Originally Posted by Parchment

The Zeoreth Law of Arithmancy can be resumed to the following facts: 1) All things and spells can be represented by numbers to explain their characteristics, where their powers reside and what they do; 2) All numbers can be reduced to zero though various arithmetic ecuations including multiplication by zero itself; 3) Hence and by Aristotle's logic, all things and spells can be reduced to zero, so to say, be reduced to "nothingness." Number Zero in this sense represents the power which makes things change though time to return to non-existence. The Zeroeth Law is the explanation to why all things tends to decay.

All magic, all people and all things are so said doomed to disappearing. The Zeroeth law is something that is constantly even if never summoned. The properties of the number six might be the only power capable of representing a temporary stop to the power of the Zeroeth Law, if only delaying that decaying in time. (Noteworthy enough since the number 6 other meaning, including a relation to hexes and other such things.) It represents also the fading of power, the corruption of the magic, the progression of age and time. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Of more accuratedly, 'Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return.'