(08-01-2017, 07:08 AM)Valence Wrote: As pointed above, the generally accepted solution against voidsent possession is death of the host. Unless you can tempt the voidsent out of the host by offering a way more powerful host instead, it's just better to kill the host before the voidsent completes their growth and toss the body away once done with it, and turn into their true, way more dangerous void form: voidsent usually get through the passage from the Void to the physical realm through tears, and the bigger the voidsent, the bigger the tear must be... which can be partially circumvented by powerful voidsent to instead seep without their corporeal form through smaller tears and take possession of mortals, using them as vessels to build back their lost power.
An exorcist to me would basically be a 'janitor' sort of guy. A death bringer, bringing mercy on the possessed souls. It would be a gritty work more than anything else. The profession would likely be to kill the threat in its egg before anything dire happens. Religion is not hard to throw above the idea, especially for someone worshipping Thal, the divinity of death and afterlife.
That could be kinda taboo yeah. The kind of guy you resort to when something shitty happens with voidsent, to clean up things, no questions asked. Not that dissimilar to a Witcher if you will.
Probably the sort of guy that often has to fight tooth and nail with the more ignorant population that don't want to sacrifice their possessed loved ones.
Void-touch as far as I know, is of the realm of player fanon. Lore only covers void possession quite deeply. The closest thing to lore I could see is extrapolating Void Taint which manifests through the realm where voidsent fester when left uncontrolled (cf, CNJ jobquest in the Shroud). Since it taints the environment, it means it can taint anything alive. However, it's a taint, a disease, probably akin to being irradiated IRL or something as creepy as that. It's not "touched" as players intend it usually. It's ill. Like spreading gangrene. Which can or cannot turn you into a void abomination eventually, once you are - mostly - dead already (Void creatures were once normal people in their own realm, the 13rd Shard). Oh well. It's basically Nurgle, in short.
Yes, voidsent are "extremely easy" to detect through the use of aetherometers, but those are not exactly cheap and you would have to know where to look. A bit like with a geiger counter IRL.
This is SUPER helpful information, worded in a way that even my ass could understand. Thank you so much! You really helped me pinpoint an area that feels very nice to start in. I am trying to make the character as grounded as possible, I know people look at the voidsent ideas and scoff 90% of the time and I'd like to hopefully do it in a way that sounds legit and not lore breaky or 'extremely edgy'. Think this helped me out A LOT thank you!
