The Emotion-Suppression Spell is a Hedge Magic spell used to store the caster's emotions in a flask.
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- "Look, there's this thing that hedges use, but I really wouldn't recommend it."
- ―Kady Orloff-Diaz to Quentin Coldwater
In 2016, to prepare for their journey to Fillory, Quentin Coldwater, Alice Quinn, Eliot Waugh, and Margo Hanson sought out Kady Orloff-Diaz for information on how to properly cast Battle Magic. Kady explained that battle magic would take a decade of discipline to properly master, but there was a spell used by Hedge Witches to facilitate the need for emotion control. A downside of the spell is that the longer a magician remains separated from their emotions the more intense they feel them once the emotions are returned. Magicians often become overwhelmed and even consumed with powerful feelings for a short time after the spell has been used.
At the Physical Kids' Cottage, the group performed the spell, trapping their emotions in the form of a glowing red liquid within small phylacteries around their necks. However, Alice and Penny decided against using the spell and opted instead to meditate to gain the needed emotional control. When Quentin, Eliot, and Margo completed their training, they celebrated their success and, overtaken with their enhanced emotions, slept together. This Caused Alice to break off her relationship with Quentin the next day.[1]
Alice, Elliot, Margo and Quentin used the spell once again to prepare for their encounter with the Neitherlanders, but upon entering the Library of the Neitherlands, they had their phylacteries destroyed and spell broken by Zelda Schiff, since liquids were not permitted inside the library.[2]