Voyagers

Part of the Enlightened Few, the Voyagers are radical mages who choose to spend their entire lives exploring the Tapestrum Arcanum, projecting into the layer of magic permanently.

Once a mage chooses to become a Voyager, they undergo the Ritual of Transference, during which they project into the Tapestry and assisting mages in the real Nascindor place a Mask of Substitution onto the Voyager, effectively lobotomizing their physical form and making it impossible for their projection to return to said physical form. The bodies of Voyagers are draped in ritual robes and placed in the crypt-like halls underneath the House of Learning called the Traveler's Sepulchre.

Meetings with Voyagers within the Tapestry are considered a great honor and they can have a lot to teach to those who happen upon them, though often these arcane wanderers have spent so long in the Tapestry that they have forgotten how to communicate in ways that those with ties to the physical world understand.

Motivation

The first, and obvious, question most people posit when hearing about the Voyagers and what they do for the first time is "why?". The answer to this question is multifaceted, as each Voyager is an individual, with his or her individual reason for consigning themselves into the Tapestry. Some seek a more complete understanding, others are stricken by fierce wanderlust as the Tapestry is the most final of frontiers and yet others simply wish to leave a life they do not think is worth living behind and start anew in the Tapestry, however that might end up working. Who can blame any of these people for making this choice, especially considering the state Nascindor finds itself in?

With certainty in my heart, I journey forth.

–The final statement of the Ritual of Transference, uttered by the Voyager themself

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_{An artists recreation of the Ritual of Transference}