Magna

Magna of the Ten Patch Officiants (マグナ, Maguna) is a fictional character from the anime and manga Shaman King. He is one of the Ten Patch Priest and the Patch Officiant responsible for overseeing the Hana-Gumi, Hoshi-gumi, and Magical Princess Teams. He openly sides with and supports Asakura Hao in quest to become the next Shaman King.

Appearance
When not in battle Magna wears a patch cloak with the average headband with horns. In battle Magna removes his cloak, keeping only his skirt on.

Personality
Magna is a very open supporter of Hao. He is very calm and calculating during a fight. When under the power of the Patch song Manga becomes cold and uncaring.

Spirit

 * See More: Magnescope

His spirit is that of an large horned owl named Magnescope (マグスネコープ). When oversouled with his ghost Magna gains the power to fly with wings on his arms and tailfeathers on the back of his hips, and strike from almost anywhere with the claws on manifested on the side of his hips. However, the claws are only meant to grab and crush, not to scratch. It would seem his medium is a set of owl feathers that he wears aroun his neck.

Shaman Fights in Tokyo
Manga was the one who did the qualification for the Hao's Hana-Gumi team. He also officiated many matches in the first rounds.

Shaman Fights Second Round
Magna were there when Team "Hana-Gumi" were defeated by Asakura Mikihisa. Magna stops them from attacking and says that the team is still useful, thus making them leave. He is later seen stoping Nichrome from attacking Asakura Yoh, who had recently defeated some of Hao's followers who had savagely beaten up Horohoro and Chocolove McDonell and killed Tao Ren. They later report to Hao and he is fine by the Hana-gumi defeat since Hao is ready for something.

Invading the Plants
When Hao wins the Shaman fight, by forfeit of the three remaining teams and his own teammates, Magna and the rest of the officiants follow Goldva into the plants for the crowning ceremony. Magna watches Silva lose to Yoh and goes to his plant.

Yoh and company enter the volcano plant and face off against Magna. Magnascope attacks and they both oversoul. Magna crushes Jeanne's Iron Maiden but nothing is inside. Tao Ren oversouls and strikes Magna with the full force of his lightning based attacks.

Magna, however, uses the Patch Song and readies himself to kill. A long clash then starts where both fighters would constantly dodge or block the other's attack, although Magna was at a disadvantage since his Over Soul was not meant for close combat. Suddenly a large amount of smoke blows up in between them something Magna uses to suddenly disappear and hide from Ren. From an unseen point he explains the abilities of his guardian ghost, Magescope, and how he strikes unseen and unheard in a similar way to an owl. Suddenly appearing out of the darkness to strike Ren, Ren disappears before he can make a clean hit. Ren reappears in the blink of and eye behind Magna and explains how he had become fast as lighting.

Suddenly Magna realizes that he needs to warn Nichrome about this but is killed with a massive lighting bolt attack Ren calls "ElecBang, allowing Yoh and company to move on to the next plant.

He later appears, together with all the other Patch Priests, within the Great Spirit.

Anime/Manga Difference
Due to the vast differences of the Second Round in the anime and in the manga, Magna is never shown in the anime. Instead is his role of supporting character to Nichrom replaced with, an anime only Patch, named Zinc.

Trivia

 * Like all the other members of the Patch Tribe, Magna is named after one of the elements in the Periodic Table of Elements, his name being derived from Magnesium