#abjuration

Disjunction

Level 5 Abjuration

With a flick of your hand, threads of power snap and unravel. Magic sputters, blessings die, and even divine light falters for a heartbeat—leaving only silence where faith and fire once burned.

💬 If you could cut the world’s magic for just a moment, when would you do it?

Crash and Burn / Cryptcaller Chariot

Prison Realm

7th-level Abjuration Casting Time: 1 action Range: 15 ft. Components: V,S,M (A map of the Prison relm, etched onto a silver mirror) Duration: Instantaneous (Until Dispelled) Classes: Wizard

Description: You create a prison relm etched onto the mirror. this relm is proportional to the size of the mirror used. a small hand sized mirror may only allow enough room to etch a house's floor-plan or a small island. while a large mirror may allow for a hamlet's worth of detail. additionally this effects how many creatures may be stored within this prison realm at a time. for a small mirror only one creature may be imprisoned. yet a large standing mirror might be suitable to contain ten prisoners. the amount of prisoners per mirror is decided by your dungeon master. While you design the space you are unable to add any forms of hazards and are limited to purely cosmetic, structural, and geographical edits.

As you cast this spell and direct the mirror towards the target. That creature must succeed a Charisma saving throw be sucked into the silver mirror's prison dimi-plane, through the mirror.

While on this dimi-plane the imprisoned creature is fully conscious but cannot commit acts of violence or cast any spells. a creature imprisoned never goes hungry or thirsty, and never feels the need to sleep although they may still do so. During the first minute of their imprisonment they may re-attempt the saving throw as an action. Upon success the creature will escape and the mirror will shatter freeing any other prisoners in the process. If a creature remained imprisoned for a full minute then their sentence is permanent.

You may choose to release a single prisoner at any time by reaching into the mirror or you may fully dispel this effect on the mirror at any moment releasing all of it's prisoners in the process by either dispelling this effect, or breaking the mirror. If the mirror breaks for any reason all it's prisoners are released.

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Magetober 2023

Week 6: Abjuration - Magic Circle

For week 6, I drew my OC, Cyrus!

(art by Charlotta Bävholm on Artstation)

Finishing off here today, we have my first look at a wizard school, and it’s clear I was starting to do better. I even did multiple paragraphs in the first section of the entry. I still had a long way to go, and some of my old conceits were still present at the time. Can you believe I wondered aloud why someone would choose to specialize in protective magic over damaging spells?

In any case, abjuration! Abjuration is the school of magic focused on prevention and protection, warding a subject against change or harm, or preventing things from happening in the first place. Any magic that is essentially a giant floating middle finger to any of your opponent’s plans is probably an abjuration spell. Wards that prevent damage of a certain type, protect the caster spells or even turn them back on the opponent, a decent percentage of magical barriers that aren’t evocation, or just straight-up negating enemy spells and actions with dispelling and counterspells and whatnot fall into this category.

There are many reasons why someone might wish to become an abjurer. Some may have a deep-seated belief that life is precious and must be protected, and get jobs as bodyguards or defenders of the peace by protecting themselves and others from harm. Others may seek to demonstrate their mastery of magic by preferring to undo all of their rival’s mighty spells, putting themselves above such foes by how their own spells stand tall while others fizzle out.

That last one neatly ties into how the Thasalonians in the Lost Omens setting view abjuration, which they associate with the emotion of “eager striving”, which was corrupted into envy as they drew on the rune of abjuration and sought to destroy all that their opponents had. By comparison, abjuration is also associated with the virtue of charity, as the wards that it offers can save lives.

So let’s see what the school has to offer to its practitioners.

Each day, these mages can prepare a ward that helps them resist harm from one energy type, letting them tailor their defenses based on what foes they expect to face that day. Over time, the protection the ward offers increases, until at true mastery they become totally immune to the energy they ward against each day.

They also learn to project a defensive wards that provides subtle protection from attack to all within, which improves with mastery.

Additionally, they also learn to create a personal ward of energy absorption to help them deal with energy damage that gets past their other defenses, improving their survivability.

An abjuration specialist is one part buffer with all the defensive protections they give allies, and one part debuffer with their ability to dispel magic, negating the buffs enemies place on themselves. Additionally, with their variable energy resistance and final ablative energy absorption, they can be surprisingly tanky, at least against other casters and elementally-focused foes. I recommend picking your opposition school carefully, and add a variety of spells so that you have options of your own once you’ve shut down your foes options and made sure your allies are protected.

There’s a certain irony to the abjuration school. After all, magic is typically about bending reality to one’s will, and yet, their entire deal in part is denying others the ability to invoke their own will. And yet, that also makes a lot of sense. The ability to look at the dangers and malfeasance of the world and say “No”. I can see where folks would want that sort of control in their lives, whether they use it for themselves or others.

Spells given life by strange magic (comparable to animate dreams) are a common problem in the Warped Marshes. Because of this, the colonies are quick to hire expert abjurers. Not only are their wards useful at keeping the animate spells at bay, but the creatures are also acutely vulnerable to dispelling.

Rumor has it that Daivvus the White, a powerful universalist, has developed a spell meant to create an area of normal magic that can persist in wild, or even dead magic zones. The abjurer magocrasy of Filus would pay through the nose to keep this threat to their dominance (held through the negation of all non-affiliated mages) from spreading, burying the secret with the old wizard if need be.

Glyph of Warding

3rd level abjuration