A Certain Magical Index / Scientific Railgun / Scientific Accelerator character index
Main Characters
Touma Kamijou | Accelerator | Railgun's Main Cast (Mikoto Misaka)
Science Side
The Level 5s | The Teachers and Students of Academy City | Academy City Founders, Researchers and Law Enforcement
Academy City's Dark Side | The Sisters | Other Science Side Characters
Magic Side
England and its Allies | The Roman Catholic Church | GREMLIN | True GREMLIN | Golden Dawn | Bridge Builders Cabal | Other Magic Side Characters
Other Characters
Other Light Novel, Manga, and Anime Characters | Audio Drama, Video Game, and Movie Characters
Main Characters
Touma Kamijou | Accelerator | Railgun's Main Cast (Mikoto Misaka)
Science Side
The Level 5s | The Teachers and Students of Academy City | Academy City Founders, Researchers and Law Enforcement
Academy City's Dark Side | The Sisters | Other Science Side Characters
Magic Side
England and its Allies | The Roman Catholic Church | GREMLIN | True GREMLIN | Golden Dawn | Bridge Builders Cabal | Other Magic Side Characters
Other Characters
Other Light Novel, Manga, and Anime Characters | Audio Drama, Video Game, and Movie Characters
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Bridge Builders Cabal as a whole
Tropes common to the group:
- Always a Bigger Fish: To the previously thought most powerful beings of the setting, although it is specified that they are not more powerful than Magic Gods. Unlike them, if they destroyed a world, they wouldn't be able to remake everything they had destroyed afterwards.
- The Archmages: Transcendents are another apex of magical power and knowledge from Magic Gods, and have been described as each being powerful enough to rival the magic side on their own under the right circumstances.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Their personalities and mentalities are shaped by set conditions, referred to as 'salvation conditions', often related to their background. If someone meets those conditions, they will act to save them and fight whatever stands in their way, even to the extent of fighting their fellow Transcendents and risking their lives. If their criteria is not met, the Transcendent will not lift a finger to save or even help a person, and be perfectly fine with their destruction, sometimes even expediting it.
- God Guise: It's eventually revealed that the Transcendents are not the genuine article, but simply powerful magicians cosplaying as gods and legendary figures using Aleister's Magick, but doing something to go beyond human. While perhaps the entire process is not fully known, more specifically it's revealed to be a deliberate case of Lost In Character where a person radically changes their appearance, personality, and mindset to essentially become a given supernatural identity, with possibly multiple candidates competing for a given role and those not chosen serving as backups or forced replacements as need be.
- Refugee from TV Land: One characteristic shared by most Transcendents is that they are considered fictional (or at least of highly dubious existence) beings coming from myths, legends, and rumours teaching coded knowledge.
- Supernatural Sealing: Most of them possess a 'seal' on their full power, with a designation specific to the individual.
- Team Mercy vs. Team Murder: After Touma accidentally influences Alice, the cabal divides into two groups, the Killers and the Rescuers, who respectively want to kill Touma, the source of change in Alice, or protect him and find another alternative, out of fear of what his death would do to Alice.
- Touched by Vorlons: A possible explanation for their existence. According to Crowley, the Transcendents are all linked to the Secret Chiefs in some way - some by receiving their grimoires and knowledge, some by allowing one to reside in their body, and some by controlling them.
- Translator Microbes: They use 'common tone creation' to translate and synthesize their speech into familiar languages.
Anna Sprengel
Anna Sprengel
A mysterious and alleged member of a German magic cabal who supposedly gave William Wynn Westcott permission to start his own cabal, the Golden Dawn, in a series of letters. It is thought this Anna Sprengel never existed and that the letters were faked by Westcott to give legitimacy to his new magic cabal as he really wanted to claim his cabal to be a legitimate descendant of a Rosicrucian order, Rosicrucianism being an occult school combining Jewish Kabbalah, Hermetic Magic, Alchemy, and Christianity in its teachings, and the originator of many offshoot occult schools due to its popularity.
It is later revealed that Anna actually exists, and was imprisoned in her own body for a century by Madame Horos.
- Always a Bigger Fish: To both Aleister and Aiwass, who were thought to be among the most powerful beings in the series up until that point.
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: The beings Anna Sprengel could contact, the Secret Chiefs, were, according to the Golden Dawn, supreme cosmic entities similar to the Magic Gods that oversaw the mystic workings of the cosmos and gave permission for the founding of magic cabals. Anna herself, while not a Secret Chief, is also on a different level, someone who, according to Crowley, "crossed the Ungrund
", that is, the Abyss Crowley tried and failed to cross. - Berserk Button: She has little patience for people not listening to her explanations, even throwing an Angrish-laden tantrum because Misaki interrupted her.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: In Genesis Testament Volume 2, she beats Mikoto and Misaki so brutally and utterly they need to be hospitalized while she's not even slowed down.
- Emissary from the Divine: She's the high priestess of the Secret Chiefs.
- Evil Power Vacuum: Well, "evil" is a strong word, but it's revealed starting in Genesis Testament that since Lola Stuart and Aleister Crowley (the two architects of the Magic-Science treaty) have apparently died, Anna has been filling in the power gap via the use of R&C Occultics, her own personal IT corporation that started as a fortune-telling site before rapidly expanding via selling occult services and goods while gathering personal and private information on many people in the name of helping with troubles and testing romantic compatibility. The Magic and Science Sides couldn't do anything about it through a combination of not knowing how and not realizing just what she was doing respectively.
- Flower Motifs: Roses, as a Rosicrucian magician.
- Fountain of Youth: Her regained body regresses to the age of ten. The narration also mentions how Mathers believed the Secret Chiefs drank the Elixir of Life and so kept young physical bodies. In Genesis Testament, she shows the ability to casually revert back to her adult body at will to of all things better kiss Touma.
- Hoist by Her Own Petard: She infects Touma with a black pill containing St. Germain microbes at the end of Genesis Testament Volume 1 to destroy his body from the inside out due to the rejection reaction of an esper to the magical energy the microbes would automatically produce being inside him, and he can't just touch himself to destroy them because it would only destroy the ones in that specific area and even one of them doing this would eventually finish him off. This goes well until the climax of Volume 2, when Touma manages to communicate with the burgeoning intelligence of St. Germain and convince it to help him kick her ass.
- Improbable Weapon User: She can draw out the essence of seemingly mundane items based on how they’ve been used in the past, like using a branch as a whip to destroy Mikoto’s A.A.A.
- Just Toying with Them: Mikoto and Misaki pose such little threat that she plays around with her Pneuma-less Shell and even rejects Aiwass’ assistance.
- No-Sell: The Tokiwadai Level 5 duo couldn’t do anything to her.
- Random Effect Spell: The guiding principle one of her spiritual item, the Pneuma-less Shell, which produces random objects with various effects. She uses it to deliberately add randomness to her battles, because perfect logical victory is boring to her.
- Something about a Rose: Rose with ten petals was a central element of the Rosicrucian order, and so Anna wears roses on her clothes and hair.
- Spanner in the Works: Serves as one for Operation Handcuffs. Her introducing the Coins of Nicholas effectively turned Accelerator's plans to dissolve the Dark Side and have the younger members peacefully subdued by Anti-Skill resulting in the latter butchering the former and then committing suicide, turning it into a bloodbath.
- Symbol Motif Clothing: Roses and crosses are all over her clothing.
- Touched by Vorlons: As a point of contact between the Secret Chiefs and the world, Anna has received their "blessings", treating them like credit cards in her own words.
- Villain Takes an Interest: Perhaps "villain" is a strong word, but she definitely has a vested interest in Touma.
Alice Anotherbible
Alice Anotherbible
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A young-seeming girl who looks and dresses like the title character from Alice in Wonderland. She is the de facto leader of the Bridge Builders' Cabal, mainly because the others are so anxious to keep her under control that they cater to her every whim.
- A Child Shall Lead Them: She's a young girl who is effectively the Bridge Builders' leader.
- Afraid of Their Own Strength: Whenever Alice is in danger of being hit by an attack, an array of automated magical defenses manifest to protect her (in forms ranging from quirky to sinister to monstrous). Their purpose isn't to protect Alice so much as to protect whomever is threatening her — because she's afraid that if anyone actually lands an attack on her, her reflexes will cause her to kill them immediately.
- Age-Inappropriate Dress: In her alternate form, she wears a skimpy outfit consisting of nothing but oiled leather straps and buckles. The narration repeatedly points out how disturbing it looks, when juxtaposed against her young and innocent appearance.
- Alice Allusion: Not so much an allusion as a whole-cloth reference.
- Badass Adorable: She's sweet and adorable. She can also throw Transcendents around like rag dolls, and rewrite reality to her whim.
- Beware the Silly Ones: When someone with the personality, emotions, and moral compass of an over-indulged child has god-like powers, the results can be... unfortunate. Most of the other Transcendents are implied to be terrified of her, and for good reason.
- Cheerful Child: Alice normally acts like a cheerful and bouncy little girl who just wants to have fun with everyone.
- Character Customization: According to Mina Mathers, Alice was heavily modified from her skeletons to her organs to look like what she looks currently, additionally Mina found out that it was the doing of a magician who was Aleister's teacher and the original Alice is actually older than she looks. So while the children’s story itself is complete fiction, the heroine was modeled after someone who did exist, thus creating Alice Anotherbible.
- Full-Body Disguise: As herself, oddly enough. At any rate, her everyday form is implied to be some kind of shell or facade. On rare occasions when she gets serious, this body splits open and another version of her emerges, with the same features but very different dress and demeanour.
- Heroic BSoD: After falling out with Touma at the end of GT volume 7, Alice spends all of volume 8 just standing motionless with a Thousand-Yard Stare.
- Killer Rabbit: She's cute, friendly and kind... as long as she's having fun. Making her angry, however, is a potentially terminal mistake.
- Losing Your Head: After the Transcendents summon "CRC", he proceeds to crush Alice skull, however after some time has past, Alice has managed to self-revive herself although now without a head.
- Reality Warper: Her special ability "Adventures in Wonderland" allows her to create a parallel reality based on story or adventure tropes, which — if followed to its conclusion — can allegedly overwrite the reality of the real world.
- Third-Person Person: Always refers to herself as "this girl" instead of using either a pronoun or her name.
- Wild Card: She's the most powerful member of the Bridge Builders' Cabal, but is whimsical, capricious, and extremely unpredictable. The other members of the Cabal bend over backwards to keep her happy, lest she ruin all their plans out of boredom or mischief.
Aradia
Aradia
The Goddess of Witches
A Transcendent who identifies as the patron goddess of witches and the night. Her salvation condition is to protect all witches, or any person who currently fits her definition of one.
- Casting a Shadow: Her power works through her shadow, which powers her magic through the potions she mixes into it using her feet.
- Hot Witch: She looks like a beautiful eighteen-year-old woman with long silver hair and an extremely attractive figure. This is accentuated by her outfit, which resembles a cross between a bikini and a belly dancer's costume.
- Innocent Fanservice Girl: She recharges by "moonbathing", i.e. standing naked in the moonlight. While she doesn't normally do this around other people, she doesn't really make much effort to guard her privacy either. Even when dressed, her outfit is highly Stripperific, and she has a tendency to unintentionally shove various scantily-clad parts of her anatomy practically into Touma's face — completely failing to understand why this flusters him.
- Living Shadow: Her shadow is very strange, somehow not changing shape or angle regardless of the light shining around it and it even remains just one shadow even if light sources are shining from multiple directions. When she releases her Power Limiter, it stretches in three different directions and spins around her in a circle with an inhuman shape, but she is interrupted before the final result can be seen.
- Ms. Fanservice: See Innocent Fanservice Girl above. The light novel illustrator is certainly fond of her.
- Rule of Three: Aradia makes extensive use of it since it is a core concept of Wicca. Her magic, whether a good deed or a bad one, returns to her at three times the strength.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The Bridge Builders' Cabal pulls this on her after she is deemed to have turned rogue, and appoints a new Aradia to take her place.
Bologna Succubus
The Bologna Succubus
A Transcendent who embodies the legend of succubi, with particular reference to a famous historical incident from Italy. Her salvation condition is to protect those who are falsely accused of wrongdoing.
- Agony Beam: Her magic, Cold Mistress, converts pleasure signals into pain.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": "The Bologna Succubus" is the only way she is ever adressed.
- Cute Monster Girl: Looks like an extremely curvy and attractive young woman who just happens to have bat wings and a long devilish tail.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: She has no compunctions about stripping half-naked in Touma's presence. Unlike Aradia, she's perfectly aware of the implications, but finds his flustered reactions amusing.
- Stripperific: Her outfit consists of a lacy one-piece corset, accessorized with thigh-high stockings and fingerless gloves.
Good Old Mary
Good Old Mary
- Back from the Dead: Mary's main ability is to bring back someone who has just died or suffered lethal damage. This only works under certain conditions — it has to be done before the soul leaves the body, it cannot undo blood loss, and there is a limit to the number of times it can be used on any given person.
- Eyes Out of Sight: The upper part of her face, which includes her eyes, is always hidden, usually by means of her Eye-Obscuring Hat.
- Historical Domain Character: Of a sort. It is not said explicitly, but she is clearly meant to be the semi-legendary alchemist Mary the Jewess.
- Team Chef: An extremely good cook, Mary is in charge of meals for the Bridge Builders' Cabal.
- Team Mom: Very much the nurturing mother-figure within the Bridge Builders' Cabal.
- The Medic: Given her abilities, this is her normal role. She can heal almost anyone of almost any injury, as long as the conditions are met.
- Third-Person Person: Refers to herself in the third person as "mama".
Trismegistus
Trismegistus
- Battle Butler: Essentially acts as Alice's butler.
- Hammerspace: He can produce various objects out of thin air in a manner resembling that of a stage magician, as well as making them disappear again.
- Hermetic Magic: His speciality magic, since he takes his name from the founder of Hermeticism, Hermes Trismegistus.
- Iaijutsu Practitioner: Can quick draw his sword cane to devastating effects.
- The Man in Front of the Man: Although Alice is the de facto leader of the Bridge Builders, Trismegistus is effectively the founder. He initially gathered them together, he chooses replacements and additions as necessary, and he is the primary driving force behind their goal to summon Christian Rosencreutz.
- Undying Loyalty: Towards Alice, as unlike his fellow Transcendents who obey Alice out of fear of her power, in his case he cares for her as her master, and will not forgive anyone who harm her in any way.
- Willing Channeler: His magic consists of invoking the names of two gods to gain spells fitting their characteristics.
Mut Thebes
Mut Thebes
- Casting a Shadow: Her power works by having the shadow cast by her body absorb the shadows of the objects it comes into contact with, which she can then deploy from her body and wield as her own.
- Spontaneous Weapon Creation: The main use of her magic, absorbing the shadows of weapons to then reproduce them and wield them.
- Stripperiffic: Her clothing barely covers her. It is actually part of her magic, as she needs maximum exposure for the shadow cast by her body to touch the shadows of other objects.
Vidhatri
Vidhatri
- Hindu Mythology: Her name and identity are modeled after an Hindu goddess.
Blodeuwedd
Blodeuwedd
- Celtic Mythology: Her name and identity are modeled after a character from Celtic Mythology, more specifically Welsh, Blodeuwedd being a character from the Mabinogion.
2nd Saga
2nd Saga
- Norse Mythology: Her name and identity are modeled after an obscure goddess from Norse Mythology, Sága, of whom it is only known where she lived and that she drank mead with Odin.
