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Is Anti-Magic considered as Magic?

Digielf·2/6/2018, 6:02:53 PM·12 votes·6,141 views

Anti-magic seems like it is a form magic by itself. The Demacians are using some form of magic to reject the other magics, an example being Galio's abilities, also a more original example being the Anti-Mage from Dota who also uses magic in his weapons that burn the enemy's magic energy and since recently this new anime ''Black Clover'' came that has become huge and it is all about magic it's a good opportunity to investigate this more due to the protagonist (Asta) being a similar case with the other examples like Demacia and Anti-Mage.

http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-Magic

After searching the term ''Anti-Magic'' one of the sources explains that it is ''The ability to utilize Anti-Magic. Form of Magic. Opposite to Magic'' and the example photo is Asta. With more detailed explanation ''The user has the ability to use anti-magic which can nullify and destabilize most if not all forms of magic and even destroy a magic user's capability to utilize magic. They can achieve a variety of destructive effects on magic users, including crippling and/or killing them.''

So Anti-Magic might be a form of magic by itself depending how it is presented in each setting, it could be an energy that nullifies mana and magic power and which has negative effects on magic users. Each case of ho an anti-magic user came to be could also be different.

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Tags: Magic, Anti-Magic, Does Anti-Magic count as Magic.

20 Comments

Ebonmaw Dragon2/6/2018, 6:15:02 PM9 votes

In the case of the stone from Demacia, i dont think is magic since its a natural propiety of the stone. However, Galio is a different case since he is powered by magic even if he is an "antimage".

Salson2/6/2018, 6:30:05 PM4 votes

Depends on the story itself.

Asta and Magina use magic that destroys magic. Petricite or Seastone from One Piece seem to rely on some chemical reaction to cancel out the effects of magic.

Or something like that, as different works work with different rules.

HalcyonDweller2/6/2018, 7:08:50 PM3 votes

Black clover is an anime? I thought it was just a product of some fan's of heavy metal bands who decided to put some animations to go with the incoherent screaming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKt3NwcZZGg

Jerry SeinfeId2/6/2018, 7:00:26 PM1 votes

I think it depends. Asta uses his book to summon his sword but other than that never really uses anything that can be called magic. He just swings a big sword around that also happense to cancel/deflect magic.

I feel like it could be split into 3 options:

Magic

Kassadin would be the best example for this: an anti-mage. An anti-mage is still a mage, he just specializes in beating magic.

Magical Artifacts

Asta would fit into this category. He never uses magic himself, his sword just deflects it. considering the swords origins it's most likely a magical artifact.

Natural magic resistance

Some ore/plants/etc might have a natural resistance to magic. Like someone else said seastone in onepiece has the ability to weaken Devil fruit users just by touch. If this is the case for let's say the ore Garen's armor is made of, it should be fine for demacia.

Tomoe Gozen2/6/2018, 9:52:08 PM1 votes

Anti-magic isn't magic that blocks magic/resists magic itself.
It is a property of an object to have a natural resistance to magic or to block it to an extent. Petricite is quite a good example of an anti-magic stone which is what Demacia is known for anyway.

However, i do want to make a distinction between enchantments that can also aid in providing higher magic resistance but how i envision this is to just infuse an object with a set amount of magic that acts as a defensive barrier. Any kind of magic thrown at it is then "softened up" and the resulting power left is not enough to harm the user at all or the spell is destroyed completely.

Enchantments do however have a set amount of power in them which means that taking hits constantly weakens it. When the power is no longer strong enough, any weak magic can simply shatter it and the user is then left without anti-magic protection.

Hexs Fortune2/6/2018, 11:45:57 PM1 votes

In the Dragon Age world, the templars combat rogue mages and demons with a kind of magic called Lyrium

I expect league has similar properties on Demacia's "white" stone

SEKAI2/6/2018, 6:11:04 PM1 votes

Would a scientific and technological piece of equipment that is capable of disrupting natural physics by going against its conventions (anti-gravity, time-jump, etc), a piece of scientific and technological equipment?

If you can answer this question, then you can answer yours.

Tattersall2/7/2018, 3:09:30 AM1 votes

For now, we don't know. However, a lot of people are saying that petricite isn't magic because it's simply a natural property of the stone. However, being a natural property doesn't make it not magic. A lot of things in the LoL universe are "naturally magical." For example, literally all of Ionia.

But really, we don't know.

GreenLore2/6/2018, 6:11:24 PM1 votes

Generally speaking antimagic would be still magic,but in the end its up to the writers to define what qualifies as magic and what doesn't.

IvernBramblefoot2/6/2018, 6:28:26 PM1 votes

NO, IT IS ANTI-MAGIC, THAT'S WHY ITS NOT MAGIC, BECAUSE ITS THE OPPOSITE OF THAT THING

MYSTERY SOLVED, I'M A GENIUS, THREAD OVER.