The antithesis of Life magic, Death magic exists solely to end lives and send the souls to whatever fate awaits them in the afterlife.

Most Death spells work by weakening the essential vitality that keeps a creature alive. Those who succumb to the magic find their life force ebbing, a chill spreading through their limbs, and a growing darkness around the periphery of their vision, until they collapse, their bodies reduced to crude meat. The magic leaves its mark on its victims, making them appear pale, drained, and withered.

The avenues for discovering this tradition lead down shadowed roads that leave the souls of the students sullied with corruption as their mastery improves. The greatest repositories for the tradition are thought to lie in the black pyramids protruding from the shifting sands of the Desolation, though teachers can be found throughout the Nine Cities and in the Pirate Isles. The easiest and safest way to discover the tradition is to become an acolyte of Father Death. Devotees of the grim deity sometimes discover this tradition without risk to their souls.