Magical Torture Methods

[Anon_Y_Mousse]

Only if the author knows nothing about how the brain works.

It is 100% impossible via time magic to make a wound produce the same Lv of pain as was felt when it was freshly created. The reason for this is that the brain is designed to down-regulate any kind of consistent stimuli. In other words, simply having the brain active will cause the Lv. of pain to decrease over time.

This means that time magic of the level you are talking can only be used to make the pain less severe. If you accelerate the brain, it will learn to ignore the pain more quickly. If you slow down the brain to mitigate the effect I just described, you will slow down the rate at which it receives the pain signal.

Due the way neurons are structured, a slowed down pain signal will be perceived as less severe pain, causing something as severe as their skin being burned off to feel like nothing more than being exposed to the warmth of the sun on a nice day.

So, no, time magic is really not viable for that. However, illusion magic geared toward physical sensation, granting abilities like creating phantom pain or enhancing pain signals from real injuries, can achieve exactly the effect you were probably thinking about when you wrote that suggestion there.

Ah alright good to know that time magic can be a glorified anesthesia.

Magic tax curse: 75% of your earnings magically disappear to finance affordable healthcare, but you can't benefit from it.

...10/5, you monster.

Divination magic plus mind magic to FORCE the understanding of how impossibly VAST a single material Universe is into the mind of a person with the general education level of a Medieval peasant. It would be hilarious to see them melt down as they realize the very gods they worship are but motes of dust before the Cosmos. That and the human mind really isn't meant to comprehend things on that scale. Probably dangerous for the caster too, really.

There's an easy fix for that. A short, randomized time loop on the wound. Causing it to re-occur at random. Thirty seconds after gaining it, it disappears, then five minutes later it is freshly re-inflicted. An hour after that and it's gone again, twelve seconds later and there it is!

Sounds like an easy way to mindbreak someone.

Yeah but if you're gonna time loop a wound may as well go for the full package and time loop the person as well.

 

[T.K._Paradox]

Torture is often used to extract information; this usually works very poorly as the Gestapo in World War 2 found out that people would say anything to get out of the pain or get used to the constant torture. If you aren't a sadistic fuck that gets their rocks off and that is the only reason you are doing this and are trying to extract information and let's, say there isn't a 'mind rape' spell that gets you what you want, the best thing you could do is deprive people of their senses and make them question their sanity. Take advantage of your position in power and slowly frame yourself as their savior and their allies as their enemies.

So basically use illusion magic to slowly take their sense one by one when you aren't there and make time to slow down to a halt, but when you are there make things seem brighter and better, bring food and water when you are there and the torturer should have the torturee coming over to their side in under a month.

(I do not condone torture and find it to be disgusting).

 

[Kenjona]

Torture only gives you answers you want, better uses of magic to get information. But, if you are doing torture to just be able to torture someone using magic.

Mind Magic: to find out what they fear and love, mental illusions in their head for them to see what they love get broken by what they fear most. Mind healing to keep them sane, so you can continue with the tortures. Remove the use of all their senses, introducing back one sense that you send one thing to like the slow drip of water, or instead of black all you see is white and a smiley face always in front of you. Make them do the same thing over and over again, and realize they have no control over themselves.

Healing and its reverse: keep people alive through physical torture, remove limbs. Enhance their nerves so they are always feeling pain. Change pain types they are feeling when they build up immunity to one form or another. Re wire their senses so they see smells, hear vision and taste with their entire body instead of feel. Yes that is your socks your are tasting with your feet, oh you touched that movie theater chair now you taste EVERYTHING that has ever happened to it or on it.

Phasing: Make them unable to interact with anyone, people cannot see them, they can see everyone but cannot hear anything.

 

[Anon_Y_Mousse]

Torture is often used to extract information; this usually works very poorly as the Gestapo in World War 2 found out that people would say anything to get out of the pain or get used to the constant torture. If you aren't a sadistic fuck that gets their rocks off and that is the only reason you are doing this and are trying to extract information and let's, say there isn't a 'mind rape' spell that gets you what you want, the best thing you could do is deprive people of their senses and make them question their sanity. Take advantage of your position in power and slowly frame yourself as their savior and their allies as their enemies.

So basically use illusion magic to slowly take their sense one by one when you aren't there and make time to slow down to a halt, but when you are there make things seem brighter and better, bring food and water when you are there and the torturer should have the torturee coming over to their side in under a month.

(I do not condone torture and find it to be disgusting).

Well, I did not really state that it was for the sake of extracting information in particular. Heck, I'm quite sure most torture scenes I've seen are for the heck of it or just cause the torturer wants to get a reaction.

A "truth or lie" divination-type spell could easily be used to get more accurate information.

Anyways yeah, without a mind break spell or what I stated above, conventional methods probably will be better for extracting information.

Torture only gives you answers you want, better uses of magic to get information. But, if you are doing torture to just be able to torture someone using magic.

Mind Magic: to find out what they fear and love, mental illusions in their head for them to see what they love get broken by what they fear most. Mind healing to keep them sane, so you can continue with the tortures. Remove the use of all their senses, introducing back one sense that you send one thing to like the slow drip of water, or instead of black all you see is white and a smiley face always in front of you. Make them do the same thing over and over again, and realize they have no control over themselves.

Healing and its reverse: keep people alive through physical torture, remove limbs. Enhance their nerves so they are always feeling pain. Change pain types they are feeling when they build up immunity to one form or another. Re wire their senses so they see smells, hear vision and taste with their entire body instead of feel. Yes that is your socks your are tasting with your feet, oh you touched that movie theater chair now you taste EVERYTHING that has ever happened to it or on it.

Phasing: Make them unable to interact with anyone, people cannot see them, they can see everyone but cannot hear anything.

Well everything except the phasing makes me uncomfortable, good job. 5/5

 

[Jemini]

Ah alright good to know that time magic can be a glorified anesthesia.

Anesthesia... actually, that does bring up one torture method low-grade time magic can be used for.

Applying the local time acceleration, we use it on the brain as you were suggesting before. The accelerated brain does perceive pain the same as anyone else, it's just that relative to the tourturer they also process the pain and get over it faster. But, from the perspective of the accelerated person, they are receiving the exact same amount of pain for the exact same duration as anyone else.

So, here's the method. Time-accelerate the brain, and then perform major surgery on them. Due to the time-accelerated brain, the signals from their brain will be out of sync with their body. They will probably still be able to move, but you can use other methods to restrain that. All they will know is that they are in severe pain and they cannot get their body to react the way they want it to.

It would be the "trapped inside your own body" effect.

 

[BearlyAlive]

Perma-edging. No matter what or who you do, them balls stay blue (Yeah, I watched too much pr0n, so what)

Killing loved ones in front of someone only to revieve them as vengeful spirits and then bind them to the one forced to watch.

 

[ElijahRyne]

Can be as gory or comedic as you want(put in spoiler if you think it's nsfw) use any magic system as a basis for this. I'll give my thoughts and a rating for each one based on how creative it is(i.e not just "I snap my fingers and cause soul pain" xianxia type bullshit but actually using a magic system to work around the human anatomy to cause as much pain as possible)

Oh and disclaimer: I don't condone torture irl at all, this is just a form of artistic expression and creative exercise.

Trap them in a time crystal. No matter what they do they will end up in the same position after a certain amount of time. You need to make the time before the reset long enough that they have a sense of free will, but short enough that things seem to slip from their grasp. Perhaps the restart point is directly after a painful or impactful torture cession. It is up to you if the subject keeps their memory of what happened before the reset. If you could also do that one 100 painful reincarnations thing, that might add to the horror.

 

[Anon_Y_Mousse]

Perma-edging. No matter what or who you do, them balls stay blue (Yeah, I watched too much pr0n, so what)

Better idea, let em have that sweet release but whenever it happens it's always super painful and turns the head cloudy and muddled, but the build up is always so good. Yeah... 3/5

Trap them in a time crystal. No matter what they do they will end up in the same position after a certain amount of time. You need to make the time before the reset long enough that they have a sense of free will, but short enough that things seem to slip from their grasp. Perhaps the restart point is directly after a painful or impactful torture cession. It is up to you if the subject keeps their memory of what happened before the reset. If you could also do that one 100 painful reincarnations thing, that might add to the horror.

Put a speaker/television somewhere where they can't get to and have it blast some annoying audio full volume. Reminds me of Black Mirror(?) for some reason. 4/5

 

[NikkuNii]

Slowly burning from the inside out but also regenerating at the same rate

 

[SakeVision]

is this where we share our guro folders?

 

[Anon_Y_Mousse]

is this where we share our guro folders?

Do your guro folders have magic in them?

 

[Alfir]

I need to get this out of my system after seeing this thread...
My top three Magic torturing methods
1. Psychic Magic (The kind of BS that can inflict ultimate agonizing pain... You can literally mind-break someone with this.) Top mind magic users literally toy with people's minds. They can make you suffer in the worse inhumane way possible. They can remold your mind according to their desires... They just don't torture people much, since they can easily get information through mind reading most of the time. But what if they do, like torture for fun... To send signals of pain to your brain, influence the cells in your body through some psychic tweaking, and even trap you into a mental space...
2. Necromancy, especially curse magic... The kind that would make you beg... There is the curse that would force you to eat dirt until you explode, a curse that directly tortures your soul, or a curse that of immortal pain plus being sealed in solitude AKA life imprisonment times infinity...
3. White Magic plus the pinnacle of physical torture.

 

[Deeprotsorcerer]

I need to get this out of my system after seeing this thread...
My top three Magic torturing methods
1. Psychic Magic (The kind of BS that can inflict ultimate agonizing pain... You can literally mind-break someone with this.) Top mind magic users literally toy with people's minds. They can make you suffer in the worse inhumane way possible. They can remold your mind according to their desires... They just don't torture people much, since they can easily get information through mind reading most of the time. But what if they do, like torture for fun... To send signals of pain to your brain, influence the cells in your body through some psychic tweaking, and even trap you into a mental space...
2. Necromancy, especially curse magic... The kind that would make you beg... There is the curse that would force you to eat dirt until you explode, a curse that directly tortures your soul, or a curse that of immortal pain plus being sealed in solitude AKA life imprisonment times infinity...
3. White Magic plus the pinnacle of physical torture.

This thread is ancient, @Alfir .

But on topic, using healing magic to make someone's body undergo rapid mutations/cancerous growth would be a horrible torture method that'd break the strongest of peoples. There's just something incredibly wrong about seeing your form twisted beyond comprehension. Hell, body dysphoria is enough to drive people to suicide without lovecraftian mutations. For inspiration, I'd suggest All Tommorows. If body horror is your trigger, do not view the spolier.

Spoiler: All tomorrows

 

[Ddraig]

Blood / Liquid / Water / Piss magic


Simply increase the pressure of blood to giga levels or increase density of piss to the point it feels like a solid. Get the tortured a lot of water and enjoy the solid golden shower.


Summon magic

Attach a ovipositor or two, throw a parasite or two up the ass, get some eggs in the breasts and dick/pussy holes, attach a torture crown on the closest pain receptors to the brain and add another parasite that eats through the bodies nutrients to make the person feel perma thirst and hunger but still leaves them alive. Also make all the nerves swolen.

 

[2021]

Water dripper

There's an anime called bludgeoning angel dokuro-chan, where the MC gets tortured, murdered, and revived regularly. In this universe their exists a type of sausage that makes you extremely sensitive, known as sensitive salaryman sausage, which of course the MC is forced to eat on many occasions.

why? because he made lolis

 

[ABCGUY]

Im just copying the CIA

 

[Sabruness]

everyone being all serious and painful and here i am thinking:

hmm, why not cast magic on them that causes them to fart near-continuously and which causes said farts to smell utterly horrible (but otherwise harmless) then lock them in a room that has just enough ventilation so they wont be deprived of air but not enough ventilation that the fart smell will disappear.