Death magic

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Death magic is a term generally used to refer to the field of study concerned with the relationship between magic and death, or to specific schools of magic that relate to this field of study within a given system of metaphysics. In general, it concerns the fact that the process of death affects or produces magic in various intricate ways that can be exploited by all manner of magical systems. It is sometimes synonymous with "necromancy", but not always.

Abstract death[edit | edit source]

Death magic often operates outside the boundaries of fuégan magic by blurring the lines between physical death, as in the separation of the soul and the body, and more abstract death, such as emotional death, brain death, ego death, quantum death (death in all probability), chronodeath (death in the timeline, death by paradox) and conceptual death. In fact, as death mages accumulate power, they often report their perception of death shifting to that of things that were never alive in the first place - the death of an undead, for example, or the death of a work of art, a piece of pottery, etc. In this extended sense, the nuances of death magic become increasingly complex, and a gap of understanding forms between those that see death in this way and those that cannot fully comprehend the conceit. It is said, in fact, that the biggest hurdle in this type of magic is forming an appropriate magical shorthand - most spells that deal with such magic are so convoluted as to require entire tomes devoted to single spells, or very simple components for such spells. This is not always the case, and there do exist fuégan spells that occupy this sphere, but such spells are far and few between.

An example of a death mage whose magic almost entirely related to this extended meaning was Fortunia "&_Fr1bonenob1rF_&" Figginsloop Forsoothia Fetterslip, whose early life as an illusionist and necromancer led her to develop a form of magic she called "memento illusio", which she used to raise "dead" illusions and form an immensely poweful army of such "undead", each of which was almost unstoppable on its own without powerful magic tailored to do this, as each time the illusions were broken, they would return, bound to the material plane by a cocktail of grudges and trickery.

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