“ | Power... it draws its source from one's strong will, belief and experience. |
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— Dreyfus in Chapter 66. |

Holy Knights using their magical powers.
A Magical Power「魔力, Maryoku」 is a mysterious and supernatural ability that allow its wielder to perform various techniques. Generally, it is unique to individuals.
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Description
Magical Powers are mysterious abilities invoked through unknown means.[1][2] The source of an individual's power is stated to be drawn from one's will, beliefs and experiences.[3] The power resides within the body itself[4] even though the catalyst to awaken one's power is unknown[5], the former being supported by the Holy Knights' beliefs that their bodies are imbued with "magic that transcends human knowledge."[6] Magical powers can also be gained and utilized from other sources of power by research and experimentation. There are times when powers are inherited.
These abilities can be categorized into offensive, defensive and support skills in battle. The Holy Knights from different kingdoms across Britannia use their magical abilities to protect people from various threats.
Everyone has their own unique magical power, though some powers can be shared by more than one person, such as the case with Gustaf and his sister Jericho. Some races have magical powers that are shared across their races population, though individuals would still have their own individual magical powers. In some cases, powers can even be taught to others, such as how Chandler taught Meliodas how to use Full Counter.
A persons magical power can also be measured as a numerical value by Balor's Magical Eye, along with Physical Strength and Willpower. These three factors, when added together, determine one's overall Power Level. Magical abilities can also be sensed through the exertion of the individuals' auras and those who felt it have different reactions towards such levels of power.
Weaknesses
While powers grant users various advantages and benefits when engaged in combat, there are drawbacks for using them: For example, Full Counter's inability to reflect indirect or normal attacks; Ruin's ability requires a unique staff's bell to make it work; and Invasion's requirement of a long-range distance.
A magical power weakens and grows unstable if the user loses control of their emotions,[7] though this may be remedied through training.[8]
Types
As explained by Pellegarde, there are different Magical Power Types「魔力の型, Maryoku no Kata」 [9] by which abilities fall into one of nine categories[10]. There are very rare instances of a person possessing two or more types of magic.[11] Few cases among these people possesses four or more types of magic. Such people are called Hero-Types.
- Destruction-Type「破壊型, Hakai-gata」: Allows the user to exert magical power with destructive properties, with natural forces like thunder or flame, or a non-natural dark force.
- Shifting-Type「変性型, Hensei-gata」: Allows the user to modify the properties of matter. There are a ton of varieties to it, like modifying an object's weight, the hardness or water into ice.
- Healing-Type「回復型, Kaifuku-gata」: Allows the user to heal injuries and ailments of themselves or others. Its effects and scope are diverse. It is regarded to be mostly belonging to the Goddesses'.
- Search-Type「探索型, Tansaku-gata」: Different forces, like locating a particular object or finding out how genuine a person is, have been identified.[12]
- Mental-Type「精神型, Seishin-gata」: It is regarded to be able to manipulate a person's mind and their memories. Depending how it is used, it can be more powerful than the Destruction-Type.[13]
- Deception-Type「幻惑型, Genwaku-gata」: A magic power that generates illusions or causes auditory hallucinations. It is thought to be found in Fairies the most.[14]
- Stealth-Type「隠密型, Onmitsu-gata」: A shadow force that lets one to approach their opponent without being noticed or track the opponent's movements from faraway.[15]
- Enchantment-Type「符呪型, Fuju-gata」: Allows the user to imbue things with magic (e.g., their fists or weapons) to strengthen them and/or give them the properties of said magic.
- Oracle-Type「神託型, Shintaku-gata」: A force surpassing the human intellect, that predicts the weather or the future events. It is regarded to be the rarest of 9-Types of magic.[16]
- Hero-Type「英雄型, Eiyū-gata」: A very rare-Type of power; those who possess four or more different types of magic, fall into this category. Percival is the only known person so far to have these type of magic.
List of Magical Powers
Name | Possessor | Description | Image |
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Acid「 |
Hendrickson | Allows the user to generate and manipulate acid. | ![]() |
Blaze「 |
Cain Barzad | Allows the user to generate and manipulate fire. | ![]() |
Boost「 |
Dogedo | Allows the user to propel themselves at high speed. | ![]() |
Break「 |
Dreyfus | Allows the user to manifest their willpower as great strength and destructive force. | ![]() |
Calamity「 |
Talisker | Allows the user to control the weather. | ![]() |
Combo Star「 |
Derieri | Allows the user to increase the force of each physical strike they make as long as they are uninterrupted. | ![]() |
Crisis「 |
Original Demon | Allows the user to increase their power in proportion to the amount of damage they have sustained. | ![]() |
Critical Over「 |
Galand | Allows the user to increase their physical abilities and power level for as long as their magic holds out. | ![]() |
Curse「 |
Grayroad | Allows the user to inflict their opponent with disadvantageous circumstances. | ![]() |
Death「 |
Unknown Holy Knight | Allows the user to kill foes by enveloping them with black fog. | ![]() |
Disaster「 |
Allows the user to manipulate life, allowing the user to enhance or diminish the natural state of something, as well as deploy the properties of the Sacred Tree through the Spirit Spears. | ![]() ![]() | |
Discriminate「 |
Unnamed Holy Knight | Allows the user to get a description of other people's abilities and weaknesses. | |
Explosion「 |
Guila | Allows the user to generate and control explosions. | ![]() |
Full Counter「 |
Allows the user to reflect an enemy's attacks back at them with even greater force. | ![]() ![]() | |
Full Size「 |
Allows the user to grow to gargantuan proportions. | ![]() | |
Gift「 |
Theo | Unknown. | |
God「 |
Zeldris | Allows the user to nullify all magical attacks. | ![]() |
Great Thunder「 |
Zaratras | Allows the user to generate and manipulate lightning. | ![]() |
Ground「 |
Drole | Allows the user to control and shape the earth. | ![]() |
Guardian「 |
Gerheade | Unknown. | |
Haste「 |
Fiddich | Allows the user to increase their speed. | ![]() |
Hell Gate「 |
Melascula | Allows the user to open portals. | ![]() |
Hide Cloak「 |
Zhivago | Unknown. | |
Hollow Sound「 |
Gannon | Allows the user to create sounds, even over great distances. | ![]() |
Homing「 |
Tamdhu | Allows the user to infuse a weapon with magic in order to launch it against a target regardless of its distance. | ![]() |
Hope「 |
Percival | Allows the user to tap into the hope of their allies to generate a magical aura that can be used in several different ways: increased physical power, accelerated healing, creation of "magic golems", change of shape, etc.. | ![]() |
Hussle「 |
Waillo | Unknown. | |
Ice Fang「 |
Allows the user to generate and manipulate ice. | ![]() | |
Imitation「 |
Edlin | Allows the user to create an illusory replica of a single target that looks and feels perfectly real.[17] | ![]() |
Impact「 |
Doronach | Allows the user to generate an energy wave with a radius of 50 feet. | ![]() |
Infinity「 |
Merlin | Allows the user to keep their spells active indefinitely until the user chooses to dispel them. | ![]() |
Invasion「 |
Allows the user to search through and manipulate people's thoughts and memories. | ![]() | |
Judgement「 |
Denzel Liones | Allows the user to manifest their opponent's guilt of killing people as a means to "judge" the opponent. | ![]() |
Link「 |
Helbram | Allows the user to form a magical link with anyone who has allied themselves with the user and allows the user to access their powers and abilities. | ![]() |
Location「 |
Allows the user to track a person wherever they go, regardless if their appearance is known or not. | ||
Love Drive「 |
Deldry | Allows the user to make a person fall in love with them to the point of absolute loyalty. | ![]() |
Melody「 |
Deathpierce | Allows the user to manipulate the activation time of other people's Magic. | ![]() |
Miracle Wind「 |
Elaine | Allows the user to manipulate wind. | ![]() |
Mirage「 |
Burgie | Allows the user to create illusory clones of themselves. | ![]() |
Mix Venom「 |
Nasiens | Allows the user to consume poison and create new poisons based on what was consumed. | ![]() |
Mute「 |
Dale[18] | Unknown. | |
Ominous Nebula「 |
Zeldris | Allows the user to create a powerful vortex that pulls others towards them with an immense power of attraction, as well as rendering all physical attacks useless. | ![]() |
Overpower「 |
Slader | Allows the user to exert a malicious aura to intimidate their enemies. | ![]() |
Perverseness「 |
Pelliot | Makes the target's body move in the opposite manner to their will. | ![]() |
Punishment「 |
Chandler | Unknown. | |
Pyre「 |
Pellegarde | Allows the user to create and control fireballs. | ![]() |
Resonant「 |
Cusack | Allows the user to link themselves with and control someone through eye contact.[19] | ![]() |
Reverse「 |
Ardbeg | Allows the user to send all living beings within 5 yards back to their infant age.[20] | ![]() |
Seal「 |
Jenna | Unknown. | |
Snatch「 |
Ban | Allows the user to rob people of material objects without direct contact and also steal the abilities of others. | ![]() |
Suck「 |
Vivian | Unknown | |
Tempest「 |
Howzer | Allows the user to generate and manipulate wind cyclones. | ![]() |
The Ruler「 |
Demon King | Allows the user to invert the effects of all powers and techniques used against them. | ![]() |
Thunder Ray「 |
Zaneri | Allows the user to manipulate lightning. | ![]() |
Thunderbolt「 |
Gilthunder | Allows the user to generate and manipulate lightning. | ![]() |
Transparency「 |
Golgius | Allows the user to become invisible but does not entirely erase presence. | ![]() |
Transpork「 |
Hawk | Allows the user to take on the characteristics of any magical creature they consume for as long as they are still digesting it. | ![]() |
Trick Star「 |
Monspeet | Allows the user to make two objects of similar size switch places with each other. | ![]() |
Vain「 |
Arden | Allows the user to increase the amount of Magic an opponent needs to utilize their abilities. | ![]() |
Vision「 |
Bartra Liones | Allows the user to see a vague glimpse of the future. | ![]() |
Wall「 |
Griamore | Allows the user to erect extremely strong barriers. | ![]() |
Wither「 |
Elgin | Allows the user to generate a magical substance that reduces the strength and durability on what is applied to. | ![]() |
Unnamed Magical Powers
User | "Nickname" | Description | Image |
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Elizabeth | "Empathy" | A mysterious ability that allows her to persuade others to retreat from battle by speaking into their hearts and souls. | ![]() |
Friesia | Friesia's Power | A power that manipulates insects and uses their poisons. | ![]() |
Jericho | "Godspeed" | During her time as a Reactor-class Holy Knight, Jericho possessed a slashing technique referred to as Godspeed. It was lost with the removal of her demon blood. After her brother's death, she naturally awakens Ice Fang. | ![]() |
Jillian | Unknown | Jillian possesses the power to constrict her enemies with a wire-like trap ability, rendering them immobile for the time being. | ![]() |
Marmas | Marmas' Power | A power that allows the user to increase gravity on their opponents at specific increments with maracas-like maces. | ![]() |
Ruin | Ruin's Power | A power that hypnotizes and deludes others into believing that their comrades and allies are the users, which results in them battling each other. | ![]() |
Twigo | Unknown | A power that allows Twigo to release powerful blasts by slashing.[21] | ![]() |
Weinheidt | Unknown | Weinheidt possesses the power to create a realistic illusion of himself to deceive enemies, as well as the ability to charge his arrows to shoot with more power to deal maximum damage. | ![]() ![]() |
Named Techniques
Race Based
Name | Possessor | Description | Image |
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Ark「 |
Allows the user to manipulate holy light, which can be used for various purposes. It is the race-based ability of the Goddess Clan. | ![]() | |
Creation「 |
Allows the user to freely manipulate the earth. It is the race-based ability of the Giant Clan. | ![]() | |
Purgatory Fire「 |
Allows the user to generate unholy fire that can be turned into Hellblaze. It is the race-based power of the Demon Clan. | ![]() | |
Purge「 |
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Allows the user to erase abominable souls.[22] Race-based power of the Goddess Clan taught to the Druids. | ![]() |
Graces
Name | Possessor | Description | Image |
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Flash「 |
Ludociel | Allows the user to move at amazing speeds, to the point where it seems like teleportation. | ![]() |
Ocean「 |
Tarmiel | Allows the user to make powerful currents of water, turn their body into water so attacks pass through them harmlessly, or even create an entire ocean in a different plane of existence. | ![]() |
Sunshine「 |
Allows the user to create and manipulate a minimized sun. Also makes the user become stronger as the sun rises and weaker as it sets, becoming invincible for one minute a day at noon. | ![]() ![]() | |
Tornado「 |
Sariel | Allows the user to create powerful winds that can slice apart anything they touch and protect themselves in a wind sphere. | ![]() |
Commandments
Miscellaneous
Name | Description | Image |
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Immortality | Grants the user immortality, bestowing them with unrivaled regenerative abilities. Formerly possessed by Ban, acquired by drinking the Fountain of Youth. | ![]() |
Levitation | An ability that grants objects and users to fly at will. Possessed by fairies and most wizards. | ![]() |
Transformation | An ability that allows a user to alter their physical appearance and apparels. | ![]() |
Heart Reading | A common ability among fairies that allows them to read people's thoughts from their hearts. | ![]() |
Rapid Movement | A common ability that allows users to move in great speed at a blink of an eye in battle as if by teleporting. | ![]() |
Magic Detection | A common ability that allows users to perceive any source of magic whether in objects or people. | |
Power of Darkness | A characteristic ability of the Demon Clan that allows them to control mysterious black matter. | ![]() |
Trivia
- Most, it not all of the magical powers' effects closely resemble their users' traits and personalities:
- Despite magical powers being largely unique, there are several cases where individuals related by blood have displayed similar abilities.
- Dreyfus's Break and Griamore's Wall have opposing properties but are dependent on the user's willpower.
- Gilthunder's Thunderbolt and Zaratras's Great Thunder are similar in every aspect but name.
- Gustaf and Jericho's Ice Fang revolves around the manipulation of ice.
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References
- ↑ Chapter 69 , Page 6
- ↑ Chapter 83 , Page 9-10
- ↑ Chapter 66 , Page 28
- ↑ Chapter 83 , Page 9-10
- ↑ Chapter 69 , Page 6
- ↑ Chapter 14 , Page 9
- ↑ Chapter 46 , Page 9
- ↑ Chapter 90 , Page 5
- ↑ Chapter 4 (4KOA) , Page 6, 16, 18-19
- ↑ Volume 3, Extra Pages
- ↑ Volume 3, Extra Pages
- ↑ Volume 3, Extra Pages
- ↑ Volume 3, Extra Pages
- ↑ Volume 3, Extra Pages
- ↑ Volume 3, Extra Pages
- ↑ Volume 3, Extra Pages
- ↑ Chapter 27 (4KOA)
- ↑ Nanatsu no Taizai Manga: Volume 15
- ↑ Chapter 256 , Page 18-19
- ↑ Chapter 38 (4KOA) , Page 3
- ↑ Chapter 1 , Page 50-51
- ↑ Chapter 123 , Page 16