As well as being unaging, blues are almost unkillable. However their spell always has some kind of flaw - perhaps an object that must not be destroyed, an action that must not be performed or a word that must not be said.
This idea can explain how the Brithini managed to wipe out the Blues. It used to be the case that the Blues shared a single flaw, and, bad luck for the Blues, the Brithini discovered and exploited it.
Several folks have objected to the overly mechanistic description of Vadeli practices. While I think it is all great, sick fun, there is something to be said for maintaining a Lovecraftian distance from the particulars in order to make it all the more horrible. Here is a solution that can please everyone:
Ever since the Brithini wiped out the Blues, the remaining Vadeli have striven for a kind of mythological diversity so as to lessen their vulnerability to whatever it was the Brithini did. The old rituals still work, but the industrious Vadeli have been hard at work this past age developing new ways of maintaining their existence.
Everything you have read about the Vadeli is true, but it is old stuff. They have since developed practices that are unimaginably more evil, depraved, and effective. Whatever horrible, eldritch detail is revealed about the Vadeli, you can be sure that somewhere some vile, ancient lich has put his ages of demonic experience and perverted intellect to use to develop something mind-numbingly worse.
End of Glorantha Digest V3 #122
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