Spells from the Forbidden tradition exist to make the world worse, to subject its targets to torments unspeakable, disgusting, and profoundly wrong.

Consisting of spells conjured from the most unhinged minds and refined by the truly macabre, Forbidden magic offers dread power to those with the willingness to accept the ravages that its unholy knowledge can inflict on the body.

Most people who discover the Forbidden tradition do so out of hatred, despair, or madness, falsely believing the secrets of the tradition will alleviate their suffering. Devils, in particular, love to share the Forbidden tradition with mortals, for no other strain of magic is more dependable when it comes to delivering the souls of its practitioners into their eager hands. Other practitioners might stumble across spells from the tradition in dark tomes filled with dreadful knowledge that no mortal was meant to learn.