If sufficiently weakened, they are consumed, never to return to the ordinary world. The Twilight does not offer its gifts freely it feeds off the strength of those Others who enter it. Humans are not able (at least in the first part of the cycle) to become Others. However, the Others are different from humans, they are born as Others. The Others were the humans ( shamans, soothsayers, and wisemen) from long ago who figured out how to step into the Twilight. The action in the novel centers on a group of people referred to as the Others -human beings who tapped into the Twilight and gained supernormal abilities. In the story's worldline, there exists a magical realm beneath the surface of all things-referred to as the Twilight (or Gloom in other translations).
