Antimagic

Antimagic channels Anti-Aethyr, the stabilizing counter-force to Aethyr, to detect, suppress and dispel magic. What Anti-Aethyr is and how it shapes the world is described in Antimagic; this page gathers the rules for using it.

Aethyr Nullification

Antimagic abilities are Aethyrflame Features. The first is Aethyr Nullification, which gives a pool of Nullification Points that pays for the others. Anyone can buy it for 10 Aethyr Points, Martials included.

• Points. Your Aethyrflame Intensity level sets how many Nullification Points you have: a Spellcaster has as many as their level, rounded up to an even number (2 at levels 1–2, up to 20 at levels 19–20), and a Spellfighter or Martial half that. You regain them all when you finish a long rest.
• Spending them. Each antimagic ability costs Nullification Points to use. Without enough left, you can’t use it.
• Regaining them. Many antimagic features return some of the points spent on them. Successfully disrupting a spell with Antimagic - Counterspell, for example, returns 1 point for every 2 levels of the spell disrupted. You regain at most your proficiency bonus in points this way between rests.
• Ability slots. You start with Antimagic - Detect Magic, Antimagic - Identify and one antimagic ability slot, gaining more as your level rises: 2 at level 3, then one more every two levels to 9 at level 17, and 10 at level 20. Each time your level increases, you can refund the Aethyr Points spent on an antimagic feature and take another.

The Aethyr Nullification entry has the full tables.

Obtaining antimagic features

Antimagic features fill your antimagic ability slots. You can buy any you meet the requirements for with Aethyr Points, or take them with the free picks your Technique grants:

• Spellcasters get two antimagic picks each at levels 4, 8, 12 and 18.
• Spellfighters get one each at levels 6, 12 and 18.

These are the Technique Antimagic advancements in the Aethyrflame Technique Levels table, which also lists each Technique’s Nullification Points.

Anti-Magic Instability Checks

Antimagic and active magic react violently when they meet. When a creature uses an antimagic ability against an active spell or magical effect, whether or not it disrupts the magic, the GM calls for an Anti-Magic Instability Check, as described in Antimagic:

1. Roll a d20 and subtract twice your proficiency bonus.
2. Compare the result with your unspent Nullification Points. If it’s higher, you lose control of the released Aethyr.
3. Losing control calls for a surge check. Its Surge Charge is the level of the magic you tried to nullify plus the amount by which your result exceeded your unspent points. You also regain none of the Nullification Points that disrupting the magic would have returned.

Unspent points are counted after paying for the ability. A Spellcaster at level 10 (proficiency bonus +4) with 5 of their 10 points left spends 3 to counter a 2nd-level spell, leaving 2. They roll 11 and subtract 8, for 3: higher than 2 by 1, so the released energy may surge, with a Surge Charge of 2 + 1 = 3 dice.

Nullification Points can also calm a surge that has already broken loose: see Ground the Surge.

Antimagic features

Name	Description	Source Reference	Aethyrpoint Cost	Level Requirement	Feature Category	Prerequisite Features	Source Requirement	Technique Requirement	Domain Requirement	Energy Pool Type	Activation Time	Activation Cost	Activated Effects	Passive Effects
Antimagic - Detect Magic	As an action, you sense the presence of magic within 30 feet of you. If you sense magic in this way, you can use your action to expend a nullification point to… more	Antimagic Spell	0	1	Antimagic	Aethyr Nullification	General	General	General	Nullification Points	Action	0
Antimagic - Identify	You choose one object that you must touch throughout the casting of this 10-minute ritual. If it is a magic item or some other magic-imbued object, you learn… more	Antimagic Spell	0	1	Antimagic	Aethyr Nullification	General	General	General	Nullification Points	1 Minute	0
Antimagic - Veil of the Mundane	As an action, you create a thin veil from the weave to surround your Aethyrflame. For the next hour, you appear mundane and non-magical to any detection spells… more	Homebrewed Antimagic Ability	5	2	Antimagic	Aethyr Nullification	General	General	General	Nullification Points	Action	1
Aethyr Nullification	Your intense study, exposure, or innate talent for countering the arcane arts has granted you the unique ability to tap into the very fabric of magic… more	Homebrewed Antimagic Ability	10	1	Antimagic		General	General	General	Nullification Points	None
Antimagic - Counterspell	You attempt to interrupt a creature you can see within 60 feet of you who is in the process of casting a spell. If the creature is casting a spell of 3rd level… more	Antimagic Spell	10	5	Antimagic	Aethyr Nullification	General	General	General	Nullification Points	Reaction	3
Antimagic - Dispel Magic	As an action, choose one creature, object, or magical effect within range. Any spell of 3rd level or lower on the target ends. For each spell of 4th level or… more	Antimagic Spell	10	5	Antimagic	Aethyr Nullification	General	General	General	Nullification Points	Action	3
Antimagic - Protection from Energy	As an action, you weaken the ability of the weave surrounding a creature to carry energy of a particular type. For up to an hour or for as long as you maintain… more	Antimagic Spell	10	5	Antimagic	Aethyr Nullification	General	General	General	Nullification Points	Action	3
Antimagic - Remove Curse	Through a 10-minute ritual you can dispell any dark magic leaching on a creature or object. At your touch, all curses affecting one creature or object end. If… more	Antimagic Spell	15	5	Antimagic	Aethyr Nullification	General	General	General	Nullification Points	Action	3
Antimagic - Magic Siphon	You are able to drain the magical energy from an ongoing spell or enchanted object in the vicinity, turning that energy into temporary hit points or using it to… more	Homebrewed Antimagic Ability	15	3	Antimagic	Aethyr Nullification	General	General	General	Nullification Points	Reaction	1
Antimagic - Arcane Bounce	As a reaction, when you are affected by another creature’s spell, you can reflect it back to its caster or source. You make an anti-magic check using your… more	Homebrewed Antimagic Ability	15	7	Antimagic	Aethyr Nullification	General	General	General	Nullification Points	Reaction	4
Antimagic - Spell Echo	As a reaction, when you see another creature cast a spell within 30 feet of you, you can store a copy of it within your Aethyrflame. Later, using the same type… more	Homebrewed Antimagic Ability	15	4	Antimagic	Aethyr Nullification	General	General	General	Nullification Points	Reaction	3
Antimagic - Arcane Silence	As an action, you magically silence a creature you can see within 120 feet. That creature must make a Spellcasting Ability Check against your Aethyrflame Spell… more	Homebrewed Antimagic Ability	15	3	Antimagic	Aethyr Nullification	General	General	General	Nullification Points	Action	2
Antimagic - Dampen Arcana	As an action, you leaden the threads of the weave within 10 ft of you for the next minute, causing color in the area to become saturated and distorted. Leveled… more	Homebrewed Antimagic Ability	15	4	Antimagic	Aethyr Nullification	General	General	General	Nullification Points	Action	2 per charge
Antimagic - Circle of Power	As an action, you cause nullification energy to radiate from you, distorting and diffusing magical energy within 30 feet of you. For up to 10 minutes (or until… more	Antimagic Spell	20	9	Antimagic	Aethyr Nullification	General	General	General	Nullification Points	Action	5
Antimagic - Dispel Evil and Good	As an action, you summon shimmering energy which surrounds and protects you from fey, undead, and creatures originating from beyond the Material Plane. For up… more	Antimagic Spell	20	9	Antimagic	Aethyr Nullification	General	General	General	Nullification Points	Action	4
Antimagic - Nullifying Aura	As a bonus action, a 5ft radius aura of Aethyr entanglement surrounds you, potentially weakening spells that come within its range. Casters of spells which pass… more	Homebrewed Antimagic Ability	20	5	Antimagic	Aethyr Nullification	General	General	General	Nullification Points	Bonus Action	3
Antimagic - Rift Step	As a reaction, when you are effected by a spell or magical effect, you can teleport up to 120 feet by stepping through the rift left in the weave of magic by… more	Homebrewed Antimagic Ability	20	9	Antimagic	Aethyr Nullification	General	General	General	Nullification Points	Reaction	3
Antimagic - Warp Magic	When a spell targets you or you are within its area of effect, you can use your reaction to rip open the weave in the area as the spell resolves. Its effects… more	Homebrewed Antimagic Ability	20	6	Antimagic	Aethyr Nullification	General	General	General	Nullification Points	Reaction	3
Antimagic - Mystic Chains	As an action, you can bind a creature with an Aethyrsoul to the threads of the weave which surround them. The creature must succeed on a spellcasting ability… more	Homebrewed Antimagic Ability	20	8	Antimagic	Aethyr Nullification	General	General	General	Nullification Points	Action	4
Antimagic - Essence Lock	As an action you can tap into the Aethyrflame of a creature within 60 feet who has affected you with a spell in the last minute. The target must succeed on a… more	Homebrewed Antimagic Ability	20	5	Antimagic	Aethyr Nullification	General	General	General	Nullification Points	Action	3
Antimagic - Breach Barrier	As an action, you rip a temporary tear in the weave through which spells and magical effects cannot penetrate. Any spells or magical effects cast into the… more	Homebrewed Antimagic Ability	20	10	Antimagic	Aethyr Nullification	General	General	General	Nullification Points	Action	6
Antimagic - Rune of Repulsion	As a ritual executed over the course of 10 minutes, you can place bright glowing magical runes in an area up to 10ft by 10ft that repulse or deflect spells cast… more	Homebrewed Antimagic Ability	25	6	Antimagic	Aethyr Nullification	General	General	General	Nullification Points	10 Minutes	2 per charge
Antimagic - Forbiddance	Through a 10 minute ritual, which requires the materials listed below, you create a ward against magical travel that protects up to 40,000 square feet of floor… more	Antimagic Spell	30	11	Antimagic	Aethyr Nullification	General	General	General	Nullification Points	10 Minutes	8
Antimagic - Antimagic Field	As an action, you summon a 10-foot-radius invisible sphere of antimagic around you. This area is divorced from the magical energy that suffuses the multiverse… more	Antimagic Spell	35	15	Antimagic	Aethyr Nullification	General	General	General	Nullification Points	Action	10

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