Re: What does death by "natural causes" look like in Glorantha?

From: Jeff <richaje_at_F6h7SjtFCsUR5fNBqRUM_8OtpYgQo2I_G_vYWgG0IRjDaD6NIoTOjkpPmDcOtkNx-9U_>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:09:33 -0000

> Let's assume some Gloranthan guy is, say, the mayor of a prosperous, peaceful, good sized town in a country that doesn't have a big war going on, in a political situation that doesn't cry out for assassinations. Someone reasonably important, money to spend... and 97 years old.

Let's make this easier. A Lunar aristocrat in the Heartlands.

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.

> 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?

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.

Jeff