Imprisoning strong-willed mages

[Somariel]

How would a strong-willed Cephiran mage (e.g.: Clef, Lantis, the Magic Knights) be imprisoned?

[shinomu]

You pray they don't have to.

Jk.

I suppose there could be a sort of device that uh dampens magical power? Nuls it? Sort of prision that supresses will? Shit this is really hard. If it's the ones you mentioned, I suppose unless they went crazy they'd sort of agree to it? If they know they've done something wrong that demands punishment...

[Somariel]

I was discussing this matter with Down shortly after I posted this and she came up with the following idea:

the forest of silence seems naturally resistant to magic, for some reason, which might be useable - use wood from it to make a collar and then it's aligned with a spell to make it bind magic or.........

This question really stemmed out of a sort of weird story idea I had where someone kidnapped Hikaru and Lantis and I was wondering how the kidnapper would manage to keep them prisoners.

[Down]

Argh, I was going to cross-post out of the chat, and I never did, and it's GONE! (...Which may well have been my fault but pfffffffft whatever)

I remember that I mentioned minerals/stones as well, I think? Because gemstones certainly seem to have power in Cephiro - the storage ones, for one thing, but in the anime they go further with the stone in the forest of silence which makes all the creatures into monsters, and when they say it's Clef's ring, Lantis's sword and Zagato's head-thing which can unlock the door to the room which no one should go into but the pillar, I tend to think that they all share a stone - maybe even the one gem which is cut into three? - which resonates with that door and can open it somehow? That or they can be used to anchor magic, so you'd have two ways of getting a stone which could block/negate magic: natural properties OR imbued with a spell to bind them. Again, can use it in manacles/shackles/collar or in building a prison. Or you could dig a prison into a kind of rock which blocks magic.

Then, which I play with in my own fic, you could have a kind of 'anti-magic-magic' which negates it, cancels it out by being calculated to oppose that particular mage's magic? Which you could develop in elemental directions - if you surrounded a fire mage with ice, would that drain them enough they would be unable to break three, because it's opposite their nature and suppresses them somehow?

A stronger will can create a barrier that a weaker willed mage can't break through - it might be possible for a group of weaker willed individuals to jointly create a barrier to hold a stronger one, weaving the magic together?

NEXT - magic depends on will and ability to concentrate - so if you drugged someone so they were unable to concentrate/focus, they would logically be incapable of casting magic. Or they might miscast and injure themselves instead. However, they might also miscast and hurt their captors?? There's a lack of control which implies Much Research would be needed on the part of the drugger...

And last thought I can vaguely remember right now - you might be able to have an item/creature/spell which draws on magic! Feeding off it - if it absorbs power as it's generated into a spell, then no spell would make it to manifesting, and the mage might exhaust themself trying to cast a spell strong enough to overload/break the item/whatever?

..............................I have never given this any thought nope. XD