Telian Extract
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[Used most by the Order of Vi'ile. The extract is a dangerous toxin that can disable the victim's magic, often resulting in a comatose state with permenant damage to their essence, if not death. However in small enough doses it can be taken over a longer period of time to gradually reduce the consumer's magical reserves (and therefor their aura) to nearly undetectable levels.]
Properties
Material Characteristics
A yellowish, but otherwise translucent liquid that at room temperature it has a viscosity somewhere between water and honey. Though under to magic-based light it turns highly reflective and looks more like a liquid metal. It has a faintly sweet sent that's easily covered by other things, but tastes bitter and distinctly acidic in a way that'd be difficult to hide.
Physical & Chemical Properties
Telian extract, and the plant it comes from, is considered both valuable and dangerous in equal measure for its most notable property: It is capable of dampening or even nullifying magic, giving it a reputation as a mage killer.
For living beings, the poison's effects vary depending on how dependent their body is on magic. Less dependence on magic means less severe effects, a tingling or burning sensation where the poison has spread, possible dizziness or lightheadedness, and the inability to cast spells as easily. While there might still be permanent damage done to their ability to channel magic, someone who was already magically weak and had little dependance on magic will be more-or-less fine.
Those who are more dependent on magic, however, will suffer far more. A sensation like cold fire spreading with the poison, magic becomes less responsive, if not impossible to manipulate, and lightheadedness worsens to the very real threat of passing out or falling into a comatose state. Assuming they survive, permanent damage to someone's essence is likely in these cases, leading to weakened magic ability.
This ability to damage magic extends to objects as well. Crystalized magic dissolves like it's been exposed to acid. Items have their enchantments slowly stripped off, natural stores of magic weakened, and even the natural ability to channel it becomes limited. Though this does provide another range of usefulness...
Things that cannot channel magic instead become resistant to it.
For living beings, the poison's effects vary depending on how dependent their body is on magic. Less dependence on magic means less severe effects, a tingling or burning sensation where the poison has spread, possible dizziness or lightheadedness, and the inability to cast spells as easily. While there might still be permanent damage done to their ability to channel magic, someone who was already magically weak and had little dependance on magic will be more-or-less fine.
Those who are more dependent on magic, however, will suffer far more. A sensation like cold fire spreading with the poison, magic becomes less responsive, if not impossible to manipulate, and lightheadedness worsens to the very real threat of passing out or falling into a comatose state. Assuming they survive, permanent damage to someone's essence is likely in these cases, leading to weakened magic ability.
This ability to damage magic extends to objects as well. Crystalized magic dissolves like it's been exposed to acid. Items have their enchantments slowly stripped off, natural stores of magic weakened, and even the natural ability to channel it becomes limited. Though this does provide another range of usefulness...
Things that cannot channel magic instead become resistant to it.
History & Usage
Everyday use
Telian extract is used almost exclusively as a poison, particularly for dealing with powerful mages. Though some find it's ability to strip the magic and channeling ability of inanimate objects helpful in treating weapons and armor to be resistant to magic.
The Order of Vi'ile, and similar groups, intentionally consume diluted Telian extract. Though this means most of them can't use magic in a traditional sense, their personal aura is reduced to something undetectable to all but the most magically sensitive due to this practice.
The Order of Vi'ile, and similar groups, intentionally consume diluted Telian extract. Though this means most of them can't use magic in a traditional sense, their personal aura is reduced to something undetectable to all but the most magically sensitive due to this practice.
Type
Organic
Taste
Bitter
Color
Yellowish, translucent
Common State
Liquid
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Comments
Author's Notes
Quietly bouncing from magic-focused weapons, Focuses, and ways to enhance their ability to channel magic, right to mage-killer poisons and a way to strip magic from items.
Most things on Zaikiri have evolved to be dependent on magic to some extent. Some of these things so much so that their very genetics are influenced by what kind of magic they absorb when young and developing, magic they'll utilize for the rest of their lives. Then there are the things that evolved the other way, dependent on an abscence of magic, fewer still to destroy it.
The Telian is not the only plant that has evolved like this either. There are other plants scattered around Zaikiri's realms that grow in particular areas that developed similar, if not identical, properties against magic. Partly a defense against being eaten, but the property itself comes from specific compounds in the soil the plants grow in. Of course, such a dangerous property would make it valuable to those with a keen interest in weakening or killing people with magic... And I'm putting this here because I haven't started on the actual article for Telian plants, nor do I have solid ideas on what they look like. Just uses for them.
Expect to see a few variations of mage killer poisons or anti-magic stuff added at some point, though! I'll definitely be expanding on this side of Zaikiri's magic, ways to counter and shut it down. Also, another reason why no mage in Zaikiri that expects to do any fighting is completely unarmored and always carries a weapon that doesn't require magic to use effectively. Whether that be a focus that can be used without magic, such as a staff or sword, or a separate backup weapon entirely.