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people tend to go kinda void crazy upon having bonecharms or runes in your possessions for long enough
a group of nobles hate this one noble so they like sneak runes and bonecharms into their possession until they lose it
wait tho marked can hear bone charms sing sorta — do corvo and daud know when someone near them has a bonecharm or rune near them (even w/o void gaze)
I like to imagine that the regular mind cant exactly understand the void so objects that are so heavily charged with its power are very detrimental to their mind. But having the mark puts it in perspective almost. They dont exactly understand the void but they have a connection and resonance with it that allows them to use bonecharms and runes without losing their minds
the rune song could be alot like how hearing too much white noise justoverwhelmes someone but when you have the mark you can actually hear its real music
What if the bone charms whisper what they do - and that's how you know a bone charm's effect without trial and error. But you can only understand the words if you're marked.
Although I don't think non-marked people can even hear the bone charms? Maybe it's like those frequencies that you can't/can barely hear but that can cause nightmares if you sleep nearby.
I woner if being marked comes with some kind of curse where you inevitably go insane becuase the human mind can oly handle the void for so long. Maybe those like granna who are obsessed with power succumb to it quicker than corvo who didn't are for it. The further you reach into the void the more the void reaches back!!!! Eventually theres nothing left and the void overtakes the mind leading to the madness we saw with granny rags
the cultists could be a great example of how regular humans become corrupt when they interast with the void too much. They stayed with a fucking relic of a previous void avatar for eons along with their base being so close to the void its almost physically peaking through. Not to mention they regularly interacted with it
But what would happen to billie????? Her arm is practically made of void. Not to mention that she essentially absorbed the eye of a dead god into her eye to be able to enter/see into the void
i mean insanity probably, she canonically as issues sleeping after the events of doto so shes not doing too hot. That just might be the normal trauma but i can't imagine having that strong of a void interaction is helping. It’s probably making it worse in all honesty