Divine Protections

Item from Re:Zero by Tappei Nagatsuki

Innate magical blessings granted at birth — each person gets one at most. Reinhard has every single one ever conceived, because the world apparently decided fairness was optional.

Divine Protections are innate magical abilities bestowed at birth — blessings that grant specific, often highly specialized powers to their bearers. Most people get one, if they get any at all. They range from the practical (Divine Protection of Wind Evasion) to the esoteric (Divine Protection of Judging) to the absurd (Reinhard's Divine Protection of Getting Divine Protections, which allows him to wish for and receive any Divine Protection he needs in the moment). Reinhard van Astrea's relationship with Divine Protections breaks the system. He doesn't just have a lot of them — he has all of them. Every protection ever conceived, plus the ability to generate new ones on demand. This makes him functionally invincible and narratively fascinating: the most powerful person in the world, incapable of losing a fight, and yet completely unable to solve the problems that actually matter to him. Divine Protections can stop a sword. They can't fix a broken family. They can't bring back the dead. They can't make Felt want the throne.

Also known as: Divine Protection, Divine Protections, Blessings

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