Notes

Mage of Void: One who Understands with Void or Understands Void

Mages will uniquely experience their Aspect, both good and bad. As a result, they gain a unique understanding of what their Aspect is or does. Their challenge is to become open to new insight or different perspectives than their own.

On the outside, this would seem like the happiest of the Mages, because Mages of Void might suffer from “Nothing”. Some might take this to mean they don’t suffer at all, every endeavor for them is always a pleasant one, which is a valid interpretation, but I think it’s more likely that if they do suffer, they might suffer from ignorance, obscurity, insignificance and irrelevance. That could mean their own or other people’s as well. Mages of Void might constantly feel worthless and meaningless, like they’re totally irrelevant in the grand scheme of things and have nothing to offer. They may be unable to get anyone’s attention and be constantly ignored. They may feel or just plain be ignorant and unaware of things going on around them. Or they might understand and experience the feeling of nonexistence and non importance and reject the idea of inherent worth or value, reaching an elusive state of (ironically) enlightenment only able to be reached through death of their own ego and their own agency.

People can act indifferent to them, uncaring if they have anything to offer or not. The truth may be though, despite what they or anyone else thinks, Mages of Void still have a lot of potential to be super smart about a lot of things. For instance they know secrets, it is impossible to keep a secret from a Mage of Void. They can always find everything because they know where it’s hidden. They know where people usually throw things away and forget them because they’ve been thrown away and forgotten themselves. They know the effects of ignorance and indifference to anything because they’ve been ignorant themselves and suffered for it. They might suffer from the thought of nonexistence and complete and total obscurity.

They might be truly lonely people, or they might the few who truly exist willingly on their own, in the shadows, away from the light. If they suffer, the suffering itself may go completely unnoticed by even those close to them, because most people around them would think they suffer from “Nothing” that they’re actually totally fine or making it up. It wouldn’t be much of a stretch to say a Mage of Void could suffer from an invisible illness, like depression or anxiety as well. They might suffer from some sort of water or liquid, either having constant raining around them or a drowning experience, or even a bad experience with alcohol. This might have allowed them to know when it’s going to rain before it happens or how to swim properly.