What lore do you ignore?

[TowaIsBestGirl]

I feel like the Void would have worked better as a sort of daemonic decadent feudal court system than what it turned out to be in story, especially after years and years of Voidsent being just past the horizon lore-wise. Integral to who knows how many major and minor plotlines, lurking around each and every bend it feels. The Encyclopaedias Eorzea even went out of their way to label Scathach the Shadow Queen and elucidate us to the fact Diabolos was apparently a Duke. It is what it is, and I'm not too satisfied with that we got in the end but neither do I have the time, motivation, nor patience to write a fanfiction about it haha.

It really is quite the stark shame, daemon realms are no fun without a little back-stabbing, eating of thy neighbour and haams that taste of despair after all~ xD

[Alleluia]

I feel like the Void would have worked better as a sort of daemonic decadent feudal court system than what it turned out to be in story, especially after years and years of Voidsent being just past the horizon lore-wise. Integral to who knows how many major and minor plotlines, lurking around each and every bend it feels. The Encyclopaedias Eorzea even went out of their way to label Scathach the Shadow Queen and elucidate us to the fact Diabolos was apparently a Duke. It is what it is, and I'm not too satisfied with that we got in the end but neither do I have the time, motivation, nor patience to write a fanfiction about it haha.

It really is quite the stark shame, daemon realms are no fun without a little back-stabbing, eating of thy neighbour and haams that taste of despair after all~ xD

I mean, I felt like that's what we got, though? Beatrice ran her realm like a court, all of Golbez's minions have domains they rule. Minions fight and eat each other for advancement and sustenance? "Scathach was queen of her domain" (3k years ago or w/e), "Diabolos was a duke in it", etc. is all in line with the void as we see it now.

The idea that the void isn't a phantom realm-esque separate plane, but instead an alternate Etherys; and that voidsent aren't some separate species of actual "demons" or ghosts, but afflicted normal people who are just suffering from a world in a state of aetherial overcharge-- those are new bits of lore. Well, "new" as of Unukalhai, I guess. Its a change/development from the original ARR understanding of the void, at least.

But the social structure we ended up seeing now is still the same as that hinted at by the Machi raids.

[TowaIsBestGirl]

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I guess I expected it to be bigger, haha?

'Tis fine, it's undoubtedly no more than a minor dissatisfaction on my part. I only mentioned it since I kinda have a way too large headcanon of how different I imagine it in my head that flits about like a faerie. Again though, I've not the time nor patience to put the ideas to paper so a mental ghost is what they shall remain.