Most living things will never experience true darkness. Up here, above the Floor, we are bathed in unending light. At most we will experience the darkness of a bad storm but nothing like what is beneath the Floor. In the Void, it isn't just darkness but despair.— Darosi, Excerpt from Journal No. 1
Consumed by the Dark
The exact cause and processes of voidwarping are unknown but the effects are certainly real. There are a handful of accounts recorded by the crews of only a few
skyships that ventured into the
Void - only one of them willingly.
The complete lack of light makes it impossible for plants to survive in the
Void - at least, it should. For reasons unknown, some plants - individual samples, not particular species - survive in the darkness down under. They become gnarled, hard, frightening versions of themselves, like an artist's depiction of a dark wood from a grim tale.
The effects on
humans,
avens, and
lizardfolk are identical, long enough exposure leads to fatigue, irritability, and a deep sadness.
Faekin - the offspring, for lack of a better word, of
fae and any other species - do not get off so easy, as simply being in the
Void presents a very real danger to their lives; they will grow weak and eventually stop.
True
fae become aggressive, twisted versions of themselves, at least in the one account of such an encounter that exists. Some believe that the strange creatures from the
Time of Darkness may have been void-born
fae.
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Mental or Physical?
There is debate among scholars whether the impacts of prolonged exposure to the
Void are the result of physical changes caused by the lack of light - or perhaps some other force - or simply the result of the mental taxation of being in a place of darkness.
The common consensus is that there is simply too little evidence of anything that happens below the
Floor to come to any conclusions - and that any scientific trial conducted would be incredibly unethical.
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