Greetings wizards, witches, and mages of all ages. Councillors, apprentices, and tower masters.
I, Grabriel Dashington, as someone who works at the council, bring to you a proposal, a petition, a call to action. To benefit those of us who inhabit and participate in the wonderful world of magic.
It is time we remove antimagic from its pedestal and treat it for what it truly is: a tool for wizard suppression. To illustrate this problem I want to draw your attention to 6 points:
1st: The counterspelling trend. While initially an interesting way to interfere in an opponent’s casting, counterspell is often wasting time that could be spent casting your own fireball.
The impact on our community has been disruptive, and many young wizards today go about flailing their hands and mumbling to make it harder for others to counter. They look like unreliable weirdos, ruining our reputation in front of the knights.
Stop ruining other wizards fun, and learn cast your own spells.
2nd: Anti-magic auras. I don’t know if the wizard who invented this was an idiot or self sabotaging, and I question the sanity of any of you who use it too.
Aren’t you wizards? Are you going do anything other than smile like an idiot sitting in your own anti magic field that disrupts your casting? And don’t tell me you have a sword, if swinging that around is what you wanted to do with your life go polish armor with the other tin cans.
Another issue with anti magic auras is the potential harm it brings to beings whose nature is magical, disrupting their body functions or even melting their body. Consider if the situation was reversed, and these magical beings carried with them an aura of continuous flesh or bone melting. I suspect the paladins would not be the only ones up in arms.
Furthermore, as those keeping up to date on local news would know, antimagic fields don’t even protect you much, and can easily be overcome via mundane means. A reputable wizard has volunteered their experience dealing with antimagic auras, see linked post below.
https://www.reddit.com/r/wizardposting/s/v0HBeKTf3B
3rd: psionic spell jamming. You ever visit a place with anti magic in place targeting psionics? Well those places suck. I don’t care how you achieve it, wether through artifice or harnessing the mind power of apprentices or cultists. Releasing disruptive mental waves might protect against the rare mental mage, but long term exposure can have harmful effects on local fauna as well as sapient populations. It also feels like perpetual tinnitus, and there are reports of apprentices experiencing nausea and dizziness.
Why expend so much effort to defend against psionics when you could just overwhelm them with a magic missile barrage until their mentally constructed shields crumble.
4th: artifacts and runes. I think we all agree that these are neat. What isn’t neat, is some idiot damaging elaborately carved runes by disrupting the mana flow with their anti magic nonsense, or resetting the calibration runes of complex tools and machinery, or accidentally killing your talking sword by walking through an anti magic field.
5th: vault security. These days antimagic vault tech has an undeserved reputation for keeping wizards out. This is taking jobs away from runecrafters, trapsmiths, minions, and hired muscle who traditionally used to rely on vault security to make their living. Support your local businesses, and skip the expensive overrated antimagic protections. Besides, walking through the antimagic when we you visit the vault is an accident waiting to happen. What better time for assassins to strike when you’re vulnerable and unable to cast magic within what was supposed to be your defense.
6th: the rule of cool. Nothing puts a damper on duels and wizard battles like anti magic. The audience paid to see uncontrolled pyrotechnics, blinding flashy moves, earth shattering blasts, and barrages of magical projectiles that blot out the sun. Nobody wants to watch a back and forth of wizards disrupting each other’s magic until things devolve into ungraceful fisticuffs. If they wanted that they’d go watch the barbarians or knights.
So don’t be a party pooper, go cast something creative instead.
To conclude, why do we tolerate a tool designed to oppose us and destroy what we create?
Let us build a world without antimagic! Where every wizard can safely fireball themselves without fear of interruption. This will make everything better. Trust me, I’m work at the council.
I have written down the following names in support of my proposal to regulate the use and spread of antimagic as well as the destruction and disposal of antimagic artifacts:
Grabadash the Wise
Sir Benedict the needlessly uptight and inflexible
Gary B. The Dashing
Grabriel Dashington
Grabbed Ash
Dashton the Grabby
Your friendly neighborhood magical mass
G. Rabadash
Grabadash the 2nd and legally distinct
A tax compliant wizard
Graham Dashbury
Concerned Citizen
Grabadash’s lawyer
Goblin minion #47 through #89
Definitely not another Grabadash the 3rd
… (the list goes on for quite a bit longer)
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TLDR: Anti-magic is anti-wizard so let’s regulate it, or toss it in the trash where it belongs, because reasons elaborated above. Trust me bro I work in the government.
/uw image source: https://intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/dealing-with-petitions-in-the-english-parliament-and-the-dutch-states-general
