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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 1950337" data-attributes="member: 571">The Law of AntipathyThis is concerned with that which is apart from, dissimilar, and or opposed. It is the magic of serparation, of opposition and difference. It has three divisions.Dissimilarity, Heteropathic Magic is the first. This is the magic of difference, of that which is not alike. As opposed to Homeopathic Magic, the magic of the alike. Here material is used which differ from what is to be affected. A smoldering coal vs. a cube of ice. A living rose versus an undead wight.Heteropathic Magic has two forms, innate and engendered. Innate means the quality in inherent to the object. Heat and light to fire, cold and dark to water. Engendered means that the desired quality is imparted by means of dweomercrafting to an object or subject. Using a dead rat in a casting to ward away live ones for example. The quality of being dead being 'engendered' in the deceased animal, as opposed to an organism's normal living state.Opposition, Repulsion Magic is next. This is the magic of that which repels. That which drives off. The magic of shunning, of ostracism and anathema. Warding and protection magic is often of this type.Things which disgust the intended subject are often used in Repulsion Magic. Living things often repulse the undead, so the living rose mentioned above can also fulfill this requirement as well as the first.(You'll note that our rose also invokes evocation magic, being emblematic, evocative of life and the living. In this case the Law of Antipathy takes precedence. The matter of the invocation of mutiple magical Laws will be dealt with in the last posting in this particular series in this thread.)An item may be repugnent, threatening, or opposing. Life opposes death. Foul odors are repugnant.  A sword can threaten. A holy symbol for example covers all three. The holy opposes the profane, is abhorrent to the profane, and threatens the profane. So if the living rose just happens to be a holy symbol for the one weilding it, the poor wight is in big trouble.Quarantine, Isolation Magic is the final form the Law of Antipathy takes. This is the magic of separation. Of keeping things apart. It is not the same as the Law of Obstruction, which deals with energy. Isolation Magic deals with the physical. It separates and keeps separate objects. A spell which purifies a substance is an example of Isolation Magic.A temple of a faith that uses living roses as a holy symol incorporating a rose bush in a dweomer intended to keep undead creatures from a place of meditation and rest would be using those roses for Heteropathic Magic, since being alive it is dissimilar to the undead; Repulson Magic, since it repels the undead; and Isolation Magic, since it keeps the undead from a place they might otherwise intrude upon.And that, in brief, is the Law of Antipathy. When next I write we will concern ourselves with the Law of Ritual.</blockquote>

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