(02-19-2015, 01:05 PM)Inessa Hara Wrote: void magics
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(02-19-2015, 01:05 PM)Inessa Hara Wrote: The only time that you would need extensive studies is if you were using Black Mage powers or if you were summoning a greater voidsent.
Back during the 5th era, during the fall of amdapor and during the great war of the magi, a master void magician, who new the most about void magics, summoned the Voidsent Lord Diabolos and pretty much ripped a hole into Amdapor before it got sealed away.
Wanted to clarify this post.
The War of the Magi was between White, Black, and Scholarly Magicks. Black Mages of the time were capable of incredible magical feats, including, but not limited to, opening Voidgates. The instance you are referring to is the battle before Amdapor fell to the Black Mages when said Black Mages opened a massive Voidgate allowing one of the Voidkings, Diabolos, into our world. Shortly before the Amdaporians were all slaughtered, the White Mages were able to seal the gate.
There's a similar story for Nym, where the Black Mages unleashed Mahisha upon the Nymians. After suffering massive casualties, Mahisha was defeated and the Black Mages repelled from Vylbrand.
Opening a Voidgate is likely not a feat any one, single Magi could have performed, no matter how experienced. It took four novice Black Mages to summon Barbatos (a lesser demon) and they had been studying Black Magic for 10-20 years and the rite claimed 3 of the 4 Mages' lives.
So no, if you're trying to commune with the Void as a Thaumaturge or Black Mage, it would likely take years of experience to successfully open a Voidgate without incident. The only other alternative we've seen outside of Black Magic to summon a Voidsent into this world is to ritually sacrifice your flesh, soul, and aether up to the being and become possessed by the Voidsent. We see this quite frequently in the Lambs of Dalamud cultists (who prefer to lure unsuspecting adventurers to use as the blood sacrifice), Lady Amandine from Haukke Manor, the THM questline, and to some extent Edda from the Tam-Tara storyline.
But you are correct in that having any sort of dealing with the Void is a very bad and highly illegal thing. Just the whole "Void Mage" thing is, well, not a thing. There is no form of magic which controls the Void.
Black Mages being able to open Voidgates is a byproduct of their destructive magic that has to deal with aetherdeath and the aetherial threshold being breached by their spells. They do not command the Void, nor do Black Mages draw their power from the Void. Black Mages draw their aether from the planet, however, if you're a megalomaniac Black Mage who's greatest ambition is to control infinite cosmic powers, what better source than the Beyond, right? Hence why, Black Mages usually fall into the "Void" trap.
