Blazer

"Blazers: a special being who can manifest one's own soul as armor and control superpowers with one's magical power."

- Ikki Kurogane.

Blazer are a special breed of humans born with magic.

Summary


In the past, Blazers were referred to as Magicians and Witches, special people found in one-in-a-thousand capable of manifesting their soul as a weapon and wields magic power. As time passed, all natural militaries and local police force requires Blazers, resulting in the development of the Mage-Knight System, where such people are all required to graduate from Mage-Knight Schools approved by the League of Mage-Knight Nations to license and social status as Mage Knights, thus recieving full permission to use their powers without the usual limtations. Because of the responsibilities that comes with being a Blazer, even as Student Knights, they're recognized as being adults at the age of 15, allowing them to drink and get married, unlike regular people.

Although, a Blazer could wield amazing powers, which can go against the natural law of the world, their magic power is fixed at the moment of their birth and cannot be increased no matter the training. During the rematch between Ikki and Stella, Edelweiss explained that as the "limit of their potential that the world permitted them", meaning after reaching the full extent of their potential, it would be impossible for improve behind that point. After reaching his limit, Ikki felt himself being chained to the ground by invisible dark chains representing their "fate", almost pulling them into darkness. However, if a Blazer has a strong willpower to continue on forward despite knowing their limit, then they could break those chains, which would result in them stepping outside of the realm of Humans and into the domain of "Demons". After stepping into such a domain, then it would be possible for Blazers to increase their magic power through training, however, they would also be outside fate.

Ranking
In order to both evaluate and manage Blazer, their traits are determined and placed among the most appropriate spots among their hierarchical system to maintain balance. As such, things such as their ranks and attributes are fixed and rarely changes unless the situation called for it.

The ranks are determined from six attributes:


 * 1) Offensive Power
 * 2) Defensive Power
 * 3) Mana Quantity
 * 4) Mana Control
 * 5) Physical Ability
 * 6) Luck

Each of the Blazers' attributes is rated from A (the highest) and F (the lowest), with Amane Shinomiya, who was giving an S rating in Luck, because of his irregular abilities. These ratings are used to determine whether or not a Blazer will be ranked as either A to F Rank.

C-Rank Blazers and higher are considered "Rare", more so A-Rank Blazers, who are considered geniuses, among them there are at least 5 C-Rank Studens present among the 250 students and for at least one of the Mage-Knight Schools in Japan, having at least 1 B-Rank Student is considered lucky. As per the introduction of the Desperado, B and A-Rank Blazers are considered to be rather talented, born with greater fates, having great magic potential and are quick learners. However, Stella Vermillion, an A-Rank Blazer, who was born with 30× the amount of magic power as a normal Blazer and the "power of the Dragon" has such tremendous power that she couldn't control it without training.

The current system, however, doesn't evaluate mundane skills, such as martial arts, as Kurono explained to Stella, Blazers are ranked based on their magic power and Noble Art, which could accomplish things like manipulating "Time" or "Fate". A prime example of this is Ikki Kurogane, who despite being the weakest F-Rank, through his martial arts alone can challenge superior Blazers with greater magic power and/or irregular abilities. Itsuki explained that such a hierarchal system exists to maintain and organize the Blazers in a time, where things needed to be united, because such people were superhumans exists beyond as normal Humans, requiring them to know of their individual role. It also acts as protection for the Blazer, as those who aren't at least an E-Rank is incapable of enduring being shot with bullets, because their magic power isn't enough to act as a barrier that leaves at least a faint bruise. As such, this leaves most in disbelief that an F-Rank, like Ikki can perform superhuman feats with martial arts alone, however, even after defeating Iris Ascarid, the 4th-ranked in the KOK League, his evaluation as an F Rank hasn't changed.

Known Blazers
Unknown Ranks
 * Bakuga Tsukikage
 * Bishou
 * Edelweiss
 * Itsuki Kurogane
 * Adam Goetia
 * Arthur Bright
 * Abraham Carter
 * Norman Creed
 * Or-Gaule (Deceased †)
 * Naseem Al-Salem
 * Ein
 * Big Baby
 * Daniel Dandalion
 * Kagami Kusakabe
 * Mamoru Akaza
 * Ryouma Kurogane (Deceased †)
 * Nangou Torajirou
 * Wallenstein
 * Mikoto Tsuruya
 * Renji Kaga
 * Luke
 * Mira
 * Enalis
 * Lid
 * Fu Xiaoli
 * Ranbalt Raab
 * Yoshikazu Kiba
 * Great Teacher

Trivia

 * Mundane skills such as martial arts aren't included in the evaluation since they are viewed as being useless against magic and Noble Arts. As such, normal humans who practice swordsmanship such as Kaito Ayatsuji don't receive recognition for their accomplishments, while Blazers who practice martial arts are rare and are viewed as "oddballs" such as Yuuri Oreki by other Blazers.
 * Despite their treatment of Ikki Kurogane, the Kurogane Household are the exception who realize that skills such as martial arts are still essential.
 * The League has theorized that the "demons" from ancient times must've been desperados who lost their humanity, which means that Blazers existed for much longer than they initially thought.
 * Blazers are called "Psychics" in the US and "Warriors" in China.