Aetheryte

[NephthysVasudan]

Y'shtola returned without her natural sight and instead has to sense the aether around her to see, and Thancred was spit out without the ability to tap into aether at all, so teleportation can make changes to the aether that is involved in it...but only if that teleportation doesn't involve aetherytes at all, or perhaps if something were to happen to the aetherytes at the same time you entered.

Forgot a key point or two/and some remarks.

Didn't Thancred fall through time or something? or an alternate reality? Hints at extreme risk. That and Y'shtola is basically draining her life force to keep doing what she does.... sad

[Berethos]

Forgot a key point or two/and some remarks.

Didn't Thancred fall through time or something? or an alternate reality? Hints at extreme risk. That and Y'shtola is basically draining her life force to keep doing what she does.... sad

Short answer - Nope (or at least a strong probably not).

There is definitely extreme risk (which is why Matoya upbraids her for it later), but Kennar basically has the right of it - the big threat is essentially data loss while in the Lifestream. Without the beacons of the aetherytes to help guide the aether of the body and will back to the corporeal realm (in a place where the boundary is weaker), the wielder of the teleportation magick has less control over where the users end up. In Thancred's case, he gets spit out in the Dravanian Forelands with two key elements of data loss - his clothing and weapons, and his ability to control aether. He's actually somewhat older than he looked when we first met him (32, despite looking more like he's in his early 20s), and I believe that's due to use of magicks to keep himself at least looking youthful. I know that Y'shtola used the arcane arts for something like that, but I don't know for certain if it's mentioned that he has as well, though it would help explain why he starts to look older afterward.

I think the chance of him having spent more time in there before popping back out to not be as high, as that part of the story makes it clear that too much time spent in the Lifestream means you lose your form and eventually dissolve back into the lifestream itself, and there's no indication that he otherwise ended spending more than a short time there before being spit out...and there's definitely no hint at an alternate reality/dimension. While travel to one of those is technically possible, it requires either a rift between words (like the ones the Voidsent use) or for the one making the jump to give up their mortal body to make the jump (as we saw with the Warriors of Darkness).

For Y'shtola, I seem to recall something else that hints at it not necessarily being her draining her life force away every time she does it so that she will eventually die sooner than she would otherwise, but instead that in doing it she could easily overextend herself if she isn't careful and get herself killed that way - like she could end up using too much at once, but if she's careful to not do that then she's fine (though that may just be my interpretation of various character comments from those like Matoya.

[Keever]

Thancred's face from ARR to HW is pretty much identical. He just got a tan and grew out his chin-scruff a little. I've seen a lot of folks saying he "looks older" but he hasn't visibly aged at all. It's all in his demeanour and the way his new hair and outfit frames his face.

It's just like how everyone thinks F'lhaminn is really old, but she's only 37, and she looks exactly the same as she did 15 years ago. Putting on glasses and a frumpy outfit really alters perceptions.

[NephthysVasudan]

Thancred's face from ARR to HW is pretty much identical. He just got a tan and grew out his chin-scruff a little. I've seen a lot of folks saying he "looks older" but he hasn't visibly aged at all. It's all in his demeanour and the way his new hair and outfit frames his face.

It's just like how everyone thinks F'lhaminn is really old, but she's only 37, and she looks exactly the same as she did 15 years ago. Putting on glasses and a frumpy outfit really alters perceptions.

guess i need to re-watch the cut-scenes...been too long lol.