[Rendar]

Spells can be somatic, component, or verbally based. A 'spell' can be nullified depending on how it's cast.

If it's somatic, requiring movement (like in DND with Somatic Spells + Heavy Armor), you lower/nullify their chance to be cast by saying "You can't move." This happens by way of immobilization or crippling of movement in other ways.

If Verbal, you can gag them or silence them by other means.

If Component based, you destroy the thing they're using as a focus/using for the spell.


"Silence" is not the be-all-end-all to spells in Fantasy. Only in some RPGs (mostly JRPGs) is that the case.

As for

Black Bubble, Underworld Flame, Wretched Oil, Fleeing Spectres, and Black Static no longer have a chance of inflicting their status effects.

I'd like to see that this doesn't happen. What I do want to see is that the status affliction chance is lowered a good deal andddd that the "Worsening" curses become actual spells and are locked out of use when silenced. ((So you can't land a poison whilst silenced, then instantly make that poison worse with menov's))