What is the Void?

Games Sentinels of the Multiverse
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I may have not followed the forms closely, Fotne might have writen about this, and if not why?

So we got the Virtuoso of the Void, I am sure Nightmist mentions it at many points, Spirt of teh Void, Curse of the black spot(I am sure that is Void) Nexus of the Void. And i am sure it is mention many times before.

 

So what is it? Can anyone draw any paralles. It can grant people power at a cost, It was always there, maybe off the coast of spain, and what does it have to do with the end story. What will the RPG say about it?

 

But the main question is why does the "Void" need a Virtuoso?

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Maybe…

Akash'Bhuta , the villain, seems to have the goal to get rid of humanity / restore earth to its pristine, chaotic state. There may be a parallel with what Deadline tried to do.

So, could it be that Akash's goal was to prevent the attention of OblivAeon, like Deadline ?

The Virtuoso of the Void's function is to prevent Akash'Bhuta to reach this goal. Just like the Naturalist is more or less meant to prevent Deadline, his nemesis, from reaching his…

Could it be that the Virtuoso is in fact a pawn of the Void, meant to let the OblivAeon event happen ? The Void, from the few description we have, seems not to be a positive force - could it be an aspect of OblivAeon itself - or a power behind OblivAeon ?

The few things I've read about the Void in this KS campaign and before seem confusing - is it helping the heroes, has it plans of its own, or is it a trap ? Lot to discover…

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Frankly because I havn't the slightest idea about what this all means. We are only just getting some connecting dots with this KS.

So we have this crazy island thing, a virtuoso, Scholar as a gateway, and there is a very small chance the Black Spot curse of La Commandora is also related based on how it looks in relation to Akash T's chest wound in her void state.

Before this KS I just thought Virtuoso of the Void was a fancy cool sounding title. Obviously its gonna need a closer look. Maybe we will get some good card art/flavor text to fit a theory around once this thing goes live.

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Don't forget the Void Guard!

It looks like the Void is more like a force of nature and less like an intelligent entity. I'll bet it has some sort of ties to the Oblivion Shards, but I don't know what.

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I mentioned this elsewhere, but this is my working theory: What if drawing power from the void is a way to tap into the most primal thing imaginable, the most ancient of ancient forces, the thing that existed before even existance did. If so, it would be a sort of Alpha to OblivAeon's Omega, fighting the ultimate end with the ultimate beginning? At first I thought it weird that a music-themed hero would be connected to the concept of emptiness and silence, but maybe we're looking at it the wrong way. He's the Virtuoso of the Void, because he fills the void. The void is absolute nothingness, and he uses it like a blank sheet of paper. What better place to produce the purest of symphonic incantations than the backdrop of utter silence? The beginning of the universe, where nothing exists, is a place of infinite possibility, and when he draws on that essence, it allows his music to do impossible things. Similarly, the Nexus of the Void is "an island which defies more laws of reality than it follows." Endless possibilities, it doesn't matter what set of natural laws reality originally settled on. Here, so close to the Void, all the other ways our world could have functioned are fair game. It's all undefined. Null and void.

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Can we connect this to The Wager?

If you recall, before time was time and anything existed, there was The Wager. The Wager was that "nothing would happen". That sounds to me like there was nothing but the infinite void, and nothing would ever come from it. 

But something did happen! Time and reality formed. All of the "impossible possibilities" formed Wager Master. All of the "possible possibilities" formed the Multiverese as we know it.

Beings like Oblivaeon and Jansa could be beings from that Void. And the Nexus of the Void could be the link to all of that primal energy and power that was created when Scholar became the gateway between this reality and the Void. 

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Ooh. I like this. Akash'Thriya sacrificed some of her essence to gain the Void's power. "But if she survives this, she will have to answer to the Void." So it's a power that you're forced to "pay back" eventually, in some way. We know there was a Wager that nothing would happen. But who made it, and what exactly did losing the bet cost them?

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The incap for Scholar of the Infinite Void has him slowly disappearing.   Seems like these powers from the Void grant power but not without a cost.  

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Hm...  I saw a magic system that worked kind of like that.  The main character could wield entropy* to destroy things.  Nothing was immune to her magic, because nothing is immune to time, but by the same token it was impossible for her to completely protect herself from the power she was channeling.

 

*entropy might not be quite the right word, but it's close enough.  "The unraveling of all things" is probably more accurate, but wordier.

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Thats why I think the Curse of the Black Spot is connected to this. Sure seems like it's the same thing.

But I wonder how Scholar got mixed up in the Void?

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My best is that we'll have to wait for the RPG to have more info on this.

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I can do that, too!

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How exactly do you figure that?

We will have a TON of art/flavor text from the decks Akash'T, Void Nexus, all four of the Void Gaurd, LaCommandora, Ft Adamant, ect. I have to imagine there will be some very interesting things to comb through in those decks. We will see those thing before we see the RPG in all likelyhood.

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Something won that wager.  That is important to remember.

If that thing is Oblivaeon, then why is he destroying it.  Oblivaeon wants to be the only thing that exists.

Wager Master warns them of Oblivaeon coming (in his own way) and the powe of the Void is used to fight Oblivaeon.

 

I like where Alex was going with this.  The void being the nothingness of infinite possibility.  When someone won the wager a lot of that energy became the Wager Master (all the impossible possibilities) and womewhere the void still exists, and can be tapped into and used.

Scholar meets up with the void, and he can see and use ley lines and can alter the physical structure of things.  He builds the stone to do just that.

The Sentinels use shards to become the Void Guard.  Are they protecting the Void?  Fighting for it?  Using it?

IF the Void is energy of limitless potential, then Oblivaeon is most likely looking to destroy things to gain that energy for himself.

If the shards are able to channel that energythen it would make sense that they are coveted and extrememly powerful.

It also makes sense that someone using the void would start to be consumed by it, as the powe of nothingness flows through them it starts to turn them into nothingness.  The Void Island could be a manifestation of the Void's natural progression to return everything to itself, or it could be a result of the work Oblivaeon is doing.

I don't think Oblivaeon is the Winner of the Wager.  I think he is trying to undo the effects of losing the wager.

I also think that Nightmist, with her training to use magic understands harnessing the power of the void better than the others.  When she harnesses the void to pull parts of different realities to our own she becomes trapped in her "mist" state, which is probably not water vapor.  Others are being consumed, probably because they are harnessing the power without the knowledge of how to do it.

The intrinsic power of all existance (being born of the void) would lend itself to the blood mage Deadline, who can see the ley lines that shape life and learn to use the actual energy of life itself to boost his harnessing of the ley lines power.

 

This is all crazy and new, and I can't wait to get more stuff to work from.

TL;DR:  I think Oblivaeon was on the losing side of "The Wager", and agree with the void being the limitless potential of nothingness.

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Hey Skippy, see my new Footenote post. I am turning to the side of OblivAeon being the one who lost the initial wager as well.

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Just did, and commented to add some more thoughts.  This is going to be awesoe as we get to piece it together.  (or at least try to)

I think the Host won the Wager, but I have nothing to back that up.

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The Curse of the Black Spot seems like it blatantly drawn inspiration from Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest, where Sparrow owed Davy Jones his servitude upon the Flying Dutchman in exchange for his Black Pearl for several years, and he was also marked by a black spot.

If we take this parallel literally, perhaps La Commodora made some sort of deal along the same lines, for her La Paradoya Magnifica. And when her time was up, she was hunted across the cosmos. Or time.

But I'm just wildly speculating, and I'd love for this to be a thing.

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The black spot predates Pirates of the Caribbean. “The curse of the black spot” is, however, suspiciously similar to “curse of the black pearl”

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In Treasure Island it’s used as a mark of death… pretty sure the black spot is pretty common in pirate stories. Not sure if Treasure Island is the original source or if it predates that. My guess is the latter.

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 Wikipedia says that Treasure Island invented it, but that it might have been based on a real tradition of presenting condemned traitors with an Ace of Spades.

 

Maybe, but she grabs a live grenade and makes it fall apart in her hand.  Can you do that?  :D