(02-29-2016, 06:08 AM)Valence Wrote: If the Void has no aether (explaining the voidsent infinie hunger for it), how can we use our own powers once inside, like in World of Darkness? Own personal reserves? Must be hard for conjurers and other classes that take it from around them...
More importantly, if the Void has no aether, then why the hell did the Allagan open a rift with their crystal tower to get access to an unlimited quantity of energy? Is there a Void energy of some kind, as many things seem to point to (since voidsent obviously have power)?
The Void is, as its name suggests, mostly devoid of aether. Some aether does slip in to the Void, according to lore but quickly becomes corrupted and festers because it can no longer cycle through the Lifestream. This eventually results in what naturalists believe is "umbral-aspected aether" or "gloom." Corrupted aether is highly volatile and does not channel well.
So why can casters such as Black and White Mage cast in World of Darkness? Game mechanics, probably. You can't exactly exclude classes from a raid. By all rights, our characters should not have been able to survive in the Void for as long as they did. The Void begins sapping and tainting ones aether the moment they enter it, like what was happening to Nero. Prior to WoD there's no record of anyone returning from the Void alive.
To answer the last question, the Allagans didn't open the Void for energy. By this point in history (the second reign of Xande) the Allagans had already achieved infinite energy. Using the prayers and contained aether which preserved their form, the Allagans drew infinitely massive amounts of aether from the eikons. Syrcus Tower, in fact, was one such construct which powered the whole of the Allagan Empire using energy siphoned from Bahamut in Dalamud, which in turn was energized by the sun. They didn't need the Void for infinite energy, they needed the infinite energy harnessed by the Syrcus Tower to open a Voidgate large enough for Cloud of Darkness, Lilith, Diabolos, and their vast armies to come through.
So the Allagans had no need of more energy. What the Allagans needed - what Xande needed - was the power of the highest tiers of Voidsent to bend at their command. For years, the Allagans had studied lesser voidsent and used them in their chimerical creations of war. But Xande had been haunted by the darkness ever since his resurrection. He had a different intent for the Void kings and queens, one likely born of Ascian manipulation. Xande wanted to return the world to darkness.
