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There are still thousands of small, localized magic-dead areas across Toril (the Second Sundering spawned many more), but Mystra, Azuth, and their Chosen have been actively destroying them since their appearance, stretching the Weave to minimize and then cross...
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How do the chosen interact with magic dead areas that appeared after the time of troubles? is this a matter/anti-matter situation?
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..them with many strands and eliminate them, like fishermen mending holes in a fishing net. However, it’s one of many, many tasks they have, so the work goes slowly, often interrupted by crises of the moment.
Only Weavemasters can manipulate the Weave in this...
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..manner; your average archmage can at best temporarily “push” the Weave a few feet into a magic-dead area if they know how or can figure out how; it almost always takes two archmages, properly located (akin to when we “triangulate” in the real world), to make...
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..such an extension permanent.
However, contact between magic-dead and a spell, active magic item, or the Weave isn’t explosive or damaging—it’s simply that the magic “fades” at the border and stops working when it’s crossed.
(Being a Weavemaster, by the way, ...
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..requires the Gift, sufficient class achievement and practise with evocation spells, and then practise in working with the Weave, especially under the guidance of someone who is already a Weavemaster. Usually that guide is Azuth, who likes to be involved with...
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..such work so he knows who can do what in Weave-work. Elminster has the most Weave-mending experience among the Chosen because he’s done the most traveling among them.)
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