Toaru Majutsu no Index Wiki:Featured articles/This month's featured article/2021

Openers for articles that have been featured in 2021.

January
A new year, a new beginning. Perhaps somewhat fitting, the first Featured Article of 2021 is for the Beginning Child, the first modern esper and the beginning of Academy City's Power Curriculum Program.

Half a century before the present day, this student was trained based on 's data and became Academy City's first artificial esper, possessing the ability to remake the environment of her immediate surroundings into one ideal for the survival of a nearby life-form. The system used for her became the foundation of the modern-day Power Curriculum Program.

However the public of the time did not believe the Beginning Child had special powers, and she had to endure continual attacks from newspapers and sceptics. She eventually disappeared, supposedly unable to bear living under these conditions, but she was actually frozen and preserved, with technology of the time having apparently not been enough to control her. A year before the main events of the series, she had ended up in the possession of L.S.S., and their attempts to awaken and exploit her played a key role in the Biohacker incident Kamijou Touma was involved in during his third year of middle school.

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Recently featured: Total Human Cyborg Replacement Project

March
The first magic-related Featured Article in quite a while, this time it is for a group of powerful spiritual items which appeared near the climax of Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index - the Divine Mixtures.

Created by the Anglican Archbishop as capital defense weapons and a countermeasure against a certain infamous magician, with the likely used as a reference, the Divine Mixtures originate from twisted interpretations of ancient Egypt and its mythology by Europeans, specifically the ancient Greeks, distorted by their own biases, misconceptions and preconceptions. The Divine Mixtures themselves are based on the Greeks matching Egyptian gods to their own gods with similar roles, with their names consisting of an Egyptian deity followed by their Greek equivalent.

Taking the form of decorations made of gold and diamond when inactive, on being activated and connected to the ley lines, the Divine Mixtures assume gigantic forms with destructive power reflecting their associated combined divinity, while also transforming the surrounding landscape into that of ancient Egypt as viewed and imagined by the Europeans. While possessing considerable might on their own, the Divine Mixtures only exhibit their true potential when a person offers themselves up as a host and fuses with them, granting them what a mere tool lacks.

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