ratbastard wrote: If you do the TSO raids you meet the Ethernaughts. The Ethernaughts have been fighting their way past the defenders for a while now, but it hasn't been years for them. Roydel only recently betrayed them. For us these are events that took place thousands of years ago. Anashti'sul is aware of events and progress from outside of the void. They have lines of communication. Shipments of souls and materials. The construction of void anchors to slow the destruction of their bases of power, to help perserve their own lives. When the raiders leave the Void there hasn't been any time shift. Hours spent in the void were trivial amounts of time as far as Norrath is concerned. It isn't like the Ethernaughts, who spent a few days there and we meet them thousands of Norrathian years later. All of this points to a few things about the void: Time doesn't really exist in the void. We as beings that seperate events into measured units that we call time continue to preceive things as happening in time. Maybe we carry time into the Void with us, but time is relative to the individual or a collection. One thing is certain though, there is no reason to try and seperate the part of the void where things cease to exist and the fringes of the plane into a seperate existance. It seems to be all one plane. Also material doesn't naturally exist in the plane. It arrives from other planes, and is naturally made to cease to exist. Without matter, there is no distance or space. There is nothing, the default state of this plane of existance. The one thing that does get called into question is The Nameless itself. We think that the Nameless lives in The Void. When we go there we don't encounter any evidence that the Nameless exists other than Theer claiming that he is the Nameless's creation. So we have evidence that the Nameless exists, but nothing to confirm that he lives in The Void. The Nameless could exist in the very center, that center could *be* the Nameless, or the Nameless could exist somewhere else/not exist in any kind of material way. Matter doesn't naturally exist in the void. Matter slips into the Void from other dimensions and is eventually destroyed when it travels toward the center of The Void. Yeah, it sounds like a black hole, but for all we know that is the Nameless it is traveling towards.
