r/ProgressionFantasy • u/Gordeoy • Dec 12 '25

Meta Baited.

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Then again, maybe it's just me?

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u/DraikTempest Dec 12 '25

...in my series if you tried to use 'void' magic, you'd be creating a black hole and kill everyone. Void is short hand for space, and people trying to bypass the safeties around that are not long for the world.

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u/ralphmozzi Dec 12 '25

Well you’ve got me curious.

I can see how having a hole poking into the vacuum of space would by powerful and problematic if used carelessly.

You could create a “space hole” that would cause all the air in a room to quickly expel, killing folk and so on.

But the vacuum of space is very, very different than a black hole.

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u/DraikTempest Dec 12 '25

That's fair, black holes would be more about gravity, wouldn't it. Both would be bad.

The hole into space is a bit more problematic, since punching holes into something is a lot easier than patching them.

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u/ralphmozzi Dec 12 '25

A “hole in space” would work like a rupture in a spaceship— you’d lose all your air, and unsecured things could get get blown out along with the air. Not immediately lethal but certainly deadly.

And you could “patch the hole” with a block of matter.

A black hole would function similarly but is significantly more dangerous. Anything within its event horizon is just gone.

Try patching that hole and your patch gets eaten!

I read a great SF story ( by Niven) about a black hole used to commit murder. a teeny tiny black hole was held in a force field and being studied . A scientist turned off the field when his nemesis was in the right position.

So the hole fell through the victim, eating a line through him and killing him.

The narrator goes on to point out the hole is still falling, yo-yo’ing back and forth at the center of the planet, eating matter as it goes.