Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 21/Chapter 2

Characters
By order of appearance:
 * Hamazura Shiage
 * Takitsubo Rikou
 * Nephthys
 * Niang-Niang
 * Agata
 * Dion Fortune
 * Misaka Tabigake
 * Annie Horniman
 * William Wynn Westcott
 * Misaka Mikoto
 * Shokuhou Misaki
 * Qliphah Puzzle 545
 * Heaven Canceller
 * Mina Mathers (Reading Thoth 78)
 * Kihara Noukan
 * Aleister Crowley
 * Netta Fornario
 * Israel Regardie
 * Accelerator
 * Kamijou Touma
 * Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers

Abilities

 * Accelerator (ability) - Accelerator, Level 5
 * Electromaster (Railgun-variant) - Misaka Mikoto, Level 5
 * Symbolic Weapons - Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
 * Mental manipulation - Qliphah Puzzle 545
 * Wax Seal - William Wynn Westcott
 * Boaz and Jachin - Annie Horniman
 * Archetype Processor - Dion Fortune
 * Curse doll - Annie Horniman (flashback)

Locations

 * London
 * British Museum
 * Isis-Urania Temple
 * Egypt

Referbacks

 * The incident where Kumokawa Seria lost her eye and replaced it with a spare stored elsewhere is referenced while Heaven Canceller is going through the process needed to grant Lilith a body.
 * Noukan refers to Kihara Byouri with regards to what would happen if a Kihara pursued medicine, and his student Kihara Yuiitsu with regards to her actions after his injuries.
 * Aiwass and Coronzon's creation of vessels and reproductions, such as those of Mina Mathers, Lilith Crowley and the Qliphah Puzzle 545, is referenced when the truth about the Golden Dawn is revealed.

Cultural References

 * The Trithemius Westcott refers to is (1462 - 1516, born Johann Heidenberg), a German abbot, polymath and scholar, active in the German Renaissance as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist. The  involved in the foundation of the Golden Dawn were written in English using a cipher derived from Trithemius' work (specifically his five-book steganographic work ). Among his students were  and.
 * The scattered objects used for Mathers' Belzébuth are compared to.
 * Nephthys and Niang-Niang refer to several methods of torture, punishment and execution including, , , the Six-Location Cut (六所斬り(ろくしょぎり)) and.


 * What Niang-Niang had in mind with the was an old Japanese folk remedy for colds and fevers, involving shoving the spring onion up the patient's rear end.

Unanswered Questions

 * Is Heaven Canceller really Allan Bennett after all?

Quotes

 * Aleister Crowley: "What a silly farce, Mathers. Even with all these familiar faces around, am I still all alone in the end?" (to Mathers)