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Five Magic Stones
 Sprite of the Five Magic Stones in Story of Eastern Wonderland. | |
| Abilities | Seems to able to change appearance |
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| Occupation | Gatekeepers? |
| Location | Dream World |
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The Five Magic Stones are a group of stones(?) that can be found in the Dream World. They seem to have been blocking Reimu's way in the Story of Eastern Wonderland and she must fight them to get past. Since they have no profile, no official names, and exchange no dialogue with Reimu, nothing is known about them. It is unclear if they are even living beings, actual stones, or some kind of machine. It may be regarded as a generic boss and unimportant.
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Concept
Name
The name "Five Magic Stones" or "The 5 Magic Stones" is a rather notable name in the Western community. Why western fans named then this is because they look like five, magical, stones...
If "Five Magic Stones" was to be translated to Japanese literally, it could be translated to "５つの魔法石" (Itsutsu no Mahou-seki) or "五魔石" (GoMaSeki), however, the Japanese fans seem to have never used this. They may sometimes refer to them as 封魔録三面ボス (SoEW 3rd Stage Boss) by there appearance in game.
Appearance
In the Story of Eastern Wonderland, the Five Magic Stones are 5 grey spherical stones(?) on stands which have lava/blood/red roots pouring/sticking out. They are setup on a grey platform with 24 laser cannons with what seems to be the hiragana character ろ (ro) on the covers that are visible when the laser cannons aren't in use. When the boss battle starts, their appearances change by the following:
- Form #1: Stones 2 and 4 turn white.
- Form #2: 3 orb stones remaining. Stones 1 and 5 turn red.
- Form #3: 1 remaining orb. Lasers cannons are used. Its colour changes to ice-blue which bears the image of what appears to be a mountain.
Story
- Story of Eastern Wonderland
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- Main article: Story of Eastern Wonderland Story
Additional Information
Trivia
- The Five Magic Stones have the most hit boxes in the series that affect individual health bars in the same boss fight, followed by the Three Fairies of Light in Fairy Wars.
- They were the only boss in the series to not have a name, that was until a certain catfish came along...
- They also the only nameless character in the series to have a theme song.
- Their theme name "Bet on Death" would suggest that you are risking death when you come near these stones.
- These stones are the first characters to use green coloured bullets.
- It's the only character in the whole series that shoots constant bullets at the player when the player comes near the boss. More specifically, it's the middle stone that shoots bullets at Reimu when she's in the region of the grey platform.
- The books in Patchouli's spell card, Five Elements Sign "Philosopher's Stone", are arranged in a similar way to these magic stones.
- Reimu seems to be scared before and after the boss battle with the Five Magic Stones, thus making this the only ever time that Reimu was scared and/or afraid of a boss before and after the battle.
Fanon
- Some fans speculate that these stones will only attack if there is any form of magic energy nearby.
- It is speculated that they were created by Mima due to the stones been outside Reimaden, where Mima was at the time.
- There are also other speculations that they were created by Rika due to Rika wanting revenge on Reimu or because the stones act like a machine, but this is unlikely because Rika wanted Reimu to follow her, and Reimu headed towards the Dream World.
- It's sometimes speculated that these stones act as Gatekeepers of Reimaden.
- For some reason, some fans tend to shout out "FIVE MAGIC STTTTOOOOOOOONNNNNEEEEEESSSSS!" when referring to these stones. This is similar to how Chen is known as "CHEEEEEEEEEN!".
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