Void vs. void – The “Void” beyond Eorzea
Hello, adventurers of the localization team!
A couple of days ago I made a trip to Coerthas for gathering and while I was there I went to the entrance of the Dzemael Darkhold, to explore and speak with the characters there.
Dyrstweitz told me a few interesting tidbits about the story behind the Darkhold, like here:
“Over decades, countless new tunnels and chambers were dug, expanding the subterranean fortress for malms in every direction. Expansion, however, was cut short when a sapper's incendiaries tore a hole in the aetheric plane, simultaneously flooding the area with toxic concentrations of aetheric fumes, and granting admission to a legion of nightmarish creatures from beyond the void.”
I can't enter the Darkhold yet, but during my adventures in The Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak, I always noticed that when, after placing the 4 photocells into the terminal, it says: “All nearby creatures have retreated to the Void.”, with the first letter of Void in upper case.
So I started to wonder: is it void or Void? Is it just the same place?
...But more importantly – and this is the main reason I'm reporting this, I admit :D – what exactly is the Void in Eorzea?
I always read the dev team posts here, so I remember that you also shed some more light on certain aspects of Eorzea, like the interesting explanation on Roegadyns' names.
I always asked to myself how does it work, for monsters, when they die in battle. Like, once I defeat them, they die and go to this “Void”, and maybe can “return” to their previous spot like we adventurers do with the Return command, using the aetheric energy in us to decompose our bodies and teleport (at least, this is the explanation I read more than a year ago by the old dev team, if it's still valid).
While some other times, a new fiend appears, maybe sent by the Void to let rest and/or aid the defeated one.
Well, all right, I've a lot of fantasy, but nonetheless I'd be really interested to know an official explanation on this matter, so if you can give it to me and to the other adventurers that might want to know, it would be Great. :cool:
Thanks for reading!
The Uppercased Void Strikes Back
Hello again, voidsent fellas!
I bring this thread up again, remembering good ol' Ferne's explanation and that the void beyond Eorzea was officially lowercased.
Tonight, I spoke with the Wandering Minstrel in the Red Rooster Stead in Eastern La Noscea. He surely had a lot to tell, but, as much as I'd like to question you with a big torch pointed in your eye about the Gardens of Xarakish or the floating (!) lakes of Voor Sian Siran (my way to say that, despite there wasn't a real quest to obtain the Goobbue Horn, I appreciated these lore tidbits on those mysterious, new areas :) ), I read him talk about the “Void”, too... and uppercased again.
The dialogue at the end of the dialogue, when he speak about looking at the night sky and looking at a world “not quite our own” (hmm, Dalamud...?) is:
“Is this the Void or is it something else?”
Is this due to the minstrel's long travels, that maybe made him forgot the lowercased “v” while he took a bath in one of those floating lakes, or is there another reason why it's uppercased?
Now that I think about it, recently I must have read void lowercased, and I got confused because it wasn't referring to the realm of the voidsents (I can't remember where I read it, though...), so for this reason an uppercased version might be better to distinguish it when characters refer to void with an emptiness meaning.
Just a suggestion! As long as the place is being mentioned every now and then, it's fine for me. :D