Persian Quickrug

"Persian Quickrug. And he thinks I'm old fashioned."

- Balthazar Blake about the Persian Quickrug spell set by Maxim Horvath.

The Persian Quickrug, is a magical trap that is designed to turn any floor or carpet into a substance similar to quick sand.

According to Balthazar Blake, the Quickrug spell was originated in the country of Persia (now called Iran) centuries ago. Many spellcasters used this spell to trap and kill their enemies or to bury something.

Usage and Countermeasures
Once the spell casted on floor/carpet, the carpet will turned into magic quicksand that would sunk anything that step on it. The casted floor/carpet also ripples like actual quicksand as well when victim/s trapped on it. However, perhaps floor/carpet that casted by Persian Quickrug spell are more dangerous than actual quicksand, as Balthazar, whom trapped by the one only have few seconds to get out before drowned completely, as his initial struggle made him sink faster. Even when the victim stop struggling, the drown rate seemingly would never slow down anyway unlike real quicksand does.

The only known way to get out from the Persian Quickrug completely was one must pull themselves with immense strength, as seen when Balthazar successfully push himself out of the rug with chains that connect with mechanism that presumably powerful enough to pull out a car.

It is unclear that one can slow the drown rate on the sinking rug from Persian Quickrug spell or what happened to victim's body after died when the casted floor/carpet turned back to normal. It's possible that the victim's carcasses would emerges from the casted rug once the spell on casted carpet/floor broken though the movie not reference anything about this.

History
Balthazar reconignizingly encountered this spell when he was investigating a map of New York that points Battery Park, the possible location of Morgana's return and of the Rising. He then became trapped when the floor of Drake Stone's penthouse magically transformed into quicksand by Horvath's sorcery before he escaped with his life. He moved chains to grab on to so he could push himself out of the sinking rug.