Archetype Controller

“I appreciate your high opinion of me, but you are wrong. Besides, the Kiharas cannot
defeat the ruler of this city.”

“Oh, you mean because of the Archetype Controller? That’s just cheating!”

Archetype was a psychological term for a common understanding or sense of values that
developed as each member of a race or group dealt with an identical problem in the same
way. These included religious concepts such as the palace of the gods being above the
clouds and the prison for sinners being below the earth. In an extremely broad and
shallow sense, the idea that the Japanese loved rice and Americans loved burgers was an
archetype.

But what if you could control those?

What if you could create them, send them out into the world, and even destroy them?

“He was the one that used the terms Academy City, esper, and science side and tossed
them inside a framework that could be called mankind’s worship of science. To go a step
further, the category of the Kiharas is another example. That is why we cannot defeat this
ruler. If he wanted to, he could cut us off from our surroundings using the archetype of
heretical science and cause the very definition of our existence to vanish into thin air. We
might manage to survive, but we would become defanged cowards. And I shouldn’t have
to explain what happens to a defanged and declawed beast that’s thrown out into the wild.”

(On top of that, he brought glory to the archetype of modern Western magic during the
Golden period and it is still strongly influenced by him. He could always use that
archetype to affect the very foundation of today’s magic side.)

-Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 11 Epilogue