(07-28-2016, 05:12 PM)Kilieit Wrote: Idle irresponsible and baseless speculation:

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SpoilerI'm gonna talk about WoW for a second - there are two main methods of magic there. "Fel" and "arcane". Arcane is where you take magic from the Twisting Nether and bring it into the living world; fel is where you drain magic from the living world and send it to the Twisting Nether. Fel magic is supremely destructive, addictive, and powerful... but at the end of the day, you're still essentially removing stuff from the living world and sending it beyond the veil. Often, ending up including bits and pieces of your own soul. Because, again: addictive.

If I was gonna do ""void magic"", I'd take cues from there. A "void" is a vacuum. It sucks. Literally. Like... it draws stuff in towards it and consumes it. So if you're wanting to drain people or places of aether, I can imagine ""void magic"" being awesome... not so much if you wanna do other things. And if it was addictive too, then that'd explain why people keep on using it after a voidsent tricks them into doing so for the first time.

And, again, supremely dangerous. If I had to take a level guess, I'd say the "becoming voidsent" process is one you undergo by allowing parts of your own personal aether to be consumed by the void, thusly creating a well within yourself that has to be filled by external aether. Just like a voidsent.

(07-28-2016, 05:55 PM)Kilieit Wrote: I don't mean all of it at once... I mean. Most of the "mortals turned voidsent" we see look pretty dead, right??

I guess it's still down for debate whether there's nothing left of their former personality because they died & were replaced by a separate being, or because their former selves were slowly depleted and transformed until unrecognisable...

Either way, it's pretty certain that they're "gone" (dead or destroyed or both), and that there is now a voidsent occupying the space that they used to occupy. I guess the mechanism by which it occurs is sort of inconsequential.

(07-28-2016, 05:12 PM)Kilieit Wrote: Idle irresponsible and baseless speculation:

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SpoilerI'm gonna talk about WoW for a second - there are two main methods of magic there. "Fel" and "arcane". Arcane is where you take magic from the Twisting Nether and bring it into the living world; fel is where you drain magic from the living world and send it to the Twisting Nether. Fel magic is supremely destructive, addictive, and powerful... but at the end of the day, you're still essentially removing stuff from the living world and sending it beyond the veil. Often, ending up including bits and pieces of your own soul. Because, again: addictive.

If I was gonna do ""void magic"", I'd take cues from there. A "void" is a vacuum. It sucks. Literally. Like... it draws stuff in towards it and consumes it. So if you're wanting to drain people or places of aether, I can imagine ""void magic"" being awesome... not so much if you wanna do other things. And if it was addictive too, then that'd explain why people keep on using it after a voidsent tricks them into doing so for the first time.

And, again, supremely dangerous. If I had to take a level guess, I'd say the "becoming voidsent" process is one you undergo by allowing parts of your own personal aether to be consumed by the void, thusly creating a well within yourself that has to be filled by external aether. Just like a voidsent.

(07-29-2016, 04:02 AM)Valence Wrote: Yeah I assumed by default that Eda just allowed her beloved corpse to be possessed and bring all kinds of nasty with that. 

Sorry if I wasn't more accurate but I was actually wondering if there was anything shown ingame or the dungeons like Tam Tara that would show Eda to have any kind of weird void-esque powers of sorts?

(07-29-2016, 11:05 AM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote:

(07-29-2016, 04:02 AM)Valence Wrote: Yeah I assumed by default that Eda just allowed her beloved corpse to be possessed and bring all kinds of nasty with that. 

Sorry if I wasn't more accurate but I was actually wondering if there was anything shown ingame or the dungeons like Tam Tara that would show Eda to have any kind of weird void-esque powers of sorts?

We had her sacrificial blood wedding as the final battle in Tam Tara hard mode. I'm assuming whatever she'd been planning to do with a body would have been completed had she successfully killed Paiyo Reiyo and the Warrior of Light [and friends].

(08-01-2016, 11:43 AM)Valence Wrote: Since we know they have fees (quite expensive at that) to finance the economic loss caused by the Calamity... Who collects the fees? Officials on site when people suddenly pop out of nowhere nearby? Fine then, but how do they even manage to tell from where the travelers TPed? What prevents someone to lie?

Camate Wrote:Why does it cost gil to use aetherytes?
Many aetheryte camps were destroyed during the Calamity, which necessitated their reconstruction. However, this came at great expense, and so teleportation fees must be collected to repay the as yet unpaid debt.

However, the gil doesn’t just magically disappear from your purse! Though it's not shown in the game, it's collected by the guards keeping watch of the aetherytes.

On a side note, guards posted by each city-state's aetheryte can tell you about aetherytes and teleportation magic. If you're interested, see what they have to say!

Nicia Wrote:Then why, you ask, must we pay gil when using Telport? Well, after the Calamity, many of the existing aetheryte camps were destroyed. To relocate and rebuild them required a large sum of money, much of which was lent by certain men of business from Ul'dah. The gil you pay when either leaving from or arriving at an aetheryte goes to paying off that debt.

(08-02-2016, 03:24 AM)Valence Wrote: Yeah but it doesn't seem to address the problem at hand.

1) How exactly can they tell where you are going or from where you are coming?

2) You can also apparently TP out of nowhere in the desert in the direction of an aetheryte, you don't need to be close to one at first, just at your arrival.