Fairy Tail: Iced Shell, Explained

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Grey, Lyon, and Ur are the three ice wizards known in the first portion of Fairy Tail. Besides the fact that the two boys were students of Ur as children, the three mages are tied together by their knowledge of incredibly dangerous magic. Each of these mages knows the Iced Shell spell. A form of their Ice Make magic that allows them to permanently seal off powerful enemies, with dire consequences. Each of the three began the spell but only one of them was able to complete it. With the cost of Iced Shell being as high as it is why are the casters willing to take the risk?

Fairy Tail follows Lucy, Natsu, Erza, and Gray as they complete missions for the Fairy Tail guild. The overarching plot is that Natsu is looking for his foster father, a dragon named Igneel. However, in a multi-episode arc, the viewers were treated to an in-depth look at Gray’s history and what made him the mage that he is today.

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Iced Shell is a powerful spell that can be cast by Ice mages. It turns the caster's body and spirit into a thick coating of ice that fully encases and seals the target. The size of the shell appears to be whatever it takes to encase the target. There are many reasons to believe that the mage is still alive but simply exists as the ice itself. Firstly this is what Ur tells Gray will happen before she casts the spell herself. But this is a teacher and mother figure talking to a child, so she could be sugarcoating the truth to make things easier for him.

The far more compelling reason to believe that the mage lives on is the fact that the lost magical art of time control is unable to reverse time. This magic is explained to only work on inanimate objects, it has absolutely no impact on