Just wondering if there could be any connections one could draw there, as I am a mage main player who has recently become fascinated with the Void.
You’ve got Void Elf Mages of course. You’ve also got the power the Nightborne drew from, the Nightwell, which looked suspiciously dark in nature.
Beyond that though I’m just not sure. I want to feel like I have a connection, but I’ve done too much work on this character to just reroll to a warlock or spriest. Plus there’s the purple panda customization that was just shown, and I totally plan to play a “void panda”. xD
There’s nothing voidy about the Nightwell, it is pure arcane from the Eye of Aman’thul.
There’s nothing stopping a mage from tapping into the void - only ingame is there the explicitly dichotomy of frost/fire/arcane for mages. The only issue a mage would have to deal with would be, well, “losing themselves to the void”, which is a very common theme with the void.
The void is just another natural power of the universe, that’s the key thing to remember.
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It’s exactly dangerous just like the Light.
Only someone with strong will could survive tapping into the Void .
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(Observation): Arcane magic seems to be fairly fluid where other forms of magic are considered. The Sunwell is a blend of Arcane and Light, Jaina and Umbric created a stealth portal during the Alliance war campaign by blending Arcane and Void, and we’ve seen Blood Elven Botanists and Nightborne using Arcane and Life magic to create pseudo Druidic magics. So far in the Shadowlands much of the Kyrian’s powers are Arcane based rather than void, suggesting Arcane magic also blends well with Death. The only force it’s never been shown to blend with is Fel, but Fel itself is more a substitute for arcane magic. I imagine if Life and Death, and Void and Light are rivals, then so would be Arcane and Disorder (Fel).
(Commentary): There’s nothing in lore suggesting mages in general mess around with the Void or void energies. That said, you’re a Pandaren mage, right? Could always do something Sha inspired for that, no?
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Thanks everyone. 
I’m reminded of D&D Sorcerers and how they get arcane magic through the power in their blood. Blood that can basically come from everywhere. Both D&D and Pathfinder have lots of different choices for bloodlines, and a sorcerer there can get arcane power from a dragon, an elemental, a vampire, an abberation, and all sorts of things.
I’m just a mage who wants to like the darkness, so I might just end up going that route.
The Mage campaign actually had enemy mages who wielded Felfrost.
The Legion’s brand of fel could feasibly be considered a melding of arcane and fel, as well as that of demon hunters. Legion fel is basically a case of Sargeras’ and the eredar’s mastery of arcane Order harnessing the ordinarily disorganized and rampant Disorder of the fel to do what they want it to (one will recall that the demons themselves originally never mastered the fel themselves; it was just part of them organically, and it took the input of Sargeras and later the eredar to make it a viable tool), while demon hunters’ tattoos are comprised at least in part of arcane runes designed to help them contain and control the fel energies in their bodies.
It arguably makes sense that fel magic as we’ve known it would require some measure of arcane manipulation to reliably direct and control; as the essence of Disorder it would stand to reason that fel energy wouldn’t actually have its own inherent structures of spells and runes to direct its behavior the way arcane does, as it’s effectively the magical embodiment of breaking down such systems of uniformity and organization.
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That makes a ton of sense. It could stand that the Arcane serves as a baseline form of magic for all kinds, and that you could meld just about anything to it. So a void-arcane mage wouldn’t be too much of a stretch.
Stack up a ton of corruption and you can get all that Voidy goodness on you.
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Sadly that is only temporary, hehe.
Not directly void related, but the twisting nether has been cited to house not only fel, but almost any kind of magic you can think of. Of course including both Arcane and Void magic.
Aside from that, we can only see the relation of the void and arcane through the struggle between the titans, their creations, and the old gods. Possibly something can also be pulled from the Frost school as Shadowfrost has been a concept that’s been around for a while and mages do use it from time to time, an example being Ebonbolt.
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The leader of the Void Elves, Magister Umbric is a mage in specific, I believe one of his attacks on the Visions is to polymorph you.
Considering that in general Mages in wow are scholars and researchers, even if one does not use the void as part of his moveset (unless of course you play as a void elf, then you use void powers all the time), You can still research the void and its effects.
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Very true, good point. I should probably look at maining as Frost for that reason.
I know that all too well. Been stung by that a few times.
I’m currently wearing a mage set that seems to hint that it can be related to the Void. It’s almost the same thing Umbric wears. I want to feel like I can have a connection to the Void, but it does get hard to ignore the fact that my spell effects are all pretty pink sparkles. xD
I wanna see Mages control the Magics of the Void and Light becoming Dusk Mages. Like basically a Wizard that controls Holy Fire of the Holy Light and of course Dark Powers of the Void.
Dusk Mages would be a Cool Spec.