Talk:Chaos Magic/@comment-28786111-20160618223329/@comment-26521369-20161012121121

The way they works is that they get more powerful them more darkness (humanity) you have which is gained by killing other sane humans (players, NPC) or stealing them by ripping them out of sane humans, the lack of humanity in the dark souls verse makes those without slowly lose their mind and zombiefy, seeking and slaughtering those with humanity, trying to reclaim what was stolen (but cant because they're to far gone).

The spells also have the side effect of throwing out damaging pools of lava that linger in the general vicinity of the spells impact compared to its non chaos variants.