Corrupt Magic

"Embrace my gift. Embrace my power. And let the strong become lords over the weak, for that is the natural order of the world. Once it has been burned... we shall build a new one in its place!" - Abaddon, First to Fall

General

Corruption magic is by definition the dark and tainted energy swarming from the abyss. It engulfs and envelops, as well as eventually becomes, the soul of the one who uses it. Corruption can also stain the physical world, and even those who do not use it can mutate and be disturbed by its existence and its prescence.

Corruption uses the abyss's incredible power to make the wholly impossible a reality. It allows the dead to rise and consumes the energy of those around it. It is capable of nearly limitless enhancements to all forms of magic. Its own nature is the opposite of all mana in the world, and especially that of the Divinus. Where Mana primarily functions to create things, even I the pursuit of destruction and possibly even evil, Corrupt magic does one thing. Consume.

Corrupt magic feeds on the mana of the world, irrevocably changing it into the form of the abyss. It destroys and eats away at the world, eventually making it in the image of the abyss, a lifeless and noiseless barren wasteland.

Manifestation

Corruption takes dedication in order to accumulate in stable conditions within the soul. Small fragments of corruption are quickly destroyed, but once a sizable part of it forms upon the soul, it will continue to grow until it has enveloped the whole.

Corruption can result from quite a few things, but some of the most common are an absolute lack of direction, or unbridled ambition without a care in the world for any kind of morality. Corruption is something one is unaware of, unless they've had it since birth and have known nothing else. A truly sad fate.

As the corruption begins to set in, they will begin to develop one of the seven cardinal sins, if one of those did not fuel the onset of the corruption to begin. Even corruption taken in order to serve a higher and greater purpose will eventually consume the one who had such lofty goals. Pushing them to the next action, over every boundary until they are far and away from where they started.

Capabilities

The darkness holds untold power. In effect, it is nearly divine. Its power is to consume and manipulate life itself. It is the might of the darkness, reaching into this world, the will of the unspeakable dark. It is able to raise the long, perhaps eons dead, to life. It is capable of granting immortality. Immeasurable power.

Necromancy. Demonology. These are two of its best known sub-magics. Although its scope is nearly infinite. In its attacks, it usually takes quite a few shapes, but some of the most common are monochrome pallates as it sucks away all mana and life that it comes into contact with, and brilliant and wholly unnatural colors.

The abyss and corruption is not something to be toyed with, even the most defiled and depraved souls know not to use it foolishly, as it lashes out against everyone with which does not call master.