[RPG] What happens if you are holding an Iron Flask with a demon inside and walk into an Antimagic Field

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What happens if you are holding an Iron Flask with a demon inside and walk into an Antimagic Field?

Do the magical powers of the Iron Flask stop, releasing the demon? Also, would the demon then be sent back to its original plane (the Abyss)?

Best Answer

It stays in the flask

A related question: What happens to a bag of holding in an Antimagic Field?

The iron flask seems to function like a pocket dimension for the captured creature, which is why I'd personally rule that the flask simply turns into a normal flask, and is cut off from the pocket dimension for the duration.

The Antimagic Field spell itself seems to confirm this (emphasis mine):

Spells and other magical effects, except those created by an artifact or a deity, are suppressed in the sphere and can't protrude into it. A slot expended to cast a suppressed spell is consumed. While an effect is suppressed, it doesn't function, but the time it spends suppressed counts against its duration.

The word suppressed is not the same as dispelled. This means its effects simply cannot be used, not that the effects disappear. This is especially true if you look at the last sentence, which specifically states that any spell cast is "active", it just doesn't do anything.