(07-28-2016, 05:12 PM)Kilieit Wrote: Idle irresponsible and baseless speculation:
Show ContentSpoilerI'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.
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One big issue with that. A person would literally die if they expended all their aether. We see this brought up in both the THM and CNJ quests. THM talks about how a person's aether reserves. And how going beyond them means spending one's life-critical aether. CNJ talks about going to far with that, to the point of caster-death-by-healing. (Sylvie's mother).
One big issue with that. A person would literally die if they expended all their aether. We see this brought up in both the THM and CNJ quests. THM talks about how a person's aether reserves. And how going beyond them means spending one's life-critical aether. CNJ talks about going to far with that, to the point of caster-death-by-healing. (Sylvie's mother).