I thought you said you didn't mean it as "literal". But in any case, Darkness spells don't really summon plants[to my memory], nor do a "spell" governs it.
But "Fire spells" manipulate the great spirit of fire to summon or create fire, fire is defined by the GS of fire.
It's all explained in the
Skills and Magic page, same for my quote that you're quoting
Literally none of this is said, it's just said about a darkness spell that invokes the void, which is completely different from darkness = void.
Man, how is it it hard to understand the co-relation between "Fangs of
Darkness" and "Summons the void". The "
fans" are referring to the void.
Let me quote 2 lines rather then 2 words for you:
A Darkness spell does whatever its doing by manipulating its respective law/great spirit. A fire spell summons/creates a fire, and said fire is governed by its respective law of nature[the gs of fire in this case]. Something like water is not governed by GS of fire, and so, with the same logic, no other GS governs darkness/void other then the GS of darkness. [Refer to the magic and skills page for this], as well as these:
Spirits are natural phenomenon themselves in their most purest form, including the phenomenon of "fire burning oxygen and generating Carbon Dioxide ->
Spirits separate from the Great Spirit/Attribute of their respective element ->
Spirits are the manifestation of these attributes/laws/great spirits
Now, one of the most direct statements I can give you:
Raine fired a bolt of magic from her fist. Exposed to the laws of nature, it transformed into a Nuclear Cannon blast—one Raine called for with no casting time. But Diablo, naturally, had expected this, not demonstrating a moment of concern as he cast dispulsion magic to make the nuclear blast vanish. This is what battle between high-level demons is about: breaking through one another’s layers of magical barriers and counterattack spells to land a lethal blow on your enemy. Neither side had any need for time-consuming spellcasting as they threw supercharged blasts of magic at each other. ~ Volume 11 OTL
Magic cast is just attributeless originally, it's just a bolt of magic energy, but when it is exposed to the laws of the world, it transforms into what those laws govern. A nuclear canon is only as it is as it is because of being exposed to the law governing it. So, the void of hell/darkness of hell would also only be so because of being exposed to the law/great spirit governing it; aka the GS of darkness.
Just the fact that it is a SUMMONING magic that SUMMONS THE VOID FROM A PLACE is something that supports my point, there is nothing saying that darkness = void, quite the opposite, a summoning magic that invokes something from a realm proves that summoning magic is not the void itself.
Even a summoning magic is essentially cast by manipulating the world's laws/great spirits. Said realm of darkness itself is within the scope of GS of darkness. Why are you not counting this? :
If a summoning spell is used to summon a being of light from a random place, then is the summoning spell the light itself? This is simply fallacy.
It's not the spell itself that is governed by the laws; the spell itself simply manipulates those laws. It's the thing summoned/created that is governed by those laws. A magic that summons a being of light; the spell is not light itself, but the being of light is indeed governed by the GS of light.
Same here. So that's a half valid half invalid argument there.