Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
I've been pretty certain for a while that Reapers managed their voidsent contracts through some kind of external process, that in the modern day is part of their soul crystal, hence why our Avatar seems to be anchored to ours before we even pick the thing up. So even if voidsent contracting and consort usually uses aether manipulation (which we don't know for sure either), they found a way to have it not do that.
In a way, that side story about Zenos shoving a crystal into his hand was a bit foreshadowy.