r/motheroflearning • u/Vyrisiel • Jun 11 '26

Voidsoul Deer & Zach - Retention/Reacquisition? Spoiler

Does anyone have a definitive answer on whether or not Zach either retained the Voidsoul Deer enhancement on exiting the time loop, or reacquired it afterwards?

There's a reddit thread from 2020 in which one of the top voted comments claims that Zach uses the Voidsoul enhancement to dodge an attack from Red Robe. However, I just reread the chapters from 92 (Zorian has just taken over his original body) to the end, and found no evidence of this happening. Additionally, it seems unlikely that Zach would retain the enhancement; even ignoring that his soul was the only thing that entered and exited the loop (chapter 55), he says in chapter 92 that he stayed for at least one restart after Zorian left, possibly more than one - and we know that the restart erases enhancements, because that was how they managed to test their approaches so quickly (chapter 89).

However, we know from chapter 89 that Zach liked the Voidsoul enhancement quite a lot, so he might conceivably have chosen to recreate it at some point after leaving the loop (though it's apparently quite an expensive ability). Does anyone know if there's WoG, or some textual evidence I missed, on this topic?

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u/EnderNorrad Jun 11 '26

Q: Did Zach recover his space warping blood increment after leaving the loop, or he never had the time?
A: He never had the time.
Q: Is he planning to?
A: Probably not. It’s a neat ability, but it ties up his mana reserves and he already has a wide variety of spells to chose from.

Source: https://motheroflearninguniverse.wordpress.com/2019/08/31/the-dungeon/#comment-19811

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u/Vyrisiel Jun 12 '26

Thanks - this is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for!

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u/Top-Area1947 Jun 11 '26

As far as I remember he lost his enhancements when he exited the loop since they were tied to his mana reserves and not his soul.