A waking mind from another world arrived in a body that was never taught magic and does not need to be. Every branch this world sorts its spells into — Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Healing, Detoxification, Barrier, Summoning, Teleportation, Time, holy workings and the unique magics — answers him as though the chant were already finished. What a Saint spends a year learning to shape and a King shortens to a single word, he does without preparing at all, and the ceiling of it is not the rank ladder: God-rank workings are inside his reach. He has no idea where the ability comes from, is not sure it belongs in this world, and has told no one.

The Great Forest’s silver-furred Sacred Beast is a rare magical guardian revered by the Doldia. Its physical strength and unusual significance do not make it an ordinary domesticated dog or a universally obedient summon.

The Blessed Child can inspect another person’s memories through their eyes. This exceptional innate gift makes her testimony politically valuable and makes control over her access fiercely contested.

A supernatural tendency for susceptible listeners to accept the Man-God as trustworthy, beyond what his words alone would normally justify.