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Looks cool, maybe you'll actually get something cool run with that baseline Power of thought lore that I barely got to utilize lol, though egregores are pretty much the Lt boogeyman entities

Truer words have never been spoken. Leave, don't subject yourself to this, its not worth it. Be free.

@Sorcerio As someone who is essentially entirely unaffected by this amendment, it seems extreme. Whilst indeed, joel is absolutely correct in that the material is antithetical to the void, we must remember that the more extreme side of this is seen 'metaphysically', ie; moonspeech, material alphabet, further alchemically inspired mentality and altered physicality. Bearing that in mind, it is absolutely fair for voidally aligned individuals to struggle with alchemical knowledge, as in fact the same is true for characters heavily involved with alchemy over magic. That being said however, this idea of basic voidal magic, and basic alchemy being somehow so antithetical to that it causes extreme un-usability and volatility in the opposing process doesn't really hold up against analysis. To provide a brief example of this, we must first realize that in cases where alchemy and void magic existed as mechanically oppositional historically, the alchemy involved is NOT typical, and contains very specific, unorthodox processes, tawkin, affliction, animii, so on. Voidal magic is, as has always been the case, able to be utilized on the material plane, a mage can summon a fireball in the physical world. Basic alchemy is fundamentally, the extraction, organization, and mixture of plant matters, which are found everywhere in the physical plane. Therefore, by asserting that since basic alchemy and voidal magic now suddenly cause fundamental failures in the other, you are also asserting essentially, that the actual mixture and concentration of such material components is the catalyst for said issues, in which case... Why? In the same way that matter on earth aligns to the periodic table, everything that exists in this universe is comprised of alchemical symbols, rocks, trees, dirt, air, and so on... All of these physical things(and much more) despite being 'comprised' of alchemical elements and being around quite literally everywhere a voidal mage casts are guaranteed *not* to interfere with each-other to the extent wherein they become unusable. So why then, does the higly situational mixture of such all encompassing components suddenly cause a physical reaction so blatant that it makes their combination worthless or even dangerous. Now that being said I understand the desire to keep alchemy and magic semi exclusive, a desire that I in some ways relate to, not only because using both in combination can indeed be powerful, but simply for the intrigue and aesthetic. Bearing this in mind, if you do still intend to restrict one from the other, I would recommend you do this *mentally*, wherein the mage is actively effected by the metaphysical dissonance of the forces/knowledge used, rather than the current proposition which as far as I can tell is more than relatively arbitrary.

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Disproportionately based.

Might as well call it blood magic at this point.

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