Voiding
From Mizahar Lore
| "Wizard Aelobius taught us Voiding. He was a local authority in the field and widely respected by the magical community. In fact, he had no enemies around the Academy - they all tended to vanish without a trace. So did his three wives." - Vuld Shaik, "Magic and I" |
| Personal magic | |
| Full name | Voiding |
|---|---|
| Availability | Throughout Mizahar |
| Learned from | Users, books |
| Key concept | Opening portals to and from the Void |
| Uses | Getting rid of unwanted things, storage and retrieval, limited teleportation |
| Risks | Self-voiding, freeing dangerous banished creatures and objects |
Voiding is a discipline of personal magic that allows the wizard to open portals and blackholes to the Void, a dimension of emptiness that serves as a cosmic junkyard for magic users. Portals can generate a pull, sucking their surroundings into the other side, or simply transport whatever crosses them either way. More skilled wizards can also retrieve things from the Void, at the risk of fishing things previously Voided by another wizard. According to statistics, most things cast into the Void deserve to be there. Very powerful wizards can even link several portals, making things enter one portal and exit another, thus achieving a limited form of short-distance teleportation.
History
The origins of Voiding are lost in the mists of time, but it is thought to be one of the most ancient magic forms. Before the Valterrian, Voiding used to be part of the standard magic curriculum as a support discipline. Wizards without any training in it were considered second-rate. The reason was that many magic disciplines, such as Reimancy, do not have an explicit way of undoing a spell once it has been cast; Voiding served as a partial replacement to make up for this lack.
Much like all other forms of magic, the Valterrian elevated it to a rare and mystical artform, even though it was originally meant to be a precaution above anything else. Today, Voiding is still practiced in some form by most organized magical communities around Mizahar.