Final Fantasy 14: What Is The Void?
In Final Fantasy 14’s Endwalker patch quests, players are finally getting the chance to explore a world known as The Void: a realm that has shown up frequently on the periphery of the game’s story but rarely as an important setting: a dark, mysterious place that houses a variety of horrific beings.
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Since the events of Endwalker, The Void has become a more important setting and is also likely to have some significance in future story events.
Although mentions of The Void and its history have been both infrequent and vague in the game’s main scenario quests until recently, a number of quests and pieces of flavour text have elaborated on the world’s origins, inhabitants, and importance to the wider lore of Final Fantasy 14.
To put it simply, The Void is one of thirteen parallel worlds that exist as a reflection of The Source: the world in which most of the game’s events take place, also known as Hydaelyn or Etheirys. The Void - also known as The Thirteenth - alongside twelve other copies of The Source were created during the events of the Final Days as a side effect of sealing the first primal, Zodiark, inside the moon.
As detailed in the Shadowbringers and Endwalker expansions, the reflections of The Source are all slightly different from The Source itself, which is determined by a wide variety of factors, but particularly the balance between light and darkness, which governs the stability of any given world.
In Shadowbringers, the Warrior of Light and their cohort explore The First, which is also one of the reflections of The Source created during The Final Days. During the story of Shadowbringers, the Warrior of Light witnesses a
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