability to manipulate air and wind.
Notable Users: Minoru Tatsuishi, Tadakiyo Kudou | |
| Hydrokinesis* | |
| The ability to create and manipulate water.
Notable Users: Houjou | |
| Opinokinesis* | |
| The ability to manipulate the five senses. It is one of the Gifts found in the Usuba family.
Notable Users: Naoshi Usui | |
| Cryokinesis* | |
| The ability to create and manipulate ice.
Notable Users: Kiyoka Kudou, Minister of Education's Secretary | |
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Trivia[]
- In Yen Press' official English translation of the novel the term "pyromancy" is used once, describing it as one of the powers Kiyoka's Gift bestowed that could also be applied to heating up bathwater. Pyromancy, however, is the art of divination by means of fire or flames and concerns with observing flames to interpret the shapes that a diviner sees within them. The term does not fit the ability that is described in the novel and is most likely an error of translation. In the manga, the term "pyrokinesis" is used in the same scene.
References[]
- ↑ Novel, Volume 1 Chapter 3
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Novel, Volume 1 Chapter 1
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Novel, Volume 1 Chapter 2
- ↑ Novel, Volume 3 Chapter 6
- ↑ Novel, Volume 5 Chapter 2