Golden Drone Strike Spell
Hello, this is my first time commenting on this subreddit, and I wanted to share my first spell with you. I hope you like it.
Although I haven't watched the anime or read the manga yet, the magic system fascinated me enough to spend hours researching how it works and all the details behind spell creation. Using the wiki, specific scenes from the anime and manga, and examples from other users on this subreddit, I did my research and created my first spell. This spell is a response to the small "challenge" posted by user u/Fit-Challenge-1111 in their post: https://www.reddit.com/r/WitchHatAtelier/s/fD718N7V0q
Obviously, this spell is based on many conjectures and theories since the exact workings of most of its components are still unknown. However, since I'm relying heavily on existing spells (that appeared in the anime or manga), I'm almost certain it will work without much trouble.
If my spell works as intended, drawing the seal on an object will transform it into a mentally controlled drone (likely using the user's vision) that will turn any living being it touches into a statue made of the same material as the object. For this example, and to complete the challenge, the sealed object will be a gold ingot or something else made of gold. Congratulations! You now have a golden drone that turns anyone it touches into a golden statue.
The seal's function isn't that complicated; the challenge lies in explaining it clearly. Essentially, this spell is a combination of the forbidden petrification spell and the cloak spell. The outer circles are responsible for lifting the object into the air and allowing the user to control it like a drone, while the inner circle is responsible for turning living beings into statues of the same material as the object.
The logic behind the design of the outer circles is quite obvious. The Puppet Sign, combined with the Wind Sigil, allows the user to lift the object into the air and control it, while the Vision Sign enables visual control. To increase carrying capacity and speed, I incorporated four of these circles connected to the central circle by a line.
The speculation begins with the inner circle, as little is known about how the petrification spell works. My interpretation, based on its construction and arrangement of symbols, is that the petrification spell doesn't actually turn things into stone, but rather "makes reality believe" that the affected things are made of stone. The petrification effect of this spell is like the status effects in a video game; to the game world and mechanics, the affected player appears to be stone, but essentially, they are not. Simply put, the spell doesn't replace the affected object with stone, but rather transforms it into something with the properties and appearance of stone.
Having a concrete theory of how it works makes defining the function of the symbols that make up the seal much easier. To begin with, the central sigil most likely represents the process of "applying status effects," while the other four semicircular sections (those containing the Time Stop Sigil and the other unknown sigils) are possibly special properties that the spell applies to whatever it affects. Time Stop to prevent petrified things from aging, one to continuously collect and supply magic so the transformation doesn't undo, one to keep living beings trapped by it alive, and so on. Then, based on what can be observed in the anime, the known signs, and the similarity of the unknown signs to known ones, it's possible to conclude that the combination of signs used for the spell results in its propagation from solid to solid, like an infection. This means that the spell doesn't turn air into stone, nor is it capable of spreading through it; it requires contact between two solids to propagate. It also likely has a maximum propagation radius, but that, like many other things, can only be theorized. For my own purposes, I kept all of this largely unchanged.
The changes begin with the ring of "fork flowers" and "strange bowls," which appears to be where the spell's targets are defined. It's already known that Glaives Signs are specific to determining how much a spell affects the body; the "fork flowers" must be a variation of these. As for the "strange bowls," by process of elimination, we can deduce that they represent the other thing the petrification spell affects: inanimate objects. Precisely to increase the user's safety, and since the objective is specifically to turn people into golden statues, the "strange bowls" symbols were replaced with Crosshair Signs. The Crosshair Signs, accompanied by the "fork flowers," serve to limit the spell's effects and spread exclusively to living beings, allowing for the safe storage and reuse of the golden drone without turning you and everything around you into gold in the process.
The next change is in the ring that follows, where I replaced the Earth Sigils of the original petrification spell with Window Signs. The only thing left to define in this spell is the material things are being transformed into, and that's probably what this ring does. The logic is simple: the petrification spell transforms things into stone because it had the Earth Sigil assigned as its material. As for my spell, having the Window Sign, it uses the object on which the seal is drawn (the gold drone) as its material reference. Therefore, the spell would now transform things into that same material: gold.