(04-21-2015, 01:13 PM)Warren Castille Wrote: Personal headcanon time, discretion and a saltshaker advised:
We've established that the Voidsent are drawn to corpses and death - There was another thread that covered this pretty well and there's dialogue from 1.0 that may or may not be retconned that infers that not taking proper care of a dead body can cause it to rise as a Revenant.
I don't think "blood magic" or "void magic" are things. I do think, though, that the Voidsent on the Other Side can use blood to find a way through the barrier into our realm. In the case of demon wall, it's less that a blood ritual manifests the wall into a monster and more than a voidsent is able to crawl through into our world thanks to the nature of blood. Dealing with Voidsent is basically providing them a foothold to step into our dimension; Edda wasn't raising Avere, but she was doing a great job of letting a proto-ahriman take over what was left of his head. The similarity is too much to be coincidence (for my money, anyway).
Definitely good points.
In the 'usual' fantasy setting when dealing with 'demons', I find that the common theme seems to be doing things you, as the reader, find distasteful or abhorrent. I often speculate when writing things involving 'demons' whether for FF14 or just other fictional settings that I'm working on, if it isn't really the blood or the death sacrifices but rather the act of doing something 'wrong'; compromising yourself or your morals or at least the morals of the society at large which, if found out, would surely result in your being made a pariah at best or killed at worst. The demonic entity may actually require you to compromise yourself so that they in turn can compromise you for their own gains etc etc. But that's headcanon'y stuff as well though I enjoy the speculation into such things 'just for fun'. =P
