A spellblaster is a portable device used by Rahmavir that fires red corruptor projectiles capable of breaking spells. A model carried by Eliona had a metallic handle and a long tube, small enough to keep inside her robes.
Ammunition and limits
Corruptor projectiles were difficult to produce. Rahmavir depended on a single man to make them, and Raphael warned against wasting the available rounds. Spellblasters could fire other ammunition as well.
Eliona tested the weapon against Thalena’s abyss. The red projectile continued moving while the spell froze essence, struck the hourglass and shattered it. The effect recoiled into Thalena, spreading red lines across her body and weakening her shields and healing. She escaped into the void and expelled the foreign particles before recovering.
The weapon failed against Lythariel’s darkness barrier. When Eliona fired at Virel, Lythariel intercepted the projectile and prevented any explosion. Eliona and Raphael recognized this limit after the battle, even though the shot against the abyss had succeeded.
A spellblaster is a cylindrical weapon made in Rahmavir that fires spells captured in physical containers. Its corruptor projectiles release volatile origin magic, destroying or destabilizing nearby spells. Rahmavir’s workshops in Halvarim produced spellblasters in several shapes and sizes, including weapons carried at the belt.
Construction and operation
Spellblasters use the same principle as skyship weapons: storing a spell in a container until it is released. A portable model used by Eliona had a metallic handle and a long tube. The weapons can fire ammunition beyond corruptor projectiles.
Alistair developed the spell disruption weapon with Oktlix and Rahmavir’s researchers. They found a suitable source of ammunition in Boss, whose origin magic erupted too violently for him to control. Boss infused this unstable magic into containers. Firing a container alongside a delayed temporal spell triggered an explosion that disrupted nearby spellwork; a temporal mage could also detonate it manually.
Producing the corruptor rounds was difficult, and Boss required constant protection. At Cyndarel, he prepared a row of spellblasters while Raphael and Kjeldan guarded him. Severin later confirmed that Boss had died.
Capabilities and limits
Eliona fired a corruptor projectile into Thalena’s abyss. The red projectile kept moving while the spell froze essence, then struck the hourglass and broke it. The disruption recoiled into Thalena, leaving red lines across her body and impairing her shields and healing until she expelled the foreign particles.
Lythariel’s darkness barriers stopped the same ammunition. She intercepted Eliona’s shot at Virel without a detonation, and later protected other mages by absorbing or deflecting corruptor projectiles. Spellblasters offered no reliable answer to her defenses.
Disrupting a spell could also leave dangerous remnants. When Eliona shot Maric’s heat wave, most of it dissipated, but the residue became uncontrolled plasma that scattered among the red lines of the projectile’s explosion. Eliona had to evade the resulting crossfire.