Xenik

This is super insightful, thank you! It does suck that there's still much to be learnt about resonance... That is the main reason I initially considered X'enik's aether to be corrupted. I'm not sure how realistic it would be to have an alternative where the experiments done on him were for imperial gain to see if they could research and find a way to manipulate their own aether? That was more or less my original idea, since it's also what I thought would cause him to go blind but that can easily be worked around. I like the idea that he may be unable to use fire aspected aether/magic if it's too potent etc as well. With Y'shtola, I can see what you mean. It would be beneficial for X'enik as a hunter and a marksman to have an ability like that as well, but implementing something like that as realistically as possible with so little info to go off is difficult.

Thank you for the note! I'm wondering, if aetherial imbalance or corruption is such a hazard to the body, would you know of any other conditions that could work in a similar way (affecting ability to manipulate aether and tapping into certain elemental magicks, causing blindness etc)? I could potentially make him unable to use certain elements due to the sheer potency too...

Hi! This is my first post so I hope this is the right place - I've been working on my WoL X'enik for just over 4 years now but have somehow only now decided to tackle his potential aether defficiancy(?). For context: He grew up with his family in the X Tribe (situated in the Ala Gannha area in my canon), but his tribe was razed to the ground by imperials. Any survivors were taken where they were experimented on for aether modification purposes (not sure if early resonant development could be feasible here?). The result of experiments corrupted a lot of the aether in his body and he's also been left blind in his right eye. I've tried looking around as much as I can but if possible I'd like some help and input on the following: - if there's any Canon aether issues in characters (aside from thancred and yshtola) and how it affects their health and abilities - how X'eniks aether could affect him - whether it would make sense if X'enik receiving the echo/hydaelyns blessing would give him some kind of "aethervision" like yshtola - potential types of echo that he could have to combat this - how the imperials, aether modification and the resonant could come into play? (my resonant knowledge is practically non existent) On the aether front, one of my ideas was that any aether in his body that's more astral aligned could be corrupt, allowing him only to manipulate or use umbral aether/magic and limiting his magical abilities. Also that he has teleportation limitations. I'm willing to bend the rules a bit when it comes to lore and canon but I'd like to stick to the fine print for the most part!