Stiyl Magnus

Stiyl Magnus (ステイル＝マグヌス) is a magician with Necessarius and was once one of Index's partners. He is currently assisting Arch-Bishop Laura.

Profile
A sorcerer from Necessarius. His sorcery name is Fortis931, "My name is the strongest proof, here is why". He is an extremely heavy smoker; he claims a world without nicotine would be hell. He specializes in using runes to invoke his power over fire. He wears a black robe and has long red hair, and a bar code tattooed on his cheek.

He's physically very weak as shown when he was beaten by Touma. Though this is explained as casting Innocentius needing vast amounts of energy, leaving his body weakened compared to others

Personality
He has a short temper but is actually kind, as he cares about Index very much and used to travel around the world next to her side to copy the original grimoires in her mind. His failure to save her life without losing her memories was his greatest regret. When he learns the Church lied to him and Kaori about Index's condition, he decides to disobey orders to capture Index and allow her to live her life. He doesn't like Touma much but respects his abilites and that Index was happy with her current partner. Stiyl has to deal with the antics of his superior, Laura Stuart when she's not preforming her duties.

Plot
He's sent from England along with Kaori to retrieve Index and reset her memory. He's the first magician Touma fights in the series. He encounters Touma as he stood before an injured Index. He attempts to kill him but his spells at first seemed ineffective due to Touma's Imagine Breaker. He summons Innocentius who proves to be a tough fight for Touma. But he later finds a way to defeat his fire monster and punches him out cold. He later appears when he and Kaori have to reset her memory. But after realizing that the memory wiping was a lie he helps out Touma as she tries to get rid of the self-defenses of Index. Shortly after that they decided to leave him and Index alone for the time being seeing as Index was happy for a change.

During the 2nd volume where he meets Aleister Crowley concerning vampires. He's sent to find Aisa and rescue her from a rogue magican, Aureolus Izzard with Touma's help. In the cram school the magician runs he's surprised to see the lifestyle of the students in Academy City, believing it to be nothing out of the ordinary until they attack him and Touma with magic. He runs off to find the source of the magic that rules the building, but is later cast out with Touma with no memory of why they were their until Touma breaks off the illusion with his power and punches him in the face, wiping the illusion from his mind as well and proceed in rescuing Index who was now captured by Aureolus. While fighting him he tries to mentally break down his concentration of Ars Magna but is skin was torn away from his body by Aureolus's power. But after he looses control after Touma manages to survive his attack he returns to life, rescuing Index and watches Touma finish him off with a dragonic version of Touma's decapitated arm.

He doesn't appear again until the 7th volume where he helps Touma and the Amakusa Catholics fight off Anieze Sanctis.

Later he appears in volume 9-10, helping to hunt down Oriana Thompson in the 'Stab Sword' incident, later found to be the 'Croce di Pietro'. By the end of the volume he was badly injured to the point he was sent to a hospital and needed surgery, but recovered shown in later volumes.

After that, he appears in volume 14 along with Anieze interrogating Lidvia and Biagio for information on God's Right Seat.

In volume 17, he shows up at the last minute to help Touma defeat the terrorists, saying Touma should be more mindful of his duties as Index's guardian.

He was mentioned briefly in volume 18, saying he's stuck fighting the Knights at a major port in UK before showing up in the Epilogue angry that Laura and the Elizard have controllers to Index.

Abilities
He's a magician who specializes in Fire Magic and Runes.


 * Runes: He uses runes placed on cards to activate various this such as create a field that no one can enter or summoning Innocentius. It's said this rune is one newly created by him after studying the pre-existing runes.


 * Fire Magic: He uses Fire Magic based on runes primarily and is very skilled in it, able to manipulate fire and heal burns. He is also capable of burning the face off people and recreate it to a new face, shown when he changed to physical appearance of Auroleus to prevent Auroleus being captured.

Spells

 * Vampire Killing Cross: Creates an flaming cross
 * Flaming Sword: Creates an 2000 degree flame sword
 * Innocentius: A 3000-degree-Celsius fire monster summoned with a lengthy incantation and rune cards, a.k.a (魔女狩りの王, Majokari no Ō?, "King of Witch Hunters"). It can't be destroyed unless the runes are removed.
 * Empty Area: Using the 'Opila' rune to create an area that no one enters outside intended targets.

Quotes

 * (To Index in the Volume 1) "You can go ahead and sleep soundly. Even if you were to forget everything, I will never forget a single thing. I will live for you, and die for you."
 * (To Touma in Volume 7 on the topic of Index) "For that child, I can burn the living to death and the dead to ashes, no matter whether it is done in front of her or behind her back. If you no longer have meaning for her I can burn you to nothingness."