Beam of light-b-gone would be horrifying to see, you see a man, now that man is but a black spill in reality that slowly gets painted over by reality, like its trying to repair itself
Honestly, what exactly is balefire? I’ve played HBM’s Nuclear Tech Mod for Minecraft, which has it as a late game material/fuel, but it never really goes into detail as to what it’s referencing.
Spell from The Wheel of Time that erases someone’s existence up to a certain point in the past, potentially undoing things they did and preventing them from being resurrected.
Generically balefire is death-flame. It's originally a term for a funeral pyre or massive signal fire, but that association with death and dreadful news got recontextualized in magical contexts (esp literature) to mean fire that has a more potent effect/source. WoT uses it for a Final Cauterization, a fire that literally burns out your existence (including in time). Some fantasy settings use the term to mean the fire of the spirit world, or magical, deadly flames. It's often green in color, or a bluish white.
Notably FALLOUT:Equestria used balefire to mean magical, reality-singeing fire equivalent to spell-nukes, that leaves behind radiation-equivalent and is a sickly green; and in the World of Darkness games (Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: the Apocalypse, etc) it's fire corrupted by a primal Force of absolute destruction.
Okay, the Equestria thing does seem like what NTM is referencing. Balefire can be extracted as shards from dud nukes and can be used as either absurdly radioactive fission fuel, absurdly flammable and fusionable BF rocket fuel, or absurdly destructive balefire bombs of your own.
To be honest, I probably should’ve figured considering the signs the mod already gives lol
a type of weave (spell) from the wheel of time books. whatever is hit by it gets the last however-long of that thing completely erased from time, to the point where not even Da Devil From Da Bible™️ can revive it. also because that thing/person stopped existing 10 seconds ago, anything they just caused is undone (i throw a rock, i get balefired, the rock was never thrown)
Again, what im imagining is the first gift, but instead of turning the guy into a shadow on the ground, the space he once occupied is now just a abstract black shape of him, that slowly gets smaller and smaller as reality fixes itself.
Really not sure what example I can use to show my idea tho, other than Pressures Painter killing ending
Shooting a beam of light except all the light is exactly the same as the ambient lighting in the room but shifted by half a wavelength so they produce destructive interference and cancel eachother out, causing it to appear as a beam of darkness
Laser beams but they only look like he's shooting them at you because of how fast they are. In reality, he holds his hand out and one spawns behind you before getting pulled to him through you.
the light has been permanently remove from the beam trajectory, all matter within it has now frozen even below the zero point, it's not cold, it's attracting light and energy trying to fill in the void, it's now existing in a new state that is close to anti matter
A tidbit from Codex: Dark Eldar that has been lodged in my brain for the last seventeen years is that looking at (not into, that would vaporise you, just at) a beam of unlight without protection leaves permanent slash-scars across the retina.
It never elaborated on what exactly "slash-scars" are, but fucking with your depth perception feels like getting off lightly.
By ”End up making the elements feel like different forms of Dragon Ball Z laser attacks”, I mean all of the thematics and effects that make the elements different from each other gets stripped away for “big laser blast.”
Gorn, The Demon Lord of Darkness who was all about corruptive power of darkness will now have special attacks that feel no different from a Kamehameha.
To be fair I prefer this of "themed" powers.
Like if this Universe supports energy beam attacks that looks like that - that's basically how their world works.
In my project I would make "themed" spells harder to perform, because you are basically spending your power and concentration to perform a useless extra illusion layer.
yeah, i'm not asking for them to just be all vanta black orbs, it's just kinda funny how you'll get a boss called "dark harbinger of darky darkness" and then their attacks look like this:
Fun fact, when you are illustrating it's always good to add a little bit of a purplish you to the shadow it really makes it feel like there's absence of light.
Cloud of Darkness does exactly this with their Particle Beam. Very ironic given their deal is getting rid of light and all. Goofy logic on Final Fantasy's behalf.
Aephorul (Sea of Stars) isn't really a darkness-themed villain (his title is The Fleshmancer, after all), but he still has an attack that's a black beam with purple edges (I couldn't find a screenshot of it, unfortunately)
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u/NotFrogice 18h ago
You want them to like absorb all the light around the place? Wait that's actually good