Quote Originally Posted by Kyan View Post
rather from a "different" source of aether
I don't think he's donned a freshly crafted tinfoil sugarloaf, here.

I am having weather related, internet issues. Searching is a bear, and my notes are void of details. I have read somewhere, though, that in a leve there are voidsent slain who leave a nasty purple aether that is rejected by our own world and flounders before it crumbles, so to speak, unable to join with our own.

This is both consistent a nod to FFVII's model that this system is analogous to, and the rough sketch of how aether works that we've been given.

I will say though; plopping on my speculation hat; I don't think voidsent aether is the same as dark competing aether from Zodiark. We have three competing Final Fantasy tropes here. The light, longing for all its refulgence and glory; the dark seeking to consume, destroy and halt; and the void seeking to swallow existence into nihility.