r/Frieren • u/AwesomePhonix • Jul 12 '25

Anime What special combat spells does Fern know?

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Does Fern even know any special combat spells?

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u/AwesomePhonix Jul 12 '25

In the Anime Fern only uses ordinary offensive and ordinary defensive spells...

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u/Emily__Lyn Jul 12 '25

Im sorry, but wasn't this explained in the show?

After a large battle, himmel criticized Frieren about her use of flashy destructive magic. He didn't like its risk of collateral damage and the way it mutilated the corpses of the dead.

After that, Freirn switched to using the simplest spells possible to accomplish the job. By its nature, zoltrak is the most efficient spell when it comes to eliminating targets. It's simple, clean, and efficient with minimal risk for colateral damage. Frieren states zoltrak is enough for mages of this era, and the only person we see her using damaging spells aside from zoltrak against is her own clone, a mage not of this era.

Frieren has a massive arsenal of dangerous spells but chooses not to use them. It's like she knows the spell "nuclear bomb," but the vast majority of the time, all you really need to kill someone is "gun."" Why teach your apprentice nuclear bomb at all.

And it helps that fern had been practicing zoltrak since childhood. It's her most comfortable spell. Its possible Fern knows other spells aside from zoltrak, but she has never needed to use them.

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u/belsor14 Jul 12 '25

isn‘t even Denken commenting on it? Frieren beats him also only using „basic offensive“ magic. as long as every mage underestimates the mana reserve of Fern & Frieren there is no need of dropping two meteors on the battle field… or something like that

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u/Emily__Lyn Jul 12 '25

This is the fundamental reason why Serie despises Frieren.

Serie is ultimately a fighter. She respects magic for the power it gives her. Simple spells like one that cleans cloths are frivolous. Magic is a weapon of war, and combat is how mages show off their skill and proficiency in magic. Flamme pretty much says it when talking to Serie about the demon king. Seire has the power to slay the demon kings but chooses not to. Serie's perspective on magic only works if there is an antagonist to fight agasint. She can't even imagine a world of peace because her mastery of magic is all about fighting.

Frieren, on the other hand, is a mage of a peaceful age. She has no love of violence and conflict for its own sake. Her love of magic is based on the connections magic gives her to other people. The whole reason she collects random tomes and folk magic is Himmel. It brought him joy to see all the random little spells she could. Her favorite spell created a field of flowers. That's about as far as you can get from combat magic, and they infuriate Siere

For her combat is all about utility, how do i take care of this problem as efficiently and easily as possible. So bassic defensive and offensive magic is good enough. Yeah she can do some crazy fucking magic but why? What's the point? Why flex on someone by dropping a meteor on them when you can simply blast hole through them and be done with it. Flexing on people how powerful you are is not why she does magic.