Voidsinks are the creation of the Tellurians, who seeded the sublevels of the Tower, cast beyond their Barrier, with these traps, hoping to draw in the curious proto-gods they stranded. After some experimentation and loss, the original inhabitants of Toworia learned the deadly power of these wells, which destroyed temporal potential and shredded a soul's essence into an oblivion of lesser shards, with no possible reunification.