SI, the vanisher

Si has no form, nor time. Si takes that form others. Si is the flame that engulfs the flame, the chant that ends every chant. Si is usually called the antimagic.

Effect

Si dispells any flame under it´s effects, ends every kind of chanting. It´s useless by itself, but an uncomparable asset as to fight or capture other mages, dispell seals or failed spells and defend it´s user form most form of magic.

Side/Secondary Effects

Si is void and end, and it can be quite unsettling to use. It´s abuse can make mages go nervous crazy, cause apathy or damn straight depression. It affects magic and any of it´s sources, so it can potencially kill a mage who uses it without care, aim or the necessary mental strenght, vanishing the caster onto oblivion.

Manifestation

Si makes the flames loose control and dispell, commonly with a big, innofensive blaze and a silent cue, a resouning silence that covers every other sound for a second. The silence prolongates itself for the duration of the Si use, and a prolongated chant can be unbearable for most mages, do to the absolute absence of sound.

Source

As any other magic form on Asmate, an though it faced discussion for long time on this matter, it derivates from the Song and the Blue Flame.

Discovery

The first documented use of Si it´s on the Ballad of the Night lady, the tale about a vengeful woman who haunted and chased down the Luminous Mage Circle of the Lake members, on vengeance for the death of her father. The end of the Night lady was madness and vanishing, but it cimented the studies of the new chanting.

Material Components

Will of the mage and, extrangely enough, flame charge.

Gestures & Ritual

Due to it´s problematic nature, instinctive casting of Si is highly unadviced, so it is an exception among the magic of Astema. It is usually ligated to a verbal cue, a gesture and some sort of channeler (a little object: a key, a pendant...). The end of any of this will end the spell, as a security method.

Related Discipline

Magic of the Song

Related School

Magic of the Blue

Related Element

Void, silence, nothingness, soul, flame.

Effect Duration

Si longs as long as the will of the mage keeps it in use, until it separates of the magic source or the flame in the mage or the objective magic ends.

Effect Casting Time

Less than a second, on the theory, on the practic, whatever time the dispeller needs to prepare himself for the task at hand.

Range

Close range since the source, limit at about one meter.

Level

Second level chant: Duration. A medium level chant, one rather uncommon do to it´s problematic.

Applied Restriction

It´s mutually exclusive with Sol. It needs flame charge to act, and an objective. It won´t merge with other chants, needs direct, lone application. It is a very unpleasant magic for just anybody, so public displays are not grazed upon, and on some places are even banned.