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The original was posted on /r/guildwars2 by /u/InfinteHotel on 2024-11-07 18:57:55+00:00.

Kunavang says that “In the beginning, everything was Void. Then the Mother Dragon, Soo-Won, brought order, splitting the Void into six domains of magic .It was on that foundation that all material life on Tyria flourished.” It sounds like Void was the origin of all things(on tyria at least). So it’s a sort of formless matter of pure potential that existed before the world that was used to create everything in physical reality. Kinda akin to Khaos in Greek myth or Prima Materia in alchemy.

Ok, that’s all fine, except all of that also describes The Mists. From the og GW manual: “Before there were humans or dwarves, before there were even worlds or the stars that light the night sky, there was but one thing in the universe—the Mists. The Mists touch all things. They are what binds the universe together, past, present, and future. They are the source of all good and evil, of all matter and knowledge. It is said that all forms of life, no matter how simple or complex, can trace their origins back to this one place.”

So from that description it would seem that either void=Mists or at the very least the Mists, as the primordial chaos from before all things, should be full of void magic. Yet that’s obviously not the case since the Mists, in contrast to the void, are very clearly not hostile to life. So what is the relationship between the Mists and the Void?