The World Beyond (Void Washed)

The World Beyond is often part of creatures Summoned across spheres and dimensions. It is also part of the native composition of creatures who dwell in or near The Void.

Meditation: Though their mental state is highly antithetical to Meditation, it can be used at half the normal proficiency level. Being beyond the mortal processes that normally take place here, they can leverage this feature at half normal effectiveness (capability, measures of effects, etc.). Meditation is also the foundation for species and creatures that do not take material sleep or rest to gain an equivalent experience – such as those connected to The World Beyond.

  • Undead: Undead with these features require stillness, this ‘rest’ is how they regenerate essential material reserves and health. Often resting, to materially recover, pulls resources from the undead, reducing their available maximum levels of Health and such until they can feed and return to their unnatural levels.

Upon the shores of Madness and Beyond: Many undead are bound strongly to experience their surroundings as The World Beyond – part of The Void. Usually this involves a sacrifice of a [pillar] Aptitude in exchange for Void Aptitude – a pollution of Essence. Reality which is Void Washed appears as a sickly set of threads in The Pattern. The presence of The Void to expose The World Beyond can come from Affliction and twists and tears in The Pattern. The Caress of the Void can cause permanent physical and psychological scarring, in addition to the particularly nasty trauma of Psychic Scarring.

World Beyond Materials