Also I love this flavor of death magic! I'm thinking very hard about how one could get effort magic going like that. One potential option would be a shrike-specific one--they can actually, with a loooot of practice, gain a measure of control over their corruption-shedding ability, and the whole flavor of the pillars is "they hate reality and want to destroy it". So in this case I could see something like, Chara gains the ability to see how to take things apart via that ability (analysis) but can also stuff zalgo into people or objects, corrupting them but also coincidentally "mending" them... in a way that will surely not have terrible side effects later. (8 How's that sound?
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Also I love this flavor of death magic! I'm thinking very hard about how one could get effort magic going like that. One potential option would be a shrike-specific one--they can actually, with a loooot of practice, gain a measure of control over their corruption-shedding ability, and the whole flavor of the pillars is "they hate reality and want to destroy it". So in this case I could see something like, Chara gains the ability to see how to take things apart via that ability (analysis) but can also stuff zalgo into people or objects, corrupting them but also coincidentally "mending" them... in a way that will surely not have terrible side effects later. (8 How's that sound?