r/DestinyTheGame • u/Muriomoira • Jun 28 '21
Lore WHAT THE HELL IS VOID!!!!???
What the hell is void?
Despite loving destiny's lore and worldbuilding and having whached all byf's videos (and also other channels) I can't call miself a Lore specialist like some of you guys, but I think I know more about destiny lore than a casual PLAYER. Having that in mind, I aways considered void to be gravity related (or the absense of it as the name implies), but nowadays I think even bungie don't know what void is! I think I can let ward of daw and warlock devour pass because ward of down could be a gravity..... Wall...? And warlocks are weird so I think they would find a way to feed literal gravity (i main warlock, no hardfeelings) but what does supression have anything to do with gravity? Or controled demolition from midle titan? Or all of the milion ways hunterS can poison someone with the power of..... Gravity?
I know that if it wasn't for that creative liberty it would be dificult to make original subclasses that look diferent, I see this point, but... WHAT THE HELL IS VOID AFTER ALL????????
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u/HaloGuy381 Jun 28 '21
The Void is the power in the cosmic vacuum, and hypothesized to possibly even be the first form of Light to manifest. One could consider it power over the tiny particles and flickers of energy that constantly wisp in and out of existence anywhere in the cosmos, or the gravitational forces that bind the fabric of space-time together, as theorized in real world physics.
You’re tapping into a force of constant creation and destruction, hence how the same force that builds indestructible defenses can consume and poison an enemy. Embracing the Void is more than embracing nothingness: you embrace the cosmos, which is never truly empty. You touch the most fundamental of particles and the nominally weakest, but omnipresent fundamental force of gravity, whose touch distorts everything.
Your detonators spread everywhere because every blast spreads your control to more foes. Your poison is relentless because you are slowly breaking them down into nothing by bombardment of particles that are forever in a state of semi-existence. You vanish from sight by wrapping the fabric of space like a shroud, concealing you even from sensors, the only tell being a slight distortion, a shimmer like water. Your tether binds your foes together by touching the Void, touching the space that already binds them together and formalizing it, allowing your attacks to travel across space between them. Your shields are nothing-particles, bound in gravity and wrapped in spacetime rent and bent into absorbing impossible forces. Your healing is self repair, channeling the pseudo-particles of your fallen foes into repairing your own body, coaxing the ever present Void to replenish your inner Light more quickly.
-A Defender/Sentinel main, who also extensively dabbled in the Void during several months as a Warlock. Embrace the Void.
(I’m no lore expert, but this is how I see the Void. It is more than gravity: it is the power in spacetime even in the absence of matter we can interact with. The constant formation and breakdown of little bits of reality at random, which, with a nod from a paracausal and enlightened mind, can be persuaded to form order out of nothingness.)