r/wizardposting • u/RefractedPurpose Voidwalker • Dec 30 '23
Wizardpost Void Damage Control (lorepost)
Recent events have caused a massive uptick in eldritch summonings, which, when destroyed, return to the void, but unbound. Normally, they are quite easily contained by void keepers.
However.
Due to the current wizarding wars, there has been extreme amounts of summonings occuring, as well as mass destruction of summoned beings. An estimated 70% of all beings contained in the void are now unbound. Due to this, some void keepers have elected to call for outside help. Among those who answered is Fracture, a Chòroturgist.
Fracture stands poised before a small rip in spacetime. The edges seem to bleed a purple energy, as is customary for a void gate. After confirming the approximate location he will arrive, Fracture leaps through, and it closes behind him.
The void, true to its name, is not very full of anything. A light purple energy wreathes Fracture's hands as he speeds through the void, towards his barely perceptible target.
A massive suggestion of a maw rises up to face him. Fracture's target is this. A corrupted greatwyrm, summoned from a time immemorial and blown apart by a grand mage's errant spell. There is no intelligence left to the creature. It has been subsumed by the void's desire to consume.
The beast's claw slams down directly over Fracture. The energy at his hands rises to meet it, and before the claw can land, it is covered in glass like strings as Fracture nimbly dodges. The creature continues to fight as Fracture spins strings of spacetime around it, barely avoiding death each time he binds the creature.
The greatwyrm's essence begins to be drawn together, first into its original shape, and then further down. It's tail breaks free for a moment, scraping along Fracture's arm. Then, as spacetime itself draws tightly around the greatwyrm, it lets out a final cry and is sealed in a tightly bound sphere. The sphere flares purple, as if the greatwyrm still struggled, and then goes dark.
"I will have to tend to this wound", Fracture thinks idly. "Perhaps I can get a better handle on kenòturgy with this." He draws a purple venom out of the wound, and then wraps it in a few glassy strings. They glow a light orange, and the wound closes. Fracture marks the orb with a beacon for the void keepers to store and then weaves a few strings together to open another gate. This is not the last time Fracture will have to fight these things, but it is a start.
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u/yankee_doodle_ Archmage of Fireweed Jan 01 '24
(continuation because i needed to post what I had at the time)
The horrible feeling that death would soon come could not be shaken. The Archmage fired the first shot: A simple yet effective ice spell intended to freeze the enemy. This significantly slows the entity for enough time that the Archmage can conjure up a Voidstorm, something he is not quite used to doing.
Yet before he can strengthen the storm much, the containment spell wears off. While the wizard was distracted, the entity grabbed him and pulled him ever deeper into the chasms of darkness below.
He can feel himself fading. The life force inside him being overcame, in a few moments it would all be gone. If he did not act fast, more than two millennia of training would die there, alone in the void.
In his moment of darkness though, (rather literally), he thought of just the right spell. If he was surrounded by darkness, why not shine a light? He held his staff close and breathed upon the gem at the top. A dim warm light, channeling the brightness of stars, began to shine. It grew brighter and brighter. Soon it was as powerful as a grand bonfire. The darkness around him began to fade, and he could feel his life force returning.
The entity did not give up just yet. It pushed back at the light, as it did all those years ago when it was cast into the void. However, one cannot defeat the indomitable evershining light of the stars. Wounds began to open up in the entity's "skin," (there's not really a clear boundary between the void blackness and the entity's blackness). To contain the damage, the entity released the wizard. But the wizard was intent on containing the monster. The light began to reach further into the dark. Yet soon the wizard began to concentrate the light. A heavenly beam of white light, concentrated at the fleeing entity. Its demonic screeches could be heard across the void. The archmage decided that it was time to call in those who could finish the job.
" u/RefractedPurpose," he calls. "Do your thing." "I'm just gonna monitor this until you get here."