Quote Originally Posted by Videra View Post
There's one little snag in this lore-wise where there is no power to be drawn from the void. It's emptiness. There's nothing there but slavering creatures that want to eat you. Can't really draw upon aether that isn't there.
Easiest retcon ever.

The opposite of stillness is activity. The aether just moves as such a high frequency that we can't detect it with devices or normal senses.