Thaumophage

Just a quick sketch...

A thaumophage is someone impervious to attack by dwimcraft to the extent that they seem to "eat" or consume magical force.

The closest phenomenon to "antimagic" in The World is the ability of some extremely powerful Daine individuals to act as thaumic attractors and accumulators and simultaneously as thaumic dampers and consumers. Such are called thaumophages on account of their ability to sort of suck in magical force from around them as if they were breathing air. This means that such a one may be bombarded on all sides by powerful works of every kind of magic and not only would he suffer no ill effects but literally will have "drunk" or "breathed in" the raw power around him.

Such Daine are often sensed by astute or sensitive magic users, and they frequently guard themselves closely around such a potential threat. Some particularly sensitive individuals have said that especially powerful thaumophages can literally attack and suck magical force from someone. Victims say that the attack itself makes the heart race and breath comes quick and laboured, and that a kind of giddy or almost exstatic feeling comes over one. After such an attack, the victim is usually psychically and mentally and often physically drained, but is left otherwise unharmed. Though frightening for an accomplished magic user to be so violated, their innate abilities and powers may not be so easily stripped, and once the attack is over, magical force refills the area and all is as it was before. Though little comfort to the victims, the thaumophage himself is left similarly drained after persuing such a psychically violent attacks, and is generally left with headaches and some level of mental confusion for a time afterwards.


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