Anti-magic

Anti-magic is an innovation of Gravimutation that Occula discovers at the University of Spectron.

It is manipulation of dimensions beyond the physical world that cause material changes at the user's chosen coordinates. However, without greater knowledge surrounding anti-magic and how to make orderly and intentional manipulations, the uncertainty causes more chaos--namely, the destruction of the physical world with combustions of dark myst that distort the relationship between passing matter and time and space.

Through this dematerializing and rematerializing, most creatures and living substances perish when in dark myst. The lucky ones are horribly mutated and disfigured, often with scrambled minds and distorted bodies. However, there are rumours that in Shadowsfall past Horaio, the copious dark mysts have configured a monstrosity with egregiously unnatural might.

Magic requires the consistency of time and space in the physical world, and therefore cannot work in dark myst.

Occula wants to explore the higher uses of anti-magic, but when word of her experiments reaches the ears of her colleagues at the University, the facility erupts with debates mostly about using the anti-magic as a weapon. Dr. Shuzgrub warns Occula the dark-magic sounds eerily familiar to warnings in prophecy. Though he trusts Occula with the knowledge, Shuzgrub encourages Occula to abandon the research into obscurity, fearing the worsening political climate will end in its misuse. Occula agrees, but it's too late. As the Party of One cedes control of Spectron, they immediately weaponize it in hopes to win the Wars of Disenchantment by using it to threaten Horaio and earn their surrender.

However, fearing it's deployment, Occula leaks knowledge of anti-magic to Horaio in order to create a state of mutually-assured destruction.

Eventually, Omnisha ignites the anti-magic spells that end the Age of Enchantment in a paranoid state of schizophrenia. This begins the anti-magic infestation of the world known as the Shadow Age.