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RZ and the Void

A collection of my favorite Void-related quotes, with a few of my own headcanons mixed in. 💜

For the official in-game description, click here. For fan lore, see Myelin and Byf's videos, and this Reddit post.

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"The Thanatonauts say the Void is what you see in that brief moment between death and rebirth. It is the in-between, the pause." - Osiris (Harnessing the Void)

"The Void is the same in the Ascendant Plane, or anywhere. Its universality is part of its power." - Ikora Rey (Void Between Stars)

"Those who have stared into the Void are not bound by the laws of space and time." - Voidwalker D1 description

"The Vex wield impossibility as their weapon, but they're as vulnerable to it as anything else." - Ikora Rey (Null Vector)

"The space between defines the shape. The rest before the note, the breath before the word, the blank space on the page." - Voidwalker 3.0 description

"Even in the empty spaces between, there is Light." - Misraaks (Void Defiance)

"Not even the Darkness can survive the Void." - Mara Sov (Void of Alignment)

"Take your ship up to orbit and climb outside. Meditate there. You'll feel it." - Ikora Rey (Cold Cosmos)

"To harness the Void is to enter a state of tranquility, free from the clatter of ordinary matter." - Apotheosis Veil

"Walking with the Void is learning to embrace that which cannot be pinned down." - Ikora Rey (Employing the Uncertain)

"Picking it up is the easy part, Hunter. Putting it down again, well, you’ll find that it’s addictive, that power. [...] You find the power to punch through and borrow something from the other side." - Cayde-6 (The Nightstalker's Trail)

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Headcanon: While mastery of Void Light requires some understanding of the Void itself, instinct seems to work just as well as advanced theories, since the Void is also associated with secrets.

"The Void requires precision. It demands mastery. The Void is bottomless—take care not to fall in." - Ikora Rey (Crystalline Contender)

"Harnessing the Void is as much a philosophical practice as a combat technique. Osiris taught me that." - Ikora Rey (PsiTactics: Void)

"Must you understand the Void to wield it? That understanding is within you already, even if you can't articulate it." - Ikora Rey (Void Melee Games)

"Some see Void Light as mysterious. To me, it is simple: It is another weapon for defending our City." - Saint-14 (Void Strike)

"Stay safe, and carry your secret Light to the sky." - Eva Levante (Null and Void)

"Void Guardians tend to keep to themselves. They like to guard their secrets, I suppose. Except the Titans. Titans are always so polite." - Eva Levante (Screaming Into the Void)

"This is true even of the devouring black hole, which remembers all the secrets it eats. It will only confess these secrets when it evaporates, 10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 years from now, long after the last stars have flickered out." - Savathûn (YOU MUST)

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"None are immune to the call of the Void. But only Guardians harness it for their gain." - Mara Sov (Void Ascendancy)

"Of all the Lights, yours may be able to drive [the Hive], manipulate them. Their kind is drawn inexorably to masters of the Void." - Calus (Shadow's Gloves)

"The Void does not play favorites; it comes for you all." - Ikora Rey (Deadly Fireworks)

"Once the Void has you, it never lets go." - Quantis Rhee (Chain Reaction)

"The Void bends all, especially those who resist." - Ikora Rey (Cosmic Casualty)

"Not everyone has the strength to stare into the Void and return to the surface with the power it offers." - Toland, the Shattered (Gazing Into the Abyss)

"Doesn't matter how good you are; you stay out there too long, you're not coming back. Not the same way you left, anyway." - Tevis Larsen (Graviton Forfeit)

"Keep one foot in the tangible. Diving head first into the Void would be like swimming in a vacuum." - Ikora Rey (Vacuum Sealed)

"When I start slipping into that twilight, where I'm not sure if I'm awake or dreaming, I can feel the absence. It's close enough to touch. [...] The Void just likes it when I'm running on empty." - Nightstalker 3.0 description

"Light is scarce in this place. But Quantis [Rhee] knows how to find it—how to feel for the un-ripples of the Void, to draw Light from the infinities between spaces. She knows how to roll black holes between her fingertips, and how to nock her bow with the inescapable gravities of the universe." - Orpheus Rig

"A Bow appears in my hands, and I let a single binding shot loose from the shadow. Now there are Orbs of Power everywhere. Eat, my friends. Eat." - Nightstalker description

"Feast on the sky. Gorge yourself until all starlight has been gnawed to black—then the cosmos will tremble with your roar." - Star Eater Scales

"From the space between I come. Fragments of stars burn in my footsteps. In my hands I hold Death." - Nova Mortis

"I still must confront the silence after glory; I feel the nature of the Void most keenly in these moments. I have begun, I think, to look forward to them." - Sentinel 3.0 description

"There is still and calm in the Void. I find it comforting." - Eva Levante (Voidslayer)

"I think of the Void as the hum that you must quiet everything else to hear. Am I right, Guardian?" - Eva Levante (Gauntlets: Void's Anvil)

"The Void calls to some Guardians; a subtle tug on the back of your mind." - Eris Morn (Devoid of Vex)

"Does it also whisper to you? Fear is a natural response to the unknown. But in time, the Void's voice will become familiar to you." - Ikora Rey (Into the Abyss)

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Headcanon: although Void users are known for being "fearless," using the Void is less about disregarding fear and more about facing it.

"I've had a dozen Hunters ask me why it's so hard to summon a Dusk Bow. I asked 'em what they thought of the Void, and their eyes told me everything. You can't be afraid. That's the secret. No fear." - Tevis Larsen (A Ranger Found)

"It's very simple. You reach into the Void - past visions of your own death and the extinction of life, past fears and nightmares - and take what you find. I don't know why every Hunter doesn't do it." - Tyra Karn (Shard of the Traveler, Nightstalker)

"Must you all be so dark? [...] What I have done is found a way to channel the Void to draw that essence in before it is lost to the ether, to return it to Light so it can be properly bestowed back on our enemies. [...] What's so dark about that?" - Satomi (Mask of the Quiet One)

"Now, looking back, it strikes me that he talked with the arrogance of one who can always return from the Void. One who has contemplated the darkness so long he thinks of it as a friend, of sorts." - Ophidian Aspect

"Gravity seizes her. She falls forward in space and time, into the future, into the mystery. Yang Liwei is behind her. Uldwyn is behind her. She wants to be the first." - Cosmogyre IV

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"The Void draws you in. It is as fascinating as it is gravitational." - Ikora Rey (Gauntlets: Singularity-Tempered)

"If you have ever felt a chill when gazing up at the stars, you know the power of Void." - Ikora Rey (Into the Abyss)

"The arrow is still broken, but it hums with a more dangerous energy: cold twilight, binding gravity, a guttering lantern in the gray mist." - Fractured Arrow

"Here, take off your helmet for a second. Smell that? Not the gasoline… The ozone. Smells like the Void." - Sloane (Scent of the Void)

"What is the void? [...] The vacuum between the stars. The smell of rot. The taste of metal. The deafening roar that can only be heard when it is truly silent." - Tyra Karn (Shard of the Traveler, Voidwalker)

"She could feel the faint call, the scent, the color that drew the eye. The Void Soul was drawn to her as she to it." - Briarbinds

"Even now, the very tip of the visual spectrum, violet-blue light, is shifting up into invisible ultraviolet, the color of speed, the color of future." - Brephos I

"A shallow cold saps the heat from Zavala's fingertips; he pulls back. [...] Banshee clinks the analyzer into a tool tray. 'Leeches a bit, kicks out Void.'" - Ruinous Effigy

"Void hungers, does it not? It yearns for the antithesis of its own profound desolation." - Into the Abyss

"That feeling where you just get hungrier the more you eat? That's the Void." - the Drifter (Circling the Drain)

"YOU WILL DREAM OF TEETH AND NOTHING ELSE." - Voidfang Vestments

"A Voidwalker's strike does more than harm you. It takes from you." - Ikora Rey (Withering Strike)

"A Nightstalker's bow leaves behind very precise scarring. Fascinating." - Ghost (A Ranger Lost, The Nightstalker's Trail)

"Void is absence in the universe and in oneself. It devours and darkens, as we do when we are in pain. There is grief here, and regret. But so too the wisdom of introspection." - Eris Morn (Legacy: Lacuna)

"When you wield the Void, you wield a key. When the Void touches life, it unlocks the Light within. Sometimes with terrrible results." - Vance (Create Orbs of Light)

"Somewhere in the Void are answers to questions we have never thought to ask." - Rahool (Deepest Purple)

"There are intricacies to Void energy only now made known to us, in the presence of the Dark." - Eris Morn (Make Hole)

"It's very similar to how you use Void Light—manipulating spacetime and gravitational fields. In fact, I would argue that Void has more in common with Stasis than it does with Solar or Arc. Perhaps they're reverse sides of the same coin." - Elsie Bray (Scalar Potential)

"What stops the Darkness from entering into the places between the stars? The answer is simple: the Void is just another type of Light." - Ulan-Tan (Talk To Ikora)

"The Void is not the Darkness. The Darkness is what it is. Void energy is like all things of this universe, it is Light seen through a prism." - Toland (Complete the Path)

"Void, Solar, then Arc. Hmm. We're not naive enough to think the order is a coincidence." - Zavala (Trichromatica)

"Everything comes from nothing. Find the power in emptiness." - Eris Morn (Void Vanquisher)

"The Traveler came out of the void that surrounds all things. Thus we know that the void is full of power. Thus we enter the void without fear. " - Toland (Shard of the Traveler, Voidwalker)

"Void takes the form of a great hemisphere, quiet and secure. As it began." - Xûr (Paraversal Defender)

"Look at Truth to Power simply. What are the topics it centers upon? Black holes. Vex simulations. Ahamkara. Manipulations of Hive tribute." - Ikora Rey (The Hidden Dossier)

"To seek the truth of the matter is to join venerated orders of Void-wielders: Nightstalkers; Voidwalkers; Sentinels. If this is your path, Guardian, walk it carefully." - Ikora Rey (Ikora Rey: Gazing Into the Abyss)

"There’s truth in the edge of Light, and beneath that truth a deeper truth, hidden from all but a few. That truth is this: monsters need not fear the night." - Nightstalker D1 description

"And what of the Sky? [...] Soar high enough, and far enough – dodge enough bait-stars, enough membranous predators floating lightly on the wind – and there, too, is darkness. What may survive in that empty space between stars? Only that which has clawed its way up." - Savathûn (Old Friend, Beloved)

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Draw from the Void. Light the way.

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