Madness Magic

Madness Magic
After merging into the entity known as Jeraal Mordeth among other names, Padan Fain (The Wheel of Time) gained the ability to induce madness by mere proximity through his own eldritch forms of magic.
Power/Ability to:	Use madness-based magic

The power to use magic centered around insanity. Form of Magic. 

Also Called

• Insanity Magic
• Madness Commands

Capabilities

User can utilize magic that manipulates madness. The user can augment their own madness, induce madness in others, or even cure madness. This power often goes hand-in-hand with moon-based magics, and can be just as dangerous to the user as it is to the people being targeted.

Applications

• Alien Mind
• Chaos Magic
• Corruption Magic
• Eldritch Magic
• Illusionary Magic
• Lunar Magic
  • Lunar Mind
• Imagination Empowerment
• Madness Manipulation
  • Corrupting Madness
  • Insanity Absorption
  • Insanity Empowerment
  • Insanity Projection
  • Sanity Theft
• Mental Healing
• Psionic Magic
  • Psycho Warping

Associations

• Magic

Limitations

• Magic Negation/Magic Destruction
• May cause the user to go insane, or require that the user be insane.
• Magic always has a price.
• May require a connection to an otherworldly entity.

Known Users

• Brador (Bloodborne) via the Bloodletter
• Church Servants (Bloodborne); via Frenzy
• Great Ones (Bloodborne); via Frenzy
  • Brain of Mensis
  • Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos
• Micolash, Host of the Nightmare (Bloodborne)
• Winter Lanterns (Bloodborne); via Frenzy
• Moon Contracts (Chronicles of Darkness/Changeling: The Lost)
• Banishers (Chronicles of Darkness/Mage: The Awakening); via their Timori bond
• The Mad (Chronicles of Darkness/Mage: The Awakening)
• Stannum Prometheans (Chronicles of Darkness/Promethean: The Created); via Disquietism
• Kindred with Malkavia (Chronicles of Darkness/Vampire: The Requiem); via Dementation
• Bale Hounds (Chronicles of Darkness/Werewolf: The Forsaken); via Tainted Moon Gifts
• Desolate Ones (CthulhuTech)
• Occultist (Darkest Dungeon); via Mystic Objects
• Delirium (DC Comics)
• Tainted Scholars (Dungeons & Dragons)
• Users of the Madness Domain (Dungeons & Dragons)
• Sheogorath (The Elder Scrolls)
• Xel'lotath (Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem)
• Pious Augustus (Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem); if aligned to Xel'lotath
• Users of the Tome of Eternal Darkness (Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem)
• Dementia Casters (Magic: The Gathering); via their dementia space
  • Chainer
• Discord (My Little Pony Series)
• Impossible Bloodline Sorcerers (Pathfinder)
• Users of the Madness Domain (Pathfinder)
• Asura (Soul Eater)
• Ishamael (The Wheel of Time); via True Power
• Padan Fain (The Wheel of Time)
• Chaos Sorcerers (Warhammer); via Chaos Sorcery
  • Vilitch the Curseling
• Moonclaw, the Lunatic Prince (Warhammer)
• Lords of Change (Warhammer); via Chaos Sorcery
• Marauders (World of Darkness/Mage: The Ascension)
• Malkavians (World of Darkness/Vampire: The Masquerade); via Dementation

Known Objects

• Bloodletter (Bloodborne); via Frenzy

Gallery

Delirium of the Endless (DC Comics), as the embodiment of madness, has an extremely large amount of sorcerous control over her own domain.

Sheogorath (The Elder Scrolls), as the Daedric Prince of Madness, has a high degree of control over his domain, altering reality to his liking through the power of madness alone.

Lords of Change (Warhammer), as Greater Daemons of Tzeentch, are capable of using the powers of Chaos to drive others to madness.

When confronting the insane Lews Therin Telamon, Elan Morin Tedronai/Ishamael (The Wheel of Time) used his connection to the True Power to cure Lews Therin of his taint-induced madness and allow him to recognize what evils he had done.