>What sort of magic is immortality in Glorantha. How difficult is it
>supposed to be.
Arcane Lore p29 mentions the concept of Ageless and states that the hero must have at least:
1000 dedicated worshippers
3 masteries in one ability, and two or more other masteries
have learned the great secret of a god, saint, master or spirit
performed a successful godquest.
Now there's room for subsititution in all of the above (I doubt very
much that a sorcerer would have a thousand worshippers) but it
gives an ideal of what's involved.
>The calssic examples are of course the Mostali and the Brithini.
>Both are immortal as long as they live exactly according to the
>rules of their unchanging societies.
Mostali immortality is an innate property of being a mostali and not dependant on living precisely according to the rules of their unchanging society. One can be a heretic dwarf (individualist, openhandist, closedhandist etc) and still live for ever although the Orthodox Goldwarfs will deny this with all their might. It is only when a dwarf becomes Broken that he loses his immortality.
The Brithini live strictly according to the Revelations of Now although I suspect this is only true for the Farmers, Warriors and Lords. Most sorcerers start of their lives under the Revelations of Now but at some point, their own magical prowess provides them with practical immortality.
Other immortals are the Vadeli (who eat their own kids), the Agitorani, the Church of Immortality and the Surgeons of Vitality. Even the Heortlings have their own immortals according to King of Sartar p242.
--Peter Metcalfe
End of Glorantha Digest, Vol 11, Issue 148
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