I think he lives on forever, as long as his Luck and his Fate don't decree otherwise. How many humans have done this in Glorantha successfully? None, so far as I know, but the sample population size is small compared to the chance of success. Those who have been that Lucky are probably Heroes in any case, or have some way of avoiding attention from people.
I don't believe Gloranthans understand ageing any better than us in the Real World, except they probably see less of it so it is even less clear.
More abstractly Time, being the child of Creation and Entropy, destroys the entire universe every second called Then and creates a new copy called Now. Every time this happens the copy has imperfections and these build up in the multicopied individual so his weaknesses known collectively as Age are not things to be Healed and fixed back how they SHOULD BE but they are actually how he IS.
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> --- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, "Jeff" <richaje@> wrote:
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> > He's managed to avoid Death through war, disease, or accident. But our aristocrat knows that a Death has been assigned to him. He's spent his time evading it through piety and magic (and luck) but he knows that eventually Death will catch him. At some point his luck will fail and his magic will be too weak - he will die.
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> Sure. Yet not what I asked. What happens to him from age 97 to age 107 *if his luck holds?*
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> > > All I can think of is a stroke or aneurism. Both are fast enough to make the healers too late. (Though an aneurism, being a wound, would be easy for a healer to cure if quick enough.) But what causes those in Glorantha?
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> > Our Lunar believes that the Death assigned to him from birth is the cause. At first it tries to kill him through easy ways - war, disease, accidents and so forth. But eventually it will attack him other ways and succeed.
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> Namely? That's what I'm asking.
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> Mike
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