Well, to be fair, as far as my own world goes, the typical image of fire and brimstone and little red devils with hot pokers is a lot of cartoonish embellishment made up by humans who'd never seen anything of the sort for themselves. Gehenna is the world of demons, not something created strictly for the sake of humans — torturing them or otherwise.
Mortals have nothing to do with where demons come from in Azeroth, either. They come from the Nether, and return to it if they're destroyed in the mortal realm.
...demons are also used as servants, by certain types of magic-users who summon them from the Nether, but-- it's generally looked down upon. Corruptive magic and all.
Depends on what I want it to do. It's versatile enough-- offensive, mostly, but also designed to target and break an opponent's mental defenses. So, by the same token, a shadow priest has to have a high resistance to it themselves to avoid being affected by the power they draw on, if they pull too much from the Void.
It has both, but so does the Light. They're bound to each other-- neither exists without the other, and both are equally responsible for creation.
The Void is the stronger of the two, magically speaking, but it can't heal the way the Light can. Not in the same way. [he considers a moment, thinking.] For example, I can heal myself through leeching an enemy's life, and I could normally save someone else with shadow magic. Theoretically. But I would have to twist our life forces and exchange them, so it's highly unlikely.
[ stifling another laugh halfway through that explanation. don't worry about it. ]
I see.
I don't believe my world really has "magic" in the same sense as yours. [ a little hum. ] Did you have any particular thoughts on the shadows that have shown up during executions?
[he's satisfied enough with that for the moment, though.]
As for the shadows-- it's not exactly like what I'm used to, but that's... it's the sort of thing you might expect shadow magic to do. Draw out things like that to turn them against someone. Usually it would be less physical, though.
As I said, magic of the kind you and some others refer to doesn't really exist in mine, and I don't like making potentially ill-informed, baseless theories. I'll defer to the shadow experts on this one for now.
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Well, to be fair, as far as my own world goes, the typical image of fire and brimstone and little red devils with hot pokers is a lot of cartoonish embellishment made up by humans who'd never seen anything of the sort for themselves. Gehenna is the world of demons, not something created strictly for the sake of humans — torturing them or otherwise.
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...demons are also used as servants, by certain types of magic-users who summon them from the Nether, but-- it's generally looked down upon. Corruptive magic and all.
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The Void is the stronger of the two, magically speaking, but it can't heal the way the Light can. Not in the same way. [he considers a moment, thinking.] For example, I can heal myself through leeching an enemy's life, and I could normally save someone else with shadow magic. Theoretically. But I would have to twist our life forces and exchange them, so it's highly unlikely.
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I see.
I don't believe my world really has "magic" in the same sense as yours. [ a little hum. ] Did you have any particular thoughts on the shadows that have shown up during executions?
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[he wants to know that first. shadows in a minute.]
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But that's not important.
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[he's satisfied enough with that for the moment, though.]
As for the shadows-- it's not exactly like what I'm used to, but that's... it's the sort of thing you might expect shadow magic to do. Draw out things like that to turn them against someone. Usually it would be less physical, though.
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Well! It's good to have another world's perspective on all of this.
[ said with a certain closing-a-book energy. ]
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[WHY are you this way.]
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