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All I can say about this comic is really just the last panel make me cry.

I just realised that Voltaire is not even nearly as smart as he thought he was. He had hoped that magic's change would do away with the current crop of magicians. But if it had indeed changed, the doomsday scenario Tedd and the other seers foresaw would have happened and magic would have had to become permanent shortly after -- with two systems loose instead of one. So Voltaire's master plan to render humanity helpless by traumatising Tedd would, had it worked, instead armed the mortals with a hell of a lot bigger arsenal.

If Edward has been reporting this though, I would presume that DGB would want a copy of the gauntlet, or at least Tedd's notes for it, and having tried to reverse-engineer it, failed and chalked it up to Tedd being a kid wanting attention or some such.  Still, working watches, from a gauntlet.  Use the gauntlet on something quality that is able to store a charge.  Wand-maker.  How is that not something that should have grabbed Edward's attention?   If Edward didn't know anything about Tedd, perhaps it's because he has a blind spot (too much drama  has happened already to question what Tedd is) or he is too busy with something else (heading off some coming Apocalypse).
If so, perhaps it was the fragility, or perhaps he didn't want Tedd to turn into a Lord Tedd.  In this instance, worrying about your child becoming a supervillain is a legitimate fear.
Or there's always the private sector.  I'm sure Samsung is looking for someone to head up their Galaxy Transformation Wand research section. 

Eh. You resolve that just by building additional pylons.

Actually the entire spell switching him back and forth from human to statue might fail, leaving him human and unable to return to hibernation. But as you said, the diamond would fail, too.
...I just had a thought. What if they are storing old devices in the storage unit that has the diamond? Devices that no longer worked... but just got returned to operation mere minutes before Magus and Sirleck will arrive?

There is a difference between regret and guilt. I have to admit, I have at long last seen a motivation for Tedd's mother to keep her distance from him that is not based on pure elitism. She is a monster hunter. A well-known and feared one. The obvious way for her enemies to target her would be through a son with no defences against magic. By relocating to another continent and never having contact with him, she protects him. At the same time this explains how Van already knows some magic. She would have wished him aware of magic at an early age so he would have some defence against enemies at least and so have trained him. Given her being sufficiently pragmatic and ruthless, both qualities that her duties and family tradition would have reinforced, leaving Tedd would seem the logical and necessary move for his own protection.
And if so, I am certain she regrets it. But she cannot let herself feel guilt, because that might weaken her resolve. Hence that dictum that Van just used, perhaps?

I think that he was mistakenly assuming that Tedd had just been making the watches by using the gauntlet to enchant things with copies of the TF gun's spells (but in Earth magic instead), instead of, y'know, reassembling the fabric of reality with his mind. Tedd also made the same mistake...and it sounded like the more reasonable assumption to the point where nobody would guess the latter if they had no idea of it existing.

The other option is that Edward knew full well what Tedd was doing, but kept it a secret, even from Tedd, to protect Tedd from government and/or bad guys and/or keep Tedd from suffering the self-esteem hit he took when Pandora told him the glove wasn't what he thought it was.
Edward seems convinced that Tedd is much more fragile than she really is. He has always tried too hard to protect Tedd from emotional stress, from not wanting to tell him about his mother to worrying that using the TFG to alter his sex would somehow be harmful to him. It's done out of love, a desire to protect Tedd, but it's no less harmful than some of what Pandora has done to her son....

One day on a train in 1935, future US President Gerald Ford was offered NFL contracts from  Curly Lambeau of the Packers and Potsy Clark of the Lions.  He declined them both and took a job as an assistant coach at Yale to work his way through law school.
Tedd, this is your train ride.  Arthur is giving you a legitimate offer.  Or do you want to keep working on your own as you strive for Lord Tedd status?

Van's a seer as well though, if Noriko is his mother, it's likely she would have used a magic analysis wand on him after he was born as well, either Van wasn't scared by the wand like Tedd was, or the wand wasn't noisy like Edward's or maybe, she must still have had some concern about Van's ability to defend himself when she first tried to teach him to cast spells and he couldn't.
However, the guilt could have come if Van gave the same results as Tedd, but later on she realized just how ever Van could resist enchantments and maybe figured out that could be the case with Tedd as well. That would make her feel guilty about the way she treated Tedd as defenseless and useless as an apprentice without giving him a chance, she'd also believe that it's too late to go back an try to reconcile things since she had started a new family.
For the most part I do agree with that reasoning for her leaving Tedd in the first place, but it was also probably the biggest conclusion jump someone could do.
Let's see, failure to realize the wand was being resisted, failure to realize Tedd could see magic, failure to realize that Tedd was empowering the watches and not some fancy technodohicky he made, failure to realized Tedd's genderfluidity...
I don't think we have enough palms.
 

Oh wow, just realized.  Once Magic goes public and knowledge of transformations becoming permanent is common, we will see humanity start to really change.  Imagine a world full of people who realize they can become whatever they want by magic.  Stronger, handsomer, furrier, taller, smaller, different colors, extra sets of things, whatever.  Generations from now, humans might not be recognizably human anymore.

Very good point. Note to all forumgoers here: no matter what you do, do NOT buy Samsung Galaxy S7 transformation wands.

Oh wow, just realized.  Once Magic goes public and knowledge of transformations becoming permanent is common, we will see humanity start to really change.  Imagine a world full of people who realize they can become whatever they want by magic.  Stronger, handsomer, furrier, taller, smaller, different colors, extra sets of things, whatever.  Generations from now, humans might not be recognizably human anymore.

But then you would get the cheap, knock-off brand versions that explode into flames or change you into a war chicken or something.
 

Someone call the Vatican, the Imperial Omyouji, the Van Helsing family, all the shamans, the Freemasons, the priests of all major religons, and reconvene the Round Table. And prepare to reopen the crypt of Merlin. We MIGHT have an emergency here.

And him learning Pandora was the one who cheered Tedd up.

Interesting thought.  I can see this as well.
I really like this idea.  That would be such a blow to Voltaire.  Yeah, I really like this idea.
But my big scene I want to see, Voltaire learning that Tedd was the one who convinced Magic.  

My bet for the remaining part of plan CM: Pandora comes back, reduced but functional, in time for the debate on changing Immortal law. The fact that she refreshed rather than reset then somehow allows her to play an integral part in stopping Voltaire. Perhaps she'll even argue for a different set of changes that Voltaire hates even more than the current laws.

I'd like to remind the rest of you that I'm on the record that I think Voltaire had some contact with Arthur and is the reason Arthur knew a change in magic was coming and why.

"Hello, is this Air France? I would like to order two vampire hunters, an exorcist and a mummy exterminator."

In an odd way, I was wrong about Van. He isn't there to contribute a viewpoint. He is there to contribute emotion. He can even do that without words, and he does it well. I'm glad.

But Magic isn't laying it's cards on the table.  What are it's reasons for changing severely?  It obviously has some or there would not be a need for the logic to be sufficient.  What logic is preventing minimal change.  Perhaps that would be a good question to ask.
Both very good points.
It does seems like Magic's lack of tact is about to push Tedd to some kind of breaking point.  Perhaps instead of declaring she will reveal Magic, this will push her to become more passionate and share her experienced-based perspective; why having magic is so important to her.  You know, Magic says it wants logic, but maybe it really just wants some drama.  I am having trouble reconciling this entity calling for logical perspectives when in practice, it having a flair for the dramatic.

But Magic isn't laying it's cards on the table.  What are it's reasons for changing severely?  It obviously has some or there would not be a need for the logic to be sufficient.  What logic is preventing minimal change.  Perhaps that would be a good question to ask.
Both very good points.
It does seems like Magic's lack of tact is about to push Tedd to some kind of breaking point.  Perhaps instead of declaring she will reveal Magic, this will push her to become more passionate and share her experienced-based perspective; why having magic is so important to her.  You know, Magic says it wants logic, but maybe it really just wants some drama.  I am having trouble reconciling this entity calling for logical perspectives when in practice, it having a flair for the dramatic.

But Magic isn't laying it's cards on the table.  What are it's reasons for changing severely?  It obviously has some or there would not be a need for the logic to be sufficient.  What logic is preventing minimal change.  Perhaps that would be a good question to ask.
Both very good points.
It does seems like Magic's lack of tact is about to push Tedd to some kind of breaking point.  Perhaps instead of declaring she will reveal Magic, this will push her to become more passionate and share her experienced-based perspective; why having magic is so important to her.  You know, Magic says it wants logic, but maybe it really just wants some drama.  I am having trouble reconciling this entity calling for logical perspectives when in practice, it having a flair for the dramatic.

Liefeld: "What happen?"
Arthur: "Someone set up us the bomb. We get signal."
Liefeld: "What!"
Arthur: "Main screen turn on."
Will of Magic: "How are you gentlemen!"
Will of Magic: "All your base are belong to us."
Will of Magic: "You are on the way to destruction."
Liefeld: "What you say!"
Will of Magic: "You have no chance to survive make your time."
Will of Magic: "HA HA HA..."