Book One – Chapter 6

In a parallel to how light fragments were anchored in the Alladharian Dimension while light itself still illuminated the Material Dimension, Yves assumed that the Vicha must be anchored in yet another dimension. All that he perceived through first and second sight was but a phantom presence traversing his reality — crucially untouched by both pure energy and pure matter, yes, unable to affected either.

In strict but simplified terms, phantom presences were energies perceivable through first sight. They could be recognised in the Material Dimension. Amongst these were light and also the Rothar of solely ethereal beings such as spectres or sprites. However, while these are anchored in the Alladharian Dimension, Yves believed that the Vicha was not.

As Yves confirmed moments ago, when he attacked with light fragments, the Vicha could not consume them. Light remained elusive, passing through the curse unaffected. Vichae demonstrated no inclination to absorb free energy from their surroundings either. Drawing on the hierarchy of magical purity, Yves understood that the Vicha did not consume raw energy and light because they were solely anchored in the Alladharian Dimension, and it was incapable to impact this dimension.

The first premise stood: the Vicha could not access the Alladharian Dimension.

At the same time, it effortlessly passed through tangible matter rooted in the physical dimension. It traversed objects and even natural life-forms like plants without leaving any trace on them. It did not evade or go around them, like less dense material entities such as wind or fog did, but passed straight through them as if it were nothing but a visual illusion. Yet, it consumed higher biological life-forms, assimilating the energies and somehow incorporating the bodies of all animals and peoples it touched.