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These are Wild Mass Guesses for the series Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha which have been confirmed by the series or by Word of God. If a WMG on one of the open pages is confirmed, please move it here.

Please add new confirmed entries to the bottom of the page.

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Reinforce's continued presence in The Battle of Aces can be thanked for Hayate's improved fighting ability.

In StrikerS and the All There in the Manual material built on the main continuity, it is said that Hayate is a Unskilled but Strong Glass Cannon/Squishy Wizard who's next-to-useless in close combat. In The Battle of Aces, though, she can throw up barriers and use quick-casting close range spells. This can probably be waved off as Competitive Balance, but the in-universe reason is probably having Rein around to teach her to use the Tome's power properly.

• Confirmed by fan-translations of Hayate's route.

Hayate's mad magical powers aren't natural

...unlike Nanoha's. When Graham selected Hayate to become the mistress of the Book of Darkness, she didn't have any magic potential at all, but a prolonged contact with the Book gave her what is currently the highest power level among all canon characters. It makes sense to assume that had he seen such power within her from the onset (keep in mind that he is a TSAB official with 50 years of experience and enough magic power to sustain two familiars at once, so he could not have missed such potential), he would have selected someone else to play that part and took Hayate directly to Mid-Childa.

It may be further theorized that the gradual increase of the Master/Mistress' power is also a function of the Book: since they are bound to each other, filling the Book's pages with Linker Cores likely transfers some power to its master. It may also be possible that Hayate's poor health was a side effect of her body being forcefully transformed from a Jane Normal into a Physical God (also note the irony of Wolkenritter trying to save Hayate by unknowingly forcing her transformation). This function was, of course, poorly documented since the Masters of the Book usually died violently right after the Book was completed (and they reached the peak of their power, respectively).

• Graham didn't choose Hayate to be the Book's mistress, he had no control over it whatsover, the book chose its own mistress. Thus, your entire theory is based around a false premise.
  • Ah, is that so? Dang. Then screw the Graham premise, let's go with the stochastic likelihood of two incredibly strong mages born in the same year in the same city in a world normally devoid of magic. The last confirmed case of a mage spontaneously born on Earth was Graham, and that was some 50 years before Nanoha and Hayate's birth in Great Britain.
  • Objection! Graham clearly set the thing up, and it's even stated in the manga that he delibrately chose Hayate to be sealed with the book so few people would need to mourn her! He delibrately created a situation in which the book could only choose Hayate as she was the only person it came into contact with.
    • Which chapter was that in?
      • None of them. He actually said that when he found that master of BoD is along without friends and family it was something like sign to go with plan which he doubted at moment.
      • It was in Episode 10. ("Her parents had died and her body was broken, so it really tore my heart apart, but... I thought it was her destiny. Even if she had to be lonely, many other people wouldn't have to grieve because of her").
• Isn't this canon? Hayate is explicitly stated to have fused with the core of the Book of Darkness. It's also the reason why Hayate suffers from the Squishy Wizard and Does Not Know Her Own Strength tropes - she didn't learn magic normally, she just has access to the ultimate spells of doom contained within the book.
  • And where is it "explicitly stated"?
    • • In Track 8 of StrikerS Sound Stage 3, Hayate says "My linker core is melded with the original Reinforce, and Rein's linker core is born from my own core so...", to explain why Reinforce Zwei is having dreams of the original Reinforce's memories.
      • Some officer in Striker S also mentions it (something like "You only got this position because that Lost Logia fused with you!").
    • It would be very hard to watch A's without concluding Hayate is all but unaware of magic, or who and what the Wolkenritter really are, until about the 11th episode. She demonstrates no aptitude before the completion of the book and the manga even makes it clear the Wolkenritter devised "cover stories" for their frequently being out of the house.
    • She does seem to know that the Wolkenritter have magic and, to some degree, what their abilities are; in the first A's Sound Stage, Vita casually mentions using Levantine to heat the water, and Hayate suggests using some of the Book's magic. Hayate can also use telepathy and even overhear telepathic conversations (like when Shamal complains to Zafira about Signum and Vita criticizing her cooking). The Wolkenritter probably informed them of their abilities and offered to show her how to use the Book, but Hayate never intended to go into battle; in Episode 6, Signum suggests that if she fills the book, she can become very powerful and heal her legs, but Hayate refuses because gathering linker cores would hurt people. While she probably had the potential to use magic before then, she never had any cause to do so.
    • The manga mentions how after A's, Hayate's soul gained the memories and aspects of the Book among other things; hence she started being more maternal then....sexually curious.